Month: August 2016

I’ve only seen clips, but apparently Trump is capable of learning.  Everyone seems to agree the speech in West Bend last night was his best so far.  He sounded like Rudy Giuliani, and you could tell he’d actually put some effort into improving his delivery off a teleprompter.  Mirabile dictu.

How long can he keep it up?  How long has it been since he sounded like the loudmouth at the end of the bar?   Two days, or three?  I said a while back that Trump was like an enraged bull, who would charge at every red flag waved his way.  One of my fellow contributors at American Thinker, Steve Feinstein, has a better analogy.  He says Trump is like the T. Rex in Jurassic Park, who’s about to start chomping on someone, when Jeff Goldblum starts waving his arms to distract him.  The big lizard takes the bait, comes after Goldblum, and everyone escapes.

Captain Khan’s family was the red flag, the Jeff Goldblum, that Trump couldn’t resist.  They pushed his button, and like some primordial lizard brain, he had to strike back.  It’s his style.  Maybe it’s a New York thing.  Say something bad about me, and I’ll insult you.  I don’t even think that works in New York.

It’s amazing that Trump seems to be surprised that the only thing reported on at his rallies is some off the wall remark he made.  Duh?  Where’s he been all his life?  He’s the one that’s stepping on his message, and giving the media the opening they need.  Duh?  Kellyanne Conway seems like a great gal.  She’ll be on the plane with him, trying to get him to stay on message.  It’s the most important job in the campaign.

Jonah Goldberg at NRO seems to have some kind of problem with white people.  All this talk about American nationalism has got him upset.  Jonah, trust me, American nationalism isn’t at all like the German kind.  He says whites now want to “. . . yoke government to their narrow agenda.”  I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.  What I want, as a white man, is not to be discriminated against.  Is that too much to ask?   He fails to state why I, as a white man, should be be denied self consciousness.  Jonah married a girl from a good Republican family in Fairbanks, and has spent a little time up there.  But he apparently hasn’t rubbed shoulders with the common folk too much.  They’re no threat to anybody.  He should know better.

As the great Michael Barone points out, when whites feel they’re becoming a  minority, they  “.. . are going to start voting like members of a self-conscious minority group.”   Which means, in most cases, voting Republican.  Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan won 70% of the white vote. This is the way it’s been in the South for some time now, and it’s spreading North.  The Kentucky House is the only legislative chamber in the South which is run by Democrats.  This voting behavior may spread to southern Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.  Why anyone should find this surprising, or disturbing, is beyond me.  The Jews have been saying it for thousands of years.  “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”  Everybody feels that way.

Some people, including whites, just don’t like white people.  I can live with that.  It’s a free country.  Just don’t be shocked when I fight back.

If I’m an Israeli, does the presence of the Russian Air Force, on the ground in Iran, preclude me from taking out Iran’s nuclear program with an air strike?   I think it does.  If I’m Putin, do I want to stop Iran from getting the bomb?  Yes, I do.  For the life of me I can’t see why Putin would want a nuclear armed Iran on his southern border.  That’s crazy.  I just hope Putin knows what he’s doing with these whack jobs in Tehran.  I’m counting on him to stop them from getting the bomb.

David Satter at NRO has a piece on Putin and the KGB.  It’s very disturbing.  If it’s true, Putin is a stone cold killer.

And what, precisely, is the United States going to do about that?  Overthrow him?  Take him to the International Court of Justice?  Refuse to talk to him ?  Sacrifice the American national interest in order to oppose him?

No, you face facts, and realize that’s the kind of man you’re dealing with.

The Prophet Moses led the Exodus of the Jews from Egyptian bondage, and wandered the desert with them for forty years.  But for the sin of pride he, himself, was not allowed to enter the Promised Land.  So he surrendered his authority to Joshua, and it was he who at last led the Israelites to their final deliverance.   

Since Ronald Reagan left office, we have been governed by members of the globalist elite.  We’ve been wandering the desert for 28 years, and it was Donald Trump who seized, almost singlehandedly, the Republican Party, and returned it to its nationalist roots.  His utter destruction of Bushism and the Republican establishment has opened the door for a return to policies that unequivocally put the interests of his country, and its citizens, first.

But, like Barry Goldwater before him, his astonishing capture of the Party may not be enough.  Like Moses, his pride may prevent him from the ultimate prize.  But as he has said many times, the movement he created is not about him.  It’s about restoring American greatness, and for the sake of that noble cause he may hand authority to Mike Pence, as Moses did to Joshua.  While he personally may not take the oath of office, he will send one to take it in his stead.  For the judgments of the Lord are true and just.

 

Read the whole thing at American Thinker.  The comments are universally negative, and one guy said “Fritz is on the Fritz”, but there was one which was disturbing, implying that I’m encouraging someone to take Trump out.  That’s beyond the pale, but these people are just, well, different.

Even if you’re a total bad ass like Dirty Harry.

Donald Trump made a fool out of me, and I admire him for it.  His campaign for the nomination was unlike anything seen in the history of American politics.  That’s why his opponents, and other people who have spent their lives thinking, studying, and practicing politics, could never figure him out.  He was playing a new game, one no one had seen before.  We’ll be talking about the Trump phenomena for a long time.  Could anybody else have pulled off what he did?  I don’t think so.

He started off with the only three things you need to succeed in politics:  brains, balls, and bucks.  And a lot of them.  But that’s not enough to explain his rise.  Those are necessary, though insufficient, ingredients of success.  What he possesses to an unusual degree is fingerspitzengefuhl, a feel for the scene of battle.  This is what comes from his gut, and he’s been honing it for his whole life.  The examples from the primary campaign are countless.  Just when you thought he was in trouble, he’d come up with an outrageous statement that would set the news cycle in an entirely new direction.  He was playing the press, who wanted to be played.  Trump was a ratings machine, and this, as much as liberal bias, won him the coverage, and the nomination.

But for Trump the nomination was a poisoned chalice.  The tricks he played in the primary won’t work any more.  The press won’t be played with any more, and they’re out to stop him.  They feel guilty about what they all knowingly did in the primary, or this was their plan all along.  It doesn’t matter.  Don’t laugh when he says he’d be up by twenty in Pennsylvania if it weren’t for the media.  He may not be that far off.  They want his scalp, and he ought to know what he’s up against.  He’s seen the press destroy people, and knows it can be done.

I redid yesterday’s post and sent it to American Thinker.  My angle is that Trump could be like Moses, who led his people to the Promised Land, though he himself was not allowed to enter.

Putin plays chess, and I think he just castled.  He’s buddied up to the Israelis, the Turks, and now the Iranians.  He’s emerging as the master of the Middle East.  Our withdrawal from the area left a void, and nature abhors a vacuum.  Geopoliticaly, this is a master stroke.  This is becoming a Russian sphere of influence.  His military, and his willingness to use it, have made him the balance of power in the region.  Ten years ago this would have been a disaster for the U.S., because we needed the oil from that region.  But now we don’t, so it’s not important to us strategically.  We want stability in the region, and so does Putin.  We can work with this man.  Russia borders this part of the world, and is threatened by radical Islam as much as we are, except worse.  It doesn’t have our oceans.

“My Journey to the Nuclear Brink”, by William Perry, was recently reviewed by Jerry Brown, Gov. Moonbeam.  He talks about the disastrous decision to expand the borders of NATO right up to Russia, and to include former Soviet Republics, in 1996.  A whole lot of people realized this was crazy, but Clinton saw himself as a deep thinker, and went ahead anyway.  It was a foolish and provocative move.  It can be dealt with peacefully, through diplomacy.  And it won’t take another Kissinger to do it.

The thing is, NATO is based on a lie.  It’s a promise by the United States to come to the defense of each and every member, no matter who they’re fighting, or for what.  It’s blank check.  And the American people will refuse to cash it.  Jerry Brown is anti-war.  So am I.  And so is the vast majority of the American people.

You know how I got on to this subject?  Trump made some offhand remark about NATO, and it got me thinking.  He was right.  The old fingerspitzengefuhl.

 

In 1968 Lyndon Johnson had what was called a “credibility gap” with the American people.  He had consistently lied to us about Vietnam, and we didn’t believe anything he said.  As the incumbent President, he could have had the Democratic nomination if he’d decided to fight for it.  But as a career politician he was smart enough to see what awaited him in November.  So he pulled out, and walked away from the only job he’d ever lusted for in his life.  He didn’t want to suffer the humiliation of defeat.

On With All Due Respect Donnie Deutsch said he’s come back around to a hunch he’d had before.  He knows Trump and his family personally, and thinks he could drop out in order to avoid having a big “L” tattooed on his forehead.  It’s pure speculation, but as Ivanka and the rest of the family watched him today, they may see this as his best move.  For himself, his brand, his family and his country.

I thought it was a terrible speech, awkwardly delivered.  He doesn’t do teleprompters well.  To do them well, you have to practice.  I doubt Trump practices at anything, including golf.  So it will be back to doing improv at the rallies, and dishing out the red meat his fans love.  The polls won’t be turned around by rallies and fiery rhetoric.  If he’s worse off than he is today, he’s got to give pulling out by Labor Day some thought.  He could compare himself to the running back who leads his team down to the one yard line, only to see the quarterback sneak in with the winning touchdown.  It isn’t right or fair that the QB gets the glory.  It’s just a smart call.  And everybody knows who really won the game.

Pence should be the one that takes the reins.  He can truthfully say that Trump has changed the direction of the Republican Party as much as Barry Goldwater did.  He took it away from the elites, just like Barry did, and gave it back to the people.  He won those primaries because voters were sick of Bush Republicanism, and he was its antithesis.  Pence can be just as hard line on the issues as Trump was, and he wouldn’t skip a beat.  Secure the border, and pursue pro-American immigration, refugee, trade, and foreign policy.  In a word, nationalism.  The GOP of my youth was nationalistic as hell.  That’s why it appealed to me.  But the Bushes are globalists, and their influence in the party was destroyed by Donald Trump, and for that every Republican owes him a debt of gratitude.  The globalists, the George Soros’s and the Davos crowd, they’re the enemy.  Trump has dealt them a mighty blow.  But if he stays in and gets blown away it will all be for naught.

Pence would win in a landslide, and Trump and his family could glory in his victory, because he made it possible.  He returned the Republican Party to its nationalist roots.  He showed more leadership in turning around the Party than anybody since Reagan.  That’s an historic accomplishment.

And the Trumps would benefit enormously as a family.  This campaign has had to be extremely stressful to all concerned.  His lovely wife made an embarrassing mistake in her national debut.  Four years of this, under the eye of a microscope in the White House, would put a strain on any family.  He’s 70 years old, and he’s going through a physical and emotional ordeal.  It’s not going to get any easier.

Does he really think that he’d be a better President than Mike Pence?  Maybe, as far as making deals goes.  But that’s a tiny part of the job, and the only one Trump is truly interested in.  Why not let him try to negotiate trade deals?  He could even get a few casinos out of it, as a kind of commission.  Hell, Clinton would.

In fact, speaking of deals, why shouldn’t he get all his money back?  I’l bet every Never Trumper would donate to a fund to pay him all back.  Hell, he’s earned more than simple reimbursement.  I say, give him a casino.

And to all the people who said he was a vanity candidate, and a self centered egotist, he could say, “Really?”

It begins the morning of Monday, August 21st, 2017 on the rocky coast of northern Oregon, and slowly moves east across Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, before leaving us in South Carolina.  It will be the most viewed celestial event in our history.  Americans will gather in its path to see a total eclipse of the sun in its entirety for the first time in nearly 40 years.  No one alive today has ever seen, or ever will, a total eclipse which crosses our whole country from coast to coast, so it’s rightfully called the Great American Eclipse.  For over two minutes the sun will disappear, and a strange twilight will cover the earth and sky.  Then the sun will reemerge, and a beautiful summer day in America resumes.

Let it be a metaphor for the Great American Revival, which begins in 2017, as the WTF election of 2016 has ended, and the Clinton crime family reoccupies the White House.  We will have elected a woman who lies congenitally, and her election will be widely seen as somehow illegitimate.  It will be as though we really didn’t have a choice.

The rest of the article is at American Thinker.  In the comments, I’m insulted and ridiculed, but no one made fun of my name.  Progress.