Category Archives: 2016 presidential campaign
Hillary’s War
Hillary’s in denial. Again.
Hillary’s War
This week she claimed we didn’t lose a single person in Libya due to her lead-from-behind intervention to take out Gadafi.
“We came, we saw, he died,” she enthused.
Pat Smith channeled her inner Madeine Albright saying, “there’s a special place in hell for Hillary.” She is the mother of Sean Smith one of the four Americans killed in Benghazi, Libya September 11, 2012.
She also insists she didn’t blame the Benghazi attack on an awful internet video we had nothing to do with. Come to think of it Obama did the same thing during his re-election campaign. Guess it works.
Republican Establishment Changes Horses
And Rubio’s dad was a bartender. Look where he ended up. Stomped.
Ed Rollins points out that Rubio “dropped like a rock” since he we was the establishment rock star four weeks ago. He says it’s between Trump and Cruz now.
Here’s Ann Coulter:
One would have to search the history books to find a party establishment so emphatically rejected by the voters as today’s Republican Party has been.
Between them, Trump and Cruz have won 77 percent of the delegates (1,067). The donor-approved, mass immigration advocates, John Kasich and the (late, lamented) Marco Rubio, have 23 percent.
Kasich does have one thing the remaining Freshman Senator and the Billionaire Blowhard don’t have – a resume. He’s a successful two term Governor of a traditional swing state and a tax cutting, budget balancing former chairman of the House Budget committee.
Trump credits Ohio’s surplus to fracking, not Kasich. And The WSJ’s Daniel Henninger say’s the 1997 federal balanced budget deal collapsed when the dot com bubble burst. Still, on this St. Paddy’s day, Henninger holds out a wee dram of hope for Kassich:
After many productive, honorable years in politics, John Kasich has made it to the national semifinals. But the GOP’s Last Governor is going to have to find another gear to win this.
Partisan Divide
President Obama said last week that he didn’t contribute to the partisan divide in the country. Here are some other things he has said:
• We’re going to punish our enemies and reward our friends.
• If they bring a knife to a fight, we bring a gun.
• If somebody wants to build a coal fired plant they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them.
• If you’ve got a business you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.
Holman Jenkins in the WSJ says, “he’s out of his mind.”
Republican Partisan Divide
If the president didn’t divide the country, somebody else must have made that happen. Donald Trump’s rhetoric about punishing his enemies has taken blame from the media and other Republicans.
But left wing mobs made up of the likes of MoveOn.Org and Black Live Matter took credit for shutting down free speech in Chicago Friday night.
Just like on campus.
Trump wants to “open up” libel law to make it easier for him to sue the media.
Rich Lowry says that even George Wallace would have to admire the way Trump parlayed the thuggery into “wall to wall media coverage.”
Presidential Package
Of all Donald Trump’s flaws, he chose to defend the size of his um.. hands on national television. The day after the Detroit debate “Little Marco” criticized The Donald for bragging about his presidential package. It was Rubio who started the whole thing by claiming Trump had small hands – and less.
The Republican Reality show has become too gross even for Jerry Springer:
“They ought to run a crawl along the bottom of the screen, [saying] ‘This is NOT a debate for junior high school class president’, Mr Springer told the Financial Times.
“Clearly they could be on our show, but now they’ve gone off the deep end, and we would start bleeping out some of what they’d say,” said Mr Springer.
Does Presidential Package Stand up to Scrutiny?
On the upside, moderator Chris Wallace did a nice job holding Trump’s feet to the fire using charts to show that his tax plan doesn’t add up. Not that it mattered.
Playing the American Public for Suckers
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Mitt Romney injected himself into the campaign to save the honor of the Republican Party.
He called for a brokered convention. He said Trump is “vulgar” and “a phony and a fraud”. He accused Trump of “playing the American public for suckers.”
Trump‘s response? “I could have told Mitt to drop to his knees.”
