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| ROGER SIMON: Clueless Republicans |
| 2016-05-11 |
| I'm a bit perplexed with the continued resistance of so many of my right-wing brothers and sisters to Donald Trump. If it's just his brash style and vulgar taste, his preference for glittery gold over brushed nickel or flat black for his bathroom fixtures, I could understand it. I'm a flat black guy myself. But it's so much more than that. The latest "betrayal" is that Trump admitted his tax plan was negotiable Imagine that--a tax plan being negotiated between the administration and Congress! Never heard of that before.... oh, wait. ...Meanwhile, to almost everyone's surprise, the Democrats are still fighting, their internal enmity growing as Comrade Bernie wins primary after primary, sometimes by large majorities, and Lady Hillary clings to her super delegates like a three-year-old to a blanket. What happens if she loses California? According to West Virginia exit polls, a full third of Democratic primary voters are ready to defect to Trump. In the latest poll of swing states, Donald is already ahead of Clinton in Ohio and neck-and-neck in Florida and Pennsylvania. And the big show is just getting started. It is the Democrats, not the Republicans, that have the problem, but you wouldn't know it if you watched, say, The Kelly File or had your Internet perpetually wired to National Review or The Weekly Standard, where the writing is as elegant as the thinking, these days, is often fuzzy. The Democrats are fighting a real war of ideas, disreputable though those ideas may be, while the Republicans fight a status war among themselves, a battle over control, not, except in the margins, over ideology. Am I wrong? Remind me again where Trump, at least currently, is not a conservative? Taxes, check. Deficit, check. Immigration, check. Sanctuary cities, check. Strong defense, check. Supreme Court, check. Veterans, check. Common core, check. Iran deal, check. Israel, check. Healthcare, check. Pro-life, check.... Oh, yes, Planned Parenthood. He thinks the part of that operation that treats cervical cancer is okay. What a sin. But...but...but... he has those whacky ideas on NATO and nuclear weapons and trade. IMO, it's because they're afraid "the whole World" will make fun of Americans for electing Donald---the way they made fun of Americans for electing Ronald. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Of course the world will make fun of America if Mr. Trump is elected. They always make fun of Republican presidents -- and those who voted for them -- from the moment they win the primary, if not earlier. They don't make fun of the Democratic president until some time after they've sworn the oath of office. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-11 21:44 |
| #4 Pappy, I'm sure both you, me, the Donald and the rest of the country are going to have lots of fun finding out what the Donald's core beliefs are, if he wins. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-05-11 20:05 |
| #3 Remind me again where Trump, at least currently, is not a conservative? And therein lies the three critical words. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-05-11 18:10 |
| #2 Worse than Bush/Hitler and Obama/Jesus? Piffle. Sides, IMHO the comment referred to the predictable world holier-than-thou, clueless sniggling. |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-05-11 18:08 |
| #1 Donald / Reagan has to be the worst comparison I've ever seen or heard. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-05-11 17:02 |