(05-07-2016 12:35 AM)Horus Wrote: ^^^ Jesus. Is he sick? It looks like he has AIDS.
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Quote:Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol called for a third party candidate to launch a challenge against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the Democratic party's eventual nominee in an interview on MSNBC. Kristol floated Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse as a possible candidate.
"I would like to have a conservative to vote for," Kristol said in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell this afternoon. "I think an awful lot of people in the country would including a lot of moderates and conservatives... We have two candidates who are viewed by considerable majorities in an unfavorable way, not a favorable way, as the major party nominees."
"Can't we do better?" Kristol asked. "I think we can and I hope a serious, independent candidate steps forward and I think that candidate can surprise, that candidate can do well."
Kristol was asked who that candidate would be and threw out the name Sen. Ben Sasse.
"Maybe someone who's a senior statesman type. But I think Ben Sasse, a young Senator, a conservative Senator, but who's really an independent-minded conservative Senator. If he can launch, there will be a lot of money, a lot of operatives, a lot of legal services volunteered to get him on the ballot across the country," he answered.
"Imagine a debate with Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, and somebody like Ben Sasse," Kristol said. "I think an awful lot of Americans could look up and say, wait a minute, can't we do better. We can do better than Hillary and Donald. What about Sasse and what about others like him?"
When asked if he would support Clinton, Kristol said "I really don't think I would."
"I think nominating Donald Trump will likely elect Hillary Clinton, and I don't think Donald Trump should be president. So the argument that, gee, you might hurt Donald Trump. Well, fine. I'm not adverse to helping stop Donald Trump from becoming president. I prefer that not result in a Hillary Clinton presidency," Kristol said Thursday.
"I've voted for Republicans in every election in my entire adult lifetime," Kristol said. "I think 11 times. The idea that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for six months, unchallenged as the spokesman for the Republican party. And in a way unchallenged as the face of conservatism in America. This is a movement and a party that I have been pretty proud to be part of and I think lots of people are proud of. Its made mistakes, it has had its ups and downs."
"It's really important that Trump not be the face of American conservatism or the Republican party," Kristol told Mitchell.
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Quote:In our current campaign, the obvious strategy by Democratic operatives to disrupt Donald Trump’s rallies and link him to brewing fascism (via lurid media images of wild-eyed brawlers) has backfired with a bang. The seething demonstrators who blocked Trump’s motorcade at last week’s state GOP convention in Burlingame, California, forcing him and his retinue to ditch their vehicles and sprint to a rear entrance on foot, managed to alienate mainstream voters, boost Trump’s national momentum, and guarantee his sweeping victory in this week’s Indiana primary. With the withdrawal of Ted Cruz, Trump is now the presumptive GOP nominee. Great job, Dem wizards!trump is possibly a descendant of the vikings raiding scottland and possibly got his haircut from his mom - paglia speculated.
The helicopter TV footage of Trump and his Secret Service detail on the move was certainly surreal. All those beefy men in shiny, dark suits rapidly filing through narrow concrete barriers (like cattle chutes at a rodeo) and then scrambling up a grassy knoll! It reminded me of the flight through the woods by scores of elegantly dressed Mafiosi after police raided the 1957 gangland convention in Apalachin, New York. (True, I have a special interest in that colorful event: Bartolo Guccia, who told the cops he was just delivering fish, ran his store out of the ground floor of my paternal grandparents’ house next to the Sons of Italy in nearby Endicott, my home town.) The optics of the aerial photos made Trump look like a late Roman emperor being hustled to safety by the Praetorian Guard, which over time had become a kingmaker, supplanting the authority of the Senate and the old patrician class.
Trump has knocked the stilts out from the GOP establishment and crushed the pretensions of a battalion of political commentators on both the Left and Right. Portraying him as a vile racist, illiterate boob, or the end of civilization as we know it hasn’t worked because his growing supporters are genuinely motivated by rational concerns about border security and bad trade deals. Whether Trump, with his erratic impulses and gratuitous crudities, can morph toward statesmanship remains to be seen. We don’t need another bumbling rube like George W. Bush, who bizarrely ambushed German chancellor Angela Merkel by grabbing and massaging her shoulders from behind as she was seated at a G8 Summit meeting in St. Petersburg in 2006.
The aerial view of Trump at Burlingame gave me a moment of gender vertigo. His odd, brassy blonde hairdo, which I normally think of as a retro Bobby Rydell quiff, looked from behind like a smoothly backcombed 1960’s era woman’s bouffant. Shelley Winters flashed into my mind, and then it hit me: “It’s all about his mother!” I had never seen photos of Mary MacLeod Trump (who died at 88 in 2000) and immediately looked for them. Of course, there it was—the puffy blonde bouffant to which Trump pays daily homage in his impudent straw thatch.
In their focus on Trump’s real-estate tycoon father, the media seem to have missed that the teetotaling Trump’s deepest connection was probably to his strong-willed, religious mother. Born in the stark, wind-swept Hebrides Islands off the western coast of Scotland (the next North Atlantic stop is Iceland), she was one tough cookie. She and her parents were Gaelic speakers, products of a history extending back to the medieval Viking raids. I suddenly realized that that is Trump’s style. He’s not a tribal Highlander, celebrated in Scotland’s long battle for independence from England, but a Viking, slashing, burning, and laughing at the carnage in his wake. (Think Kirk Douglas flashing his steely smile in the 1958 Hollywood epic, The Vikings.) Trump takes savage pleasure in winning for its own sake—an attribute that speaks directly to the moment, when a large part of the electorate feels that the U.S. has become timid and uncertain and made far too many humiliating concessions to authoritarian foreign powers like China, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Quote:This was very typical of Trump’s behaviour. One moment sunny, the next dark. I could feel a nervous tension in all those around him.
This fear contrasted sharply with his mother, Mary Macleod, brought up a crofter on the Hebridean island of Lewis.
Trump boasted she was so poor that when she arrived in America in the 1930s she was barefoot, and still barefoot when she met his father Fred Trump, the son of German immigrants, at a dance. Trump clearly worshipped her.
He took me to meet her in his Trump Tower penthouse. She was perfectly and expensively groomed. Now the shoes were by Chanel.
Her fingernails were a shiny scarlet, the hair coiffeured, her manner impeccable – the perfect wealthy American matron, all trace of the humble Scottish lass airbrushed away. A trophy mother.
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Quote:And is there anything creepier than that current Hillary meme, the campaign slogan “I’m with her”? The blurred borderlines of those pronouns (“I” numbly dissolving into “her”) and that ambiguous preposition (“with” her like a child, a lover, or a nurse’s aide with a geriatric patient?) are close to pathological. The Hillary acolytes are joined at the hip to “her”, the Great Leader Who Needs No Name, the Maternal Tit daubed in wormwood, the bitter toxin left by men–those spoilers of the universe who created the master structures of modern civilization that provide us put-upon gals with jobs, transportation, abundant food, clean water, housing, electricity, and a magical disease-spurning municipal sewage system that only men seem required to clean and repair.
Hillary’s anti-male subtext, to which so many women voters are plainly drawn, flared into view last week when she crowed to CNN’s Jake Tapper about her proven skills in sex war: “I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak….I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me.” The prestige media tried to suppress Hillary’s gaffes here (which breezily insulted both men and Native Americans) by simply not reporting them. Her campaign deflected initial criticism, but she made no personal response until the issue kept escalating. Five days later, she sat down with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and incredibly claimed that she had been referring to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Rick Lazio and Vladimir Putin—none of whom have had perceptible “temper tantrums” about her.
Conservative radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, analyzing Hillary’s remarks as most mainstream journalists refused to do, interpreted them as a cloaked reference to her embattled life with her philandering husband. However, I assumed from the start that “temper tantrums” (a term applied to small children) was another of Hillary’s odd childhood flashbacks and that it described her ranting father’s abusive behavior toward his wife and family (detailed in Carl Bernstein’s 2007 biography, A Woman in Charge). It was her stoical mother who trained Hillary in the art of contemptuous endurance of men’s squalling infantilism. Women are noble, superior creatures; men are yapping dogs.
And as for “off the reservation”, wow—I guess Hillary should take a gander at John Ford’s classic Western, Fort Apache (1948), where John Wayne tangles with Henry Fonda as a U.S. Cavalry martinet vengefully pursuing the Native American “savages,” led by the famous Chiricahua Apache chief Cochise, who refuse to stay on the reservation decreed for them by the government during Westward expansion. The bloody Apache wars in Arizona were one of the darkest chapters in American history. But there you have Hillary’s gender theory in a nutshell: men are bums and bullies who belong in internment camps under female lock and key.
(05-07-2016 12:33 AM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:(05-07-2016 12:03 AM)MMX2010 Wrote: Would Rapist Bill Clinton work as a nickname?
(Not now, but in about two months when Bill Clinton's sexual past will be repeatedly discussed, as a weapon against Hillary Clinton.)
Creepy Bill Clinton.
Particularly as his SMV has plummeted since his days in the White House. No sexual attraction = no hamstering away his sexual misconduct.
(05-07-2016 12:03 AM)MMX2010 Wrote: Would Rapist Bill Clinton work as a nickname?
(Not now, but in about two months when Bill Clinton's sexual past will be repeatedly discussed, as a weapon against Hillary Clinton.)
(05-07-2016 09:48 AM)Liberty Sea Wrote: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/s...li=BBnb7Kz
Sanders says he will do everything in his power to prevent Trump from becoming president, even if he fails to become the nominee. If everything means everything, you can take it to mean that he would tell his voters not to vote for Trump, back Hillary or even serve as her VP if needed.
(05-07-2016 09:48 AM)Liberty Sea Wrote: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/s...li=BBnb7Kz
Sanders says he will do everything in his power to prevent Trump from becoming president, even if he fails to become the nominee. If everything means everything, you can take it to mean that he would tell his voters not to vote for Trump, back Hillary or even serve as her VP if needed.