What Bernie And The Donald Portend
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, and clarity emerges.
Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, is in trouble.
Polls show her slightly ahead of socialist Bernie Sanders in Iowa, but narrowly behind in New Hampshire. And the weekend brought new revelations about yet more classified and secret documents sent over her private email server when she was secretary of state.
Between now and November, she will be traversing a minefield, with detonations to be decided upon by FBI investigators who may not cherish Clinton and might like to appear in the history books.
Clinton’s charge about Donald Trump’s alleged “penchant for sexism” brought a counterstrike – her being the “enabler” of Bill Clinton’s long career as a sexual predator – that rendered her mute.
But with Hillary Clinton having raised the subject, it is almost certain to be reintroduced in the fall, if she is the nominee.
Then there is the newly recognized reality that Clinton, who ran a terrific comeback race against Barack Obama in 2008, is not the candidate she was. Nor is Bill the imposing surrogate he once was.
Both are eight years older, and show it. “Low energy” nails it.
Lastly, Hillary Clinton now has a record to defend as secretary of state, a four-year term in which it is hard to see, looking back, a success.
Moreover, a defeat by Sanders in Iowa or New Hampshire could prove unraveling, with the press herd tapping out early obits.
New Hampshire has consequences.
A Granite State defeat by Sen. Estes Kefauver ended Harry Truman’s bid for re-election in 1952. Lyndon Johnson’s narrow write-in victory over Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 49-42, brought Bobby Kennedy into the race – and LBJ’s withdrawal two weeks later.
George H. W. Bush’s unimpressive New Hampshire win in 1992 brought Ross Perot in as a third-party candidate two days later, and Bob Dole’s loss in 1996 portended defeat in the general election.
But if a cloud is forming over the Clinton campaign, the sun continues to shine on The Donald.
Last July, in a column, “Could Trump Win?” this writer argued that if Trump held his then 20 percent share, he would make the final four and almost surely be in the finals in the GOP nomination race.
Now, in every national and state poll save Iowa, Trump runs first with more than 30 percent, sometimes touching 40. And, save in New Hampshire, Sen. Ted Cruz runs second to Trump.
What does the surge for socialist Sanders and the Republican base’s backing of the outsiders Trump and Cruz and collective recoil from the Republican establishment candidates tell us?
“The times they are a changing,” sang Bob Dylan in 1964.
Dylan was right about the social, cultural and moral revolution that would hit with Category 5 force when the boomers arrived on campuses that same year.
A concomitant conservative revolution would dethrone the GOP establishment of Govs. Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and William Scranton in 1964, and nominate Barry Goldwater.
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Something like that is afoot again. Only, this time, the GOP has a far better shot of capturing the White House than in 1964 or, indeed, than it appeared to have at this point in 1980, The Year of Reagan.
In June 1964, Goldwater, about to be nominated, was 59 points behind LBJ, 77-18, in the Gallup Poll. On Sept. 1, he was still 36 points behind, 65-29. In mid-October, Barry was still 36 points behind, when some of us concluded that Mr. Conservative just might not make it.
Yet, in January and February of 1980, Ronald Reagan, during the Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire Primary, never got closer than 25 points behind President Jimmy Carter, who led Reagan, on March 1, 58-33. Yet, that November, 1980, Reagan won a 44-state landslide.
Today, according to a new Fox Poll, Trump would beat Clinton by 3 points in the general election, if held now. Another poll shows Trump pulling 20 percent of the Democratic vote.
What this suggests is that nominating Trump is by no means a guarantee of GOP defeat. But beyond politics, what do the successes of Sanders, Trump and Cruz portend?
Well, Sanders and Trump both opposed the war in Iraq that the Bush Republicans and Clinton Democrats supported.
Both Sanders and Trump oppose NAFTA and MFN for China and the free-trade deals that Clinton Democrats and Bush Republicans backed, which have cost us thousands of lost factories, millions of lost jobs and four decades of lost wage increases for Middle America.
Trump has taken the toughest line on the invasion across the U.S.-Mexican border and against Muslim refugees entering unvetted.
Immigration, securing the border, fair trade – Trump’s issues are the issues of 2016.
If a Trump-Clinton race came down to the Keystone State of Pennsylvania, and Trump was for backing our men in blue, gun rights, securing America’s borders, no more NAFTAs and a foreign policy that defends America first, who would you bet on?
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What is big deal Clinton email!? Russia is already read all of Clinton email. Maybe instead of ask State Department, FBI is just ask Kremlin for complete data set.
RINOs suck. If it takes Trump to get things done, so be it.
Trump/Cruz 2016
OT, any one remember Fu and his Trav777 Remix. For old time laughs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpEI3njoeo
quotes, "that was the stupid fucken post I've ever read."
Hillery has her finer points:
1) higher taxes;
2) more illagels;
3) moar migrants; and,
4) bigger government.
Trump cant possibly beat her.
Bernie: Because it's easier to have the government use guns to take money from productive, working, people, giving it to you for voting the "correct" way, instead of bettering yourself and working for a living.
Oh, and hate people who have made money - unless they are your leftist government masters (the true wealthy).
No matter who's in office, the government will still use guns to take money away from some people and give it to other people — whether those people be women with five kids from five different baby-daddies or defense industry CEOs with five mansions on five different continents.
Orders of magnitude matter.
I can't imagine a female prez and a female FED chairman at the same time. This assumes Hillary and Janet are females.
Hillary for sure, she was actually attractive in her youth. Yellen's a Jew, do they even consider themselves humans these days?
Bernie - Jew
Hillary - Obedient Goy
Not much of a choice if you like freedom
And then, there's that movie . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MBjAN7jqsQ
Saw the poster for this today. What a crock of shit. By Michael Bay to boot. heh
A crock pot of bullshit that has been slow cooking for "13 Hours".
How about this one:
Trololo... The Full Original VersionCruz is perhaps the creepiest and slimiest politician plying his trade.
Cruz is BiBi's Bitch
Sociopath Cruz would be anyone's bitch to get ahead.
There have got to be at least 530 / 535 that qualify for that diagnosis.
I agree with you about cruz. Even when he says things I agree with, he comes off as insincere. He looks and sounds like he is telling you exactly what he thinks you want to hear, not what he actually thinks. His opinions are whatever polls better to a certain group at that time. He also reminds me of a dirty used car salesman "oil leak, what oil leak? That puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower".
Plus, the whole married to a higher up at GS disqualifies him from recieving my support. May sound petty, I know, but I find it hard to believe that someone married to an upper level goldmanite is even remotely serious about sound money or ending(or even auditing) the fed.
Pucker up and get some fotos of yourselves smooching the wailing wall bitchez or you're goin nowhere.
Uh, sarc, right?
Yup. That is the exact impression I get from him. Some kind of twisted used car salesman from Dallas that got lucky by marrying into some rich banker with GS.
I would definitely not be comfortable leaving him alone with kids.
If you want to get elected you have to be willing to do and say whatever it takes, you have to be connected and you have to be rich and have rich friends. But it is fatal to let it show.
Always looks like he's sniggering....and the joke's on us.
"Cruz is BiBi's Bitch"
And Cruz's wife is a Goldman Sach's bitch.
Cruz and rubi(on)o are obviously marrano jews.
How do you figure that?
As you have derided all of those hopeful starry-eyed voters of Obummer so you shall be derided for the absolute CLUSTER F*(k in store for us all if Shrump gets in...and those that voted for him will change their names, remove their bumper stickers and will deny him three times before the cock crows...
Please elaborate your position. Trump won't have a media that drools on his balls, no matter what he does. He won't have a Congress that refuses to criticize any of his acts of tyranny. He won't have a voter base dumber than a West Virginia fence post. He won't have a minority status, or a vagina, that deflects all criticism of his performance.
Please tell me again how your post makes any fucking sense. Thank you, in advance.
OK, easy. ANYBODY who is nominated is owned. Talk during the campaign is cheap...remember Obummer?
Regarding Shrump, who is he? Do you relate to him? Does he relate to you? Who is the most important person in the world to him? Does he really care about you? When did he ever do anything that would label him a patriot? Did he ever lie/cheat/steal as a matter of course to get ahead? Has he ever questioned why we are wasting lives and teasure in the Middle East and shows any understanding of BLOWBACK? What makes you think that not only would we get more of the same...but to outdo EVERYONE based on his boundless ego we might step much closer to places destructive to our country.
Why do you think before the campaign he said that Edward Snowden (who sacrificed much to disclose the government's lies about violating the Constitution) should be hanged? Do you feel the same way? Do you like our fed-based fiat money system and the total capture of our financial, media, governmental and educational institutions by the bankers? Would you be surprised if he lined up just like those before him and went after the 2nd Amendment, your social security and perhaps even your 401K/IRAs as an "emergency president". Has he shown you any conscience, consideration, thoughtfulness or is it you're just looking for what you perceive to be the Anti-Obummer?
He won't be any better for us than the last 37 presidents. The fact that he can get elected says as much.
Trump is nobody's religious figure. That fact, alone, makes him better than anything else we see on the other side.
Is the worship of money a religion?
No, as long as you don't receive said money as donation !
What's your argument that Trump worships money?
Right, so you're voting for Deez Nutz, then!
Cruz is a TFA/TFF - Goldman Sachs Canadian.
The whole thing is a joke. The USA does not have real elections.
The USA has been zio owned since The Civil War.
The Central Banakers tried to kill Andrew Jackson at least twice - he was a real patriot.
The bankers killed Garfield, McKinley, Abe Lincoln, JFK and possibly two others - 1 who may have been poisoned.
Donald Trump or Donald Drumpf - the illuminati Jew ? Obama ain't they only one with a dirty closet.
http://henrymakow.com/2015/12/Donald-Drumpf-Illuminati%20Jew.html
There is always time for recriminations, Boris. In her case, well deserved and long overdue.
Ya just gotta luv da dims and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz...lol...Plan A was Grandma Crony Clinton. Plan B is Grandpa Bernie Marx. Plan C is ole Crazy Uncle Joe.
Let's do it for da...cheeelrin...lmao!!!
A clear case of white privilege.
Clearly!
Where's the black candidate? The Hispanic candidate? I mean what the hell, the PC Pricks are always prattling on about "white privilege" but look at them!
They got a full blown white socialist man in 74yr old Bernie Marx who looks like the guy screaming at kids to GET OFF MY LOOOWN! and full blown white crony crook 68yr old woman who could pass for Ma Barker and neither of them can speak Spanish or have personally ever lifted a finger to help blacks...say like a Rand Paul in Haiti.
I just had a fucking ball with one of those Tele-Polls like they do on CNN...lmao!
Its a recorded thing, press this for that.
Well after pressing 3 numerous times for transgendered (when that wasn't an option...lol) I finally hit 1 for female, then 2 for black, then 2 again for Trump against Hillary.
They don't know what the fuck is going on...lol.
Awesome!!!
Although I know that all the black lesbians prefer Bush.
I'd like to know how you 'know this'
Bernie is a Jew, not white.
It was a pun.
Somehow this all feels like electing a captain for the titanic post-iceberg. What makes us care about this crap anyway? nostalgia? I like the chaos that Trump sows, but lets face it, even if he is serious about "Making America Great again" this fucker is going down.
Its all good.
I look at it like this, its like in the ole days when there was an advancing army coming toward us, you BURN AND POISON EVERYTHING in front of them.
They-Get-Nothing.
No shelter, no food, no water.
Nothing.
That is how the Russians beat Napoleon.
It works.
Leave-Nothing.
The Russians didn't beat Napoleon, the weather did.
Same goes for Hitler.
The Russians knew what they were up against and had lots of previous experience.