It was inevitable, of course, that the MSM would mount this attack on Trump’s legitimacy, particularly their leader and still champ (despite its financial woes) the NY Times. They didn’t acknowledge the possibility of a Trump win. Now they are … Continue reading →
No surprise whatsoever: Reid, who has previously floated changing the rules in 2017, added to TPM that if Republicans “mess with the Supreme Court, it’ll be changed just like that in my opinion. So I’ve set that up. I feel … Continue reading →
And it certainly promises to be somewhat more “interesting” than usual. Even if all goes according to the book and Donald Trump becomes the nominee (as I believe will happen), he’s such an unconventional candidate that it promises to be … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Yeah, it’s long. So long that I cued it up to continue on another page rather than the home page. But I hope you’ll find your patience rewarded; some of the things I uncovered here surprised me.] Yesterday we … Continue reading →
The attack on the GOP from within (that is, the civil war as opposed to the separate attack from the left) relies on words such as “elites” and “establishment.” But those are classic leftist words—as pejoratives anyway, with “establishment” being … Continue reading →
…but since everyone’s chattering about John Boehner’s description of Ted Cruz vs. Donald Trump, I thought I’d opine. First, the quotes: When it comes to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, even a few months’ time out of Congress has done little … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed how often conventional wisdom turns out to be wrong, or at least partly wrong. And yet it gets repeated and repeated and repeated; that’s what makes it conventional, I suppose. For example, the vitriol against the “establishment” GOP … Continue reading →
Commenter “physicguy” has this to say: Just released over at American Thinker: the article deals with the death of the GOP. I agree, and I think the last paragraph sums it all up very well: “The real blame rests on … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Although I already speculated somewhat about this question in the addenda to the previous post, I felt the issue is so important it needs a post of its own.] What will happen now? To set the scene: it’s nine … Continue reading →
Why, it’s our hero: Donald Trump (video is at the link; it happened Wednesday the 20th of January). You can find more on Trump’s rhetoric and the substantive issues (or supposedly substantive issues) he discussed here: What a strange soundbite … Continue reading →
Bob Dole didn’t exactly endorse Trump, but he prefers him to the dread pirate Cruz. In the process, Dole (who is now 92) had this to say: “I question his allegiance to the party,” Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz. … Continue reading →
This critique of Trump from a conservative—and anti-immigration—point of view was published in Conservative Review, a venue edited by lawyer and conservative talk show host Mark Levin. Levin is an influential conservative thinker, who four years ago disapproved of Trump, … Continue reading →