Sue the guy who fixed your face
The more I watch the presidential campaign, the more it resembles the WWF. A guy with ears bigger than a pick-up truck’s doors makes fun of the other guys face. Then the pundits tell me that the guy with the big ears is more presidential than the guy with the face. What I must surmise from that is that an adolescent insult about someone’s appearance is a presidential attribute. I am not so sure that I like watching presidential politics swirling around the toilet bowl realizing as it goes so goes our country.
We have the so-called outsiders versus “the” establishment. Problem is, some we thought were outsiders are now insiders who have sold their souls to the establishment. When I was a teenager in the 60’s, anti-establishment was the thing, now all of those old hippie protestors and draft dodgers from Bill Clinton, to John Kerry, to right on down through Congress are the establishment. Sad thing is they did not fix the establishment they so hated because they learned rather quickly where the wealth and power resides and one beget the other. Cruz aptly labeled it the Washington Cartel – today’s establishment that determines who gains membership into their club. Who wins who loses and it is never about the country.
I read that the establishment’s Roveshivicks are plotting how to take out front-runner Trump and force Cruz to quit propelling the big-eared kid Rubio into the nomination. If Rubio cannot pull it off, plan B is to introduce Mitt Romney back into the race. And if that fails, there will be a battle at the convention for who will be the Republican nominee. Whoever it was that said give the Republicans a chance and they will lose a sure thing is being proven right again.
Romney took pages from Harry Reid’s book and dropped an unsubstantiated income tax bomb on Trump. Next thing you know someone will want to know if he ever tied a pet dog to the top of the car or gave another kid a haircut while he was in prep school.
Trump’s taxes could be picture perfect and he still will not want to release them. They will show where his contributions went. Some of which may be hard to explain away. Then again, maybe not. But rest assured if there is some potentially embarrassing information in those returns someone will devise a way to have it leaked. That is how it works in politics these days. Just like Barack Obama’s opponent in his Senate campaign had his sealed divorce records released. Mr. Trump should be getting out in front on this one.
If nothing else, this campaign cycle has exposed how the establishment operates. What is more interesting is that they are not trying to hide it. It is kind of an in your face attitude toward Americans. The Democrats have their super delegates that will ensure Mrs. Clinton is their nominee. The Republicans have their establishment to ensure that neither Trump, Cruz nor Carson will be theirs. All of that making primary elections a bad joke on gullible Americans.
In the past, whenever I encountered someone who blamed his poor state on the wealthy I would give him the standard talk about how it is the wealthy that create jobs not the poor. The more I ponder that, the more I come to accept that in a pure capitalist system that is exactly right. Wealth creates wealth and builds a robust middle class – the backbone of any country. I do not see it working that way these days. The door is being slammed in the faces of the middle class and in some cases their work is being given to lower paid and imported immigrants ala Disney. Now this “cartel” is plotting to keep the people’s choice – whoever that may turn out to be – from getting the nomination. Instead, they want to give it to another big-eared adolescent that can make a good speech, but has no life or work experience. Since that approach worked out so well for the country. Or they want to interject a proven loser into the fight. The bottom line, they do not want anyone who might upset the Washington status quo and they are willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that. They will even be happy with Mrs. Clinton. And they do not give a damn about what you think about it Mr. and Mrs. America.
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Category: Politics
American politics has always been ugly and unattractive candidates have always been lampooned. Well, that was true until oBaMa’s candidacy when the slightest suggestion of his Alfred E. Newman became a grievous sin for which conclusive “Racist!” or “Just because he’s black…” terms would be lodged against the speaker or writer. Clinton has a Big Ass. Trump has Stupid Hair. Both have mouths one could push a semi through sideways without touching lip. Rubio is a turncoat. Bernie is as old as dirt and a commie through and through. That leaves who? The missile.
“Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often and for the same reason.” – Samuel Clemens (Mark twain)
trying to pick what one thinks is the best candidate is like going through a big bucket of horse turds trying to pick the cleanest one.
The President is limited to the damage he can do. It’s Congress we need to overhaul. They become so entrenched that none of them will take an unpopular stance for fear of losing their extremely cushy position. Term limits for Congress would go far in reviving this country.
I still disagree. What we need is not TERM limits, but PAY AND PERKS limits. Then the term limits will take care of themselves.
The problem is P-O-W-E-R. How many candidates over the years have spent more of their own money than they could ever recoup by salary? How many have been millionaires to whom the salary meant zilch? Term limits is the key because it alone ensures that the power owners cannot build fiefdoms in virtual perpetuity. Thank God for presidential term limits or we might be looking to re-crown Emperor oBaMa.
Yeah, technically you are correct, RM3(SS). That’s the way it’s supposed to work, constitutionally. What the Founding Fathers didn’t expect was what has come to pass, that collusion and deference would permit the Chief Executive to do what he damn pleases. The only thing that is slowing oBaMa down right now at all is that he is a lame duck. A third unofficial party, comprised of Dems and Repubs, is firmly entrenched in DC. You can call the the “Us First Party,” the “Up Yours Party,” “The Insiders’ Club,” or any other thing but their purpose is alien to the nation’s best interest, whatever one calls them.
The founding fathers saw service in office as an obligation, not a career opportunity. They felt it was a great sacrifice to leave their livelihoods and represent the people. I’m sure they could never have conceived the boondoggle that government service has become.
RM3(SS)
THUMBS UP !
Wanna fix things? Take the money out of it.
Suspend their pay and benefits for a minimum of half their terms in office, all of them. Then we’ll find out just how dedicated they really are. And if they take bribes of any kind, including sex, fire their asses on the spot.
Only one candidate on the R side has been steadfast in protecting my 2cd Amendment rights. Cruz 2016
Yep. And the insiders (media, the lib left, and insiders such as McCain and wannabees such as Rubio) are doing their utmost to derail him. He is my hope for the country. Trump is a sideshow, better suited for the boardroom than the war room.
This election was supposed to be about the routine coronation of Hillary Clinton. That was until Donald Trump came along and put a whoopee cushion on her throne. What’s interesting, at least it seems to me, is that the Trump campaign might have fizzled early, but instead struck a deep chord way down in the electoral psyche.
What the media tends to miss in all this is that although the electorate is angry, nothing new there, the national press has a hard time gauging the relative degree of anger because it is caught up in the same politics-as-usual game of the standard players. Some of these people in the press are terrified of Trump because he represents potential denial of access. What do you do if you’re a pundit, and nobody will talk to you?
Personally, I don’t have a problem with the prospect of Trump getting elected, and if it takes a bar fight to get him there, so what? If nothing else, it might empty the bar out and bring in a little fresh air.
It might also be pointed out that a few years ago in California, the same kind of hand-wringing and pearl clutching went on when Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor. There were some odd quirks, but nothing much bad actually happened. It’s not as if the man decided to ban Birkenstocks and granola or anything.
For those who might be interested, there was a recent piece in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi about the current election. You might not agree with Taibbi’s politics, but he does bring keen insight as an observer:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224
Got about half way through the RS article before I reached my gorge limit of snark and smarm. Yeah, he had some valid points and writes well, but the typical libtard condescending “I’m so much smarter” attitude shone through.
Color me surprised.
I couldn’t make it that far, Ed. That’s textbook Liberal Snark 101. Those aren’t paragraphs but rather chunks of bloody condescension being tossed to an audience that Taibbi knows is just salivating and slathering for it.
Sorry, Perry
Fair enough, PT. I respect your opinion, and that of AW1Ed. My own view is that if you read the entire Taibbi piece, he tends to gore everyone’s ox pretty much equally, and in the process provides a useful sort of macro-level view of how the dynamics work.
What might also be pointed out is this: If the year was, say, 1938 and you were working intel in Europe, wouldn’t it have been a reasonable idea to read Mein Kampf to try to figure out what was giving the Germans a collective lederhosen wedgie?
Don’t know why you insisted on mentioning Dr. Carson. He’s completely unqualified* and has had next to no success in the primaries.
You also fail to mention Bernie Sanders, who has been successful for the same reason Trump has; more than a few liberal/progressives are as fed up as conservatives. Hillary is, after all, a K Street crony, and they’re quite unhappy with the coronation.
*never held an elected position. Let him get elected at a lower level, and examine his performance. I wouldn’t suggest that someone brand new to the business world start as the head CEO of Proctor & Gamble either. Let them run a local hardware store or pizza parlor first.