The Terrible Choice Ahead

Quinnipiac came out with what Matt Drudge in his own inimitable manner called a "SHOCK POLL" in screaming headlines this morning.  The poll was a "shock" because it shows the presidential race a dead heat, with Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by just 42% to 40%.

Presumably the other 18% were gagging too hard to answer the question properly, because the poll's other results show that the majority of the voting public absolutely hates, detests and is horrified at the choice before them in this election.  To which I can only respond, well, guess what?  The public is who made this choice in the first place.

Let us never forget that, regardless of how "rigged" the nominating processes of each party are, ultimately it was the voters in the various state primaries and caucuses who ended up choosing these two specific presumptive nominees.  Yes, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the evil minions at the Democratic National Committee did everything they could to tilt their contest in the favor of Mrs. Clinton, and yes, her opponents ranged from the stark, raving crazy Bernie Sanders to a circus clownish ex-governor from Rhode Island, with only the terminally tedious Martin O'Malley in between, but still, there was a choice, and the Democrat voters chose The Most Corrupt Woman In America to be their party's standard bearer in the November election.

Assuming, of course, she isn't indicted prior to the convention.  But Democrat voters were well aware of that possibility, and chose her anyway.

The decision by GOP voters to leave their party's presidential hopes in the hands of a man who often wanders off into side-shows that do untold damage to his electability was also a conscious, very intentional choice that reflects the abject failure of the party's leadership in Washington to do anything effective to slow the Obama agenda in the last 8 years.  It was very clear that Trump was an undisciplined political wild card as far back as the first primary debate that was held in August of last year.  But GOP primary voters didn't care - they wanted something different, and boy has Trump delivered that.

So now that the decisions the voters have made are before them, and it is clear that there is most likely no turning back from this precipice, you have a big case of buyer's remorse settling in.  Many Democrat voters are no doubt standing back and thinking 'geez, if we'd have just nominated someone who isn't a career criminal, beating Trump would have been a cakewalk', just as many GOP voters are no doubt thinking 'geez, can  we give Marco Rubio a do over?'.  Well, no, you can't.

Here's the truth:  All the Republicans needed to do to easily defeat The Most Corrupt Woman In America was nominate someone who could run a disciplined, professional campaign.  All the Democrats needed to do to easily defeat Trump was to NOT nominate The Most Corrupt Woman In America.

Here's where we stand:  Trump still has an opportunity to discipline himself and let Paul Manafort run a professional campaign for him.  If that happens, he'll win.  If it doesn't, he won't.

The Democrats, meanwhile, are stuck with Hillary, barring a sudden, extremely unlikely burst of professional integrity at the Justice Department.  She is who she is, and there's no going back from that.

The fact that she is stuck in such a close race with Trump, after the horrid month Trump has had in June, is an overwhelmingly bad sign for the Democrats.

Regardless of how this election comes out, never forget that the voting public has only itself to blame, because they had the opportunity to vote for someone else.

Does Brexit Vote Presage Trump Presidency?

It was a lot of fun to see all the long faces open the various major network morning shows with the news that voters in Great Britain had chosen, by a 52-48 margin, to free their home land from the chains and dictates of the internationalists who run the EU in Brussels.

Enough Brits had gotten sick of seeing their culture destroyed by the EU's open borders policies, had gotten sick of seeing their jobs shipped overseas, had gotten sick of a stagnant economy and falling standard of living, and more than anything else had gotten sick and tired of hearing Prime Minister David Cameron and the country's other internationalist leaders telling them that "that is not who we are" whenever they dared to complain, to push the final vote on this matter over the top.

Unsurprisingly to anyone who pays attention to such things, the actual vote stood in contrast to a rash of last minute polls and pronouncements in the British state-run media that the Brexit proposition was doomed to fail.  So ubiquitous was this "conventional wisdom" over the last couple of weeks that even the vast majority of pro-Brexit voters went to the polls fully expecting the proposition to fail.

If all of this sounds familiar to you, it should, because the basis for the Brexit campaign is essentially the same as the basis for the Donald Trump campaign here in the U.S.

President Obama began using his "that's not who we are" talking point two years ago, when he announced his executive order that would have "legalized" about 4 million illegal immigrants.  (That order was rebuffed by the Supreme Court yesterday.) He has repeated that talking point hundreds of times since, using every conceivable opportunity to try to brainwash the public into believing that the U.S. has always been a purely open borders nation.  That same drumbeat was quickly adopted by other Democrat politicians and their thousands of Democrat propaganda agents in our country's own fake news media.  Recently, we've even seen House Speaker Paul Ryan and a few fellow internationalist GOP members of congress take up the mantra.

The truth, of course, is that America has always been welcoming of immigrants, but always through an organized process of legalization and assimilation.  For more than 200 years this country was highly selective about who it allowed to come and join our society.  For more than two full centuries, this country carefully worked to ensure that immigrants came to this country wanting to assimilate to our society, wanting to join our existing culture, wanting - indeed longing - to be able to live under our system of laws and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution.

Trump began his campaign with the correct sense that a growing number of Americans are sick of being lied to by internationalist politicians about "who we are", sick of seeing our culture destroyed by open borders policies, sick of seeing our people sacrificed at the altar of unfettered immigration, sick of seeing our jobs shipped overseas, sick of economic stagnation and a falling standard of living.

The Trump campaign is essentially the same as the Brexit campaign.  Brexit, despite the intense and coordinated propaganda effort mounted by the Cameron government and the state run news media, in the face of a rash of polls showing it would fail, won yesterday by a comfortable margin.

In our presidential race, Trump is Brexit, Hillary is Remain.  Time will tell if British history can be repeated in America.

Sit-ins, Polls and Basketball

The Democrats staging their petulant sit-in on the House floor yesterday and this morning are not only attempting to do away with the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, but 5th Amendment as well.  Fake media reports notwithstanding, the sit-in is protesting Speaker Paul Ryan's insistence that any "gun control" bill brought up for a floor vote must protect Americans' rights to due process under the 5th Amendment.

This is kind of a big deal, or at least it is to anyone who is not a Democrat politician or progressive activist.

That's what this sit-in is about, nothing more or less.  The national Democrat Party wants to take away your 5th Amendment rights, and your 2nd Amendment rights.  Eliminating such rights was also among the first priorities of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi (National Socialist) Party when they assumed control in Germany.

This is not a coincidence, folks.

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Thursday's Today Show led with a story that President Obama, upon leaving office, is looking at the potential for becoming the owner of an NBA franchise.  Upon hearing that lead, my first thought was that I wonder if anyone at NBC might think to ask how it is that a person who has been nothing more than a "community organizer" and a professional politician for his entire adult life might have amassed a personal fortune sizeable enough to even entertain the thought of owning an NBA team, the least expensive of which would cost upwards of $1 billion?

Of course the answer to that is that if Barack Obama were a Republican, that would not only be the first question asked, but the entire focus of the story.  But because Barack Obama is a Democrat, no one at NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times or the Washington Post would ever dream of posing such an inconvenient question related to this story.

Still, any thinking American ought to be asking how it is that a lifetime politician would have obtained the personal wealth necessary to even entertain this thought.  I mean, President Obama doesn't even have a criminal enterprise like the Clinton Foundation to fall back on.

Where's all that money coming from?  It's a good question that nobody in our fake news media would even dare to ask.

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There must be real panic going on at the DNC this morning, after the release of Quinnipiac Senate race polls yesterday showing Marco Rubio leading by 7% in Florida, Mike Toomey leading by 9% in Pennsylvania, and the hotly contested Ohio race tied.  The panic most likely is shared at the Clinton campaign as Quinnipiac has Crooked Hillary tied with Trump in Ohio and leading by only 1 in PA.  Her lead in the RealClearPolitics polling average has held steady at just over 5% for more than a week now.

After the last three weeks, during which Trump made a series of unforced errors and the fake media sacrificed ratings and readership in a highly-coordinated effort to take him down, the Clinton camp had to have expected well ahead in these battleground states and nationally, and the DNC no doubt expected the pillorying of Trump would have down-ballot impacts in the senate races.

Not happening.  One must wonder how much longer the networks and 24 hour news channels will be willing to continue sacrificing viewers to Fox News at the altar of the Clinton campaign?  After mounting a similarly coordinated effort to take Trump down during the last two weeks of March, they all gave up the ghost because they were losing too much money.

I couldn't help noticing that the general media coverage of Trump's speech on Wednesday was far more even-handed than anyone had a right to expect.  I'm betting the DNC and Clinton camp noticed that as well.

Trump has avoided any major unforced errors for two weeks now.  If that continues, we should expect the national polls to even back up as we approach the GOP national convention in mid-July.

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One last add that everyone needs to see and digest:

The Presidential Campaign Began Today

This morning, Donald Trump gave the speech Republican voters have been longing to hear from a Republican - any Republican - candidate about the Clintons for 24 long years.

George H.W. Bush wasn't willing to tell the unvarnished truth about Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1992, and he lost.  Bob Dole was too frightened of the Clintons and their media protectors in 1996, and he lost.  George W. Bush suffered from the same fear of the Clintons and the media, and the result was his being blamed for the 2008 banking collapse which in fact was caused by idiotic policies enacted during the Clinton Administration.

 Today, Donald Trump demonstrated why, out of the original 17 Republicans who sought the Party's nomination this year, he was the only one who would have any chance of defeating Hillary Clinton in the general election.  The simple reason why is that Trump has no fear:  No fear of the Clintons, no fear of their army of highly paid liars, no fear of our fake media establishment which functions as little more than the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party.

The GOP had to have a Honey Badger as its nominee this year.  Where the Clintons are concerned, Donald Trump is that Honey Badger - he just don't give a damn.  Honey Badger Don't Care.

It has been 36 years since the Republican Party had as its nominee a candidate who had the personal intestinal fortitude to tell the unvarnished truth about the opposition party and its nominee.  In this regard, Trump is so alien to the traditional GOP cower-in-fear-of-negative-press approach to politics that many members of his own party simply do not have any idea how to deal with it.  As Trump said yesterday in an interview, he is almost having more trouble with leaders in the GOP than he is having with the Democrats.

The reason for that is that establishment Republicans don't know how to react to the Honey Badger in their midst. They have become too accustomed to nominees who more resemble head-in-the-sand ostriches or plodding sloths.

In any event, what we saw from Trump this morning is in fact the beginning of the campaign.  This is the campaign that must be run if the Clinton/fake media machine is to be defeated.

It's going to be tough, it's going to be nasty, it's going to be incredibly unpopular among our pop culture, it's going to be hard for the squeamish among us to watch.

But make no mistake about it, the Honey Badger approach is the only way the GOP can win the presidency this year.

And Donald Trump is that Honey Badger.

Game on.










 

BREAKING: Obama Judge Follows Constitution on Fracking Regulation!

Color me shocked, stunned, flabbergasted, discombobulated and utterly, completely agog:  A federal judge appointed by our current President issued a decision yesterday that - be sure you are sitting down before you go on - actually follows the legislative and regulatory process as the founding fathers and Constitution envisioned it ought to work.

I know that's hard to believe - trust me, upon reading the article, I did a double take and went over to snopes.com and The Onion to make sure it wasn't an urban legend or a prank - but it's true.  It actually did happen.

Here are the high points:

• Federal Judge Scott Skavdahl is a federal district court judge in Wyoming, appointed by Barack Obama;

• His ruling, for once, exactly follows the intent of the legislative/regulatory process, i.e., he rules that DOI cannot regulate hydraulic fracturing because Congress has not given that power to DOI.  What a concept!;

• Key passage from the decision:  "Congress' inability or unwillingness to pass a law desired by the executive branch does not default authority to the executive branch to act independently, regardless of whether hydraulic fracturing is good or bad for the environment or the citizens of the United States.”

·        If upheld through the appellate process, the reasoning behind this decision could have wide-reaching impacts on other major Obama Administration environment-related regulatory actions, such as the Waters of the U.S. and methane emissions regulations, given that all of those actions also vastly exceed the authority granted to the regulators by congress.

DOI will of course appeal this decision, but at least for this morning, justice has actually prevailed.

Somebody pinch me and make sure I'm not just dreaming this...

Another Ghoulish Administration Lie

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is going to appear on every Sunday morning news program today. Her focus will not be Islamic Terrorism as it should be. Nor will her focus be the seemingly interminable FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's serial selling of U.S. national security interests for personal gain, as it ought to be.

The Attorney General's focus will be to attempt to shift attention away from those real issues by demagoging the fake "gun control" issue.

This should really come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the activities of the President and the Democrat presumptive nominee since the latest Islamic Terrorist atrocity took place in Orlando last week.

They are laying the foundation for the President to issue yet another in a long line of blatantly unconstitutional executive orders relating to gun control, most likely an order that would pretend to outlaw "assault weapons".

You can expect such an order to come as early as this week. These people always strike while the iron is hot, and as they like to say, they never want to let a good crisis - like 49 dead Americans - go to waste.

It's important to remember that the last time a major administration official appeared on every Sunday morning news program was when the UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, took to the air to blame the Benghazi attacks on a video, another blatant, disgraceful lie which Hillary Clinton fully supported.

These people are ghouls. They really, really are.

Political Correctness IS The Problem

[Today a friend put up a Facebook post that said "I'm tired of moments of silence.  I want a voice who takes action and creates change."  The following was my reply to her.]

I completely agree.  I'm tired of moments of silence, too, and want a voice who takes action and creates change.

The people currently running our government - Democrat and Republican alike - rely on the complacency of the masses. They rely on the people out in flyover country to believe that, by having moments of silence, sending out images of ribbons in rainbow colors, or changing our avatars to an image of the French or Belgian flags, we have accomplished something real, and can now go back to our daily lives feeling better about ourselves.

The truth, of course, is that such feel-good gestures accomplish nothing. Nothing at all, other than, as previously mentioned, making us feel better about ourselves for having done the politically correct thing.

The problem here is that Political Correctness IS THE PROBLEM. By doing nothing other than the politically correct thing, and nothing more, all we are doing is facilitating the maintenance of the status quo.

That's exactly what the people in Washington, R and D alike, want us to do. If you wonder why everyone whose livelihoods and bases of power lay in our nation's capitol have reacted with such hate and anger towards the candidacy of Donald Trump, and why even many Rs are likely going to support Hillary Clinton over their own nominee, you need to understand it is precisely because he threatens to upset the status quo that feathers all of their respective beds.

PC IS the problem. PC is the reason why 49 good Americans died in Orlando last weekend. PC is the reason why the FBI was aware of this terrorist and could do nothing to stop him. PC is why they actually interviewed the guy three times but had no choice but to let him go. PC is why a known terrorist threat was able to hold down a job for years which required a federal background check.

PC is the problem. It is our enemy. And if we all do nothing in response to Orlando and Paris and Brussels and San Bernadino but the PC thing, then we become part of the problem, too.