Shep Smith said it best:
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āI was referring to his granddaughter. Alessandra Mussolini. Sheās not so bad.ā
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āI apologize if anyone interpreted my words in such a way as to suggest principles.ā
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Ben Stein on Trump:
āMr Trump says he can both reduce taxes and reduce the deficit. Thatās complete nonsenseā¦ He is not a great businessman at all ā in no way. I donāt think he knows a goddamn thing about economics. [The economy] would get much worse. In terms, it would be a disaster. I am open-mouthed, gasping, unbelievable. I donāt get him.ā
but!
āBut I like him anyway, I might add. Iāll vote for him.ā
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Thatās not true. It would just require a massive cut in services.
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Absolutely. Heās conveniently not mentioning that heād have to cut things like police, healthcare, welfare, infrastructure, energy, libraries, and other things people pay for with their taxes (cough, socialism, cough).
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Exactly! All of the inessential stuff!
Honestly, I think the only way to do both, considering the size of the deficit at this point, would be to severely cut back funding to the military. The human/humane stuff doesnāt add up to enough.
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Just wait until Donald Trump rides shirtless on the back of an elephant at the Republican National Convention.
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Just like Reagan promised and failed!
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Sound bites aside though, tell me how Clinton will be any different than, say Reagan. The Republican Party has very little to actually object to when it comes to Clinton, at least in any principled way. Certainly not at the level of villification they spout. As Clinton says, thereās more that unites us than divides us, and that probably true of her and Republicans than her and socialists like Bernie.
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And then said massive cut in services has a knock-on massive hit to the economy, which increases the deficitā¦
See the UK conservative party for a handy exampleā¦
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I didnāt say it was a good idea.
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I suspect that you donāt go through a career like Trumpās without developing a respect for the utility of(but absolutely no respect for) cringing lickspittles who would very literally kiss ass to move a notch up the ladder. He even seems to have an assay method for them: look at his āletās see how much I can humiliate Christie in public and still have him grovel in front of meā testing.
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It is kind of amazing how the basically-center-right Clintons get so much credit for being terrifying frothing commies when they are essentially republicans who just donāt spend all their time talking about loathing poor people.
Itās not just them, of course. Obama managed to be the soft-on-terror muslim-brotherhood-sleeper-agent despite spending his entire administration holding more or less weekly meetings where he and the brass would decide who to send the killbots after for a ātargeted killingā. GW probably has a higher body count since he kicked off the major wars; but Obamaās use of special forces and drone kills would have been Tom Clancyās wet dream; and somehow heās still a treasonous liberal islamofascist.
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Letās take a look then, shall we? Reagan is hard, what with being dead and all and largely pre-dating the internet ā Iād have to do a whole bunch of work to collect data on his positions on various issues. So instead, I used the centriest* of the GOP candidates, Kasich. Hereās Clinton vs. Kasich.
And hereās a side-by-side of Romney, Trump, Clinton, and Sanders.
Iād say thereās a lot more separating Clinton and any of the GOP candidates than there is her and Sanders. And, of course, thereās the Clinton-Sanders voting record comparison, where they voted the same way on 93% of the issues. You could certainly argue that some of those issues were extremely significant ā the NYT has a good analysis piece ā but can you honestly state that there would be anywhere near as much similarity between Clinton and Rubio? (never mind Clinton and Santorumā¦)
*ācentriestā because āmost centristā is boring.
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From the things they said about him before, itās fairly clear to me that they think he would be a disaster and only changed their position out of party loyalty. It seems to me if you say āDonald Trump is a madman who must be stopped.ā you probably think Clinton isnāt as bad. So no, I do not think there is any internal consistency to their positions. In fact, Rubio flat out said heās voting for Trump only because he signed a pledge to vote for the party nominee. This is just simple partisanship and a desire to hold on to power in an increasingly insane and irrelevant political party.
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