Party over country, or country over party. That is the question and in this case the answer will reveal who are the real patriots and who are the phony flag wavers, more interested in their own goals than those of the nation.
Surprisingly or maybe not, one of the principle culprits in this area is John McCain. The man who Donald Trump has repeatedly denigrated, a man who has operated under the protective blanket of his prisoner of war status, but is also the man who has already sold out his country by accepting Sara Palin as his Vice-Presidential running mate when it was clear that she was lacking the qualifications to do anything but clean fish.
That’s right folks! McCain was willing to sell out the country, and put that hair brained bimbo one heartbeat from the button, just to pick up a few extra votes in an already lost election. So what’s so strange about McCain endorsing a man who called him a phony hero and who stands against everything he stands for, just to promote his party over his country and maybe get a few extra votes in his battle with Ann Fitzpatrick for the Senate seat in Arizona? All he seems to be worried about is losing his seat in the Senate; country be damned. Maybe it’s time for John McCain to get a real job, or better still retire. Maybe Ann Kirkpatrick can help him along on this journey.
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The Republicans have finally recognized that Donald Trump has beaten all the other candidates to a pulp and they have withdrawn and admitted defeat. Now it’s time for Bernie Sanders to see the same reality and get out of Hillary Clinton’s way as she moves ahead to her battle with Trump. Hillary is as far ahead of Bernie as Trump was against his challengers so it’s time for Bernie to show that he can accept reality and move ahead with his very important platform in a way that allows the Democrats to dive into the job of winning the election.
Bernie has done a great job of identifying a serious problem in our nation’s economy, making it a rallying point and getting the nation to recognize that it must be solved. If he plays his cards right he can get it written into the Democratic platform at this year’s convention. Bernie can be a valuable asset to the Dems as was Hillary to Barak Obama. Right now though. he is proving, by his intransigence, that he is too stubborn to be President and he is endangering the very important aims of his own campaign by not understanding that you have to deal intelligently to get what you want. That is the art of politics.
There has never been a piece of legislation passed that hasn’t had some give and take involved in getting it through congress. This has been the problem with the GOP congress with which Barak Obama has had to deal. They simply refused to give him anything and to be fair; he reciprocated by not wanting to deal with their pig headedness.
So now we have Hillary far ahead in the race, a person who knows how to format a deal and how to get it done. It’s time for Bernie to get off the stick and do the right thing for himself, his platform, the party and the nation, because if, God forbid, Trump wins, this nation will be buried in the toilet.
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Now that Donald Trump is his party’s nominee he has started an outright personal attack on Hillary Clinton or more accurately on her husband, Bill Clinton. Does this wife abuser really want to attack another man about a blowjob, when he himself is guilty of physically abusing his first wife, Ivana? Don’t take it from me. It’s all there in her book. Is Trump really so dumb that he thinks he can attack Hillary Clinton for what her husband did twenty-five years ago, without having his history of wife beating become a major factor in the election rhetoric?
What Bill Clinton did was cheat on is wife. Yes, that’s a really bad thing. Are we really supposed to believe that Trump never cheated on any of his wives, even as he was unloading them for the next model?
This is a man who chooses his wives on a 1 to 10 model scale and once he has them, has them reworked to his own specs, kind of like customizing a ’41 Chevy.
It appears that Donald Trump would be well served by not bringing spousal relations into this battle. He has been married to a series of women who were, by his standards, almost pretty enough for his trashy taste, but certainly pretty enough so that they only needed moderate modification. Hillary is married to a man who was President of the United States. Does Trump really want to compare?
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Listened to Hillary Clinton being interviewed on Face the Nation, not exactly a liberal program. You hear her speak and you hear Donald Trump speak and it’s like you’re on two different planets. Trump blusters and throws out slogans, never saying the same thing twice, never able or trying to actually back up anything he says, never up to logically explaining how he will achieve any of the programs he rambles on about, while Clinton, talks well organized, functional programs that are published for all to see and warns against Donald’s wild nuclear bombast, his unsupported braggadocio and his angry, vindictive bullying.
It seems hard to believe that even in the wild west of the GOP primary, Trump garnered enough votes to be the nominee but it seems absolutely unimaginable that he will accumulate any kind of serious numbers in November.
We know that people are furious at what has been happening in congress the last six years but do they really think they can look to a lying, egomaniacal bully like Trump to solve their problems. Trump says exactly what he thinks a specific audience wants to hear at any particular moment. He talks about the jobless but doesn’t want to increase, a too small to live on, minimum wage. He talks deals that will be better than the ones we now have with foreign countries even as he flings vitriol at those countries and raises their hackles.
He speaks to helping veterans even though he has, with the help of his father’s money evaded the draft. He attacks Hillary’s emails even as he refuses to reveal his own tax returns. Sure he’s being audited, so is almost every businessman in the country, but the honest ones can still come up with their returns, especially the ones for past years. There is really no comparison between the two. Many voters don’t trust Hillary. No one in his right mind can trust Trump.
Bernie Sanders is running a creditable presidential campaign, draws huge crowds to his rallies even as he and they are ignored by mainstream media, and is the only candidate with honesty and integrity on his side. He has no reason to leave at this point, as he is in a position to beat Clinton in primaries to come, and it is emphatically NOT time for him to “get out of Hillary Clinton’s way.” This country desperately needs for him to take the now-right wing Democratic part much farther to the left. Only he can do that. It will be a contested primary, make no mistake. He and Clinton are agreed that the important thing is to defeat Trump, and Bernie can do so by a much wider margin than Clinton, who has compromised herself to the point of vulnerability. I sincerely hope that Bernie, with his “narrow path to victory,” will be our next president. If that does not happen, he still needs to play a major role in re-shaping our political party system and our money-worshipping government.