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Sunday, June 26, 2016

SALLY MORRIS: NEVER TRUMP!

Conservatives in America are being given an impossible choice – Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.  One short year ago this choice would have been unthinkable.  Remember?  Back then we were trying to find a way to prevent the rise of Jeb Bush.  It looked like a perfect storm – an incumbent’s final term coming to an end, no viable successor in sight – Hillary being the obvious, followed by Joe Biden.  On the other hand, we had several promising young conservatives vying for attention.  First was Scott Walker, who had a sound record as Governor of Wisconsin, and although not quite the unwavering conservative we’d have preferred, he set a standard.  We had a few hopefuls from earlier contests – Huckabee, largely considered a sell-out (and eventually proven to be), other governors – Chris Christie, who although no hero of conservatives, did provide needed competition on the left for Bush, Bobby Jindal, a genuine conservative at the time, Mike Pence, Rick Perry making an encore appearance.  And in the Senate we had some heroes, some tarnished, some near-perfect.  We had Rand Paul, more a Libertarian than a conservative, and two sparkly-perfect senators – Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.  We didn’t ever need Donald Trump here.  We had the real thing in almost every nuanced flavor.

Today we have Donald Trump.  His candidacy is indefensible for dozens of reasons.  How shall we count them?  We can just look at Trump’s political history.  He has been registered as a Democrat in a very, very liberal state – New York.  His whole family is still registered as Democrats.  He has been a major donor to the very worst of the political left – Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and doubtless many, many more.  He famously donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation in order, he says, to get Hillary as a celebrity to his third wedding.  He routinely buys judges and councilmen and says so openly.  It’s how he does business.  In fact you can’t discuss his politics without talking about his business enterprises. 

In business, he says he is the greatest “deal-maker” the world has ever known.  He has built an empire on his ability to cast aside principle and even decency in order to make these deals – that and about $6 million given him by his father.  His father had made his money the same way – making deals, primarily with legislators at all levels – city, state, federal.  He was well-known for this.  When he wanted a property, Donald Trump would leave no stone unturned.  He used every tool of persuasion and force he could – including the doctrine of eminent domain.  Eminent domain has often been abused.  It is intended for necessary public projects.  Examples would be a dike to protect property from flooding, a major roadway, an airport, a military installment, a transmission line that provides service to tens of thousands of customers – hospitals, schools, homes, businesses, etc.  It is NOT intended to help a Donald Trump or a Lucky Luciano most beneficially situate a casino or hotel or brothel.  In order to bend the rules to help get this done – this and other unethical practices – Trump has boasted of buying off judges and politicians.  He explains it all: "I've got to give to them, because when I want something, I get it. When I call, they kiss my ass."  So much for holding Washington accountable.  Then he decides his best defense for his failed fraud, “Trump University”, in the trial that he managed to get put off until AFTER the election is that the judge assigned to the case is not capable of rendering fair judgment because although born in Indiana, his parents were born in Mexico.  In other words, maybe his check didn’t clear or he found someone he could not buy – or afford.

If these experiences and absence of character were not enough, we have his deepest personal life.  His disgusting behavior in his own characterization of his relationship with his elder daughter (“. . . she has the best body -  if she weren’t my daughter I’d be dating her . . .” and commenting on national television that the thing they have in common, he would say was “sex”), his general behavior toward most women, from Carly Fiorina to Megyn Kelly to everyone else – even Hillary herself, his international “escort” service and his playtime with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be sufficient.  Epstein alone should be enough to end the candidacy of Donald Trump.  Epstein has been running a trafficking operation using very young girls to provide service to the lowest celebrities you can imagine.  His clients have included the rich and famous and politically important.  His young victims are tragic.  One of his pals is Bill Clinton.  Another is Donald Trump.  Enough said. [http://911disclosure.blogspot.com/2011/04/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-and.html] It is horrifying to see people whom we have known as champions of the right to life, to decency in government and public policy, crusaders for our Constitution, crumble before this man.  It is as though the personality cult has destroyed their minds, consciences and souls. Their conversion has been described as a case of Stockholm Syndrome.

Trump is incapable of debate on any issue.  He is not only ignorant of the Constitution – he is smugly so.  He knows nothing about foreign policy except for his playboy chums and his idol, Vladimir Putin.  Trump’s campaign manager, in fact, Paul Manafort, is a buddy of Putin’s and helped him to overtake Ukraine in one of his last assignments.  Instead of debate or discussion of policy and issues, Trump has relied upon his self-perceived “talent” for insult.  He insults not only those with whom he is having difficulty debating, he insults gratuitously.  On the eve of the Indiana primary he accused Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, of plotting to assassinate John Kennedy.  He had already attempted to “out” Cruz’s wife for having suffered a bout of depression.  He had falsely accused Cruz himself of cavorting about with seven mistresses.  He accused John McCain of being a coward inasmuch as he was a POW.  Last week, without any apparent cause, he was inspired to accuse American soldiers of having stolen money intended to relieve survivors of conflict in Iraq and “living quite well now”.  The last was truly an obscenity as Trump himself managed to wangle four deferments to keep himself from having to serve in the Viet Nam war, claiming a “foot injury”.  He was a graduate of a military academy.  His libelous claims are destroying innocent people’s lives, and HE talks about “reforming the libel laws” so as to protect himself from any criticism.  His behavior is beneath contempt here as well.  But of course, almost every dictator finds he must curtail free speech.

In Garland, Texas, terrorists attempted to assassinate several champions of free speech – including Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer among others.  Trump’s reaction?  He thought they ought to shut up and not draw Mohammed.  HE TOOK THE SIDE OF THE TERRORISTS.  Our First Amendment is meaningless to Trump.  Except when he wants to spout off randomly as though afflicted with a serious attack of Tourette’s.  He seems, at the advanced age of 70, to be incapable of controlling his tongue or his behavior.  If he were 7 instead of 70, his teachers would be putting him on ritalin.  Could it be the onset of dementia?

If we bother to look at “policy” (which is not rewarding because Trump’s positions change from moment to moment in kaleidoscopic fashion) we could interpret his transient positions on wind farms and ethanol subsidies together with his participation and signature on the Copenhagen “Global Warming” petition to indicate a pro-climate-change attitude.  This is inconsistent with what he tells North Dakota voters when he is in “energy” country.  Here he is all about development of fossil fuels.  How does this resolve itself?   Wait until tomorrow.  That’s how.  We’ll have to wait to see what he says next.  He has no use for consistency.  We see a similar pattern of “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” when it comes to the right to life itself.  One day he’s pro-choice – even late-term abortion and partial-birth abortion.  The next day, addressing a crowd he believes is pro-life, he says he’s pro-life as well.  Then he says he thinks his sister would be a great Supreme Court Justice.  She’s ruled in favor of partial-birth abortion.  What does he really mean?  The truth is we are fools to try to figure it out.  He makes everything up as he goes along, whether it is foreign policy, where he intends to commit war crimes and pillage foreign oil, and financial policy, where he intends to superimpose his own personal plan for wealth management – bankruptcy – on the national economy, defaulting on the national debt.  He won a lot of votes by claiming he would build a “beautiful wall” and the Mexican government will pay for it.  Then it morphs into a “virtual” wall.  He makes wild promises to deport illegals, but these deportations are transformed into “rhetorical” deportations.  It is highly unlikely that Trump will ever support limiting immigration because he is too heavily invested in cheap labor.  He used low-wage Polish labor to build his famous “Tower” and he staffs his hotels and golf resorts with “guest workers” – a polite term for today’s slave labor.  Keeps his bottom line in better shape.  He has absolutely no respect for the Americans who are supporting him – he abuses them with these open-book lies.  Oh, and gun control?  His first instinct after the terrorist attack in Orlando last week was to run to the NRA to tell them he’s all for suspending the 2nd Amendment for anyone on a “no-fly list”.  Do you know how you get on a “no-fly” list?  Neither do I.  Neither do most of the innocent Americans on it.  A “no-fly” list is just a back door to elimination of the 2nd Amendment because you have no recourse. If you get on this list you don’t get a gun.  Who puts you there?  Who knows?  You won’t.  Your granny might be on it.  Congressman McClintock is on it.  No one knows he is on it and when he finds out he is he still doesn’t know why.   In other words, we will have no 2nd Amendment right to bear arms if you are stupid enough to elect Trump.  Now, if Hillary were president and tried this, at least Republicans in Congress could deny her if they had the will. 

Not only is Donald Trump a repulsive example of depravity and personal irresponsibility, he is a danger to American freedom and to world financial and political stability.  He is not worth your vote or mine.  The big lever being used to put him over is “he is better than Hillary” or “ANYTHING is better than Hillary”.  But is he?  Hillary is governed by only one impulse – her own profit motive.  Trump is governed by ego.  Which is worse in the long run?  Because ideologically speaking you have no idea where Trump stands other than his massive financial support for left-wing politicians at every level of government - and corruption.  If you don’t like what has been going on in Washington and feel that you’ve been sold out by Congress and the President and Supreme Court, take a good long look at Trump. He IS that corruption.  Politicians cannot be bought without someone to buy them.  He buys them.  He says so loudly and proudly. 

And now for Donald Trump’s upside - . . . .  I can’t fill in the blank.  Can you?

Our support for this excrescence is being demanded by those who have corrupted themselves and want our company on this ride to hell.  Some will bend to it – they will sell their conscience and take the dive.  Some of us simply will not.  America has been a great country.  If this man is elected (he won’t be, according to polls) it will end with the most reprehensible specimen we could have dredged up from the most putrid swamp on earth.  Our last president will be a cockroach.  I hope this will not be our choice – a corrupt, screeching harridan or this piece of filth.  Let us hope that the delegates who convene in Cleveland will do better.  If not, it leaves us with little choice.  We can stay home, we can vote for another bit of human refuse, Libertarian Gary Johnson, who has said he would be in favor of requiring Jewish bakers to make a Nazi cake, or there is Hillary.  There might be a poor turnout this year.  It depends upon the delegates.  If you know any, let them know where you stand.  And consider carefully whether you want to support those who have endorsed this man – some fairly prominent North Dakota officials and citizens have done so – examine their motive and their character and judgment.  This is a deal-breaker.  I grew up in the Republican Party in North Dakota.  I cannot stay in this party any longer.  It would destroy my soul to do so.  Where I will cast my vote is still unknown, other than that it will not go to Trump.   I must wait until I see what is on offer after the GOP Convention.  Makes you wish we still had Harold Stassen.  Or Dick Nixon.

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