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It's Choosing Time for the GOP
Maybe Joe took my advice. I told a friend of the VP's recently that he should not run for president in 2016 but instead should leave the political stage as an elder statesman. No matter why Biden really decided to let Hillary Clinton have the Democrats' presidential nomination without a fight, it's great news for the GOP. At least it should be.
In Ego, Obama and Trump Are Two of a Kind
Are you crazy about Barack Obama? Do you fervently hope the next president of the United States will be as similar to the current president as possible? Then Donald Trump may be the candidate for you.
Trump's Early Campaign Success Is a Wake-up Call
His candidacy should have imploded as a joke a long time ago. It didn't.
The Anti-Establishment Front-Runner
If we had been told at the beginning of the year that in October a Republican presidential candidate would be leading the polls nationally and in almost every state, drawing support from across all factions of the GOP and sucking up all the oxygen in the race, most people would have guessed Jeb Bush was going from strength to strength
Trump's Early Campaign Success Is a Wake-up Call
Most of the politically savvy people I know are still confident that Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee for president.
Donald Trump Loves Land Grabs
Donald Trump, who in the 1990s tried to force an elderly widow out of her Atlantic City home as part of a plan to expand his casino, now says he is glad she resisted, because it helped him avoid a bad investment. By successfully fighting condemnation of her home, Trump told Breitbart News last week, Vera Coking "saved me a fortune."
Is There Any Precedent in History for Donald Trump?
In November 1964 a crowd of 5,000 attended the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world. Presiding were New York Mayor Robert Wagner, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and transportation and parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a teenager named Donald Trump. Trump later told a New York Times reporter that he remembered that on that occasion no one mentioned the name of 85-year-old Othmar Ammann, designer of New York's famous bridges for more than 50 years. "I realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," he told the Times. "I don't want to be anyone's sucker."
Trump: Millions Who Pay No Taxes Will Keep Paying No Taxes
Lowering rates for everybody while cutting deductions for the rich.
The Bobblehead Campaign
America's loopy left is enamored of someone who becomes cranky about bobblehead figurines. Sober Democrats are queasy about nominating Hillary Clinton, who has much to apologize for but no aptitude for apologies. Those Republicans who hope she is denied the nomination are perhaps imprudent. And even Republicans who recoil from Donald Trump's repulsiveness might want to defer the delicious pleasure of witnessing his apoplexy when he joins, as surely he will, the ranks of those he most despises — "losers." In 2011, Bernie Sanders said "we've got some very, very serious problems" because the Founding Fathers bobbleheads sold at the Smithsonian Museum of American History were made in China. He exclaimed: "A museum owned by the people of America — a museum which talks about our own history — cannot even have products manufactured in the United States by American workers?" In a hilarious video assembled by the high-spirited folks at Reason.TV, Sanders summons Smithsonian officials to his office to grovel and promise to mend their ways. Sanders' wrath did not produce a complete purge: The museum still sells imported gimcracks.
Double Suicide: The Presidential Campaign of 2015
For the GOP, this has all been a godsend, an opportunity to amplify the case being made every day by the Democrats themselves against their own stewardship. Instead, the Republicans spent the summer attacking each other — the festival of ad hominems interrupted only by spectacular attempts to alienate major parts of the citizenry. The latest example is Ben Carson, the mild-mannered, highly personable neurosurgeon and one of two highest-polling GOP candidates. He said on Sunday that a Muslim should not be president of the United States.
Donald Amongst the Eggheads
Hold on to your toupees, the conservative intellectuals are in a stew. One candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination is not playing by the rules. He is rude and crude and having a very good time of it. Oh, and by the way, he is leading the field by a lot. He has 29 percent of the vote among Republicans, according to an NBC online survey the other day. His next closest opponent is Dr. Ben Carson, with 14 percent, and after that Carly Fiorina, with 11 percent. Both, incidentally, are new to politics, as is the target of the conservative intellectuals' wrath, Donald Trump. Interestingly, the intellectuals are markedly out of touch with the conservative rank and file.