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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Kid Rock Might Not Be Your Cup Of Tea, But He Like Trump Is His Own Man

We Must Elect Senator Kid Rock

Kurt Schlichter

Posted: Jul 20, 2017 12:01 AM

The news that Southern-fried rock/rapper Kid Rock will be running for some timeserving Dem hack’s Senate seat in Michigan should make every normal American smile and spill a 40 to his homies. The future Senator Rock deserves your eager support for two critical reasons: First, it will drive the liberals insane. Second, it will make George Will and the rest of Team Fredocon soil themselves.

“Kid Rock? Oh, well I never!” You simpering sissies. I’ll take his nasty stringy mop and torn wife beater over your preferred weasels’ coiffed politician/newscaster hair and Gucci loafers.

No, he didn’t go to some Ivy League snob factory and all he’s got to rely on are attitude, common sense, and a love of actual Americans (especially our troops). But wait - you want “conservatism.” A fat lot of good your version of conservatism’s done us. It’s always waiting up there ahead, just after the next election cycle, and in the meantime, we’ll compromise and make some more excuses.

No, we’re past voting for the ideology. Now we’re ready to vote for the id.

We’re woke, and we want a devil with a cause. Lying GOP worms like Rob Portman and Dean Heller and whoever that jerk is from West Virginia stuck a stake in pseudo-conservative ideology’s already-dying heart when they started tap dancing the second they got the opportunity to vote to repeal Obamacare while we had a president who would actually sign the bill. Up until then, the people Conservatism Incorporated had vouched for had looked in our faces and lied.

Now, we can look in their faces and say, “Kid Rock’s in the House and that's where [he’s] at!”

Okay, technically the Senate. Which is probably good, because you know he’d slap Paul Ryan and make him cry.

“You can’t be serious!” Kid Rock over some Democrat, or whatever lying sack of fraud the More Con Than You-cons have been selling us?

Any. Freaking. Day.

Conservative Incorporated sold us a bill of goods – oh, not all of them, but enough of them that there’s no more benefit of the doubt for the Republican Party. Let’s be really clear – most of the GOP Senate crew was ready to pull the tab and chug the beer of repeal. That’s good, and why we need to avoid playing the “I HATE THE WHOLE GOP! WAAAAA!” game the Democrats and their media catamites are pushing to dishearten and discourage us. No, we’re not falling for it. We don’t need to give up. We just need to purge the party of the squishes. We still have about a dozen or so liars who played conservative at home and bipartisan trough hog back in DC. And they need to be kicked to the curb.

This crisis is not of The Donald’s making; this is a failure of insiders, not of outsiders. The tunnel vision Never Trumpers can’t put this repeal treachery on Trump, though they’ll try. To them, everything is Trump’s fault – their irrelevance, their dandruff, their inability to perform as men. No, this was a betrayal of real conservatives by alleged conservatives in good standing, big talkers about liberty and free enterprise who were happy to take our votes but even happier to burrow into the Washington scene and suck it dry like the ticks they are.

These were the grinning creeps who sat on Heritage panels and reaped the praise of the American Enterprise Institute and who, when the time came, turned out to be liars.

These were the people who kept shaking their lying heads at how uncouth Trump is. At least Trump – and Kid Rock – never lied to us about who they really are.

I am not shocked. You shouldn’t be either. Like every movement, conservatism has attracted its share of grifters. Look at the careers of Bill Kristol and John Podhoretz – thanks, Dads! Their magazines are just more useless appendages of Conservative Incorporated. Their purpose was never to put conservative policy into place. No, they are donor bait whose purpose is to allow their proprietors to maintain their mediocre positions in the DC/NY milieu. When the time to make a hard choice came, they easily made the choice of Felonia von Pantsuit, happy to leave us normal Americans to her tender mercies knowing that having liberals in the White House meant bucks and attention for them.

They are horrible people who always held us normals in contempt, and they’re now so angry they are forgetting to fake respect. The other day, when the president was showing off American-made goods in the White House, Kristol sniffed “Maybe it's just me, but I find something off-putting about turning the White House into an exhibition hall for American tchotchkes.” Maybe it’s just me, but if I were one of these nepotism poster boyz I would at least show some respect for Americans whose parents didn’t hand them a ready-made career.

They’re nothing now, and it gnaws at them. So just think of them seeing Kid Rock get the power and position they covet. We cannot waste this opportunity to watch them turn purple with fussy rage.

Which brings us to the criticality of attitude, because one fact remains indisputable. Attitude doesn’t lie. We’ve just seen a graphic demonstration of how the GOP hacks can easily fake ideology. But attitude? That’s almost impossible to fake.

Tell me more about how all Donald Trump has is raw opposition to everything Democrat, how he has no firm ideology of his own. Yeah, and so what? Raw opposition to our enemies sure as hell beats faked ideology that suddenly vanishes whenever it’s in danger of actually being implemented.

I keep hearing how true conservatism will do this and that and blah blah blah. Yeah, most of the GOP senators are solid, but enough aren’t that you finger waggers need to lose the attitude. The people the establishment held up as serious policy wonks who put that alleged policy illiterate Donald Trump to shame turned around and stabbed us in the back.

I’ll take Kid Rock in a heartbeat over what you’re selling – he’s a cowboy, baby, and he’s thrown a punch and taken one. He’s not going to lie to you about devouring think tank white papers and how we’re really absolutely totally going to do all that great conservative stuff if only we had the House and the Senate and the presidency and unicorns romping through the streets.

So, Kid Rock for Senate 2018. His campaign slogan should be “You’ve done a lot worse,” because we have. Sure, maybe he’ll “Start an escort service for all the right reasons/And set up shop at the top of Four Seasons,” but at least this time we will have elected a pimp instead of another ho.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

George Will And Others Canned At Fox. Being A Traitor To Republicanism Has A Penalty

Fox News dumps several prominent contributors heading into 2017

Sara Gonzales Jan 21, 2017 8:06 pm

Conservative columnist and pundit George Will, is interviewed in this office in the Georgetown section of Washington on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

As the new year rolls on and the new president takes office, Fox News has confirmed they will not be renewing contracts of several prominent contributors. A network spokesperson has confirmed that conservative political commentator George Will, actress Stacey Dash, and Republican strategist Ed Rollins will not be renewing their contracts with Fox News, along with journalist Marvin Kalb and columnist Cal Thomas.

Once dubbed “the most powerful journalist in America” by The Wall Street Journal, 75-year-old George Will made headlines throughout the election cycle for his outspoken opposition to now-President Donald Trump. Will announced in June 2016 that he was leaving the Republican party and changing his voter registration status to “unaffiliated.”

“This is not my party,” Will said at the time. “Make sure he loses,” he told GOP voters, referring to Trump. He left ABC in 2011 after 30 years with the network to join Fox News in 2013.

Actress Stacey Dash joined Fox News in 2014 as a frequent contributor on the show “Outnumbered,” and endorsed Trump in March 2016. The 50-year-old, who is most recognized from her role in the 1995 movie Clueless, told Fox Business host Stuart Varney in 2016 that she would help Trump win the minority vote, and reasoned that Americans chose Trump because “they want someone who will not put up with non-sense.”

Rollins, who served as co-chair of a pro-Trump super PAC, predicted Trump’s win in November, telling Steve Doocy of “Fox and Friends” at the time, “I see Trump edging this thing out. I think he’s got the momentum.” The month before, he told Laura Ingraham it would “take a miracle” for Trump to win. The 73-year-old political commentator moved from CNN to Fox News in 2011.

The news comes after the announcement of British political Nigel Farage coming on board as a contributor for Fox. Farage led the UK Independence party from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2016. He is an avid Trump supporter, and was ranked second in The Daily Telegraph’s “Top 100 Most Influential Right Wingers” in 2013.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

With "Friends" Like This, Trump Needs No Enemies

George Will: Trump Won't Release Tax Returns Because They Show Russian Ties

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By Theodore Bunker | Tuesday, 26 Jul 2016 04:33 PM

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Donald Trump refuses to release his tax returns because they might reveal that "he is deeply involved in dealing with Russia oligarchs," Fox News contributor George Will suggests.

The syndicated columnist has no tangible evidence to back up his claim, which he made on the network's "Special Report" live from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. According to The Hill, Will made the comment after Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, brought up the possibility that last week's leak of Democratic National Committee emails may have been perpetrated by Russian hackers with government ties. The leak led DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Clinton ally, to resign.

"Both the campaign chair and anybody you talk to, including Sen. (Chris) Murphy (D-Conn.) would not go down that road once pressed on the connection between Russia and the Trump campaign," said Fox anchor Bret Baier. "But they have thrown it out there. George?"

Will replied that "it's the sort of thing we might learn if we saw the candidate's tax returns," which Trump has resisted making public. "Perhaps one more reason why we're not seeing his tax returns — because he is deeply involved in dealing with Russian oligarchs and others. Whether that's good, bad or indifferent, it's probably the reasonable surmise."

Friday, May 6, 2016

This Is What Political Suicide Looks Like. The List Of 100 Traitors! Are They Nuts? Do They Really Want To Lose The House, Senate And Presidency?

SEE LIST OF 98 TOP REPUBLICANS WHO REFUSE TO BACK TRUMP

Washington abuzz with talk of 3rd-party run as billionaire looks to seal GOP nomination

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Scene from “Gladiator”

WASHINGTON – Life is imitating art in American politics.

Quintus: “People should know when they are conquered.”

Maximus: “Would you, Quintus? Would I?“

That fictional exchange from the film “Gladiator” reflects the real-life question of the day in Washington: Will those who dislike Donald Trump accept his victory as the GOP presidential nominee and support him, or field a third-party candidate of their own?

Nearly 100 prominent Republicans are vowing to never support Trump, and third-party talk has Washington abuzz now that the billionaire has all-but-sealed the nomination.

(The list of nearly 100 prominent Republicans who vow to never support Trump is included at the end of this story.)

As WND detailed on Thursday, William Kristol, editor of the the Weekly Standard, and conservative Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., are now leading the charge to run an independent candidate against Trump.

What do YOU think? Sound off on an anti-Trump third-party bid

Trump confidante Roger Stone provided WND a laundry list of reasons that paint the idea as impractical and virtually impossible.

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Roger Stone

Talk-radio star Laura Ingraham flatly ridiculed the notion, telling WND, “It’s a terrible idea, both for the country and for people who agree with Bill Kristol.”

Stone is a veteran Republican strategist who was called “Donald Trump’s Donald Trump” by Politico and described in National Review as the candidate’s “high-profile, long-time, on-again-off-again unofficial consigliere.”

Although tagged by the media as a firebrand, Stone offered a cold, dispassionate series of reasons as to why a third-party candidacy wouldn’t be viable.

First of all, it wouldn’t even be a third-party candidacy. It would be, at best, a fourth. And the candidate would need a party.

“Libertarians will nominate a Libertarian Party member,” he reminded everyone, adding, “They would have to mount an independent candidacy.”

Stone cited other reasons so daunting as to appear prohibitive, not the least of which would be the need for a lot of money, and fast.

He reckoned it would take “$10 million, minimum to get on the ballot in 50 states.”

Additionally, backers “would need a universally known candidate.”

All in all, Stone said it would be “legally and logistically very difficult.”

And, perhaps the clincher: Even if a political outsider could launch a campaign, he or she would still be on the outside looking in, because, “Even if they succeeded, they would not be included in debates.”

Can the Republican Party save itself? Richard Viguerie has the prescription in “Takeover.”

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Laura Ingraham

Although vehement in her opposition to the idea as “terrible,” Ingraham was no less clinical in her analysis.

“If the Weekly Standard and its friends run a third-party candidate,” she said, the two most likely outcomes are:

“The third party candidate is irrelevant (like John Anderson in 1980 – remember him?)

“Or, the third party candidate peels off enough votes to throw the election to Hillary.”

“Either outcome is a disaster for Weekly Standard types,” Ingraham concluded.

She also pointed out how, “If the third-party candidate is irrelevant, then it shows they have no real base in the country.”

And she warned, “If the third-party candidate throws the election to Hillary, then Trump voters will see no reason to work with the Weekly Standard types in the future.”

The talk-radio star speculated the effort could be pointless.

“I don’t think it’s likely to make that much of a difference, one way or the other. A lot of the folks who would vote for a third-party candidate wouldn’t vote for Trump anyway.”

Besides, she suggested, how could another candidate generate any traction after GOP voters just rejected 16 alternatives to Trump?

“I don’t think such a candidate would be all that viable,” Ingraham said. “Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio both ran on the Weekly Standard platform, and both had massive amounts of money and donor support, and both went nowhere with the voters. People just aren’t interested in that worldview right now.”

But the die-hard Trump critics in the GOP are just not willing to throw in the towel, even if it means abandoning the party.

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William Kristol

Kristol told CNN, “I just don’t think [Trump] has the character to be president of the United States. It’s beyond any particular issue I disagree with him on, or who he picks as VP or something,” and he said he was looking for an independent candidate like Sasse.

The senator indicated he wasn’t interested, but he penned a scathing and lengthy post on Facebook condemning Trump’s character and calling for a “healthy leader who can take us forward together,” asking, “Why are we confined to these two terrible options?”

Perhaps the most implacable dissenter is Washington Post columnist and Fox News political analyst George Will.

He wrote a column a few days before the Indiana primary essentially closed the deal for the presumptive nominee, titled, ” If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House.”

In other words, Will, who calls himself a conservative, believes it would be better for Hillary Clinton to become president than Donald Trump.

While he didn’t say it outright, with the words he did use, the pundit left little doubt about what he meant.

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Political commentator George Will

Will wrote, should Trump get the nomination, conservatives would have to “help him lose 50 states – condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life.”

After signaling his preference for a Clinton victory over a Trump triumph, Will suggested that in 2020 Republicans could then “help Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, or someone else who has honorably recoiled from Trump, confine her to a single term.”

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Critics of the third-party proposal have serious concerns about how much more damage Clinton could do than Trump. Their fears include:

Supreme Court appointments: Trump has publicly committed to compiling a list of potential nominees who would be well-vetted constitutional conservatives. Conservatives are certain Clinton would appoint progressive judicial activists who would ignore the Constitution.

Immigration: Trump has vowed to tighten the process for both legal and illegal immigration. Clinton has expressed no problem with the status quo and has publicly said she wants to raise Obama’s 10,000 Syrian refugees (almost all of whom would be Muslim, with an unknown number affiliated with ISIS) to 65,000.

Military: Trump has vowed to rebuild the nation’s military while Clinton has aligned with President Obama’s program of making vast reductions, as well continuing social experimentation in the military, such as directing the Pentagon to end the ban on allowing transgender personnel serve openly.

Another conservative columnist has a nearly apocalyptic concern about Trump, fearing nuclear annihilation.

Thomas Sowell warns, “The political damage of Donald Trump to the Republican Party is completely overshadowed by the damage he can do to the country and to the world, with his unending reckless and irresponsible statements.”

At the very end of his column on Friday, titled, “A 3rd-party candidate could save America,” Sowell both expressed his fears and revealed what he sees as the strategy behind the proposed third-party conservative run, to deadlock the electoral college, a strategy with which he seems to agree:

“What was once feared most by the Republican establishment – a third-party candidate for president – may represent the only slim chance for saving this country from a catastrophic administration in an age of proliferating nuclear weapons.

“If a third-party candidate could divide the vote enough to prevent anyone from getting an electoral college majority, that would throw the election into the House of Representatives, where any semblance of sanity could produce a better president than these two.”

Sowell was, in effect, encouraging a strategy to create a presidential election crisis not seen since the 2000 vote, in which many Democrats still believe the Supreme Court handed the election to George W. Bush.

While not supporting a third-party candidate, both former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush reportedly will not endorse Trump.

According to the Texas Tribune, the elder Bush has “retired” from politics, while the younger “does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign.”

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The Bushes

According to CNN, not only are both Bushes planning to skip the GOP convention, but so are former Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain.

The network also reported that House Speaker Paul Ryan, who is also chairman of the Republican National Convention, still is not endorsing Trump, saying, “I’m just not ready to do that at this point. I’m not there right now.”

The Hill complied a list of almost 100 Republicans who currently say they won’t back Trump as the nominee:

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich.
Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Mass.
Brian Bartlett, former Mitt Romney aide and GOP communications strategist
Glenn Beck, radio host
Michael Berry, radio host
Max Boot, former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Brent Bozell, conservative activist
Bruce Carroll, creator GayPatriot.org
Jay Caruso, RedState
Mona Charen, senior fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center
Linda Chavez, columnist
Dean Clancy, former FreedomWorks vice president
Eliot Cohen, former George W. Bush official
Former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.
Charles C. W. Cooke, writer for National Review
Doug Coon, Stay Right podcast
Rory Cooper, GOP strategist, managing director Purple Strategies
Jim Cunneen, former Calif. assemblyman
Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.
Steve Deace, radio host
Rep. Bob Dold, R-Ill.
Erick Erickson, writer
Mindy Finn, president, Empowered Women
David French, writer at National Review
Jon Gabriel, editor-in-chief, Ricochet.com
Michael Graham, radio host
Jonah Goldberg, writer
Alan Goldsmith, former staffer, House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Stephen Gutowski, writer Washington Free Beacon
Rep. Richard Hanna, R-N.Y.
Jamie Brown Hantman, former special assistant for legislative affairs for President George W. Bush
Stephen Hayes, senior writer at The Weekly Standard
Doug Heye, former RNC communications director
Quin Hillyer, contributing editor at National Review Online; senior editor at the American Spectator
Ben Howe, RedState writer
Former Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C.
Cheri Jacobus, GOP consultant and former Hill columnist
Robert Kagan, former Reagan official
Randy Kendrick, GOP mega-donor
Matt Kibbe, former FreedomWorks CEO
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
Philip Klein, managing editor at the Washington Examiner
Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard editor
Mark Levin, radio host
Justin LoFranco, former Scott Walker aide
Kevin Madden, former Mitt Romney aide
Bethany Mandel, senior contributor at The Federalist
Tucker Martin, communications director to former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s, R-Va.
Former RNC Chairman Mel Martínez
Liz Mair, GOP strategist
Lachlan Markey, writer for the Free Beacon
David McIntosh, Club for Growth president
Dan McLaughlin, editor at RedState.com
Ken Mehlman, former RNC chairman
Tim Miller, Our Principles PAC
Joyce Mulliken, former Washington state senator
Ted Newton, political consultant & former Mitt Romney aide
James Nuzzo, former White House aide
Katie Packer, chairwoman of Our Principles PAC
Former Gov. George Pataki, R-N.Y.
Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas
Katie Pavlich, Townhall editor and Hill columnist
Brittany Pounders, conservative writer
Rep. Reid Ribble, R- Wisc.
The Ricketts family, GOP mega-donors
Former Gov. Tom Ridge, R-Pa.
Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va.
Mitt Romney, 2012 GOP presidential nominee
Paul Rosenzweig, former deputy assistant secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post conservative blogger
Patrick Ruffini, partner, Echelon Insights
Sarah Rumpf, former BreitBart contributor
Mark Salter, writer and former aide to John McCain
Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.
Sen. Ben Sasse, R- Neb.
Elliott Schwartz, Our Principles PAC
Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior fellow, Hudson Institute
Tara Setmayer, CNN analyst and former GOP staffer
Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief The Daily Wire
Evan Siegfried, GOP strategist and commentator
Ben Stein, actor and political commentator
Brendan Steinhauser, GOP consultant
Stuart Stevens, former Romney strategist
Paul Singer, GOP mega-donor
Erik Soderstrom, former field director for Carly Fiorina
Charlie Sykes, radio host
Brad Thor, writer
Michael R. Treiser, former Mitt Romney aide
Daniel P. Vajdich, former national security adviser to Ted Cruz
Connor Walsh, former digital director for former Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., founder Build Digital
Former Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla.
Peter Wehner, New York Times contributor
Former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, R-N.J.
George Will, writer
Rick Wilson, Republican strategist
Nathan Wurtzel, Make America Awesome super-PAC
Bill Yarbrough, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Ohio
Dave Yost, Ohio auditor of state

And what about a candidate from the third party that already exists, the Libertarian Party?

It might not offer the NeverTrumpers much hope.

The party’s likely candidate is former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who switched parties after he struggled to gain any traction in his bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

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