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Saturday, June 4, 2016

If The Congress Would Have Been Doing Its Business, We Would Not Have Seen The Rise Of Trump Or Sanders

Mitch McConnell on Trump's Rhetoric: 'I Wish He Would Discontinue It'

By Todd Beamon | Friday, 03 Jun 2016 08:16 PM

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Newsmax TV on Friday that "I worry about Donald Trump's rhetoric" — and that his comments could turn off Hispanic voters like Barry Goldwater's opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act did to African Americans.

"It eliminated the possibility of Republicans speaking to African American voters, and that's persisted for a long time," McConnell, a six-term Kentucky Republican, told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth in an exclusive interview.

McConnell, 74, is the author of the new book, "The Long Game: A Memoir." He also will be interviewed Monday on Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show."

"Goldwater had many good qualities," said McConnell, who is pictured with the former Arizona senator in his memoir. He was 89 when he died in 1998.

"I was a great admirer of his, but I think that decision was a defining moment in terms of the Republican Party and its ability to appeal to African-American voters.

"I don't want to see that happen to Hispanic Americans."

Friday, June 3, 2016

McConnell Who Is Responsible For Republican Voter Dissatisfaction Now Laments Trump Whose Ascendancy Is A Direct Response To The Poor Job That McConnell And Boehner Have Done. Maybe If He Had Done A Better Job, Trump Would Not Have Had Platform.

Mitch McConnell: I Fear a 'Goldwater' Scale Loss with Trump

By Todd Beamon | Thursday, 02 Jun 2016 06:50 PM

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Senate Majority Mitch McConnell fears Donald Trump could so alienate Latino voters that the GOP could see a Barry Goldwater-scale loss in November.

McConnell's new book is "The Long Game: A Memoir."

McConnell's book includes a picture with 1964 GOP presidential candidate Goldwater. He said that he eventually did not vote for Goldwater because he did not support the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was signed by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson.

"There were a lot of other virtues — and in many ways I hated what happened in Johnson's second term, but it did define our party for at least African-American voters," McConnell told CNN's Jake Tapper Thursday. "We've never been able to get them back.

"I think it was a defining moment for Republicans going back to the Civil War."

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Similarities Between Trump And Goldwater's Treatment By Establishment Republicans Is Scary.

IS REPUBLICAN HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF WITH THIS MOVEMENT?

March 16th, 2016

CONTROVERSY

Mark Twain said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Today we’re hearing a familiar tune from the Republican establishment, who really doesn’t like the front-runner for president, Donald Trump.

This reminds political historians of 1964, when the establishment ignored the prairie fire of grass-roots support for Barry Goldwater, who systematically grabbed control of the GOP by scoring precinct meeting state caucuses, delegate conventions and ultimately the big California primary.

Here’s the rest of the report from Breitbart:

“By the time the GOP insiders woke up, it was too late, but they launched a furious last minute attack on the Senator from Arizona. He was a “warmonger,” “not fit to be president,” “a bigot,” “a racist,” “mentally unstable,” “would push the nuclear button,” and his supporters were “Nazis.” Does any (or all) of this sound familiar?

“In 1964, the kingmakers hoped to stall Barry short of victory on the first ballot and euchre him out of victory on a subsequent ballot. Then, as now, there was a short list of ambitious pols anxious to emerge as “compromise” choices of a brokered convention: Pennsylvania Governor Bill Scranton, Michigan Governor George Romney (Mitt’s dad), Nelson Rockefeller (damaged by his California primary loss), and the ever-available Richard Nixon.

“[And] the press weighed in. Columnist Drew Pearson wrote that ‘the smell of fascism has been in the air at this convention.’ Not to be outdone, Daniel Schorr of CBS News simply made up and reported a story that Goldwater was in touch with the neo-Nazis in Germany. The London Observer, usually a sober publication, found ‘disquieting similarities’ between Hitler and Goldwater. Does this sound like Glenn Beck, David Brooks and Stephen Hayes, all of whom have equated Trump with der Fuhrer in the last two weeks?”

It looks like Republicans and conservatives (at least from the 1968 through 2012 election cycles) have been given the illusion of true political choice. To paraphrase Henry Ford’s saying about having a Model T in any color (as long as it was black), GOP insiders have told conservatives: “You can have the choice of any Republican candidate you want – as long as they’re approved by us.”

Do you agree with the Breitbart article that all this anti-Trump hysteria has been whipped up by the media and establishment because he isn’t their chosen candidate?

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

How The Democratic Party Has Changed Over The Years

DEMOCRATS HATE 'FAIRNESS,' 'FREE SPEECH'

Exclusive: Joseph Farah traces party's journey from '60s to today's 'new ideologues'

Published: 16 hours ago

JOSEPH FARAH

I grew up in a Democratic Party home.

My Dad was a labor leader, on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union, a yellow-dog Democrat.

I remember cheering the election of John F. Kennedy as a kid and, as a family, mourning his assassination in the turbulent fall of 1963.

To us, you’d have to be insane to vote for Barry Goldwater. It was all the way with LBJ in 1964.

That’s about the time the wheels started coming off the Democratic Party. The process of anti-American radicalization was all but complete by 1972 with the nomination of George McGovern. Democrats have never looked back since. Today the party is indistinguishable, quite literally, from the Communist Party USA, which no longer sees any point in running its own candidates for president as it did through the 1970s.

You could point to any number of issues to illustrate the radicalism of the Democratic Party:

It prefers socialism to free enterprise.
It prefers redefining marriage from a union of one man and one woman to anything goes.
Though it loves government regulation of just about everything – from the size of soft drinks to your choice of medical care to public smoking – it tirelessly opposes any restrictions on the killing of unborn babies whatsoever.
It believes requiring identification to vote is equivalent to “voter suppression.”
In fact, it proffers that requiring Democratic presidential candidates to provide proof of constitutional eligibility for the office is akin to racism.

I could continue ad nauseam. And, believe me, I get a little nauseous reviewing what this party stands for today.

But perhaps the most striking change in the character of the Democratic Party can be witnessed in its growing hostility to “fairness” and “free speech.”

An illustration of this can be seen in the way Democrats, whose political allies dominate the news media, the entertainment industry, academia, education and all of the major cultural institutions, are pushing to stamp out any dissent from their party line coming from independent Internet news sites like this one.

A week and a half ago, a key Democrat on the Federal Election Commission called for new rules on Internet-based campaigning, prompting the Republican chairman to reiterate a warning that Democrats want to regulate online political sites and even news media like the Drudge Report.

“A re-examination of the commission’s approach to the Internet and other emerging technologies is long overdue,” said Democratic FEC Vice Chairwoman Ann M. Ravel.

Under a 2006 FEC rule, free political videos and advocacy sites have been free of regulation in a bid to boost voter participation in politics. Ravel’s statement suggests that she would regulate right-leaning groups like America Rising, which posts anti-Democrat YouTube videos on its website.

FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site or even chat room could be regulated. He added that funny Internet campaigns like “Obama Girl” and “Jib Jab” would also face regulations.

“I told you this was coming,” he said. Earlier this year he warned that Democrats on the panel were gunning for conservative Internet sites like the Drudge Report.

The sea change in Democratic Party thinking reflects a war-like attitude the new ideologues have toward domestic politics. It’s the kind of mentality that eventually leads to totalitarian, police-state tactics. That’s how dangerous the Democratic Party has become.

It isn’t willing to compete on an even playing field in the battleground of ideas. It’s isn’t even willing to compete on a playing field that is heavily stacked against its opposition. It seeks to destroy the opposition, deny it any meaningful platform or forum, to label its ideas hate speech and worse.

And that’s why Americans need to continue their opposition to all members of this party beyond Election Day.

It’s about preserving the Constitution. It’s about saving the American way of life.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/democrats-hate-fairness-free-speech/#otZedd7uIJBqjwB5.99