{"id":3128,"date":"2016-05-18T23:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T06:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:57:57","slug":"is-donald-the-gops-doctor-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"Is Donald the GOP’s Doctor Doom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A friend who\u2019s a Republican (hey, no one\u2019s perfect) writes to ask: \u201cIn your opinion, with The Donald at the GOP\u2019s helm, are we doomed? I say nay, but others say oh hell yes. I think Hillary is too unsavory for most to support while the Donald\u2019s brashness appeals to the lowest (voting) common denominator. I can\u2019t see the Obamaphiles who voted last election being bothered to put their malt liquor down to vote for a woman this time \u2019round.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I replied: Since I generally vote Libertarian, I\u2019m afraid I don’t really have a dog in this fight.<\/p>\n

Polling has generally shown Hillary winning against any Republican but Kasich, which strikes me odd, since I don’t believe Kasich (while he’s doubtless a decent fellow) would have run a terribly bold campaign.<\/p>\n

Probably what those polls mean is that, among a generally leftist electorate that religiously watches generally leftist TV news and commentary (those being the people who “decide early”), there’s not much NEGATIVE opinion of Kasich, while Trump and Ted Cruz HAVE evoked some strong negatives.<\/p>\n

You’re right; Obama the nonentity will leave coattails about on the order of Millard Filmore\u2019s. But gun-hating leftist women -\u2013 who believe Big Uncle can protect them from all those awful, smelly men out there — and recipients of various forms of government “benefits,” together form a solid voting bloc that’s increasingly hard to beat. If Hillary takes New York, New England, Minnesota, Illinois, Wahington and California (which she almost certainly does), how do you beat her?<\/p>\n

Though it’s an uphill fight, that question does have an answer. The way you beat her is you CAMPAIGN AGAINST her. From Bob Dole to John McCain, the GOP (and the Libertarians too, for that matter) for decades has been nominating nice, respectful fellows who try to remain gentlemanly and dignified, with the result that they do nothing to PILE UP THE NEGATIVES against the Democrats, going down to predictable defeat with a smile and a good-natured wave.<\/p>\n

Quite sporting, what? I suspect they start writing their concession speeches in September. They’re advised not to attack because that’ll sound harsh and rebound against them — especially if the opponent is black, female, Hispanic, Jewish, whatever — in which case any effective attack will get you labeled by the bought-and-paid-for state-socialist media shriekers a “redneck KKK type,” a sexist, an anti-Semite, a \u201cGlobal Warming Deny-er,\u201d an insensitive hater of endangered slime molds . . .<\/p>\n

So? They\u2019re going to be called that by the shrieking hyenas of the Left, anyway. You win the election when at least 8 percent of the voters who SAID they were for Hillary arrive at the polls on that Tuesday morning and ask themselves, “Wait a minute: do I really want to turn my country over to a vindictive, bribe-taking, arrogant harridan, who\u2019s never run so much as a yogurt stand but who responded to complaints that her health care plan would bankrupt small family businesses by saying \u2018It\u2019s not my fault if some businesses are underfunded?\u2019 -\u2013 who abandoned our ambassador to Libya to be raped and murdered and asked \u2018What difference does it make?\u2019 — who never uttered a peep of protest as the Clintons\u2019 FBI held the fire engines a mile away while the fire they set with their ferret rounds roasted dozens of women and children to death at that church at Waco?\u201d<\/p>\n

ATTACK DOG NEEDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think what really terrifies the Left about Trump is that he’d likely run a real CAMPAIGN — he’d likely come right out of the box swinging for the bleachers, saying, “OK, let’s talk about Hillary Clinton — she a lying, crooked, arrogant, bribe-taking, far-left Commie totalitarian who tried to secretly engineer a complete government takeover of our health care and who left the American ambassador to Libya — a gay man — and three others to be raped and murdered by a Muslim mob in Benghazi in 2012 \u2013 when as Secretary of State she CALLED OFF THE RESCUE MISSION — after which she responded to questions about HER DECISION to CALL OFF THE RESCUE MISSION by saying ‘What difference does it make?’ (cue looped film clip of Hillary saying over and over again ‘What difference does it make?’)<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe back-dated cattle futures trade in Arkansas? It was a bribe! We will present notarized statements from dozens of businessmen who tried to do business in Arkansas under the Clintons, swearing the Clintons demanded and received CASH BRIBES! Do you know how many millions in speaking fees she’s accepted from big corporations in the past 10 years? You think she doesn’t owe those big corporations — including the manufacturers of dangerous vaccines — some really big FAVORS?<\/p>\n

Meantime, some disabled kids got invited for an Easter Egg hunt on the lawn of the governor\u2019s mansion in Little Rock and Hillary started screaming \u201cCan\u2019t we get these fucking retards out of here?!\u2019 <\/a>Oh, Little Miss Compassion; It Takes a Village . . . to help you get rid of the retards.<\/p>\n

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The woman has 30 years of history that could be used against her, dug up and detailed. But the regular, mainstream, Dole-McCain GOP would say, “Oh, that’s all water under the bridge, the Washington Post will wag their finger at us if we bring that up. Instead let’s just run a nice, cheery campaign with straw hats and little girls dressed in red-white-and-blue bunting; our motto will be ‘The New Republicans; we’re not quite as bad a bunch of racist, redneck gun nuts as we used to be! And we won’t raise your taxes QUITE as much as the Democrats! At least not for a while! Yayy!”<\/p>\n

Of course, Trump himself is actually a complete unknown, politically. A cipher. “I’m not actually a statesman, but I play one on TV . . .”<\/p>\n

WORLD’S BIGGEST BUDGET PUNCH-AND-JUDY SHOW<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the end, it\u2019s all about maintaining the delusion that we retain a meaningful choice.<\/p>\n

What the country really needs in the office is someone who\u2019d carry around a pocket copy of the Constitution, and at every proposal -\u2013 including re-authorizing any direct income tax (as opposed to an excise), re-authorizing the Federal Reserve, the 1933 National Firearms Act, the War on Drugs, the Endangered Species Act, the FDA, the Department of Education -\u2013 would thumb through that little booklet and say, \u201cWhile I\u2019m sure that proposal is well-intentioned, I can\u2019t seem to put my finger on the place in this little document where the federal government is specifically delegated the power to DO that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no, Jefferson made it clear it doesn\u2019t mean \u2018Congress can do anything they think might promote the general welfare,\u2019 or that \u2018Congress can regulate any thing that moves in interstate commerce.\u2019 No, no, it has to be a SPECIFICALLY DELEGATED POWER. So I\u2019m afraid I have to veto that. Took an oath, you know. And if Congress overrides my veto, I can still take that agency\u2019s entire budget and use it to buy medical marijuana for sick people and some good lawyers for the Bundy family. Speaking of which, I think we need some new federal judges who\u2019ll hold fair and open hearings on whether the federal government really owns all that land out West, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

When The New York Times and the Washington Post and the remaining, embarrassing, advertorial TV networks — the American Bloomberg Company, the National Bloomberg Company — start shrieking that the new president is \u201cPARALYZING GOVERNMENT!\u201d that \u201cNOTHING IS GETTING DONE! CHILDREN WILL STARVE IN THE STREETS!\u201d . . . you\u2019ll know we\u2019re on the right track.<\/p>\n

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Libertarian John McAfee might do that. He\u2019d be more honest, more outrageous. The Brunette and I met him, briefly, Monday. You don\u2019t get the feeling you\u2019re watching the dance of the seven veils. What you see is what you get. He\u2019s the guy in the race who understands chaos theory — that things DON\u2019T always change in little increments around the edges, that when things get this bad, when politics degenerate into TV viewers voting on which person they want to kick off the island -\u2013 the laws of disequilibrium demand a REVOLUTIONARY change.<\/p>\n

Something unexpected happens to stress the system, and it collapses, or spins out of control.<\/p>\n

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‘A LITTLE BIT OF REFORM’ DOESN’T WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember the Soviet Union in 1989? They were bankrupt; there was nothing left to steal; crops rotted in the fields, everyone was drunk, their submarines were sinking, they couldn\u2019t compete with the West on washing machines and plain old six-cylinder sedans and color TVs, for heaven\u2019s sake, let alone laptop computers.<\/p>\n

So Gorbachev says \u201cHere\u2019s the thing. Everyone in charge here at least since Lenin died has been a lying sack of shit. All our statistics on industrial production? You might as well generate a bunch of random numbers. We\u2019re not about to turn the world into the worker\u2019s paradise, OK? The worker\u2019s paradise is, like, Detroit, or Toyota-shi, or someplace in Bavaria, I don\u2019t know. The Soviet Union is basically one big ecological disaster zone, a bankrupt slag heap. But it\u2019s OK! We\u2019re going to give you a little more freedom! We\u2019re going to let you wear blue jeans and listen to the Beach Boys!\u201d<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t work. The game was up for the lying sacks of shit.<\/p>\n

When the day comes that Americans can\u2019t get enough Monopoly Money out of the ATM to buy a cold 12-pack and the power grid goes down because the Greens have finished banning coal and oil and natural gas because “carbon dioxide causes global warming” while June snowstorms are killing the crops and no one can watch the NBA playoffs on their big digital entertainment centers . . . when our own lying sacks of shit can no longer successfully keep everybody paid off, what do you think is going to happen?<\/p>\n

THEY know. Why do you think they’re so desperate to take away our guns? It’s not to “save the children.” When their pricey drones take out a few dozen kids in Syria or Afghanistan, that’s just “collateral damage.” No single little tear trailing down the cheek for the cameras.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just afraid it\u2019s not yet. Even the Libertarians nearly always settle for some polite, inoffensive dork who tells everyone that tonight\u2019s homework is to read Ludwig von Mises. Who was the last guy to win a presidential election where big corporate money hadn\u2019t bought off ALL the leading contenders in advance, just for safety\u2019s sake? Martin Van Buren?<\/p>\n

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