National Republicans
A blogger’s confession
My name is Gary, and I’m addicted to blogging about Donald Trump. Lord knows, I’ve tried to stop. Every week, I tell myself: Stop writing about Trump. Ignore him. Blog about redistricting or the Democratic primaries or Cooper-McCrory or why Thomas Mills lost his mind and is running for Congress. But I can’t stop. It’s…
Read MoreGOP convention: a big deal?
Conventional wisdom seems to be that only a “brokered convention” can stop Donald Trump. Presumably, the party elders and wise men (no females allowed) would brush aside the results of these pesky primaries and caucuses and select one of their own as the candidate. A Romney, Ryan or McConnell. Really? Would delegates chosen in primaries…
Read MoreLocation, location, location
Where candidates go can tell you as much as what they say. Take the Clinton, Cruz and Trump campaigns in North Carolina this week. President Bill Clinton was in Raleigh Monday, at the City Market downtown. That’s the epicenter of the North Carolina Democratic Party today. It’s the gathering place for lawyers, new-economy entrepreneurs, urban…
Read MoreA Reckoning
I’m not sure why Donald Trump’s supporters loathe Washington Politicians;—Peggy Noonan says what’s going on is a struggle between people with power (Washington politicians and millionaires) and people without power: That sitting in penthouses and townhomes the powerful have been doing just fine through recessions and hard times while the people without power have been…
Read MoreAging Powers
A couple of years before the Berlin Wall fell a writer, gazing into his crystal ball, predicted communism was done for because ‘even the people who believed in it didn’t believe in it anymore’ – then, by way of explanation, he added that a dead ideology lives on awhile in a semi-comatose state but, after…
Read MoreThe contempt of Donald Trump
Trump looked last night like the alpha dog with two chihuahuas yipping, yapping and nipping at his heels. The GOP Establishment and the Mediacroty will proclaim Marco Rubio the winner. He did what both wanted him to do: attack Trump. Rubio got the best of the fray a few times. He exposed Trump as all…
Read MoreTrump-Clinton debate preview
It will come to this. A 90-minute faceoff that will put Ali-Frazier, Duke-Carolina and all 50 Super Bowls in the shade. Trump has done a lot of debates in this campaign. But every one has been a multi-candidate show. He has had the good luck of being on stage with anywhere from four to seven…
Read MoreHillary IS the firewall
The Washington Post says today, “Donald Trump is well on his way to the 1,237 delegates he needs to be the GOP nominee.” The Super PACs are afraid to take him on. Most of his opponents have fled the field. Only two men stand between Trump and the Republican nomination: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.…
Read More“A little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6)
After South Carolina voted Saturday, Marco Rubio proclaimed, “The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.” If so, he’s just the boy for the job. Rubio is inheriting all the Establishment Republicans who hopped on the Bush-dynasty bandwagon early. (Inheritance is big with these people.) Now Wonderboy moves into…
Read MoreDonald Strom Jesse Wallace Trump
Do they like him because he’ll “make America great again” – or make America white again? Granted, some South Carolinians may have voted for Trump because they want a strong leader. But you know more than a few voted for him because – like Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and George Wallace before him – he…
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