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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES This is why it’s important to have a competent campaign. Donald Trump’s people should have never allowed him to go on Charlie Sykes’ show. Sykes is a well known critic of Trump – moreover, he’s intelligent, articulate, and a relentless interview. As a communications professional, you have to always know what kinds of interview you are sending your boss | Read More »
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As Cubans debate the impact of President Barack Obama's historic trip to the island last week, one prominent figure is lambasting the visit: Fidel Castro.
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Donald Trump is driving disaffected blue collar voters to the polls, according to The New York Times. And if the Republican Party doesn’t embrace Trump’s values, the Times suggests, Republicans will lose from here to eternity.
Nonsense.
Nicholas Confessore, writing for the Times, talks at length about how Republican elites have long supported free trade at the expense of uncompetitive domestic American businesses. Confessore writes:
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Petition calls for open carry rules at GOP convention in Cleveland
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Just when it seemed that the Republican presidential race couldn’t get any less edifying, Donald Trump went after Heidi Cruz and the National Enquirer entered the fray.
The latest flap began when an anti-Trump super PAC used a nude photo from a Melania Trump modeling shoot in an ad meant to warn Utah voters off making her first lady. The ad was tasteless (and unnecessary in a state that Ted Cruz was about to win with nearly 70 percent of the vote). Trump would have been justified in strongly objecting to it. Instead, he falsely insisted that Ted Cruz was behind the ad and, true to his bullying style, threatened to reveal damaging information about Heidi Cruz. This alone would have marked a new low — has a presidential candidate ever threatened a rival’s spouse before? — but Trump followed it up with a re-tweet of an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz juxtaposed with a flattering image of his wife. So Trump had immediately scraped an even lower low.
#ad#Such is Trump’s boundless capacity to make everything he touches in this race reek of the gutter. Much of the media coverage played the controversy as if Cruz and Trump were equally responsible for it, when Cruz acted completely honorably. He had nothing to do with the super-PAC ad and denounced it. He said only complimentary things about Melania and defended Heidi, who is extremely accomplished herself (and, if we may add — lovely). Ted Cruz deserves great credit for trying to maintain his dignity, and that of his party, in a contest that Donald Trump has made the political equivalent of a Bravo reality show.
The National Enquirer piled on by publishing wild innuendo alleging multiple Cruz affairs. There is no direct evidence that Trump was responsible for the so-called report, but he is friends with the head of the supermarket tabloid, and the piece quoted Trump’s bottom-dwelling political associate Roger Stone, who imagines himself a Machiavelli of political dirty tricks. Mustering all his disingenuousness, Trump said he hoped the story wasn’t true, while noting that some past National Enquirer reports have been borne out (although most of what it publishes is self-evidently trash). Trump said this even though his own spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, is one of the women alleged to have had an affair with Cruz. For her part, Pierson denied the report, but said she spoke only for herself, not the other women alluded to — a response just as classy as anyone who has seen Pierson’s absurd defenses of her boss on TV would expect.
Cruz vehemently denied the National Enquirer report with the righteous indignation of a man who can’t believe that this is what the presidential race has come to.
But Republicans should get used to it. There will, at the very least, be weeks more of this. And if Trump is its nominee, the GOP will be associated with swinish politics all the way to Election Day, if not beyond.
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Georga Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed religious liberty protections on Monday, leading many in media to cheer him on while exposing their own bias and ignorance.
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Donald Trump is complaining about his own incompetence
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Trump once again spewed lies this morning that Cruz not only knew about the GQ photo of his wife, but also sent it out. He got a little push back from the Fox and Friends hosts on this but that did…
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Donald Trump leads by one point in latest CA poll
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Protesters refuse to disperse unless govt declares Qadri a martyr
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On Tuesday, when Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels, killing 35 innocent people and injuring 240, the European Union’s foreign policy representative, the Italian Federica Moghe…
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A new study by the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) claims Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is going to cost roughly $500 billion over 10 years and would cause 21 million Americans to lose their insurance coverage.
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Well, here we go.
With the Supreme Court verging on the brink of a full-scale leftist takeover, and with the gay marriage caucus now utilizing the law as a baton to club wrong-thinking religious people into acceptance of homosexuality, it is up to the states to resist.
Today, we found out that Georgia won’t.
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Yesterday on Meet The Press Chuck Todd pointed out that Trump used an LBJ tactic of suggesting he hoped the National Enquirer story wasn’t true while trying to fan the flames of the smear. Bu…
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Martin Daubney says there is no strategy to deal with domestic violence against men.
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Columbia Journalism professor Dale Maharidge has produced a lengthy lament about the state of print and newsroom journalism, and how hard it's been on those forced out of their jobs. It's present online at The Nation, one of the far-left's flagships, and at BillMoyers.com, the web site of the former Johnson administration press secretary. The delusional Moyers believes that "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans." The title of Maharidge's mournful missive at Moyers' site asks a question: "What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore?" The answer, Mr. Maharidge, is that when all of you had the chance, you failed to be reporters, and did so in the name of agenda-driven "journalism." You failed to give the public the basic information it had every right to expect, and in the process frequently demonstrated contempt for your audience. As a result, the public has largely tuned newspapers out, and they're not coming back.
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Left/right, Progressive/Conservative, Democrat/Republican... The names change and evolve but the core difference remains constant: The Collectivists vs. The ...
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Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and onetime presidential candidate, has always been considered a man of ideas. After leading his party t ...
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Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed the “religious liberty” bill on Monday that triggered a wave of criticism from gay rights groups and business leaders and presented him with one of the most consequential challenges he’s faced since his election to Georgia’s top office.
In a press conference at the state Capitol, Deal said...
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Alleged ISIS-linked kidnappers reportedly crucified Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, 56, in Yemen on Good Friday, according to the Archbishop of Vienna, who told his congregation of the killing.
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Another American has been identified as killed in the attacks in Brussels, bringing the total number of US citizens confirmed as victims to four. Only Justin and Stephanie Shults have been named.
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In Defense Of Donald Trump's Heidi Cruz Tweet
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What must the United States do to prevent more Islamist terror attacks like recent ones in Brussels, Paris, and San Bernardino? Khurram Dara, a Muslim Americ...
