In a recent column titled \u201cThe Trump Rebellion,\u201d syndicated columnist Doug Giles tells of a chance meeting with a Cuban friend in his favorite Miami cigar store.\u00a0 The conservative Cuban asked Giles if he could really vote for someone like Donald Trump for president.\u00a0 Giles replied, \u201cUh \u2026 yeah. \u00a0I voted for McCain. \u00a0I still haven\u2019t forgiven myself. \u00a0Pray for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I can go Giles five better.\u00a0 I voted for George H.W. Bush (once), George W. Bush (twice in the voting booth and twice in the Electoral College), and John McCain, and I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll ever forgive myself for any of those votes.\u00a0 I am tired of having to vote for nice guy Republicans who think that by meeting Democrats half way, or three-fourths of the way, they are somehow going to appeal to fence-straddling independents, or they\u2019re going to convince liberals and Democrats to act like decent human beings.\u00a0 They don\u2019t seem to understand that the only thing that appeals to a Democrat is getting reelected; being nice or being decent is not in their DNA.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Giles described his Cuban friend\u2019s three main problems with Trump: 1) Trump is arrogant, 2) Trump is an adulterer, and 3) Trump is not serious.\u00a0 His candidacy was a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n
Responding to the three problems in order, Giles responded, \u201cWell, if he is (arrogant), it\u2019s not without cause. \u00a0He\u2019s insanely successful. \u00a0There\u2019s nothing wrong about being right.\u00a0 As far as Trump is concerned, his business accomplishments are legendary. \u00a0Why shouldn\u2019t he be proud? \u00a0(Obama\u2019s) main claim to fame, before Soros put the first affirmative action president into the White House, was ACORN.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I agree completely.\u00a0 Muhammad Ali was arrogant; Barack Obama is arrogant.\u00a0 The difference is that Ali could always back up his arrogance with his fists; Barack Obama has absolutely no life accomplishment to validate his arrogance.\u00a0 He is an empty suit claiming to be the leader of the free world.\u00a0 He lectures Israel about returning to indefensible pre-1967 borders, but Benjamin Netanyahu is too nice to remind him that, while the Israelis were whipping the Arabs in a 6-day war, he was a 5-year-old boy named Barry Soetoro, living in Jakarta and taking out Indonesian citizenship.\u00a0 Trump has built a multi-billion dollar real estate empire; Barack Obama has never run so much as a sidewalk lemonade stand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With regard to Trump\u2019s adulterous episodes, Giles responded, \u201cAs a Christian and a conservative I\u2019m supposed to shun Donald because he\u2019s an adulterer, to which I say, according to the biblical maxim \u2026 well, aren\u2019t we all?\u201d\u00a0 Patterning Jimmy Carter\u2019s attitude, Giles said, \u201cI believe Jesus said that if you look lustfully at a woman it\u2019s the same as if you \u2018shagged\u2019 her. \u00a0One comedian put it succinctly by telling the sanctimonious who condemn those who\u2019ve literally wandered from their marital vows by saying, \u2018He that hath an empty hand, let him throw the first stone.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
I would respond to that charge with just two words: \u201cBill Clinton.\u201d\u00a0 I use Clinton as an example, not because he was a far more serious philanderer than Donald Trump\u2026 which he was(is)\u2026 I mention Clinton only because nine out of ten Democrats who will swear that Clinton walked on water are totally dismissive of his serial philandering and are now dyed-in-the-wool Obama supporters who would have used Trump\u2019s relatively minor record of philandering against him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most Democrats these days are fond of comparing Newt Gingrich to Bill Clinton, complaining that, while Newt was Speaker of the House and Republicans were impeaching Clinton, Newt was involved in a love affair with a staff member, a woman who has now been his wife since August 2000.\u00a0 Democrats view that as \u201chypocricy\u201d on Newt\u2019s part. \u00a0The fact is, it is almost impossible for most liberals and Democrats, and a great many Republicans, to create a simple declaratory sentence about Newt without including the word \u201cbaggage.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as if Newt has worked as a bellhop at a major hotel for the past forty years.<\/p>\n
The fact is, little of the conservative and Republican animosity toward Bill Clinton was based on the fact that he had carried on an Oval Office romance with Monica Lewinsky.\u00a0 The facts of the relationship were titillating, even disgusting, but they had little or nothing to do with the grounds for Clinton\u2019s impeachment.\u00a0 Clinton was impeached because he perjured himself before a federal judge, suborned the perjury of others, tampered with witnesses, and tampered with evidence.\u00a0 Newt may have been guilty of marital infidelity, but Clinton was guilty of actual felony crimes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
And finally, in response to the charge that Trump is not serious\u2026 that his presidential candidacy was just another publicity stunt\u2026 Giles responded, \u201cYeah? \u00a0Well, it\u2019s a value-added punking as he is saying all the things to Obama and his ilk that Americans want someone with a big prime time megaphone to say\u2026 I think the Trump Rebellion is dee-licious.\u00a0 It\u2019s injecting attitude and information, not via some tepid politico, but via a mogul who has had enough of Barack\u2019s bunkum, who gets the socialistic game Hussein is hoisting on us, and who hates countries who hate and use us\u2026\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He goes on to say, \u201cJesus was the only perfect person to schlep this rock. \u00a0However, comb-over be damned, I\u2019d vote for Trump right now. \u00a0My perfect candidate, however, would be an amalgam of several candidates, a combination of Donald Trump with Mitt Romney\u2019s hair, Newt Gingrich\u2019s grasp of American History, and Mike Huckabee\u2019s heart\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And although Trump is now out of the race\u2026 at least for now\u2026 Giles gives him high marks because \u201che sure as heck has shown the boys and girls looking on that you can take (Obama) on and not be McCain McNice about it.\u201d\u00a0 He predicts that \u201cgiddy Americans will line up\u201d behind a strong Republican candidate because \u201cthey are pig sick of how Obama is destroying our great land.\u201d<\/p>\n
My own recent experience with a friendly Obama supporter was very much like Giles\u2019 experience with his Cuban friend.\u00a0 My friend is a lawyer who is married to a sitting district judge.\u00a0 They are rare Democrats in that it is possible to carry on a relatively lucid conversation with them\u2026 so long as political topics are kept to a minimum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On a recent evening, as we discussed the weather and other important topics over snifters of Irish whiskey, my friend, an avid fisherman, launched into a tirade over a mutual friend, our resident \u201ctree-hugger,\u201d who tends to go bananas when one of our Club members dumps surplus minnows into our lake at the end of the day.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because she fears those minnows may have genetic characteristics incompatible with the DNA of the minnows native to our lake.\u00a0 (Really!\u00a0 I don\u2019t think she\u2019s set fire to any new housing developments, as yet, but she actually said that.)<\/p>\n
Since it was he who broached the subject of environmental extremism, I saw it as the perfect opportunity to challenge him on the refusal of mainstream Democrats to challenge the many radicals in their party who are responsible for national policies that prevent us, for example, from becoming energy self-sufficient or solving our illegal immigration problem.<\/p>\n
To drive home my point, I compared \u201cmoderate\u201d Democrats and the ban on the use of DDT with the so-called \u201cmoderate\u201d Islamists and the radicalization of Muslim jihadists.\u00a0 I explained that the relationship between moderate Muslims and the murder of tens of thousands of innocents by al Qaeda terrorists and suicide bombers is no different than the relationship between moderate Democrats and the millions of people around the globe who die each year because of the U.S. ban on DDT\u2026 the handiwork of radical environmentalists within the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
I pointed out that, since DDT was banned by a Democratic Congress in 1972, more than fifty million people have died of malaria.\u00a0 The World Health Organization reports that, in the year 2000 alone, malaria infected more than three hundred million people, killing some two million\u2026 mostly in sub-Saharan Africa\u2026 and that most fatalities today are children, who die at the rate of two per minute, or 3,000 per day.\u00a0 Yet, so long as Democrats have their campaign coffers filled by radical environmentalists, the ban on DDT will remain intact and millions more will die.<\/p>\n
My suggestion to him was that, until non-ideological Democrats\u2026 those who are Democrats either because their mommies and daddies were Democrats, or because they earn their living though a government job or a patronage appointment\u2026 put a leash on the radical elements of their party, we will never be able to save the country from the economic calamity we now face.<\/p>\n
To be quite honest, I fear that moderate Democrats have no more courage to deal with the radical elements in their party than moderate Muslims have to deal with the suicide bombers of radical Islam.\u00a0 Experience tells us that moderate Muslims live in constant fear of radical Muslims so they make no effort to control them.\u00a0 In that regard, moderate Democrats are very much like moderate Islamists.\u00a0 They\u2019re afraid to denounce radical elements of their own party because that might be seen as a tacit admission that they\u2019ve been wrong about the party they\u2019ve supported for most of their lives. \u00a0More importantly, it may cause them to lose an election or two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But now there is no more time for such foolishness.\u00a0 Standing on the precipice of economic ruin, we have no more time for political gamesmanship.\u00a0 Democrats in Congress make it clear every day that they see but two alternatives: 1) Republicans must either join them in a deficit\/debt reduction plan that is certain to destroy the nation\u2019s economy, or 2) We all join hands and watch as the nation goes down the tubes.\u00a0 Their intransigence is rock-solid and patently suicidal.<\/p>\n
The 2012 elections promise to be America\u2019s D-Day, and, like those great patriots of the \u201cgreatest generation,\u201d the grandchildren of that generation must step up to the plate and do what must be done in November 2012.\u00a0 And while Donald Trump may be gone from the 2012 race, his brief candidacy proved one very important thing: Obama may have spent more than $2 million hiding his birth certificate from the American people, but Trump\u2019s no-holds-barred attack on him got under his thin skin and forced him to publish a birth document, fake as it may have been.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Either we give Obama the complete thrashing he so richly deserves and elect a filibuster-proof Republican majority in the Senate, or we don\u2019t.\u00a0 And if we don\u2019t, we can be all but certain that this great experiment in self-government will come to a painful end within a decade.\u00a0 If ever there was a time for some straight talk, the time is now.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to face liberals and Democrats with unflinching courage and determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a recent column titled \u201cThe Trump Rebellion,\u201d syndicated columnist Doug Giles tells of a chance meeting with a Cuban friend in his favorite Miami cigar store.\u00a0 The conservative Cuban asked Giles if he could really vote for someone like … Continue reading