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We focus primarily on the American scene but also cover world politics. "},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/-\/Conservatives?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=2"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Conservatives"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/-\/Conservatives\/-\/Conservatives?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=3\u0026max-results=2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"20"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"2"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407281054887604200.post-8900188220004118216"},"published":{"$t":"2016-06-04T16:45:00.000+03:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-09-09T10:32:03.186+03:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2016 election"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Conservatives"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Donald Trump"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fraud"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hillary Clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Trump University"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Republican Scammer: Here's the Real Reason Why Donald Trump is Talking About Putting Clinton in Jail"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2 style=\"background-color: #bdbdbd; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;\"\u003Eby Nomad\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Ch2 style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump came out swinging wildly in every direction last week. His comments about a federal judge and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton raised a lot of eyebrows, even Republican eyebrows. \u003Cbr \/\u003ECould an investigation in a fraud case involving the defunct Trump University may be one of the reasons for his unhinged threats and verbal attacks?\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QbDLvNEPxTk\/V1K4u5qOhZI\/AAAAAAAAMdg\/_3jde9fEIpYjrcxucSXfccIdKSYbuxB_ACLcB\/s1600\/HilTrum.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QbDLvNEPxTk\/V1K4u5qOhZI\/AAAAAAAAMdg\/_3jde9fEIpYjrcxucSXfccIdKSYbuxB_ACLcB\/s640\/HilTrum.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #cccccc; font-family: \u0026quot;georgia\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EJ\u003C\/span\u003Eust the other day, Trump told his supporters at a rally in San Jose, California that if he is elected he suggested that he would direct his attorney general to investigate her if Clinton is not indicted over her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state email use.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Republican nominee-to-be has not only decided to play the role of prosecutor but of judge as well. The crowd cheered as he said:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"Folks, honestly, she's guilty as hell.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOf course, a speech isn't an interview so nobody in the media- if they had cared to- could ask Trump exactly what \u003Ci\u003Ecrime\u003C\/i\u003E she was actually guilty of.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"I will say this, Hillary Clinton has got to go to jail.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;He also added:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"Five years' statute of limitations, if I win. Everything is going to be fair but I'm sure the attorney general will take a very good look at it.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe threat to imprison political rival whom Trump sees as an obstacle to his ambition should be taken very serious as an indicator of what kind of president Donald Trump would make.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ELast year, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/europe.newsweek.com\/authors\/kurt-eichenwald\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/europe.newsweek.com\/hillary-clinton-emailgate-312784?rm=eu\"\u003Eone Newsweek op-ed piece\u003C\/a\u003E dismissed the email scandal as an obvious partisan ploy, all smoke, and no fire. A senior writer with Newsweek and a contributing editor, Kurt\u0026nbsp;Eichenwald blamed the media for \"huffing and puffing\" before understanding the complications of the email regulations. Regardless of the wild claims against Clinton of email abuse, Eichenwald observes that the \u003Cb\u003E\"use of a personal email account not a violation of the rules, it was specifically allowed by the rules.\u003C\/b\u003E\"\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEichwald freely admits that he is no Clinton supporter but the whole thing, he implied, smacked of journalistic malpractice.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd besides, he wrote:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"Aren’t journalists supposed to know if there is a scandal before declaring that one exists?\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere's always been a double standard when it came to the Clintons, of course.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhere were these journalists \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/lets-compare-clintons-phony-email.html\"\u003Ewhen Dick Cheney was re-writing the rules of security designation,\u003C\/a\u003E inventing whole new classifications in order to keep Congress and the press in the dark about his secret meetings with oil companies before the Iraq invasion? That's a large chunk of untouched meat for reporters.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFire or no fire,the Republican Congress has invested a lot of time and a taxpayers' money searching for some sign of high crimes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOn social media, the email scandal has also gotten a lot of coverage. To hear the Trump supporters' narrative, any day now the FBI will bust down the Clinton front door and drag a screeching Hillary out by the hair.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt's easy to see why they cling to this image. The prospect of Hillary Clinton as president (after eight years of trying to make Obama a one-term president) fills them with revulsion. Four and very possibly eight years of a so-called liberal agenda brings tears to their eyes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump is well aware of all that and talking about having Clinton arrested is a real crowd-pleaser. And Trump loves pleasing crowds almost as much as he loves pleasing himself. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere is, however, a more important reason why Trump would prefer to talk about Clinton in orange jumpsuits and braiding other women's hair all day.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHe is scared out of his wits.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EPreying on the Elderly and Uneducated\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn the real world, the investigation of one of Donald Trump's money making schemes, the now-bankrupt \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/john-cassidy\/trump-university-its-worse-than-you-think\"\u003ETrump University\u003C\/a\u003E, continues. An article from the New Yorker points out that, as far as a scandal, it's a lot worse than anything Clinton is presently facing.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2850043\/Schnackenberg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaffidavit\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Ronald Schnackenberg, a former salesman for Trump University, paints a very ugly picture of the inner workings of the Trump's victimization of desperate suckers in his \u0026nbsp;classic bait-and-switch scheme. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSchnackenberg, who worked in Trump’s office at 40 Wall Street, testified that “while Trump University claimed it wanted to help consumers make money in real estate, in fact Trump University was only interested in selling every person the most expensive seminars they possibly could.” The affidavit concludes, \u003Cb\u003E“Based upon my personal experience and employment, I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme, and that it preyed upon the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money.”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nTrump's reaction to these damaging revelations has been to attack anybody and everybody associated with exposing the details of the fraud.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-UhdNUDW_yBw\/V1Kj_QX2pII\/AAAAAAAAMdQ\/59aHkpiNb54okzf6Em_qi0KQfMlACSUSACLcB\/s1600\/Judge.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-UhdNUDW_yBw\/V1Kj_QX2pII\/AAAAAAAAMdQ\/59aHkpiNb54okzf6Em_qi0KQfMlACSUSACLcB\/s200\/Judge.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor months of accusing\u0026nbsp; federal \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=4\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjYhs-8gY7NAhXKXBQKHS6TDRwQFggmMAM\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGonzalo_P._Curiel\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFfL0RjnV25XTB2q8NTtMNI67N9rg\u0026amp;sig2=DjnfgLD8tLuQ5jPP7XNsOw\"\u003EJudge Gonzalo Curiel\u003C\/a\u003E of bias due to his Latino background. This week, In full attack mode, the candidate \u0026nbsp;said that the Indiana-born Curiel's Mexican heritage was the real reason for the investigation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=5\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwi7qLut7I3NAhXDzxQKHSaCB7UQFggsMAQ\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fpolitics%2Farchive%2F2016%2F06%2Ftrump-mexican-judge%2F485429%2F\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFxFxZXlO65tLrZN4YS\"\u003EAs one source explains:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMr. Trump said the background of the judge... was relevant because of his campaign stance against illegal immigration and his pledge to seal the southern U.S. border. \"I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,\" Mr. Trump said.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBesides the candidate, nobody seems to think that\u0026nbsp;Curiel is prejudiced against Trump, for his racist remarks or for any other reason. Trump simply doesn't have a leg to stand on.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Atlantic Monthly pointed out this week:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nthere’s \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/06\/trump-mexican-judge\/485429\/\"\u003Eno precedent for judges\u003C\/a\u003E to recuse themselves from a case because of their race, gender, faith, or sexual orientation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe candidate seems to think that life and the courts are unfair because of this legal scrutiny.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nTrump’s racist remarks follow speeches in which the candidate said he was being “railroaded” by a “rigged” legal system.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn an astounding instance of unleashed rage, Trump threw caution to the wind, directed his attacks at the judge.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHe simultaneously \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/05\/trump-judge-gonzalo-curiel\/484790\/?utm_source=feed\"\u003Esingled out Curiel\u003C\/a\u003E as “hater of Donald Trump,” called him a “disgrace,” said he should “be ashamed of himself,” and said other federal judges “ought to look into Judge Curiel.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBullying other candidates is one thing, but attempting to bully a federal judge is quite another. His advisors must be losing plenty of sleep at night wondering how much further their employer is willing to go in attacking the justice system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAccording to Trump's logic, no federal judge of Latino background is qualified to judge him. They are all biased against him solely as a result of their ethnicity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBut then Trump has insulted almost all ethnic groups. Are black judges similarly disqualified? What about female judges? He could make the same case there too.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhat about Supreme Court justices who are from minority backgrounds? As president, would he recognize their votes or only the decisions made by white male judges?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe implication is that only judges friendly to Donald Trump have the right to hear any case against him. That's the stuff of dictators, not American presidents.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Rule of Law\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003ETo his critics, Trump's remarks are just another example of the candidates' disdain for the rule of law. It's not just liberals who are saying it. Conservative-leaning \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/david-post?version=meter+at+3\u0026amp;module=meter-Links\u0026amp;pgtype=article\u0026amp;contentId=\u0026amp;mediaId=\u0026amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\u0026amp;priority=true\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;contentCollection=meter-links-click\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\"\u003EDavid Post\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a retired law professor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary...You can criticize the judicial system, you can criticize individual cases, you can criticize individual judges. But the president has to be clear that the law is the law and that he enforces the law. That is his constitutional obligation.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnother scholar adds to those misgivings. Professor \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjv-d-XjI7NAhXIxRQKHRGzCoUQFggeMAA\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.randybarnett.com%2F\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFsn1V700vw_UpCAO-8AD5W5gK4Nw\u0026amp;sig2=tMFR9AHVx3PXSa4aYS4Qpw\"\u003ERandy E. Barnett\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026nbsp;a law professor at Georgetown, remarks:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“You would like a president with some idea about constitutional limits on presidential powers, on congressional powers, on federal powers and I doubt he has any awareness of such limits.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBefore writing Barnett off as just another academic elite, it should be pointed out that Barnett is no fan of the present administration. He was the architect of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/29\/us\/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html?version=meter+at+3\u0026amp;module=meter-Links\u0026amp;pgtype=article\u0026amp;contentId=\u0026amp;mediaId=\u0026amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F\u0026amp;priority=true\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;contentCollection=meter-links-click\"\u003Ethe first major challenge to President Obama’s health care law\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThose are some pretty loud warning bells coming from the people who would, in theory, be Republican voters.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt's not merely a case of political scandal du jour. The Trump University allegations have the potential to do serious damage to the Republican nominee's chances in November. He has no other option than to attack the court and to claim m he will put Clinton in jail. The bluster is an attempt to conceal a fact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump is a billion-dollar fraudster who has managed to seal the Republican nomination with the blessing of most of the GOP leadership.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EStraight Fraud and Hungry Children\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/10\/27\/nyregion\/27CONVICTIONS\/27CONVICTIONS-master180.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/10\/27\/nyregion\/27CONVICTIONS\/27CONVICTIONS-master180.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EIn fact, the charges against Trump University are serious, regardless who presides in the courtroom.\u0026nbsp; The New York attorney general \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Schneiderman\"\u003EEric Schneiderman\u003C\/a\u003E pulled no punches and told reporters:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"It's fraud. This is straight up fraud.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is, in some ways, that hard questions about Trump's business practices should arise exactly where his career began. And Schneiderman couldn't have been cast better for his part.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBefore being elected Attorney General, Schneiderman represented the 31st District in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_State_Senate\"\u003ENew York State Senate\u003C\/a\u003E. This comprises \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\"\u003EManhattan\u003C\/a\u003E's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_West_Side\"\u003EUpper West Side\u003C\/a\u003E, as well as \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morningside_Heights\"\u003EMorningside Heights\u003C\/a\u003E, West Harlem,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Heights,_Manhattan\"\u003EWashington Heights\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inwood,_Manhattan\"\u003EInwood\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marble_Hill,_Manhattan\"\u003EMarble Hill\u003C\/a\u003E, in addition to part of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riverdale,_Bronx\"\u003ERiverdale, The Bronx\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump, who has never held any elective office, calls Schneiderman “a political hack.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUndaunted by Trump's label, Schneiderman described the tycoon and now GOP nominee as both \"dishonest and manipulative\" when it came to his role in the defunct university.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"The law is very clear. The law protects the gullible as well as the sophisticated. As we've seen over the course of the last year, there are a lot of people who fall for Mr. Trump's promises and rhetoric.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/static2.businessinsider.com\/image\/571ff07e52bcd01a008bf1b4-480\/trump-university.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.businessinsider.com\/image\/571ff07e52bcd01a008bf1b4-480\/trump-university.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen the judge released court documents, some things became immediately clear. Donald Trump had profited from a nationwide scam that shafted thousands of victims.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump University staff were instructed to advise prospective students who were unable to afford the tuition just to \"max out\" their credit cards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2016\/05\/trump-u-targeted-single-parents-with-hungry-kids.html\"\u003EOne piece in New York Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E sheds more light on the high-pressure sales techniques:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIf a cash-strapped applicant said, \"I don't like using my credit cards and going into debt,\" the playbook instructed recruiters to respond, \"[D]o you like living paycheck to paycheck? ... Do you enjoy seeing everyone else but yourself in their dream houses and driving their dreams cars with huge checking accounts? Those people saw an opportunity, and didn't make excuses, like what you're doing now.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe idea target of the sales pitch was, former recruiters say now, a single parent with \u003Cb\u003Ehungry children in order to convince said parent to take on massive credit-card debt.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/q5PbpfnsXA4\/maxresdefault.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/q5PbpfnsXA4\/maxresdefault.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFrom the recruiter guidelines, the pitch was all about exploiting the desperation of those who can not afford the colleges restricted to the offspring of the 1%.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThese were normal people searching for a way to better themselves and, without any other opportunity available to them, grasped at straws. And Trump represented the man with all of the straws. The tycoon with the answers who actually seemed to care for the little guy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nExactly the same people who support his presidential run today.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nQuestions remain how much direct involvement Trump had over the program.Therein lies a fiendishly clever trap for Trump. Name recognition has always played a major part in the Trump story.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe same was true when it came to Trump University and in promotional materials, the businessman assured students that the school's professors \u0026nbsp;were people that he had \"handpicked.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHowever, on the witness stand, it was a completely different story. CNN reported that Trump failed to recognize the name of \"a single presenter or teacher at his real estate seminars.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHe had a good motive for trying to distance himself from the staff.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-trump-university-20160601-snap-story.html\"\u003EOne former sales employee, Jason Nicholas, said in a declaration that\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nthe Trump University instructors and mentors were a joke.… They were unqualified people posing as Donald Trump’s ‘right-hand men.’ They were teaching methods that were unethical and they had little to no experience flipping properties or doing real estate deals. \u003Cb\u003EIt was a facade, a lie.”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIronically, Trump is damned either way. On one hand, he misrepresented to students\/clients how much he was actually associated with the university, or he was directly involved in the hiring of personnel who were reportedly unqualified. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EStill Worse to Follow?\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ww4.hdnux.com\/photos\/22\/76\/24\/4973839\/9\/rawImage.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ww4.hdnux.com\/photos\/22\/76\/24\/4973839\/9\/rawImage.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EEven though the allegations of fraud are damaging, there could be still worse revelations to follow.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/06\/03\/trump_university_scandal_beginning_to_look_more_like_corruption_trump_made_political_donations_to_attorneys_general_who_quietly_dropped_investigations\/\"\u003EAccording to a story by Salon\u003C\/a\u003E, top Republican prosecutors in Texas and Florida may have been induced to dismiss complaints by their constitutes after receiving substantial political donations to their election efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTrump's critics think it seems a little too coincidental.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCiting an \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/67444ec825f3460ba4aadefc0d29d22f\/trump-university-model-sell-hard-demand-see-warrant\"\u003EAP report\u003C\/a\u003E released this week, the article points to two such cases from former Texas attorney general Greg Abbott and current Florida Attorney General \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pam_Bondi\"\u003EPam Bondi\u003C\/a\u003E. If true, the Trump case turns from fraud to political corruption.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn the Texas case, the attorney general at the time later became the state's governor. There was a strong case to sue Donald Trump and Trump University for bilking Texas taxpayers out of more than $2.6 million. The lawsuit was however never filed.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAbbott.. reportedly opened a civil investigation into “possibly deceptive trade practices” when Trump University made inroads in Texas, but “Abbott’s probe was quietly dropped in 2010 when Trump University agreed to end its operations in Texas.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“Trump subsequently donated $35,000 to Abbott’s successful gubernatorial campaign, according to records,”  the AP reported.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/grub\/2016\/06\/01\/01-trump-university-ad.nocrop.w529.h1056.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/grub\/2016\/06\/01\/01-trump-university-ad.nocrop.w529.h1056.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/2016\/06\/greg-abbotts-top-consumer-attorneys-built-a-5-4m-case-against-donald-trump-but-it-never-happened.html\/\"\u003EThe Dallas Morning News\u003C\/a\u003E adds that a former deputy director of Abbott’s Consumer Protection Division, John Owens, accuses Abbott of leaving Texas consumers “high and dry.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“The decision not to sue him was political..Had [Trump] not been involved in politics to the extent he was at the time, we would have gotten approval. Had he been just some other scam artist, we would have sued him.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe circumstances, legal analysts say, are unusual, especially given the fact that, according to investigators in the Lone Star state, Trump University hadn’t completed the paperwork necessary to even do business in Texas.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAbbott dismissed all suggestions of wrong-doing and points out that the state opened a civil investigation of the possibly deceptive practices of Trump University in Texas back. That investigation was dropped when university officials agreed to close down operations there.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nHumorist Will Rogers once said:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn Texas they don't burn them, they bury them and then threaten anybody thinking about grabbing a shovel.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCase in point: Yesterday, in the latest move, the present Attorney General Ken Paxton \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/politics\/texas\/article\/Paxton-tells-former-AG-s-Office-staffer-to-stop-7962440.php\"\u003Emoved to try to stop John Owens from sharing any more documents about a seven-month investigation into Trump University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/files\/epress\/060316Owens.pdf?cachebuster%3A64=\u0026amp;utm_content=\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_name=\u0026amp;utm_source=govdelivery\u0026amp;utm_term=\u0026amp;_ga=1.254480072.1967733915.1462871314\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003Eletter\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E sent by Paxton claimed that making public the details of the Trump University investigation violated the law.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe letter states that, although Owens was no longer an employee, as an attorney \u003Cb\u003E\"a lawyer must conduct his or her business with inveterate honesty and loyalty.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOne suspects the emphasis here was more on the latter and less on the former. It's Texas, after all.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Paxton letter, by first assistant attorney general \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2016\/03\/09\/shake-up-with-texas-ag-first-assistant-resigns\/\"\u003EJeffrey Mateer\u003C\/a\u003E, lists the legal prohibitions against releasing documents to the media.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"This disclosure.. violates policies of the Office of the Attorney General that prohibits agency employees from disclosing confidential or privileged information.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTransparency is not a high priority in Red State Texas even when it comes to protecting Long Star consumers against a New York fraudster.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSilence is golden if it means protecting the governor of Texas from having to explain himself. So, it is hard not to see this as an attempt to silence a critic with threats of legal action.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhy, that's just the kind of thing Trump got famous for.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EBonding with Bondi\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn the Florida case, a political contribution from Trump appears to have been enough for prosecutors there to think twice about joining in a multi-state suit against Trump University.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThree days after Bondi’s spokeswoman was quoted in local media reports as saying the office was reviewing the New York lawsuit, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 contribution to a political fundraising committee supporting Bondi’s re-election campaign.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBondi, a Republican, soon dropped her investigation, citing insufficient grounds to proceed.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/assets\/2015\/01\/Pam-Bondi.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/assets\/2015\/01\/Pam-Bondi.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAt the time, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article65995972.html\"\u003Ethe Florida press apparently smelled a dead fish \u003C\/a\u003Ebut a statement from Bondi's office dismissed any suggestion of conflicts of interest.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDespite that, Bondi has admitted that\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n“Donald and I have been friends for many years.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nShe disputes the charge that her friendship (or his contribution) had anything to do with the decision not to participate in Schneiderman's lawsuit.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe reason for withdrawing from the nationwide investigation was simple:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe complaints filed in the office against Trump University in Florida weren’t pursued because New York’s Attorney General Schneiderman was already investigating.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs excuses for inaction go, it is fairly lame.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEven in the light of what is now known about his business practices, Bondi has had nothing but praise for Trump. She said on Monday that she is pleased with how he has brought new voters into the political arena.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhether it is voters or victims, when it comes to Donald Trump, a lot of people were- and still are- happy to look the other way.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"\u003ERead more here: http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article65995972.html#storylink=cpy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHowever, some Republicans, (at least those who haven't hopped onto the Trump bandwagon,) may see the allegations of Trump's political corruption as just another indication that the billionaire's influence, his name and his history are extremely toxic to the party.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs more news emerges about the scam, those who have committed themselves to Trump's election campaign might soon regret their support. It's crunch time and so far, the majority of Republican elites have shown themselves too weak and too cowardly to argue with Trump's success.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump's declaration to put Clinton in prison over trumped up charges of email abuse is perhaps a classic case of projection and diversion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFor the sake of the long-term viability of the Republican party, nervous conservatives have little choice but to pray that Trump will manage to convince undecided voters that putting a \"greedy\" con man in the White House will be the way to make America great again.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMany voters -from conservatives to middle-of-road undecideds- might soon turn their back once and for all on the GOP. And for good reason, by nominating a man like Trump, the party is admitted something that has been obvious to a lot of people.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Republican Party has been the party of fraudulent schemes and billionaire swindles since Ronald Reagan sold them on trickle-down economics.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Chr noshade=\"\" size=\"5\" width=\"70%\" \/\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/8900188220004118216"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/8900188220004118216"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/republican-scammer-heres-real-reason.html","title":"Republican Scammer: Here's the Real Reason Why Donald Trump is Talking About Putting Clinton in Jail"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QbDLvNEPxTk\/V1K4u5qOhZI\/AAAAAAAAMdg\/_3jde9fEIpYjrcxucSXfccIdKSYbuxB_ACLcB\/s72-c\/HilTrum.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407281054887604200.post-752289035670804766"},"published":{"$t":"2016-05-06T15:39:00.000+03:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-11-16T22:51:29.253+03:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"2016 election"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Conservatives"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Donald Trump"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Reince Priebus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Republican"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ted Cruz"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Donald Trump and the Moment Conservatives Have Been Dreading"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2 style=\"background-color: #bdbdbd; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;\"\u003Eby Nomad\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jrX3v9Gp1hY\/VyxHJxLTJxI\/AAAAAAAAMV0\/GjY3lS4Wo3cImKKsUIBCl5GYpV4rKDjcQCLcB\/s1600\/donald-trump-is-taking-aim-.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jrX3v9Gp1hY\/VyxHJxLTJxI\/AAAAAAAAMV0\/GjY3lS4Wo3cImKKsUIBCl5GYpV4rKDjcQCLcB\/s640\/donald-trump-is-taking-aim-.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\nAfter years of divisive politics, Republicans are now reaping what they have sowed in the form of their presumptive nominee, Donald Trump.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Moment Has Come\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #cccccc; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EW\u003C\/span\u003Eell, ladies and gentlemen, here we are.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EWe have finally arrived at the moment. The moment when all of the Republican candidates have been vanquished. The moment many in the party have feared\u0026nbsp;when nothing whatsoever stands between billionaire \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wQPf3Cx-9eE\" rel=\"youtube\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"vince shave by donald trump\"\u003EDonald Trump\u003C\/a\u003E and the nomination. The road thus far has revealed the true character of the man, his pettiness, superficiality, his ugly bigotry and lack of judgment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EAll of the things that would in any normal election have delivered him into the rubbish heap of US political history. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E(This was once, after all, the same nation that disqualified a candidate because of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Dean\"\u003Ean overzealous war-whoop\u003C\/a\u003E during the primaries made him look too too ridiculous.) \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMainstream media has a lot to answer for in allowing this strange reality-tv show character to rise to the top. A lot of people should be held responsible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn terms of what kind of president he would be, what he represents and what he believes in, Trump has been vague, bereft of both specifics and sense. Indirectly, however, he has given us a general idea of the mentality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCarpet-bombing ISIS may sound tough but it is a very stupid idea. Building a wall is neither a\u0026nbsp;practical, nor a plausible solution to illegal immigration. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nYet, with the state of American journalism today, right wing voters were encouraged, persuaded to take the man seriously. When it came to asking difficult questions, there's always been a bias between the two parties. Palin could be asked what newspapers she read and her party could condemn the interviewer as engaging in \"gotcha\" journalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThanks to the mainstream media, low-information politicians were suitably paired with low-information voters who thought education and intelligence were products of elitism.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EUnity in the Face of an Exodus\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/g-cvr-130404-gop-priebus-5a.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/g-cvr-130404-gop-priebus-5a.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EWhen it came to trying to prevent an election calamity, the leaders of the GOP were as feckless and helpless as a baby. Something had to be done, many said, so long as it was somebody else that did it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe RNC chairman, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwim5PqY-MTMAhWINz4KHRLXAAIQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FReince_Priebus\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFKMS1tDwRB9Ogum1iBT4UelLjBpw\u0026amp;sig2=1YryrJDkolornfOxmHOGoA\"\u003EReince Priebus\u003C\/a\u003E, stood by and timidly watched Trump rise higher and higher, even as the things the candidate said became more and more preposterous and dangerous. Priebus thought Trump was \"a plus\" for the party.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd today, leaving the entire party in the tiny hands of an intensely disliked billionaire, passive Priebus calls for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reince\/status\/727665447684820992\"\u003E\"unity\" from Republican voters\u003C\/a\u003E. Something things, once shattered, cannot be magically glued together again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAll in all, Priebus' attitude has been a shameful and pathetic performance of a person from has capitulated to Trump at nearly every turn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe might as well have the word \"hopeless\" writing on his forehead.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAmazingly, many conservatives have decided to abandon their party altogether. Slate provided \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2016\/05\/03\/republicans_who_are_quitting_the_party_or_voting_for_hillary_a_list.html\"\u003Ea partial list of conservatives\u003C\/a\u003E that are ditching their party.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe sentiment among that crowd is best summed up by a tweet from a former JEB! spokesman, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timodc\/status\/727671982515433473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003ETim Miller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ENever ever ever Trump. Simple as that\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSome have even decided to re-consider their choices. Clinton is at least the saner of the two presumptive nominees. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2016\/05\/03\/republicans_who_are_quitting_the_party_or_voting_for_hillary_a_list.html\"\u003EThe Daily Beast reported yesterday:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd the conservative activists who adamantly oppose [Trump] are now in the process of making peace with backing the Democrats’ eventual nominee. \u003Cb\u003EBecause there’s one person they fear and loathe more than Hillary—and they say they won’t blink.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/ChkwqNMW0AA-v4o.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/ChkwqNMW0AA-v4o.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nRemember this isn't coming for undecided voters but conservative opinion makers. In the Daily Beast piece \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=15\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjXsNrR5cLMAhUI7xQKHfiJBbIQFghLMA4\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redstate.com%2Fleon_h_wolf%2F\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNHPjp5y8GYIkUMoGEW_fdBi8JUc-A\u0026amp;sig2=yX3k6DKFGwfQNc5C62ycSg\"\u003ELeon Wolf\u003C\/a\u003E, the editor of the conservative site RedState.com is quoted:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“Hillary is ideologically not where I am,...But I do feel pretty confident that she would actually be a better president than Trump. I wouldn’t go to bed every night worrying about a mushroom cloud opening up somewhere in the world because of some insane thing Trump had done.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt remains to be seen how long that commitment will last or whether it is a knee-jerk reaction to the reality of the situation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe question remains:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EHow could Trump have ever been whitewashed as a viable option for conservatives voters? Well, it was a relatively easy accomplishment when you have 17 unusually incompetent and unsuitable candidates in the pool. His leading rival was a man who repeatedly called for the shutdown of the government on matters of principle.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nGreen ham and eggs, for Pete's sake.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHowever, with Clinton poised to capture the Democratic Party's nomination, the attempt to \u003Ci\u003Enormalize\u003C\/i\u003E Trump just got exponentially harder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat won't stop some people from trying.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Difficult Choice for Conservatives\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/ej-dionne-jr\"\u003EE.J. Dionne Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/b\u003E writing \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dont-mainstream-trump\/2016\/05\/04\/ebf8d7e8-1233-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html\"\u003Ean op-ed piece\u003C\/a\u003E for the Washington Post, points out that conservatives are now faced with a very difficult choice: to vote along party lines, when the party has betrayed its fundamental principles, or sit this one out and offer the presidency to Ms. Clinton.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe same is true for Christian evangelist voters. Last June, the candidate told his fans:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nI will be the greatest representative of the Christians that they've had in a long time.  \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nAs a man who openly bragged about cheating on his wives, he is \u0026nbsp;hardly a model of Christian piety, humility or tolerance. (But then neither was Ronald Reagan when compared to Jimmy Carter.) \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere are, Dionne points out, two roads ahead now and neither are very appetizing for conservatives. As they see it, a Clinton win would likely lead to...\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\"a liberal majority on the Supreme Court and the ratification of the achievements of President Obama’s administration, including the Affordable Care Act. Conservative opposition could deepen a popular revulsion against Trump that in turn could help Democrats take over the Senate and gain House seats.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOn the other hand, Trump in the White House would mean conservative Americans \u0026nbsp;consider him to be \u003Cb\u003E\"a morally acceptable leader for our country,\"\u003C\/b\u003E that he represents conservative principles and that he, in any way, does credit to the party of Reagan, Eisenhower and Lincoln. That's a tall order for a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nperson who stands onstage and says things like:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"copy-paste-block\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12px; left: -99999px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; text-align: left;\"\u003E\nThe beauty of me is that I’m very rich.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRead more at http:\/\/www.marieclaire.co.uk\/blogs\/550112\/donald-trump-quotes.html#k86ie2vyx9oOzEZ6.99\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"copy-paste-block\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12px; left: -99999px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute;\"\u003E\nThe point is, you can never be too greedy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRead more at http:\/\/www.marieclaire.co.uk\/blogs\/550112\/donald-trump-quotes.html#k86ie2vyx9oOzEZ6.99\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\"The point is, you can never be too greedy.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\"My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure; it's not your fault.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIntelligent voters, both conservative and independent, are being faced with the question that they must surely have dreaded for some time. Do you really want to see the reins of power in the hands of a person like Donald Trump? Is there any valid rationalization for the self-destruction of party and national prestige?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EAn Extremely High Stakes Gamble\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/05\/politics\/paul-ryan-donald-trump-gop-nominee\/\"\u003EHouse Speaker Paul Ryan has said that he is not prepared\u003C\/a\u003E \"at this time\" to back Trump. Not an outright rejection, and not a kiss. That's what courage looks like in today's Republican party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nParalyzed by the\u0026nbsp;fear that he will be accused of betraying his party, Ryan has transformed into a mound of greasy gelatin. What else could explain his reserve except fear? After all, Trump is very unlikely to transform himself into the kind of man the Republican old guard can admire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd why should he?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTrump's message has been winning primaries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-n_u7_dUbbiM\/VyxUweKVNSI\/AAAAAAAAMWE\/i77rGrqeVWsUob9PjMziOiSLwDj1vTh0QCLcB\/s1600\/2.JPG\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-n_u7_dUbbiM\/VyxUweKVNSI\/AAAAAAAAMWE\/i77rGrqeVWsUob9PjMziOiSLwDj1vTh0QCLcB\/s400\/2.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ETo make matters even worse, the stakes in this election could hardly be higher for the Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd that is their own fault.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor example, Majority Leader in the Senate \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=4\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwid68i33MLMAhVMvRQKHQPTD-QQFggmMAM\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcconnell.senate.gov%2F\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNH0S5FbsdZT7xbChuteUcOSU98ANA\u0026amp;sig2=CQfNNZkl0BO9U-GcarVoDg\"\u003EMitch McConnell\u003C\/a\u003E's decision not to proceed with the confirmation hearing of a moderate Supreme Court nominee was test of GOP magical thinking. It was not based on the election polls or a careful calculation of Republican chances in November. Putting off the hard choices will only make things worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNot only was it risky if Republican lose the election, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/mcconnells-supreme-court-gamble-and-ted.html\"\u003Eit was also a politically unpopular move before the election.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nA recent CNN\/ORC poll found that two-thirds of Americans want the Senate to hold confirmation hearings on his candidacy, and a majority of Americans ( 52%) say the Senate should ultimately vote to confirm him.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo far, conservative voters have largely not realized how much they stand to lose in this election. \u0026nbsp;And to add to the irony, McConnell, the man whose stubbornness will soon cost his party at least a \u003Ci\u003Emoderate\u003C\/i\u003E voice on the Supreme Court when Clinton wins, \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mitch-mcconnell-supports-donald-trump_us_572a8944e4b096e9f0904b4d\"\u003Ecame out with an endorsement\u003C\/a\u003E for- you guessed it- \u003Ci\u003EDonald Trump.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSome have, however, realized the danger that Trump represents to the party. Dionne writes:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThree streams of Republicans are likely to oppose Trump: those to his right on trade and government spending; neoconservatives who oppose his “\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2016\/04\/27\/trump-pivoting-to-the-general-election-hones-america-first-foreign-policy-vision\/\"\u003EAmerica First\u003C\/a\u003E” noninterventionist foreign policy; and the remaining moderates and others in the party alarmed over his outbursts on, among other things, torture, immigration, race, women, Latinos, Muslims, Vladimir Putin and, lest we forget, Obama’s birthplace, Ted Cruz’s father and John McCain’s military service. \u003Cb\u003EThese honorable and brave conservatives should not lose their nerve under pressure from conventional politicians or the very lobbyists and big donors Trump likes to denounce.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Left (and left-leaning Independents) may derive a great deal of schadenfreude from the discomfiture of the Republican party. The rise of Trumpism \" vindicates much of what progressives have said about the conservative movement.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's time for the GOP to admit its failure. (Trump's made it impossible to deny.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRepublican leaders are now harvesting the crop they themselves have planted for year upon year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nYears of painting the government as the bad guy, (until a local flood or rampaging tornado or hurricane comes along).\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nYears of normalizing and validating people like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman. (and nearly every Republican candidate in 2016).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nYears of giving validity to the opinions of \"personalities\" like Glenn Back. Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and constant brainwashing by Fox News.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nYears of destroying intelligent debate in this country and replacing it with sound bite politics and comments made not for their depth of observation but for their ability to shock and anger.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nYears of appealing to the worst instincts of humanity, like greed, groundless suspicion, intolerance, and stupidity.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs long as there is even one person seduced by Trump's message, we cannot allow Trump to be mainstreamed.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EIgnoring the Middle Class\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe time of reckoning may well be upon the GOP and it has been a long time in coming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;The Republican establishment has\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nignored the material interests of their struggling white working-class base and also popular exhaustion with foreign commitments fed by interventionist misadventures. Along with many Democrats, they underestimated the anger over trade agreements that accelerated the economic dislocation of the less well-off.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe very idea that corporations should be rewarded for taking manufacturing jobs to nations where labor was on par with slave wages is beyond comprehension. Incidentally, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2014\/sep\/16\/there-corporate-tax-break-ships-jobs-overseas\/\"\u003EPolitiFact\u003C\/a\u003E looked into the validity of that claim and found that while it was an exaggeration in some ways:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nCompanies are allowed to write off many business-related expenses as tax-deductible -- including relocation. That's true inside and outside the US. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen Dems in the Senate attempted to close the loophole which allowed\u0026nbsp;tax deductions for companies moving overseas. the \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwi33OaWhsPMAhXBjCwKHeBABQsQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBring_Jobs_Home_Act\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNED6EZexY1G9Get8rPhTkTqbIgGAA\u0026amp;sig2=0ecBMJfGAUfwBfhTcxPCsg\"\u003EBring Jobs Home Act\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E in 2012 and again in 2014. Additionally, that bill would have given a 20 percent tax credit to companies who insource jobs.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe bill failed both times.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nVotes in 2012 and 2014 split almost exclusively along party lines -- with Democrats voting for the measure, and Republicans voting against.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nKeep in mind too that in the elections of those years, the GOP ran on a promise of \"jobs, jobs, jobs.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt wasn't the first time the remedy was thwarted.\u0026nbsp;Democrats also proposed a similar bill, that also failed, in 2010.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nWhile the Bush administration was giving tax cuts to \"job providers\" the manufacturing sector was in sharp decline. There are still respectable Republicans who use rewarding job providers as a success story for their party.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd today it is something that Trump points out -in abject hypocrisy- as what is wrong with the US. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUntil now, conservative leaders have endorsed \u0026nbsp;a tax policy that protects the richest class (of whom Trump is a born member) even while wages for the middle class have largely stagnated for decades.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nRepublican voters have rightfully been energized by their resentment.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/story\/the-gop-elites-have-themselves-to-blame\/\"\u003EAs Bill Moyers recently observed\u003C\/a\u003E, they've got a valid reason to be angry.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nLook around at just some of the other sheer lunacy their party perpetrates when it’s not trying to shut government down, redistribute wealth upward, and prevent the president of the United States (who, the last time we looked, has the constitutional right and mandate) from filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nToo bad they have been too blind to understand who has been behind those policies. That's something liberals have been telling them and simply refused to listen. \u0026nbsp;Until now,\u0026nbsp; whenever Fox News tells them they are right to be angry and that liberals and big government are the culprits, they have accepted this notion without question.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nObama was to blame for everything that gone wrong and unless Trump is president, you will hear his supporters say, Clinton's going to ruin this country. Obama 2.0\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMany of Trump's supporters really feel this way. With that degree of self-examination, it's no surprise the Republican party is so hopelessly lost.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003ETrumpism and the Breakfast of Fascists\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDionne points out, that the roots of Trumpism aren't planted in populism. Demagoguery is merely a tool he uses. He is, in fact, \u003Cb\u003E\"channeling the European far right, mixing intolerance, resentment and nationalism.\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStrange, isn't it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHe seems like such an American product.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEven though Trump's message might seem refreshingly unique, his policies dovetail neatly into the same divisive rhetoric we see coming from \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;cad=rja\u0026amp;uact=8\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwiHzZ60hsPMAhUCBiwKHfRTBrgQFggdMAA\u0026amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMarine_Le_Pen\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNFd2nvaqlxgnHGonDVD2DiJLOVGRw\u0026amp;sig2=yRfpiYbNJzgrsn0XekLlwg\"\u003EMarine Le Pen\u003C\/a\u003E in France. It's the kind of politics that searches for minority scapegoats.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt's the breakfast of fascists.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt's not the first time this comparison has been made. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/john-cassidy\/could-donald-trump-be-americas-marine-le-pen\"\u003EThe New Yorker ran a story on the subject last December.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHowever, Trump is far less gifted a politician than Le Pen. She, unlike Trump, could plausibly become France's leader. Like a chef, she has the skill to make the detestable seem palatable. She has said:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nImmigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nDonald Trump may not be as articulate as that but then for his crowd, he doesn't need to be. \"Our immigration policy stinks\" is sufficient to charm his supporters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLe Pen's depth would only confuse them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDionne notes that the media (and Republican apologists) may have put a halo over the fluffy head of Donald Trump but political brilliance is largely a success of self-promotion and well-funded advertising, rather than clever tactics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHas any politician in American politics ever had to tell his supporters so many times how beloved and rich he was?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-56b67811\/turbine\/la-oe-0207-mcmanus-clinton-poetry-prose-201602-001\/650\/650x366\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-56b67811\/turbine\/la-oe-0207-mcmanus-clinton-poetry-prose-201602-001\/650\/650x366\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Mirrored Parties\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\nWe should, Dionne says, recognize that\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrumpism is very much a minority movement in our country. He \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/republican_vote_count.html\"\u003Ehas won\u003C\/a\u003E some 10.6 million votes, but this amounts to less than a quarter of the votes cast in the primaries this year. It’s \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/democratic_vote_count.html\"\u003Efewer than\u003C\/a\u003E Clinton’s 12.4 million votes and not many more than the 9.3 million Bernie Sanders has received.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn some ways, the battle within the Democratic party is a mirror of what's going on in the Republican party. Like a reflection, the elements are reversed. At one point in the campaign,\u0026nbsp;Socialist Bernie Sanders was once considered the party's extremist candidate, \u0026nbsp;the outsider with a radical agenda. So too Trump was, at one time, an outsider. The joke candidate the Republican establishment never took seriously.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nJEB might have been handicapped somewhat by the bitter aftertaste of his family name, but at least he was somebody that voters could take seriously. Mitt Romney might have been a bit too flexible a contortionist when it came to policy but he was undeniably presidential.. in a way. Like Reagan, he acted and looked the part.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p66JKggF_wg\/VyxV03aMyOI\/AAAAAAAAMWQ\/0wLKAKR7k60YH0p0gRSi6iUCrNf6XsKDACLcB\/s1600\/sanders.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p66JKggF_wg\/VyxV03aMyOI\/AAAAAAAAMWQ\/0wLKAKR7k60YH0p0gRSi6iUCrNf6XsKDACLcB\/s320\/sanders.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nBut when we look at how things have developed since then, it says a lot of about the relative health (sanity?) of the respective parties. Ms. Clinton has clearly overtaken Sanders and is now within grasp of claiming the nomination of her party. Sanders ran, for the most part, a respectable campaign and the candidates debated the issues (rather than the size of their genitalia). At times, it was a heated discussion. That's normal for people who are passionate about what they believe it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(The Democrat debates might have had the elements of an opera, in which players- even lovers- roar into each other's faces, but the Republican debates at times resembled a convention of the Three Stooges impersonators.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn a larger sense, Sanders successfully pushed Clinton toward the left and played an important role in keeping the left on the left and not dissolving in the grayness of the middle. Sanders provided exactly what the Democratic party needs, an anchor to the far Left, and a touchstone to what the party actually stands for.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOn the other hand, what does the rise of Trump say about the Republican party's selection process? Can anybody who watched the debates be proud of the Republican Party? Did they actually represent the best the Party has to offer voters?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPossibly but hopefully not.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cu\u003EThe Party that Failed Itself and Its Voters\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\nThe party has clearly failed in bringing the best candidate to the forefront. That was true even when there was a busload of candidates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEarly on, it wasn't clear whether one of more would end up serving time in prison for abuse of their authority in their present jobs.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIndeed, the selection process might well have found the worst one, but a case for that title could also easily be made for the runner-up Ted Cruz. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.go.com\/images\/Politics\/AP_Donald_Trump_mm_150818_16x9_992.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.go.com\/images\/Politics\/AP_Donald_Trump_mm_150818_16x9_992.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAs Dionne writes out, Americans who still see our country as \u003Cb\u003E\"a model of tolerance, inclusion, rationality, and liberty\"\u003C\/b\u003E must not make the same mistake that the Republican elites have made with Trump. Trump should not be underestimated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBoth Republicans and Democrats- no matter how much they might disagree on particular issues -must view as a serious threat to the American Republic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe two parties cannot allow the media and the political advertising campaigns to convince voters that Trump is a plausible alternative or that he represents a plausible path for the US.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump is not the new normal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Chr noshade=\"\" size=\"5\" width=\"70%\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERelated articles\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/kincaid\/160420\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/367725878_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/kincaid\/160420\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDonald Trump's attempted hostile takeover of the GOP\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.trevorloudon.com\/2016\/04\/donald-trump-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/367449459_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.trevorloudon.com\/2016\/04\/donald-trump-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center\/\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDonald Trump And The Southern Poverty Law Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/socialnewswatch.com\/2016\/04\/17\/general-election-will-won-party-hates-least\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/367697443_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/socialnewswatch.com\/2016\/04\/17\/general-election-will-won-party-hates-least\/\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe general election will by won by the party that hates itself the least\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/25\/politics\/donald-trump-young-voters\/index.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/368024569_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/25\/politics\/donald-trump-young-voters\/index.html\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPoll: Trump's support among young voters historically low\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/618148\/how-gop-burned-generation-political-talent\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/367587764_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/618148\/how-gop-burned-generation-political-talent\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHow the GOP burned a generation of political talent\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/04\/24\/reince-priebus-blows-accidentally-admits-kochs-support-republicans.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/367725862_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/04\/24\/reince-priebus-blows-accidentally-admits-kochs-support-republicans.html\" style=\"background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EReince Priebus Blows It And Accidentally Admits That The Kochs Support Republicans\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/752289035670804766"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/752289035670804766"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/donald-trump-and-moment-conservatives.html","title":"Donald Trump and the Moment Conservatives Have Been Dreading"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jrX3v9Gp1hY\/VyxHJxLTJxI\/AAAAAAAAMV0\/GjY3lS4Wo3cImKKsUIBCl5GYpV4rKDjcQCLcB\/s72-c\/donald-trump-is-taking-aim-.png","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});