MOOSERIDER magazine: Throw the GOP Professional Politicians Out

Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Throw the GOP Professional Politicians Out

Trump is ahead because we are sick of being lied to. We are lied to by the both the Republican Establishment "Leadership" and by the Democrats, always! m/r

The Party of Why Nothing Can Be Done :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn • Aug 19, 2015

On Tuesday night I checked in with Sean Hannity to talk about Donald Trump's continuing dominance in the Republican polls. Last month's arguments - sure, he's in the lead, but he's hit his "ceiling" of support, and he has high negatives, etc - are insufficient with every passing week. The high negatives are coming down and, for a guy with supposedly no breadth of appeal, he looks remarkably competitive:

Steyn noted that a recent Fox News poll revealed that not only do 25 percent of people support Trump as their first choice, but 10 percent support him as their second choice.

He added that the poll shows Trump trailing Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head matchup 47-42 percent, which is significantly closer than just a few weeks ago.

It is. Back then it was Hillary 51, Trump 34. What do you figure the post-Labor Day poll will show? Hillary 45, Trump 44? The GOP establishment and the anal end of the consultant-industrial complex can forget about Trump imploding any time soon. When he launched, I confess I thought he'd be a bit of a nine-day wonder. Then I thought, okay, he's in it through Iowa and New Hampshire, so his presence will drive out weaker candidates and change the shape of the race. But right now you'd have to be awfully cocksure about his "self-destructive" "blowhard" "buffoonery" to rule out the possibility of him winning the nomination. If it's Trump vs Establishment Man (Jeb or Kasich or whoever they settle on), are you so sure he can't pull it off?

Sean and I also talked about the base's weariness with the GOP's excuses: ...

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