Vincent J. Curtis
18 Aug 2016
This morning, National Review is observing that as Louisiana
drowns, President Barack Obama is enjoying his last vacation in Martha’s Vineyard,
and by all accounts was painting the town red the last four nights in a
row. He has a press coterie with him, which
might explain why Obama isn’t getting the treatment George W. Bush received
after Hurricane Katrina. The press are
too drunk to notice, or care. Their
buddy, Barry, is picking up the tab. He’s
on vacation, and so are they.
In a similar vein, the incomparable Victor Davis Hanson
wonders today where the grand national security poohbahs of the Democrat Party are
with their letter saying they won’t vote for Hillary Clinton because of her actual
recklessness with national secrets. Her recklessness
may have led to the death of an Iranian informant. Trump was victimized by the security set of
the Republican Party when seventy of them wrote a letter saying that they
wouldn’t vote for him because he was too uncouth for their tastes. Trump hasn’t broken any national security laws,
had his server breached, caused the death of any informants, or lied to the
families of victims of his negligence, but nevertheless he shouldn’t be
president. They didn’t actually say they
were voting for Hillary…..
The mind boggles.
Trump shook up his campaign team earlier this week, and yesterday
Hillary’s campaign needlessly issued a press release that contained the
following passage,
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“After several failed attempts to pivot into a more
serious and presidential mode, Donald Trump has decided to double down on his
most small, nasty, and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to
someone best known for running a so-called news site that has divisive at times
racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. And what has become clear from this is that
no matter how much the establishment wants to clean Donald Trump up, get him on
a teleprompter and get him on message, he has officially won the fight to “Let
Trump be Trump,” and keeps telling us who he is. It’s time that we believe him.”
The lines were attributed to Hillary’s campaign manager,
Robby Mook.
What is most striking about the release of this statement is
its sheer indecency. It really is no
business of the Democrat campaign to talk about personnel changes in a rival
campaign except to score the cheapest of political points. If Mook really thinks he is winning, and he
does, then he ought to be gracious. He
ought to be silent. He ought to be
indifferent. But no, the head of the “Stronger
Together” campaign viciously tries to score points that convince no one of
anything. He does nothing but rub salt
in the wound, and he is enjoying doing that.
At least, that is what he is trying to do. No doubt the Trump campaign is going to do
better, not worse, with these changes, and there is really no wound to rub salt
in. But Mook wants to make it look like
there is one because he is rubbing salt on something. The sheer viciousness of the trick is
striking, coming from the head of the campaign of “Stronger Together.” I wonder if Hillary will fire him. Will she even be asked to denounce him?
The campaign changes move Kellyanne Conway, a respected
Republican pollster and political advisor, to the position of campaign manager,
and Stephen Bannon to the role of campaign chief executive. Bannon was one of the founders of the
Breitbart news website. That Conway is
an actual woman, the first woman campaign chair in U.S. presidential history,
has so far gone unnoted in the media.
Her promotion shows that Trump looks for merit and results first, last
and always, and disregards gender. Maybe
soccer moms will notice, but who knows?
The Hillary campaign press release inter alia accuses Trump of being small, nasty, and divisive, as
well as racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic.
It also makes the curious recommendation that it’s time we believe
him. The funny thing I've noticed about
what Democrats accuse their opponents of being or of doing, are things that
they actually are themselves or would do themselves if they were in the same
position. A case of projection of sorts.
Thus, who is being nasty, small, and divisive in Mook’s and
Hillary’s release, the Hillary campaign or Trump? Trump is strongly pro-Israel and Hillary, not
so much, especially with Bibi as PM.
Trump is not anti-Muslim any more than I am anti-neighbor by not wanting
my neighbor to move into my house and live with me 24/7. I am not anti-crazy people if I’d prefer that
a half-way house not be put next door to me.
Trump is no racist, he is a New Yorker.
Where is Hillary from again?
Arkansas? Chicago? New York? Pennsylvania?
Wherever she sets her carpetbag?
Hillary wants us to believe Trump, just as she wants us to
believe her. I’m sure she does want us
to believe her, every time her lips move.
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