The “Seedy Underbelly” indeed
GOPe thinks of themselves one way, reality quite different.
Jonah Goldberg is an often smug Republican establishment pundit who characterizes himself as a conservative. In a recent column intended, I guess, primarily to attack the Donald Trump candidacy, Jonah seemed to get really carried away in describing supporters of Trump. It would be more accurate to say, “vilify” Trump supporters in the most insulting and derogatory terms. George Will of similar pedigree has had similar purpose of late.
Calling the Trump supporters the “seedy underbelly” of his constituency, Goldberg seemed to imply that the Trump candidacy is a terrible attempt to destroy the Republican party which has accomplished so much for those ignorant and ungrateful fanatics.
There is an excellent response to Goldberg’s analysis appearing in the blog, Conservative Treehouse
An Open Letter To Jonah Goldberg – RE: The GOP and Donald Trump
Reader HJP also brought it to our attention and we’d urge everyone to read it.
But we have our own observations on this issue and the various analyses of the Trump candidacy by establishment “experts” like Goldberg:
The “seedy underbelly”, out to destroy the courageous, supremely effective GOP establishment.
Take another look at your “leadership”, Republican Party.
Senator “Mumbles”, Speaker Sir Cry-a-Lot. These guys have actually announced they have neither the will nor the ability to stop whatever Obama intends to do over the next 16 months, just as, despite their tough sounding campaign promises in 2014, they did nothing. Mitch’s plaintive appeal that if Republicans were somehow able to wrest the Senate from the evil grasp of Harry Reid, he, Mitch, would almost singlehandedly stop Obama’s lawless, unconstitutional overreach in its tracks.
He’d repeal Obamacare, stop the illegal immigrant executive action, he’d stop the runaway spending…oh, it would be wonderful!
It wasn’t a month after the election that “Sen. “Mumbles” and his leadership, along with the pathetic, yet nasty, John Boehner, propped up by the US Chamber of Commerce and the Wall Street Journal, fully funded everything Obama had done.
Further, “Mumbles” has assured Obama that he will do nothing to block anything the president intends to do before January 2018. And that stuff will be horrible in its consequences for America and the free world.
We might start by Obama’s unilateral relocation of the worst of the worst terrorist detainees at Gitmo to prisons on the US mainland. And, just as an added insult to the GOP and the American people, Obama will relinquish US claims to Gitmo itself to bring joy to his buddies, the Castro bros.
Certainly Obama will continue to dismantle the US healthcare system, overloading it with every kind of mandatory coverage, such as unique transgender “care”.
The gay agenda will continue apace as long as that community pours big financial contributions into efforts to advance Obama’s pet Marxist programs.
In December, Obama will sign a “climate change” treaty that will severely damage the US economy and inflict real pain, in the form of skyrocketing energy costs, on all Americans, especially the poorest. Of course he won’t call it a “treaty”, that would offend GOP Senator Corker who established a precedent for Obama to ignore Constitutional requirements for the Senate to approve treaties by a 2/3 vote.
What else might Obama do to permanently transform (read “cripple”) America for generations to come in the next 16 months.
Most certainly, our borders will remain open, “migrants” will flood into cities all over the country, straining education, medical, and welfare resources to the limit, and beyond.
The world’s once greatest military will be unrecognizable as it is diminished in number and weaponry, combat effectiveness, amateurish, politically driven command, and every kind of social experimentation imaginable. And “just for fun”…just to really stick it to the American people and those dedicated, active and former military, watch for Obama to fully pardon Bowe Bergdahl, assuming that the likely objective of failing to convict him of desertion or other charges is not achieved.
The abdication of any role in the Middle East to Iran is already well underway. Very likely, Iran will complete its acquisition of nuclear weapons and their intercontinental delivery systems…and the US will not even know it, or allow it to be disclosed, until it is a fait accompli…perhaps not until Israel disappears under a mushroom cloud and nuclear war becomes imminent between Iran and the Arab states in the Middle East.
Almost certain is that Russia will effectively occupy the Arctic and its vast resources. China will exert its growing military annexation of much of Asia while Obama tut tut’s and plays a few more rounds.
Meanwhile, John Boehner might initiate another lawsuit and “Mumbles” will make his pitch for the necessity to keep him in the Senate Majority leadership and elect either the hapless JEB Bush or the broad-minded John Kasich. Then, watch out!
Use your imagination, but know, Senator “Mumbles” has declared, unequivocally, the GOP will not permit a government shutdown.
Trump supporters, the “seedy underbelly”, indeed! Now why would anyone object to, or try to destroy the Republican Party, given the “service to our nation” it has performed these past 7 years?
DLH
Related reading in this John Nolte article at Breitbart:
