* After the last chance hissy fit stunt on the part of Cruz people on Monday, and that happened because Cruz didn’t tell his people to call off the dogs, if he wasn’t actually an active organizer, and for the fact that there is all this media talk about Cruz thinking ahead to 2020, that happening because of Cruz’s mixed message. (hint: You don’t tout your own ambitions for a year when presumably the guy you’re nominating at this convention will be running for re-election), if I was Trump, or Manafort whispering in Trump’s ear, I’d pull Cruz off the speaker’s list.
I’m really looking forward to Peter Thiel, because I know it’s going to hack off Mark Zuckerberg. In FB’s last Board of Directors membership vote, Thiel actually got more votes than Zuck, and Zuck started the whole thing!
* Laura Ingraham just gave the best RNC convention speech since….1992? Simple yet articulate. Bold & crystal clear. Good stuff Laura!! Why is straight talk like this so rare? Mealy mouthed pablum has been the norm for 20 yrs. Thank heavens the cultmarx pc-talk era is finally coming to an end.
* Eric Trump said that illegal immigrants are pushing Americans out of jobs.
Newt Gingrich said that Trump will stop visa programs that replace American workers. This must’ve been a reference to the H1b visa program.
Yesterday, Don Jr. made the point that foreign workers are pushing down wages and employment.
* Trump and crew should hammer trade / outsourcing and bringing back good-paying manufacturing and assembly jobs, cracking down on illegal immigration and those who hire illegals, and ending these constant debt-fund wars.
Not abortion.
Not homosexual “marriage”, disgusting and strange as that is.
Trade, jobs, combatting illegal immigration, staying strong but out of war, and ending special government privileges and subsidies and bailouts for the connected few, those must be trump’s issues and he will win.
* I believe that, ultimately, he is driven by his ego, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.
Trump has rich-boy’s syndrome: His father was successful, so he was driven to become phenomenally successful. He needs the validation of knowing that his achievements are due to his efforts, and not his father’s.
And it has never been all about money. Fame has always been at least as important to him as fortune.
Becoming president would cement his place in history, but becoming the president who made America great again would be an accomplishment celebrated in song and verse hundreds of years from now. His name would echo through the ages. He would transcend mere fame to become a seminal figure in the annals of world history. (How’s that for validation?)
Trump is smart enough to see that most Americans are dreadfully unhappy about the fact that this country is being flushed down the toilet. He knows that whites are sick and tired of being blamed for everyone else’s problems. He also knows that the Republican establishment is too beholden to the elites to do anything other than dither about issues such as immivasion.
He saw an opportunity: a tremendous demand for someone with enough balls to speak the truth about the coming downfall of America and to do something about it, and a pathetic dearth of such men in the public sphere.
So he jumped into the breach, and the result is that he is now the Republican presidential nominee.
* Pence was amazing, hit the ball out of the park!
A Trump weakness is downscale white women, and Pence I felt was speaking to them. I think they will love his introduction of his sweet elderly mother, unglamorous school-teacher wife, and plain looking daughter. I can’t imagine Trump-skeptical Christian conservatives not also loving the speech.
