{"id":87551,"date":"2016-02-10T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87551"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T22:05:21","slug":"new-hampshire-primary-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87551","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Primary Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* “I think we should amend the Constitution to limit election campaigns to 6 weeks like they do in Canada.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s fine for silly little countries pretending to govern themselves like Canada or France or Britain. America has to govern the world and take care of the political and military stability not only of our own time but for generations to come.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to make a game out of being a semi-autonomous territory with its own quirky rules and leaders. Countries with responsibilities \u2014 grown up countries \u2014 have to carefully vet and stress test potential presidents.<\/p>\n

If Canada puts a Harper into office, it\u2019s a joke at Davos and an annoyance for a few million nobodies whose livelihood or environment are spoiled and they\u2019ll have to move or adjust. We\u2019ll make a humorous episode of South Park and laugh. But if America elects another Dubya, the whole world in endangered. North Korea or Iran might light off WWIII. Millions more will certainly die. World wide economic crisis will scramble the hopes and dreams of billions permanently. Chinese dictators and European bureaucrats \u2014 the junior varsity \u2014 will have to try to take responsibility for world diplomacy.<\/p>\n

It would be ugly. Be glad America takes elections seriously and doesn\u2019t treat them like a timed hockey game. For America, this isn\u2019t just a fun diversion where everybody goes home after satisfied because it doesn\u2019t really matter who won the game.<\/p>\n

* For years I\u2019ve been hearing how the GOP has become such right-wing extremists, compared to the good old days. (When, of course, they were also called right-wing extremists.) The GOP was supposedly the party of Old White Guys clinging to outdated ideas.<\/p>\n

And now, who is leading the Democratic race? A geriatric socialist (and not even a member of the Democratic party), who spent time in a Stalinist kibbutz, honeymooned in the USSR, and cozied up with Castro\u2019s Cuba and the Sandinistas. And, as far as I know, never repudiated any of that. He thinks we have \u201ctoo many\u201d kinds of deodorant, and links that to child poverty. It\u2019s the economic thinking of pot-smoking freshmen circa 1970.<\/p>\n

If the US is far enough gone to elect that guy, we truly are doomed. But I don\u2019t think we are. I think the Democrats are more screwed by a Sanders candidacy than the GOP is by a Trump candidacy.<\/p>\n

* NPR was talking about how Bernie\u2019s big weakness is that his supporters are almost all white.<\/p>\n

* I quasi-predicted here in June 2015<\/a> an anti-immigration candidate getting into the primary and winning even before Trump entered:<\/p>\n

The depressing thing is that every single one of the 15 quasi-serious presidential candidates, if they were in the House, would be on the left-most quarter of the GOP caucus, with Bush and Rubio the left most 2%.<\/p>\n

Walker and Cruz are supposedly the best, but both supported amnesty is speeches to business groups. As Kaus recently uncovered, Cruz then had his spokesman outright lie about it. And every single one of the 15 is clearly to the left of Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

The field right now is so fractured there is a wide open opportunity for an anti-immigration candidate, who, far from being hard right on the issue, could run right to the middle of the House GOP stance, and collect the 20% of the vote needed to win the various \u201cwinner takes all\u201d primaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then in July 2015, this comment<\/a> is looking pretty good, predicting after the first two polls came out putting him in front, that his lead would grow and that he\u2019d dominate the debates:<\/p>\n

\nWow, Trump is the real deal on immigration, not a fake like Cruz and Walker:<\/p>\n

Tweets by realDonaldTrump<\/a>