{"id":94761,"date":"2016-05-04T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94761"},"modified":"2016-05-04T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T22:57:15","slug":"and-then-there-was-one-and-he-means-what-he-says-about-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94761","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Was One\u2014And He Means What He Says About Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ann Coulter writes<\/a>: A guy just won the Republican nomination for president by spending no money, hiring no pollsters, running virtually no TV ads, and just saying what he truly believed no matter how many times people told him he couldn\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n

I always hoped I\u2019d see this once before I died. It\u2019s like to going to Mecca, for Americans. Pay attention, because it\u2019s the last time we\u2019re going to see it in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n

For those of you not yet on the Trump Train, I know you don\u2019t want to vote for Hillary, but all the pundits have been trying to convince you that Trump\u2019s a complete fraud. (That was between their smug assurances that he wouldn\u2019t make it out of Iowa.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s odd. When Trump launched his campaign by talking about Mexican rapists and the wall, his critics hysterically denounced him, rushing to TV to say he did NOT represent the Republican Party! Only after it became resoundingly clear that large majorities of Americans agreed with Trump did his critics try a new tack: He doesn\u2019t believe it!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what my friend Andy McCarthy at the now-defunct National Review wrote recently.[ Trump Would Press the Agenda That Drove His Voters from the GOP, April 30, 2016] I had to spend the weekend figuring out how to attack a friend without saying, \u201cThis is the most retarded argument I\u2019ve ever read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here goes: This was not Andy\u2019s best effort.<\/p>\n

Of all the arguments that could be made against Trump, McCarthy settled on: I don\u2019t trust him on immigration. (I\u2019d love to have been a fly on the wall at that pitch meeting.)<\/p>\n

He bases this claim on a remark Trump made as a businessman four years ago in which he regurgitated the official GOP line about Romney\u2014and which was being stated as fact 1 million times a day on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.<\/p>\n

To wit, Trump told Newsmax that Mitt Romney \u201chad a crazy policy of self-deportation which was maniacal,\u201d adding, \u201cHe lost all of the Latino vote \u2026 he lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is strange that Trump would denounce \u201cself-deportation,\u201d which is like a chocolate sundae compared to his own plans for illegals.<\/p>\n

But to give you the tenor of the interview, Trump went on to promote \u201cCelebrity Apprentice,\u201d note that he had just bought the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., and boast about his recently acquired Ritz-Carlton Golf Club and Spa in Jupiter, Fla.\u2014\u201dwhich is a phenomenal area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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