As IF Times

Source: Colin Powell Says He’ll Vote for Hillary Clinton – The New York Times

One of the oldest clichés concerning public office is that politics make strange bedfellows.  This old chestnut has never been truer than as it applies to this year’s US elections.  As we all know by now, after a bruising convention, Donald Trump wound up as the nominee for the Republican ticket beating out some well known candidates in bare knuckled fights with unexpectedly personal attacks on their characters and records.

Those hurt feelings have yet to heal (if ever) and many of the contestants have publicly disavowed their support for The Donald.  This animus has extended to other old line Republicans including such as Colin Powell, a former GOP cabinet official, that feel compelled to publicly announce their support of the Democratic candidate.  Party loyalty, at least on the GOP side has been fractured and so other considerations are at play.  While many party deserters are claiming moral conscience in dissing Trump, it is laughingly disingenuous when you consider the alternative.  Party affiliation is obviously more an issue of expediency than of principles.  In the case of Mr. Powell, he claims thusly;

“…I am voting for Hillary Clinton,” he said,  Mr. Powell went on to praise Mrs. Clinton for her skills as a leader and her experience...”

Thanks to WikiLeaks document disclosures of his candid conversations, we know these sentiments are as fake as his former party loyalties.  We don’t recall experience being a requisite when he endorsed the neophyte Obama during his run for office.  Powell should be a man and just state that he despises Trump and would rather eat a bowl of slugs than support him.  Instead, he supports Hilary’s ‘experience’.

Powell’s endorsement is just one of the massive throng of ‘public’ figures rooting for Hilary in addition to most of the major media outlets, so it’s not as if it has any more effect than peeing into the Atlantic.  But if you did not know the issue at hand and only looked at the contingent of people vociferously and publicly championing one side; luminaries such as the bj offering  Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, Kim, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Mark Zuckerburg, Black Lives Matter, Joy Behar and Oprah, not to mention the political nutters including Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine and Al Sharpton, you’d HAVE to pull an opposite George and take the other side of the trade because that would be the rational thing to do.

As it happens, in this case, it’s politics.  The issue boils down to this:  They would rather vote for the person that has a proven record of duplicity, gotten people killed, is funded by hostile governments and is a danger to national security, than for the other guy because he said mean things.   In fact it’s the gaggle of shrill, bleating mean girls that are doing the bullying.

Source: Donald Trump Bashes Alicia Machado Again, Alleging a ‘Sex Tape’ (Without Evidence) – The New York Times

To no one’s surprise, the mainstream media have aligned themselves solidly against the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, as the never ending US presidential election reaches its conclusion.  We all know that it wouldn’t make a difference if Mother Teresa ran under the GOP banner, the mere fact of the affiliation would make her a target of disdain.   We all recall the last GOP candidate, Mitt Romney, who compared to the tempestuous Trump, really was a prince of a guy.   Romney was as squeaky clean as it gets;  successful, a family man, gracious and articulate.  Still, he was portrayed as an elitist and demonized as out of touch.   They preferred the PC demagogue paper pusher of the day.  What chance does Trump have of getting any boo yahs from the media?

This most recent ‘fumble’ by Trump is more telling of the media than it is of Trump.  Essentially, they are lambasting him for calling a fat girl, Alicia Machado, fat. Trump is hardly the most tactful or articulate of speakers as we all now know, but is this really the disqualifying trait for him?  Does he cheat at golf too? He must have at least a 3 foot long list of personal frailties; calling someone a name is hardly the worst of them.  Is that the card that they want to play, that he insulted an employee 20 years ago?  Well it’s pretty transparent what the strategy is: try to disenfranchise the female vote.  A word to women who may fall for this ruse: snap out of it!  It’s the 21st century;  women are clamoring to equal  men in all aspects of life.  Getting all hurty-feely because someone called you fat is pretty lame.

People may still not understand that the reason for his success with the electorate to this point is that he is a plain talking guy who won’t be bullied to tow the liberal pc lines.  If you’re fat, you’re fat.  A Dale Carnegie graduate, he’s not,  but it’s time to move away from all the double-non speak that terrorizes people today.

Like Romney, Trump has created employment and wealth for thousands of employees.  There is a record of accomplishment and achievement.   Democrats by comparison all seem to be professional government teat suckers who have done little in life other than parlay their law degrees to pander to whatever constituencies’ votes are coveted but have never been responsible for a payroll.  The Democratic presidents going back into history all fit this profile.  Go ahead, check it out, I’ll wait here.

The present incarnation, Hilary Clinton fits this profile on steroids.  Other than the fact that she’s the politically correct flavor of the day, the main rationale offered as her qualification is “experience”, as in over 30 years of being in public office of some kind or other, flying on government planes and attending useless meetings with other useless politicos.  Why anyone would tout that as an asset is odd to me.  It’s as if the ticket taker at the parking lot claimed experience in security.  If her character and history of questionable activity and connections were detailed, it could serve as the operations manual for the Mafia.  If Hilary was around during the day that George Washington’s famous tree was chopped down, she’d have blamed it on mob that was incited by a video.  Hilary is an ideological wind vane.

The media will be and are predictable in whom they support, no surprise there.  The surprise will be if the public decides to ignore their desperate bleats this time and make up their own minds based on the important characteristics of the candidates.  I hope the vast legion of long suffering deplorables make their voices heard.  Trump’s no choir boy, but he’s still better than Hilary.