On a tip from Phil McCafferty
By Stephen Meister 9/27/15
Despite Donald Trump's meteoric rise to the top of
the Republican presidential polls, the GOP
establishment continues to bash its leading candidate.
Apparently "party-cide" is contagious: The Democratic
establishment continues to ride the sinking Clinton
campaign like the string quartet on the deck of the
Titanic — the majority of Americans know she's a liar
and don't trust her. It's a fight to the death all
right, only each party's pointing a gun at its own
head.
GOP establishment favorite Jeb Bush is hemorrhaging
voters too. CBS News/YouGov shows Bush coming in a
pathetic eighth place in New Hampshire and doing only
marginally better in Iowa, where he now places fifth.
As an attorney who's worked for Trump (I have not
represented him for the past year and a half) — and
many years ago, against him — his success on the
campaign trail comes as no surprise: Trump's a man of
exceptional tenacity and guts, insightful intuitions,
clear purposes, an intelligence that's expressed
forcefully and directly, always without regard to
political correctness, and a world class negotiator.
Trump intuitively understands what troubles Americans
and boldly states their concerns; I guarantee he'll
never be an appeaser of foreign governments; there'll
be no Neville Chamberlains or hapless apprentices for
domestic or foreign policy, in his administration — if
you're not doing your job, you'll be fired.
Coming off President Obama's massive failures, most
recently his hugely dangerous appeasement of Iran (and
funding of the terrorist regime), Americans hunger for
Trump's common sense approach, especially when coupled
with his incorruptibility: Trump doesn't need donors
(let alone a foundation to function as money
generating, influence-peddling machine), and when he
says politicians are forever hitting him up for money,
I can tell you he's not exaggerating.
All this has allowed Trump to tap into a geyser of
American distrust and disgust over liberal policies,
including out-of-control spending, immigration
amnesty, and national defense (or better said the lack
thereof), and over establishment Republicans who,
despite being in control of the House of
Representatives, have done nothing to stop America's
fall. The voters see the wreckage Europe has suffered
from decades of socialist policies and porous borders
and they don't want that to happen to America.
With an anchor baby born every 93 seconds, the
Heartland isn't content to allow America to suffer the
fate of Europe by granting millions of illegals
amnesty; Americans signed onto a melting pot, not pot
luck — and believe we're supposed to live alongside
the immigrants we let in, not those who break in.
Pundits on both sides of the aisle are panicking over
Trump. First, they said he'd never declare he's
running, that it was all a publicity stunt; then, when
Trump did declare, they said he'd never file the
financial disclosures; then, after he filed, they said
his remarks on immigration would be his undoing (yet
those remarks only galvanized his base); and then they
said he'd get crushed in the polls after the first
debate. That's 0 for 5.
Doubling down on their badly wrong predictions, and
realizing the debates won't bring him down, panicking
neo-con pundits now claim Trump's unfavorability
ratings will be his undoing. But polls show that's
Hillary's problem, not Donald's.
And, according to Survey USA, Trump is garnering
substantial portions of the black and Latino votes,
25-31 percent. That's something neither Romney nor any
other Republican nominee in recent memory has been
able to do.
Here's some free advice, Donald (your favorite kind):
Instead of the GOP asking you to pledge to support the
eventual GOP nominee, you should demand that the GOP
pledge to support you if you become that nominee.
In a match up against Sanders, Clinton or Biden, the
GOP is better off with Trump, whose business
experience, successes and star power can overpower an
aging socialist, a corrupt dynastic politician, or the
vice president of the most pathetic administration in
modern history.
