Our Presidential Candidates Are Bond Villains

Auric "Donald Trump" Goldfinger.

He loves gold. Businessman and criminal megalomaniac. Plotting to take over Fort Knox and the rest of America to increase his already large personal wealth and already large ego.

Rosa "Hillary Clinton" Klebb.

KGB Colonel (and former Secretary of State). Likes women, torture and pointy shoes. Has plans to enslave America with taxes and endless regulations.

Although not truly a villain because he thankfully has no chance to be president, one should know that Major "Bernie Sanders" Boothroyd, otherwise known as "Q," has some tricks up his sleeve and pant leg.

And thankfully we will soon say goodbye to Bond villain President Barrack "Mayday" Obama, who has caused more than enough damage to the country.

Why 'Never Hillary' Trumps 'Never Trump'

Deroy Murdock, a staunch conservative against Trump in the past, explains in his New York Post column why voting for Trump is preferable to voting for Hillary Clinton - "a far-left, borderline serial criminal."

I’m sorry, I tried.

In print, on air, online and in person, I urged GOP primary voters to send to the White House — chronologically — Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. It seems they didn’t listen.

That leaves real-estate magnate Donald J. Trump as the Republican Party’s standard-bearer. He will not run next fall against the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, the reincarnation of Ronald Wilson Reagan or even Nebraska’s former US Sen. Bob Kerrey, a thinking Democrat — all tantalizing alternatives.

Trump most likely will battle Hillary Rodham Clinton — a far-left, borderline serial criminal whose presidency would be rocket-fueled by revenge.

Hillary will spend four to eight years auditing conservatives, stripping pro-freedom groups of their tax-exempt status and curbing their free speech. She will grab the guns of law-abiding citizens. She will pick Americans’ pockets so she can gild those of her Big Labor pals, starting with the teachers unions.

A President Hillary would order liberal lawyers across the federal bureaucracy to sue “global-warming” skeptics under the anti-Mafia RICO statute, an idea US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she has “discussed” and “referred to the FBI.” Sixteen Democratic state attorneys general already are suing those who refuse to genuflect before the “global warming” altar.

Hillary’s leftist lawyers will double down on Obama’s crusade to strip college men of due process when liars accuse them of sexual harassment or rape on campus. And Hillary will nominate left-wing federal judges to high-five all of this — until death do them part.

Many on the right accurately chide Trump for not being “a consistent conservative.” Among others, Trump’s trade and entitlement-reform positions confirm this. But Trump’s enthusiasm for the Second Amendment and his embrace of a 15 percent corporate tax, ObamaCare repeal, health savings accounts, waterboarding and securing the Southern “border” demonstrate that he’s quite conservative — if not every time, then many times.

Clinton, however, is not a consistent conservative. She is not even an occasional conservative. She is an anti-conservative. Nowhere is Hillary to the right of Lincoln . . . Chaffee. She favors devolving power and tax dollars to the states . . . never.

You can read the rest of the column via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2016/05/12/why-never-hillary-trumps-never-trump/

Note:  These two awful people are our presidential candidates? I'm reminded of Dick Tuck's concession speech after he lost an election in California in 1966 - "The people have spoken - the bastards."

A Great And Very Brave Soldier?: Draft Dodger Trump Says Sex In The Eighties Was 'His Personal Vietnam' During Howard Stern Interview in 1997

Hannah Parry at the British newspaper the Daily Mail offers a piece on Donald Trump's outrageous statements on the Howard Stern radio program in 1997.

Donald Trump - who dodged the military draft -  said that dating in the Eighties was his own 'personal Vietnam'.

The Republican presidential candidate told shock jock Howard Stern that he felt 'lucky' not to have picked up an STD while sleeping around during the decade.

Trump added that he felt like a 'great and very brave soldier' when he appeared on the show in 1997, re-posted this week by Buzzfeed.

... The billionaire real estate mogul was granted medical deferments from the military draft at age 22, and told reporters this year that it was because of bone spurs in both heels.

During his campaign for office, Trump has declared himself a devoted supporter of veterans and insists he would do the most for their causes if elected president.

He even admitted to New Hampshire voters last December that he feels 'a little guilty' for not serving in Vietnam.

But during the 1997 interview on The Howard Stern Show, he appeared to trivialize the war and those who fought for their country - comparing it to his sex life.

'I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world,' he said of sexually transmitted diseases. 'It is a dangerous world out there,' he said. 'It's scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era.' 

'It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.'

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3451452/Trump-says-sex-eighties-personal-Vietnam-Howard-Stern-interview-1997.html 

Trump Owes John McCain And All POWs A Humble Apology

I rarely agree with Richard Cohen, a liberal Washington Post columnist, but I agree with him concerning Donald Trump's thoughtless and outrageous comments about John McCain and other prisoners of war.

I also agree with Cohen that Trump (and everyone) ought to read Robert Timberg's The Nightingale's Song (although I somehow doubt that Trump reads anything that is not about himself).

As Cohen notes in his column, the book covers McCain's captivity in North Vietnam. The book also covers three other naval academy graduates who went on to serve in Vietnam; Oliver North, James Webb and Robert McFarland.

“I think it’s important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans — not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war,” John McCain said over the weekend. “When he said, ‘I don’t like people who were captured,’ then there’s a body of American heroes that I’d like to see him retract that statement — not about me, but about the others.”

McCain, while thoroughly admirable, has it wrong. What Trump said was about him — explicitly about him and only inferentially about other POWs captured during the Vietnam War. Trump was purposely denigrating the heroism of McCain, a POW for more than five years, in solitary for two years, tortured all the time, deprived of food and medicine, untreated for the injuries he received when he had to bail out of his A-4 Skyhawk over Hanoi and was beaten and bayoneted on the ground. And then, when it was discovered that his father, Adm. John S. McCain Jr., had been named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, McCain was offered an early release from prison. This would have provided the North Vietnamese with a propaganda coup, but it also would have violated Navy regulation — first in, first out. McCain turned it down. The torture resumed.

That same year, 1968, the 22-year-old Donald Trump moved straight into his father’s business. His military experience was limited to attendance at the New York Military Academy, in suburban New York, where he had been sent for being a brat. He undoubtedly got all sort of medals for making his bed and brushing his teeth and learned, as we all do, much about courage and perseverance from his experience.

Still, Trump ought to read “The Nightingale’s Song” for a full account of McCain’s naval life. The book, written by Robert Timberg, was a classic in its time (1995), but it is hardly dated. It might, in fact, shame Trump into realizing that McCain did what he could never have — probably. (After all, we never know.) 

You can read the rest of the column via the below link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/05/09/john-mccain-has-it-wrong-trump-purposely-denigrated-his-heroism/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_popns

"Trumpkins' Beware: Navigating The Trump terrain

Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist at the Washington Post, offers her take on Donald Trump's positions - past, present and future.

The Trumpkins put their faith in a charlatan, and now they are discovering that, well, he’s a charlatan. In the last 48 hours or so we learn:

He might just raise taxes, after all. The supply-siders who swooned over his $10T-debt-creating tax plan and didn’t bother with his trade and entitlement policies (straight liberal) may have been snookered. (Oh, and he’s flip-flopped on raising the minimum wage.)

Like an owner of a cheesy casino haggling with the banks, he thinks he can negotiate down the sovereign debt of the United States. No, really. (Question: If we aren’t going to pay off all our debt do we have enough pennies in the couch to keep NATO running?)

The populists who believed he was going to self-fund and avoid corrupting influences? Not only is that not happening but his finance director is mainly a Democratic money man. And he worked for Goldman Sachs. And he skipped out just before a bankruptcy sunk a film company in which he invested clients’ money. (“With Relativity’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week, those high hopes have been dashed, and Mnuchin has been left in a particularly uncomfortable position. The money-man and fellow investors in a Dune Capital fund are said to have lost as much as $80 million — equity that is almost certain to be lost for good, said two sources familiar with the situation. And disgruntled Relativity investors privately are questioning how a bank Mnuchin once headed –OneWest Bank of Pasadena – was allowed by Relativity to drain $50 million from the studio just weeks prior to the July 30 insolvency filing.”) Birds of a feather, I guess. Well, joke’s on the populists I suppose.

You can read the rest of the column via the below link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/05/05/treacherous-territory-navigating-the-trump-terrain/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_popns 

National Review: Against Trump

The editors of the influential conservative magazine National Review came out against Donald Trump.

Donald Trump leads the polls nationally and in most states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner. 

But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones. 

Trump’s political opinions have wobbled all over the lot. The real-estate mogul and reality-TV star has supported abortion, gun control, single-payer health care à la Canada, and punitive taxes on the wealthy. (He and Bernie Sanders have shared more than funky outer-borough accents.) Since declaring his candidacy he has taken a more conservative line, yet there are great gaping holes in it.

... On foreign policy, Trump is a nationalist at sea. Sometimes he wants to let Russia fight ISIS, and at others he wants to “bomb the sh**” out of it. He is fixated on stealing Iraq’s oil and casually suggested a few weeks ago a war crime — killing terrorists’ families — as a tactic in the war on terror. For someone who wants to project strength, he has an astonishing weakness for flattery, falling for Vladimir Putin after a few coquettish bats of the eyelashes from the Russian thug. All in all, Trump knows approximately as much about national security as he does about the nuclear triad — which is to say, almost nothing.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430137/donald-trump-conservative-movement-menace