Perhaps it is now time for America to put a "Clown" in the White House.
This week, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Immediately, the Media, both Left and Right, began what will be a prolonged attack, not on the message, but on the messenger. Fair game for this misdirected attack were his hair style, his three marriages, his wealth, the length of his announcement speech and his grammar. These were summarized by one media commentator who described Trump as a "clown".
Now Donald Trump does not exactly match the characteristics that I think of for President of the United States. Not when I look back to our Founding Fathers and think about the sacrifices made by George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in designing and implementing our form of government at the considerable risk of their very lives and fortunes. Donald Trump does not spring to mind when I recall later Presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, John Kennedy (...well, maybe the hairdo...) or Ronald Reagan. At this point, however, given the current status of our nation, I feel that we cannot afford to elect a President from today's available cast of characters, and are thus left with our best option being to elect Donald Trump, even if he is perceived by some to be no more than a "clown".
With regard to his hairdo, would the left media have been more satisfied if he wore his hair longer, dirtier, tied in dreadnoughts and colored orange, which seems to be the color-of-the-day for the left, although yellow might be more appropriate. He might then pick up a few votes from the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
With regard to his three marriages, he has been there to help raise his five children and not left behind single mothers tied to the welfare system. Besides, three is far fewer than the number of bimbos seduced or raped by Bill Clinton in just the eight years of his tenure. And this under the watchful eye of his faithful wife, who had her own priorities.
With regard to his wealth, he used it as a means of demonstrating his financial capabilities in our capitalistic system, wealth earned through hard work, and not by selling American assets to foreign countries in return for donations to a "Charitable Organization" in which it appears that charity begins at home. He has promised to use this capability to rebuild our cities and our infrastructure, and his track record shows that he is the most capable candidate for doing so. He is a builder.
He has promised to use his negotiating skills to make America rich again, by negotiating fair trading policies, not by trying to pass a Fast Track trade pact loaded with gimme's for every Congressman who supports it. Ross Perot once said that every time he sat in a tent to negotiate with Arabs he felt that they wanted him to leave the tent naked. Will someone please explain this to John Kerry and Barrack Obama?
He has promised to build a real fence along our southern border. Most countries use border fences to keep people in. We have to keep them out. America cannot survive with unlimited border crossings bringing in masses of people to saturate its schools, medical facilities and social services. Foreign aid at an affordable percentage of our assets and income is reasonable, but as with everything, there are limits beyond which rational people cannot go. Try explaining this to your Congressman or Senator.
With regard to the length of his speech and his grammar, please note that he spoke from a few notes and without a teleprompter. Some other politicians are able to do this also, but what comes spewing from their mouth is the opposite of how they act when the cameras are turned off.
Mr Trump was criticized by Fox News analysts for not having recruited and hired professional campaign operatives, and noted that the best had probably already committed themselves to other campaigns. Yes, the professional pundits who advised John McCain and Mitt Romney, and handed the White House over to Barrack Obama for eight years of posturing at private cocktail parties while his country slowly slipped back towards the nineteenth century and race relations deteriorated to pre- Jim Crow days.
Yes, Donald Trump is different. He is not your ordinary politician. In fact, and thankfully, he is NOT a politician. He does not need polls or hired campaign pundits to tell him which way the wind is blowing. He, like most Americans living in today's America, knows which way the wind is blowing, and it is blowing the country into hazardous waters.
Show me a current politician of either party who isn't talking from both sides of his mouth and who has at least some of the basic skills and experience needed to save America, and I might take a second look, but in the meantime, "Bring On The Clowns". Good luck, Mr. Trump.
