Republicans fighting each other

A writer named Jen Kuznicki alleges that Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse, a popular blogger and website that I often link to or excerpt from, is anti-Semitic. She sites two tweets that do seem anti-Semitic to me.

“Sundance” has been identified as Mark Bradman of Florida, and the twitter handle for Treehouse is @theLastRefuge2. Levin noticed certain tweets from the website’s twitter account that smacked of antisemitism. Here they are:
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.@marklevinshow is an "America Second Constitutionalist" - Support comes AFTER his advocacy 4 Nation State of Israel https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/676561856232865793 …
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@realDonaldTrump puts America First. That immediately makes him "less than" for @marklevinshow who supports Israel First and hence, Cruz.
5:56 PM - 14 Dec 2015

Kuznicki writes,

I believe the tweets attack Mark Levin because he is Jewish, and insinuate that Mark doesn’t believe in America. That’s a hefty charge against America’s leading author on the philosophy of America and its founding.

...For those who are in the tank for whatever the president does at any time for any reason, Dr. Sundance delivers. But that’s not how normal people think.

Normal people, balanced people, take one issue at a time, figure things out for themselves, and you know what else? The American people love freedom.

The failed AHCA failed because moderate Republicans didn’t want to repeal Obamacare. That puts them on the side of the Democrats. Sundance is on the side of moderate Republicans, though he claims he’s just a “misfit” he’s an ideologue of the progressives who want more of your freedom taken away, and want Trump to do the taking.

I am pleased that not even Donald Trump wants to take our liberty, being careful not to trash conservatives after this failed bill.

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So here we go again, Republicans fighting each other.

What should happen next?

Bullying tactics backfire on Trump

Hanna Trudo reports at Politico,

The #NeverTrump movement just got another backer.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin threatened on Friday that he will not support Donald Trump in the general election, should he be the nominee.

Levin, a strong supporter of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said that Trump's allies had made the billionaire Republican front-runner toxic.

“As a result of what the Trump supporters have attempted here, particularly Roger Stone, I am not voting for Donald Trump. Period,” Levin said.

Stone in recent days has threatened to make public the hotel rooms of convention delegates who switch their votes away from Trump, and is organizing protests in Cleveland in support of Trump and against any attempt to "cheat" him out of the nomination.

“So I want to congratulate Roger Stone," Levin said. "And if anybody has a problem with that Donald Trump, you can talk to Roger Stone. These bully dirty tricks Nixonian tactics, they’re only going to backfire. So count me as never Trump.”

Levin took further issue with the “crap” he said was published in The National Enquirer alleging that Cruz had multiple extramarital affairs, as well as with the simple battery charges brought against Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski by former Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields.

“Some point you’ve got to stand up to it … I do not like bullies and I never have,” Levin said before adding that if the campaign and its associates anger him again he will try his best to get supporters to abandon him.

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Telling us why he is the best candidate, but not endorsing him?

Can anyone explain to me this phenomenon: Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh constantly make the case that Ted Cruz is the first constitutional conservative to be doing this well in the Republican primaries since Ronald Reagan. Yet, unlike Glenn Beck, who says the same thing about Cruz, Mark and Rush are careful to say they are not endorsing anyone.

Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and the issues

I listen to both Glenn Beck and Mark Levin while preparing supper each weeknight. Greta Van Sustern claims that Mark and Glenn are fighting over Donald Trump. I have not heard any of that. What I have heard both do is discuss issues, and where candidates stand on issues. Because of where Cruz and Trump stand on issues, both Levin and Beck more often stand with Ted Cruz. For example, Ethanol. Cruz goes into Iowa, which is heavily dependent on the Ethanol subsidy, and says he does not believe the government should be subsidizing the industry. Trump goes into Iowa and panders on the issue, saying the subsidy and standards should be increased.

Levin offers Trump helpful advice. Mainly he wants Trump to become informed and stick to discussion of issues. He wants him to use his big lead to avoid stupid personal attacks on people, which is easier said than done, if you're Mark Levin! Levin says Trump's campaign is Nixonian, as in Nixon's campaign approach of the 1960s. Levin would prefer candidates who are more like Reagan than Nixon, even though he acknowledges that Nixon won reelection by a landslide in 1972.

Beck is clearly in the Cruz camp. He is going to be campaigning tomorrow in Iowa with Rafael Cruz, Ted's father, whom Beck greatly admires.

Trump "Nixonian," running an "Alinskyite" campaign

Mark Levin has been steadily more critical of Donald Trump. Josh Feldman writes at Mediaite, Levin says Trump

is acting very “Nixonian,” running an “Alinskyite” campaign, and straight-up lying about Ted Cruz. Levin is no longer impressed with Trump bragging about how great he is at making deals because, as he said, the problem isn’t that Washington can’t make deals, but “the kind of deals they make.”

Read more here.

Warming up for tonight's fun

I just had a funny experience. While driving home from work (in the snow) I listened to Mark Levin demolishing Lindsey Graham during the undercard debate. Levin referred to Graham as a nutcase, and just completely picked apart every sentence Graham uttered. Then, when I got home, I turned on Salem radio's hosts Mike Gallagher and Michael Medved, who were praising Graham as being super knowledgeable about defense issues! I think Gallagher and Medved need to start listening to the Mark Levin show!

The main debate starts in three minutes. It should be a fun night!

Who will be elected to replace Boehner?

So the plan is to replace John Boehner with California Representative Kevin McCarthy.



Not so fast. Julia Hahn reports at Breitbart,

Popular talk radio host and best-selling author Mark Levin is warning Republicans in Washington: don’t replace outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Levin’s a tireless warrior against Speaker Boehner and the Washington establishment. “Kevin McCarthy is Eric Cantor with ten less IQ points,” Levin declares in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

Kevin McCarthy occupies the business wing of the Republican Party shared by other politicians like Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

All seem to think that increasing corporate profits through large-scale immigration and globalist trade pacts like Obamatrade are more important than prioritizing the wages of Americans or preserving America’s cultural identity as a Western nation.

As Politico reported last year, McCarthy is viewed as the “go-to” guy for Silicon Valley because he listens to the tech giants’ concerns “100 percent” of the time. Silicon Valley billionaires such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have lobbied for countless immigration expansion bills– including Marco Rubio’s new I-Squared bill, which would essentially lift the cap on university green cards, triple the number of guest workers admitted on H-1B visas, and substantially increase Muslim immigration into the country.

“These guys are such lightweights.” Levin declared. “We need true leaders. They have too much tied to Washington, too much tied to the Chamber of Commerce, corporatists and the donor class.”

“Those thirty or so Republicans need to remain united” to elect a principled conservative leader who represents the interest of Republican voters, Levin explained. “Republicans could make a real difference now for the Party and for the country if we elect a Speaker or a Majority Leader who’s a conservative—such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). But he’s just one example.”

“We need leaders who are solid, who are intelligent, who are strategic, who are constitutionalists, who can bring in– not just the mainstay of the Party– but demonstrate to millions of us in the grassroots that the message has finally been received. [We need to see that] there is a serious effort—not just a PR effort—but a serious effort to try to govern and keep the President in check—that they are prepared to fight, prepared to show courage, and that they’re going to stop cutting deals with the inside the beltway crowd.”

...“This is also the reason why you can see the rise of Donald Trump,” Levin explained. People are tired of donor class Republicans who refuse to represent the interests of their voters and they are ready for things to change.

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"No apologies" conservatism

Jim Geraghty writes today in National Review about No Apologies Conservatism.

Appearing with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show, Donald Trump was in the mood to tweak his own persona — to a point. “I think apologizing’s a great thing,” he said. “But you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.”

It’s funny because it’s true: Trump’s steadfast refusal to apologize for his controversial antics may be the most striking thing about him. A significant portion of the Republican base craves it, and a handful of pro-Trump conservative pundits does, too. None of them looms larger, perhaps, than Ann Coulter.

It makes sense. Trump has given political expression to a model of conservative discourse perfected by Coulter and subsequently emulated by Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, and others: 1) Say something controversial or provocative and get a ton of attention in the process. 2) When the media and the Left inevitably demand an apology, adamantly refuse to provide one, driving your critics batty and burnishing your conservative credentials with the base. It’s been Coulter’s modus operandi for her entire, lucrative career, and now Trump has brought it to the campaign trail: A real conservative never says he’s sorry.

...Past history suggests those demanding an apology should not threaten to hold their breath until they get one. After all, not apologizing has served Coulter so well over the years that even the politically ambitious have taken the hint, and to great effect: Trump continues, at least for now, to top the polls with a version of the same shtick. Its originator couldn’t be more pleased.

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Mark Levin tells it like it is

Jordan Schachtel reports at Breitbart about Mark Levin's firey speech at the Washington Stop Iran Deal rally:

“Never before has a President of the United States. Never before has a political party consented to funding and arming the enemy. Never before has a President entered into agreements with a terrorist regime that holds American hostages; that has killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers, and that seeks nuclear weapons and ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles) to attack his own country,” said Levin.

...“As one Democrat after another… supports this surrender, It’s clear that the Democrats no longer represent the party of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy. It’s now the Democrat Party of Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama,” said the nationally-syndicated conservative talk radio host.

“The Democrat Party will have blood on their hands as a result of this deal for the rest of time. And let me be clear, this deal sows the seeds of war.”

He focused on the threat posed by a rogue and radical Iranian regime. “The enemy is emboldened, and the enemy will be well-armed and seek regional and world domination.”

“How do we know” that Iran is so ill-intentioned, Levin asked. “They told us so.”

...“The Republican Party, particularly their leadership, has abandoned the Constitution and the Treaty Power of the United States Senate. It is recklessly and deliberately avoiding any serious confrontation with a disastrous imperial president. They can stop this,” he said. “They can invoke the Treaty Clause right now. They can suspend the filibuster rule and vote against lifting sanctions right now. They can stand between Obama and the Iranian terrorist regime and protect our nation and our allies, but they won’t. Gone is the party of Dwight D. Eisenhower; gone is the party of Ronald Reagan.

“Instead we get the party of [Senator Mitch] McConnell and [Senator Bob] Corker and [Speaker of The House] Boehner,” Levin added, as the audience voiced their disapproval with GOP leadership. “Tell Republicans: this is not about getting along with Obama, it’s about stopping Obama. It’s about Americans’ interests. It’s about our children and the future generations.”

“And a final word: Let me warn the 7th-century throwbacks who like to chant ‘Death to America’ in their home country. We Americans have been threatened by better than you. We Americans have been threatened by forces far stronger than you, and we’ve obliterated every damn one of them,” he concluded, as the audience applauded and broke out into chants of “U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A.”

Mr. Obama

Reagan was opposed by a prominent family who seeks to occupy the White House for the third time! The only dynasty I like is the Duck Dynasty!

The Republican Party has no principles, no strategy, and no guts! It's time for a new Republican Party.



Mr. Obama,
1. “You have violated the Separation of Powers.”

2.”You have seized unto yourself Legislative Power granted unto the Congress alone.”

3. “You have unilaterally appropriated monies to fund your radical agenda.”

4. “You have contravened Congress’ authority over Immigration and Naturalization.”

5. “You repeatedly defy the Senate’s confirmation power over your appointments.”

6. “You have poisoned the independence of the Judiciary by appointing scores of radical activists to lifetime judicial appointments.”

7. “You have repeatedly evaded the Senate’s role in the adoption of treaties.”

8. “You’ve shown nothing but contempt for the Bill of Rights.”

9. “You’ve shown nothing but contempt for private property rights and free market Capitalism.”

10. “You have nationalized to destroy the greatest Healthcare System on the face of the Earth.”

11. “You have recklessly destroyed the fiscal well-being of this nation with wild spending schemes, driving up the Federal operating debt to $18.5 Trillion and unfunded liabilities to over $100 Trillion.”

12. “You have directed Federal Departments, like the EPA, to unleash thousands of regulations. . . “

13. “You have driven the median-income of Americans down. . . “

14. “You have used the Office of the President to balkanize the American People along lines of race, gender, age and income. . . “

15. “You have showed contempt for our military. . . “

16. “You have failed to take necessary steps to confront Islamic Naziism. . .”

17. “You have undermined our friend Israel to the detriment of our security.”
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The Mark Levin show

Do you listen to the Mark Levin radio show? I used to not be able to, because I didn't like the way he yells when he is making his points. Now I listen to him when I am in the kitchen preparing dinner. I don't think he is the one who has changed; I think I am the one who has changed. I realize he is telling the truth. I still don't think it is necessary to yell when telling the truth, but I do understand his anger. He loves this country, and sees what the Obama administration is doing to "transform" it.