Thoughtful people fear that Donald Trump will become not just the Republican nominee, but president of the United States. He could be stopped if his opponents were able to unite, but they’re too selfish to put the interests of the nation ahead of their own. And so disaster looms. Where have we seen this before?
Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill collected $153 million in speaking fees since 2001. She knew she was running for president this year. So why did she accept $675,000 for three speeches to Goldman Sachs as recently as 2013?
Congressional Republicans say it’s too dangerous to transfer Gitmo detainees to the United States. But what are they worried about? No one has ever escaped from one of the federal Supermax prisons where they’d be sent…not that any has ever attempted to escape in the past.
The Republican Party establishment has dithered for months, hoping against hope that they could stop the insurgent candidacy of real estate magnate Donald J. Trump. Now Trump appears headed for a sweep of Super Tuesday, which wouid all but assure him the nomination. Yet his GOP opponents can’t seem to unite forces against him.
Hillary Clinton is running a campaign based on incrementalism. Unlike Bernie Sanders, who proposes full throated solutions to major problems, Clinton argues that Republican control of Congress makes it unrealistic to attempt anything more than defending the status quo or perhaps, at best, fighting for minor reforms.
If Bernie Sanders is nominated, he would face numerous attack ads smearing him as a socialist and communist by his future Republican opponent. Given how unpopular capitalism is now, however, it may not hurt as much as it would have years ago.
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia has triggered a political battle between conservatives who want another constitutional originalist to replace him and Democrats who want President Obama to nominate a liberal in order to change the balance of the Supreme Court.
Hillary Clinton has supported most “free trade” agreements that have encouraged American jobs to leave overseas. Now she’s heading to states that have been devastated by outsourcing. Will people forgive and forget and vote for her?
Hillary Clinton’s campaign believes it has a “firewall” against insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders in the form of African-American voters in Southern states where President Bill Clinton is remembered fondly. Do blacks really want to be her firewall? We’ll see soon.
