In 1964, a lot of Republicans,
including my father and mother, didn't vote because they didn't like the
choices. Lyndon B. Johnson won in a landslide. As a result, LBJ could do
whatever he wanted to do. LBJ set up a "guns and butter" budget that
began a cycle of deficits financed by inflation that increased to intolerable
levels until Reagan temporarily stopped it. LBJ started huge entitlement
programs that are now threatening to bankrupt the country. LBJ ran the Vietnam
War from the White House because LBJ thought he was smarter than his generals.
LBJ bombed targets in Vietnam to "send a message" to the Communists,
not to accomplish anything militarily. LBJ put 500,000 Americans on the ground
in Vietnam gradually, while he lied repeatedly, saying that he was not going to
send any more troops there. LBJ exhausted the patience of the American people
with Vietnam.
By the time Nixon transferred almost
all of the ground war to the Vietnamese and used air strikes in North Vietnam
to shut down Communist supply lines, it was too late. The American people had lost patience with the war and had no trust in anything anybody said about Vietnam. Democrats in Congress cut
the aid budget for South Vietnam by 75% between the Paris Peace Accords in 1973
and the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The Communists killed perhaps 2.3 million
people in Southeast Asia after the American withdrawal. The US hasn't ever
fully recovered from losing the war.
In 2016, we have another election where
lots of Republicans, definitely including me, don't like the choices. But I
remember an ad the Democrats ran against Goldwater in 1964. A little girl was
frolicking in the daisies. Suddenly, there was a big mushroom cloud from a
nuclear explosion. The ad in 1964 was about Goldwater, but I feel that way
about Hillary Clinton. In 1964, we had enough of a margin as a country that we
could afford a disaster like Lyndon Johnson. And Lyndon Johnson wasn't pure
evil either. He did get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton is pure evil. Even though I really, really don’t
like Trump, I will vote for him.
We have absolutely no margin for error
now as a country. The big problem with Hillary is that the law means absolutely
nothing to her. She will do whatever it takes to win, which she defines as
getting her own way all of the time. The law will be ignored or flouted, and
her fanatically loyal staff will lie, cheat, steal and probably kill for
Hillary. IRS targeted audits will continue, but other regulatory agencies will
now coordinate the harassment as well. After your IRS audit, OSHA will find
safety hazards at your office. Your local government will use condemnation
proceedings to force you to sell your house at a below market price. Your
health insurance won’t pay for care you need, even though it pays for the same
care for loyal Democrats. Your kid’s college loan will mysteriously increase
the interest rate you have to pay. With Hillary, we will be 8 years and
counting on the road to socialist Venezuela, where 17 years of socialism has
taken an oil rich developing country to the point of starvation. It’s not going
to be anywhere near as much fun as the “Road to Morocco” movie with Bob Hope
and Bing Crosby.
In foreign policy, Hillary’s experience
is one big failure after another which are all described as successes through
big lies. The reset with Russia resulted in Putin seizing the Crimea from
Ukraine and then invading mainland Ukraine from the east. Hillary advocated our
intervention in Libya. We killed Gaddafi, but made Libya a weak failed state
where ISIS could seize a lot of their oil fields. Also in Libya, Hillary’s
State Department cut security for their diplomats in half the month before the
Benghazi attack, over the objections of both the Embassy in Libya and the US
Army Lt. Colonel in command of the Special Forces detachment that the State
Department ordered to withdraw. During the 13 hour attack, Hillary was asleep
while 4 Americans were killed by an organized terrorist attack. There were
American F-16 fighter bombers less than 3 hours of flight time away from
Benghazi at Aviano Air Force Base in Northern Italy. The attack lasted 13
hours. Only unarmed drones were sent to Benghazi. In a Congressional hearing on
Benghazi, Hillary asked, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
While
Hillary was Secretary of State, US foreign policy tilted towards Iran, which is
now assured it can build a nuclear weapon. Our deal with Iran gave them 100
billion dollars in formerly frozen assets to pay for nuclear research and
terrorism. In a normal year under our sanctions, Iran sold about 15 billion
dollars worth of oil. Syria and Iraq both became failed states because we
didn’t want to anger Iran by trying to stop Iran's friends from trashing those
countries. Hillary and friends point to all of these things as successes. If
Hillary tells you the time, check your watch. Better yet, make sure you still
have a watch.
The
problem is the way liberals win, with rogue judges, regulatory agencies and
executive orders overriding the voters and Congress. The combination of a
"living Constitution" and an aggressive regulatory environment took
our country away. When Scott Brown wins Teddy Kennedy's seat to become
the vote needed to filibuster Obamacare, Democrats cheat by passing a half-baked
bill through the House. The Republicans win the Senate in 2010.
There are problems with half-baked Obamacare, so the Supreme Court
redrafts the bill, thus avoiding any input from newly elected Senators.
In the meantime, a regulation requires the Little Sisters of the Poor to
pay for birth control and Plan B abortion pills. The Republicans win the
House in 2014, so the president enacts his plans with executive orders and
regulatory agency rulings. The Supreme Court redrafts Obamacare again,
disenfranchising voters again. Reaction to breaking all the rules yields
Trump. At least he will scream at the press.
If Hillary wins big, she will
take it as a mandate for more illegal pen and phone executive orders that are
completely contrary to law. She will concentrate on crushing domestic opponents
while ignoring foreign policy. The rule of law will cease to be even a polite
fiction. In a couple of years, the rule of law will cease to pass even the
laugh test. One morning Hillary will wake up to find New York or Los Angeles
have been nuked by Iran or North Korea because she wasn’t paying attention. And
it will all be George W. Bush’s fault.
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