{"id":9047,"date":"2016-07-23T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2016-09-25T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:10:30","slug":"putting-america-first-or-putting-her-own-personal-interests-above-the-country-the-2016-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/putting-america-first-or-putting-her-own-personal-interests-above-the-country-the-2016-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting America First, or Putting Her Own Personal Interests Above those of the Country? The 2016 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9048\" src=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump-Hillary-1.jpg\" alt=\"Trump-Hillary-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump-Hillary-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump-Hillary-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">He won the Nomination, but Can He\u00a0Win the Whole Enchilada?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Scott Michael Rohter, July 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taco voters listen up. Grassroots Republicans have\u00a0won a\u00a0major political victory. We have done what\u00a0many people thought was truly impossible. We have succeeded in nominating Donald J. Trump for\u00a0President of the United States in spite of the fact that he was opposed by every prominent member of the Republican National Committee&#8230; Now we are\u00a0facing\u00a0an even\u00a0bigger hurdle\u00a0than the one we just overcame.\u00a0\u00a0In order to elect Donald J. Trump President of the United States we have to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and the entire Washington political Establishment. Can\u00a0a\u00a0complete political outsider who\u00a0loves his country\u00a0actually win the whole enchilada? We will see.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2016 is\u00a0a\u00a0critical year for the world and for our country, and America&#8217;s election is going to be a critical election for the United States of America. It\u00a0will determine if we still have free and fair elections in this country or whether the Washington political establishment\u00a0controls the\u00a0whole outcome. It will prove whether or not our votes\u00a0actually\u00a0mean anything.\u00a0Does the Electoral College actually reflect the will of the\u00a0people? To put it another way&#8230;. If Donald Trump fails in his bid to America&#8217;s 45th President than he is not unlike Russia&#8217;s Mikhail Khordokovsky who opposed Vladimir Putin, and we are not very different than Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has\u00a0defeated the RNC\u00a0and all\u00a0of its cronies. Some people thought that this wasn&#8217;t possible, but he proved them wrong&#8230; all of them. Reince Priebus, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney,\u00a0 the entire Bush family,\u00a0 all of the progressive pundits in the media, all of the county&#8217;s leading newspapers, the New York Times, the Boston Globe,\u00a0 the Washington Post, most of the wealthy donors like the Koch brothers, sixteen professional politicians who were all lined up against him&#8230; They\u00a0all went down for the count\u00a0along with\u00a0many\u00a0others who\u00a0are all\u00a0a part of\u00a0our rigged political system.\u00a0Donald\u00a0 Trump\u00a0defeated them all, the puppets and\u00a0the puppet masters alike. He prevented some of the nation&#8217;s most wealthy elitists from\u00a0 stealing the nomination\u00a0away from him at the\u00a0Republican National Convention in\u00a0Cleveland, but\u00a0the real battle for the White House is still ahead of us.\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now the Democrat Party is going to join forces with the Republican Establishment in order to defeat him. We\u00a0no longer\u00a0have to worry\u00a0 whether or not Donald Trump will be the Republican\u00a0nominee,\u00a0 but top GOP leaders are still conspiring and strategizing with Democrats in order to defeat him in November. Many Republicans like George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Jeb Bush are all supporting Hillary Clinton and they will be standing in his way before November.<\/p>\n<p>The newspapers, and\u00a0the television networks are\u00a0standing in\u00a0his way.\u00a0Progressive radio pundits like John Bachelor and Thaddeus McCotter are standing in his way. The DNC and the entire Democratic Party are\u00a0standing in his way. They will all be doing everything in their power to prevent\u00a0 Donald Trump from winning in November. They will\u00a0be running unflattering headlines and pictures of Mr. Trump on the front pages of\u00a0their newspapers; They will be broadcasting edited clips of things that he has said which have been taken out of context and designed to make him look bad. The dishonest media\u00a0will misconstrue the facts, and\u00a0if distorting the truth doesn\u2019t work they have no qualms about\u00a0fabricating complete lies.\u00a0There is nothing in their moral\u00a0makeup that prevents them from\u00a0spreading\u00a0lies, fear, and innuendo. That is what they do.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I heard\u00a0the news anchor on National Public Radio compare Donald Trump\u2019s plan to make America great\u00a0again to the America First Movement of the 1940\u2019s which was\u00a0both isolationist and anti-Semitic. It didn&#8217;t seem to bother Scott Simon that he was perpetrating a false narrative. Mr. Trump is\u00a0not an isolationist and he is certainly not anti-Semitic.. His own\u00a0daughter Ivanka\u00a0married\u00a0a Jew and\u00a0converted to Judaism.\u00a0 He has Jewish grandchildren. Mr. Simon is aware of the facts, but they didn&#8217;t stop him form spreading his lies and innuendo.\u00a0The truth doesn&#8217;t matter to liberals. It is frequently\u00a0the casualty of\u00a0their political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The America First Movement\u00a0of the 1940\u2019s was comprised of\u00a0Americans who wanted to prevent America from getting involved in\u00a0World War II when it was still just a European conflict. \u00a0In retrospect they\u00a0were wrong, but\u00a0was it any less wrong\u00a0for our country\u00a0to have invaded Iraq or bombed Libya and facilitated the ouster of Colonel Kadhafy? \u00a0Hindsight is a rare thing to have and it is hard to condemn someone for not having it. There is also nothing wrong with wanting to put America first again.<\/p>\n<p>Does Mr. Simon\u00a0value his country less than\u00a0other countries?\u00a0\u00a0If so then I&#8217;d like to know what country or group of countries Mr. Simon places\u00a0ahead of his own. Hillary Clinton\u00a0has been putting herself and her own selfish interests ahead of America&#8217;s interests all through her political career.\u00a0 Every position or office she and Bill have held have just been the gateway to another. She moved to New York just so she could become the Senator from America&#8217;s most influential State. She\u00a0sold government access and favorable State Department decisions\u00a0to leaders of foreign\u00a0governments while enriching herself through\u00a0various\u00a0kickbacks made to the Clinton Foundation. She\u00a0hid\u00a0the evidence of\u00a0her influence peddling on a private server which she kept in her own home which\u00a0put national security at risk, and she got away with it\u00a0with just a\u00a0mere slap on the hand\u00a0by the FBI\u00a0proving that\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u00a0is above the law.\u00a0Hillary\u00a0Clinton\u00a0has always put her own interests\u00a0above\u00a0the interests\u00a0of\u00a0her country.\u00a0 Do you want to elect another Clinton to the White House. I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s legacy as Secretary of State is a legacy of of death, destruction, and weakness, and it is one of corruption too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/putting-america-first-or-putting-her-own-personal-interests-above-the-country-the-2016-presidential-election\/\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\" data-font=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"125\" height=\"63\" src=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump-Hillary-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail-excerpt\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump-Hillary-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Trump-Hillary-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><p>Grassroots Republicans have won a major political victory. We have done what many people thought was impossible. We have succeeded in nominating Donald J. Trump for President of the United States in spite of the fact that he was opposed by every prominent member of the Republican National Committee. Now we are  facing an even bigger hurdle than the one we just passed.  We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and the entire Washington political Establishment.  Can a complete political outsider who loves his country the way Donald Trump does, actually beat the odds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[635,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}