Midknight Review -- new and revised: Cruz and Trump outdo themselves, today, fomenting one bad idea after another . . . . and I am a conservative pundit.

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Trump Says He Will Delegate Supreme Court Appointments To The Heritage Foundation — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, in an apparent bid to placate conservatives who fear that he could appoint an insufficiently ideological justice if elected president, plans to release a list of 5-10 names sometime in the next week.

Editor's notes: Here is the problem with Trump's comment: Speaking as a member of Heritage and in good standing, giving them the power of Supreme Court appointments would so politicize the High Court as to make a it nearly impossible to get a consensus approval for any of the Cruz appointees.

Ask yourselves this: How would you feel if Hillary allowed Media Matters to select and vett her nominees ? No, this is a presidential responsibility. No need to intensify the political component beyond that.

Cruz could not be out done, so he came up with his own bad idea, as well. It had to do with his thinking that special police attention needs to be given to "Muslim neighborhoods." He wants to increase police patrols in these neighborhoods.

While "home grown" terror is a problem from time to time, American Muslims do not have an expressed desire to destroy this nation. OF COURSE, there are exceptions to the rule, but an "exception" is not "the rule." Adding an increased police presence in Muslim neighborhoods would accomplish nothing in the fight against Islamic radicalism. More than this, the unwanted effect would be to segregate and blame the Islamic community, as a whole, for the intended brutality of their overseas "cousins" and some who are American citizens.

At any rate, enough of the populace mindset and these bad ideas. I have to tell, I am no less disappointed in Cruz as I am in Trump. Kasich is not even in the mix, for me, but I must admit that he is starting to rise to top.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

4 comments:

AnonymousMarch 23, 2016 at 1:04 AM
purely academic. neither will have a chance at winning the presidential election. Cruz is getting scary religious as is Glenn Beck and 55% of the GOP does not like Trump. A parade of clowns.
AnonymousMarch 23, 2016 at 1:06 AM
Why not mention the clown show on the Left. You don't mention it. Are you about to go Democrat oh great warrior for the right?