Did you ever think youd live to see anchor babies discussed on TV every night? H1-B visas replacing American workers? Illegal alien murderers? Mexican rapists?
Could you ever have imagined that instead of Republicans weeping over illegal aliens living in the shadows wed see them assailing one another for having once supported amnesty?
Its all Trump. Everything weve been begging politicians to talk about for the past decade Donald Trump has brought up with a roar.
But the conservative Miss Grundys complain that Trump isnt satisfactory. They say hes not a serious person; hes a clown a vulgarian; hes not a constitutional conservative -- you know like the people who ignore the Constitution on natural born citizen.
This is not an election about who can check off the most boxes on a conservative policy list or even about who is the best or nicest person. This is an election about saving the concept of America an existential election like no other has ever been. Anyone who doesnt grasp this is part of the problem not part of the solution.
The nitpickers are like the cartoon of Diogenes looking over the man before him and saying: I was hoping for a taller honest man.
Youre not getting a taller honest man. Trump is our only shot to save America if theres still time.
Only a TV reality show celebrity self-financing brash billionaire who is perfectly comfortable in front of a gaggle of microphones and loves to hit back could do what Trump is doing.
Until Trump rose like a phoenix Mitt Romney was the best we ever had on immigration. Close your eyes and try to imagine Romney saying the things Trump is about immigration. It quickly becomes apparent why no one else could wage this campaign and survive the attacks -- except Trump.
After endless betrayals on immigration including by half the current GOP field I trust no one. But Trump is starting to convince me!
At the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2013 -- about the same time the Republican National Committee was paying $10 million for a report instructing the GOP to embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform -- there were only two speakers who opposed amnesty: moi -- and Trump. (And that was only because the organizers didnt know what we were going to say so they couldnt stop us.)
Ted Cruz spoke at that CPAC. But not a word against amnesty.
In more than a dozen tweets that year -- the very year that Marco Rubio nearly destroyed the nation with his amnesty bill as the conservative media cheered him on -- Trump repeatedly denounced the maniacal push for amnesty:
-- Immigration reform is fine -- but dont rush to give away our country! Sounds like thats whats happening. (Jan. 30 2013)
-- Amnesty is suicide for Republicans. Not one of those 12 million who broke our laws will vote Republican. Obama is laughing at @GOP. (March 19 2013)
-- Now AP is banning the term illegal immigrants. What should we call them? Americans?! This countrys political press is amazing! (April 3 2013)
-- TRUMP: IMMIGRATION BILL A REPUBLICAN DEATH WISH; bit.ly/18QRQjA via @BreitbartNews by @mboyle1 (June 4 2013)
Two years later Trump announced he was running for president in a speech about Mexican rapists pledging to deport illegal aliens and build a wall.
That speech was the biggest one-address bombshell since Sen. Joe McCarthy waved the list of 57 (not 206) Communists at the Wheeling West Virginia Lincoln Day Dinner in 1950. McCarthy bought this country another half-century of survival and thats exactly what Trump is doing right now.
Can you remember a single speech from any of the other candidates? Quick: Within five how many Republicans are still running for president?
Since that speech Ive felt like Im dreaming. The networks are suddenly bristling with discussions of all the topics previously banned from television (unless I sneaked it in during a segment on ISIS). Manifestly the voters are solidly with Trump. No wonder the networks never allowed immigration to be discussed.
Trump didnt propose a virtual wall something better than a wall a high-tech wall or any of the usual deflections that mean: open borders. He said hed build a wall. The more his Republican opponents claimed it couldnt be done the more details Trump gave about the walls precise specifications.
When Trump first started talking about anchor babies the entire media needed smelling salts leading to this exchange with ABCs Tom Llamas:
LLAMAS: Thats an offensive term. People find that hurtful.
TRUMP: You mean its not politically correct and yet everybody uses it.
LLAMAS: Look it up in the dictionary its offensive.
TRUMP: Ill use the word anchor baby. Excuse me Ill use the word anchor baby.
Now everybody says anchor baby. It turns out that if Republicans dont immediately go prostrate and apologize for failing to adhere to the Nation magazines stylebook the word police dont have a Plan B.
After San Bernardino Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and the media reacted as if hed flown two planes into the World Trade Center. He didnt budge. It turned out that no one who is not a sanctimonious douche was offended.
Trump keeps saying these things -- and hes not exactly getting kudos from the media. (Except on my webpage where hes a huge hit!) Hes never backed down. Im beginning to think he believes what he says. Maybe its time to stop believing what the conservative media says.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
Did you ever think youd live to see anchor babies discussed on TV every night? H1-B visas replacing American workers? Illegal alien murderers? Mexican rapists?
Could you ever have imagined that instead of Republicans weeping over illegal aliens living in the shadows wed see them assailing one another for having once supported amnesty?
Its all Trump. Everything weve been begging politicians to talk about for the past decade Donald Trump has brought up with a roar.
But the conservative Miss Grundys complain that Trump isnt satisfactory. They say hes not a serious person; hes a clown a vulgarian; hes not a constitutional conservative -- you know like the people who ignore the Constitution on natural born citizen.
This is not an election about who can check off the most boxes on a conservative policy list or even about who is the best or nicest person. This is an election about saving the concept of America an existential election like no other has ever been. Anyone who doesnt grasp this is part of the problem not part of the solution.
The nitpickers are like the cartoon of Diogenes looking over the man before him and saying: I was hoping for a taller honest man.
Youre not getting a taller honest man. Trump is our only shot to save America if theres still time.
Only a TV reality show celebrity self-financing brash billionaire who is perfectly comfortable in front of a gaggle of microphones and loves to hit back could do what Trump is doing.
Until Trump rose like a phoenix Mitt Romney was the best we ever had on immigration. Close your eyes and try to imagine Romney saying the things Trump is about immigration. It quickly becomes apparent why no one else could wage this campaign and survive the attacks -- except Trump.
After endless betrayals on immigration including by half the current GOP field I trust no one. But Trump is starting to convince me!
At the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2013 -- about the same time the Republican National Committee was paying $10 million for a report instructing the GOP to embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform -- there were only two speakers who opposed amnesty: moi -- and Trump. (And that was only because the organizers didnt know what we were going to say so they couldnt stop us.)
Ted Cruz spoke at that CPAC. But not a word against amnesty.
In more than a dozen tweets that year -- the very year that Marco Rubio nearly destroyed the nation with his amnesty bill as the conservative media cheered him on -- Trump repeatedly denounced the maniacal push for amnesty:
-- Immigration reform is fine -- but dont rush to give away our country! Sounds like thats whats happening. (Jan. 30 2013)
-- Amnesty is suicide for Republicans. Not one of those 12 million who broke our laws will vote Republican. Obama is laughing at @GOP. (March 19 2013)
-- Now AP is banning the term illegal immigrants. What should we call them? Americans?! This countrys political press is amazing! (April 3 2013)
-- TRUMP: IMMIGRATION BILL A REPUBLICAN DEATH WISH; bit.ly/18QRQjA via @BreitbartNews by @mboyle1 (June 4 2013)
Two years later Trump announced he was running for president in a speech about Mexican rapists pledging to deport illegal aliens and build a wall.
That speech was the biggest one-address bombshell since Sen. Joe McCarthy waved the list of 57 (not 206) Communists at the Wheeling West Virginia Lincoln Day Dinner in 1950. McCarthy bought this country another half-century of survival and thats exactly what Trump is doing right now.
Can you remember a single speech from any of the other candidates? Quick: Within five how many Republicans are still running for president?
Since that speech Ive felt like Im dreaming. The networks are suddenly bristling with discussions of all the topics previously banned from television (unless I sneaked it in during a segment on ISIS). Manifestly the voters are solidly with Trump. No wonder the networks never allowed immigration to be discussed.
Trump didnt propose a virtual wall something better than a wall a high-tech wall or any of the usual deflections that mean: open borders. He said hed build a wall. The more his Republican opponents claimed it couldnt be done the more details Trump gave about the walls precise specifications.
When Trump first started talking about anchor babies the entire media needed smelling salts leading to this exchange with ABCs Tom Llamas:
LLAMAS: Thats an offensive term. People find that hurtful.
TRUMP: You mean its not politically correct and yet everybody uses it.
LLAMAS: Look it up in the dictionary its offensive.
TRUMP: Ill use the word anchor baby. Excuse me Ill use the word anchor baby.
Now everybody says anchor baby. It turns out that if Republicans dont immediately go prostrate and apologize for failing to adhere to the Nation magazines stylebook the word police dont have a Plan B.
After San Bernardino Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and the media reacted as if hed flown two planes into the World Trade Center. He didnt budge. It turned out that no one who is not a sanctimonious douche was offended.
Trump keeps saying these things -- and hes not exactly getting kudos from the media. (Except on my webpage where hes a huge hit!) Hes never backed down. Im beginning to think he believes what he says. Maybe its time to stop believing what the conservative media says.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
