Try As They All Might – The Ship That Hasn’t Foundered

Try As They All Might – The Ship That Hasn’t Foundered

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In the fortnight since their last encounter at Hofstra University on the 26th of September, the mainstream media has tried their level best to convince the American people that Donald Trump’s campaign against Hillary Clinton is all but lost, just as they have repeatedly tried to do so, for the last fifteen months. Given his own lackluster performance at Hofstra, and the collusive spin that the media has coordinated with the Clinton campaign, particularly in the two weeks since, it appeared that all of the breaks were indeed going against the Republican nominee.

The “suddenly discovered” video of Trump yucking it up with NBC’s Billy Bush back in 2005, exchanging disparaging remarks about celebrity women in a “hot-mic” moment certainly didn’t seem to improve “the Donald’s” acceptability amongst the politically-correct classes. It didn’t help to mollify those recalcitrant “Republi-can’ts,” who never did give the Republican nominee their support in the first place, and who were jumping all over each other to try to out-condemn Trump for the oh-so-horrible things he said in the exchange- things that any man, any man has heard many times over in the confines of the locker room, the men’s room and just about anywhere else, outside the presence of women.

The hyper-ventilating over Trump’s coarse words even managed to overshadow the thorough trouncing of Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine, at the hands of Trump’s running mate Mike Pence, at Longwood College on Tuesday, October 3rd, in Farmville, Virginia. Yes, there was even talk amongst the multitude of “Clintonistas” in the mainstream media and the rattlesnake Republicans who won’t admit that they really support Hillary Clinton, that there was a push to replace Trump with Pence as the nominee going into next month’s election.

And yet…

…at least one person wasn’t listening to all of the pundits excoriating Trump, who wasn’t listening to all of the expert advice that he lay off of the Clinton scandals and thus appear humble and contrite in his remorse, and who should offer up milquetoast parlay with Hillary Clinton so as to appear softer, kinder, gentler, etc.

The one person who was not listening to any of this was one Donald J. Trump, and in not listening, Trump not only managed to win the debate, but also breathed new life into a campaign the experts have tried their level best to write off, time and time again.

Immediately before the proceedings four women, who know first-hand the treachery of the Clintons, got together with Trump to tell their stories about the way the Clintons really treat women. Juanita Broaddrick who was raped by Bill Clinton, Kathleen Willey who was groped by Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, and Paula Jones to whom Bill Clinton indecently exposed himself, all told the same story of how, in each of their cases, it was Hillary Clinton who attacked them unmercifully for their accusations against her husband. Then there was Kathy Shelton who, as a twelve-year-old in 1975, was brutally raped and beaten by a man who Hillary defended in court, and who later was recorded laughing in an interview about how she was able to get the rapist off on a technicality, even when she knew her client was, in fact, guilty of the assault. These four women were also sitting next to Trump’s family at the debate, in a courageous show of unity that bared an undeniable truth…

…simply stated, that while Donald Trump has said disparaging things about women, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have done disparaging things to women, and have sought to ruin their lives, as a result.

Not even the anti-Trump tag-team of ABC’s Martha Raddatz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who regularly cut-off Trump in mid-sentence and who took turns in actually debating Trump on key points, in order to assist Hillary Clinton, were able to defeat Trump, in the end. It was Trump who expertly fended off the attacks of all three- Hillary Clinton, Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper, and it was Trump who deftly answered the questions from supposedly uncommitted voters- many of whom asked questions worded in a way to suggest actual support for Clinton. There was not a single question that was worded in a way to attack Hillary Clinton- not from the moderators, nor from the chosen audience questions, and yet…

…it was Donald Trump who prevailed over all, and it was Donald Trump who offered a promise to the American people- a promise to seek justice, final justice against his opponent, should he be elected the next President of the United States, and in doing so, prompted rare applause from the audience present at the debate in Saint Louis.

This is the Donald Trump who managed to trounce sixteen skilled politicians to win the Republican nomination. This is the Donald Trump who has the intestinal fortitude to take it to the Clintons in a way that George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole did not in 1992 and 1996, and in ways that John McCain and Mitt Romney could not take it to Barack Obama, in 2008 and 2012. This is the Donald Trump, who brought millions of new voters into the Republican primaries and caucuses, and this is the Donald Trump who, above all other Republicans, realizes that when going up against the Clintons, it is the nice guys- like all those predecessors, who in the end, finish dead last.

So you think this election is over? Stay tuned, for it’s only just beginning.

 

-Drew Nickell, 10 October 2016

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