Thursday, May 19, 2016

CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS 05/19/2016

MUTH’S TRUTHS

The August 6th FOX News debate may have been the turning point that set Donald Trump on the path to the Republican nomination for president.

Depending upon how many fence-sitters watched, Tuesday night’s interview with FOX News’ host Megyn Kelly may turn out to be a turning point that put him in the White House.

For the first time many voters got to see the second of the “two Donald Trumps” that Ben Carson referred to a few weeks back.  He made peace with a former adversary and was calm, poised, personable and gracious.


Everyone has known Hillary Clinton for decades.  No great shift in opinion about her is likely to occur, especially among Bernie Sanders supporters. Her unlikeables are set in stone.

But Trump is new to political stage.  He still has the potential to change perceptions about him going into the fall campaign.  And if his interview with Kelly is any indication, he’s going to successfully do so.

Cheers.

Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Publisher / Irritator-in-Chief

P.S.  At a private dinner I attended Tuesday night in DC, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse repeated his position that he cannot support the Republican nominee for president.  He maintained he was looking out for the long-term interests of his young children.

OK, fine.  We all should do that. 

However, how on God’s green earth can anyone, especially a conservative, think four, or maybe eight, years of Hillary in the White House is in the best long-term interest of his kids?  Or mine.  Or yours?


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NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS

Now this is a real shame.

Tax-hiking RINO state Sen. Greg Brower of Reno was scared out of running for re-election by the prospect of facing royally P.O.’ed Republican primary voters over his vote for the largest tax hike in Nevada history last year.

Unfortunately, neither of the two Republican candidates running to replace him – Heidi Gansert and Eugene Hoover – are firmly committed enough to opposing tax hikes to put their John Hancock on the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

What unfortunate pale pastel choice taxpayers in that district have been given in a year when so many clear, bold choices are available in so many other GOP primary races around the state.

For a complete list of 2016 Nevada candidates who have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, click here

For the official 2016 Citizen Outreach PAC endorsement list of Nevada legislative candidates, all of whom have signed the Tax Pledge, click here

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“In an excerpt of the (FOX News interview with Megyn Kelly), Trump says he’s a counter-puncher who goes after people when they go after him, only ten times harder.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal/wire service reports

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