Wednesday, November 9, 2016

MUTH'S TRUTHS 11/09/2016

MUTH’S TRUTHS

Only because everyone already knows I have no problem with saying “I told you so” - I told you so.

For all the pundits out there who are saying today about Donald Trump’s stunning victory, “Nobody saw that coming,” here’s what I wrote for the Boulder City Review on July 16, 2015 – well over a YEAR AGO…


“And can we give the Trump-hate a rest, please? 

“Donald Trump is no ‘carnival barker.’  He’s a master marketer.  And the Robert Collier Principle of marketing is to ‘enter the conversation already taking place in the customer’s mind.’

“As such, if you read what the man actually said about Mexico regarding ILLEGAL immigrants - as opposed to what the media and the man’s enemies are saying he said - he was right.  And it also happens to be what an awful lot of Republican primary voters have had on their minds for a long time.

“Trump – like Carson and Fiorina – is an outsider.  He’s not part of the political class.  He also gives it to us straight, not how politically-sensitive inside-the-beltway speechwriters spoon-feed it to us.  And he’s anti-GOP establishment.  

“An awful lot of Republican primary voters are attracted to those qualities even if Trump has taken decidedly non-GOP positions on certain issues in the past.  His growing popularity goes well beyond ideology.”

I followed that up with the following in my weekly column in the Nevada Appeal on July 28, 2016…

“For years the media has twisted innocuous statements made by conservatives into alleged racist, homophobic, anti-woman, anti-poor attacks that were never intended as such. But rather than standing their ground and fighting back, many a Republican candidate instead issues a feeble apology that is never accepted by the liberal Speech Police.

“Not Trump. . . .

“So far every time the media and the GOP establishment thought they had Trump dead to rights, he slipped by them. To paraphrase Clint Eastwood’s Confederate sidekick in The Outlaw Josey Wales: ‘Whupped ‘em again, didn’t we Donald?’

“The conservative attraction to Trump isn’t philosophical. It’s performance-based. His bravado — combined with his very Reaganesque ‘Make America Great Again’ campaign theme — is striking nerves that go way beyond ideology.”

And followed up with this on the same day in Silver State Confidential…

“Folks, a political campaign is a sales and marketing campaign.  And no matter what else you think about Donald Trump, he is a MASTER at sales and marketing.  And he’s getting better on the stump every…single…day.  Write him off as the GOP nominee at your peril.”

So it’s not like no one saw it coming.  Only the Republican establishment, the pollsters, the prognosticators, the liberals, the Democrats and the mainstream media didn’t see it coming.

And it’s not like there’s no explanation.  As the old saying goes…

“For those who get it, no explanation is necessary.  For those who don’t, no explanation is possible.”

Now let’s get down to making America great again!

Cheers.

Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs

P.S.  Not that I wasn’t having some doubts of my own as Election Day neared. 

Last Saturday my daughter Jenna asked if she could adopt a kitten from Windy’s Ranch & Rescue where she volunteers every weekend. 

Like any good father with a house full of pets already, I said no.

Then Miss Janice, who runs the rescue ranch, chimed in by saying, “If Trump wins, can she have it?”

At that point I figured a Trump victory – as unlikely as it was appearing at the time - would be worth it.  So I agreed.

And so we’ll be adding a new member to the Muth household this weekend.  The art of the deal indeed!

P.P.S.  I’m going “dark” for the next 48 hours.  My other daughter, Kristen, and I are taking a long overdue 2-day “staycation” at a Las Vegas resort and are NOT taking our cell phones or computers.  Hold down the fort ‘til I return, please.

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Election Day 2016 Post-Mortem

While yesterday wasn’t a great day for Nevada Republicans, it was pretty sweet for Donald Trump supporters and Nevada conservatives who got a little “payback.”  Some day-after observations…

Karl Rove is full of $#&!  He said last night that Trump owed his victory in Wisconsin to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Trump, therefore, shouldn’t seek Ryan’s ouster as Speaker. 

Oh, puh-lease.  Ryan’s head should be the FIRST one on a pike.

Speaking of which, now that we have a Republican president, a Republican House and a Republican Senate, which day in January or February 2017 will the bill repealing ObamaCare be signed?  Congressional Republicans no longer have ANY excuse for not getting it done.

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