{"id":5071,"date":"2017-11-04T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/it-speaks-volumes\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T15:02:19","slug":"it-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/it-speaks-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"It Speaks Volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Disgusting but true: Bush 41 (George H. W. Bush) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Bush+41+voted+for+Hillary&amp;oq=Bush+41+voted+for+Hillary&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.6430j0j8&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">voted<\/a> for Hillary and his son Bush 43 (George W. Bush) for none of the above. Call them Cozy Little Club firsters.&#0160; These &#39;conservatives&#39; seem to think that conserving their cozy cocoon trumps tackling real problems.&#0160; What these bow-tie boys value are their privileges and perquisites and their exclusive&#0160; little soirees in wood-paneled Beltway clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Among Trump&#39;s many accomplishments, the three most significant so far are that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/us\/dictionary\/english\/put-paid-to\">put paid<\/a> to the Bush dynasty, brought about the fall of the corrupt House of Clinton, and nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Gorsuch\">Neil Gorsuch<\/a> to the Supreme Court to succeed Antonin Scalia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And that is just the start of the list. Illegal immigration is way down; the economy is way up; religious liberty has been defended . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Trump is a rude and bracing blast of fresh air in American politics. He is not a lawyer in a profession lousy with lawyers. He is not a career politician. He doesn&#39;t need the job.&#0160; No one owns him. He is ready, willing, and able to fight. He doesn&#39;t give a rat&#39;s ass about being politically correct. He presents a new and healthy direction for the country: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/03\/what-does-america-first-mean.html\">enlightened nationalism<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">For the record, I did not support his nomination. But when he got the nod, I came around, like every sane conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgusting but true: Bush 41 (George H. W. Bush) voted for Hillary and his son Bush 43 (George W. Bush) for none of the above. Call them Cozy Little Club firsters.&#0160; These &#39;conservatives&#39; seem to think that conserving their cozy cocoon trumps tackling real problems.&#0160; What these bow-tie boys value are their privileges and perquisites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/it-speaks-volumes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Speaks Volumes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}