The following from The Patriot Post is interesting. As you read this, keep in mind that Trump is their candidate of choice.
At the Democrat Convention, Khizr Khan, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq, gave a speech in which he directed this to Donald Trump: "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." Khan also asserted that Trump wouldn't have even let his son into the country. Khan is a Muslim, and his wife stood behind him wearing a head covering. That's where Trump first focused his attention, responding, "He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say, she probably — maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say." Trump then launched into some talking points about terrorism. Challenged on the sacrifice question, Trump first asked, "Did Hillary's scriptwriters write it?" Then he pointed to the sacrifices he's made like ... creating jobs and working for a Vietnam memorial. Ok then. In another venue, Trump insisted that Khan had "no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution."
"Here's a handy rule of life," says Iraq veteran David French. "Always honor Gold Star families. Always." Indeed, if Trump wants to be the commander in chief, he's going to have to do better than attacking Gold Star families, policy disagreements notwithstanding. Given his history of declaring that the military will obey him even on illegal orders, he has a long way to go. But that's what you get from a man who speaks just about everything that pops into his head, with little or no filter.
Well, thank you very much David French! But your words are wasted on Trump! The guy can't control himself! He is totally reactionary and attacks his "enemies" whenever he even suspects that they might be challenging him. If you want evidence, just look at what he did to Cruz the day after winning the GOP nomination. Cruz congratulated him on winning the nomination. Cruz never said one bad thing about Trump in his speech at the RNC. His one heinous offence was to tell people to vote their conscience. Was Trump satisfied with winning the GOP nomination and moving on? Absolutely not, as long as his political enemy was still alive and breathing. The very next day Trump again brought up his libelous accusation that Cruz's father was somehow involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. That's how Trump treats political enemies. Any reasonable politician would have been satisfied with accomplishing the first milestone which was winning his party's nomination. Then he would set his sights on the next milestone which is to defeat the opposing party in the presidential race. The last thing any reasonable politician does is to look like a petty, mean-spirited buffoon whose only goal is to punish his enemy even though it might harm his chances to win the greater prize.
On the one hand we have Hillary who will be asleep at the wheel when that 3 a.m. call comes in. Her response is to cover her butt and leave our brave troops dangling in the wind. She proved that with Benghazi.
On the other hand we have the Donald whose first impulse is to shoot first and ask questions later. And God help anyone who even looks like they might be a challenge to his despotic authority.
We need to ask ourselves, "who would we rather have in charge of the nuclear button should that 3 a.m. call come in?"
In my opinion, neither option is acceptable!
The Political Junkie
