Author: Charlie Perez

Just six people greet Hillary in Texas — and she ignores them!

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Texas is not Hillary Clinton country.

The former secretary of state made a fundraising stop in Beaumont, Texas Wednesday and KFDM reports only six people showed up at the airport to greet Clinton.

“Some people just wanted to catch a glimpse of the presidential candidate,” according to the reporter who was on hand.

But that didn’t happen. The news report shows Hillary’s motorcade driving quickly out of the airport.

She didn’t say hello or visit with anyone while at the airport,” according to KFDM.

Meanwhile, 12 News Now reports Clinton was in West Beaumont to attend a fundraiser organized by Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed.

The news station reports the campaign collected about $500,000, “making it one of the top five private fundraisers Clinton has had in this country.”

“Many of the Pakistanis at the event were pleased with Clinton’s vocal support of the Muslim religion,” 12 News Now reports.

“Talking about Muslims and favoring Muslims, so I really appreciate her whatever effort she is making against Islamaphobia, so I really think she needs to be the next President of the United States,” Aisha Zahid says.

PALIN ENDORSES TRUMP

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/19/sarah-palin-endorses-donald-trumps-presidential-bid.html?intcmp=hpbt2

Former vice-presidential nominee and governor of Alaska Sarah Palin made her first foray into the 2016 presidential race Tuesday by announcing she is endorsing Donald Trump.

“I am proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America,” Palin said in a statement from the Trump campaign announcing the endorsement.

She later appeared alongside Trump at a campaign event at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa

BIG BIG CHANGE IN PLANS

THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE – ATTENTION

At the time we booked the meeting hall, we were not aware that the Commission Chamber Building was going to have major work done to the roof. Therefore, we have changed the location of our meeting and made a change to the agenda.

High Probability for Terrorist Attack on the U.S. and Western Nations
Upcoming Meeting
How to Survive a Terrorist Attack
&
Conservative Candidate Running for U.S. Congress In the New District

After the information gained in the San Bernadino attack, it’s apparent there is a strong possibility that the Continental U.S. will have more Terrorist Attacks.

The FBI recently identified an area in the N.W. section of Florida, somewhere in the Middleburg vicinity, as being on a target list.

It’s sometimes difficult to imagine that Gilchrist County could be on the radar screen, but there is that possibility.

It is vital, that we take the time to know how to properly prepare for an emergency event because there is no telling where and when the next attack will happen. We know for sure, that no-one in San Bernardino thought it would be there, and a disabled care facility seemed even less of a target.

The Gilchrist County Tea Party is committed to the task of informing the public of vital information about our local, state and federal issues, and also providing information to you about personal safety and public safety.

Our first meeting in January, the third Tuesday, January 19th at 7 PM we will present a special program on how to protect and prepare you and your family from a terrorist attack.

Our guest speaker, Sheriff Bobby Schultz, will present to you a program that covers the necessary steps that YOU and YOUR FAMILY need to take in order to be safe. Make sure you take the time to attend.

Also, this begins ‘the political year’, one of the most important political years of our Country’s history.

We have lost the GREAT Ted Yoho as our Congressman due to redistricting….Ted has been a champion of Conservativeism……but there is a conservative candidate running and she will be a guest speaker at our meeting so that you can meet her, speak with her and ask questions.

Mary Thomas will be our guest. and we are eager to hear what her platform will be.

Please join the Gilchrist County Tea Party’s first meeting of 2016 on January 19th, 2016. The meeting starts at 7 PM at

FIRE STATION 2.
430 N.W. COUNTY ROAD 138
BRANFORD, FL 32008

OUR NEXT TEA PARTY MEETING

High Probability for Terrorist Attack on the U.S. and Western Nations
Upcoming Meeting
How to Survive a Terrorist Attack

After the information gained in the San Bernadino attack, it’s apparent there is a strong possibility that the Continental U.S. will have more Terrorist Attacks.

The FBI recently identified the area an the N.W. section of Florida, somewhere in the Middleburg vicinity, as being on a target list.

Usually, we have to approach to protect ourselves from the emotional stress of knowing that our Gilchrist Area is on the radar screen. First, our friends say “don’t worry about it, it’s not going to happen here” or, “I’m ready, I have my shotgun in the safe.”

It is vital, that we take time to know how to properly prepare for an emergency event because there is no telling where and when the next attack will happen. We know for sure, that no-one in San Bernardino thought it would be there, and a disabled care facility seemed even less of a target.

The Gilchrist County Tea Party is committed to the task of informing the public of vital information about our local, state and federal issues, and also providing information to you about personal safety and public safety.

Our first meeting in January, the third Tuesday, January 19th at 7 PM we will present a special program on how to protect and prepare you and your family from a terrorist attack.

Our guest speaker, Sheriff Bobby Schultz, will present to you a program that covers the necessary steps that YOU and YOUR FAMILY need to take in order to be safe. Make sure you take the time to attend.

Also, this begins ‘the political year’, one of the most important political years of our Country’s history. Local candidates will be filling the agenda for the next 8 months and to start this year, Mrs. Gina Geiger, running for School Board District 4 will be our guest.

We’ve lost the GREAT Ted Yoho as our Congressman due to redistricting….he has been a champion of Conservativeism……but we think that there will be a good candidate running and she will be on the February agenda. Our district that was approved is horrible. It stretches from here to Panama City……and includes Tallahassee. This means to mean that we will have to work hard to get the next Congress representative’s attention.

Please join the Gilchrist County Tea Party’s first meeting of 2016 on January 19th, 2016. The meeting starts at 7 PM at the Gilchrist County Commission Chambers, on the corner of U. S. Highway 129 and S.E. 1 Avenue, in Trenton, across from Hitchcock’s Grocery’s.

I underestimated Donald Trump

EVERY New Year’s, in a spirit of self-examination, I try to catalog my worst blunders from the preceding year. But this year, like almost every pundit in America, I have one mistake that overshadows all the others, one confession that makes my other faults seem venial by comparison.

I underestimated Donald Trump.

To really make a clean breast on this issue, I have to reach back earlier than 2015 (some forecasts take more than a year to be disproven), to a column I wrote in the far-off days of the 2012 campaign, when Mitt Romney flew to Vegas, baby, to accept an endorsement from the Donald.

This struck me, at the time, as a needless move by Mitt, because it left him sticky with the tar of Trump’s birther nonsense while delivering little in return. The idea that Romney needed the kind of voters excited by Trump’s flamethrower style, I wrote, confused “the existence of a fan base (which Trump certainly has) with the existence of a meaningful constituency (which he almost certainly does not).” And even if there were real Trumpistas, Romney would win their allegiance eventually: “Anyone who thrills to Trump’s slashing attacks on the president probably isn’t sitting this election out.”

As a third-party candidate, I went on, Trump might pose some danger to Romney’s general-election chances. But Trump’s “third party rumblings are like his birther bluster — sound and fury, signifying only ego.” And Romney would risk little with conservatives by giving him the stiff arm. “Trump isn’t Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin: His conservatism is feigned, his right-wing fans are temporary admirers with no deep commitment to his brand or cause, and hardly anyone in the conservative media is likely to rise to his defense.”

Now, if I were the sort to engage in special pleading, I would note that this may not have been technically wrong as an analysis of the status quo in 2012. I still don’t think Trump would have run third party if Romney had stiffed him, for instance, and I’m quite sure that right-wing talk radio wouldn’t have backed him if he had.

But don’t let the technicalities fool you: I sold Trump wildly short, and his entire campaign to date has proven it.

First, Trump has had a very easy time turning his celebrity fan base into a meaningful constituency. Exactly how meaningful remains to be seen, but for months far more Republicans have told pollsters that they intend to vote for him than have rallied to any other banner. They may not all be Trump voters in the end, but that there is a significant Trump faction in our politics no sane observer can deny.

Second, that faction has turned out to include precisely the kind of voters Romney needed in 2012 and who stayed home instead: Blue-collar whites with moderate views on economics and a weak attachment to the institutional G.O.P. (So weak, a recent New York Times analysis makes clear, that many are still registered Democrats.) These “missing white voters” might not have put Romney over the top, but they certainly would have helped his chances in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan — all places where Trump is running strongly at the moment.

Third, even as he’s wooed the disaffected and non-ideological, Trump has also won over or at least neutralized an important segment of the conservative media. He isn’t Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin, sure, but they’ve both been covering for him, as have a raft of performers who like to portray themselves as keepers of True Conservatism’s flame. And this cover has enabled Trump — no True Conservative himself, to put it mildly — to put together an unusual coalition, a mix of hard-right and radical-center voters, that’s unlike anything in recent politics.

Now if I wanted to avoid giving Trump his due, I could claim that I didn’t underestimate him, I misread everyone else — from the voters supporting him despite his demagoguery to the right-wing entertainers willing to forgive his ideological deviations.

I certainly overestimated poor Jeb Bush, whom I wrongly predicted would profit from Trump’s rise. But for the rest — no, I had a pretty low opinion of the right-wing entertainment complex to begin with, and I’m not remotely surprised that the white working class would rally to a candidate running on populist and nationalist themes.

I am very surprised, though, that Trump himself would have the political savvy, the (relative) discipline and yes, the stamina required to exploit that opening and become that populist. And for that failure of imagination, I humbly repent.

Of course I’m not completely humbled. Indeed, I’m still proud enough to continue predicting, in defiance of national polling, that there’s still no way that Trump will actually be the 2016 Republican nominee.

Trust me: I’m a pundit.

(And I’ll see you in the confessional next year.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/sunday/confessions-of-a-columnist.html?emc=edit_th_20160103&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=19756968