The Pot Stirrer

"I would have loved to work for a visionary like Donald Trump. I would have learned as much as I could before he fired me..."

I like Donald Trump. Many people on my side like him also. Truthfully - when he went after John McCain and the press misrepresented the exchange, I was angry. I am not a McCain supporter, as he has been a disappointment to many of us conservatives. But he will always be a war hero to me. Period. I was stationed in the WestPac when McCain was held prisoner in Hanoi. I worked for his father who was CINCPAC at that time. But enough about Senator McCain - this is about Donald Trump.

Even though I still don't think it will be Trump who wins in 2016 (although I might be surprised), what he has done is a real service to our country. He talks to us in the polar opposite language of Washington gobblety gook. With Trump, there is no "Lawyereze" type of language. No parsing. No what the meaning of "is" is "is". My belief is Trump has caused many of the other Republican candidates to rediscover their center - and then speak the truth. Some (like Ted Cruz and others) already have. But Trump has let others in the campaign know if they don't stake a position clearly for the voters, they will soon be past tense. 

I almost had a "laugh out loud" moment with Chuck Dodd was interviewing the Donald on Meet the Press. Chuck Todd was (as would say in the Navy) "locked up" with a couple of Trump's answers. When the question of immigration came up and Trump told Todd he would "send them all back", I thought Todd was going to go apoplectic! "Send them where?" Todd asked. "I don't care." Trump responded. "They just don't belong here." 

Now how long has it been since we have heard someone speak American like that? Speak the truth? Where after an answer is given, we don't have to ask someone else, "What did he say?" No, with Trump, who is owned only by only himself, you get the unvarnished truth as he sees it. No frills, no PC verbiage, just Donald Trump.

So the bar has been raised. And it will stay raised until some other candidate shows a set of (fill in the blanks) equal to or better, than the Donald. I have said this before when asked - "Who do I like?" My answer is most always the same, "Just about all of them." And that is the truth. Our bench is VERY strong this year. If we can stay away from a circular firing squads or violating Ronald Reagan's eleventh commandment, we should be in good shape in 2016. 

So thank you Donald Trump. Thank you for stirring this pot. This is a pot which needed so badly needed stirring. You are a patriot sir - even if some think you are nothing but a narcissist, there are many of us who think you are a patriot. The only thing I ask is that you is this - don't go third party sir. That will most likely hand the election over to the socialists.