New Yorkers often invoke a Yiddish word that defies quick translation but is widely understood throughout the nation – "chutzpah." Its classic definition, the boy who murders his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan, could apply to recent statements by all the leading presidential candidates.
“Trump complains that the party’s undemocratic nominating system benefits only the interests of the "club"... Is Mr. Trump not a silver-spoon-born "insider" of the group he claims to deplore?”
Consider Republican front-runner Donald Trump. In an op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump doubled down on his earlier denunciation of the “rigged rules” of the GOP’s nominating process by claiming that the rules have been “flagrantly abused.” Those are the same rules that have enabled him to parlay his television celebrity status into hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of free media coverage, which, in turn, has helped make him the GOP’s most popular candidate and likely nominee. Not too shabby for a candidate who not very long ago was a registered Democrat and Hillary Clinton’s financial supporter and BFF ’til he decided to challenge her for the presidency.
Trump complains that the party’s undemocratic nominating system benefits only the interests of the "club" (says the owner of the exclusive Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach).
Is Mr. Trump not a silver-spoon-born “insider” of the group he claims to deplore? Is he not part of the political "club” he seeks to dominate – “the consultants, the pollsters, the politicians, the pundits, and the special interests" whom the “system” has enabled to grow "rich and powerful while the American people grow poorer and more isolated?"
Does the “elite” establishment not include a flamboyant builder who exploits the nation's bankruptcy laws to prosper while leaving his investors and condo owners holding the financial bag?
Is the newly minted "conservative" really opposed to the Republican party’s tradition of giving states a say in how best to choose their candidates, or only when Colorado gives all its delegates to his rival? And why does the man who claims to favor "maximum transparency" refuse to release his tax returns, as even Hillary Clinton has done?
As New Yorkers say, Puh-leez...
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