WHY TRUMP AND ONLY TRUMP CAN BEAT HILLARY - MARCH 10, 2016

The others are good guys, but no one knows them.

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Published: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:45 PM

Jack Engelhard

Jack Engelhard’s classic international bestselling novel Indecent Proposal,...

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The crux of it is that Hillary Clinton is the most famous woman in America. To beat her in the general election you will need someone equally famous.


Does the name Kasich come to mind? Rubio? Cruz?


Americans don’t know these people.

They’re good guys, as good as anyone, I suppose, but they are strangers and have no shot.


You and me – we watch Fox News, occasionally CNN and MSNBC for the laughs, but our neighbors are watching “Dancing with the Stars.”


So it’s Trump and only Trump and only Trump is as well-known as Hillary the crook.

It should not be that way, I know. It should be about issues and sometimes it is, but mostly it isn’t. It’s about fame.


Anybody will do so long as that yenta doesn’t get it in.
Americans – we gravitate to fame. Maybe it’s the same all over, but in this country it’s like King Solomon said; a good name is more precious than silver and gold.


Don’t look to me for an endorsement. So this is not a pitch to Vote Trump.

This is a pitch to vote for anybody except Hillary.



Anybody will do so long as that yenta doesn’t get it in. Imagine getting up in the morning to that scold! Four years of that? Eight years?


Republicans who say they are staying home if Trump gets the nomination, your peeve, your snit may well come crashing upon all our heads.


How stupid! How selfish!


So happens that I do like Trump; liked him from the start. He’s too brash, too unscripted? That’s what I like. No teleprompter for him.


We’ve already got the perfect politician sitting in the White House – how’s that working out?


Ditto Hillary the opportunist. She’ll say anything to make a sale. Even people who vote for her do not like her. Nobody likes her. Bill doesn’t like her and what a disgrace to find a former President of the United States, instead of sitting grandly retired, there he is, from coast to coast, reduced to pimping for votes.


No wonder. She needs all the help she can get, so in this age where everybody gets a gold star, she calls it a triumph even when she loses.


The other day she lost Michigan to Bernie Sanders, the Communist Senator from Vermont. Did she give a concession speech?


No, she gave a victory speech.


The Republicans do likewise. Kasich, Cruz and Rubio keep losing and keep explaining how it is they really won.


They give victory speeches for coming in second, third and fourth.


No guys, you lost. Trump won.


To keep him going and to save us from Hillary or any Democrat in the next White House – think Hollywood.


When the studios spend millions to bring out a picture they need a big name, a star, to “open.”


To “open” means to attract moviegoers with a familiar name, like say Tom Hanks, and thus guarantee automatic box office.


Yes, Tom Hanks can open for the movies.


Donald Trump and only Donald Trump can open for the White House.

OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL: WHO'S BUYING THIS WRECK? - JULY 26, 2015

Credit King Solomon once again for his wisdom: “A twisted thing cannot be made straight.”

This takes us directly to John Kerry and his pitch before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he tried to explain away his perfectly awful Iran Deal.

The Senators, mainly Republicans Bob Corker, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson and Democrat Bob Menendez, saw the lemon for what it is. They were not buying Kerry’s central argument that if Iran’s mullahs fail to behave properly, well, we’ll just go back in and teach them a lesson they’ll never forget.

We’ll take it all back. We’ll re-impose sanctions. We’ll have them reimburse all the money and force them to unhook all their missiles.

Why – in a snap we’ll simply undo everything.

You betcha.

Dream on, we said, those of us who watched the proceedings via C-Span. The cable news networks, including Fox, did not carry the hearing, except for a voice-cut here and there, and this was a mistake. They had a chance to provide a crucial public service. Instead, they chose regular programming and the usual commercials.

Then again, for Kerry, this was a commercial, selling this crooked deal – which cannot be made straight.

As Kerry shared his dreams with the Committee, we thought back to another dreamer, Shimon Peres.

We recalled his high hopes when, as Yitzhak Rabin’s foreign minister, he gladly and enthusiastically signed the Oslo Accords, of which he was partly its architect. The Left had its Big Win. Never mind that Israel had fully legitimized a terror group, the PLO, as its equal. Equal footing for a gang of misfits.

Peres dreamed of a “New Middle East,” which is “new” all right, but in all the wrong places.

Overnight, through a handshake, Rabin to Arafat, a new government was created, a government of scoundrels that now has a seat at the UN.

Promises were made. Israel agrees to numerous concessions, principally a judenrein Gaza and partly the 'West Bank'. Plus, more concessions to come.

But, people said – if the PLO misbehaves, all bets are off. We’re taking it all back, in a snap.

Two intifadas later and Hamas terrorists ensconced in Gaza, nothing’s been taken back – a twisted thing cannot be made straight.

The Senators asked Kerry if he expected Iran to become a regional power. Kerry said no. But, they said, Obama said yes. So yes it is!

So yes is the answer for Obama’s “New Middle East,” just as Peres dreamed of a “New Middle East,” which is “new” all right, but in all the wrong places. Practically every country that surrounds Israel is in hellish, murderous turmoil. Not quite the sweet dreams that Peres had in mind. Or Obama. Or Kerry.

This was difficult television. Kerry squirmed throughout his testimony. Would Israel be able to react against Iran when necessary?

So Kerry danced around that and he waltzed around the question as to why the Administration went straight to the UN before going to Congress.

The Senators had him trapped.

But in the end, they will do nothing, which is what they usually do – nothing. Lois Lerner is still on the loose.

Hillary is still not in jail for Benghazi and her email scandal. Our borders are still wide open.

Much huffing and puffing from the Congress, but nothing much happens.

That is why Trump is still up in the polls. We the People, the little people, we agree with him that our politicians are 90-pound weaklings.

Trump will not win the nomination, but he can dream can’t he? So far his dreams have done no harm.

Can’t say the same for the rest of the dreamers who keep sticking us with nightmares.

Chuck Schumer – where are you?

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. New from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a newsroom thriller ripped from the headlines. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com