Donald Trump needs to keep up his winning streak

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://nypost.com/2017/06/03/donald-trump-needs-to-keep-up-his-winning-
streak/

Political consultants and campaign managers tell their candidates that
they must win the news cycle to win the day. Do that more often than not
and you have a good chance to win the election.

By that yardstick, President Trump is on a winning streak. He’s come out
on top two weeks in a row.

Following his successful first foreign trip, Trump last week stayed true
to a major campaign promise by withdrawing from the international climate
accord. Almost as important as his Americans First logic — Pittsburgh vs
Paris — was the fact that his White House was at its best in backing up
the boss.

Able and knowledgeable surrogates, especially EPA chief Scott Pruitt, were
ready to go from the start, and outside advocacy groups were teed up to
offer instant supporting comments via email.

The solid performance stood in stark contrast to the way the White House
fumbled the firing of former FBI boss James Comey. Then, caught off guard
by the vehement blowback because it foolishly assumed Democrats would
applaud the move, it spent most of the first 24 hours hunkering down
during the barrage, trying to figure out what to say and do.

Of course, there could be no such delusions about how Dems would respond
to the announcement on the climate pact, which has acquired a cult
following on the left. The armageddon-like reactions, which included
predictions of human extinction for Trump’s sin, made Chicken Little look
like an optimist.

Yet the age old debate in sports about whether one team lost the game or
the other team won applies to politics, too. Trump’s good week looks even
better when compared to the disastrous play of his opponents.

In addition to the left’s exploding-heads reaction to the climate pact,
two other examples — two other people — tell the story: Hillary Clinton
and Kathy Griffin.

Both blame Trump for making them crazy. Who’s to argue?

Clinton is on a weird bender, throwing up an ever-longer list of excuses
for why she lost the election. It’s especially strange because while pols
go on all kinds of tours — learning, listening, apology, barnstorming —
I’ve never seen one go on a Grief Tour.

Clinton gives every impression she hasn’t started coming to grips with her
personal tragedy. After mourning in private for five months, she is now
mourning in every public forum offered to her.

“I take responsibility for every decision I make –- but that’s not why I
lost,” she insisted at a tech conference last week.

Translation: it’s not my fault. Where to begin with that one?

While many of her supporters feel sorry for her, others just want her to
be quiet and go away. They are Democratic party leaders and activists.
Even the Clinton News Network took to mocking her grievances.

Party worker bees also objected to being thrown under the bus when Clinton
complained that the Democratic National Committee was more burden than
help.

“It was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre
to poor, non-existent, wrong,” Clinton said. “I had to inject money into
it — the DNC — to keep it going.”

Nearly a month ago, when Clinton first came out of her hidey hole, I wrote
that she “wants to co-opt the Trump resistance and make it her base for a
potential 2020 run.” Everything she’s done since persuades me that’s still
the plan.

As crazy as it sounds, there is a logic to her madness. Until other
potential candidates emerge, she is still the top dog. My guess is that
she’s willing to fight for the nomination on the belief that nobody has
the guts or money to beat her.

Her boldness in coming out so early no doubt gives some likely candidates
second thoughts. For example, I can’t imagine Gov. Andrew Cuomo
challenging her. He would lose a New York primary to her, and most other
blue states as well.

And all this talk of Joe Biden in 2020 is ridiculous. He’s 74 now, was
never more than an afterthought when he ran for president himself, and
he’s no threat to Clinton, 69.

So until somebody comes along with more support than she has, Clinton will
claim the mantle of nominee-in-exile and challenge all comers to take it
from her.

Which brings us to Kathy Griffin. How off kilter is she to do an “art”
beheading of the president, then try to paint herself as the victim?

“A sitting president of the United States and his grown children and the
first lady are personally trying to ruin my life forever,” she said,
adding, “he broke me.”

Many on the left, including some medical professionals, have argued that
Trump is mentally ill. But given how many Kathy Griffin Democrats are out
there, maybe the shrinks are barking up the wrong party.

None of this means the president can coast. Comey is scheduled to testify
in public this week and is expected to say he felt pressured by Trump to
end the investigation of Gen. Michael Flynn’s connections to Russia.

That will fan the smoke that passes for an impeachment fire, and Trump
will be challenged to respond without going ballistic. He’s already dug
himself a hole with various explanations for why he fired Comey, so how he
reacts will reveal whether he’s learned anything from previous mistakes.

If he wants to keep his winning streak alive, he’ll follow the golden rule
of carpenters: Measure twice, cut once.

In other words, think first, then think again before you tweet.

Times’ irony in the fire

The New York Times has accused Trump of firing James Comey to stop the
Russia probe, but it might have done something similar by firing its
public editor.

Liz Spayd, the sixth person to hold the title, has been especially
critical of The Times, bemoaning both the newsroom’s “blinding whiteness”
and its leftward tilt. She openly feuded with the paper’s top editor.

Other jobs at the paper are being eliminated through buyouts, but in
abruptly ending Spayd’s role after a year, the Times said the position was
“outdated.” It gave her three days notice.

Kind of Trumpian, no?

Union puppet on a stringer

A telling sign that a politician is a puppet for teachers unions is a
robotic claim to be putting children ahead of politics.

Behold city Comptroller Scott Stringer. He was on auto-control while
pushing back against legislators demanding to know how state money was
spent.

Said Stringer: “Our kids should be above politics. Their futures can’t be
treated as pawns in a political game.”

You could hardly see the unions’ lips moving.

Biblical hint

First, LaGuardia airport was swarmed by mosquitoes, then midtown near
Fifth Avenue was hit with a massive bee attack.

If it rains frogs or locusts turn the sky black, don’t bother trying to
leave Gotham. You’re already too late.


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Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.

Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.

ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.

Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.

Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.