Elections - ILANA MERCER

“DeSantis. Both effective and highly intelligent, the man understands the federal scheme and knows how to pull the levers of power, having faithfully and forcefully done so for the people of Florida.”—ILANA MERCER, “Ron DeSantis Delivers First Principles In Action,” November 10, 2022
“Together, Jarvanka (the Jared and Ivanka organism) place Davos before The Deplorables.”—ILANA MERCER, “Ron DeSantis Delivers First Principles In Action,” November 10, 2022
“As expected in the Kamala Harris Administration, Kamala opened the victory celebrations. Parsed, here is the vice president elect’s victory speech: Blacks. Browns. Latinas. People of Color. My Mother. Minorities. Me, myself and I. (My white husband? Nope!) Racism. Everywhere. Systemic.”—ILANA MERCER, “Trump’s Going Beast Mode: Dissident Donald’s Parallel Presidency,” November 12, 2020
“The fucked-up Biden campaign worked because it targeted a coalition of weepy white women—including those with the Y Chromosome—and the rest of tribal, Third-World America. Minorities, white men with sunken chests and that angry, radical-professor, Antifa demeanor, joined by mountainous women with the signature tumbleweed hair. Joe and Kamala won the un-American, anti-American vote, which is now a majority.”—ILANA MERCER, “Trump’s Going Beast Mode: Dissident Donald’s Parallel Presidency,” November 12, 2020
“If Biden’s miserable message works, America is no longer America.”—ILANA MERCER, “We ‘Lizard Brains’ Love Our POTUS—Kvetching COVID Joe Must GO! ,” October 29, 2020.
“Democracy is when everything is up for grabs without constitutional limits. Globalism is an extension of that; globalism is democracy on a global scale.”—ILANA MERCER (01.30.19)
Democracy: “In exchange for power, those who’ve seized it forcibly distribute wealth by taking from one and giving to the other—from rich to poor; from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere.”—ILANA MERCER (01.30.19)
“Mention of the Constitution means nothing. It’s on the list of items candidates check when they con constituents.”—ILANA (January 22, 2016)
Elections 2016: First Republican presidential debate: “‘The Murdoch Media’s’ golden goose, Megyn Kelly, henpecks Donald Trump … “—ILANA (August 14, 2015)
Elections 2016: “Donald Trump would do well to triangulate,à laBill Clinton, and place the talented Jim Webb, a Democrat, on the Trump ticket. Then, make immigration a central theme in the campaign, advance a principled, major, pro-black policy by speaking to the legalization or decriminalizing of drug use and sale—and Trump will have secured the vote of blacks, white southern Democrats and other Reagan Democrats.”—ILANA (August 7, 2015)
Election 2014: “The snake in the grass spat, slithered and hissed its way back to the White House.”—ILANA (January 4, 2013)
“America is a mass of competing factions. Some vie to keep more of their rightful property; others fight to get their paws on that very property. The Rich vote defensively; The Poor vote extractively. This, Nov. 6, 2012 has proven.”—ILANA (November 9, 2012)
“Should he succeed in vanquishing Obama come Nov. 6, Romney’s brand of repeal-and-replace statism—not to mention maniacal militarism and Sinophobia—will be no victory for liberty. If not for liberty, Romney’s victory was still a small victory for reality.”—ILANA (October 5, 2012)
“The ladies, the Latinos, the halt and the lame: These identity groups—political constructs of the Left’s making—will be galvanized to lambaste the two leading Republicans (Ryan abd Romeny) for being too attractive, too macho, too white, too Christian, and too rich”—ILANA (August 17, 2012)
“In a democracy, thumping majorities prevail.”—ILANA (May 25, 2012)
“In Obama’s America, an idea equals a policy. And a world without a policy for every human malady, and ‘clever’ commissars to call the shots, is a world without ideas.”—ILANA (November 14, 2008)
“So now it’s Palin’s PETA papers that aren’t in order. Put it this way: If Rep. Ron Paul clubbed seals to death on ice floes; I’d still consider him a smashing potential president.”—ILANA (October 17, 2008)
“McCain’s national greatness ‘conservatism’ sees the individual as a cog in the service of the collective. Contra McMussolini, the American Founders placed the individual before the collective, giving pride of place to individual liberties before duties.”—ILANA (September 12, 2008)
“As she stood there in all her resplendence, it was crystal clear that Sarah Palin was the outsider; McCain the insider. Palin’s the candidate of change; McCain the Manchurian candidate. She’s the maverick and the man he’s not.”—ILANA (September 5, 2008)
“When Barack Obama looked Americans in the metaphoric eye and told them he was not and was never a Muslim, he had, admittedly, been worshipping at the Trinity United Church of Christ for twenty odd years. So we know for certain that he is not a Christian. Obama’s voodoo theology aside, do we know with the same certainty that he was never Muslim?”—ILANA (August 1, 2008)
“America’s pathological elections-time self-absorption makes a mockery of the idea that it is suited to lead the world. Shouldn’t a world leader take an interest in the world?”—ILANA (July 11, 2008)
“Media were only too happy to mislead the man on the street into believing that Democratic Party petty rules were as sacred as those governing the Electoral College. The rules committee of the Democratic National Committee subsequently chose to halve the votes of the Florida and Michigan delegates. Slaves got a slightly better deal under the ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’ during the Constitutional Convention.”—ILANA (June 6, 2008)
“Obama must be put on the spot not for his presence or absence in the pews during sermons delivered by the pornographic preachers of the Trinity cesspit, but for his adopted philosophy of two decades.”—ILANA (May 24, 2008)
“Why did Obama not attend a less radical church where Jesus, not Jeremiah, was king?”—ILANA (May 2, 2008)
On Obama’s sliming of small-town America: “the incident is significant for what it tells us about who Obama is and what he disdains: guns and God—not the God of Rev. Wright, but the God white, rural, gun-toting America carriers close to its heart.”—ILANA (April 11, 2008)
“McCain demonstrated his inability to tell Shiite from Shinola: Al-Qaida international and Al-Qaida Iraq are Sunni. Call them Wahhabis, Salafis, Takfiris, if you like, but not Shiites!“—ILANA (April 11, 2008)
“McCain might consider modifying his mantra about illegal aliens being God’s children to whom he owes a path to citizenship. This is not about the Arizonan’s relationship with God and His creatures; it’s about McCain’s relationship with the Constitution. The Constitution binds a president to uphold the law; it doesn’t authorize him to legislate compassion.”—ILANA (April 4, 2008)
“The genteel Obama is nothing like the Rev. Wright, except that they both appear to be overcompensating for not looking more like Kunta Kinte. There’s another small something the two share: a philosophy.”—ILANA (March 21, 2008)
“McCain, the global warmonger, is also a global-warming Wing Nut.”—ILANA (February 15, 2008)
“McCain has promised a monstrous ‘Marshall Plan’ for Iraq. What cuts to welfare he will deliver stateside, McCain will divert to Iraq in the form of massive government make-work schemes.”—ILANA (February 15, 2008)
“All the ‘giving’ Hussein and Hillary plan to do is extraconstitutional. Obama’s Manna From Heaven Healthcare Plan, and Hillary’s Cuba Care—these are not inalienable rights.”—ILANA (“The Hillary, Hussein, McCain Axis of Evil,” February 15, 2008)
“It’s manifestly clear how close on the unconstitutional continuum Hillary, Hussein and McCain stand.”—ILANA (“The Hillary, Hussein, McCain Axis of Evil,” February 15, 2008)
“So what do I think of the next president? I didn’t like his predecessor’s ‘New New Deal, so why would I like Barack Hussein Obama’s Great Great Society.”—ILANA (February 15, 2008)
“The greater philosophical significance of McCain lies in his violence-for-values verbiage; in how he deceptively frames the bloodletting in Iraq and elsewhere around the world as the heroic upholding of individual rights.”—ILANA (February 8, 2008)
“I had hoped that, in the dust-up between conservatives and the neocon-dominated Republican Party, McCain would serve as the curdling bacteria, separating the neoconservative whey from the conservative curd. I was wrong.”—ILANA (February 5, 2008).
“Reaching across the aisle to get things done”: McCain’s euphemism for relinquishing principles in favor of political expediency.”—ILANA (February 5, 2008)
“As a man of the classical liberal, unquestionably American, Old Right, Rep. Paul is perfectly congruous in his defense of a sovereign America bounded by borders. It is his libertarian critics who belong to a different tradition—and who don’t make a lick of sense to sane Americans.”—ILANA (January 11, 2008)
“From the fact that Rep. Paul celebrates free, unfettered movement of goods across borders—trade—Paul’s detractors have ‘deduced’ that he must also rejoice in the free flow of people across our borders. This is so because these anarchists confuse desires with rights—they believe that preventing anyone from studying or settling in the US is an act of savage aggression.”—ILANA (January 11, 2008)
“Ron Paul stands alone among the presidential contenders for a solvent, sovereign America—he has the will to stop the squandering of men and matériel in Iraq and the intellectual wherewithal to salvage an ailing currency, fortify forsaken borders, and restore individual liberties.”—ILANA (December 19, 2007)
“I can see why media, women especially, love Big Daddy; whether he’s sermonizing about diet or the deity, Huckabee is fast becoming the Oprah of the Evangelicals.”—ILANA (December 14, 2007)
“The paradox of the peace-loving Ron Paul is this: Given his commitment to national sovereignty—to defending this country, not Israel, Iraq or Afghanistan—Paul will have the will and the wherewithal to smash any enemy entering our orbit.”—ILANA (October 12, 2007)
“Like the remarkable Rep. Ron Paul, opponents of the invasion [of Iraq] were right because we cleaved to the kind of intellectual and moral principles that were immutably true before Sept. 11, after it, and forever after.”—ILANA (June, 2007)
The Republican presidential candidates “insist the American military’s obligation is to patrol the borders of Kosovo, Korea and Kurdistan, while our own borders remain perilously porous; Americans living alongside them forsaken.”—ILANA (May 18, 2007)
“‘Leadership’ is a euphemism for overriding the will of the people. No sooner does the pesky popular will intrude into the debate than the top Republican contenders begin to yammer about their obligation to demonstrate ‘leadership’.”—ILANA (May 18, 2007)
“When Barack Obama looked Americans in the metaphoric eye and told them he was not and was never a Muslim, he had, admittedly, been worshipping at the Trinity United Church of Christ for twenty odd years. So we know for certain that he is not a Christian. Obama’s voodoo theology aside, do we know with the same certainty that he was never Muslim?”—ILANA (August 1, 2008)
“Media were only too happy to mislead the man on the street into believing that Democratic Party petty rules were as sacred as those governing the Electoral College. The rules committee of the Democratic National Committee subsequently chose to halve the votes of the Florida and Michigan delegates. Slaves got a slightly better deal under the ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’ during the Constitutional Convention.”—ILANA (June 6, 2008)
“Obama must be put on the spot not for his presence or absence in the pews during sermons delivered by the pornographic preachers of the Trinity cesspit, but for his adopted philosophy of two decades.”—ILANA (May 24, 2008)
“Why did Obama not attend a less radical church where Jesus, not Jeremiah, was king?”—ILANA (May 2, 2008)
“America’s pathological, election-time self-absorption makes a mockery of the notion that the US is suited to lead the world. Shouldn’t a world leader take an interest in the world?”—ILANA (April 24, 2008)
On Obama’s sliming of small-town America: “the incident is significant for what it tells us about who Obama is and what he disdains: guns and God—not the God of Rev. Wright, but the God white, rural, gun-toting America carriers close to its heart.”—ILANA (April 11, 2008)
“McCain demonstrated his inability to tell Shiite from Shinola: Al-Qaida international and Al-Qaida Iraq are Sunni. Call them Wahhabis, Salafis, Takfiris, if you like, but not Shiites!”—ILANA (April 11, 2008)
“McCain might consider modifying his mantra about illegal aliens being God’s children to whom he owes a path to citizenship. This is not about the Arizonan’s relationship with God and His creatures; it’s about McCain’s relationship with the Constitution. The Constitution binds a president to uphold the law; it doesn’t authorize him to legislate compassion.“—ILANA (April 4, 2008)
“Obama is an ass with ears when it comes to the economy. The same goes for Clinton. So Sen. McCain did not help himself (or us) by being charmingly self-deprecating about his understanding of the economy. He has allowed Obama and Clinton, infinitely more asinine than he, to assert their superiority.”—ILANA (March 28, 2008)
“The genteel Obama is nothing like the Rev. Wright, except that they both appear to be overcompensating for not looking more like Kunta Kinte. There’s another small something the two share: a philosophy.”—ILANA (March 21, 2008)
“McCain, the global warmonger, is also a global-warming Wing Nut.”—ILANA (February 15, 2008)
“McCain has promised a monstrous ‘Marshall Plan’ for Iraq. What cuts to welfare he will deliver stateside, McCain will divert to Iraq in the form of massive government make-work schemes.”—ILANA (February 15, 2008)
“All the ‘giving’ Hussein and Hillary plan to do is extraconstitutional. Obama’s Manna From Heaven Healthcare Plan, and Hillary’s Cuba Care—these are not inalienable rights.”—ILANA (“The Hillary, Hussein, McCain Axis of Evil,” February 15, 2008)
“It’s manifestly clear how close on the unconstitutional continuum Hillary, Hussein and McCain stand.”—ILANA (“The Hillary, Hussein, McCain Axis of Evil,” February 15, 2008)
“The greater philosophical significance of McCain lies in his violence-for-values verbiage; in how he deceptively frames the bloodletting in Iraq and elsewhere around the world as the heroic upholding of individual rights.”—ILANA (February 8, 2008)
“I had hoped that, in the dust-up between conservatives and the neocon-dominated Republican Party, McCain would serve as the curdling bacteria, separating the neoconservative whey from the conservative curd. I was wrong.”—ILANA (February 5, 2008).
“Reaching across the aisle to get things done”: McCain’s euphemism for relinquishing principles in favor of political expediency.”—ILANA (February 5, 2008)
“As a man of the classical liberal, unquestionably American, Old Right, Rep. Paul is perfectly congruous in his defense of a sovereign America bounded by borders. It is his libertarian critics who belong to a different tradition—and who don’t make a lick of sense to sane Americans.”—ILANA (January 11, 2008)
“From the fact that Rep. Paul celebrates free, unfettered movement of goods across borders—trade—Paul’s detractors have ‘deduced’ that he must also rejoice in the free flow of people across our borders. This is so because these anarchists confuse desires with rights—they believe that preventing anyone from studying or settling in the US is an act of savage aggression.”—ILANA (January 11, 2008)
“Ron Paul stands alone among the presidential contenders for a solvent, sovereign America—he has the will to stop the squandering of men and matériel in Iraq and the intellectual wherewithal to salvage an ailing currency, fortify forsaken borders, and restore individual liberties.”—ILANA (December 19, 2007)
“I can see why media, women especially, love Big Daddy; whether he’s sermonizing about diet or the deity, Huckabee is fast becoming the Oprah of the Evangelicals.”—ILANA (December 14, 2007)
“The paradox of the peace-loving Ron Paul is this: Given his commitment to national sovereignty—to defending this country, not Israel, Iraq or Afghanistan—Paul will have the will and the wherewithal to smash any enemy entering our orbit.”—ILANA (October 12, 2007)
“Like the remarkable Rep. Ron Paul, opponents of the invasion [of Iraq] were right because we cleaved to the kind of intellectual and moral principles that were immutably true before Sept. 11, after it, and forever after.”—ILANA (June 8, 2007)
The Republican presidential candidates “insist the American military’s obligation is to patrol the borders of Kosovo, Korea and Kurdistan, while our own borders remain perilously porous; Americans living alongside them forsaken.”—ILANA (May 18, 2007)

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