As he explained in his announcement of candidacy Friday,
conservative Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin is unlikely to
become president. But Andy also described himself Friday as the “second-most
exciting Republican Party presidential candidate (after Donald Trump).” In the
first of what will be his “Letters From the 2016 Presidential Campaign,” Andy
partially explains who Donald Trump “is,” (more coming on Tuesday). Then Andy
explains the “Boomer Backlash” against Megyn Kelly and Fox News that caused
Roger Ailes to phone Donald Trump and “make nice” after Kelly’s “anti-woman”
confrontation with Trump at the first presidential debate. You can certainly
agree with Andy that he is unlikely to become president. But after reading his
“Letters” as a candidate, you may come to wish he would end up in the “Oval
Office.” Andy would make that room into a better place than it has been under
George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama. Read on and see if you agree.
You can reach Andy in Washington
on his cell phone at (917) 664-9329
COMING NEXT , MONDAY: Andy
analyzes the impact of Donald Trump on the Republican Party; some thoughts for
Reince Priebus
TUESDAY: Andy writes on “Is Donald Trump for real?” Read
Andy’s analysis on the surprise frontrunner, from the only candidate who has
known Donald for 37 years. Don’t miss it. A New York
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Maverick
Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin explains the “Boomer Backlash”
against Megyn Kelly and Fox News when Kelly tried to suggest Donald Trump was
“anti-woman”
Andy
has been a writer all of his life; he brings the unique perspective of a writer
who is also an “homme engagé” to the presidential campaign
In
the first of his “Letters From the 2016 Presidential campaign” Andy explains
why Megyn Kelly “lost” her confrontation with Donald Trump, and why Roger Ailes
was forced to call Trump and “make nice”
Andy
was one of the earliest writers/analysts/candidates to defend Donald Trump
after the Kelly/Trump confrontation in Cleveland
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(Washington , DC August 16,
2015 ) Dear
American:
A couple of days ago I announced my candidacy for President
of the United States .
No, I’m not likely to become president, and I may not even be your choice for
the Oval office. But maybe I should be. I bring a sense of history to the
campaign, a sense of proportion, experience and wisdom that few of the others
can match. And I am a writer.
I’m not sure exactly when I became a “writer,” but certainly
no later than the occasion when I won “honourable” mention in a national
writing competition in England
as a teenager. I’ve done many things in my life, some good, some bad, but
nothing has prepared me to be president so much as my career as a writer.
In this first of what I hope will be several, or even many,
letters from the campaign, I will explain why Megyn Kelly’s snappy
confrontation with Donald Trump about whether Trump was “anti-woman” blew up in
her face and embarrassed Fox News. The usual pundits declared Trump “over,”
“finished,” and “washed up” as a candidate after Cleveland .
But he emerged the winner from the confrontation. No one has given any real explanation,
let alone an adequate explanation, why Trump prevailed. I hope this letter
provides you with some insight.
First, a little background into why a “writer” brings a
different frame of reference and a different style of interpretation to the
presidential campaign, and would to the Oval office as well. My campaign
headquarters this weekend has been in a hotel, the Capital Hilton, where I
first stayed 48 years ago, and where you might say I entered the clandestine
world. The Washington of 1967 was
very different than the Washington
of today. Then we respected wisdom and experience, even when they got it wrong.
Today we revile wisdom and experience and some even deny that they exist or that
they have any relevance in government and politics.
Saturday afternoon my good friend Bill came by and we walked
over to a “beer hall” Bill wanted to visit. Unbeknownst to Bill, he unexpectedly
took me to a building which has been a part of my life for all of my life, a
former night club on Connecticut Avenue
where my mom partied as a young woman during World War II. During my many trips
to Washington I got to meet her
WW II friends and absorbed her love of the capital. For a time I had an office nearby
on Connecticut Avenue . Bill
brought all of these memories back to me when we walked me into a space where
my mom had enjoyed good times during the years of the Greatest Generation.
During the course of the campaign I will be writing about my
beloved Uncle Bill Vasiliou, a small town businessman and Republican Party
official; my spinster high school teacher Louise Facius, whose brother enjoyed
a game of cards with my uncle, and Professor Herbert Bogart who honed my skills
as a writer. And others as well, of course. Their formative impact on my
judgment, and hopefully my wisdom, influences how I interpret the world in
2016. Now back to Kelly and Trump.
So what happened in Cleveland
between Kelly and Trump? In simple terms, Kelly slammed the Boomer Generation,
and the Boomers slammed her back.
First, let me define the Republican Party of 2016 as no one
else has defined it for you. Republicans today are the “Boomer Party.” Most of
them are in their 50’s and 60’s and 70’s, the “Boomer” years (yes I know those
decades do not exactly fit the definition of the Boomer years). Most of us who
are Republicans today grew up during the Boomer era, during a period that spans
the dawn of women’s equality and empowerment.
For myself, I was both immensely privileged while being
sadly handicapped. My parents parted so my mom worked, eventually as a college
professor. My girl friends all loved my mom because she was the precursor of
today’s “modern” woman. Mom had originally entered the family business in Washington
(special operations and intelligence). She went on to teach almost all of her
life. Although she came from a humble immigrant family she was the most
sophisticated and worldly person I ever met, bar none.
Donald Trump and I grew up during the same era. He came from
a more traditional background, with a wealthier, intact family, etc. But I
don’t think Trump’s college years were very different from my own, which is why
I said on Saturday that while “on the surface Donald and I are very different
people… our inner workings are very similar.”
One difference is that while the women’s movement largely
passed Trump by during his formative years, I emerged into adulthood as a
women’s’ rights activist. In 1969 I was a party at the Federal Communications
Commission to the AT&T discrimination case (go check the docket, no. 19809)
which resulted in a landmark settlement for women’s’ employment opportunity.
When I see Kelly blasting Trump for intemperate language
about, yes, Rosie O’Donnell and others, I hear locker room lingo and fraternity
house nonsense and dormitory discussions about the opposite sex straight out of
the 1960’s. It is difficult today, in our simultaneously hyper-sexualized and
politically correct world, to realize how unknown men and women were to each
other in the 1950’s and 60’s. (At the University
of Illinois 10:30 P.M. , to protect them, of
course.)
When Trump defends himself by saying he “cherishes” women
and will “care” for them, he is speaking straight out of the 60’s. That is how
we spoke back then in prehistoric times. Trump’s trash TV bombast has nothing
remotely to do with his feelings about women, since his feelings were formed in
the 50’s and 60’s. Yes, the 50’s and 60’s were a different era, but Trump has
also modernized himself. Today he legitimately brags about employing lots of
women, and the important roles they play in his company.
Now you can understand why Kelly touched a cultural hot
button when she tried to use Trump’s sloppy language to smear him as
anti-female. Boomers know Trump’s trash talk has nothing to do with his true
feelings about women, feelings that were formed in the ultra-traditional 50’s
and 60’s. For whatever its worth, I believe Trump does cherish women and would
care for them as president. And I believe Boomers believe that too, which is
why they reacted vehemently when Kelly tried to demean Trump as a misogynist.
Ailes called Trump to “make nice” because he realized that
Kelly had defamed the network’s “base.” The Fox News “base” is much broader
than just the Republican Party and also encompasses most of the Boomer Generation.
Boomers are still very influential, and very vocal. Arthur Miller wrote, “Attention
must be paid.” Fox News ultimately learned that lesson. So did Kelly.
The bottom line: when reviewing political issues and shameless
media manipulation, always look behind the curtain to reflect on the cultural
impact and social history of events. As kids, Boomers absorbed what today we
consider fraught language; but they absorbed it from their parents, whom they
loved and who loved them. Almost all of us have evolved into the modern era,
where language is more circumspect and deferential.
Republicans and Boomers immediately recognized that trying
to brand Trump as a woman-hater was morally wrong. Kelly had grabbed a few of
Trump’s words out of context and tried to use them as an attack weapon. Her
tactic backfired. Kelly was a disrespectful Boomer daughter who sassed her
Boomer parents. And she got verbally spanked as her punishment. The more things
change. [See Megyn Kelly link below for her marital history]
Hopefully Trump learned a lesson in Cleveland ;
I know Roger Ailes and Megyn Kelly did. The Republican Party is the Boomer
Party. Don’t diss the Boomers, or they will snap back and diss you, big time. That
explains why Boomers came to Trump’s defense, and why he is leading in the
polls today.
I would bring the same insight and experience to the Oval
office that I try to bring to writing about politics, history and culture. For
now, you’ll have to be content with me as a writer and not as your president. Iowa ,
here we come.
Andy
LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not
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WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT ANDY MARTIN:
One author has
called Andy Martin the “big kahuna” of the anti-[Barack] Obama movement.
Another said “Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to
online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film:
sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…” Another says,
“The only American journalists that are ‘standing UP’ [to Obama] are, Andy
Martin…”
ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO :
Andy Martin is a
legendary New Hampshire New York Washington USA
Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American
politics and courts for over forty-five years and is executive director of the
National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.
He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of
Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City
University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
He is the author
of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the
Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the
Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com
and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.
Andy’s family
immigrated to Manchester , New
Hampshire Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where
he played as a small boy. He is New Hampshire
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