Posted on 08/22/2015 7:59:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
In Alabama, Trump’s Wizard of Oz Act Leaves Some Fans Underwhelmed
QUIN HILLYER
Toto the dog wasn’t needed in Mobile, Ala., Friday night to pull the curtain from behind The Great and Mighty Trump. Trump let his own curtain flutter open, showing to much of the audience the humbug within. In an hour-long verbal meanderthon at half-filled Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Trump allowed an atmosphere of electric excitement to dissipate, and then he split town without his promised post-show press conference.
As I left the stadium, a red-hatted lady of my acquaintance spotted me and pulled me aside, saying: “Somebody needs to tell that man when to shut the you-know-what up. People were leaving in droves.” Well, not entirely droves, but by my estimate, about 15–20 percent of the 18,000 or so attendees — Trump publicity organs had earlier said they expected up to 35,000 — had filed out before Trump wound up his many-versed hymn to his own toughness and deal-making skills.
The line of the evening belonged to Rob Holbert, a former press aide to Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi and now the co-publisher of the port city’s Lagniappe weekly. “That speech was more disjointed,” he said, “than a skeleton after tumbling down four flights of stairs.”
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I watched it and was one of the worst speeches I’ve heard in any primary rallies. This is an election were cannot lose. Time for the buffoonery to end and have some real adults step in.
1) Trump is the *epitome* of New York. A Yankee of Yankees.
For a Yankee to draw 30,000 in Mobile, Alabama? Unheard of.
2) Some of the ankle-biters where gloating that the crowd was lily-white, despite the fact that the stadium was within walking distance of several black neighborhoods. Fine, let's flip that around. Where were the #BlackProtestorsMatter rabble-rousers? Trump had specifically challenged them to try to interrupt his speeches (like they did for Bernie Sanders, climbing up on stage and usurping control of the microphone). Crickets.
Next desperate step, from the (IIRC) indirectly-Soros-funded Pollutico: linking Trump to George Wallace; and from some other left-wing rag, saying the only thing missing was Swastikas.
Like I said, RINO, Please! -- if you want to compare Trump to the Nazis, then you have to argue the Nazis were all in favor of sending the Jews *back to Israel* before allowing them to apply for green cards to enter Germany; and the Jews were undermining German society by committing a crime wave of rape, murder, and drug dealing while flooding the emergency rooms...
You all will note how he is now using the podium as a crutch. He is leaning heavy on it. A good sign he is getting tired.
Shorten it up Donald! Get yourself a good speech writer. Get someone out there for 15 minutes before to charge the crowd.
30 minutes max. Sooner shorter than that. Then spend the rest of the time with the crowd.
I gave up on NR long ago. It hasn’t represented conservative interests in oh so long
That’s what I wonder, who is right? I listened to his whole speech; the first speech off his I have listened to, and he does not speak like a politician but seems to speak from the heart.
ABC News — 30,000
CNN — 30,000
USA Today — 30,000
City of Mobile Alabama — 30,000
And that’s just the ones I know of.
This was a turnstiled venue.
Trump towers.
I’m a Cruz guy first, but honestly I believe Trump could go onstage and read the phone book, and increase his support.
It’s still 6 moths before the first primary, a lifetime in politics.
I think he and Cruz have something up their sleeve though, and I think it concerns possible monkey business at the convention.
I hope you are right. We need Cruz.
LoL Trent Lott. The consummate GOPE insider.
Yeah, it was...........well really bad.
Once the Trumpmania fades, speeches like that are going to be panned mercilessly. He can probably get away with meandering stemwinders like that for a bit longer, but eventually people are going to want more substance and a speech they can actually follow (as opposed to one that goes in different directions after five or six words).
Pretty sure he took near an hour to basically tell us, again, how rich his is, really great he is, is going to build terrific things (more stimulus that was socialist garbage when Obama proposed it but apparently wonderful now that Trump wants to do it), tell American companies they can’t leave (or something), went to a fabulous school, and is otherwise super smart - and everyone else is dumb, well except all these world leaders that he says are smarter than ours (yet their track records show them to be no more intelligent than our own politicians based on almost any metric).
They just can't stand record turnout in a small 200,000 population city where 15% of the people showed up!
-PJ
What I saw of it wasn’t bad, didn’t come across as speechifying. More conversational. It wasn’t linear and building point by point, and I guess those who expect that were frustrated. I’m usually put off by obvious campaign rhetoric unless I strongly agree with it. Listening to political speeches is not up there among my favorite pastimes, but I enjoyed Trump for the most part, almost felt one on one. Not sure where all the complaints are arising, other than from people who would never support him anyway, or those who are trying to create an opening for another candidate.
Don’t forget most recent polls show Trump at 29% first choice and 12% second choice. That is 41% first or second choice among likely primary voters. In a field of 17.
Remember what Rush Limbaugh said about the extremely "pro-amnesty" RINO Trent Lott:
"What Do We Do About Trent Lott?" by Rush Limbaugh
Isn’t Trent Lott a fag?
Mobile police count was 30,000. I expect they are right.
Note cards? How quaint. Barry on the other hand can’t speak to a classroom of 3rd graders without TOTUS.
Yea, I imagine Trump is learning a few things. The thing is, he’s probably a very quick study.
How do you come by this conclusion? You seem to be certain.
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