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A personal assessment of Donald Trump
Coach is Right ^ | 11/10/15 | Stephen Meister

Posted on 11/10/2015 8:59:58 AM PST by Oldpuppymax

Despite Donald Trump’s meteoric rise to the top of the Republican presidential polls, the GOP establishment continues to bash its leading candidate. Apparently “party-cide” is contagious: The Democratic establishment continues to ride the sinking Clinton campaign like the string quartet on the deck of the Titanic — the majority of Americans know she’s a liar and don’t trust her. It’s a fight to the death all right, only each party’s pointing a gun at its own head.

GOP establishment favorite Jeb Bush is hemorrhaging voters too. CBS News/YouGov shows Bush coming in a pathetic eighth place in New Hampshire and doing only marginally better in Iowa, where he now places fifth.

As an attorney who’s worked for Trump (I have not represented him for the past year and a half) — and many years ago, against him — his success on the campaign trail comes as no surprise: Trump’s a man of exceptional tenacity and guts, insightful intuitions, clear purposes, an intelligence that’s expressed forcefully and directly, always without regard to political correctness, and a world class negotiator. Trump intuitively understands what troubles Americans and boldly states their concerns; I guarantee he’ll never be an appeaser of foreign governments; there’ll be no Neville Chamberlains or hapless apprentices for domestic or foreign policy, in his administration — if you’re not doing your job, you’ll be fired.

Coming off President Obama’s massive failures, most recently his hugely dangerous appeasement of Iran (and funding of the terrorist regime), Americans hunger for Trump’s common sense approach, especially when coupled with his incorruptibility: Trump doesn’t need donors (let alone a foundation to function as money generating, influence-peddling machine), and when he says politicians are forever hitting him up for money...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; hillaryclinton; illegals; wherestherest
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1 posted on 11/10/2015 8:59:58 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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2 posted on 11/10/2015 9:02:30 AM PST by smoothsailing
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3 posted on 11/10/2015 9:05:01 AM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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To: Oldpuppymax
Coming off President Obama’s massive failures, most recently his hugely dangerous appeasement of Iran (and funding of the terrorist regime), Americans hunger for Trump’s common sense approach, especially when coupled with his incorruptibility: Trump doesn’t need donors (let alone a foundation to function as money generating, influence-peddling machine), and when he says politicians are forever hitting him up for money, I can tell you he’s not exaggerating.

Well stated.

4 posted on 11/10/2015 9:07:13 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

The things that resonates about Trump is he has proven leadership skills and he brings an outsider view.

For the last 30 years we have elected career politicians to DC. Career politicians see everything in terms of politics. They look for a political answer to any problem. We need someone who will look at the problem, listen to his advisers, then say “this is the right thing to do” rather then “this is the politically correct thing to do”.

For a change we need to send someone to DC who has the leadership skills to surround himself with good people, the habit of listening to the advice of those experts instead of his political advisers, and the backbone to make the tough decisions. We need someone to go to DC and say “this, this and this is nonsense, we aren’t doing that any more no matter what the Donor class says”

A career politician, being part of the party machine, is not even going to see those issues in that light. Instead he is going to see the politics of the issue. It just how they are wired.


5 posted on 11/10/2015 9:07:51 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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Trump IMO is playing a masterful game of chess on his way to the GOP nomination. I have no worries about him winning the general election. Hillary can only dream of being able to attack Trump as viciously as the GOPe aided and abetted by the RNC and the MSM.


6 posted on 11/10/2015 9:15:27 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Two polls out today showing Jeb at 4% and 3% respectively. Trump at 31% and 32%. Carson at 16% and 18%.


7 posted on 11/10/2015 9:16:48 AM PST by Parley Baer
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I don't live in any fantasy world. Trump's a blue dog Democrat, which unfortunately puts him to the right of most of the GOPe. And honestly, while his policy papers released so far are extremely encouraging, I certainly expect him to sign legislation I'll never agree with.

And I'm sure he'll be infected with the ‘bipartisan’ bug - shorthand for doing what liberals want.

But my focus has been and continues to be the thousands of appointed positions that the president can put into place. Putting people who actually work and aren't the cousin of the speaker of the house or the wife of the chair of the ways and means committee, etc. Four years of no nepotism will likely have more effect on government departments than anything else, and will have a decade at least of carry on effects.

Will he be a good president if he wins the nomination and the general? Compared to what? Obama? Bush? I think the bigger problem is an infested congress and activist courts. That's the one dark mark I have on Trump; I'm less confident in his court appointments. But considering the alternatives - Bush, Rubio - hard to see either of them actually beating Clinton.

But one thing I've not really seen mentioned at all is why there's not really, at least that has popped up, any coattail effect on this national distaste for career Washingtonians - I've not really heard of many maverick congressional or senatorial runs to capitalize on the number of people who will be going to the voting booths to vote for Trump, Carson or on the other side, Sanders.

Is it just too early?

8 posted on 11/10/2015 9:19:31 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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A poll showing Ben Carson leading in SC is just a joke. That is never going to happen.


9 posted on 11/10/2015 9:28:23 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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You would be wrong in your assessment.

The “e” in GOPe stands for establishment and Trump is the antitheses of the establishment.

The GOPe is made up of Jeb, and the Bush family, Rubio, Kasich, Boehner, McConnell, Paul Ryan, Mitt, McCain, and all the rest of the backstabbing republicans.


10 posted on 11/10/2015 9:30:36 AM PST by Amntn
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To: smoothsailing

I like that!


11 posted on 11/10/2015 9:31:39 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: going hot; V K Lee; hoosiermama; RoosterRedux; 2ndDivisionVet; JoeSeales; onyx; Jane Long; ...

Trump ping!


12 posted on 11/10/2015 9:35:38 AM PST by Amntn
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Trump has a mission and that is to restore America to the greatness we once had. He is determined to resurrect the economy which America has lost. His fearless attitude on what should happen to the illegals. And one of the strongest is restoring the military and veterans benifits. There is no doubt that leadership is one of his strongest abilities and his honesty in telling what things are is beyond any of the other candidates. Trump for President.
13 posted on 11/10/2015 9:36:50 AM PST by Logical me
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Right now I prefer Ted Cruz. If Mr. Trump is the nominee I will happily support him


14 posted on 11/10/2015 9:39:22 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Gosh where do I start about how great Trump is....

He doesn’t lie; he is a man of his word; he is an American first; he can see, like we do, that this beautiful country is going into ruins...

I could go on all day, but I’ll leave some of it for the rest of you to do....

If there was ever a man that can help America, Trump is that man!!!

GO TRUMP GO!!!


15 posted on 11/10/2015 9:40:24 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, I hope you do too!!!)
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To: kingu

Have you read either of his two policy books??? Particularly his 2000 book The America We Deserve proves you wrong


16 posted on 11/10/2015 9:43:12 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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> “ I think the bigger problem is an infested congress and activist courts. That’s the one dark mark I have on Trump; I’m less confident in his court appointments.”

That’s why he needs Ted Cruz as his VP.


17 posted on 11/10/2015 9:43:41 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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Here ya go, have some fun with this one!!! 8^)

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18 posted on 11/10/2015 9:44:21 AM PST by smoothsailing
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He’s soooooo “committed” that he’s been married 3 times!

Tells me all I need to know.


19 posted on 11/10/2015 9:46:20 AM PST by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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To: Amntn
Not sure what you mean wrong - I said Trump was to the right of the GOPe, and then you say that he's anti-establishment.

First and foremost, I've got no illusions that he'll work with anyone and everyone, including McCain and the GOPe, or with Pelosi and the Democrats - I fully expect a major case of bipartisanship to pop up if he is sworn in.

Which was kind of my point - where's the coattail effect on the primary? Who is hitching their stars to Trump to ride in on the anti-establishment charge? Because if we use this opportunity to stuff in as many anti-establishment conservatives as we can, bipartisanship will be diluted and congress itself will be reformed at the same time.

20 posted on 11/10/2015 9:46:47 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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