Posted on 03/29/2016 3:22:57 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
You did good....
You may need to re-examine your premise, that “Trump has no grasp of the issues”. Since Trump has over 2,000,000 more votes than your candidate, it is entirely plausible that you have no “grasp of the issues”.
Prima Facie
He actually responded by NOT calling someone stupid or ugly?
People who make comments such as wait until the MSM gets hold of Trump are making the assumption that the MSM has been tacitly supporting Trump. Treating him with kid gloves.
In reality, they have thrown their best garbage at him and he deflects it and moves on. They have nothing in their quiver for a man who is not reduced to quivering goo when they attack.
ROTFL Yup, reliable news sources.
“”I can only say what I took out of Time magazine,” said Trump about his Walker attacks. “If Time magazine is wrong then they should apologize.””
” that “Trump has no grasp of the issues”. Since Trump has over 2,000,000 more votes than your candidate, it is entirely plausible that you have no “grasp of the issues”.”
If the standard was “the person who got the most votes has the best grasp of the issues,” then Obama would be brilliant.
But, as noted already, Trump’s go-to distraction when confronted by his lack of substance is “look at my polls!” “I’m winning!”
I do agree that the “look at my polls” distraction works on people who are not very smart because they confuse that with substance.
“Yeah, PING your fellow slimeball losers. “
Ah, insults.
And trolling in the gutter with fake adultery stories.
Tools of the trade for those who lack substance.
Glad we are elevating the discussion here.
Well, Obama did support the issues that the largest part of the electorate identified as most important to them. Whether you or I agreed with them is irrelevant.
We as individuals do not decide what the driving issues are, the electorate at large does. In the last 7 elections, the candidate who most closely mirrored my position on the issues never made to my primary.
Also, votes are a lot different from polls.
Conservative talk radio has made a few people famous and raked in money, but what has it really affected? Nothing. Bunch of bloviators who aren’t in the political ring themselves just cashing in. Echo chamber.
Its time for real American leadership not lunchtime dittos.
Last night case in point: Cruz had his first tough personal question in forever (from a Brit of course) and he had to hide behind Mommy. Trump swats away journalistic flies all day.
H.L. Mencken and Father Coughlin were as famous in their day as Limbaugh, et al, are now. Their actual lasting influence on politics seems negligible in retrospect.
You have a point. 27 years ago, I was excited to discover Rush.
I stumbled across him on a day I was at home, discouraged from having spent several weeks looking for a job. I kept waiting for the punch line, since the only time I heard talk like this was to mock my belief system. It took several days to realize it was not a joke, and it lifted my spirits tremendously.
As the decades have passed, I began to realize that there was a lot more money to be made in perpetuating the problems rather than resolving them. The only thing talk radio is good for is raising awareness of the problems.
We as individuals must realize that no White Knight is coming. If things are to change, we must be the agents of change.
Does that include throwing out the professional political parasites? I believe it is a good start.
I'm not a Trump basher. I think he has done America a service by raising and discussing important issues that no one else will touch. But to be honest, Trump doesn't need the media's help to look like a fool on occasion. He has shown little ability to go deep on issues and defend his positions. He is famously thin skinned and seems to enjoy making personal attacks. He can be quite crude in his language.
My suspicion is Trump would be an effective (results matter) President. For non-bomb-throwers like me, he would also be somewhat embarrassing and irritating.
Trump seems brave enough to participate in interviews with just about anyone.
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Trump is old school when it comes to the media.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity unless you are caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
You may need to re-examine your premise, that “Trump has no grasp of the issues”. Since Trump has over 2,000,000 more votes than your candidate, it is entirely plausible that you have no “grasp of the issues”.
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Look up logical fallacy. Appeal to numbers specifically.
Since Obama rec’d more votes than any other candidate, he must have been the one with the grasp of the issues, eh?
See how that works?
It is obvious that Obama had the best grasp of the issue that the electorate cared most about at the time, or he wouldn’t have won. That you disagree with those issues is irrelevant.
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I believe you mistakenly see ‘grasp of the issues’ and ‘ability to sway voters’ as meaning the same thing.
Yesterday’s hero???? Donald really has tremendous self-control. I would have been like a banshee after the first rude remark from this character Sykes.
When people say that candidate xyz has no grasp issues, they really mean that candidate xyz disagree with me and therefore is wrong.
That may be true. It is also possible, that the person making this remark is wrong or some combination of the two positions.
There is no one set of issues.
I have no interest in engaging in thought-provoking commentary with people who support a religious hypocrite who’s a tool of the establishment and ineligible to seek office.
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