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Trump effective, but too outrageous: Eric Cantor
CNBC ^ | July 31, 2015 | Matthew J. Belvedere

Posted on 07/31/2015 5:47:18 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network

Donald Trump has been effective in empathizing with the plight of struggling Americans, but the brash way he's going about it won't have staying power in the race for the White House, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told CNBC on Friday.

"I think Donald Trump ... [has] been effective at standing up and saying, 'Hey, I get what people are going through.' He can say some outrageous things. I think some of the language that was used vis-a-vis the [Mexican] immigrants ... [were] very divisive, very ugly and not a sustainable kind of rhetoric," said Cantor, who served seven terms as a Republican congressman from Virginia.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/31/donald-trump-effective-but-too-outrageous-eric-cantor-says.html

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To: bigtoona
He looks like the feminine version of Rachael Maddow.
21 posted on 07/31/2015 6:27:36 AM PDT by tatown
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Eric who?


22 posted on 07/31/2015 6:28:14 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Yes, as an establishment Republican, “effectiveness” must be moderate in its application. Otherwise, one might think one has an “agenda” that includes bedrock conservative principles.


23 posted on 07/31/2015 6:29:32 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Trump is more Jewish than Cantor could ever be! A white-bread do-nothing former Young Turk.


24 posted on 07/31/2015 6:29:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

25 posted on 07/31/2015 6:36:42 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I take all my advice on how to gauge the mood of the conservative electorate from Eric Cantor.


26 posted on 07/31/2015 6:43:00 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Best way I’ve heard it put is that “Trump is the middle finger of the base”....lol

Works for me.


27 posted on 07/31/2015 6:57:28 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

If you’re fed up with the “wet finger in the wind” flip-flopping hacks and looking for consistency in a candidate who loves this country, check out this 3 minute video from 27 YEARS AGO! Seems that Donald — like most of the rest of us — understands that things have become so bad that he HAD to go for it!
TAKE THAT, ESTABLISHMENT GOP!!
https://youtu.be/SEPs17_AkTI


28 posted on 07/31/2015 6:59:49 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: rwilson99

I hear Cantor is teaming up with Karl Rove to start offering”Election Counseling”.


29 posted on 07/31/2015 7:15:36 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The best vote I made in years was the one that helped send Cantor packing.


30 posted on 07/31/2015 7:18:49 AM PDT by dogcaller
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

More outrageous than Obama? Or more outrageous than two terms of Hillary??

Instead of throwing stones at who we might HAVE to vote for, why don’t we focus the discussion on how we differ from the one’s we HAVE to vote against?


31 posted on 07/31/2015 7:45:53 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Behold! The failed RINO, Eric Cantor speaks! Now, so what?
32 posted on 07/31/2015 7:47:36 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 ( Barbara Daly Danko)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Outrageousness is nothing more than a way to wake people up.” - Jim McMahon


33 posted on 07/31/2015 7:50:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Opinions of pantywaists not required.


34 posted on 07/31/2015 7:52:20 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

Especially pantywaists that lose elections.


35 posted on 07/31/2015 7:52:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Hee hee.


36 posted on 07/31/2015 8:00:01 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
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The 2016 GOP Candidate Field better get ready for a can of Donald Trump "Whoop Ass" ...

Why ?

The "conventional" MSM wisdom is that Trump entered the race on a whim ... and will simply continue his bombastic style at the first Fox News GOP Presidential Debate next Thursday.


That's a recipie for disaster for the other GOP Candidates.


Consider this.

Trump's new book will be released next Thursday (August 6, 2015) .... which means that Trump made the "presidential run decision" OVER A YEAR AGO ... to get a book written, edited and published in 365 days.

Indeed, Trump probably had to start the book project at least 18 months ago.

Fast forward to the "politically predictable" first GOP Presidential Debates on Fox News.

Trump has had between 12 and 18 months to secretly prepare for this game-chaning debate.

His opponents are all looking for "silver bullet" to nail Trump in the debate, to salvge their own struggling campaigns.



So how does Donald Trump prepare ?

Get 12 months of the BEST POSSIBLE briefings on foreign policy, military readiness, economic status, Common Core, Planned Parenthood, illegal immigration crime stats, ISIL, Israel, Export-Import bank, TPA-TTP ... the works ...

and if-when a John Kasich / Mike Huckabee type tries to nail Trump on a "technical question" ... Trump blasts them with both barrels with facts and statistics of his own ...

just like a "legitimate" U.S. Presidential Candidate is expected to.



Moreover, Trump has (probably) already secretly created a special campaign website (to be announced at the debate) with an easy simple-to-remember name like "AmericanVictory'org" (as an example).

Fifty million (50,000,000) GOP voter internet visits later ... Trump will have spelled-out (with pictures and quick two minute videos) his "detailed" approach to a dozen different national issues.


Trumps' GOP debate opponents have neither the brains, vision or MONEY to do all that ... except perhaps Ted Cruz.


Finally ... "Yeb Bush" is taken down by Trump with the simple question:

How can you call "immigration an act of love" when 7,567 Americans have been vrutally assaulted, raped, and murdered by illegal immigrants over the last XX years ?




Godspeed Ted Cruz and Donald Trump !


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37 posted on 07/31/2015 8:27:43 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Cantor is another example of repub/conser/rino who voters don’t know about until they do the Pelosi thing...

...’vote for me and then see what I will do ‘

I really feel sorry for the younger generation


38 posted on 08/01/2015 5:08:38 AM PDT by This_far (Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
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