I'm stealing that, but not to worry: I only steal from the best!
The 'TRUMP SIGNAL' indeed...
(and I'm *pinging* one of our local anti-Trump 'Jokers' too, as a courtesy ;)
Posted on 09/25/2015 11:14:04 AM PDT by Steelfish
Four Easy Steps for Beating Donald Trump by HENRY OLSEN September 25, 2015.
The Republican elites are all in a Twitter titter about whether Donald Trump can be defeated. They needn’t worry. Beating Trump will be as easy as counting backward from four to one.
Four bankruptcies, three wives, two parties, one big problem for America. That six-second tagline to an ad sums up why, when the chips are down, the Donald’s getting fired. This mantra will take Trump down because his appeal rests on trust. Voters angry with elites for various reasons trust that Trump will have their backs in office. But the 4-3-2-1 line of attack shows why exactly the opposite is true.
“Four bankruptcies” will shake Trump’s support among the key Republican faction, the establishment conservative. These voters tend to be small-business people and middle-range executives, and nothing is more important to them than stability of character. Their businesses and careers depend on being able to count on employees to come to work, contractors to pay their bills, and bosses to treat them fairly.
Trump’s bankruptcies are poison for these voters because they were all strategic moves that threw people like them under the bus. When the chips were down, Trump sacrificed his business allies to keep his millions and start over. Nothing will scare a small-business person or an executive more than the thought that there but for the grace of God go I.
“Three wives” are also, at heart, about trust rather than morality. To be sure, Christian conservatives looking at Trump should worry about a man who has twice been in violation of Jesus’ prohibition (Matthew 19:5–9, if Mr. Trump would like the Bible verse) against divorce except in cases of sexual immorality. But women in general will also be turned off by Trump’s romantic antics. They might well wonder whether his relationships with women are a positive indication that he will he be faithful and attentive to their political needs through thick and thin. The story of Carolyn Kepcher reinforces both lines of attack. A brainy, beautiful blond, Carolyn was the real breakout star from the early seasons of The Apprentice. But according to press reports, Trump could bear no one but himself gaining public adulation, so he fired her in favor of his daughter, Ivanka. The lesson was clear: Anyone can be fired if it helps The Donald.
Repeat after me: four bankruptcies, three wives, two parties, one big problem for America. “Two parties” points out for loyal Republicans and movement conservatives alike that Trump treats parties and policy positions like toys to be used and discarded at his pleasure.
He’s been a Democrat, an independent, a Republican, and briefly sought the Reform-party nomination for president in 2000. He’s been pro-choice and pro-life, pro-Clinton and anti-Clinton, pro–single payer and anti-Obamacare. There’s neither rhyme nor reason for his shifts: The only thing that explains them is his constant pursuit of the one thing that really matters, the glory of Donald Trump. All of these facts add up to one big problem for America.
Most of Trump’s backers believe that the biggest thing wrong about America is that no one in government is working for them. But Trump isn’t the elite guy who’s switched sides, he’s the elite guy par excellence whose pursuit of his own wealth and fame leaves everyone else in the dust. He’s not only not the solution to America’s problems, he’s the biggest embodiment of those problems.
Trump will still have his backers after this barrage, but someone who has risen fast can also fall fast. About one sixth of the GOP electorate has gone from disliking Trump six weeks ago to liking him now. This soft support is the difference between an annoying but harmless Trump sitting at 15–18 percent and a terrifying Trump sitting at 30–35 percent. These lines of attack will remind soft supporters exactly why their initial instincts about the Donald were right.
Repeat after me: four bankruptcies, three wives, two parties, one big problem for America. Say it enough times, and soon we’ll be talking about who among the remaining contenders can fill the big man’s shoes. —
Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the co-author of the forthcoming book The Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination (Palgrave, November 2015).
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424613/donald-trump-defeated-four-steps
This is all old news that has been in the public domain forever. If it was going have a negative effect on Trump’s campaign it already would have. Nobody cares.
We agree. Did you mean to post this to the one who started this thread?
It's about making America better for citizens of this country - not for hordes of third-world peasants, not for sell-out globalist elites, not for Muslim thugs pretending to be “refugees.”
Since they spend so much time telling you how conservative they are, you would think that the cuckservative pajama boys at National Review would support the idea of “America for Americans.”
But you would be wrong.
I stopped reading this rag long ago. A bunch of blissed-out potheads.
Affirmative. :-)
National Review doesnt like Donald much me thinks.....
Thanks.
Please do (steal)....I have a collection :)
“Repeat after me: Nothing must stop the cheap labor express.”
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That’s they key-—plus the ingrates that go on the dole and then complain about their treatment-——(Somalis in Maine)
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How to beat Trump
1) Be pro-American
2) Advocate for veterans
3) Secure our borders
4) Tell both parties where to stick it
In other words, be more Trump than Trump
Reagan was our FIRST divorced president. That’s how much the average voter wanted him.
I agree..I’ll vote for him if he is the nom but...I want more on his positions. A friend was here earlier ...was a big TRUMP supporter..from NYC but now has gone somewhat cold on him. Constant attacking of others and no policies.
Time will tell.
No one n their “right” mind figuratively and metaphorically can trust Trump. I am still waiting to hear from his how he plans to identify, locate, detain, and deport using ships, planes, and buses of some 11-20 million immigrants many wit families and children to over 25 countries in the face of a tsunami of federal court injunctions?
Bottom line is the man has no gravitas. The Trumpoonery-Buffonery will soon collapse under the light weight of its own froth and bubble
his mantra will take Trump down because his appeal rests on trust.”
Nope.
His appeal rests on the fact that he is not scared of the media, and that he has said things that the media said that he shouldn’t say....and that we think he should say.
It’s pretty much that simple.
But by killing the media, more or less, he may well just allow US to make America great again.
Nothing but personal garbage. National Review, the uppity bird cage liner from England.
National Review is as nasty as Rich Lowrey. People have already heard thos crap and it hasn’t worked.
The only way is they way they are too damn stupid to realize.
Apparently, the voters don’t agree with your assessment.
Gravitas? Really? meh, how stupid.
Plus he describes himself a pro-life. He even mentioned her name at CPAC, to erroneously claim he was on the right side.
If I hadn’t already thoroughly detested him for calling those who want to control the illegal invasion racists, I would have at that statement.
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