Posted on 08/21/2016 3:09:46 PM PDT by Mariner
Washington (CNN)The prospect of more turmoil in Trump land, new efforts by Team Clinton to target millennials -- and a plea that could shape how many candidates get debate invites: it's all a part of our Inside Politics forecast.
1) Turmoil in Trump land could carry into the week ahead
Additions in politics often bring subtraction.
Paul Manafort, for example, resigned Friday as chairman of the Trump campaign, just days after his role was significantly reduced with the hiring of a new campaign manager and chief executive.
And there's word that more of the team Manafort brought in is thinking about leaving.
Political director Jim Murphy and pollster Tony Fabrizio are among a handful of Trump staffers known to have expressed frustration to close friends in recent days -- suggesting the new team has pushed them out of the loop to the point that they have learned of some new campaign plans either from the media or by watching the candidate on television.
Will they head for the exits? Stay tuned. National GOP leaders are worried more departures will cause more questions about a campaign team already considered not up to the challenges of the final months of the campaign. There is talk of trying to resolve these internal conflicts, or perhaps shift some operatives to the national party payroll. But several sources familiar with the internal Trump campaign turmoil said they would not be surprised if one, two or a few current staffers headed for the exits in the days ahead.
2) A big ad buy -- with a giant message
Hillary Clinton has had a lighter public campaign schedule of late, and along the way drawn some barbs from Donald Trump -- who questions her stamina to be president.
But the Democratic nominee hasn't been home resting
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
They couldn't do more to help Clinton get elected.
LOL. “There’s no turmoil now, mind you, but it just MIGHT be ‘right around the corner.’”
Predicting Clinton will make a 8-figure ad buy this week.
CNN, the “Iraqi Baby Milk Factory” network
[turmoil] == [anything that impedes Hillary’s path to coronation]
John King apologized for a guest saying “crosshairs” after the Gabby Giffords shooting.
CNN never critical of Clinton, Never critical of other Dems, never confront Dems and ask them if they agree with Clinton Foundation, Clinton Lies, Clinton corruption.
Funny...CBS is reporting Trump up by 5 in Pennsylvania.
CNN is a parody of a Leftist network. They should be subject to scorn and ridicule for every pro-Clinton story they pump out of their predictable Democrat propaganda mill.
Grasping at anything is what John King’s article can be best described as. They were all in for Clinton from the beginning and that’s not gonna change, but reading his article you can sense his and the other lefties panic. Getting rid of Manafort and having some of his crew leave too are giving the MSM hope that Trump’s campaign is in turmoil, but the opposite is happening. Bannon and Conway are strengthening the Trump message, and since both are used to tangling with lefty media types, will be able to handle them while Trump can go on with the business of campaigning for president. Sorry John, but you should be writing an article that has the title, “Why more Hillary turmoil may be right around the corner. Her campaign is in trouble and Trump is starting to solidify his.
They better get some bees wax so their lips don’t chap kissing Hillary’s butt.
“CBS is reporting Trump up by 5 in Pennsylvania.”
CBS has no such poll.
My opinion:
CNN and Clinton campaign is in panic mode.....
CNN the network that could not shoot straight
Meanwhile, the troubled Crooked Hillary campaign sputters on with an anemic rally in Nantucket held under somebody's picnic tent.
WHERE’S HILLARY?
The DNC’s Clintoon News Network. (((YAWN)))
No, REAL turmoil is suddenly increasing questions about the financial shenanigans at the Clinton Foundation. The MSM for the most part dismissed Clinton Cash, but when they suddenly found out a possible major link between the Clinton Foundation and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the issues with the Clinton Foundation now come to the forefront because multiple countries are investigating the international scope of the US$755 million embezzled from 1MDB.
Like Trump, The Founding Fathers Weren’t PERFECT EITHER!
A few months ago, I wrote and posted a defense of Donald Trump entitled “Why Would We Elect as President a Guy Who...? In it, I attempted to point out that MANY of those we have elected to the White House (as well as the myriad men and women who occupy high positions) have been – like ALL of us – frail, flawed and fallen fellow human beings and, yes, sinners.
My defense of Trump – but, more critically, the vital need to keep the most corrupt candidate to run for the office in my lifetime OUT of the White House – has led me to do further research into the personalities and character some of the men who played pivotal roles in the formation of this country. I wanted to try and learn if some of THEM would have sparked #nevertrump like groups to spring up in opposition. I cite below some of the fairly well documented historical information I have uncovered.
(For the sake of brevity, I have omitted footnotes. If anyone wishes them, please request via email and I’ll send them.)
“The Father of Our Country, George Washington began producing rye whiskey at Mount Vernon in 1797, reaching a peak production of over 11,000 gallons per year by 1799. He was the largest producer of whiskey in the Colonies. Imagine this fine Christian gentleman becoming a producer of – HORRORS – WHISKEY!! You can still buy his original recipe from the folks now running Mt. Vernon. Search on-line for “George Washington Rye”.
Mt. Vernon is regularly picked by #neverwashington and Christian Temperance groups.
“Whatever qualities define a Founding Father in the minds of many Americans, Thomas Paine probably lacked most of them. He was, according to one acquaintance, ‘course and uncouth in his manners, loathsome in his appearance, and a disgusting egoist.’ And yet this new immigrant from England became the voice of the early Revolution.’ His outspokenness at times got him in trouble, and he often found himself enmeshed in colonial scandals.”
“If Ben Franklin was the elder sage of the Revolution, Washington its heroic warrior and Jefferson its rarefied intellect, John Adam was its messy, tenacious, disputatious, verbose conscience. The powerful French minister the Count de Vergennes once told Congress that Adams ‘...has a rigidity and arrogance and obstinacy that will cause him to foment a thousand unfortunate incidents.’ Adams himself once said ‘Popularity was never my Mistress, nor was I ever, or shall I ever be a popular Man.’”
When the 5 man committee to draft the Declaration of Independence was formed, they assigned Jefferson who “...had a reputation of a masterly pen” the task of writing the document. Years later Adams admitted that he removed himself from consideration as he was “obnoxious, suspected and unpopular.” As we all know, despite being “obnoxious, suspected and unpopular” Adams went on to become President.
His enemies often referred to Alexander Hamilton as the “bastard boy” . From the West Indies, his mother, estranged from her legal husband, bore him in a relationship with another man. Hamilton went on to provide invaluable service to the new nation, creating and standing up numbers of institutions that exist to this day.
At 70 years of age when he participated in the drafting of the Declaration, Benjamin Franklin was the elder statesman of the move for independence. A successful businessman and widowed in 1774, he was also later renowned as a lady’s man – and the younger the better. During his frequent visits to Europe, first to England before the Revolution to plead the cause of American independence then to France to enlist French aid in the war with George, III, the stories of Dr. Franklin’s love of the freely given attentions of the ladies were legendary. As what we now call a “senior citizen” it’s doubtful that Dr. Franklin was “up” to return their affections in a more than grandfatherly manner. That said, some things are best left unknown.
While I COULD go on longer, here I shall end this truncated tale of the strong, intelligent, principled, yet FLAWED men who loved America – the IDEA – enough to risk death at the hands of a tyrannical king.
If you cannot draw a parallel between them and the strong, intelligent, principled, yet FLAWED man who also loves America – the IDEA – enough to leave his successful and affluent PRIVATE life in what could well be the last opportunity to snatch America back from the tyrants of today, I fear that I have just wasted the 2 hours it took me to compose it and the 10 minutes or so it took you to read it.
And for that I humbly apologize.
Dick Bachert
8/20/2016
Trump has gone nearly a week now without any gaffes and actually looked presidential in Louisiana. They're getting nervous. "What if he continues this way?" they fear.
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