Posted on 07/26/2015 4:57:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nice input-—thanks.
You just described the skills needed to be a good negotiator. That's Trump's bread-and-butter.
Who is your preference?
“It isn’t hard to figure out what’s driving the so-called Donald Trump phenomenon”
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, to give an inadequate paraphrase, that oftentimes the arrival of a single, unexpected, extraordinary individual, changes the world.
“They probably have already located a number of such former employees who probably deserved to b fired and who Trump may not even know about to blindside him at the opportune moment.”
I don’t think it’s possible to blindside Trump. He doesn’t play by the same rules. He (I think) accidentally said something wrong about not liking people who were captured, and ended up turning it into a win for him by concentrating on vets and opening a hotline. He will come right out and say what a lousy employee that person was, etc. He doesn’t play by the same PC rules.
That’s why the media, Democrats, and most Republicans are so afraid of him.
“Trump is catching an emotional wave of anger”
Is he catching it or creating it?
To me Trump is an extraordinarily intelligent, insider-knowledgeable, successful person.
He captures our attention by, in addition to his bombast, informing us of what’s happening to us and why.
“there are MILLIONS of fed-up white voters (hence my tagline and profile page)”
I’ve thought the GOP lost the last two elections because the base (whites) stayed home. They pander to everyone but us.
Yep, we lost because our candidates had no credibility with the base (i.e., white conservatives), so millions stayed home.
But we also lost because we didn’t our natural constituency a reason to come over to our side. That being white voters that are absolutely sick of constantly being called racists and being lectured to by the President and the media. And now having to go through Stalin-esque show-trials confessing their guilt for being born white.
Trump can reach both of these groups...and that is what scares the crap out of the Democrats and the media.
Because, racism.
Must have been in his speach. ;-)
I hate “the Media” so much I even hate that name for wire service journalists. Journalists presume to call themselves (more precisely, call each other, in a mutual admiration society) “objective” - as if they had no motives of their own. But IMHO their motives are easily recognizable in the following quotation:The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .Journalist’s claims of their own objectivity actually prove only one thing - they actually aren’t even trying to be objective. Trying to be objective is hard work, because it starts with self-examination of how “where they stand” might be affected by “where they sit.” But if you think you actually are objective, you assume that you don’t have to do that work - and so you don’t, actually can’t.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
What’s not to like about a person like that! </sarcasm>
You our probably right, but I don`t think the enemedia will be smart enough to change the playbook which has worked so well for them all these years.
"Scott Walker, I'm high on yoooooooou".....
Cruz was booed by bigoted Christians because he defended Israel and he WALKED off the stage to some applause by normal Christians
Yeah, you shouldn’t speek that way at the boarder.
This clown writes for Mother Jones
A real leftist
And you think John Bonehead and Mitch McConnell are “for the people”?
Unlike Trump, they actually have power to change things.
Yet, they do nothing.
You got me all wrong. No! I don’t think Boehner or McConnell are for the people, any more than 99% of them.
Don’t kid yourself. They don’t have the power you think they have to change anything. They do what they are told, just like those under them do as they are told.
We need to stand behind the new blood, like the Cruz’s of the world. Yes, there are few of them, but there are many of us.
Cruz would be one of the highest-paid lawyers in the United States with his background, eight figures a year. The $170,000 he makes now is chicken feed compared to that, and president only pays $500K IIRC.
Exactly. Cruz is the real deal, IMHO
Definition: narcissist
Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Someone in love with themselves.
There ya go.
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