Posted on 07/19/2015 2:53:53 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East
note that leftists don’t care if their rhetoric would make soccer moms and swing voters not vote for them
“Vanities are generally a bad idea.”
In this case, I disagree with you. CPE made some good insightful comments. Sage advice to the Trump.
On the contrary to CPE’s advice, one could argue that Trump’s McCain comments have benefit because he is going after McCain as a symbolic RINO. Remember, McCain attacked Strong US Border proponents as being “Crazies” - so Trump is trying to nail the MF’er. And he’s right.
We DO need a pitbull to represent the conservative cause, but Trump can be offensive and cocky. If he could only rein in his cockiness a bit.
Nah, I’m not stricken by the PC virus. I detest PC as much as you do and I like it when an articulate Free Speecher like Trump nails their hypocrisy. I like Trump’s swagger.
You’re missing my point and that is a strategic one: There are ways to say things firmly and articulately as Reagan did and make your point enough to convince people, but not piss them off and also give the MSM fodder to paint him as a racist. The Latinos that Trump pissed off are lost votes forever. He could have won those votes easily if he had been more articulate.
Trump is no Reagan.
Even someone as stubborn as you would have to admit he could have made his point about Mexicans/illegals being “rapists and drug dealers” in a sentence that didn’t foolishly imply that ALL illegals are “rapists & drug dealers.” That was just dumb.
He could have first stated that not all illegals are criminals and some have decent family lives, but then cite statistics about how a palpable percentage of them are “rapists and criminals.”
Then he could have cited the common stats about our homegrown black population which represent 13% of the US population, but they commit 50% of rapes and 50% of violent crime in the US.
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