Posted on 08/25/2015 5:37:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
They get it.
They HATE the miserable, lying, treasonous,
selfserving, EXEMPT Congress, including
the complicit hyper-lying GOP.
Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasnt listening to their grassroots.
Blind Squirrel syndrome
The grassroots have abandoned them (the GOP “leadership”)? Hardly! They’ve abandoned the grassroots, assuming the GOP ever actually represented grassroots voters anyway...
Pints trying to save his career.
I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They dont realize how the grassroots have abandoned them, Luntz continued. Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasnt listening to their grassroots.
The GOP abandoned the grass roots, Frankie. This is the natural result. People have had it with the criminal class in DC.
The middle class is being destroyed by both establishment parties.
Who’s this “they” you speak of, Kimosabe? We!
LUNTZ
The Dems’ media pawns get tingles up their legs over their most promising and partisan candidates.
The GOP’s media have their legs shake at the thought of a non-uniparty candidate in the lead.
To the GOPe, the National Chamber of Commerce and the other K Street Pimps are the grassroots.
Neither do many Freepers.
I hear things all the time like “Trump isn’t a conservative!”
And that is where the disconnect is. Most people, most voters, are not political people.
They don’t care what an actor’s views are, they don’t care where a product was made, they don’t care if someone has a different view of economics.
For most Americans, politics is not something that defines who a person in.
So even voters who are conservative really don’t care if Trump is conservative or not.
Instead, they define him with words and phrases like ‘tough’, ‘gutsy’, ‘says what he thinks’, ‘tells it like it is’, ‘honest’.
Those words used to define ‘man’ in America. But now those traits are so rare, that when someone comes across that way it is refreshing and makes you feel good.
Trump wants to make America great again, and that idea, that concepts, those very words make people smile and think that if he wants to make America great again, then maybe America really can be great again.
I’m still voting for Cruz.
“They dont realize how the grassroots have abandoned them.”
That’s the ‘effect.’
The ‘cause’ was the GOP abandoning the grassroots.
We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years. The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters.
The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.
Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006
Apparently Luntz couldn’t find any of those supporters after the first debate. What a farce.
Pray America is waking
first and foremost he is a businessman. He unapologetically speaks his mind and those two aspects make him appealing to a particular segment of the voting population that see nothing else working
Conservative or not Trump is definitely a Capitalist. More importantly he is a 100% dyed-in-the-wool American Capitalist. After the last 7 years that’s startin’ to look pretty good. He appears to love his country and hates seeing it lose over and over again because it’s being managed by incompetent schmucks.
The choice between ‘Rat and ‘Rat lite ain’t cuttin it...
I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They dont realize how the grassroots have abandoned them, Luntz continued. Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasnt listening to their grassroots.
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No kidding? Didn’t they even NOTICE the Tea Party?
They are the only constituents that really matter, after all.
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