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 wasn’t 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 don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them,” Luntz continued. “Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t 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.
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.
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 don’t 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
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 don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them,” Luntz continued. “Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”
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No kidding? Didn’t they even NOTICE the Tea Party?
So, don't anyone ever tell me again that Luntz doesn't know how to pick groups the way he wants to. His group debate night was a posse of partisans out to uphold the status quo.
“Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”
Luntz just figured it out. And pooped his pants.
Money can’t buy you Trump. Deal with it.
Seriously? Lunette’s legs are shaking because people like Trump? I thought this guy was supposed to be the expert on public opinion or at least understand it.
Another Chris Matthews. Where has he been since about 1990. Answer, the same place the GOP has been. Who needs grassroots, anyway
People in my family that have never been interested in politics before are going nuts over Donald Trump’s candidacy. He really tapped into something here and I believe we are about to experience a political earthquake like nothing we’ve seen in our lifetime.