Posted on 09/22/2015 7:03:57 PM PDT by raybbr
I was there and have pictures from that event.....pretty hard to identify someone by name in a crowd of at least 5,000 people.
You sure it wasnt the ribs place in Germantown? I’ve lived in Cedarburg a long time and don’t really recall a place looking like a lodge inside in town....unless you’re talking about the Anvil.
There are great things about Trump. He's the ONLY candidate since Reagan who has been able to speak over the heads of the media. Period. He showed the right how to do it once again, literally making the media have him as the center of every day's conversation. He's a master at manipulating them.
He has selected issues that were the most important to the base, added a silent majority who is frustrated, and forced these issues to be discussed, and the media begrudgingly has to report on them.
His attack on the PC culture has been magnificent, any of the candidates could have done it, but they didn't. He doubles down on his pronouncements, and takes on all comers. He fights back, even harshly at times, but he fights and people want that. No more mealy mouthed crap from the right.
He has destroyed the candidacy of Jeb.
I like all those things. You should too. We all should. He still doesn't make my top two (Walker was one).
As to Walker, he was my second favorite candidate originally, a close second at that. He may have been the best at being president, but he simply was a poor candidate for these times. His first debate performance was not good, kind of wooden, and he made lots of mistakes, from staffing to not getting his message out, made some apparent gaffes. All of that made me sad.
As does his leaving the race. I wish him well, and wish he had been a better candidate, because he sure as heck would have made an excellent CIC and chief executive.
I confess I thought it was you.
I did not subscribe to the schadenfreude piling on that some others did though.
As I wrote many times before in our heated arguments, I liked Walker. A lot. In my top-4.
I just didn’t like dishonest piling on. Anyone. Which is why I refused to participate when he dropped out.
God Bless
There's at least a third of all conservatives, liberals and in-betweeners who are attracted to celebrities. There's not a lot of correlation between celebrity status and competence as can be seen by the competent but non-celebrity Walker. But there's also no particular anti-correlation. Just because Trump is a celebrity does not mean he is the incompetent buffoon portrayed by the media. He has substantive plans for putting America on the right track even he is winging it in other areas (e.g. foreign policy). Sometimes the cult of personality is just a way to get someone elected to shake things up. Often it is a progression in the degeneration of the Republic of the United States into a latter day Roman Empire. Hard to tell which fo those Trump is at this point (shaker-upper or emporer).
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