Posted on 11/24/2015 3:16:12 AM PST by markomalley
Within the first few minutes of his speech Monday night, real estate mogul Donald Trump came out swinging at a primary opponent’s low standing in the polls and mocked the media’s coverage of his events.
At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, the Republican presidential candidate, who frequently alludes to polls, once again touted that he’s leading the pack and specifically took aim at Ohio Governor John Kasich on his home turf.
“Your governor is only 2 [percent]. What happened?” Trump said to a mix of cheers and boos.
The two presidential candidates have been recently sparring after a super PAC supporting Kasich launched a $2.5 million ad campaign against Trump. A day later, GOP operatives also waged a “guerilla campaign” to take down Trump.
According to the latest RealClearPolitics average of national polls, Trump leads with about 28 percent, while Kasich trails far behind with nearly 3 percent.
“We’re a silent majority who’s no longer silent,” Trump said.
Speaking to a packed convention center, Trump lambasted the media for not showing the entirety of the crowds watching his speeches. He challenged the cameras in the back of the room to pan out while also noting the number of people outside who weren’t able to watch from the main room.
“Look at all those cameras back there,” Trump repeated to a chorus of boos. “Can you believe this? Look! Unbelievable.”
Trump said to the audience, “You won’t become stars tonight, but you’ll become stars when we turn around the country.”
Trump then pivoted to foreign policy, saying, “We’ve become soft. We’ve become weak. We’ve become the laughingstock all over the world."
He said that a terrorist attack like the recent one in Paris could have been prevented if those people were armed, earning him one of the biggest applause lines of the night.
Trump doubled down on a comment he made during an interview Sunday about permitting waterboarding as a form of torture.
“You bet your ass I would … in a heartbeat,” Trump said, blasting critics who knock its effectiveness. “If it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us.”
Trump also maintained his previous comments that some people in Jersey City, New Jersey were cheering on 9/11, reading as proof an excerpt from a 2001 Washington Post story that was published a week after the terrorist attacks.
“They'll call it a typo, but they'll try to deny it,” Trump said. “Thousands of people believe me because they saw it.”
That rally must have been something!
Kasich has aligned himself with the grocery clerks who run the gope.
How can you not love this guy?
An Open Letter To: Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and those of your similar professional circle.
Dear: Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and those of your similar professional circle.
After the fiasco that was Mitt Romney, for over two years each of you -at one point or another- have called for the broader conservative electorate, the generalized “right†or “center-rightâ€, to unite in support behind one candidate who can defeat the leftist advancement and larger progressive agenda.
While railing at “drive-bys“, “corporate interests“, “manufactured politics†and various catch phrases, you have engaged a national audience and delivered opinion.
Did you actually mean it ?
.… Or was that all BULLSHIT ?
Because for the past six months a Republican front-runner has not only emerged, but has worked his ass off to earn the massive support he holds.
Have you noticed a campaign rally for Ted Cruz with 10,000+ in attendance? Have you seen Democrats switching parties just so they can support Marco Rubio? Are there grass roots websites helping Jeb-Democrats to register as primary supporting Republicans?
See the point?
Have you noticed another, as in “any other†candidate, willing to put his butt on the line to unapologetically discuss, advocate and advance the same issues important to your audience?
Well?
For six months only one candidate has waged war, when needed, against a corrupt industrial media complex in order to insure the delivery of his message, our message.
Only one candidate has pushed forward against the strongest adversaries in the media -forcing them to engage in policies, platforms and issue discussion they would never allow- and never backing down, always forward.
For six months only one candidate has put his entire brand, reputation, financials and honor at risk – with zero self-benefit as an outcome of the effort.  For six months one candidate has campaigned for the most support, generated the most excitement and coalesced the largest base.
One candidate. Working exhaustively.
Have you seen another candidate with polling showing such diversity in support? Have you seen 25%-40% black support for Cruz, or Rubio, or Jeb? Does anyone else carry such a consequential broad base?
No, and no you haven’t.
Have you seen any other candidate lead the polls amid 18-32 year-olds with such dominance?
Have you seen another candidate hold so many campaign rallies in all of the important states? … with packed audiences? …with filled arenas? ….. with thousands-upon-thousands in attendance? …day-after-day-after day, often in the same week?
Have you seen another candidate’s audience response so committed, so engaged, so enthusiastic?
No, no you haven’t.
Have you seen any other candidate directly align with the principles and positions of the majority of the patriotic working class, the middle class, The American Class?
Have you seen any other candidate willing to take on Tom Donohue and the parasitic U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is no longer representing national best interests but promoting ‘globalist’ best interests ?
No, no you haven’t.
Have you seen any other candidate who is not beholding to the financial corporate interests of Wall Street?
Have you noticed any other candidate with such overwhelming real and grass-roots financial support from “Main Street�
No, being honest with yourself, you haven’t noticed that either.
So what is it exactly you are advocating for.  You advocated for a specific action – for center-right Americans to come together and support a single candidate. These words were spoken by each of you, repeatedly, over the broadcast airways for the past several years.
These are YOUR WORDS, not ours – YOURS.
While “coming together†we have been ridiculed, marginalized, assaulted, called names, belittled, disregarded, attacked, besmirched and ignored. We battled through, and retained our assembly.
So here we stand. Millions of us – right here in a big, broad, united group; the largest single mass of people in the entire center-right country; standing directly in front of you, just like you asked; and we have selected our candidate.
As we stand here staring directly at you, we present a single question:
….â€Wellâ€?
We are currently tuned-in, reading, watching, and listening to the various punditry saying the Republican Party is now collectively engaged in destroying the person we support and have outlined above.
We’ve done our part. Now it’s time for YOU to put your effort where your mouth was – put every single one of those Republican Donors and Operatives on notice….
Or, was everything you said previously – just BULLSHIT?
Please advise.
Warmest regards,
We, the Citizens of The United states of America, We, The People.
The rally was great, the crowd was loud and boisterous.
It was fun to watch.
Here is video, one hour. The sound isn’t the best for the first couple of minutes, but they soon have that fixed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL-4AR7jkX0
Thank God America is awakening.
This rally is but one small sign of the awakening.
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