Posted on 02/01/2016 11:29:46 AM PST by Hojczyk
What they heard as they ate deli sandwiches around Donald Trumps hulking, wooden conference table sounded like the businessman’s typical bravado. These 25 New York political operatives had come to ask him to run for governor. But Trump had another plan—a very specific plan—to run for president.
You guys are going to be very helpful when I do the big thing, he said, according to people who were in the room that day.
He said, Im going to walk away with it and win it outright, a long-time New York political consultant recalled. Trump told us, Im going to get in and all the polls are going to go crazy. I’m going to suck all the oxygen out of the room. I know how to work the media in a way that they will never take the lights off of me.
This gathering of New Yorks political class was not held on the eve of Trumps announcement. It was much earlier than that – 25 months ago, in the weeks before Christmas of 2013, a period well before most Americans and even many politicians were thinking about the 2016 presidential contest. Well before Trump would come to utterly dominate the GOP race from the very moment he declared himself a candidate.
In this meeting, Trump showed his cards, laying out the route he would take to tonights Iowa caucuses.
Notoriously frugal, Trump insisted he wouldnt need to spend much money on paid advertising, drawing disbelief from the professionals gathered around his table.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
His political donation habits seemed to make a shift away from lefties in 2013. I always assumed that was his starting point.
The media coronation continues...
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
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Politico can’t speak truth much less speculate
I have written speeches before. I could not write for this guy.
So he goes to Scotland to make the important decisions in his life, not the U.S.
What would Politico do without Donald Trump to trash two or three times per day?
The National Review issue that attacks Trump will only inspire his supporters. In fact, it may wind up being the final boost in Iowa that gives Donald the nomination.
National Review just handed Donald Trump the Election
Republican Newswatch ^ | 1/22/16 | DOUG IBENDAHL
Posted on 1/22/2016, 8:39:33 PM by Amntn
National Review publication of the collective anti-Donald Trump missives from 22 self-appointed conservative potentates has caused quite a stir in Republican circles.
The nationwide responses range from, Wait, I thought National Review went out of business years ago, to Ed Meese? Seriously?
The Gang of 22 have officially become parodies of themselves. One would have to reach back to the days of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew to lift an adequate quote to describe them.
Nattering nabobs of negativism, vicars of vacillation, pusillanimous pussyfooters, the decadent few,ideological eunuchs,the effete corps of impudent snobs, or the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history - take your pick, because they all apply about equally well to each and every one of them.
So clueless is the Gang of 22 they can not even see how they have stumbled right into the narrative Trump has been communicating so successfully for months. Just like the elected officials from both parties, the Gang of 22 has been GREAT at complaining about stuff, year, after year, after year.
But getting anything accomplished? Not so much.
Many of the Gang of 22 have been hanging around and chattering for decades, and some are active cogs in the Conservative Entertainment Complex, deriving their income by pandering to conservative anger while offering no real solutions.
Donald Trump represents a threat to these ineffectual poohbahs in the same way he represents a threat to do-nothing public officials.
Jealousy is also seriously at work here. Trump is inspiring and exciting a broad spectrum of the country like no member of the Gang of 22 ever has, or ever will.
In just seven months of campaigning, Trump already has more Americans listening to a Republican message than the entire Gang of 22 could muster over decades.
Stop it, you’re kilting me with your humor.
It is often difficult to tell what Rush is really up to. I haven’t read the transcript from today’s show yet. Depending on what he said... there are so many people who consider him to be their enemy that it may actually be helpful to Trump if Limbaugh is against him. Conceivably Rush’s actual motivation could be to help Trump. It certainly confuses liberals when they are told that Trump is battling with FOX.
I am still not sure that Trump is not H. Ross Perot spawn.
“So he goes to Scotland to make the important decisions in his life, not the U.S.”
You take non-sensical to a whole new level.
I think his biggest expense thus far has been jet fuel. And the prices dropped! LOL
And Big Data.
The story of the 2016 election will be Trump's Big Data and Analysis operation.
The the great thing is that you won’t have to write speeches for Trump!!!
DT said he was impressed by Jimmy Carter because when he asked DT for money he requested 5 million - which was a lot for the cause involved. DT said that Carter went big and he admired that and figured it was how he got to POTUS.
Now I know how Karl Rove feels. Dang! I could be making loads of money!
The story of the 2016 election will be Trump's Big Data and Analysis operation.
Why do you say that?
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