Posted on 03/18/2016 12:46:52 AM PDT by goldstategop
Fed-upulist!
Pissed-offulist!
Think he doesn't understand Cattle futures trades, Benghazi, Email server with SAP/SCI data, Clinton Foundation foreign donations for influence peddling, etc., etc, and have the will to exploit her issues to the fullest extent?
Fareed Zakaria author of one of Obama’s favorite books... The Post-American World.
“Going with the winner”? You mean like when the dems kicked Hillary to the curb in 2008, falling all over themselves to elect the first black president?
And just for common sense sake, how stupid does “going with the LOSER” sound? If Trump is the winner of the primaries, and gets the nomination, of course we’re going with the “winner”.
Meanwhile, the dems and RINOs are falling all over themselves looking for a “winner”.
“Sorry BobL I did finished your post and I liked the rest.”
No prob...I was referring to the fact that Indians were here for thousands of years and didn’t get jack done...Europeans were here for a few hundred years and got us to the moon. It seems reasonable that if the New World had been totally left alone - no immigration here - that the Indians still would be where they were when Europeans first arrived.
That was my only initial point.
first of all, Trump is Trump. Attempting to fit him into some style book sleeve is rather foolish.
I would argue the best descriptive is pragmatist on a national scale.
This business of doing what works to achieve the goal of making America great again is a message that has wide appeal. Toeing some theoretical political or social line is not what’s happening. Trump is about no shackles of conventional political correctness or theory. Doing what works seems to have wide appeal and seems to be working
It is amazing the bright light that has been turned on during this process. So many “institutions” have been outted for what they really are....from the GOP, to Fox News and “conservative” writers, journals, politicians, etc. Sometimes in the process of renovating or rehabbing something back to greatness, the rotted structural members need to be removed. It’s dirty, sweaty, hard work; expensive, but the final product is stronger for the future.
Do you really think the voters are going to give a fig about email protocol much less cattle futures or various other topics from 20 years ago?
The voters so far have given zero indication that they care in the least.
What's clear to me is Trump is more than capable of taking her on effectively, far better than anyone else on our side. He's going to win, and win big.
I agree, and like Trump, he would likely see it as the first and most important thing to change today.
In my view you have described the consummate
conservative...Trump fits most of those traits...These phonys who are going around claiming they are the real conservatives are getting real dull...Rush and Levin being two of them...Those who say Trump isn’t a conservative don’t know what a conservative is...
I really had Will wrong
Will was against Reagan in '76 but turn coat that he is got a job with the Reagan campaign in '80. The little prick can not be trusted.
One has to analyze the thing itself, not a stereotype of the thing, and statements such as this:
But Trump’s nomination would transform the party into a blue-collar, populist, nationalist movement with a racial element...
are crippled by that error. This "racial element" is drawn from the projections of Trump's opponents, not necessarily from the reality. Relying on known slanted characterizations is a certain path to error. To rely on Lindsay Graham, for example, for an accurate assessment of Trump's preparedness to be a commander in chief is to lean on a mighty thin reed. Rubio, McCain, Ryan - does anyone imagine that their statements are sober and dispassionate assessments, worthy of serious analysis? Or even remotely accurate?
Zakaria's main case is a rather higher-level speculation of the general direction of the party based on questionable descriptive models of past behavior under different conditions and different people. To stretch that into a predictive model is to build a skyscraper out of popsicle sticks. Fun, I guess, if you enjoy that sort of thing but not to be taken seriously.
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