So is Lawry for or against Trump? No middle of the road. Lawry needs to be a patriot and support Trump. Same as Krauthammer. It's time. And Cheney and Newt have REAL gravitas over someone like Paul Ryan.
Posted on 05/06/2016 7:37:45 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
Every Trump critic had “Oh, hell” moments during the primary season.
They were when Donald Trump demonstrated a keen, gut-level political instinct that even an exceptionally talented conventional politician would be hard-pressed to match.
An example: During a Republican debate in Florida in February, Trump was asked about former Mexican President Vicente Fox’s comment that his country wouldn’t pay for Trump’s “[expletive deleted] wall.”
“The wall just got 10 feet taller,” Trump shot back. The rejoinder was funny and memorable. A Republican senator told me that his cellphone instantly lit up with constituents thrilled at what Trump had said. In slapping down el presidente, Trump advertised his toughness and nationalistic bona fides in a way a $10 million ad buy never could. .... Oh, hell.
Then there was the time he turned Ted Cruz’s “New York values” attack into a riff about 9/11, leaving the college-debate champion no option but to applaud Trump’s answer.... Or when he made the disruption of a Chicago rally by protesters into an advertisement for his stalwartness against thuggery.... Or his temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
Trump’s achievement is difficult to fathom. With no pollsters, no speechwriters, no fundraising staff, little campaign organization, few TV advertisements, no debate prep, and a paper-thin knowledge of public affairs, he has won a major-party presidential nomination. This is a 100-year event.
Trump did it by pounding a simple message over and over again in big rallies and media appearances. His shibboleths are burned into the consciousness of his supporters in a way we haven’t seen since the Barack Obama of “hope and change.” The Trump supporter with whom Cruz argued a few days before the Indiana primary wasn’t highly informed, but he sure knew to shout “Lyin’ Ted!”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Do you know who Rich Lowry is?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHR5Ly3TrwM
FUNR. You trashed Trump since he declared; now you’re simply backpedaling and trying to give the devil his due because you’re hemorrhaging subscribers and clicks.
Sissy boy Rich Lowry can go suck an egg.
The Trump supporter with whom Cruz argued a few days before the Indiana primary wasn’t highly informed, but he sure knew to shout “Lyin’ Ted!”
He had to get that little dig in.
So is Lawry for or against Trump? No middle of the road. Lawry needs to be a patriot and support Trump. Same as Krauthammer. It's time. And Cheney and Newt have REAL gravitas over someone like Paul Ryan.
It's not that hard to fathom. It is precisely because Trump has no pollsters, no speechwriters, no fundraising staff.... and he speaks the way all of us speak. He says the things we are thinking & the things we wish the politicians we previously voted for would say.
He has brass balls, in a neutered, PC world.
These girly-men are still trying to figure him out.
We support Trump because of the following:
Trump will rebuild the military
Trump will promote Capitalism as the way to revive our economy
Trump will close the borders and stop the unabated flood of illegals who come to this country for government services and to vote for Democrats.
Additional reasons: Trump is not a RINO. . ok. . maybe he's not a Conservative. . .but he's not a RINO and if he accomplishes those three agendas mentioned above. . well. . he's conservative enough for me.
Must be a blue moon tonight...
Which is one of the reasons I didn't click on the link to the article on NR's site...
Trump did it by advocating positions that appeal to conservatives and moderates- forcefully.
That’s 2/3 of the voters in the primary and in the general election.
The reality that Trump tapped into is that a large swath of voters are finished listening to the lies of both parties, and they want real, common-sense solutions.
Voters see that the economic prospects for citizens have been gutted; factories, mines, timber, ranching, farming, etc. operations have been shut down here, and moved to other countries; and foreigners (both legal and illegal) have been brought in to displace American workers on the remaining jobs.
This is an economic holocaust against US citizens -- as much as Stalin's holodomor against the Ukrainian people in the 1930s. The only reasons the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama attempt has not achieved the "success" that Stalin did is (1) the US had a more diverse economy, and (2) the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama regime has not been able to fully employ its military might against US citizens. Yet.
“What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think...and 5) who to vote for.”
Circa March 2016
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.
Very insightful from Taleb. He’s a real philosopher. I read Black Swan a while back
Christian Arab btw. Not Muslim.
And that’s the absolute truth. He speaks what the majority are thinking.
Too many here live in FR fantasyland and they think that the republicans and the country are constitutional conservatives. It’s not true and they are living in a time warp.
Republicans and independents are Americans first. Trump’s positions are appealing to them and that will win him the election. While he is not from the conservative camp he can still accomplish many conservative objectives. He will do more good for this country than the last five elected ‘conservative purists.’
If I ever see RL on the street I’m gonna trip him and laugh.
From the article, “Trump also was fortunate. For the longest time, there wasn’t any organized effort against him.”
You don’t need to read past that statement. The statement is very misleading. The amount of money spent on negative ads against Trump by other Republicans has been unprecedented. It started early and it started strong. Rich Lowery and the NRO has established a pattern of lying that has completely destroyed the reputation of the publication. I hated to even click on the link to read the article.
Raw truth has a power all its own. Scheming and tactics are weak in the face of it.
‘23 Sep 2015
National Review Editor and Fox News Contributor Rich Lowry stated that GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina cut other GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “balls off with the precision of a surgeon” on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.’
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