Posted on 07/19/2015 8:01:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s insult of John McCain’s war record on Saturday has led to nearly universal condemnation from his Republican primary adversaries. More importantly, it might also be the well-anticipated moment when Trump’s popularity in the GOP race comes crashing down. Whatever happens next in the campaign, though, it’s fair to say that the damage to Trump’s national personal standing and miniature media empire has already been done. That happened the instant he entered the race by attacking Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists,” and it happened thanks largely to an unprecedented grassroots response by Latino-Americans, Latino immigrants, and the broader Latino world. Whether or not Trump’s poll numbers return to earth because of the McCain flap, Trump’s entertainment properties don’t ever seem likely to recover from the damage caused by the united Latino response to his blatant xenophobia.
Trump’s remarks weren’t the first time Trump or a high-profile politician had made racist comments about Latinos. Trump himself has blamed crime on blacks and Hispanics before. But this time Latinos were quicker to unite and more effective to protest than ever before. Trump’s outsized personality probably had something to do with the passion of the response. But this became a watershed moment for the Hispanic community mostly because of how the outrage was manifested through social media, and how Hispanic mainstream media reacted to this discontent.
In Latin America, politicians and celebrities channeled Hispanics’ collective indignation....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I voted republican in 2014 because the candidates almost universally promised to defund Obamacare and reign in Obama’s executive power abuses. How much of that have they even tried to do? Trump is much less of a fraud than almost every elected republican in DC and most of the candidates running this year, in my opinion.
What Trump did was kill McCain’s chance at re-election to the senate. Just look at the Chris Rock tube from 2008.
Brilliant strategists they are. Republiduds like Perry are done too.
Even Fox News is spreading an inaccurate and incomplete meme.
They’re pushing ¡Yeb!
Yup, you are right.
Trump’s most powerful weapon is the fact that he is very blunt and is unafraid to attack them using all the stuff that the MSM has kept buried. He has the money to expose it all to the public. The MSM is the gatekeeper that hides the truth... but Trump has the money to go over the top of the media... this is what they fear the most. They fear a loss of the ability to control information.
Trump knew the spinning media would fall off the edge over this. I can’t wait for the next few days.
I hope his polling numbers go up five points this week. lol
The video is posted here on FR. Jim posted it
Ill go.look
Indeed. Trump is a pig. He's all ego, nothing more. Women cant stand his pompous ways. Disgusting.
They want to declare Trump done so they can get back to the regularly scheduled Liberal Vs. RINO contest.
Where the RINO is the punching bag of the Liberal Media.
There were thousands of comments on the Trump/McCANE thread on FB
They were really taking it to fox. Lots of veterans. Some posted videos and articles only a few supported Mccain. The SILENT majority is finding its voice
YES Trump numbers are going up!
“Women cant stand his pompous ways. Disgusting.”
Have you been out at the malls polling on this issue, or are you just saying something cause you like the way it sounds? Is that the official “women’s” position, or is it possible that some women like him and some don’t? Are you trying to make the point that he’s a bad guy because there are some women who dislike him? There are a lot of women who like Obama, so what conclusions should we draw from that?
They are clueless...
In the unlikely event he needs grist for that mill, here's a reminder of another Citizens Last program launched last November.
Presidential Memorandum -- Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees
It outlined the need for a Federal support system for 'emergent immigrant communities' that "...is innovative and competitive with those of other industrialized nations (a misleading prevarication in the least) and supports mechanisms to ensure that our Nation's diverse people are contributing to society to their fullest potential...
Notes were made from listening sessions and the information gleaned from these sessions indicated, as reported on 680 WCBM Talk Radio, the interest was in navigation, not assimilation, and the navigation was through the system, focused on benefits.
It was pointed out that many of the immigrant women wanted to be home with their children and not work, provided taxpayer benefits are secured for them and their children and that the Task Force consider these New Americans as refugees or asylum seekers, and as such considered for cash, medical, educational, and housing benefits.
Read the rest http://www.wcbm.com/includes/news_items/1/news_items_more.php?section_id=1&id=478861
It's a natural born radio campaign, imho.
Yup, that’s tailor made for Trump.
Ah, that would be this McCain Flap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCIzW-i28E
... in which Trump said that McCain was not a war hero ONCE, then immediately corrected himself to say THREE TIMES that McCain was a war hero, then said once that McCain was PERHAPS a war hero. America's excrement media report only one of those four statements, and don't mention the point Trump was making: War prisoners don't win wars.
There is something on tap that will rock both parties on their butts. Just wait! It’s coming and I cannot tell my Freeper friends the details—yet!
Should be “...only one of those five statements.”
We’re I an artilleryman I would not want the media calling my fires. LOL. They think they can hurt him with McLame and are so sure of themselves they have called the effect. All Trump need do is call the enemedia out once more and his support will grow even more.
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