Posted on 08/10/2015 7:58:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
War on Women. If you drag a $20 through the D&C...
Its too late in this country for queasy hearts, knocking knees, and nervous hand wringing. We need a son-of-a-wherever to straighten this mess out. Trump is the last chance for it to be done peacefully.
Its later than you think.
Well I would be surprised because I think of FR as our little community of political junkies and never think about any pros sticking their noses in.
But maybe they do, someone has to be making the truly stupid posts that we occasionally run across...
Remember, Clinton's a liar was a honcho in Alan Keyes' Campaign for President. Linda Tripp's puppet master, Lucianne Goldberg, posted here as Trixie. Drudge and Hannity have been known to visit here in years past. I have no doubt that people are watching us for scoops and talking points.
Also no doubt that more than one of the big G agencies watch us like a hawk.
I don't know what they'll do to Trump. Or Cruz or Carson. I can bet though that there will be death threats. Trump I don't think would back down. I like to think Cruz wouldn't but he's got young kids and he might decide it's just not worth it. Carson would say it's not worth it.
Snake face still earning a big paycheck from the Clintons Right enough though; it will be Cruz versus Clinton and Cruz will win
I think Carville may be on to something - it’s obvious that Cruz is the only candidate that doesn’t fear Trump’s presence and I trust his smarts. Cruz will leverage anything that becomes available as time goes by and I can picture him picking p a boatload of “Trumpers” - many of whom already back Cruz but love what Trump is doing.
Cruz is handling it perfectly.
That’s why a GOPe outlet such as NR has referred to Cruz “shamelessly” changing the subject in a conversation.
When you’re dead, you don’t know it, but everyone else does. It’s the same way when you’re stupid.
It’s NOT a zero-sum game. That’s why they’re always stressing turnout.
Trump is tapping into a section of the GOP that is just frustrated in what’s been going on and feel that someone is at least speaking up and not backing down. That’s what everyone else does she they get into office, or if they are confronted. Fold like a cheap card table.
Conservatives, for instance, do better than RINOs because they bring more people to the polls and get people more excited to vote. Running a RINO doesn’t bring the moderates they think it will (we’d too polarized for that) and what few are gained doesn’t offset the loss of conservatives who stay home.
If a voter doesn’t see a dimes worth of difference between the parties (even if there are plenty of they but they don’t SEE them) they aren’t going to run out and vote. Hell, they may prefer the option of saying “Well at least I didn’t vote for that!”
So, no, I don’t believe Trump’s voters will still be there unless someone else can earn them.
Jeb Bush certainly won’t get my vote.
Just one of the 95% here and see the same scenario mentioned. What a ticket that would be Trump/Cruz and what damage the two could do to the DC/Chicago criminal cartel.
I’m in!!
30% of how many ?
No, neither in the sense that you are implying, nor in reality. What is fairly likely, however, if Trump gets the nomination, is that a larger block than usual will cross party lines to vote for a celebrity that they admire. (How "Arnold" won in California, after it basically passed to the Democrats politically.) Remember that a huge percentage are not really ideological.)
A still larger block of Democrats would vote for Trump as a Third Party candidate.
Of course the downside, for either Trump or Cruz or any other actual Conservative, is that a large number of the Eastern faux "Liberal," variety of Republican will join a Republicans for (whomever the Democrats finally nominate--almost certainly someone not yet even mentioned). This was not the most important factor that sabotaged Barry Goldwater, but it was a major factor in 1964.
Trump can, of course, offset the loss of the Republican Left--either as the Party candidate or as a Third Party candidate--by some careful appeals to various neglected considerations, which were not available to Barry Goldwater in 1964. (Being deliberately opaque on that subject, so as not to stir up something that would interfere with some work that I must get to this afternoon.)
Exactly. You think everyone that voted for Reagan agreed with Supply-Side economics? No, they liked the man, and the image he projected. What image did the Bushes, Dole, McLame and Romney project? Those of wet noodles. W only won because his opponents were so lame.
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