Posted on 08/12/2015 5:06:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We received an email from Donald Trump that explains in a few short paragraphs why Trump continues to lead Ted Cruzand why Ted Cruz got a big bump after the Fox News debate.
In it Trump commits more words to attacking the Republican establishment and career politicians than he does attacking Obama and Hillary – although they get their licks too, as does the mainstream media.
The core of Trump’s email – actually a fundraising appeal – is this:
In the face of this media onslaught, my poll numbers actually went up.
I even pulled well ahead of Jeb Bush, the supposed “front-runner.”
Bush is a weak and ineffective leader who would merely preside over the continued decline of this country. If he gets the nomination, we lose in 2016.
I am very critical of John McCain’s record in the U.S. Senate. He has done little to help veterans.
John McCain has been in the Senate for 30 years and worked closely with Senator Bernie Sanders to pass legislation to ensure that no one was held responsible for the scandal at Obama’s Veterans Administration, in which over 1,000 of our veterans died waiting for medical care.
Ironically many of these veterans died in the VA hospital in Phoenix, Arizona – McCain’s home state!
It’s just like Benghazi – incompetent and pathetic officials screw up, then Americans die . . . and no one in Washington is held responsible.
My concern is for all those men and women who served this country.
As president, I would build the finest Veterans Hospital system in the world where our veterans would have universal access – and I will do it for far less in tax dollars than we are spending now on our disgraceful broken Veterans Administration health care system.
The political establishment is in shock over the way I have taken the lead in the presidential race – and they are scared to death.
Trump’s message is almost all negative – but it’s all true – and he closes on a defiant note, saying:
I have no doubt the liberal media and the GOP establishment will continue to attack me.
But, make no mistake, I will never back down or apologize in the fight to make America great again.
Stand with me today and send a powerful message to the establishment by supporting my campaign…
This is very much the same message Ted Cruz delivered during the Fox News debate when, in answer to the question “How can you win in 2016 when you’re such a divisive figure?” he said:
Chris, I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.
If you’re looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get — to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain’t your guy.
There is a reason… that we have $18 trillion in debt. Because as conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we’ve got a Republican Senate, and we don’t have leaders who honor their commitments. I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
What the establishment media doesn’t understand and the Republican establishment fears beyond anything else, including the election of Hillary Clinton as President, is that those voters who support Donald Trump and Ted Cruz understand that the Republican establishment is the problem.
As CHQ Chairman Richard Viguerie argued in his book TAKEOVER,
…for more than a hundred years, we conservatives have had our political guns trained on the wrong target. We’ve been focused on defeating the liberal, Big Government Democrats, when the first, and most important, roadblock to our goal of governing America according to conservative principles is the progressive, Big Government Republicans.
During the entire centuries-long civil war in the Republican Party, the progressive establishment leadership of the GOP has been selling the notion that the Democrats and the liberals are the
problem, and that if conservatives would only line up behind establishment Republicans and put them in charge of the federal government, the growth of government and America’s slide toward socialism would stop.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have taken that truth and ridden it to the top of the polls because their supporters understand that the Republican establishment is the problem. Trump and Cruz have correctly made the Republican establishment the THEM in “send THEM” a message.
What’s worse for the Republican establishment is that Trump and Cruz voters are not likely to migrate to an establishment candidate like Jeb Bush because they realize that to save the country we must first and foremost get rid of THEM.
So true. The pubbies, with rinsed penis as the rnc leader, are scared out of their collective little minds.
Go Ted Go!!!
Agreed.
Why not? If you’re at 25-35% in the polls you’ve got a lot of supporters.
Very good remarks, and spot on for both Trump and Cruz..
Support their campaigns and move them to win over the GOPe, RINOs base...
The Democrat party is the party of none, Sanders is doing ok, Hillary is done with, even if Biden does run, we know what kind of person he will be as President, after the 8 years he’s been V.P.
Trump/Cruz will have a great team, Trump as the bull dog, Cruz as the political navigator...
We can do this, this is what is going to Make America Great Again...
Thank you, I like that idea.
I hope this guy does fix the VA. It’s a very useless self serving mess.
Three months ago I went to the local VA rep, asked questions, and outright lied to. I applied for VA health care, signed the form, and was supposed to hear back in a few days.
Still waiting.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the Executive Branch under the control of neither of the two main parties, and yet dedicated to serving “We the people” regardless what the other two branches do.
Look how much 0 has done independently to RUIN our Nation. He seems beholden to neither major political party.
And he's selling made in the USA campaign gear. Ordered a 100% cotton made in the USA red tee shirt for $20. My donation to the campaign is any profit they get from sales.
It's foolish not to ask for donations from a psychological standpoint. A person is more likely to stick with candidate if they donate to their campaign. If Trump can stop potential supporters from donating to someone else, that's good. Besides that, won't it be fun when the USA is covered in a sea of "Trump 2016" shirts, hats, and sweatshirts?
JMHO
“...a few days” Hahahahahaha! It takes two to five years (or more) to get a disability determination out of them.
If people keep living in the dark days, like they have been, then nothing will change...
Change only comes when your willing to take a chance to better yourself or your surroundings...
Your statement makes sense.
What he said. This country cannot survive more of the same, and I think a LOT of people know that, including the “little guy” democrats who know the country is going the wrong direction. It actually makes a good starting point with those people, to say that both parties have left us behind and served their own interests and we need to clean them ALL out. Given the number of people who recognize that we’re headed the wrong direction, who could disagree with that assessment?
I say BS to all these articles, Trump leads because we know he will fire people that suck at their jobs and make excuses.
More proof he's just in this to make Hillary! President Hillary!.
Here’s a report of a fundraiser (really a big summer party with people there meeting Trump, since $100 a head doesn’t buy much more than a summer party in MA) for him:
Yes, that’s good for DT, I guess. But Boch first got permission from DT and it wasn’t a request made from Trump apparently.
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