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Clown Time Is Over as Trump Crumples
RealClearPolitics ^ | September 22, 2015 | Toby Harnden, Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Times.

Posted on 09/22/2015 11:41:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump is not going to be the leader of the free world. That was the reality check delivered to the reality TV star when he was subjected to a pounding in last week’s Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.

A summer of bombast from the bumptious billionaire had led to his anti-immigration rhetoric and populist demagoguery lifting him to the top of all the Republican party polls. The debate in Simi Valley, however, brought him crashing back to earth.

By the time the dust had settled, Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and the widely proclaimed victor of the debate, was in the lead in a Voter Gravity poll in New Hampshire, edging out Trump by four points.

The property magnate, who had looked deflated and remained uncharacteristically silent for almost 40 minutes at one point during the three-hour CNN debate, then stood accused of racism.

Trump was flummoxed when a questioner at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, called President Barack Obama a Muslim — and failed to correct or challenge him....

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: 2016trump; carolshilby; fiorina; trump; wishfulthinking
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To: fortheDeclaration

I hate to inform you but Cruz is going to win. I’ve been voting for over 4 decades and just because we are 6 months out from the race, these numbers mean squat. This is a long long race and in the end you’ll be happy when a real Conservative like Ted takes over and tells the Senate F your closure rules I want a bill I can sign.


81 posted on 09/22/2015 1:30:00 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

Cruz is 25:1 on the Euro betting sites.

If you really believe your post, you can be the next John Paulson!


82 posted on 09/22/2015 1:31:58 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: nascarnation

Nas, considering the fact that today a best selling author is coming out with a book saying Hillary has health issues, discounting all her other problems, Biden and Kerry (when he drops his crutches or cane will be in it.)

The fact is foreign policy will easy sink both of them. Plus the domestic invasion. Honestly, unless the election is rigged nationally (which wouldn’t surprise me) The Republicans should easily win.


83 posted on 09/22/2015 1:39:50 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: TexasFreeper2009; All
I am not even much of a Trump supporter, but things like this drive me to him!

Same here, the left in this country is pulling out all the Alinsky stops to try to bury Trump, hoping he'll go away. They really fear him and much of it's probably over the illegal immigration issue. The whole left establishment is trying to bring him down but I have a feeling Americans are having a better understanding of the left's tactics anymore, using the media, Alinsky tactics, and other influences to try to stop him but it's not working.

Just look how lowly rated the Emmy's were the other night because that Hollywood crowd is full of libtards and I have a feeling Americans are getting tired of them and their agenda they are trying to shove down our throats.

If Trump, as president, only succeeds on this one issue and enforces deportation, builds a wall and addresses illegal immigration like he said he would do, this would be a huge blow to the liberal/progressive movement in this country and they know it.

The left in this country and in both parties are counting on these illegals to keep them in power, now and in the future. For the future of this Constitutional Republic, what Trump proposes for illegal immigration, needs to happen, thus I could easily support him on this one issue alone.

CGato

84 posted on 09/22/2015 1:46:45 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: Conservative Gato
It's not the “lefts” attacks that drive me to Trump, it is the attacks from the GOP elite and the supposed “conservative” media like Fox.

Fox has been pushing Fiorina non-stop since the debate and pushing the false notion that Trumps numbers have tanked and that Fiorina has swept into the lead. Total and complete fabrication. I am starting to hate Fox.

85 posted on 09/22/2015 1:51:01 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Debates are easy WHEN THE NETWORK (CNN) GIVES YOU THE QUESTIONS FOR THE DEBATE, RIGHT CARLY?

Tell me, PLEASE, that you have a source for this, right?

86 posted on 09/22/2015 1:59:12 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I agree and sorry I should have clarified my comment a little better. I consider the leadership of the GOP to be part of the left in this country anymore the way they act. I quit watching Fox News after the first debate as they have turned to the left as well.

CGato


87 posted on 09/22/2015 2:00:58 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Toby Harnden = Establishment Shill

Toby wants more of the same. What a schmuck!

88 posted on 09/22/2015 2:03:48 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Conservative Gato

what you wrote was correct but I think Cruz will follow through with the same policy.
Why he remains silent like Walker I can’t understand.

It must be the LSM only follows Trump and therefore give him all the headlines as they also try to take him down.

Hey, I guess anything for headlines right?


89 posted on 09/22/2015 2:16:35 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s full blown attack mode today. They’ve smelled blood and they’re gonna get rid of Trump ... finally.

They’re blaming his take down by Carly in the debates; his refusal to defend the honor of Obama to the questioner and some other stuff I can’t think of right now.

I use Yahoo as my search engine... They must have ten anti-conservative pieces on their home page right now, including one doing a countdown for Trump’s demise.


90 posted on 09/22/2015 2:25:35 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: nascarnation

I’ll take that bet and by the way, I think Cruz will win also.


91 posted on 09/22/2015 2:30:03 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: altura

Awesome.
You’ll be rich and America will have a President we can be proud of!.


92 posted on 09/22/2015 2:30:54 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; potlatch; ntnychik; onyx

93 posted on 09/22/2015 2:34:05 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: nascarnation

Two excellent outcomes.


94 posted on 09/22/2015 2:48:13 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Undecided 2012

Rick and Huckster will back Bush.


95 posted on 09/22/2015 2:51:27 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Undecided 2012

I agree, everything I’ve read about Cruz, he is solid on doing something about illegal immigration. I would love to see him the Republican nominee.

If you’ve been on message boards and social media, the libtard social media brigade has been out at least the last couple of years with their orders to constantly bash Cruz, trying to get the extremist label going against him. That could be why he is having some trouble getting his brand out there. These libtards are an evil bunch as they have gotten a head start in trying to take down the candidate that would do their movement the most harm.

If Trump does end up being the nominee, the best thing he could do is name Cruz his VP. I could get behind that ticket. I could support Trump for his immigration policy as stated above but Cruz on the ticket would most likely prove he is serious about his intentions.

I know Trump has been a liberal useful idiot in some manners in the past but I go back to what a Russian intelligence officer had to say back in the 80’s about how the leftists are slowly infiltrating everything in order to come to power in America. I have no doubt his warnings have come true and continue to do so as these leftist traitors in both parties have tried to pull this coup on our Constitution, all in the name of furthering their power over us.

That being said, I also remember what the Russian said about when a useful idiot wakes up to the lies and deceptions of those using him to further their power. He said they can be the most ardent enemies of the leftist statist movement after that. That’s why useful idiots have to be exterminated following total control of the masses.

I’m hoping and praying Trump, despite his leftist past, he has finally woken up to leftists and their corrupt agenda for this country. I’m hoping his wakeup call was when he came to find out 0bama and the democrats were lying about 0bama’s 1st birth certificate presented. Trump was making a lot of waves about it, then bam, the Whitehouse issues a copy of the 2nd birth certificate and the whole liberal establishment including the media, and the libtard social media brigade bashed Trump mercilously for even suggesting he wasn’t born here.

Let’s hope and pray that was Trump’s wake up call to these traitors that are running this country and that is his motivation. You know by what the whole left establishment, including the dem party and the republican leaders, the media, etc, fears he has awoken, by their actions to pull out all the stops to try to destroy him.

CGato


96 posted on 09/22/2015 3:50:11 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: TexasGunLover
The same one that everyone else is living on who know Trump, Cruz and Palin won't ever be elected in a national election.

What utter pablum. Your tag line says it all -- you are a GOPe Puke.

BTW, Bush was NOT against the terrorists. He kissed up to muslims every chance he had.

Your elite pals are destroying our once great Republic. Tell Karl hi!

97 posted on 09/22/2015 4:09:01 PM PDT by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: nikos1121

Media demands all bow to fragile king B.O. Trump’s response “He wouldn’t defend me”. GOPe like Jeb don’t even know they’re in a fight.


98 posted on 09/22/2015 5:05:16 PM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: Undecided 2012

He isn’t going to win the nomination.


99 posted on 09/22/2015 6:35:57 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!!!

You’ve hit the bottom of the outhouse in digging up this leftist escapee from Lenin’s mausoleum.

Thanks for the laugh, 2ndDivVet.


100 posted on 09/22/2015 6:45:12 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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