Posted on 09/15/2016 1:24:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Democrats are starting to panic, they should. What else do they have to throw at him?
If you aren’t seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you aren’t paying attention.
Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump was a reality-TV star with a spotty business record and a weird penchant for proclaiming he was on the verge of running for president. Now, he’s perhaps a few big breaks and a couple of sterling debate performances away from being elected 45th president of the United States.
Trump has no experience in elected office, and unlike past nonpoliticians elected president, hasn’t won a major war. He barely has a national campaign. He perhaps knows less about public affairs than the average congressman. He has repeatedly advertised his thin-skinned vindictiveness and is trampling on basic political norms, like the convention of candidates releasing their tax returns.
No major political party has ever nominated anyone like this. If Trump were to prevail, it would make Barack Obama’s unlikely rise from unknown state senator to first African-American president of the United States in about four years look like a boringly conventional political trajectory.
Obama seemed to come out of nowhere, but his steps to the presidency — law degree, state office, U.S. senator — were stereotypical. Trump won the Republican nomination despite — or because of? — attributes that would have seemed disqualifying two years ago, such as, to name a few, his personal life, his longtime support for Democrats, his newly minted, hard-to-credit social conservatism, his disdain for Republican orthodoxy, and his basic lack of preparation.
Trump now has a legitimate shot at winning the general because he got the lucky draw of at least the second-worst presidential nominee in recent memory....
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Spotty business record? More like the writer is spotting his parties.
Lowry is an a$$hole. NR deserves to go out of business.
Trump won because he was not THE ESTABLISHMENT.
They hate that.
These guys act like the election of Trump will have nothing to do with the American people having voted for him.
If he loses you can directly thank the Hillary propaganda media and the RINO party because that is the ONLY reasons he is running neck and neck with her. If it wasn’t for those 2 things he would be slaughtering her in the polls right now, 10 - 20 points lead
THE ESTABLISHMENT Republicans have been fully funding leftist projects for a generation.
We have little to lose electing a guy who is all over the map. Pure randomness will have us winning 50% of the time, a HUGE IMPROVEMENT over Paul Ryan who loses everything, all the time!
Trump got lucky.
Parties = panties.
It has to kill Lowrey to write this.
One of the side benefits of this election may be to put Rich Lowry’s National Review out of business, along with Weekly Standard and a bunch of other “conservative” publications. They are proving just how inconsequential they are.
No more ocean cruises?
he got the lucky draw of at least the second-worst presidential nominee in recent memory....
Rich, can you be talking about “Hillary!”?
The smartest woman in the world, the woman with
thirty years of political experience???
Why, this is heresy!
Americans are coming for Hillary and the Democrats, and they’re pissed.
Lowry: You were wrong then but you are right now? No, you are stupid forever. Anti American pig.
Get ready for it. They will do everything they can to promote the notion in late Sept-Early Oct of a Hillary come back. The Media needs a “horse race” to sell ads and air time. Trump could be up 20 points and you would NEVER hear it because that will kill revenues for them. If they do not have a horse race, they will manufacture one by manipulating their polling samples.
The will be a magical media manufacture “Clinton come back” soon.
He sounds all wee wee’d up.
Your boy Romney ran against an extremely vulnerable incumbent and lost. No point in listening further.
“Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump was a reality-TV star with a spotty business record”
I couldn’t read any more of it after that....
When Barak was running for senate, his credit card got turned down at an airport...he was BROKE!
But, BILLIONAIRE Donald Trump has a ‘spotty business record’
I HATE THE MEDIA!
well, I wish I had that “spotty busines record” (and the $9 Brillion dineros) haha
and what does Lowry expect when the D party machine is sold out and nominates the absolutely worst performing, most corrupt, lying political hack imaginable
?
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