Posted on 06/23/2015 11:55:32 AM PDT by Jack Black
He’s dismissed by the political professionals, but there is no denying that the appetite for Donald Trump among Republican primary voters is real.
The New York developer and reality television star is second among 2016 presidential candidates in a new Suffolk University poll of New Hampshire Republicans – behind only former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
The poll of 500 likely GOP presidential primary voters found 14% back Mr. Bush. Mr. Trump is right behind at 11%. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio come next, with 8% and 7%, respectively. The poll tested 19 GOP candidates – a rare survey that included ultra-longshots like Mark Everson and former Govs. Bob Ehrlich and Jim Gilmore.
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Trump will change things in the GOP—the way Palin tried and failed. Conservative—I don’t know—capitalist, yes.
Those paying attention have fully understood the Republican Party was a farce years before Trump showed up.
BTW, what happened to that big historic Republican win last year? They must still be celebrating their career wins.
That's exactly what the poster is saying.
The people who are frantic at Trump for speaking the truth are those who are living a lie.
The most absolute truth Trump has spoken is “the politicians are not gonna get you to the promised land” No truer words were ever spoken. So true so true.
I don’t think that can be pinned on Donald Trump or anyone else. The republican party managed that all by themselves. And they’ve been doing that for a really long time. (Be careful about believing what we want to believe.)
That makes sense. I too have a sort of hierarchy of who I'm voting for. It's roughly like this:
None of the candidates hit all these, which is unfortunate. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Walker each hit some pretty hard. Trump hit the immigration ball out of the park in his speech, which I appreciate.
Character is important to me, too. If someone was 100% of my issues but I thought they were a bad person I'd probably go with someone else, even if I agreed with their positions less.
Newt Gingrich was in that category for me.
“Those paying attention have fully understood the Republican Party was a farce years before Trump showed up.”
Agreed!
Taking a slightly different angle on this topic, this has become interesting to me...
I have usually posted on other threads about Trump this statement: “Trump exposes the farce of the republican party.” But on this thread, I got a little bit careless and posted this: “Trump makes a farce out of the republican party.” While I intended the statements to mean the same thing, they came out differently, and I am getting very different responses to the two similar, but obviously different statements. I can now understand why this thread has captured a different response.
He's a publicity hound fooling people because he TALKS tough. TALK is beyond cheap.
Trump is dead last in my evaluation. I’d rather Bush (any of ‘em) or Rand Paul or the Linseed Gram from South Carolina before Trump. He’s a self-promoting swaggering braggart who loves himself so much more than he over his country.
You must be a liberal, because Trump scares you so much. Defeat Hillary- vote for Trump.
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