Posted on 07/10/2015 6:33:08 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON — Republicans who started off viewing Donald Trump as an amusing sideshow are starting to fret that the real estate billionaire is becoming the main event.
Since he defied skeptics and launched his presidential bid last month, Trump has rocketed in the polls, dominated media coverage and helped steer the debate on issues.
“I don’t know that he even knows how far he takes this,” former Rep. Thomas Reynolds (R-NY), who is close to GOP candidate and ex-Gov. George Pataki, told The Post. “He has the wherewithal . . . He has put together a pretty wholesale ground force in New Hampshire, and that has to be taken seriously.”
Trump accounted for a stunning 48 percent of all social-media and traditional-media conversation about politics over the last week, according to analytics group Zignal labs for The Washington Post. Trump had 1.9 million mentions, compared with just 448,000 for top Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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If he’s the only one willing to acknowledge our problems, so be it.
I think that Trump/Cruz would be the perfect team.
An unbeatable team that could guide America for 16 years, and beyond.
No way is Trump going to bow out. Does anyone think that someone so focused on being a winner could even CONSIDER dropping out now, and go down in history as a LOSER?
Hernando Cortez burnt his ships on the shores of Mexico, thereby committing him and his troops to win or die.
Trump has burnt his ships on the shores of America, and he’s now totally committed to fight to the death.
It’s going to be an epic battle, watch closely, we’ll never get to see something so exciting, so American, again in our lifetimes.
We are living in an historical moment. Alert your family and friends, they’ll want to watch, or perhaps even volunteer to be part of it.
It doesn’t matter who is leading at this time or at another time. It is the powers that be that choose who will be the nominees for Prez.
This country’s elites have become, do nothing, take not chances pussies. It’s what’s called feminization.
Well not exactly.....the “powers that be” matter and they did manage to get their man in 08 and 12. But they don’t always. They won’t this year. Mark it down.
Trump’s poll numbers are indicative of citizen’s anger with this gubbamint.
The thought of someone taking action on anything terrifies the GOP. They want to maintain the status quo and their cozy relationship with the Dems.
Who out there in Freeperland wouldn’t like to hear Trump announce “Barack Hussein Obama...you’re FIRED!” come January of 2017?
I happen to think that Ted Cruz would do a better job than any of the candidates, but with the RNC and MSM (including Fox) attacking or ignoring him, he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
You are right. Trump is no Bachmann. He’s no Perry either. Nor could he have picked a better time. Voters are ready for a strong leader. Obama is a very weak person. He has played on his race, complained, made excuses, played golf and fund raised. The country meanwhile has gone steeply downhill.
Now Trump comes along and, while talking the way no politician does, says he will make America great again. It’s a message people are ready for. It wouldn’t surprise me if he wins with relative ease.
And what do you mean by "people like me"? You seem to be implying that I'm a little slow about accepting your infinite wisdom.
US citizens are seeing and hearing what the elite are doing to Trump when he had the audacity to not be a lapdog. And it's how us little folk feel every day when nobody cares about hard-working, responsible US citizens.
It's like Trump is screaming "I'm mad as hell and don't want to take it anymore!" for all of us. Trump's our Hail Mary pass.
I won't be so insulting as to say "people like you will eventually understand how we feel".
...Consider: who led at this time last cycle? Michelle Bachmann I think? And people were waiting on Rick Perry to jump in and save us? How’d those work out...
Consider: Who won the last 2 general election cycles?
Can you imagine the discomfort the republican power brokers in DC are feeling as Trump moves up the polls.....lol.
“There are what, 30 million illegals?”
There are only 12 million or less if the issue is amnestying them, but 30 million+ if the talk is of deporting them.
But yours is that new age, diverse fighting spirit that got us where we are now: an American unlike any that has been before.
Go Trump. Give `em Hell. (”But tumblin, I’m not giving anyone Hell. I’m just telling the truth and both parties think its Hell ... “ The Donald)
There are not enough “HA”s in the world to respond to that assertion.
Really?
However, Trump is gaining traction by using the cheapest form of media - social media.
With a simple tweet on Twitter, Trump is able to get his unfiltered message out there way more effectively than a multi-million dollar advertising campaign.
It astonishes me that all the other GOP presidential candidates, going back the last few election cycles, are so backwards when it comes to utilizing social media. Only Sarah Palin seems to know her way around Facebook and Twitter, but she never officially ran.
With regard to social media, all the GOP candidates except Trump are stumblebums. They remind most young people of their annoying older relatives who are constantly bugging them because they "can't log on" or they can't get a picture on Facebook.
I'm embarrassed by the ineptness of GOP candidates in this area. I like Ted Cruz but has he ever gone straight to the people with an incisive comment on Twitter or Facebook? And I'm not talking about the lame texts that his handlers put out when they want to tease us about a big announcement or an appearance on some Fox news show. No wonder Republicans are seen as out-of-touch fuddy-duds.
We conservatives like to complain about the "gated mainstream media" that are biased and always playing "gotcha journalism" to marginalize conservatives and their messages. But we have the tools available to bypass them completely and get our own unfiltered message out there.
Social media was probably the deciding factor in the last two presidential elections. John McCain and Mitt Romney had no social media buzz at all. Both of them bring to mind the stereotype of the "clueless uncle" in the parlor, with mobile device in hand, trying to "figure out this newfangled thing-a-min-jig".
Only Trump seems to get it. And this, more than his notoriety and money, is why he is riding the top of the polls right now. Ted Cruz should be running away with this nomination right now but his social media presence is zero and while he does a great job beating back the jackals in the traditional media, most young people aren't even paying attention.
I've noticed that also.
I happen to think that Ted Cruz would do a better job than any of the candidates, but with the RNC and MSM (including Fox) attacking or ignoring him, he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
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I agree that you have to add Fox News to the list of those trying to push Cruz down. To overcome this he absolutely must break the Top 10 and make it to that first debate.
Right now he is holding down the 8th spot.
Tenuous.
I’m nervous.
But if he holds on and makes it he has $51 million to make his case. Jeb has more but I doubt if anyone else does.
The thought of this guy having control over the nuclear football ought to be enough to give people nightmares.
Think your choice through, Freepers.
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