Posted on 07/22/2015 5:16:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The man behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has a knack for spectacle, an eye toward making money and a proven willingness to defy the Republican Party.
In other words, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is a lot like his new boss.
Lewandowski, who has been advising Trump since January and managing his improbable — and, for many Republicans, headache-inducing — run to the top of the GOP primary field in national polls has spent the past decade and a half drifting away from the party establishment.
He left a short stint at the Republican National Committee in 2001 to manage the failed reelection campaign of a rogue senator before landing eventually at the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity, where he primaried New Hampshire Republicans and mocked the state’s Democrats until joining up with Trump.
In that time, Lewandowski cemented a reputation in New Hampshire political circles for getting things done, even if it means ruffling feathers. “He’s a good guy personally, [but] he’s a bomb thrower,” said one longtime New Hampshire Republican political operative.
“Corey was a pretty aggressive guy on issues. He was a go-getter … and he was not afraid to air out an issue,” said Bruce Berke, a Granite State lobbyist and an adviser to the Republican primary field’s latest entrant, Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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At least it sounds like he is a Republican of sorts.
I thought Donald Trump was behind Donald Trump’s run for the presidency.
Fyi
So Mr. Trump must be smart to have selective this
advisor, and to keep him on. Correct?
And who are the unnamed sources in NH putting
Mr. Trump down?
Could it be ... the Bishop of RomneyCARE?
I wonder if the Koch brothers support Trump (not that he needs their money).
This is precisely what any honest Republican needs, is an anti-establishment adviser. Couple a pro-American campaign adviser with a candidate that does not hesitate to say what is right, and you have Trump saying all that everyone else wants to hear.
Like Rush said yesterday, conservatives and Christians are the majority, the left has convinced us that we are the minority and a bunch of kooks, when in fact, like everything else the left says, is a lie.
We, the majority, have someone to rally behind.
{{{oh the horrors!!!}}}
Don’t tell me Trump is a democrat stoolie with this flamethrower being paid a quarter M a year to advise him.
My guess, and it is only a guess, is that the Koch Brothers do not like Trump for buying out the political organization they have built (at least in New Hamsphire)
Trump seems to have an eye for talent.
Maybe, but remember....Trump supported, and still hasn’t distanced himself, from single payer health care
Pullitico, leading the charge to fantasy land. The name sounds so “Jewish”, so “middle European”, so “sinister”. Let’s even throw in that he’s too radical for the evil Koch Brothers. Secret condemnation from Republican operatives.
If this isn’t a hit piece from whole cloth there has never been one published.
This bag of crap ought to lift Trump another 5 points in the polls.
Who recruited who?
Lewandowski is a straightforward, common Polish name (something like Anderson in America). I believe he is another Massachusetts Catholic.
Thanks for the ping.
Funny how these hit pieces always have the unnamed operatives doing the smearing.
Lewandowski is a straightforward, common Polish name (something like Anderson in America). I believe he is another Massachusetts Catholic.
It’s not how you or I see the name. If they didn’t think it were inflammatory, his name wouldn’t have been repeated so often in the article. Look at campaign articles in the last election cycle. In Arkansas, they saw Tom Cotton’s last name as something they could associate with slavery. The democrats blasted us so hard for months with Cotton adds. It was hard to recall who he was running against.
Actually, there’s a video out there where he champions private sector fixes. I’ve seen it and liked most of it quite a bit.
He does talk about the 45 million or so that don’t have coverage and he thinks the government needs to step in there.
While I don’t like that, the reality is that government is already paying for their care. If they present at a hospital, they get care.
The government pays for it.
I personally like the idea he supports a thriving public sector as part of the fix.
He isn’t a singly payer plan supporter.
There is somthing there not to like. Single payer isn’t.
But, he did say he wanted single payer...that can’t be denied.
He talks about a thriving private sector, but gives no details...
We shall see.
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