Posted on 08/17/2015 6:37:19 AM PDT by Biggirl
Bloomberg Politics Managing Editor Mark Halperin stated that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has “reached a turning point” where the “establishment candidates” think he can win Iowa, “most” believe he can win the nomination, and “a significant number think he could win the White House” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
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Love it: establishment campaigns in “full freak out mode” over Trump’s success. Try COPYING IT.
I believe now that Perot didn’t want to be President. That’s why he blew his campaign up with wacko conspiracy stuff. Then he jumped back in with just enough support to totally rob Bush and get Clinton elected.
If Bill’s intent was to get Trump to do this for Hillary, I think he picked the wrong billionaire. Trump tastes the blood right now. He’s kicking butt and taking names and chewing bubblegum at the same time. Heck ... Chuck Norris wants on his security team (dramatization for entertainment purposes only).
BTW, this is the second story regarding the IA state fair where the pundits were shocked and stunned by Trump’s reaction, comparing it only to Zero and, in Halperin’s case, also Palin.
People are not ‘fed up with politics as usual’
The majority leader, a republican, just re approved taxpayers funding of abortion and that’s after public exposure of selling babies and dismembered babies. On film, that is
That’s nazi level (we know it’s way beyond with 54 million killed not counting exportation of abortion to third world)
Next: this town, my CITY in Texas, is majority Mexican. Not Spanish speaking, not Mexican American but get out of our way we are not even budging on the sidewalk, move your car, wait until we’re done her, we
are not speaking English, you are not only not getting a job but you are fired if you don’t recognize us a first class and you blanco a are second class citizens - majority Mexican- and this is going to get so much worse as you can’t even drive around any more through the traffic congestion
That’s not politics as usual
Give it up
It is an invasion
Trump might turn into a major tyrant after he gets in for all we know. He might be worse that no. Or the. Antichrist saying what people want to hear. I do not know
But this is not politics as usual. This is obamaland with Hillary running a presidential campaign under indictment for the worst
Trump’s a very quick study. He’s already smooth with political speeches, press conferences and one-on-one interviews. I expect him to be in full, measured command in future debates. Although he’s clearly demonstrated that Teflon factor, I don’t expect too many if any supposedly outrageous statements from him that could have a chance of damaging him.
Now, the dirt will come out on “pain in his previous marriages”, etc., and some ex-Trump employees undoubtedly will be paid to appear in some type of attack ad.
But I no longer expect Trump to do himself in. (As I did at first.)
Yep...now all these “experts” are trying to validate what the Donald is and when he is doing it, after they claimed him dead and buried! Amazing to watch!
When Perot ran; my cousin tried to talk me into voting for him. To me, he was a nasal old talker with a grudge. He was a vote splitter for the Democrats. That’s what most third parties turn out to be. He’s now ancient history; as I think Trump will also be one day even if he doesn’t crash & burn pretty soon.
Perot cited as his reason for suspending his campaign in July 1992 the "revitalization of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY [emphasis mine]" according to Perot insider Pat Benjamin in his book "The Perot Legacy."
Do you like Trump’s immigration policy?
If not, who’s policy do you like better?
That, and he doesn’t have to say what he thinks his handlers want him to say. I know he is pandering to all groups, but that what he has to do to win!
Sanders already flamed out with his statement walking back his support for the "Black Lives Matter" group....see the up thread today.
As I said in post #12, this is a completely different situation than in 1992.
Second, Perot never actually spent much of his own money and therefore really didn't intend to run much less win.
Third, Perot's little 30 minute infomercials were primitive compared to Trump's incredible control of media and social media. It's truly masterful, and he doesn't spend a dime on it.
Fourth, Trump, in his scowling, pouting way, is nevertheless likeable, mainly because he talks about AMERICA and making America great. Perot talked politics.
I know Perot was short, but that is what he projected. He “appeared” small.
He seemed like an angry bee buzzing around.
He didn’t instill confidence in people.
Trump and Cruz walk on stage and project confidence and a larger than themselves aura.
My wife remarked that when they took the stage for the debate you could easily tell who the big dogs were.
You actually have to have that level of confidence, you can’t fake it.
I have always thought Trump would back out, but now I believe TPTB will have to drag his cold lifeless body to a New Jersey landfill to get rid of him.
Interestingly, the Clinton camp was seriously worried about Perot and Carville, in particular, fretted about how to distinguish Bill from Perot. That’s when they hit on their campaign slogans.
So true!
Part of that “confidence” comes from talking about how great America will be, not just what’s wrong or what you, as governor or senator, have done for the past five years.
Love it: establishment campaigns in “full freak out mode” over Trump’s success. Try COPYING IT.
The progressives running GOPe would rather lose than “copy it”.
In June of 1992, I tried to get involved in the campaign. It was a cluster...you know what. I tried volunteering my time and nobody was calling me back. Finally, one guy called and was very rude about it so I said don't bother and hung up.
I went to one Perot rally in Boston around that time. Huge crowd turned out for it. I remember Perot showing up in a caravan of SUVs. He marched to the podium, gave his canned stump speech ("gonna open up the hood and see what's going on under there") and was gone from the stage in a flash. No hanging around to shake hands afterwards, no warm and fuzzies at all. As we exited the rally, we saw nothing but the taillights of the Perot caravan leaving.
Remember during that time that Republicans saw George Bush in much the same light as we see ¿Jeb? today. A lightweight who let us down on his "no new taxes" pledge. All during the 1988 campaign against Dukakis, Bush went around the country saying "Read my lips, no new taxes." Then he got in and did exactly that.
So we were ready for an alternative. In the end, Perot was just too unbalanced and flaky. Dropping out of the race in a hissy fit over his daughter's wedding. Then getting back in it and putting Admiral Stockdale in that awful position at the VP debate. Still, he wound up with 20% of the vote. Despite being a cold fish who didn't know how to connect with people. A more polished candidate could have won that year as a third party candidate.
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