"Whoa, what a tough crowd!Why on earth is it necessary to insult (and nastily so) folks who you should be trying to court, politically?
I would suggest that Y'all and Ms. Perino agree on almost everything; and, this close to an election, it is a good time to NOT disenfranchise those who just might be valuable allies."
She's getting off easy here. She is a fraud who is promoting surrender just like Karl Rove an Krauthammer and Jorge Ramos all coincidentally did ... tonight ... on FOXey News. Their position is 'you can't possibly get them all, so let's get none.' That meshes with the Chamber of Commerce Department of Soft Slavery. Do you agree as well? If not, why defend her and this out-in-the-open admission that they were frauds all along, taking our votes while doing the bidding of the enemy.
"So far, Mr. Trump is (roughly, I'm guessing) 25% of the GOP-leaning 45% of the electorate. (You are not dealing from a position of electoral strength, even though (via polls) Mister Trump leads the GOP field.)"
Your math is operating under the mother of all wrong assumptions - that Trump's support is all (R)epublicans! If you bother to look around anywhere, and everywhere, his support is cross party and indeed extra party. He is systematically energizing a wide base and I happen to personally know (D)emocrats and Non-Voters who are very excited. If he is nominated, I expect the war cry to be: It's the Jobs, Stupid. Something that will go over very well across the spectrum.
There are loads of blue collar and white collar workers, union and non-union just itching to get the yoke of the modern (D)emocrat party's liberalism and political correctness and all those pet projects that didn't do anything for their real lives. They're literally shouting it in every thread in every website and news article that still allows comments. How did you miss it?
The only real question is whether the (R)epublicrat establishment can stop him in the primaries. This is Civil War. This is why Perino and Rove and all other Bush sycophants are in DEFCON 2. Watch what happens if or when he racks up primary delegates. DEFCON 1 will be EPIC.
No.
It's a primary election.
I give Mister Trump credit for one thing. He is a good salesman to a very, very select group of people.
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