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Donald Trump: The Only People Who Like Him Are the Voters
Townhall.com ^ | 9/16/15 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 09/17/2015 7:25:13 AM PDT by IChing

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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Can you give me examples of any politician in this race answering substantive questions in depth? I see no example of that . They all answer in generalities. What most people see in Trunp is a real man. He is not a pansy politician. I can see Putin actually respecting Trump. We need a man, not a girly man, in office.


81 posted on 09/17/2015 8:24:44 AM PDT by kaila
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To: IChing

Substance on the issues, FRiend. He’s got none.

But keep telling yourself that the buffoon will make a good President. It doesn’t make it true, but keep telling yourself.


82 posted on 09/17/2015 8:25:31 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: goldstategop
Trump doesn’t have a coherent conservative view. People are backing him based on emotional affinity.

Your comment completely ignores the central premise of the column.

“Today, the fight in the Republican Party isn't over abortion, guns or the Sandinistas; the dividing line is immigration. Will we continue to be the United States, or will we become another failed Latin American state?”, from Ann Coulter

You truly do not get it at all. You must live somewhere completely unlike where my family lives. I don't really care much for The Donald's personality or have an “emotional affinity for him. But he seems to be the one who truly has made turning back the invasion that we are currently experiencing a top priority. Obama has kept his promise to “fundamentally change America”. When my wife and I go to our local Mall, Walmart, Old Country Buffet or just about anywhere, we now find that we are in the extreme minority much of the time. I am not sure that the majority even know how to speak English. And we don't live in some inner city hell hole like Detroit. We live in the suburbs in the Northwest.

The America we grew up in is fading fast for us, for our children and our grandchildren. Both my wife and I have grandparents who came from foreign country's and other relatives who learned English as a second language. But unlike the current batch of immigrants legal or illegal... they didn't have a bunch of social programs to take advantage of, so they learned to speak English and they assimilated into the population, worked hard and adopted the American way.

Who other than Trump really appears to take this issue seriously and will make a true effort to reverse this trend? Who other than Trump appears to have enough chutzpa to actually get himself elected? You say he doesn't have a "coherent conservative view". But this is literally a fight for our country's survival. I would love to have someone like Cruz who does but unfortunately he will probably never have the mass appeal Trump does and I am not convinced that he will put immigration at the top of his list of important priorities.

83 posted on 09/17/2015 8:26:22 AM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: kjam22

Yeah, I hear you on Cruz. He’s also IMO more political than he sometimes lets on—e.g., backing the Corker bill and TPA.

But that problem with Cruz’s delivery IMO will keep him from either the nomination or ultimate victory, and in office would make him utterly incapable of speaking over the media to the people directly. (That is what is “Reaganesque” about Trump, though Trump is of course less eloquent among other things.)

So better that Trump continue to roll out sound policies (e.g., no trade protectionism) and get someone like Cruz to join him as his veep. That, I think, would be a great combination.


84 posted on 09/17/2015 8:26:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: kaila

I’m not sold on her in the least, but look at Fiorina’s response to the same Putin question. She gave specific details of things she would do to put Putin in his place.


85 posted on 09/17/2015 8:26:58 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: G Larry

Yup. There are three of us on here faced with Diogenes Dilemma.

An honest man shouldn’t be hard to find.

From Trump, you hear banal one liners and plenty of insults.

Now that’s fine for a reality TV show host but its not at all what you and I picture in a President.


86 posted on 09/17/2015 8:27:11 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: odawg

Exactly, odawg.

We’ve got too much of people here vaguely accusing Trump of being vague. His immigration plan is more detailed and substantial—and what’s needed—than what the others have put out there. The rest of it is coming in due time (economics plan in two weeks), and we can continue to judge from there.


87 posted on 09/17/2015 8:29:33 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: goldstategop

We gave the keys to the GOP in a staggeringly massive landslide nationwide victory in the last midterms. We gave them the power to significantly thwart Obama and the democrats. They did not do it. Their principles and philosophy are the “right” ones.

Don’t you think it’s time to join with those of us who have realized that #cuckservatism is the real problem?

Trump is making the case, you seem like you just don’t want to hear it. You and others say, “I don’t hear any substance,” while substance piles up all around and in front of you.


88 posted on 09/17/2015 8:32:40 AM PDT by IChing
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To: RatRipper

Yes!


89 posted on 09/17/2015 8:33:57 AM PDT by IChing
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To: Duchess47

My pleasure! And thank you.


90 posted on 09/17/2015 8:35:54 AM PDT by IChing
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Yeah all that billions of dollars in actual real estate is imaginary, right?


91 posted on 09/17/2015 8:36:59 AM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing
Trump is making the case, you seem like you just don’t want to hear it. You and others say, “I don’t hear any substance,” while substance piles up all around and in front of you

Gee, ya know what would really help?

Trump should write a book or sumfin!

92 posted on 09/17/2015 8:37:26 AM PDT by papertyger (Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui neat. / Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies)
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To: 9YearLurker

Good analysis.


93 posted on 09/17/2015 8:38:59 AM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing

Actually, the bulk of his (over-inflated) net worth is not actual real estate. But keep on thinking whatever you want to think about your Dear Leader, guy.


94 posted on 09/17/2015 8:39:47 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: G Larry

It wasn’t an anti-semitic Tweet, it was targeted at GOP candidates acting as if Zionist jews are the main constituency in America.


95 posted on 09/17/2015 8:40:39 AM PDT by IChing
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To: 9YearLurker

. The rest of it is coming in due time (economics plan in two weeks), and we can continue to judge from there.


Trump knows that they will only rip apart and nit pick anything that he offers so he is strategically planning how and when to do that.

The Art of The Deal. He knows where he wants to go and will show us how he will get there when he wants too, not because some individual or the MSM wants a new attack line


96 posted on 09/17/2015 8:41:09 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: goldstategop

“Politics without principles is demagoguery.”

You think Trump is the only one who fits that?

I don’t think so.


97 posted on 09/17/2015 8:41:35 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: goldstategop

Golly, you’re right, Trump has nothing to say at all on international trade, tax policy, labor policy....sheesh, he has no actual experience working in the economy, building anything, negotiating deals....glad you weighed in....


98 posted on 09/17/2015 8:44:28 AM PDT by IChing
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To: goldstategop

For me the Trump draw is about how he is able to take down the establishment (uniparty, LSM) like nobody else can. To me that is the most important thing any of them has to offer. I like Cruz a lot but if we are going to achieve what he wants to achieve, we have to get passed the establishment first. And they are deeply entrenched as you know.


99 posted on 09/17/2015 8:44:45 AM PDT by uncitizen (Make America Great Again!)
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To: goldstategop

The guy who paved the way for Clinton was the liar who boasted: “Read my lips - no new taxes”, and then reneged on that pledge.


100 posted on 09/17/2015 8:45:24 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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