Posted on 11/19/2015 10:51:17 AM PST by BigEdLB
Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to win the Republican nomination in 2016 – and it may not even be close.
Four months after being widely dismissed as a celebrity candidate who would wither under scrutiny, Trump isn’t just defying political gravity. He’s powering past it as he expands his leads in both national polls and critical early voting states.
A new Reuters poll conducted mostly after the November 13 attacks in Paris found Trump with more than double the support of his nearest rival nationally, taking 36 percent of Republican primary voters to Ben Carson’s 14.6 percent. A Morning Consult poll released Tuesday showed the billionaire with an even loftier lead, polling 38 percent to Carson’s 19 percent as Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz languished in the single digits.
A University of Massachusetts survey released Monday shows a closer contest – but Donald Trump still manages to outpoll the fading Ben Carson by nine points.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimorepostexaminer.com ...
I think people thought OBama would be good for this country, he wasn’t. Right out of the gate, he was not the man. Not even close.
So, the photo of Trump the young man with REagan was photoshopped I guess.
On wind power: I gathered Trump was against it, but he gave the reasons for it not really being feasible. It costs a lot to build, and then requires taxation to support it. It runs into problems with people who don’t want their view ruined, though he didn’t mention that, but local opposition can add to the costs. He seems to know a lot about it. I believe it’s less than one percent of our energy, also, so maybe not even worth bothering him with.
“One month after Mr. Reagan announced his candidacy on Nov. 13, 1979, Mr. Trump was 33 years old.
He's 69 now.
I think I may have voted Democrat when I was 33.
A rabbit for the dogs to chase around the track until the last minute when it breaks down.
NOW who we gonna chase??
(Jimmy Carter knew how evil rabbits can be!)
Beware the rabbit in the back of the pack...
How do you steer this thing? It has no wheel.
- - - 
With a tiller; Hon. 
Where would he stand on WMD's in Iraq?
“Steve Deace, who endorsed Cruz, said on his show last night that Trump will have trouble motivating the evangelicals because of his lack of authenticity on their issues.”
Agreed, but what if Trump selects a running mate, who he has not badmouthed, and who has credibility with the evangelicals........Huckabee. Just thinking. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
If you look back earlier in the thread I responded to someone who said...
“I believe Trump supported Reagan”
I only cared about the record being clear about that relationship.
Records at the Reagan library show that Reagan’s staff tried to keep Trump at “arms length” except when they were trying to stop his donations to democrats, or “soothe his large ego”
And in “The Art of the Deal” Trump calls/implys Reagan was a con man.
In previous posts I have provided links to those points.
Now in response to you saying “I think people thought he (Obama) would be good for the country”...you are right, some people thought that.
However, no one who was a clear thinking conservative ever thought that he would be good for our country.
Even Joe the plumber knew Obama was going to be bad for our country.
Sure. Thats why he gets 75% of the coverage and BJs frim Hannity and others. The new “maverick” loved by the MSM. This country is being played by the Clintonian candidate.
Point taken.
I know people do change.
How about when Trump was about 61-62 in 2007-2008??
From this article....
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/why-did-trump-endorse-mccain-he-wanted-clinton-as-obamas-vp#.gjo9DdOG0
But Hillary’s a great friend of mine. Her husband is a great friend of mine. They’re fantastic people. I mean, they’re — you know, the thing, they get a bad knock. She’s a very nice woman. People think, tough, tough. And I guess she’s tough, but she’s a very nice woman. And he’s a very nice guy. We know all about the smarts and how smart they are, and all, but they are good people.
“I know her very well,” Trump said. “She’s very talented. And she has a husband that I also like very much. I think she’s going to get the nomination rather easily.”
Trump also spoke favorably of Clinton’s 2007 health care proposal that year which had at the center an “individual mandate” similar to the one President Obama would later include in his plan.
Trump has not changed. He is still rich white trash. He is still the same vulgar, buffoonish oaf he always was. The only thing that has changed is that so many freepers are desperate for hope n chsnge that they have abandoned all common sense for this Clintonian fool.
Trump has not changed. He is still rich white trash. He is still the same vulgar, buffoonish oaf he always was. The only thing that has changed is that so many freepers are desperate for hope n chsnge that they have abandoned all common sense for this Clintonian fool.
If the republican party did that, not only would they lose the presidential election, but Paul Ryan would lose his congressional seat, and quite a few other republicans too, would end up out of office.
I agree. It was a bizarre rant by Medved because he hates Trump who he thinks is soooo low class.
Mark Levin called him a working-class billionaire last night. He meant it as a great thing; but I think people just miss what people who grow up in Queens - no matter their economic status - sound like. He sounds like a sane version of Chris Walken.
Since you're so high class, why don't you drag the proverbial dollar bill through one just like your high class friend, James Carville.
The white working class is the one group whom it’s socially acceptable to mock. We keep the country running and get ridicule in response.
Well, I like the white working class. Some have problems because they are often disdained by middle-class people and certainly by the elites.
They’d rather have the work done by good little Mexican drones who keep quiet and work for peanuts.
If the Republican leaders pull something like that to take the decision away from the electorate, it will spell the final collapse and demise of the GOP.
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