Posted on 11/26/2015 8:20:18 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
I still love your tag line GG2.
I've posted a similar opinion on several blogs. The convention is where it all happens and the GOPe is going to pull out all the stops to deny Trump a first vote win.
I think the undercurrent of the article is to warn the lefties to start taking Trump seriously.
I posit he fears their oppo has been too focused on the FL twins.
author is a dirt bag, but he was not that way in this....he more or less just interviewed that other guy.
Maybe expand your mind and read it. You’ll be surprised. I was. It’s neither pro Trump nor anti Trump - it’s just a decent breakdown.
That could happen - but this article was about chances of winning the nomination, not a commentary on the general.
Supporters of a certain candidate don’t actually READ THE DAD GUMMED article PING.
Actually that's not an accurate description of THIS article at all. They under sell Trump's chances, but they're pretty dad gummed accurate as to why he is running so strong and the nature of his appeal.
Yes I know all of that, which makes it all the more remarkable that he's done this reasonable piece. May be his first one ever. I'm not sure how you missed that. Then again, commenting without reading leaves one open to miss the entire point.
Great post, #20, and I think I agree with every word.
What is interesting about this...is that this Abramoff guy, and even Klein, get this better than Brit Hume, Brett Baier, Charles Krauthammer and the WSJ editorial board, Jennifer Rubin, etc.
Normally when libs opine about Republican/conservative internal politics, they get it all wrong. These guys swerved into a lot of the truth. I think they undersell his chances a little bit - but I think many around here have gone off the deep end declaring the race over at this point. The truth is somewhere in between, and will play out in the next few months.
Thank you for actually reading with an open mind. And like you, I agree with much (but not all) of the reasoning in the piece - even as it’s written by someone I normally loathe.
Trump is shrewd businessman. He will chew GOPe for breakfast. If they tried to mess with him, do you think he will sit quietly in his Trump tower. He will use media 24/7 to humiliate GOPe and their stooge unelectable for ever.
Yes he will chew them. Actually they’d be risking their demise I think.
But meanwhile they’re still trying crap. Probably their best shot is to knock him down in the polls - but no one believes their lies anymore so not sure how that could work.
They are getting VERY NERVOUS now. They need to cover their bases as they’re realizing the hold Trump has on his supporters.
They are starting to realize that the ONLY WAY Trump can lose now is by turning left on immigration, and he seems to know not tot do that.
Well I don’t know if the “they” you are referring to are these guys.....I think the “they” you are talking about is the GOP E and Washington establishment.
Liberal columnists like this don’t suffer any career setback if they misread Republican tea leaves.
I wish people around here wouldn’t let their projected motive fantasies get in the way of the substance of a given article or writer, even if that writer is normally off base.
#2 and Clinton cannot even draw a crowd. She has to pay to bus in people.
Maybe expand your mind and read it. Youâll be surprised. I was. Itâs neither pro Trump nor anti Trump - itâs just a decent breakdown."
Which was the point all along.
I have a large shredder near my desk.
I would run all my paper money through the shredder before I would give a plug nickel to those worth scumbags at the GOPe.
‘eff them and their mommas, too.
Hammer hit nail, stormy. Cruz has elected to be pretty noisy about being evangelical. I never thought that would prove to be very helpful beyond the South, but that was a choice of action Cruz used, and Trump has sewn up the South, at the moment.
So, where does this go when we hit Florida? That is when the GOP usually strafe the beach with money bombs, and kill off the conservative, or the anti-Establishment front runner.
Florida and northward after that is up to Trump and Rubio.
The mood out there begs for Trump, not Rubio.
A concept that I thought would be accessible for the masses...but evidently.....
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