Posted on 11/27/2015 2:51:30 PM PST by Mariner
Early one evening in January 2014, I sat in a darkened den with walnut-paneled walls and baroque furniture, trying desperately to get Donald Trump to stop telling me about his Barack Obama conspiracy theories. “And to this day,†my billionaire host bellowed, “we haven’t seen those records!â€
Our interview had started out fine, but now Trump kept veering off on long, excited tangents about forged birth certificates and presidential coverups. No matter what questions I asked, I couldn’t get him off the subject. “We have seen a book of [Obama’s] as a young man that said he was from Kenya, okay?†Trump said, connecting the dots for me like a crazy uncle who has cornered his nephew at Thanksgiving dinner. “The publisher of the book said at first, ‘Well, that’s what he told us.’ But then they said, ‘No, that was a typographical error.’ . . . I have a whole theory on it, and I’m pretty sure it was right.â€
Trump’s effort to expose Obama as a fraudulent foreigner had routinely hijacked national news cycles and riled up right-wing voters in 2012, turning him into a political celebrity courted by top Republican presidential candidates. But by the time I approached him more than a year later, the shtick had worn thin. The GOP was sick of him, and the press had mostly moved on. For attention, Trump had turned to the conservative fringes, where his torch-juggling act was still cheered at grass-roots gatherings and his musings about impeachment still went viral in far-right corners of the Web. My purpose in interviewing him was to find out why he was still bothering with politics at all.
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And watching their feeble attempt at smear.
Oops, and I forgot to mention wholesale inventions in an alternate reality...assassination through characterization.
The writer is the expression of the left in today's world and most of you heard something like it over Thanksgiving dinner...their absolute refusal to admit, or conceive of, another point of view. Or, a whole 'nuther set of characterizations.
From a Fearless Fringe Member: Go Don.
Dump these SOB’s.
Time to take the country back.
The commie libs love to write about Trump and the GOP. That way it won’t look like they are defending Clinton by not writing about her lies and scandals.
(sorry about that...)
Fringe establishment...
That group was the bedrock of the party. It wasn’t the fringe.
We can’t help it if the party “fringed” itself, and that’s exactly what it did.
Trump didn’t set up this big plot to appeal to the fringe of anything.
He went to the bedrock of Reaganism. And guess what, all those of who have been trying to tell the Republican party it had it’s head firmly implanted, were right!!!!
The party marginalized itself out of existence trying to wind over Democrats with Democrats stances.
One again GOPe, what nut-case Leftist is going to buy into Leftism (slightly more right), when they can have the real thing for the same vote?
Fringe. Yeah, let’s talk fringe, a party that is supposed to be right of Obama, and only forces him to use his veto five times in seven years.
Don’t give me that they weren’t in control carp either. In nearly two years they have force his hand about once in every 110 days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3365540/posts?page=22#22
'nuff said, right there.
The most left-wing POTUS in the history of the USA, has had to overcome a veto only 5 times.
And, not once was he over-ridden.
Based on the combined numbers for Trump, Carson and Cruz the “fringe” is about 2/3 of Republican voters.
Like the inmates running the asylum, to the Loony Left, everyone else is on the fringe.
Had to change my tag line for this story.
I am always amazed at the ignorance that left-wing people display about conservatives and objective facts.
I am persuaded that people on the left are blinded by ideology and intensely held stereotypes.
Their distorted view of reality limits their ability influence thinking Americans.
If we are merely a “fringe”, how then could courting our support “conquer the GOP”?
The Trumpening is not even principally a GOP phenomenon. Trump will get many, many more votes from white working class Democrats and from American blacks than he will from Country Clubbers.
I continue to believe that Jeb Bush will be Hillary’s VP choice.
For you and I, that certain covers my views on it.
It is strange, but they see us the same way.
We have the U. S. Constitution and the rule of law to back us up, but they have already discarded both, so that answers a lot.
The golden rule, the respect for others, and right from wrong, they simply don’t buy into it unless it’s them and their families. Even then you wonder...
Never left the truth or even questions about the truth get in the way of a leftwing journalist, esp. from the NYT, LAT or WashPost.
The “truth” to them or even the “quest for the truth” is like a piece of used toilet paper, something to be thrown away on the ground like a piece of trash.
Well, is he or isn’t he a birther?
On election the left-wing MSM fringe will find out that the right-wing fringe is the right-wing majority.
They just don’t get it. Amazing.
Who is the Bilbo Baggins writer.
If Donald Trump is courting the right wing, who is Bernie Sanders courting?
We’ll see how fringe Americans are in America. Maybe it is the globalists who are the fringe.
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