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The Case for Donald Trump
Townhall.com ^ | February 8, 2016 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 02/08/2016 4:37:24 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin; Servant of the Cross; xzins; Jane Long; mkjessup; All
Not a bad piece, a bit of the faint praise thing, but more important he forgets the following things:

1. Without Trump, the VERY important case against illegal immigration is not being discussed much. Likewise, the stopping of muzzie "immigrants". Those two are THE most important ones to most conservatives, without these being solved we won't have much of a country where we can argue conservatism.

2. Trump can frame the narrative. He frames it in front of the media, and dares them to do something about it, he doubles down on their whining, calls them on it, and wins.

3. No one else has shown they can be effective at any of these things.

Sounds pretty conservative in the right places. Yes I know, but they've all got problems.

21 posted on 02/08/2016 5:18:31 AM PST by Lakeshark
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22 posted on 02/08/2016 5:21:06 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
Trump's biggest asset:


23 posted on 02/08/2016 5:22:31 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: smoothsailing

Betsy Trump?


24 posted on 02/08/2016 5:26:00 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: central_va

Yeah, he proved that spine by opposing crony taxpayer wasting $$ ethanol subsidies in Iowa!!

Oh wait........


25 posted on 02/08/2016 5:28:26 AM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: bolobaby

Me and mine? What kind of grammar is that? *rolling eyes*


26 posted on 02/08/2016 5:29:00 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: grania

So you say, but you support the MOST DC power structure connected candidate running, Donald Trump. He has been buying and selling political influence and power his entire career, that’s how he made his money. I like some of what Trump says, but to try to place him outside the money/political power circle is just not honest.


27 posted on 02/08/2016 5:29:55 AM PST by jstaff
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To: Kaslin

I can’t wait for Wednesday when Trump is the clear cut winner in NH and the Trump ankle biters will go away and sulk.


28 posted on 02/08/2016 5:30:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: euram

I will not vote for Trump in our primary on March 1; which is my right, but will do so in the general election if he is nominated.


29 posted on 02/08/2016 5:33:07 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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30 posted on 02/08/2016 5:33:19 AM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: Kaslin

I would only consider opposing Trump if the RNC/GOPe was already crying for donations for his campaign. I doubt that will happen even after he wins the nomination.

The democrats haven’t even shown a need to start early to strongly target the incumbent republicans in congress. That’s ominous or they are waiting to see if they need to run to the right or hard left.


31 posted on 02/08/2016 5:35:17 AM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: Kaslin

LOL!

Donald Trump would probably take that as a compliment.

Comparing Trump to Betsy Ross is high praise indeed!

Good for you! 8^)


32 posted on 02/08/2016 5:36:02 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

What also isn’t working is the online intimidations to vote against Trump. Its just got to the point where folks are ignoring forums, time to turn off the puter, the non stop polls meant to manipulate them. The MSM. The debates.

Turning OFF the manipulation.


33 posted on 02/08/2016 5:49:11 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: Lakeshark; Kaslin; Servant of the Cross; onyx; Jane Long; mkjessup; All

All questions will pretty much be answered tomorrow.

To be honest with you, there’s no particular reason for New Hampshire to have tons of support for Donald Trump. They just do. Some have said it’s a function of his celebrity status. Could be. But in my day, I knew I’d watched almost every appearance of Ronald Reagan on TV, so that sure-handed, balanced spokesman image certainly affected me.

But it didn’t write and deliver his speeches. It didn’t put that steel in his spine. It didn’t put that love for America in his heart and his gaze.

Personally, I think Trump really means it when he says that a nation without borders is no nation at all. It’s one of those self-evident truths that probably is the basis of our revulsion for the establishment that denies that basic truth, that bit of common sense.

So, tomorrow. Was it all just bells and whistles. We’ll know by late evening.


34 posted on 02/08/2016 5:49:56 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: r_barton

And what is your point? Ted Cruz never claimed to have been born in the US. His mother is a natural born US Citizen having been born and raised in Delaware and never gave up her US citizenship despise the rumors that are floating around.


35 posted on 02/08/2016 5:52:38 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

If Trump is such a liberal, RINO, whatever, then why is he being attacked by Rove and every other establishment hack? Why is he being vilified by the leftist media and lied about and attacked constantly? It’s because he’s not a liberal, its because he puts America first and always has. They know that he will do major damage to the uniparty, he knows how to hire the best and brightest to make things work. He will not stand for waste and corruption.


36 posted on 02/08/2016 5:57:54 AM PST by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever Trump is the only hope.)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

True, but those of us who see the Trump haters for what they are can still be mildly entertained by their immature babbling. Consider it comedy relief! 8^)


37 posted on 02/08/2016 5:59:40 AM PST by smoothsailing
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“Most Trump supporters are good people, patriotic Americans burned by an elite...”

Could be that we (Trump supporters) are tired of the last eight years. It’s as if we’ve been in an abusive marriage compliments of the PTB in DC. If we get Cruz, Rubio, etc., it’s just shuffling the abusers to new positions but nothing will change. Just realizing that three years from now would be exactly like now is so depressing.

Trump remembers the real America when it was great; the pipsqueaks are too young. They don’t care if America is great again, they only care if they win this title. Trump is high energy and success oriented. He hates to fail and if he’s president his legacy will be important to him, so failing is not an option.


38 posted on 02/08/2016 5:59:43 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Romans 8:38-39)
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To: jstaff

uhhh....he’s exposing the buying and selling of political influence, not as a hypothetical, but from the insiders “been there, done that” perspective. You need someone who knows how the game works in order to clean up the mess.


39 posted on 02/08/2016 6:00:45 AM PST by grania
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I got a sense of surrender on the part of the GOPe.

Yes, the GOPe is trying to look on the bright side after Trump, Carson, and Cruz ransacked their house :- )

40 posted on 02/08/2016 6:01:05 AM PST by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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