Posted on 03/20/2016 6:10:13 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Herewith, a second prediction. Republican wailing over his prospective nomination aside, Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton like a drum in November.
Indeed, only the fear that Trump can win explains the hysteria in this city. Here is the Washington Post of March 18: “As a moral question it is straightforward. The mission of any responsible Republican should be to block a Trump nomination and election.”
The Orwellian headline over that editorial: “To defend our democracy, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention.” Beautiful. Defending democracy requires Republicans to cancel the democratic decision of the largest voter turnout of any primaries in American history. And this is now a moral imperative for Republicans.
Like the Third World leaders it lectures, the Post celebrates democracy—so long as the voters get it right. Whatever one may think of the Donald, he has exposed not only how far out of touch our political elites are, but how insular is the audience that listens to our media elite.
Understandably, Trump’s rivals were hesitant to take him on, seeing the number he did on “little Marco,” “low energy” Jeb, and “Lyin’ Ted.” But the Big Media—the Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times—have been relentless and ruthless.
Yet Trump’s strength with voters seemed to grow, pari passu, with the savagery of their attacks. As for National Review, The Weekly Standard and the accredited conservative columnists of the big op-ed pages, their hostility to Trump seems to rise, commensurate with Trump’s rising polls.
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I am of the opinion that she will not debate him. Or she will only do it with Candy Crowley or Gwen Iffel or Stephanugalupagus. He will destroy her. Also he has not even spent any money on ads against her. Wait till the ads start. She is going to be toast.
Illegal alien Hispanics are not supposed to be voting.
Legal Hispanic immigrants and Americans of Hispanic descent have every reason to protect their jobs by voting for Trump.
I suspect that Killery has no intentions of getting on a debate stage with Trump.
The Clinton’s and the democRATS would simply would refuse, or create terms that Trump would refuse.
Can’t talk about this, or that, or this other thing over here.
As much as we would enjoy it, there is no compulsory thing about debates. Didn’t that get started again in 1988 with Bush vs Dukakis.
I don’t think he’s in it to lose it. His ego is too big. He may have started out as a distraction and attention-getter, but I think he’s in it for the long race now. For the GOP, it’s a real learning curve. Too many candidates while the Dems don’t even have a B Team. If the GOP really wanted one candidate to win they should have protected that person earlier with closed primaries, closed caucuses, etc. It really is the rebellion of people with pitch forks... And the Dems switched over and voted for Trump, but that isn’t the total story for his support. I hate how he says things, but there is an element of truth that makes his accusations stick. She is evil and he’s highly imperfect but I am more sick of George Will, Bill Kristol, National Review, and Chamber of Commerce treating rank and file Republicans, who finance this operation, like they are stupid.
when Trump beat Hillary like a rug....a dirty old rug hung out on the clothesline and pounded with a bamboo pole for 10-15 minutes
I voted for neither in the primaries, my FRiend.
The fact that the GOPe had too much influence was never lost on me.
The fact that they are losing their influence is a good thing (and Cruz and Trump share credit for this, whether it was their intention or not.)
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It's Trump and ONLY Trump, whom you dismiss at your own folly.
Geraldine Ferraro
She was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party.
Imagine the Washington Post lecturing republicans on their moral responsibility
Barf bag anyone?
He’s beat her in the popular vote in Ohio and Missouri and came within 20k of her vote total,in FL - after giving up a million votes to,the dos amigos cruz and Rubio
Look at the voter turnout and results thus far, add at least some of the other candidates’ votes to Trump, add in the democrats who will,be able to vote for Trump, and then say how those polls can be anywhere near accurate
Yeah, but she brought that along with her booze, so there doesn’t seem to be much sympathy coming her way.
At this point, what difference does it make?
It’s true. The enemedia is DEMANDING a brokered convention to nuke Trump as the nominee only because they know Trump will beat Hillary like a drum in the general.
If they thought Trump had no chance, the enemedia would be promoting Trump out the yazoo like the NYT and it’s lesser fellow-traveler rags have promoted AND already endorsed John Kasich a few weeks ago when Kasich was pulling 1%.
“Sorry to be the messenger of bad news”
You’re not sorry at all: you post nothing but anti-Trump attacks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:seaplaner/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
Fortunately, he owner of FR has said such attacks shall cease once the GOP nomination is secured, so the dozens of anti-Trump trolls will shortly disappear thereafter.
Nonetheless, let me remind everyone what Trump HAS done.
Only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart! That’s what he’s done!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. Trump has ripped the facade off of the fake “conservative” websites that are really fronts for the modern aristocracy as part of the plan to fool the people into thinking at least SOME of the institutions are on their side.That’s what Trump has done.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb. That’s what Trump has done.
Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”. That’s what Trump has done.
After only four state primary elections, Trump has already taken out all but one GOP RINO candidate. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump has used the enemedia against itself, exposed FNC for being Rupert Murdoch’s personal propaganda channel, and made the other cable networks realize they can grow their ratings by playing more fairly. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump has attracted the “big tent” coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west. That’s what Trump has done.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump’s coalition of voters have panicked the Senate into growing a backbone and standing up to Obama by refusing to consider any Supreme Court nominee until the next President is in office. That’s what Trump has done.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin. That’s what Trump has done.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice. That’s what Trump has done.
Donald J. Trump is the very epitome of the anti-social-justice-warrior, and he’s galvanized an entire nation of the like minded who have been desperately waiting for years for a leader who could lead them from the desert of political correctness.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
Vote Trump
Yes. I meant successful candidate, wins and serves.
Correction to my post #29: I meant that I believe that the country will elect a woman VP before president.
(I know we have had female VP nominees, Geraldine and Sarah)
Beautifully said!
Shouldn’t be over on DU with the other nut cases...
Marking for future reference. (See tagline)
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