Posted on 04/28/2016 3:15:17 PM PDT by profit_guy
Manafort has spent a career working on behalf of clients that the rest of his fellow lobbyists and strategists have deemed just below their not-so-high moral threshold. Manafort has consistently given his clients a patina of respectability that has allowed them to migrate into the mainstream of opinion, or close enough to the mainstream.
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Make no mistake, Paul Manafort may indeed help Trump...but in the end, it will be Donald Trump that get’s Donald Trump elected.
I personally believe that there will be no denying that.
Well, I hope so. I hope Donald doesn’t get in because Manafort managed not just to make a good case for Donald but because he pushed something frankly untrue about Donald.
She's the reason we should have nominated a true conservative this time around.
What is your estimate of the percentage of the US population that is ‘conservative’ and would vote for a ‘conservative’ candidate ?
Yeah, “not-so-high moral threshold” clients my butt. Ronald Reagan was one of his clients and he helped RR win the 1980 election.
Slate sucks!
You have to give credit where it is due.
Trump came into this thing and made strong statements about critical issues that got people going for him. That only grew.
He already has over 10 million votes in a GOP Primary season that started with 17 candidates.
Ted Cruz represented the best conservative candidate in a long while...and I supported him strongly.
But the fact on the ground are what they are.
And this has happened because of Trump’s approach to the primaries, his approach to the GOPe, his approach to the media...and now is approach to Hillary.
In addition, the policies Trump is actually campaigning on on his web site, and the details there (which are different than what is being said about him where they pull up year’s old positions) if enacted, will help this nation immensely.
After the NY Primary I wrote the following letter to Ted:
My Open Letter to Ted Cruz after the NY Primary
http://www.jeffhead.com/Cruz-ltr.htm
This has become even more apparent after Trump’s landslides last Tuesday.
I hope and pray Ted will do the best thing for the country after Indiana (which I expect Trump is going to win) and come out and unite the party.
He can do that and it would be a respectful and good thing. We simply have to unite and win in November...for the sake of the republic.
Foreign conservative? Or true-blue, not even the slightest question, no statute, regulation, or passing reference to USSC ruling NBC?
Whoever that might be, it’s looking more and more like Ted Cruz was only that on the surface.
We’re being offered half a loaf in the conservatism department — a populist, in a situation where the population averages center-right. But who could systematically disassemble Hillary? Maybe a Ronald Reagan could, but consider that he bested Jimmy Carter because of optimism — Jimmy wasn’t all that enthusiastic about pushing a lefty campaign. Hillary would not be an honestly morose lefty, she’d try to blow sunshine up your je ne sais quoi.
Maybe a pragmatist was the best thing this time around.
Trump has already reigned in Manafort’s attempts to make Trump more vanilla. Trump will be Trump and will not be denied. That’s a great thing for all of us.
He has to be able to uncork his inner redneck rassler.
This is not going to be pretty sometimes, but it often fits the mood of the country. As a populist he could do worse.
Like Alan Keyes! His candidacy went so far in 2008!
If you look at Mr. Trumps PLATFORM positions on immigration, foreign policy, national concealed carry, and tax reform he is the most conservative candidate since Barry Goldwater.
Looking at Senator Cruz’s positions Globalism, immigration, the VAT tax and cozy relationship with big banks and support for the TPP Senator Cruz is considerably less conservative.
Agree with you.
This was a hit piece of the vilest sort.
Great. We chose Trump. Time to move on. Get on the Trump Train. We saved you a seat.
Er, Trump was going to get the nomination whether Manafort came in or not, but Manafort absolutely buttressed the margin.
Trump had won 7 million votes (2 million more than Cruz) before Manafort joined the team.
I completely agree with your well-stated analysis. Thanks for that.
What has manafort pushed? He is a recent edition trump is still trump
Agreed. Goooooooooooooo Trump!
Well if any of those had bothered to make borders and trade and jobs their platform them we could have gotten somebody’s attention.
Pushing for TOP and shamnesty by ALL the rest of the field missed the mark by a long shot
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