Posted on 05/15/2016 2:14:51 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Karl Rove and the rest of the money changers in the Temple are going to give Trump some really bad advice right now. He has won the primaries using some of the most effective campaigning techniques ever devised and now they are going to stop using them and just pour money at the problem like they have done for decades. There is an old saying in politics which is no matter if the candidate wins or loses the manager’s checks always cash.
Now all of the so called experts are going to get in his ear and tell him how to win after he beat sixteen of them. They are going to say he needs to moderate his message to get those precious independents. They are going to explain how he needs to raise over a billion dollars to match the money Hillary/Bernie will be amassing to cover the battleground states with commercials every five minutes and throw away his best argument of not being owned. The Roves will pull out the famous formula of commercials and phone calls that has lost the last 30 years and convince Trump it will work this time.
The losing strategy is for him to move to the left because he doesn’t want to turn off those voters who pay no attention and vote for whoever is the least offensive. This strategy was invented by the Marxists who appeal to the hardcore communists that make up the Democrat Party but not so much to the Blue Collar workers who are not union forced. So a Marxist always drops the Nationalized Healthcare and closing coal and oil industries and sound like socialist Repubs for the General and lie to these more conservative voters.
The Repubs are taught to do the same even though they are destroying their chance to win. What they do not realize is a large majority of the voters are already where they are at and ready to vote for them. When Trump moderates his stands for the General he will be moving away from the voters and over where the Dems are trying to get away from. The formula is to sound like the other Party and the Repubs are where the voters are and why the Dems go there.
You are going to hear Hillary tell everyone what a friend of business she is and how she will be for creating jobs even though she has been campaigning on closing down evil fossil fuels for decades and expanding Obamacare which will further destroy the economy.
The other lie he is going to hear is how he needs to raise a billion dollars to be able to run all of his commercials. When our team won ten of 12 campaigns in liberal Portland we were always outspent by anywhere from double to ten times with the entire Democrat complex against us. From the paper to TV and even had Obama’s Organizing for America trying to save their crown jewel Portland’s Light Rail which was to be his transportation model for the country. We not only defeated it, but is now is on the scrapheap of history since they cannot expand it anywhere in the metro area since without our line it collapses of its own weight. Changing minds is not done with commercials and we have found there is absolutely no movement and in many cases does just the opposite.
When you have 200 channels running 24 hours a day how do you know which one your voter is watching. If he is watching or listening is he surfing or taping it and blowing through the commercials and not even seeing the billion dollar investment? It may make him get up and go get a beer, but does anyone really think it will make you like Hillary or hate Trump? The only thing it is guaranteed to do is to pay the campaign manager 15% and on a billion bucks which they get paid win or lose as do the money bundlers and PAC managers. It is a great business for everyone except the candidate.
As Trump makes the turn at Augusta National with a one shot lead does he continue to use the driver of does he leave it in the bag? Does he listen to Karl and play it safe with the formula he says has worked for the past elections or does he continue with the driver that could put him in the woods? He can and will win this election with less than $200 million and not owe anyone anything. Donald Trump on the stump is better and more effective than any commercial out there. There is no commercial that can explain Trump as well as he can and the visuals of massive crowds excited by his message of Making America Great Again will attract voters like a fat person to a buffet.
Voters and especially women are attracted to Alpha males who are confident and have nice hair and especially nice hair. His coif is his biggest asset and there is no question who the Alpha is. Hillary is going to be so managed and scripted with no clue how to come across as genuine. There is no commercial that can change who she is so she is going to have to paint Donald as an evil racist, sexist, homophobe, zzzzzzzzzzzz, same page different election and exactly not who Trump has been his entire career.
So how does he win this election using his driver? Simple, he wins ugly just like he did during the primary. He has to attack her from the podium and educate the people with his call in interviews to the national programs. Sure they are going to score a few points like they did with this 25 year old interview which was an old marketing blunder, but he can chip out and save par. The main point is to not fear the media as he has shown they are a paper tiger and he has verbal gasoline and matches.
He can win this with small donations of $1000 or less by raising $200-300 million and just keep Air Trump 1 fueled from speech to speech. This is by far his best club in the bag as he is able to speak without a script or teleprompter generating excitement throughout the country. His little digs will drive her bananas. He is in his element and manages the course while hitting the messages he wants to hit and educating the crowds as they watch with amazement. While his crowds are mesmerized Jeb’s, er Hillary’s will be giving golf claps between naps.
Bernie is proving this system will work. If he does not win the primary, which I still think he will; she is a sitting duck waiting to be plucked. The difference of the two with Donald hammering her from massive speech after speech will be the path to victory. Give the people a choice they have not had since Reagan. The only reason Rove won was due to the Dems giving their illegal immigrants the wrong instructions and miscounted what they needed to win. It was certainly not from a winning strategy and Romney did the same thing.
Trump has a chance to turn the entire corrupt system on its head. He does not need these professional managers watering down his message and pouring money on useless ads and phone calls. He has the golden voice and simply has to take his game to the next level. Rather than wasting money on TV use that money to fill stadiums and civic centers to turn this campaign into a movement like the Tea Party. Encourage people to wear the founding fathers clothing as street theater. They are your driver and will bring an even bigger Tsunami than we have seen the last two elections and ready to swamp DC into the sea. Donald Trump cannot fear the driver when the other player cannot hit it even if Rove is telling him to leave it in the bag.
Pray America wakes
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Merkley endorsed Bernie & Wyden endorsed Clinton.
This is what the Bernouts are concerned about:
Merkley: Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3VtCv6l1Kk
Thanks very much for the Sunday Thread!
Safe travels, dearest Alas Babylon!
I hope the damn TSA line isn’t too long and tedious.
Preempted by EPL soccer - that sounds about right for today’s America.
Right on the money, dearest Bray!
Thank God, Mr. Donald J. Trump has no use for Karl Rove and Mr. Rove professes disdain for Mr. Trump as well, primarily because Rove is a “Bushie” and Barbara’s boy was an early victim of Trump’s, despite the fact that it was “Jeb’s turn” in 2016.
Ain’t politics grand?
Good advice and another winner post this morning.
I do think Trump can do both to a degree. There will be super PAC’s working on his behalf while he can sit back and not fund raise much at all unless he wants to start a small donor effort. Let the so-called experts get a bone of sorts while Trump can still do what he does best.
Good morning and thanks for the thread.
You’re on an early roll this AM. I wonder how long it will take for people to realize you’re early?
Today, I love Soccer...it knocked out 1 MSM. Secondly observation is Sherrod Brown...a commie who has tried to ruin Ohio...he is likely someone Left is pushing to replace Hitlary if whispering is about FBI charges. Third observation is Newt.
The failing @nytimes wrote yet another hit piece on me. All are impressed with how nicely I have treated women, they found nothing. A joke! @realDonaldTrump 6:55 AM - 15 May 2016Everyone is laughing at the @nytimes for the lame hit piece they did on me and women. I gave them many names of women I helped-refused to use. @realDonaldTrump 7:13 AM - 15 May 2016
Why doesn't the failing @nytimes write the real story on the Clintons and women? The media is TOTALLY dishonest! @realDonaldTrump 7:32 AM - 15 May 2016
Probably coincidentally, this dovetails with the breathless reporting over the 25 year old "John Miller - Publicist" recording, which the press might argue shows Trump showing low respect for women (bedside being dishonest, the CNN preferred meme in light of Trump saying the voice doesn't even sound like him). I figure the pres will keep running nonsense stories.
Manafort's prediction from April 10 came true - by mid-May Trump would be seen as the presumptive nominee, although it would take some time for the GOP to accept that.
Looks like the game is to "keep Americans concentrating on homo bathrooms" instead of bubbas abuse of even more women, his airplane trips with porn kings,whether or not pootie will release the 20k e mails he has from hillary and how he got them.That's just for starters.
FR Thread re: NYT "How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private" Article
Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private - The New York Times - May 14, 2016 (MICHAEL BARBARO and MEGAN TWOHEY)
A small sampling of other press outlets riffing off the NYT story ...
Trump has a history of questionable behavior with women: NY Times - Reuters
New York Times delves into Donald Trump's history with women - CBS News
The NYT interviewed 50 women about Trump - Business Insider
Forty Years of Trump Being Creepy To Women - NY Magazine
This New York Times investigation uncovered troubling anecdotes - The Week
Donald Trump: Outrageous Details From His NYT Ladies Man' Profile - Uproxx
If I were to tell you all about my week you’d think I was making it up.
Let us start sort of mellow. Then it gets real bad…..real baaaaaad.
But I am going to survive so do not read for fear of very sad ending. Odd and strange, but it will be over someday.
I went to “try out” to be a Cantor. Aw man I was so full of myself, insert smile and a wink here, thinking I got some kind of weird contralto voice that the parishioners will love.
So they fired our Music Director and the new one called us all in to get a grip on how we sound, our strengths, volume….that kind of thing.
Folks, it was….well it was sad….very sad. Oh my Music Director told me I did fine, that I had “potential”, that she wanted me to practice here, practice there.
Man, you know when you are singing, you know when you sound bad. I won’t say I sounded bad, exactly, I have an okay voice, can carry tune with a bucket. But I changed keys all the hell over the place….
Good sport that I am, after that first practice I immediately wrote an email and resigned from any thoughts of being a Cantor. Man I was scared out of my mind just me, the Music Director and me with the organ, alone in the church. I was shaking like a leaf in a wind storm. What the hell was I thinking I could stand up there and sing, loud and bright just like Adele, to five hundred people.
Yes I am still in the choir, I am not THAT bad. Also I might be singing tenor or bass as Music Director does agree my range is very “unique”.
“But you’re not a solo singer,” she said, kindly. I always say that. So I guess I won’t be singing “Frozen” any time soon.
We move on to the horror story. Absolute horror.
Y’all know my daughter has Munchaussen, a mental disorder that has people putting ticks on themselves to get Lyme disease, sticking pencils in their throat to get Strep.
Since I have STUPIDLY bought her a house, her, her husband, her daughter…my granddaughter….for the last three years it’s been a nightmare. First she gets restraining order on husband for no reason at all. Sure he had issues but she’d been married to the man for twelve years and while he had issues with working, he never abused her and is a damn good father to my granddaughter.
She got the restraining order and tortured him for a year and a half. He fought like the dickens to get visitation with his daughter and she did all kind of silly stuff.
As for the hospital, dear Lord since she’s moved here three years she’s been the hospital almost half of that time. INDEED people, this daughter of mine has cost YOU over ten MILLION DOLLARS FOR HER FAKERY, I got all the dates and times. She gets everything for free, rides to the doctors. Meanwhile she would take my Jeep to go to Baltimore’s famous mental bin, Shepherd Pratt….which I call Shepherd Pratt Pool and Spa. I gave it to her cause she threatened suicide. She’s threatened suicide some 87 times, with hospital admissions….I got it all documented.
So then she gets a restraining order on ME. Sets me up, blindsides me…..damn it’s the saddest story. This after I bought her a house, took care of her dogs for five straight weeks, fixed her and her daughter dinner EVERY night, paid many of her bills….she only gets $617 a month, another cost you pay people cause there ain’t a damn thing wrong with her. She did work for three days but in a chicken factory and quit cause it smelled like shit.
THEN….no I’m not done….she lost her daughter. Which my son-in-law managed to get custody after paying almost ten grand for a lawyer while she got all her legal help free.
Recently I posted about how she went into the loony bin, and for the THIRD time she left her dog all alone in that house. ME, even my friend Diane Feinstein, heard that dog barking. The last time she left the dog the house was filled with fleas….two dogs she left, mother and daughter. Those dogs suffered, they suffered. She left them all alone for three weeks and they had no escape from the fleas and obviously the house was a wreck. Which me and Diane Feinstein cleaned up.
So she comes home with a break from the loony bin, no daughter….lost custody. Son-in-law gave mother dog back to daughter because he couldn’t keep her. Daughter promised to keep her.
Of course she back to loony bin and leaves dog AGAIN. This time, since the key I had wouldn’t work….she used the upper lock on the door, intentionally I think, so I couldn’t get in. So son-in-law broke window and we got the dog. She calls cops on me, they come over to my house, tell me to fix window….yada, ydada.
Last week I knew something was wrong. No activity around the house.
SHE REMOVED ALL OF THE APPLIANCES!!!!!!!!
The washing machine, the dryer, the DISHWASHER, the refrigerator….ALL GONE!
And they were nice appliances.
I hear she’s living as a “squatter” in a mental help facility, whatever that means.
See, she wants me to sell the house. It’s half in my name, half in hers. She can’t sell without me. Now I can’t rent it out without putting in money, I can’t let son-in-law, granddaughter….et all to move in, again….she’d find a way to torment.
And I know I’m sitting here typing and yon reader probably wonders why I do this in public. Well she called the radio station on me, was on the air for a half an hour, accusing me of killing my husband….she may be my child but she’s as addicted to hospitals, attention and sympathy worse than any heroin addict is to that drug.
Sold all the appliances.
I’m devastated.
Anyway, I have no choice. I have to go on. Oh, and she turned off the electricity in that house.
A horrible, horrible person. And yeah, I wrote a book about it cause it was almost this bizarre when she was a teenager. Husband and I used to find piles of burned paper in closets where she tried to burn down the house. And much more….much more….which is why I wrote the book.
But I’m still watching politics and it helps. But my legs are wobbly from this horror.
EPIC ! Candidate Donald Trump Just Trolled The Entire Mainstream U.S. Media…
Posted on May 14, 2016 by sundance
LOLOL. Talk about three-dimensional media chess, and owning the new cycle. This guy is an epic candidate.
The person who leaked the 25-year-old “audio tape” to the Washington Post was…. wait for it,…. Donald Trump:
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Did bray just hit another home run—yo betcha.
Does Donald Trump need Karl roves help?
I don’t think so!!Just let Trump be Trump and everyone will win.
And by August 7-10, Donald Trump will be seen as the front-runner in the November election. Why? The dem convention is July 25-28, after the Republican convention the week before.
So the world will see Donald Trump accept the nomination in Cleveland in a somewhat orderly fashion (assuming the networks can muffle the sound of Karl Rove and Willard Romney crying and wailing), and the same world will see the strife at the dem party when Sanders voters react to the official nomination, but worse of all;
The world will get to hear Hillary Clinton make her acceptance speech. No way around it; you can't move it to Saturday night, you can't hide it, you can't cover it up with a hand motion and snappy patter like "What difference does it make?". The basic problem the dems have is that Hillary is, at base, a really lousy, impersonal, rehearsed, 20th century liberal and has a speech delivery mechanism that sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. She's married to Bill Clinton; she has no Bill Clinton DNA or charm in her.
The Whole World Is Watching, Hilly, The Whole World Is Watching. Don't get nervous; what could go wrong?
So why did I pick August 7-10 in my opening? Because by then the polls will include reactions from both conventions. Until then, the LIV's can rely on MSNBC and Facebook for their news sources and opinion basis, but when Hilly is center stage there won't be a filter. The comparison between DJT and Crooked HRC should be enough to make the difference. Then the betting pools will be on the point spread, not the basic outcome.
Wow. Devastating story. Sounds like a state disorder of massive proportions.
the Washington Post
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