Posted on 05/31/2016 7:21:25 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Many observers were mystified when Donald Trump attacked New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez. But the story was really very simple: Martinez hit Trump, so Trump hit back.
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The Trump-Martinez bewilderment focused on four factors: Martinez is Hispanic, she's a woman, she's a Republican (head of the Republican Governors Association), and she's popular. "I think it sent all the wrong signals," said Newt Gingrich, who has generally been pro-Trump. "You particularly don't want to see your candidate who needs to...get stronger with Latinos, and stronger with women, attack a Latina woman Republican governor."
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Trump has made a principle of hitting back harder than he is hit. And he has been so effective that many Republicans, elected and not, have decided the smart thing is to refrain from taking on Trump, even if they oppose him.
Not Martinez. In mid-April, the New Mexico governor issued a "remarkably strong rebuke" to Trump, in the words of a Washington Post report, when Martinez spoke to a GOP fundraiser at the home of David Koch in Palm Beach, Florida. Martinez, according to the Post, "did not mince words. She told the crowd of about 60 wealthy GOP backers that, as a Latina, she was offended by Trump's language about immigrants. Noting her years working as a prosecutor on the Mexican border and now as a border-state governor, Martinez said Trump's plan to build a wall and force Mexico to pay for it was unrealistic and irresponsible, according to multiple people in attendance."
Team Trump believes Martinez has continued to criticize him in private since those remarks. And when Trump traveled to Albuquerque, after having clinched the Republican nomination, Martinez told reporters she was "really busy" and did not have time to attend.
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I’d post the Newty-Palousy couch photo here in support of your observation, but my desktop is aways off.
Trump is sending a message: You attack him, he will hit back, and neither your race, ethnicity, nor sex will allow you to attack him with impunity.
I suppose you would prefer the Bush style of letting people lie about you, savage you, call you a nazi, suggest assasinating you and humbly saying nothing because that would be undignified.
Presidential. Very nice. Then when Hillary wins we will have an entire generation of people raised on Obama / Hillary and a SCOTUS with 6 or 7 leftists on it we may console ourselves that throughout it our side retained its' dignity.
Humility?
Hell no. I want a fighter who punches back.
If Martinez can’t take the heat she can get the hell out of the kitchen. It was her own big mouth that made her a target in the first place.
Thanks. Case-in-point.
I guess it's all she knows anyway, because New Mexico is pretty much that way. It's one of my favorite places as far as beauty and weather but it's crime ridden (more gangs per capita than LA), nothing works, and it's called the "land of mañana".
I’ve found NM to be the largest State Park of Texas.
‘I was one of those mystified folks until some well informed Freepers told me of the above. As always, Trumps actions make sense once all the facts are known.’
I agree with your thoughts but feel I would go one step farther, it seems she is more Latino than Republican. She would have a short drive south and find everybody she could want to agree with her. She can’t be pro Mexican and pro American at the same time. It doesn’t make sense to even try that route.
We quickly realized though, unless you worked for one of the labs you probably were not going to make a ton of money--so we left.
We drove through there four years ago and it looked like it had grown considerably. (Albuquerque).
I’m in favor of the place. Many ski areas of merit if the Winter is good. Plenty of archaeological and alien sites to see in the Summer. Not that it’s bad, but plenty of Texans...
“She was on many people’s lists of VP possibilities. She blew that all to hell. “
Good.
Initially, we felt like we had found this secret perfect place no one else knew about.
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