Posted on 07/20/2016 7:12:25 AM PDT by shortstop
I'd fire him.
If somebody derailed my convention and embarrassed my wife, I'd fire him.
Not the speechwriter.
The campaign manager.
This situation in which Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention included two plagiarized sections is so needless and destructive, it is such a self-inflicted wound, that you almost wonder if it was sabotage.
It is easier to imagine someone wanting to torpedo the Trump campaign than it is to think that anyone getting paid to write would be so stupid and unethical as to steal someone else's words.
Also, to be honest, it's astounding to think that a team of people hired to write a speech about a woman's admiration of her husband would need to read much less steal another person's thoughts on the subject.
For that point, why does it take a team of people to express one person's thoughts?
And how is it that something that would get a 10th-grader flunked in English class ends up being in the repertoire of a presidential campaign?
I'm flabbergasted.
And I'm not some Democrat shill. I'm a Republican. I've been on the Trump train since Iowa. I'm going to vote for Donald Trump in November and I'm going to encourage others to do the same. I've even offered my services as a speech writer to someone speaking at the convention.
And this dumbfounds even me.
It's as if the Clinton campaign hacked the computers and inserted a couple of paragraphs as a poison pill.
But that's not what happened.
The possible future first lady of the United States seems to have misrepresented the primary authorship of her speech in an interview with Matt Lauer, and after plagiarism popped up in her speech, the campaign denied its existence and said that the criticisms were nothing more than partisan sniping.
Un-frigging-believable.
The impact is to brand Melania Trump as a joke in the public mind. Look for a trending hashtag. That stain won't wash away anytime soon. The matter also took an entire day of the convention -- 25 percent of the whole -- and made it about this self-inflected wound. When folks woke up Tuesday morning, they didn't hear about Rudy Giuliani's tremendously provocative speech, or Marcus Latrell's touching words, or even the tears of a woman who blames her son's death in Benghazi on Hillary Clinton. The news wasn't about securing our shores or patrolling our streets, it wasn't about taking care of veterans or fighting terrorists, it was about plagiarism.
It was an embarrassment and a distraction.
The party-approved campaign manager, the almost creepy guy with the lounge-lizard affect, had screwed the pooch. This is the big game, this is the moment of opportunity, and somebody put on a suicide vest. It is just incredible.
It continues the narrative of Trump being a tone-deaf screwup. It prompts new questions about Trump's ability to manage and lead. If you can't have stability in your campaign, if you can't have consistent and appropriate performance in your operation, how the hell are you going to run the country? You say you're great at running golf courses and wineries, but what about the relatively simpler process of keeping a campaign on track?
Manafort should go.
The professional-politician hack who Trump brought on to satisfy the party bosses who hate him. He should go. It was his watch, it was his job, and he screwed the pooch.
So he should go.
Before the next bomb on this snake-bit campaign is dropped.
Of course it was sabotage. The disconcerting thing is that the amateurs running Trump’s campaign let some millenials do this. Disconcerting. Let us hope Trump learns from this.
The whole thing is a mess.I feel for Mrs Trump.Someone screwed her and Donald over big time
I would be on pins and needles in regard to Cruz tonight.
Tempest in a teapot!
the only people that care about this are the echo chamber msm.
Exactly. Much ado about nothing.
Yawn.
If Hillary is found to repeat someone else’s words, nothing will be said. She’ll be defended in the media.
The Tempest needs to be shit canned
This guy says he is a Republican and I believe him because he is first in line feeding the media narrative.
After the plagiarism incident(s), I don't know why Cruz is being allowed to speak if there is no guarantee that he will endorse Trump.
I agree that I feel sorry for Mrs. Trump. But there is growing thought the reason a head hasn’t rolled is because the insertion may have been done by family, not some speechwriter or intern.
It.was.not.Plagerism!!!!!!!!
Cambridge Dictionary.
Look up “my word is my bond”.
Common phrase.
The whole discusion is NUTS!!!!!
Let. It. Go. Already. It is the media that is sabotaging and stoking this crap.
I don’t know, I kind of think that Melania did it. There is a report this morning that the people who wrote the initial draft of the speech say what they submitted was very different and did not have the passages that were lifted from Michelle Obama’s speech.
Melania apparently didn’t graduate from college, despite claims to the contrary, so she may not have understood the ramifications of copying words verbatim from someone else.
And many people don’t understand that once something is on the internet, it lives there forever.
Agreed. Next week this won’t even be remembered.
Now, if the Left wants to engage in a critique of "first ladies" ...
Let us hope Trump learns from this.
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Trump is learning that politics is a viscous business at best, and blood sport at worst.
Will he adapt to the game or continue to operate as if he’s in the business world? Not being critical; just wondering how much tolerance he will have over the long run for the cesspool that politics really is.
Melania is going to be a target for all sorts of irrational hate. These guys are like suicide bombers, so tearing down the entire power structure is counter-productive in a national campaign because these asshats are so pervasive in the political establishment.
Just understand what she’s up against and factor it in.
Absolutely. What finishes Republicans off is not Democrats, its Republicans, they eat their own.
This is such a non-issue. The "plagiarized lines were platitudes that probably go back to the time of Caesar. Not like Michelle had some original thought that would equal "Ask not what your country can do for you?"
And I don't believe anyone who would call for Manafort to be fired is a true Trump supporter. That would be political suicide.
Republicans need to shut up, let the left carry Hillary's water without our help.
Common themes spoken by almost every spouse will bring out Similar words. Especially when you refer to quotes an older generation commonly used.
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