Posted on 10/08/2016 6:14:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump first has to realize he’s dealing with a weak opponent. He’s not competing with a rich businessman in Manhattan for a prime piece of real estate. He’s competing with Hillary Clinton and the liberal ‘basket-cases’ that run her campaign.
They are arrogant and conceited. In the last debate Clinton baited Trump into discussing former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado for five days (following) instead of promoting his winning policy. Clinton will appear at Sunday’s town-hall debate armed with a host of insults and twenty-year-old controversies expecting Trump to take the bait. If he doesn’t, she’ll be dumfounded and ill-prepared to handle an the unexpected rebuttals propagated by Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, in the vice-presidential debate this week.
Her campaign truly believes Trump is not capable of being successful. This is evidence of their inability to understand business success. Liberals like Clinton see everything through the lens of politics with virtually no business acumen.
When Trump is attacked by Clinton, his best option is to limit himself to a twenty-second explanation followed by the assertion that she is lying and pivot to the audience speaking directly about Clinton’s record of illicit behavior and his own policies to repair the economy while creating more jobs.
If Trump attacks Bill Clinton’s affairs, it will be received by voters as hypocritical. After all, Trump has been married three times himself resulting in two high-profile and contentious divorces. By contrast, I do not believe it’s off limits to discuss Hillary’s ‘war on Bill’s women’ as a defense to character attacks.
Trump would be well served to litigate the foreign policy failures of Clinton while Secretary of State: Benghazi, Lybia, Syria, Russian ‘reset,’ Iraq and the ridiculous Iran nuclear deal (which she instigated). Expect her defense to be the old and tired line of “I am proud to be part of the team that killed Osama bin Laden.” It’s hardly foreign policy experience to sit in the corner of the situation room and watch a television as our military men and women risk their lives. Trump might be well served to point out that fact.
Since killing bin Laden, a far worse enemy has emerged as a direct result of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy: ISIS.
Trump performs better when speaking to crowds. Clinton does not. She will not have a script even if she’s prepared for tough questions. And, unlike the town-halls she’s participated, she will have Trump fact-checking and refuting her many lies and distortions.
He will face the typical claims of being racist, xenophobic, et. al. He should not dignify petulant, liberal attacks with a single answer. Just talk to the voters and ignore the lady yelling to your left. He should try the line, “I love my protesters” (referring to Clinton) and then speak to the voters (ignoring Clinton as if she doesn’t matter).
Trump campaign manager, Kelly Anne Conway should confiscate Trump’s phone for 24 hours following the debate: No Tweets! However, if any accusation made by Clinton is still circulating in the media 24 hours after the debate, I do believe Trump has to answer it and set the record straight. That’s his style and that is what unifies his base.
Many ‘experts’ say Trump should stop discussing these negative attacks by the Left. They are wrong. Trump should stop giving life to them. He should only respond to issues that won’t ‘die’ in the media such as his leaked tax return.
Trump benefited from a nearly 100 year-old tax code that allowed him to carry over real estate losses and depreciation to escape taxes for a period of unknown years in the 1990’s. He should admit it, explain it and then offer the solution that every American should be able to invest in properties, depreciate them and apply any losses toward their income (regardless of which industry they work).
It would be hard for Clinton to battle that solution other than to claim people in poverty (who pay zero taxes anyway) can’t afford those investments and wouldn’t benefit from those deductions. In such a response, Trump could simply assert she has been in national politics for forty years, has yet to make any progress on poverty, has gotten incredibly rich and took a $699,000 deduction in 2015 on the same tax return line-item. He should say, “I didn’t get rich manipulating voters; I got rich running a business and employing tens-of-thousands of people. How many people have you employed?”
“The American people are too stupid to understand the difference.” Those words were uttered by professor Jonathan Gruber who was the architect of ‘Obamacare.’ Instead of taxing people with ‘cadillac health-care plans’ his ‘think-tank’ decided to tax the insurance companies. These ‘stupid people’ were excited that the ‘bad insurance companies’ are being punished not realizing they would eventually pay the costs in insurance-premium increases.
Liberals, including Clinton, think they are better, smarter and more important than you. They prey on Americans’ ignorance regarding complex matters in order to gain power. Our citizens simply don’t have time to investigate the complexities of our weak economy and stagnant wages. As a result, it’s much easier for liberals like Clinton to blame it on the greed of ‘the top one percent.”
The silver bullet to winning this next debate is pointing to the policies and behavior of liberals (like Clinton) and speaking directly to Americans about their most pressing issues while completely ignoring her petulant personal-insults and distortions.
Trump must enlighten voters and expose Clinton while introducing policies to solve our challenges and divisions. If he does, Clinton doesn’t have a chance.
“When Trump is attacked by Clinton, his best option is to limit himself to a twenty-second explanation followed by the assertion that she is lying and pivot to the audience speaking directly about Clinton’s record of illicit behavior and his own policies to repair the economy while creating more jobs.”
Close, but even better - NOT respond to attack with any justification/explantion, but have in hand a retort that shows Clinton to be much worse in the same subject......bad language? Quote her many “F-ing” words to Secret Service and others.....sexual intimidation of women? Bill’s sexual history that she has covered, supported, and how she’s attacked women he’s used.....etc.
Right then...maybe you should run for the bloody office then hey mate?
I make a peep in defense of Ted Cruz, and my account is frozen for a week or two.
You say that Trump is “human trash, unfit for office ... a philandering blow-hard man-child,” and your account is still up and running.
I wish you well, FRiend.
Should I read past the first sentence? That’s where he appears to give away his establishment agenda. “Hillary is a weak candidate” has been popping up recently. That’s the first red flag. Paul Ryan said it yesterday. That’s the second red flag.
Make sure to tell your kids and grandchildren that even knowing what absolute evil Hillary is, you were willing to throw away your vote on “principle,” their future be damned.
Good sdvice, but Hillary WILL be scripted. The questions will be cherry picked by the moderators from Plants in the audience.
He’s not but neither are you or myself either. You are self-righteous hypocrite blind to your own sinfulness. Who are you to deny Trump or any other person the same grace that Christ gave you. The Lord’s prayer says “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Trust me you and others like you have a severe chastisement coming your way and soon.
No need to respond any more to that troll. Even God often used imperfect and downright flawed people to accomplish his goals. At least according to my Bible.
You Said. “Human trash...Unfit for office...Deserves whichever she gets”
You must mean the two for one- Bill and Hillary Clinton right.
Or would you like Yeb! or Cruz to step in so they can be dismantled like the backstabbing sporkweasels that they are.
Or maybe whatshisface uh. Bernie!
So who do you want picking our next Supreme Court “justices”.
Maybe your a firearm owner- enjoy those - while you can.
I’d bet there’s at least one of the choices up there that doesn’t need to sell our country out to the highest bidder.
I’ve heard them all say they are “fighters”. Who are they fighting for? Themselves or our country?
I like coming to this forum, that Jim Robinson built, to read and express viewpoints from everyone. Including your right and privilege to condem us to our doom. It would be a shame if it was deemed a hate speech website and closed down. I do enjoy our first amendment natural rights.
Please don’t come here and act like this election doesn’t matter to you. It does by the way, wether you want to admit it or not.
P.S. The fainting couch is located over at DU. You can clutch your pearls as you pass out over there. Here’s hoping for a soft landing.
Duly noted. Have you locked up all the sharp instruments yet?
Another Hillary voter outed.Why don’t you go back to DU?
Thank you for your kind support and good wishes.
Trump isn't much different than the average healthy male - we tend to get caught up in "Locker room boy trash talk" periodically.
When compared to the pure evil of Hillary, Trump is the proverbial choir boy.
I guess your 'principles" tell you that there is no difference between human frailties and actual evil.
Why not go over to a Dem site and share your epiphanies with them for a while?
Do you put your money where your mouth is? If so, who would/do you donate to? Do you donate to FR or do you consider it a site where you get to opine while trying to ensure folks like Hillary and Obama are given free rein to destroy what's left of us?
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