Posted on 11/25/2015 4:33:50 AM PST by Duke C.
Winter is coming. And with it, the Republican Party could see a third season of its presidential primary dominated by Donald Trump.
The collective wisdom after the Paris terrorist attacks—that voters would gravitate toward a battle-tested, policy-minded candidate with experience to lead in such turbulent times has yet to take hold. In fact, Trump not only continues to top polls, but a new survey of Iowa voters shows he is considered the best candidate to handle terrorism.
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The Kasich PAC is planning on running a $2.5 Million ad campaign to take Trump down. I don’t think $2.5 million buys a whole lot of ads any more. One bunch ran $1 million worth of anti-Trump ads in Iowa a couple of months ago, and Trump is still on top.
Liz Mair’s Trump Card effort netted a whopping $559 and her gofundme account is now gone. On her twitter feed she was boasting about having donated $100 of her own money to the effort to get the ball rolling. Well, it doesn’t appear to have rolled very far. Can’t conduct a proper “guerilla campaign” with less than $600. Maybe a few hand made signs.
If this is the low caliber type effort, it doesn’t really appear that Trump has much to worry about.
You’re right
The ruling coalition is united around several things that the people are against. They are skilled at setting up phony issues (or issues that don’t concern the Federal government) to break up the formation of any possible other coalition.
Republicans and Democrats agree that the purpose of the State is redistribution. How much, and to whom, and under what circumstances, there are disagreements. But no elected officials of either Party believe that it is wrong to take from you and give to another of their own choosing, for reasons that make sense to them.
Republicans and Democrats agree that you have “rights†- lots of them. They also agree that any question ABOUT your “rightsâ€, or whether or not something IS a “rightâ€, should not be decided by a political process because that is “divisiveâ€. So, they both agree that the voice of “the People†as contemplated in Articles IX and X can only be voiced by nine unelected life tenure judges, and that five of them, at any time or for any reason, can give new “rights†and take away old ones, particularly if those old ones arise out of majority voting.
Republicans and Democrats all believe in “diversityâ€. They, ignoring completely the results of all social science research on this subject, and contrary to millennia of human experience and wisdom, believe that the more “diverse†our country, its institutions, and any private entities within her become, the more cohesive and productive we will become.
Republicans and Democrats almost all believe in “free trade†and “immigrationâ€. These things are good for various constituencies of both parties while they wreck the economy and the nation.
Many of the People, perhaps a majority, do not believe in any of these things. But in our existing system, captive as it is to the MSM-mandated “process†for choosing two candidates for POTUS neither of whom will change a thing, leaves the People with no voice.
Something’s gonna blow.
They did. Trump.
“pretty stupid even for collective wisdom”——brilliant. I’ve gotta use that sometime.
I have watched many of Trump’s campaign speeches. When you see the guy get up and do a 60 - 90 minute speech every other day or so before thousands with a phalanx of MSM cameras recording word in the back of the hall and doing this week after week you have have got to conclude there is no one even close to this level of unabated determination. When Trump decided to run this time, he didn’t just stick his toe in the water, he jumped in head first. The huge crowds, and the level of enthusiasm belies anyone who says the people will get tired of Trump. At the speeches you see fired up attendees clapping, laughing and shouting as they feed off Trump and Trump feeds off the crowds. He says he can feel the love in the room, which keeps him going. These tens of thousands of energized supporters are Trump soldiers who live in all the major states with early primaries. Trump’s combined free use of muti-media outlets and his unrelenting ground campaign pressure create a steamroller effect, running over the entire candidate field.
They don't They don't want to govern. They don't want to set the agenda. That is for amateurs and sissies. They just want their cut on the deal. The democrats can do whatever they decide they want to do. Just give the goPee crowd their cut. War, no war, health care, bankrupt healthcare, taxes, more taxes, arbitrary taxes. Fine. They don't care. Just give give them their cut - and write our donors out of your laws and policies.
It's like Obama and Putin "let's see how Vlad plays defense." Well he doesn't.
I have no doubt that the Cheap Labor Express wants Trump taken down.
I do doubt that they will be successful.
If they are it will be the end of the GOP.
“I will stay home on election day”
Really- why so you can say you did not vote. How damn noble you are.
What are you a flipping insane, you stay home the ballot stuffers win, the effing NWO wins, what are you a pufter a nambypamby.
Show a little backbone at least vote, make an effort, what will it cost 10 minutes out of your precious time.
GIVE THE MIDDLE FINGER TO THOSE THAT TAKE YOUR VOTE FOR GRANTED, SAY FU TO THE new worlders, standup say I am a man/woman hear me roar.
Trump is at the very least giving the NWO the big middle finger will you do less
You do have your ‘I On The Ball’....!!!
Kudos to your post!.Exactly so!!!!
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Trump will get the nomination, and become the next President. The GOP can’t take him down, and neither can the Democrats.Only Trump can throw stones in his own path sufficient to turn off some who are enthusiastic about him now, but might gravitate to someone else between now and the important Primaries. Trump has to banish forever, ONCE AND FOR ALL, this tendency of his to wallow in social media, and engage in pointless shadow-boxing with Rubio, Carson, Bush, et. al. He should begin talking to the American People EXCLUSIVELY, NOW. He must make his policy positions known, so none can undermine him with spurious claims that he’s fuzzy on the details. There’s a lot I think he needs to do, to ensure his election, not the least of which is to stop taking the MSM bait designed solely to continue to create dissension in the R ranks, with the sole intention of making the front-runner drop in the polls while boosting the chances of the others to probably lose against Hillary Clinton.
You know what, if the GOP is successful I will start a write in campaign for Trump, just to show the GOP.
“...I have no desire to vote for any party who wants to take down their frontrunner. I will stay home on election day...”
The RNC is destined for the ash-heap of history. The RNC is being completely ignored so far in this election. They are being proven irrelevant right before our very eyes. How about we just ignore the RNC and get to work electing the candidate we prefer and don’t worry about what the RNC may or may not do? Remember, the opposite of “Love” is not “Hate”. The opposite of “Love” is “Indifference”. I’d rather folks not spend one single moment giving the least bit of consideration, good or bad, to the RNC.
Oh shaddup. I will vote for Trump or Cruz and I will not vote GOPe.
Got it, goob?
The more the presstitutes, GOPe/RINOs and Democrats smear Trump, the stronger he gets.
If they keep this up they will propel him to historic landslides in the primaries and the general election.
Good thing they’re too stupid to figure it out.
Sigh.
Those who would tell Trump what to do, need first to be able to do it better themselves.
Show him how it's done!
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