Posted on 07/21/2015 9:36:41 AM PDT by conservativejoy
When Donald Trump derided John McCain’s war hero status on Saturday and set off a media firestorm, many in the Republican establishment thought he had finally self-destructed. They can keep dreaming.
Trump’s partisans are disappointed. But they’re disappointed in McCain, the media and the party establishment, not Trump.
. Interviews with his supporters in New Hampshire and the first drips of polling data suggest the mogul’s core constituency has no intention of abandoning him over the dust-up.
“I don’t like McCain anyways, to be perfectly frank with you,” said Jerry DeLemus, a Marine Corps veteran and Republican activist in New Hampshire. DeLemus said he was a supporter of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz before formally signing on to support Trump on Sunday.
He said Trump’s comments the day before — “He’s not a war hero,” said Trump of McCain at a gathering of religious conservatives in Iowa, adding, “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured” — do nothing to shake his support and that it’s McCain who should have to answer for his treatment of veterans.
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As far as I know no journalist has ever asked why the Communist Veitnamese gave him the code name”Songbird”.
WooHoo! Thanks for the on the ground report. Sounded like a very exciting event! Glad you got to attend.
Slowly but surely, the facts are coming about McCain’s true war record.
the journ-o-list fax has gone out to say Trump is not “Christian enough” because he said what many others have said about communion and forgiveness.
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