Posted on 08/31/2015 4:17:23 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
A small handful of prominent pundits — and one politician — are beginning to grasp that the GOP establishment’s concept of its present-day party “base” is inaccurate, insulting and — most importantly — hopelessly disconnected from the emerging political reality.
(please see link for full article. I have quoted below, so please see the complete link)
http://personalliberty.com/the-gop-base-is-changing-and-trumps-the-only-one-who-gets-it/
(Excerpt) Read more at personalliberty.com ...
...and we know this how? Oh right, because he’s NEVER changed positions and NEVER gone back on his earlier terms....LOLOLOLOL ROTFLMAO......:D
the problem being our healthcare system is not enough like Scotland’s or Canada’s -
I posted this on another Trump thread on Saturday:
I was chatting this AM with a black gentleman who is a regular at a Republican breakfast I go to, and he offered a comment that bears on this [Dem crossover voting]. He has lots of family in NY and Chicago, and of course they’re almost all Democrats. He says several of them have already said they would vote for Trump!
There’s something big happening here, folks.
What exactly is he going to do to solve any of those issues? Specifically? Current occupant notwithstanding, we do not elect KINGS. He’ll have to lead by law and with the other branches of government.
Soundbites may sound good on Reality TV, but he has to know how to effectively govern.
Not clicking on a blog at work but I will say that I don’t think the GOP base is changing...I think it’s gone. If we, as a nation faced the same situation that we face today but with a Republican Party that was fighting for conservaitive, traditional American values, Trump would not be a factor. But, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Gop, the GOP left me. The only guy running with the guts to tell it exactly like it is, loudly enough to be heard over the din, and strong enough to do something about it is Donald Trump.
You don't think Donald, who has spent a lifetime negoatiating and dealing with boards will have any trouble dealing with the ladies that run Congress?
Trust but verify...
Trump/Cruz 2016; Cruz/? 2024.
Yes, I do, actually. 535 CEO’s and 9 COO’s. Each with their own agenda. He can’t fire them, either.
He always talks in generalities. If that’s what you base your vote on, I have a car to sell you. (Just don’t ask questions on how well/if it runs)
You didn’t read my post, the writer is off track not Trump.
I am not in a fit condition to deal with wrath today, humble or otherwise, I need sweet music and pink Unicorns.
No, but he do what Reagan did...he can go directly to the people and threaten them with their jobs. Nothing gets congress scum moving faster than the threat of losing an election or some plum that goes with being in the majority.
“I support Ted Cruz and looked at him, but frankly he seems like “more of the same” on American jobs.”
I agree. Cruz is a product of elite law schools and the political system. His wife is an executive at an investment firm (Goldman Sachs) that makes money through speculation and financial manipulation, the epitome of crony capitalism. Unfortunately lawyer politicians such as Cruz rarely understand how small businesses work or how jobs are created.
Most Americans in the private sector work for small or medium size business yet most politicians focus on large corporations. Why? That’s where the big money is for campaign contributions and consulting/lobbying jobs after a congressional career is over.
Unfortunately we’ve now reached the point for the first time in our history where the rate of small business creation does not exceed the rate of small business failure. A combination of trade policy favoring imports, a harsh regulatory environment, onerous taxes and fees at all levels of government, the offshoring of supply chains, an anti-business forty system, concentration of the retail sector (access to customers) in the hands of mega retailer/importers such as WalMart, direct government intervention in the marketplace (i.e. the forced closing of many auto dealerships by the government in 2009) and limited access to capital are negatively impacting new business creation. The decline in small business creation is a major reason for stagnant job creation in the United States over the past 15 years. Yes, the trend predates Obama and coincidentally coincides with the rush to offshore American manufacturing to China. Another subject on which Trump is well versed.
Trump is a job creator. The rest of the GOP field either gives lip service to job creation or don’t talk about it at all. The primary interest of most politicians in Congress is the mechanics of government, not unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit that made America great. We pay a huge price for electing lawyers to most legislative and not producers.
Something is going on—a blogger who has nothing to add to a Peggy Noonan column, and so quotes from it extensively—then posts the cribbed thing here.
Oops.
Sorry about the mix-up. :D
Sorry I saw the article in a search of articles on Donald Trump, that is what I was posting.
If I should have posted the original, I goofed.
So I guess all of us social conservative religious believers should just roll over and die in the face of the Donald tsunami?
All I am saying is Donald is supporting working Americans.
It is about darned time, someone did.
I have to ask you: If you were to read the words of the column in full (I did), and did not know who wrote it bc there was no byline, would you agree or disagree in the main with its points?
Some advice, some truths, some things are bound to be objectively valid, no matter who says them. If she cited the Constitution or, say, even the Bible, would those truths be invalid bc Peggy Noonan said them?
I’m more nervous about an attitude of purism in this, the most important period of politics in America, a turning point in our history.The attitude leads us to reject a 98 percent candidate on the basis of one position. It’s simply not possible for any candidate to align with every political whim of every voter. Ideas have to be evaluated on their merit, not their messenger. We have to choose the best candidate and not wait for the next election cycle in the vain hope that the perfect candidate will appear.
Here’s what I think.
Trump is not a Republican. And the base will go to him, but not for the usual reasons.
Trump’s coalition is based on three simple, non-partisan propositions:
1) A nation without borders is not a nation
2) A nation that does not enforce its laws is not a nation
3) A nation that does not take care of its people is not a nation
Many, many people who have voted Democrat can and will rally to these principles. Many people who have hitherto voted Republican will, too.
The key to the whole situation is that the leaders of BOTH parties abhor these principles. Around me, most Democrat voters are patriotic Americans who love their country. As Mr. Thrill Up the Leg himself put it, “All these people have is their country”.
“So why”, say most FReepers, “if they love their country, do they not vote for the local Republicans?”
That’s simple. They hate the local Republicans. And, tell the truth, if you knew them like their employees know them, you’d hate them, too.
Trump threatens to decouple The Republican Base™ AND non-university White Democrats from their “leaders”, and form a new coalition. The size of this potential coalition is quite large, and the “leaders” know it.
But a Trump victory will not be a Republican victory, and his administration will not be a Republican one. It will be what the Brits call a National Government, and it’s just what we need.
Hey, forgiven!
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