Posted on 08/22/2015 7:59:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
In Alabama, Trump’s Wizard of Oz Act Leaves Some Fans Underwhelmed
QUIN HILLYER
Toto the dog wasn’t needed in Mobile, Ala., Friday night to pull the curtain from behind The Great and Mighty Trump. Trump let his own curtain flutter open, showing to much of the audience the humbug within. In an hour-long verbal meanderthon at half-filled Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Trump allowed an atmosphere of electric excitement to dissipate, and then he split town without his promised post-show press conference.
As I left the stadium, a red-hatted lady of my acquaintance spotted me and pulled me aside, saying: “Somebody needs to tell that man when to shut the you-know-what up. People were leaving in droves.” Well, not entirely droves, but by my estimate, about 15–20 percent of the 18,000 or so attendees — Trump publicity organs had earlier said they expected up to 35,000 — had filed out before Trump wound up his many-versed hymn to his own toughness and deal-making skills.
The line of the evening belonged to Rob Holbert, a former press aide to Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi and now the co-publisher of the port city’s Lagniappe weekly. “That speech was more disjointed,” he said, “than a skeleton after tumbling down four flights of stairs.”
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I appreciate your comments but I take his words differently than you do. I do not see him especially comparing himself to Billy Graham. I do appreciate him saying that his favorite book is the Bible, true or not. Who are we to say it isn’t? He does not seem to be a great student of the Bible. But that does not mean that from his own perspective, he does not value it. He is not at all hostile to Christianity, unlike the left. I am not going to fault him for merely not adequately understanding the gospel. I wish he did. But maybe he will in the future. It is just that what I need from a candidate is that he values the judeo-christian ethic. I get my theology elsewhere.
I concur with everything you wrote. I don’t get the phenomena at all. If I wrote what I really thought of Trump, I would be called every name in the book (already been called a “moron and “idiot” today-LOL) and maybe even be reported to the admin mod for abuse. So I try to keep it civil (which is more than can be said for most Trumpbots).
What’s more puzzling than the reaction of many FR posters is that I know some family members and friends, usually level headed and discerning, who are drawn to Trump as well. I guess if you’re starving for red meat, you’ll take just about anything that’s thrown at you.
This blind adulation and refusal to accept facts and truth is startling.
Nailed that one.
Back one of the guys getting 2%.
CRUZ OR LOSE, Trump as a fall back position only.
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