Posted on 03/12/2016 10:35:57 AM PST by jmaroneps37
I am a Trump supporter but I would like to know if Cruz's comments about Chicago changed the mind of any of his supporters. Is it A) no difference I still support Cruz B) I am rethinking my support for Cruz C) I am now going to support another candidate or not voting?
The last time a Bush was Vice President, he tried to murder the President.
Trump knows this.
Even if he didn’t, why would Trump pick a VP who crashed and burned as Jeb! did?
Maybe it could have been said better, but, I think this is being WAY over-exaggerated."He made an unforced error"
That’s the trouble - there was no way to "say it better.” Silence was, in that context, golden. The error was in saying anything at all critical of Trump in that context, because in doing so you inevitably exculpate the guilty, at least to some degree. And Trump is making his “money” in this campaign by by puncturing PC. All you can possibly do is embarrass yourself.So did Trump make an unforced error when he said "They're going to do what I say" , about forcing the military to follow illegal orders?
That was more in the nature of a forced error, to me. Trump did not know what he was talking about, was over his head answering that question, end of story. I did say that IMHO Cruz would be a better POTUS than Trump. Cruz would not, IMHO, have made that mistake.But Cruz had time to think about his comments re: Chicago. He brought up the subject in the interview himself, and he spoke as if comments by Trump - which were controversial but not actionable - had some bearing on the culpability of people who compromised the rights of others.
The culpable people thought that they were putting something over on Trump; what they were in fact doing was abusing people who support Trump. And in so doing they only solidified further Trump’s main appeal, which is his stonewalling of PC assumptions. Any opponent of Trump was waking into a minefield the instant they made the slightest insinuation that the culpable people had any justification for their abusiveness.
When you were a kid did you ever have a dog bark at you from behind a fence? Remember how fun it was to tease them? You knew in advance you were never going to become its friend but that was part of the fun.
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