Angry GOP Voters and Donald Trump - The Enemy of My Enemy is Not My Friend

Flopping Aces ^ | 03-17-16 | Vince

[Starman417]

I’m angry. I’m actually damn angry. I’m angry that Americans have twice voted into the highest office in the land a man who is demonstrably anti-American, who sows racial tension, who has sought to destroy free markets, who has turned much of the nation into a welfare state and who has crippled the American military and destroyed American influence around the world. To me, Barack Obama is a cancer on the American body politic and the nation.

But I’m not angry at Obama… well, I really am, but he’s not who has animated me the most in the last six years. It’s actually the GOP establishment. I’ve gone to Tea Party rallies near and far. I’ve voted for candidates who claimed they were conservatives. I’ve donated money, I’ve manned phone lines, I’ve put up signs along the highway. I even gave lectures on the constitution and started writing a blog. All for what?

We have Obamacare, lock stock and barrel, and its numerous exceptions, extensions and a plethora of executive orders. We have a NLRB that thinks it can tell companies where they can invest and who they must hire. We have an IRS that’s become a thug enforcement arm of the Democrat party. And of course we have trillions more dollars of debt than we did eight years ago.

Needless to say, I’m angry at the betrayal. In 2010 we were told that the GOP couldn’t do anything because they were a minority in the House. So we voted them into power. Then we were told that we needed the White House, and somehow the GOP was able to screw up an election that should have been theirs on a silver platter. Then in 2014 we were told that they still couldn’t do anything because Harry Reid ran the Senate. By 2015 he was on the sidelines. But now we’re told that they can’t do anything because Democrats control the White House.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 4 times shame on me. Exit poll after exit poll shows that Republican voters are livid with the GOP and want to burn it and Washington to the ground… hence the attraction of Donald Trump. Millions of people across the country who are disgusted with the GOP are flocking to the banner of a guy who will definitely not be held hostage to political correctness. A guy who doesn’t care about sucking up to minority voters. A guy who says what’s on his mind. Indeed, Donald Trump with his big business billions and his big mouth make many Americans stand up and say “Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!” He makes them feel like an NFL receiver spiking the football right in front of a safety who blew his coverage. In a word, they want a winner who will destroy the liars in Washington.

The problem however is something that was revealed in a 2013 study by Washington State University. The first line of the piece says it all “Being confident and loud is the best way to win an argument - even if you are wrong”. The study basically suggests that people are more drawn to someone who sounds confident and is loud – even obnoxious – than they are to someone who’s right. And with Donald Trump that’s exactly what we have. GOP voters want someone who’s unabashedly pro-American. That’s Trump. They want someone who says he’s going to seal the border. That’s Trump. They want someone who’s immune to political correctness. That’s Trump.

[94Revolution]

I think what nic was trying to point out was not that trump = obama on policy but rather on politic.

Tough talk, loud talk, nothing at all to back it up, huge crowds of rowdy revelers chanting his name and slogan. Statement’s so vast or uninteligable that only his supporters ‘knew’ what he said when it was clear he didn’t know what he’d said. On those things Trump is exactly like Obama.

Not the rest of Obamabaggage.

Reagan could and always did form full, complete, cogent sentences. Reagan was an incredible orator. Had I the skill/talent I would gladly read a trump speech in Reagan’s voice to show you just how little trump has in common with Reagan.

I don’t recall Reagan interrupting folks in debates and calling them liars when they pointed out something he said. Do you?

[xenia]

Every election we hear how our candidate is pro constitution, pro limited government, need to cut spending, need to build the wall. They say all the right things. Once the election is over none of this happens. Oh …. there is some grandstanding to get attention for the next election, but nothing substantial comes of it.

I helped start a tea party group….. a 912 group…..I also did the phone calls and distributed voter guides……so I am not ignorant, uninvolved or a low information voter.

I just don’t believe these people anymore, and am sick of being disappointed by the politicians who say all the right things to get elected. I’ve heard it all SO MANY times before.

Remember the mantra term limits? Build the wall? All election rhetoric.

I would rather give a real outsider a chance this time…..one that is NOT a lawyer or a member of the political class. Maybe I’ll be disappointed….but what’s new?

[fr_freak]

I don’t recall Reagan interrupting folks in debates and calling them liars when they pointed out something he said. Do you?

When I was a kid in the 80s, people who grew up in the 50s used to talk about how much the country had changed, and not all for the better, in just 20-30 years. I, of course, had no idea what they were talking about. I do now. This country is unrecognizable from the 1980s, and the rules of discourse, civility, and propriety have all changed. Demographics have too. Trump doesn't quite have the affability that Reagan had, but he is doing what he needs to do not just to win, but to pave the way for accomplishing goals such as building the Wall (because there WILL be resistance by our traitorous Congress and other government boobs).

Trump reminds me a bit of the Civil War generals in the North. Lincoln went through a few different generals before settling on US Grant because every general he put in charge of the Union Army was either too timid or too lackluster to take the fight to the to the South. Grant was described as a drunk, a lout, a brutish man, uncouth, etc. Lincoln said "Yes, but this one fights."

Trump fights.

[SgtHooper]

Agree! I vote for Trump, at least for the reason to gut the GOPe from Congress.

[94Revolution]

He kind of reminds me of Andrew Jackson minus the military career.

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I had to read up on Jackson again before I posted this - trump is a whole lot like Jackson. It will be interesting to see if history repeats that thread or not.

[cba123]

Why do you say that?

This seems very pro-Trump.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

No, Trump's not a racist, Trump's not Hitler.

Trump's just too liberal for me, that's all.

And if it's OK for people to refuse to hold their noses and vote for Ryan/Romney/McConnell/McCain etc., it's OK for me to refuse to hold my nose and vote for Trump.

[catnipman]

“So, basically you are saying there is no legitimate criticism of Trump. He’s just like Obama in 2008.”

Nope. you said that.

I said:

Wow, that guy wins the prize for the largest number of superfluous words to simply say: “I hate Trump.”

[catnipman]

“This seems very pro-Trump.”

“Donald Trump may indeed be anti-establishment, but that’s different than being pro freedom, pro prosperity and pro limited government.”

is hardly “pro-Trump”

[Badboo]

Another idiot who believes a non-eligible Canadian born grifter is the answer to the decline of America.

There is a lot of talk about anger. Well, many of us are way past anger. We left that behind seven years ago. We are locked and loaded.

It is clear that the traitors to America both represented by the dem commies and the new faux right will do every thing to deny the nomination to Trump, fight his election, and if elected, prevent his governing.

Let’s get it on then. Better now we settle this regardless of the consequences.

[cba123]

Hey no fair.

You actually read the article.

[catnipman]

“Hey no fair. You actually read the article.”

ROTFLOL!

(actually, I read to the END of the article, which i admit was quite difficult because the whole thing pretty much read as yada, yada, yada, yada, trump sucks, vote cruz)