Posted on 12/22/2015 4:29:55 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
If recent polls from more than half a dozen reputable polling organizations are to be believed, of the six leading Republican candidates for president Donald Trump is the one least likely to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
Polling can be and has often been wrong, sometimes spectacularly so, but Trump's electability gap has been a consistent feature of his primary campaign as a fire-breathing self-funding willing-to-say-anything non-politician politician.
However, even if you believe (as I do) the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton is "clearly itching to run against Mr. Trump," he nevertheless poses a substantial threat to her presidential aspirations in advance of November's elections.
The Donald has a remarkable ability to break through conventional restrictions on acceptable political conversation and to make people think about issues in ways opponents call "extreme" but which resonate among much of the American public. Beyond his often nativist and economically illiterate base, he is having this effect, whether for good or for ill, on millions of Americans who would not consider voting for Mr. Trump in a general election.
It's not so much that Donald Trump breaks new ground in his pronouncements; rather he amplifies what many are already thinking even if in some cases, such as his persistent denigration of free trade as "America losing" or the suggestion that most Mexican illegal aliens are dangerous criminals, the Trump base and their brash human amplifier are wrong.
(complete article at link)
http://spectator.org/articles/65011/trump-spells-trouble-clinton
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Trump has taken money out of the political equation by using earned media to dominate the airwaves and interweb.
He will pick at her until she starts throwing ashtrays at her staff (if she hasn't already started).
Believe me, Hillary will crack.
Well, if the article said it, it must be true.
The current presidential cycle is perhaps the strangest of my lifetime; that is not going to change anytime soon. Among its strangest aspects is that the Republican candidate most able to harm Hillary Clinton prior to the general election is the one least likely to beat her in that election.
Some other notable slams by this libertarian:
Beyond his often nativist and economically illiterate base, he is having this effect, whether for good or for ill, on millions of Americans who would not consider voting for Mr. Trump in a general election.
A large part of Trump’s appeal is his willingness to say things that other politicians won’t say. In that willingness he comes across to many, especially the lightly informed, as a noble truth-teller. And even for those who would not vote for an arrogant often-wrong blowhard, Trump nevertheless plants in their minds toxic seeds that have roughly the same effect on his opponents’ favorability ratings that Roundup has on the weeds in your lawn.
On Monday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump said he didn’t want to talk about why Hillary was late to the stage because it was “too disgusting.†The implication of the comment makes me wonder, yet again, why there are any women would even briefly consider supporting this schoolyard bully.
The author also gets it wrong when he says, The more Trump can convince moderate and independent voters that Hillary’s strongest arguments for herself are somewhere between irrelevant and disqualifying, the harder it becomes for her to carry those swing voters who now determine American elections.
Romney won the independent vote and still lost by 5 million. The Rep candidate must win some Dem voters who outnumber Reps. Trump is actually connecting with blue collar workers, something Romney and McCain could not do. The issue of immigration resonates with them.
This article refutes that.
The current presidential cycle is perhaps the strangest of my lifetime; that is not going to change anytime soon. Among its strangest aspects is that the Republican candidate most able to harm Hillary Clinton prior to the general election is the one least likely to beat her in that election.
This article refutes that.
The current presidential cycle is perhaps the strangest of my lifetime; that is not going to change anytime soon. Among its strangest aspects is that the Republican candidate most able to harm Hillary Clinton prior to the general election is the one least likely to beat her in that election.
The polls SHOW that Trump is the worst candidate against Hillary. Period. End of story. If you tout polls when Trump leads, you shouldn’t be so dismissive of them when it shows he will LOSE against Hillary.
The polls also show that Cruz is best poised to defeat Hillary:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html
This is not *one* poll, but an aggregation of numerous polls. The data are overwhelming.
Or you can dismiss them and cling to the hope that an opportunistic showman can beat the crap back into America, or fire it. Or something yuuuuge like that. And make Mexicans pay for it. But not Muslim Mexicans.
That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
… Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Declaration of Independence (1776).
If Trump wins, has he got yours?
To Hillary Clinton, Trump spells M-R-S-P-R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T.
Trump has said many times that if he doesn’t win this, his entire effort is simply a waste of time.
Trump is not a guy who thinks that somehow ‘winning a debate’ is winning.
Sitting in the Oval Office is winning.
Really not sure. He is no friend of conservatives. He’s a destroyer, an opportunistic showman bent on ruling with a yuge iron fist. I really don’t know whether a phony TV star would be better or worse, in the long run, than Hillary.
Trump pulls in the crowds, not Hillary. There are a lot of people going out of their way to hear him while Hillary’s crowd stays home.
First of all, I agree, Trump CAN win. But I wouldn't put too much stock in the large crowds. That's a good measure of voter intensity, but not actual numbers of voters. Trumps fans are just more passionate.
Besides, I believe it was the case that Romney was out drawing Obama back in 2012.. didn't mean much in the end.
I have tried to imagine a worse candidate for president of the USA than Hillary Rodham Clinton and have yet to come up with one. It is like trying to think of an animal uglier than a warthog, if one exists the difference is meaningless.
Roger Stone says she’s a obnoxious drunk and her cussing would put a sailor to shame.
Yes, that is irrefutably true.
Back in the 90s there was a great website that kept track of all of Bill Clinton’s dealings with the Communist Chinese when he sold TS nuclear secrets for cash. It was called TraitorBill.com. Of course it’s gone now. GW knew all about Clinton’s illegal deals with the Chinese and of course let him slide. Presidents never prosecute other former presidents. It’s a good ole boys club. Maybe a president Trump would change all that.
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