Posted on 01/09/2016 5:02:16 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
More than any political candidate in memory, Donald Trump's value proposition to voters is simple and crystal clear: He's a winner.
Everything else follows from that. He doesn't owe wealthy political donors or political elites anything. He'll get the best trade deals and kick the most terrorist ass. He'll defy political correctness and tell it like it is. ISIS will give us its oil. Mexico will pay for our wall. Corporations will beg us to relocate their factories to the US.
Why? Because Trump is a winner. "We will have so much winning if I get elected," he assures us, "that you may get bored with winning."
This message has proven astonishingly resilient, to the point that the entire US political class is flummoxed. Attacks just bounce off the guy. What could ever bring him down?
(this is just the start of the article, full article below)
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/8/10732496/donald-trump-implode
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I have said since June Cruz is more suited for a lifetime appointment on the SCOTUS. I’m greedy and want his legal expertise and experience put to use for decades.
Trump has executive and financial experience. He builds, hires and solves problems. He has even testified years ago on how to solve the small recession occurring at the time in front of congress. He pointed out the two phrases in the tax bill that had hurt his industry thus slowing the entire nation
I believe that Trump is operating under the political equivalent of the “Broken Window Theory”. Meaning that he will address every slight no matter how small in order to avoid allowing the accumulation of attacks to take down his campaign.
It seems to be working, as every opponent who has launched attacks have paid a very high price when he launches his counter attacks.
That's certainly where I'm coming from. At this point I would vote for Cruz in the primary. And several months ago I firmly believed that if the general election were between Trump and Hillary, that I would vote for neither. Trump has many signs of megalomaniacal narcissism. And we definitely don't want another eight years of that. But Hillary doesn't just show signs of megalomaniacal narcissism, she oozes it. And we've seen it in practice and its very, very evil. But then I realized that voting for Trump over Hillary wouldn't be voting for the lesser of two evils. It would be voting for the less certain of two evils, and that's a very different thing. I know with mathematical certainty that Hillary will do whatever evil she can dream up. But I don't see that in Trump, even if he really is a narcissist. He may do some bad things, but there's at least the possibility, if not the outright probability, that he will try to do the right thing, even if it's only because he perceives it's in his own best interest. That possibility does not exist with Hillary.
Why are so many pro-Cruz articles being generated from leftist sources these days...when we know these same sources detest Cruz and his politics.
Does the prospect of facing Trump in the general really scare them that much?
No one talks about Trump’s past history of nearly total Dem Donations, support for Carter, Clinton, and his recent donation to VA GUV GUN GRABBER while running on the GOP President Ticket. His support for McCain and Hillary in 2008 http://www.youdecidepolitics.com/2008/09/18/donald-trump-makes-an-unexpected-endorsement/ Or his not being able to make up his mind what party he belongs to. 5 times he’s changed parties.
Trump history of being big Dem donator
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-donation-history-shows-democratic-favoritism/2011/04/25/AFDUddtE_story.html
Trump donates to VA GUV GUN GRABBER WHILE RUNNING FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL TICKET.
Cruz voted for the border wall, wants the money released. The only thing Trump did was to tell Mexico to build it themselves, as if they would cut of the BILLIONS of $$ flowing from the Illegals into Mexico.
We not only need the wall but Seismic detection for those tunnels they are building and total deportation of not just the Muzzies but the Illegals anchor baby and all, cut off all welfare to them too.
I live in a state you are either a Dem or GOP, So I’m a registered GOP. If I don’t like the RINO candidate I do a write in. When 2 conservatives run against a RINO, the RINO always wins. As the losing conservative won’t back down. 1 will be polling at close to the RINO, and the 2nd conservative is polling single digits, that suck just enough votes to off to put the #1 conservative in a seat. Happened with Corker and Halsam and Lamar all 3 RINOS, and we expect Corker to run for GUV this year as well as Senate re-election. And he is a very rich man with the Bucks to spend to get what he wants.
One of the issues I have with Trump is that I don't think of him as a serious candidate ... mainly because I still can't figure out why he even wants the job.
My sister is a flaming lib too - voted for Obamao twice, and will vote for Shrillary. But that has zero effect on my political views, or my principles. Sorry, but worrying about Trump because of his sister's politics is not really sensible.
Given that the political class treats Americans like cattle, Trump’s winning message resonates very strongly as it should. I’m not opposed to Ted Cruz. I’m not opposed to Cruz. I think he would make a really good President, one we haven’t seen in a long time. But we need an extraordinary President at this juncture, someone to make Americans believe in the importance of being American, why that must be preserved and that we have incredible potentiometer to shape our destiny in spite of the political class.
You’re an awful terrible person and a big poopy-head!
Now we can be civil!
Do I really need to add the ;)
Cheers!
Like all Trump supporters, I support Trump because of his campaign issues that I agree with, and have been calling for for a long time. They are just plain common sense.
All these probings by wanna be Sigmund Freuds are tedious.
This infighting happens every cycle... Backers of every candidate in the field arguing with every other backer.
My personal analysis of this cycle is simple, and it will anger Cruz supporters.
I like Cruz on policy more than I dislike him, but he’s beholden to the same money men as every other establishment candidate. His personality is not one that shine, he does not have the X factor... In a race where you clearly have a candidate with the X factor in large quantities, someone without it can’t win. Tsongas was the better candidate in 92... Clinton had the X factor.. We all know who won. Cruz also In my opinion has huge general election issues, he’s very easily cast in the role of boogie man. The red meat that he has done to excite many here are exactly the kinds of actions that can easily be spun as too radical for the swing voter. Hillary can’t win by motivating people to vote for her, she’s corrupt and unlikable... To win she has to be able to get folks to vote against he opponent... Cruz would make that an easy task for her.
This thing,for good or ill, is Trump’s to lose. I expect fully that Iowa may go to someone else, the caucus system is an oddball one, designed to support the establishment.. However once past Iowa I expect Trump to run the table through the primaries.
He has track record to support his winning
[He said it will just ... happen. Trump will be winning, and then he won’t be. No one will predict it beforehand;]
LOL, anti-Trumpets, which includes the media, democrats, the GOPe, and conservatives that support other candidates, predict this daily.
The point of the article though is not that he will disengage, other than to become even more obnoxious to his detractors as he starts to lose, but rather that his less than most ardent supporters will begin to desert him as they mystique fades away.
A point that I agree with. I found much in this article to be spot on to my impressions of the man. Coupled with my inability to trust anything he says given the serious lack of character he’s demonstrated mutilple times in his life, is why I could never vote for the man.
[ I’m not the only one thinking the odds of him beating Clinton in 2016 are vanishingly small]
That’s the new leftie talking point. Just about every TV show host has stated this numerous times (except for Hannity) over the last few weeks.
Prior talking points didn’t stick, like he has gone to far with some comment, somtheybhave gives up and are trying this last-ditch phrase.
He will take the gloves off and fight like no other candidate has the courage award do - Hillary doesn’t want to face him - hence the leftie talking point.
The logic of this article is just another example of desperate hope.
The idea that a winner attitude is a determent would suggest that a loser attitude is a positive characteristic attribute.
Ted is a talker, not a doer. Cruz followers have difficulties understanding that talking about a problem is not the same as doing what it takes to win and solve the problem.
The candidates with the loser attitude never get anything accomplished.
While I don’t trust the man as far as I could throw him, I agree completely with what youve said here.
Won’t matter...would require the commenters to actually digest why you said.
I just want to see Trump and Cruz supporter unite in the end. We can take the White House together and all of us will be happy about it.
Remember your words if he appoints her to THE SUPREME COURT
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