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For Trump Supporters, a Reckoning Is at Hand
Townhall.com ^ | March 2, 2016 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 03/02/2016 5:20:51 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

It’s rough out there for old Jonah these says. He’s been denigrating and insulting Trump and his supporters for months and nobody gives a damn what he has to say. But he just keeps butting his head against the wall.


21 posted on 03/02/2016 5:35:17 AM PST by Will88
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To: Kaslin
Is there something they put in the drinking water in Washington DC that makes these people act as if their world is about to come to an end?

Oh, never mind. I forgot. It is.....

22 posted on 03/02/2016 5:35:19 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Kaslin

There are a lot of Republicans who just flat out do not like Trump. They’re not even lukewarm, so-so, about him. They have a visceral dislike for him and he is doing nothing to court them or assuage their doubts. He’s more or less giving them the bird.

I guess he figures he can win without their support and maybe he CAN win with a bunch of Indies and Rat crossovers - but then what kind of a mandate does he have to propose and push conservative solutions when he has a coalition that is centrist or even left centrist?

I’m baffled with the support Trump is gaining from evangelicals. A Freeper claiming to be an evangelical pastor responded to me that he supported Trump - single issue - immigration.


23 posted on 03/02/2016 5:35:58 AM PST by randita
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To: frnewsjunkie

They pretend to moan about the DC pantomime when they are active participants.

When 95% of DC carries on unchanged and unchanging their method is stake out a position and spend the next 20 years or more writing columns about how bad they think it all is. Then they gladly have lunch, dinner and cocktails with the so-called enemy and do it all again tomorrow.

These people are worried sick that their sources and leaks will disappear, that their place on the GOP power ladders (elective, bureaucratic and media) will be affected and that they may have to start over again.


24 posted on 03/02/2016 5:36:32 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: odawg

Trump is the prime example of how to handle a hostile press. He refuses to kiss their rear ends.


25 posted on 03/02/2016 5:36:51 AM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: Kaslin
An intellectually and ideologically unqualified, and often unhinged, demagogue is poised to become the Republican nominee for president.

Look at the arrogance of this little fag bastard, he wouldn't be pimple on Trump's ass, and wouldn't even be on TV if it weren't for his mother.

Intellectually unqualified is what he is calling Trump's supporters, the dumb assed, gun toten', Bible carrying, tobaccy chewen', corn liker swillen', incest loven', red neck ridge runnen' Pennsylvania and West Virginia cabin liven' and all of their "cousins" in Alabamy, Georgia, Kantuck, Tennessee yourn' mama, Arkansas, and all of the other shit kicken' dirty fingernail, greasey pants kitchen worken' loosers.

This little pansy is 30 years younger than me but if I ever ran into him, I'd kick his taint so hard he'd split open like a dropped watermelon.

26 posted on 03/02/2016 5:37:08 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Kaslin
Of all the conspiracy theories I've ever heard, the conspiracy theory that Trump is ahead because of Joe and Mika’s support takes the cake.

Alert to Jonah, it was the do nothing feckless inaction of the GOPE that has gotten Trump to this point.

#getoverit

27 posted on 03/02/2016 5:37:19 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Kaslin
Petard is to Hoist

as Jonah is to whale.

28 posted on 03/02/2016 5:37:31 AM PST by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: Kaslin

The hate will be strong with this one.


29 posted on 03/02/2016 5:38:19 AM PST by Nickname
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To: silverleaf
From his Twitter account "Erick Erickson ‏@EWErickson 10h10 hours ago If everybody is staying in the race, the least they could do is concentrate their fire power on Trump. Stop them, then fight each other."
30 posted on 03/02/2016 5:39:04 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: frnewsjunkie

How did he expose the media? Did you not know that they were crooked and bias before he came along. They play huge portions of his rallied every day and bend to his every whim and allow themselves to be manipulated by him. He gets more coverage than any other candidate. By FAR. Free coverage. I mean, it’s not his fault that he brings great ratings, but sheesh, at least be honest. If it weren’t for the MSM, Donald would have had to have spent a lot more money to get that same coverage. So “he exposed the media” is a bunch of hogwash. REAL conservatives and most of the unbraindead public KNEE all about the biased media WAY before Trump started complaining about them.


31 posted on 03/02/2016 5:41:20 AM PST by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: Kaslin

Cruz and Rubio seem to be slow learners. Guess you just have to keep clubbing them like a baby seal.


32 posted on 03/02/2016 5:41:52 AM PST by McGruff (It's clear Trump Derangement Syndrome has no limits.)
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To: TTFlyer

Another noobie chimes in. What will you do in the General election, going back to the rat party so Hillary can win the election?


34 posted on 03/02/2016 5:43:45 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

...and the hit piece factory rolls on.

You remind me of the guy who drives through my neighborhood hooking a bag of marketing slicks to my mailbox that go straight to my trash.

Who’s paying you?


35 posted on 03/02/2016 5:43:48 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Kaslin

Maybe if the Conservative media candidates dropped these sort emotional personal attack drama queen posting and tried to make a fact based rational argument FOR their candidate, their candidate might have better success at the voting booth


36 posted on 03/02/2016 5:44:38 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: randita

I can see your thought related to anyone who has remained in the Dem party, but it hardly applies to independents in general. I know many independents who left the GOP over the last few years because there was no difference in the uniparty. Most are in open primary states where they can still primary.

I know them as some are family, most are gun owners and all are prolife who stand with me in front of abortion clinics. They are just tried of being treated by the GOP like blacks are by the Dems. They won’t be owned every 2-4 years any longer.


37 posted on 03/02/2016 5:45:21 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: Kaslin

There is plenty there to not like about Trump and I think there will be disappointment if and when his immigration plan plays out. It is theoretically the “gang of eight bill” dumbed down to mislead. I listened to him last night and found myself thinking I could vote for him. THEN he starts in on how nasty Rubio is......that did it. Not because I am all in on Rubio but how can a person as blatantly obnoxious and viscous to others as Trump has been call someone else nasty? What, was everyone supposed to stand there and take Trumps crap?

The next thing.........Clinton and the machine will destroy him with his past comments and there are plenty. When she is done with him, I think (hope I’m wrong) he will get fewer women’s votes than any candidate ever and that will be just the beginning.


38 posted on 03/02/2016 5:45:33 AM PST by Toespi
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To: PIF

Yep witness the behavior of the Cruz supporters. They are so busy bowing to the screen every time he shows up they have yet to actually LISTEN to anything he says.

Just a really really bad candidate with a really bad stump style. His style indicates he thinks he is running for President of the Ted Cruz fan club rather then President of the WHOLE USA.


39 posted on 03/02/2016 5:46:30 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: randita

There are a lot of people who just flat out do not like Foghorn Leghorn Cruz. They can’t stand his interminable, pedantic preaching and his bald-face lying. He has a grating, nasally voice and anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature knows Cruz has less than a snowball’s chance of ever winning the Presidency.

I’m baffled that Cruz has ANY support among conservatives that, umm, to quote a well-known windbag: “Live in Realville.”


40 posted on 03/02/2016 5:46:43 AM PST by TTFlyer
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