Posted on 06/17/2016 8:54:28 AM PDT by rickmichaels
When in his 1964 GOP acceptance speech Barry Goldwater declared that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, a reporter sitting near journalist/historian Theodore White famously exclaimed: My God, hes going to run as Barry Goldwater!
Six weeks into Donald Trumps general election campaign, Republicans are discovering that he indeed intends to run as Donald Trump. He has boasted that he could turn presidential respectful, respectable, reticent, reserved bordering on boring at will. Apparently, he cant.
GOP leaders who fell in line behind Trump after he clinched the nomination expected, or at least hoped, that he would prove malleable, willing to adjust his more extreme positions and tactics to suit a broader electorate.
Two problems. First, impulse control: Trump says what he actually feels, whatever comes into his head at any moment. Second, a certain logic: Trump won the primaries Sinatra-style, his way against the odds, the experts and the conventional rules. So why change now? You win the pennant, Trump explained, and now youre in the World Series you gonna change?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
I can’;t wait until these assclown moonbats get their asses handed to themselves...one way or another.
First, it was “Trump will not be the nominee”.
Now it’s. “Trump will not be President”.
And “Trump is Goldwater”.
I suppose the good news is that Donald has graduated from Hitler to Goldwater. Or has the Krautscum not yet gone to Hitler yet with Trump?
Yup.
I wish losers like Krauthedger who have been wrong about Trump for so long should promise to resign from the public airwaves if Trump wins.
Simply repealing the 16th and 17th amendments would restore the republic.
I was very much involved in the Goldwater campaign from early December, 1960 through November 3rd, 1964. This was something we lived day by day. I do not need to read what someone else said about it in a book.
A truly unfortunate coincidence.
“I suppose the good news is that Donald has graduated from Hitler to Goldwater”
Thanks, I needed a good guffaw before I bursted a blood vessel ;)
Trump is a leader, and an energetic inspirational one at that.
I am sick of this endless stream of attempts to talk down Trump. I want to see an endless stream of articles destroying the uniparty and its attacks. Look for those and post them.
I quit paying much attention to these so-called experts long ago.
They have been inside the beltway for so long that they have no idea what is going on in fly-over country.
Reality versus this out of date beltway pundit acting like a person we listen to.
“It is now 2016 and the free pass that politicians have been riding on has expired.
The American people no longer trust the major institution, from political office to news outlets, to even large businesses. It would seem all were conspiring against middle Americans, the average Joe that just wants to work, take care of their families and put away a little for their future.
Donald Trump is speaking for them.
If Trump would moderate his message, even a little, the cries of flip flop and hypocrisy would escape from the lips of every liberal.
I hope Trump does not give an inch.
I for one do not want any bi-party unity because it always means the little guy gets shafted.”
Same here!
I’m marching with the Trump flag. I will be marching though as the Dems have an electoral advantage. Trump supporters must save this country and unite and go door to door to help get out the vote.
Boo, hiss!
“I was going to type the letters for FReep you Charles Krauthammer and realized I would be spelling a bad word.”
LOL! Never thought of that. Kind of built in, isn’t it? :-)
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