Speaking of Carly, did Ted ever let her out of that dungeon he sent her to?
Posted on 11/28/2016 3:21:02 PM PST by MNDude
Now that the election is in the past, and we now have the insight of looking back, do you think any of the other Republican candidates running for congress could have won the general election against Hillary?
If so, which other candidate(s) do you think also would have defeated Hillary, and which important swing states that Trump won or lost do you think they would pick up?
Only Trump -
- Before second debate press conference of Clinton’s sexual assault victims
- Second debate prosecuted Clinton’s sin.
- Trump is an excellent orator.
- He hit 10 times harder
- Hard worker
- King of twitter
- Excellent salesman
- “Clinton is rapist” T-shirt
- Attack, attack, attack 24x7
This has been speculated about at length.
I don’t think any other candidate could have jangled the nerves and sensibilities that Trump did. Rough though the experience may have been, it ultimately led to a general wakeup that HRC was in fact a career criminal and had committed egregious mishandlings of critical intelligence.
Any other Republican in the gaggle would have eventually succumbed to “oh I can’t hit back at her, she’s a woman and I need that vote”, or “Oh, too many Blacks like her and I have to work that crowd” or any one of any other variations.
AND KEEP IN MIND, each and every one of the others would have had some sort of “groping” incident sometime, somewhere, way back in 1978 that would have been brought up and some fraction of traditional Repubs would have abandoned candidate “X” because he broke his neighbor’s window playing sandlot baseball in 1963. And that accusation would have thrown the Repub on the defensive because they are bunch of IDIOTS who can never see this crap coming.
So no. No other candidate could have overcome the dirt and smears. Which is all the Dems have, but for the most part, it happens to be a successful strategy.
Speaking of Carly, did Ted ever let her out of that dungeon he sent her to?
Yes he would give great speeches and have the establishment behind him for the campaign. But he would fold like Lazio during the debates. He wouldn’t be able to personally rip her apart
No. But who cares? They are losers
Maybe Kasich, if he wasn’t such a dork
Trump was the only one who was willing to play offence rather then defense.
So he broke the "blue wall".
Trump came out of the box with exactly everything that was necessary to win as part of his campaign. NOT ONE of the other Republicans was willing to take on the issues of trade, terrorism, and immigration as forcefully as he did.
I had never seen a Trump TV show or read a book of his, but I heard what he said. I was on board immediately and every other GOP candidate, as well as many others in politics and media insulted Trump, twisted his words, and rejected what I felt was imperative for our candidate to espouse.
I think it's safe to say he didn't put forth all this effort to fail in what he's set out to do....
Cruz would have attacked Hillary but it would have been ugly.
Yes, Cruz by ten points, easily.
No.
It took a candidate who wasn’t concerned about losing to beat the leftist machine.
No.
EXACTLY TRUE !
He pulled the Libs out of their induced stupor; and because he was "clean" he appealed to the less Progressive/Socialists population;
and then he went to the "Rust Belt", and then he went to the coal and energy industry laid-off employees.
Trump, alone, spoke their language, and knew the country was tired of being lied to, and lied about.
He appealed to the voter as a businessman, not as a politician; and he did so in clean language, totally devoid of threats (like what the Progressive/Commie/Socialists do).
Dumber than his brother, but smarter than his kid.
No.
Cruz would attack but he would be the angry religious guy going after a woman. That would not be good for religious people
No. There wasn’t a single Republican candidate in the bunch — other than perhaps Chris Christie — who would have approached this election campaign like a street brawl the way Trump did. Christie was flawed for a number of other reasons that made him an unsuitable candidate.
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