Posted on 01/16/2016 6:49:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's worked on one opponent after another. Here's why he's met his match with Cruz.
As every verbal bully can tell you, simply slathering your adversary with insult is never enough to drive him publicly, humiliatingly into the ditch. If you're going to wound, the insults have to contain some truth--often just a seed of truth, enough to nurture injury's bitter fruit. So in calling Jeb Bush "low energy" again and again and again and again, Donald Trump is not dishing a random taunt at his opponent. The insult works because Bush does look low-energy, perhaps because the rapid loss of 40 pounds has left him looking wan and feeble, like a skinny guy sloshing around in a fat man's skin.
Besides containing its seed of truth, the low-energy insult sticks because Bush can't really refute it. What's he going to do--drop down and give the press corps 50 push-ups? Release his schedule as Florida governor to show he works like a lab rat on amphetamines? Having bored a hole through Bush's skull with the gibe, Trump soon repurposed it by calling Ben Carson "lower energy than Bush." Truthwise, this one had more than a seed: Not since man encountered the first three-toed sloth and realized it was actually alive has such an observation been more appropriate. Carson is a human tortoise, a creature with the metabolism of a jar of molasses on a freezing day, an elderly starfish scraping through the sand with a walker. If the United States were attacked with a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile, it would take Carson a week to walk over to the nuclear football to execute the counterattack codes.....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What if Trump was from Texas and Cruz had $8 billion?
Jack is on reds?
Politico Impressive! /s
Politico, the GOPe rag, has been going in overdrive trying to create the narrative that Trump is over since Thursday night.
The polls will tell.
This is too rich. Schafer decries Trump’s insults then goes nuclear with his own.
EPIC FAIL
No Jack, Donald Trump has met Mr. Haney from Green Acres.
The polls should tell. The guy’s a meatball who took the pages right out of the Obama Chicago thug playbook.
It’s getting tiresome, like a retread that’s been slapping against the pavement for a good 20,000 miles. People thought he actually changed his spots. How gullible a breed Americans are.
This proves my point, no one at Politico has a brain worth taking seriously. “My point is that Politico is a front for the Rats, their intent is not truthful news reporting with integrity, but to promulgate anything that bolsters the left. Sure they may throw a few bones to keep the useful idiots believing they mean what they say, but they are liars. The Politico should be mocked at every turn, laughed at with the scorn they deserve for purveying leftist propaganda disguised as journalism.” From a previous post. “To thine own heart be true.” Guess where Politico’s “heart” resides? Nowhere near reality.
Ted’s attacks on Trump at the tea party event today were sad, and didn’t fire up the crowd at all. The response was tepid. I actually felt sorry for him.
I think Trump would be a perfect Oliver or possibly Arnold.
Trump has met his match. He is a bully and Cruz is unflappable.
I would like you all to remember what it must have been like for Cruz to be nearly the only one standing up for us and our values against the Republican establishment.
He has trained himself to ward off the arrows that are slung at him.
Trump is a first class bully with loads of money and a Twitter account.
Cruz has very deep knowledge about our American principles.
Cruz has read Trump correctly.
Polls. LOL
Yes.
Politico is a Dem operative place, written by Dem operatives for Dem operatives. Supposedly a lot of DC and elsewhere reads it.
But it’s obvious.
Merci beaucoup.
Good read.
Elmer Gantry Cruz is not going to catch on in a way that will make hi electable in the general. Reagan was a staunch conservative who connected with people on a visceral level. Cruz tries, but he doesn’t have the charisma to pull it off. Trump is the one who is connecting with broad groups of people. He’s not the conservative Cruz is, but he has the force of personality to bring the fight to his opponents.
I think the voters will swing over to Cruz and we will see it in the SEC primaries. The more Trump attempts to bully Cruz the greater the scrutiny of what Trump's NY values really are will be.
The way you deal with verbal bullies is best alluding to their deceipt, contrast facts about them that are contrarian and make your own case, differentiating and distinguishing yourself, never mentioning “Brand X”
The more he says the more people find out how much substance he does not have and how much of a blowhard he really is.
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