Posted on 01/18/2016 7:07:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Donald Trump first announced that he was running for president, many political pundits, myself included, wrote his campaign off as a joke. While it may have been a publicity stunt to begin with, it is becoming more and more apparent that Trump intends to become the GOP nominee and face off against Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.
Conventional wisdom was that Jeb Bush would represent the establishment GOP in the primaries, and that Ted Cruz would be the Tea Party insurgent candidate. Just a few months ago, many writers lamented the âdynastyâ of the Bush and Clinton families in politics â claiming that this was proof that both parties were the same.
Ted Cruz began to surge in recent weeks, bolstered by the fading campaign of Ben Carson, his supporters defecting to Ted Cruz en masse. Cruz has picked up conservative celebrity endorsements like the Duck Dynasty clan, but despite all of that, it still looks like Donald Trump could win it all.
For all of his extremism, Ted Cruz simply cannot match the unbridled hatred and xenophobia Donald Trump has tapped into. Cruz may say incredibly hateful and bigoted things, but he is still a highly educated lawyer who has spent many years in politics. His views are far to the right, but Trump has an almost complete monopoly on the angry white vote in America.
The Bush recession is slowly fading into our rear view mirrors here in America and the economy has rebounded nicely, at least for Wall Street and the 1%. Conservative voters are still furious about marriage equality, an issue Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee continue to harp on. However, theyâre more concerned about terrorism and immigration, issues Trump has managed to outflank Cruz on when it comes to rhetoric.
Trumpâs attacks on Ted Cruz arenât completely popular with the conservative base, as evidenced by the feedback he got in South Carolina.
Kathy Hughes, a 68-year-old retired teacher from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, said she was âso excitedâ to see Trump until he trained his fire on Cruz, and now sheâs sitting his speech out.
âHe has degraded himself now to me,â she said.
Hughes said she felt like Trump had done away with his commitment to telling it like it is in part because he took Cruzâs attacks on New York personally.
âI was pleased that he has put issues forward that many of the candidates did not want to talk about and theyâve been forced to talk about. He has kicked political correctness to the curb â until Ted said something about New Yorkers â and then suddenly Mr. Trump became very sensitive,â she said. (Source)
Ultimately, this wonât hurt Trump with conservatives, because theyâre so entrenched in their hatred for the left that the much of the GOP would vote for the reanimated corpse of Nathan Bedford Forrest in the general election rather than Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are the only two candidates who stand a chance in the primaries at this point, and Trump looks likely to win. This is the movie âIdiocracyâ coming to life, and this is the GOP in 2016. Heaven help us all.
I don’t have any beef with General Forrest, but I shoot ZOMBIES.
Just the way it’s gotta be.
The progressive left asking for Devine help. Oh the irony. Lol
Here’s another one you pulled out of your rear end.
So an article saying Don Trump is “inevitable” is an “attack” on Don Trump? Is that what you’re saying?
LOL. I didn’t say that at all. You must be confusing me with someone else.
Oh crap. Jim better post a suicide watch 800 number hotline. :-)
Why would anyone, follow this thing?
Some of the descriptive terminology may be a bit "offensive" but the overall meme isn't far off. Trump knows how to tap into what the People are really concerned and mad about - he does it effectively and it has increased his base. He ain't no Reagan, but his communications skills, such as they are, are as effective when they reach the ears of those really fed up.
Cruz cold take a lesson but it's probably far enough from his core that he couldn't do it as effectively w/o being among his peers in the Congress and taking them to task.
“Put the sker in them and keep it coming!”
He bought 500 Navy Colt revolvers with his own money, a dollar apiece, and armed his cavalrymen with two each. When the union force would shoot their volley, single shot rifles, Forrest and his men would charge into the line and each shoot 12 times and this was totally disorganizing for the union troops who ran like rabbits. This tactic was mimicked by greats such as Romel and Patton.
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