Posted on 09/15/2016 1:24:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Democrats are starting to panic, they should. What else do they have to throw at him?
If you arent seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you arent paying attention.
Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump was a reality-TV star with a spotty business record and a weird penchant for proclaiming he was on the verge of running for president. Now, hes perhaps a few big breaks and a couple of sterling debate performances away from being elected 45th president of the United States.
Trump has no experience in elected office, and unlike past nonpoliticians elected president, hasnt won a major war. He barely has a national campaign. He perhaps knows less about public affairs than the average congressman. He has repeatedly advertised his thin-skinned vindictiveness and is trampling on basic political norms, like the convention of candidates releasing their tax returns.
No major political party has ever nominated anyone like this. If Trump were to prevail, it would make Barack Obamas unlikely rise from unknown state senator to first African-American president of the United States in about four years look like a boringly conventional political trajectory.
Obama seemed to come out of nowhere, but his steps to the presidency law degree, state office, U.S. senator were stereotypical. Trump won the Republican nomination despite or because of? attributes that would have seemed disqualifying two years ago, such as, to name a few, his personal life, his longtime support for Democrats, his newly minted, hard-to-credit social conservatism, his disdain for Republican orthodoxy, and his basic lack of preparation.
Trump now has a legitimate shot at winning the general because he got the lucky draw of at least the second-worst presidential nominee in recent memory....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
the fact he identifies trump as a reality TV star with a “spotty” business record explains a lot. no wonder they are surprised and continually wrong.......
next they will probably criticize Trump for setting a 4% goal or target for economic growth.....”a goal? whats that? never saw a candidate set a goal before.....”
YES!
Trump is getting better. The Queen Of America is having a meltdown. She is going to inspire too many people to bother to go and vote in November.
The author used the analogy of a baseball batter.
In business Trump was put out three times. That means he not only batted .700 in business; he scored .700.
See, it’s all in how you look at things. Edison, Einstein, Lincoln ... all great people had failures. It is what you do with the failure that counts.
Lowrey is a late-to-the-game idiot.
Lousy Lowry facing reality. pffft.
Hoover (who lost to FDR in 1932) is still remembered, as is Thomas Dewey (who lost to FDR in 1944--but Dewey is primarily remembered for losing to Truman in 1948 when everyone thought he would win).
Does anyone remember the men FDR beat in 1928 and 1930 when he won the New York gubernatorial elections?
In 1928 he beat Albert Ottinger, NY Attorney General, by a mere 26,000 votes out of well over 4 million votes cast.
In 1930 he beat Charles H. Tuttle handily (the Depression had already started, plus Tuttle got hammered over trying to have it both ways on the Prohibition issue).
Alf Landon was the loser in the 1936 election--he is sometimes remembered simply because it was so overwhelming (he carried only Maine and Vermont).
Great post. Thanx.
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