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Why Trump Won’t Be the GOP Nominee in 2020
The American Prospect ^ | August 7, 2018 | Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder and Co-Editor

Posted on 08/07/2018 7:13:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: The Great RJ

“The RINOs would just nominate another Romney, McCain or Bob Dole and lose to a left wing Democrat who will continue the wrecking of the country started by Obama while the RINOs sit back and whimper”

...and collect those fat donations. How many times did.the RINOs in the house pass the bill to repeal Obamacare while Obama was in the WH?


101 posted on 08/07/2018 9:27:00 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This swill that is supposed to pass for an article is written from the perspective of an unrepentant leftist who ardently believes in the righteousness and infallibility of the Mueller “investigation”. Once that hits a dead end and collapses, I have no idea what happens to this train of thought.

Of considerably greater import, however, is what happens if (when?) Trump releases the unredacted FISA papers. The article itself is written in a political vacuum where the only things that happen are what the hard-core left wants to happen. Not what will happen. (Democrats have embraced that deficiency since early in the Obama years, if not before that.)

As written, this article is nothing more than a fully verbalized Liberal wet dream. It has no basis in fact. As such, it cannot be viewed as a serious prognostication of any sort.

We have 3 months till mid-terms, a veritable eternity in politics, and a time frame more than generous enough for an earthquake or two to rip through, scorching the landscape severely enough so that not even the media can ignore it.

Given that the Left’s, and hence, the Deep State's opponent is Donald Trump, the future does not look too good. Even with a press that tilts in it's favor more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa, these guys have looked lost. Not only do they have great difficulty figuring out the Man Who Is Like No Other President, they still haven't gotten over their last electoral loss.

How can they plan this kind of future when they can't even grasp the present?

Look at it his way.

They have the press.
They have the universities.
They have the educational establishment (teachers, professors, etc.). And they have the Unions.

And after that, it starts to dwindle quite rapidly.

Do you notice anything about the things the Left has?

They're all in decline, with their influence waning.
They're all increasingly unpopular.
They're all aging.
And they all live in the past.

These can be considered their base. In the Age of the Internet, how can they build on this? Given the long-term decline of the party's electoral fortunes, what's left for them to be politically viable, especially given their current mad dash for Socialist nirvana?

If the left continues to believe the likes of this dogmatic claptrap, they'll find themselves being shoved inexorably towards the exit by the voters, with ever-increasing chances of never being shown back in.

CA....

102 posted on 08/07/2018 10:23:45 PM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: ConservativeMind

Nope.

I am simply pointing out that China is a BIG problem

Trump seems to get that. But he has not yet really done much about that yet.

Last year we ran the worst trade deficit with China, ever.

THIS YEAR it is even worse.

Every. Single. Month.

Trump is correctly, saying this is a problem

But he hasn’t acted yet. It is getting even worse, this year.

I wonder actually, whether those complaining, are on China’s side on trade.

Frankly.


103 posted on 08/07/2018 11:16:11 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff; All

Who knew? Chris CrispyCream Cristie has a FR account.

I will spring for a box of Dunkin Donuts Bismarcks if the rest of you want to feed the elephant seal by tossing them at Mr. Puffy.


104 posted on 08/07/2018 11:49:43 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Kutnuts is a biased cuck.

McStain and Lynch conspired to have a special visa issued for the female Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. She could not have gotten into the country otherwise. The meeting was a set-up from the word "go". McStain and Lynch are facing racketeering charges in this matter, at a minimum.

105 posted on 08/08/2018 12:00:41 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Monmouth, huh? I live in Ocean County, NJ.


106 posted on 08/08/2018 12:05:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa

I have no doubt that Trump will win reelection in 2020 but My hope is that MIKE POMPEO succeeds Trump, not Pence! I like Pence, and he is a wonderful Godly man, but he would be eaten alive in our current political climate.


107 posted on 08/08/2018 12:12:38 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For one day, about 30 years ago, Kuttner made sense. Since then, it’s been “Wackoville” in his mind. Old leftists never learn except how to fool their followers.


108 posted on 08/08/2018 12:19:38 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Alberta's Child

Flake or Kasich? Those two have all the charisma of wet cardboard. When Kasich speaks his eyes glaze over like a lizard, bad visual. Plus he is a bore. Flake. That winning name sums him up.


109 posted on 08/08/2018 12:52:55 AM PDT by databoss
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As I’ve repeatedly written, Warren is the most effective leader the Dems have had in decades at narrating the lived experience of regular working people—as progressive politics. Some say she won’t do well with white males, that she is great in person, but too preachy and shrill on TV.

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110 posted on 08/08/2018 1:04:23 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article author is a long-time commie leftist. Nothing he says matters.


111 posted on 08/08/2018 1:13:50 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Trump is 72 and we don’t know if he wants to go through this again.

Obviously, it depends if he is adequately fed.


112 posted on 08/08/2018 1:21:32 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Alberta's Child

I am American.

I am currently posting from Vietnam (a very nice place, I might add), where I currently am.

However, I have been a Trump supporter since before he even announced his candidacy.

I was back in the States and voted for Trump in Michigan, one of the 10,000 or 20,000 votes which put Trump over the top

How long have you supported Trump’s candidacy?


113 posted on 08/08/2018 1:25:58 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It will be Trump in 2020. If he wants to duck out (highly doubtful), then Pence is the one he trained to take his place. That’s why he gave Pence a more active job to do as Vice President. A man’s positions on the issues are what counts. Either way, President Trump’s successor will be the man chosen by him.

So the left has no way out of this.


114 posted on 08/08/2018 3:32:02 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
People like me win elections in NJ.

Yes, liberals and socialists win almost all the elections in NJ.

I am not a liberal as well.

Perhaps you're a scoialist or a communist.

I’m a run the mill conservative.

In the same way that Cankles is conservative.

Please.

Yes, you please the socialists and communists with your posts on FR.

I know the pulse of all American suburbs and exurbs.

I live in the suburbs, I know suburban politics, I know what I am talking about.

You know the rat infested areas of NJ, also known as the People's Republic of Jersey, and mistakenly believe that all the USA is rat infested and dominated by socialist ideology.

Please. Let’s stay focused on the goal.

You must be talking to your fellow trolls, because FReepers don't pursue socialist or SJW goals.

115 posted on 08/08/2018 3:43:54 AM PDT by 50mm (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . /)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another AntiTrump BS article...


116 posted on 08/08/2018 4:05:48 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sadly, I’m in the prissy Northeast when all too many Republicans are of the country club/RINO variety. They would at least publicly go for Kasich, but I think they like what Trump is doing for the economy, so when it comes to the privacy of the voting booth they might be able to resist Kasich.

And it is good to read the other side. Otherwise all too easy to get lost in our own echo chamber and miss the full picture.


117 posted on 08/08/2018 4:35:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Ugh. No Pence please. I can’t believe the country would make him president.


118 posted on 08/08/2018 4:36:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: All

Kasich 2020!

Jeb 2020!

Oh hell no.

Trump will be the nominee.

Trump will win.


119 posted on 08/08/2018 5:12:15 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The idiot fake news media do not know the difference between words - “purpose” or “intent” and “subject” or “content”.

The earlier statement of Trump Jr. was not about the purpose or intent of the meeting, but the subject or content. The subject or content was as he said about the Magnitsky Act. That Trump Jr. now or at any time admits his intention fpr the meeting was that dirt on Hillary was being offered does not make his earlier statement a lie - all that was discussed was the Magnitsky Act and no dirt on Hillary was offered.

Worse, the Dims peddle their nothing burger as they and the sheeple they lead do not know, or do not admit, any understanding of perjery, which completely involves OFFICIAL testimony made in court; and has no bearing on public statements not made in court.

Additionally, they are ignorant of or fail to admit that even with any intent to find dirt on Hillary, no law was broken by Trump Jr.

Maybe just as badly, the sheeple have been denied so much Truth from the Dims for so long now, they are unaware that all the huffing and puffing senior Dims and the media are making about the Trump Jr. meeting is really a story that is nearly a year old, and the Dims have trumped up an excuse to replay it. And why? One, its a diversion from all the positive news and two, they got nothing else.


120 posted on 08/08/2018 5:40:48 AM PDT by Wuli
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