Posted on 07/21/2015 4:38:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Don't be sure the McCain episode is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump's bizarre presidential campaign. Don't even be sure it's the end of the beginning. Attacking him with censure and shame is like trying to destroy Godzilla with electricity: It might just make him stronger.
Why should anyone pay the slightest attention to the Trump circus? Because the most recent polls -- to the GOP establishment's great consternation -- show him in first place. Also because Trump, rather than any of his more experienced rivals, is setting the agenda for the race.
On Saturday, he committed what for most politicians would be a fatal gaffe. Speaking extemporaneously at a candidates' forum in Iowa, Trump turned his rhetorical blunderbuss toward Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had accused Trump of using outrageous statements about illegal immigration to incite the "crazies" in the GOP base.
"He's not a war hero," Trump said of McCain. "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." Trump also derided McCain's academic record at the U.S. Naval Academy and his record as a senator.
It says something about our politics that denigrating McCain's war record was seen as more transgressive than claiming the government of Mexico is deliberately sending hordes of rapists and other criminals across the border into the United States. McCain served in Vietnam as a Navy pilot; he was shot down and endured years of torture and abuse as a prisoner of war.
As with his outrageous comments about Mexicans, Trump refused to take back his slur of McCain. The other candidates pounced, expressing such horror-filled dismay that you'd think Trump had summoned the media to watch him set fire to the American flag.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I’m afraid that Donald will be playing the part of Perot in 2016.
If that is the case, this is all a tempest in a tea pot.
And Jeb will play the part of Bob Dole, the uninspiring RINO who can’t energize the conservative base.
Also, there should be serious misgivings about his conservative credentials, his commitment to law, his understanding of how government works, and his bizarre temperament. See this article; it addresses some of my points.
http://spectator.org/articles/63506/third-obama-term
Jeb is finished.
But considering that in the latest poll he got 24% AFTER the damage caused by the McCain kerfuffle, he still has a good chance at getting the nom.
Yep. You got that right.
>>Looking back on the videos of Trump making that statement it appears that, before being interrupted by Frank Luntz, Trump was going to say something like “McCain was not a hero because of some heroic action, he was a hero because he got captured.”
But like the Rodney King video, we won’t get to see the whole video much where Trump calls McQueeg a hero four times. The sound bite serves the GOPe agenda much better.
Let’s just hope if he does he’s not just all talk.
These leftist fellow travellers have been exclusively talking with each other for so long they have come to believe their insane view of the world. Robinson is a witless dupe of global jihad, whether by Muslim or Marxist. He does not have the intellectual equipment to understand the real world.
Leftists deliberately deny reality in order to bring their utopian vision into reality. It is a fools errand, more, it is a child’s fantasy. They will make any sacrifice of other people’s lives and fortunes to satisfy their solypsism.
They deny the real world of God and His creation, instead demanding the fantasy world of Satan and his hoards.
It is long past time to be done with these dangerous, demented maniacs.
He's gonna do it again as well.He's not pc. Trump tells it like it is and is not used to having anything he says questioned by anyone.
McCain was in a pow camp for 51/2 years did suffer and does deserve accolades for all for his service.
McCain's problem is that once he got out of the pow camp instead of making war on the communists who tortured him he made war on conservatives and continues to do so today.
While I feel Trump probably misspoke he gave the salivating drivebys what they were desperately looking for; a gotcha moment to help destroy trump who is their worst enemy.Trump keeps bringing issues to the forefront that will destroy socialism and the hard left DNC.
The drivebys are desperate to stop talking about all the issues that can destroy the hard left which they adore. The DBM wants to keep talking about bad pubbies and have the conservatives bashing one another. It's their only hope. Once we start talking about illegal immigration,Iran,the Va,CIA, FBI,IRS,trade with almost any nation, the economy, or obamcare they are finished and so is Hillary.
They will protect her at any cost.
Lucky for Trump Sharyl Atkisson was there to save his ass,next time he may not be so lucky.Sad thing is there will be a next time.
Here is Trump’s strategy (and, no I don’t work for him but I do support his message.)
^I am my own man! A self-made man that loves the USA^.
TRUMP (to my understanding): If I can make a difference in 2016, I will, in the tradition of the US-fathers that pledged their lives and livelihoods to their beloved “ground” now called the USA, that is where I (Trump) stand! Trump gets it (socialism-abetting-communism v. true Liberty).
He knows that if he is elected, his real estate portfolio will move to a trust executed by someone else. He may have shed some parts, but what many people don’t see/understand is that Trump will necessarily NEED to step away from his empire to execute his (a) campaign and (b) control, if elected.
Thoughts?
yes every news outlet is editing it the exact same way. It’s almost funny at this point.
That can’t be a serious comment, is it?
As far as I know, this is a misquote.
AND Eugene Robinson is a hater and hypocrite. Don’t bother looking for him cursing Al Franken, who said the same thing, in any of his articles.
Mainstream Media Minions gonna Minion...
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