Posted on 08/08/2015 7:12:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican leaders who have watched Donald Trump’s summer surge with alarm now believe that his presidential candidacy has been contained and may begin to collapse because of his repeated attacks on a Fox News Channel star and his refusal to pledge his loyalty to the eventual GOP nominee.
Fearful that the billionaire’s inflammatory rhetoric has inflicted serious damage to the GOP brand, party leaders hope to pivot away from the Trump sideshow and toward a more serious discussion among a deep field of governors, senators and other candidates.
They acknowledge that Trump’s unique megaphone and the passion of his supporters make any calculation about his candidacy risky. After all, he has been presumed dead before: Three weeks ago, he prompted establishment outrage by belittling the Vietnam war service of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), only to prove, by climbing higher in the polls, that the laws of political gravity did not apply to him.
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No, just being too brief to be understood. The Cheap Labor Express wants him stopped. They have an enormous investment in importing “New Americans” and the old Americans are getting restless and just might elect a Donald Trump if that’s the only way to stop them. We have had only amnesty candidates to vote for since the last amnesty.
Also, my brother made the point that Trump appeals to the younger generations, via Twitter. And those younger people aren't easily shocked, quite brash and coarse themselves. They've got to be laughing their butts off that this is such a big deal.
Obviously they didn’t read comments on Facebook page !
I don’t watch Megyn Kelly.
I won’t support a GOP candidate that supports illegal immigration.
I will vote for someone other than the Republican nominee if that candidate is Senor Jebby.
The Donald fits right in with Conservative voters I know.
Woop Woop!!!
Here’s the thing - with all the Miss Universe and Miss U.S.A. pageants that Donald has been hosting for many years - not one - not ONE contestant has accused him of any improper behavior or speech. I find that admirable. He went after Rosie when she attacked one of his contestants - she started it. He has been the epitome of gentleman toward the young women who are in the contests. So, they think Miss Bimbo is going to bring him down?
That’s the feeling I got today. These clowns were barely mentioning his name and if they did, it was almost in past tense. Plus the same usual garbage of the Trump supporters needing to unite and support the Republican.
They make me puke.
Of course. But in the mind of the media pundit, and only in the mind of the pundit, she’s a leader and her audience are her followers.
The media is seriously sick.
The GOP-e have read the tens of thousands of comments on their Facebook pages and they’re ignoring them because they think they are better than us.
You make a good point.
Erickson: “His comments woke up the sleeping giants in the conservative movement. Myself included.”
Wow. Is the bloated clown full of himself, or what.
Now that thar is just funny. :=)
Just went to trumps Kelly’s and erikson Fb pages. Found no negative on DT. One positive on Erik’s and Kelly’s was still vitriolic even after weekend.
Twenty-four million people watched Thursday’s debate. If any of the 16 non-Trump candidates had captured the Republican viewers’ interest and support enough to propel him/her into genuine competition with Trump, we’d have heard about it by now.
Instead, all we’ve been hearing about is Megyn Kelly and her angry anti-Trump attacks at the debate, as well as a number of post-debate attacks against Trump from his fellow Republican candidates for using the word ‘’blood’’ in relation to Ms. Kelly in a context no one quite understands.
If Donald Trump’s opponents genuinely want to deny him the nomination, those receiving less than 7% support in the post-debate polls should drop out of the race. Then those with 15%-or-more support can build their candidacies to compete with Trump and possibly surpass him.
But does anyone believe any of the non-Trump candidates will drop out of the race any time in the near future, no matter how poorly they’re doing? It’s hard to imagine.
I do not like the idea of Republican debates. Do they really accomplish anything other than to give the Democratic-controlled media more sound bytes to use the bash the party as a whole?
LOLOLOL.
The choice is not between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, the choice is between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. In considering the primaries in this context, Trump supporters ought to ask themselves, who is the more authentic conservative?
Trump supporters ought to ask themselves, who has actually acted against the Republican establishment on behalf of a conservative base, and who has only talked? When Ted Cruz was filibustering all night long on the floor of the Senate on our behalf against the forces of the Republican establishment, whose side was Donald Trump on? Had he voted for Obama? Had he contributed to Hillary? Did he speak out in any way to support Ted Cruz attack on the establishment? When Ted Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar to his face on the floor of the Senate, was he attacking the establishment? Was he doing so at great personal political risk? In this context, what has Donald Trump actually done?
Trump supporters ought to ask themselves, who has the better chance of beating Hillary Clinton? Who has the higher negatives, who will divide the voters in the party, not just the establishment portion of the party? Who will make more gaffes? Who will turn off the women voters?
Trump supporters ought to ask themselves, who has the more clear and more consistent record on immigration and amnesty?
Trump supporters ought to ask themselves, which of these two men gives us greater confidence of safety and security knowing that his finger as president will be only inches away from the nuclear football?
If the present practice continues of Trump supporters indulging in personal invective against those who oppose Trump, of resorting to hyperbolic language without adducing facts, one will expect the answers to the above questions be foaming and flaming but to be regrettably without substance.
Trump supporters are angry, and rightly so, they are frustrated, and rightly so and they are, yes, frightened and rightly so. In their fear they turn to a former Democrat, a supporter of socialized medicine, a former advocate of amnesty, an advocate of abortion, an advocate of soaking the rich, by his own admission, a practitioner extraordinaire of crony capitalism, a bedfellow with the Republican and Democrat establishment known as the "Washington cartel," as the man to lead them out of the wilderness. Most of all they see Trump as the only man who can and will stand up to the Republican establishment, the leftists in the media, the Chinese, and the Mexican invasion. In all of these things Trump has the right message today but because of his history and his character flaws he is the wrong messenger.
Ted Cruz has the biography, the record, the forensic skills, and the faith of an authentic conservative who will stand against the "Washington cartel" and give the Republic its best chance of repairing what that cartel has done to us, surviving the coming crises and restoring America to real constitutional governance.
These questions are asked to generate a reasoned debate on the facts, the biographies of the candidates, the statements of the candidates, but not mere conclusionary language and vituperation. Let's see if Trump's supporters can be a better than Trump himself or will they descend to his level?
Without Donald, the GOP-wing of the Democrat party would shove Jethro down our throats with ease, just like they did GHW Bush, Bob Dull, GW Bush, Juan McQueeg and Milt Romley before him.
Good post. It would make a good vanity.
Too many religionists ignore the lessons of their own bible.
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