Posted on 08/29/2015 4:50:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
I think you just nailed it, it looks to me as if a huge percentage of voters are sick and tired of all the BS and want to hear somebody real. I know I have had it with the mealy mouthed, don’t offend anybody, garbage. Any nation with a political party that takes a wreck like Hillary Clinton seriously as a presidential candidate, let alone as someone who cannot be defeated, is sick, sick, sick.
Kelly was the point of spear held by Fox and other jeb supporters. Precedent is important and fighting off an attack early is the best in the long run. Trump sent a signal that he would fight against an attack to the point of destroying himself. By doing so he wards off future attacks by bullies. This wasn’t just about Kelly. This was about positioning Trump and his future attackers.
...of melancholy and the vapours.
If he actually gained traction (ain't gonna happen), I might change it to el diablo, perhaps that would be better.....
For now it'll remain......the Jebster.....
“Don’t limit yourself! There could be 13 reasons.”
There must be fifty ways to lose an election.
What a stretch. This column is sortalike a prayer for Trump failure, painted with faint praise.
When Trump 'went after' mcpain, it was in response to macpain's calling Trump supporters 'crazies'.
We all know what happened with the FAUX BITCH, so she can piss off and 'move to the mainstream, ie cnn.
The msm cannot accept the fact that Americans are fed up with all politicians and their LIES.
Yep. Now it’s “Our two dads can beat your two mommies”
yep, we on the same page......it’s not gonna be the media, or the establishment media, or the establishment candidates - who take Trump down. It can only be Trump stepping into a lefty steaming pile at some big moment....or maybe simply the fact that whether it’s in politics, coaching, etc, those fires that burn the hottest are not the fires that burn the longest.
Whatever, these are unprecedented times.....
dude, thank God I’ve had my coffee....and notice the poster before the post.......
:D
Exactly !!!
I've said this before, and I'll repeat it here: I'm not sold on the fact that Trump will have the staying power to go the distance. It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of what people will do when the step into the voting booth during the primaries, and the questions they ask themselves about who they're going to cast their votes for. It's at this point where the rubber meets the road as people start asking themselves whether or not the candidate they like really has a chance of "winning it all."
At this stage it's way too early (IMO) to put my money on a horse. There's still just so much time for any of the candidates running to flame out.
I will say this about Trump: He speaks for me on immigration, the economy and the incompetence and corruption in Washington DC. Those not so coincidentally also happen to be the hot button issues for so many people. I frankly speaking really like the fact that he's got so many establishment politicians (on both sides of the aisle) all up in arms.
We'll see how long Trump lasts in this race.
I’m really for Senator Cruz. I like nearly everything about him.
If Trump gets the nomination, I can certainly vote for him-—but with some trepidation……..He has never held a political office that I know of, which could be a good thing or a bad thing.
I’m just not all in for him, yet……….
“#7. He could die”
If not by natural means, I’m sure the Clinton Mafia or Bush Machine would be happy to facilitate. I do worry about this.
Most likely assassinated, or die under strange circumstances. He's too big a threat to people in high places.
Just ask Vince Foster, Ron Brown, or Loretta Fuddy.
It certainly was my dad. As a preacher he got himself in hot water again and again. By the time my turn rolled around speaking one’s mind and standing on principle had become cause for defrocking. Pray Trump can energize American manhood back to its macho roots.
I'm a ham radio guy with contacts in 163 countries at last count. I've got that covered. :-)
“if you’re efficient in spending your money you don’t need a large operation”
Very true. David Brat beat the powerful Eric Cantor by 10 percentage points. Cantor spent $5.7 million, Brat $200,000. Like Trump today Brat ran on an anti-immigration theme.
In 1994, the unknown GOP challenger George Nethercutt beat Democrat House Speaker Tom Foley. The Foley loss came before the days of social media.
Trump has shown it is possible to build awareness through social and alternative media. Not having to spend significant dollars for traditional broadcast media is a huge savings.
The other big campaign cost is the ground game (robocalls, door knocking, precinct workers). Trump seems to believe he can win primaries and the nomination without investing in organization to get his voters to the polls. He may be correct in believing he has tapped into anti-establishment fervor and his energized voters will come out in huge numbers to vote against the party establishment. Once he wins the nomination, he will plug into the existing RNC organization as well as state GOP organizations and use their ground operatives to get out the vote on election day.
Trump made it clear in his Alabama press conference he expects to be spending RNC money and using RNC operatives during the national campaign once he wins the nomination. He’ll also benefit from support of Super PACs and other organizations. Therefore the Perot comparison is not relevant. Perot was running an independent national campaign and spending his own money. Trump plans to spend his own money only to secure the nomination. Likely that will be less than $100 million.
Another pundiot who has no clue of what is making him strong. All of those are strengths and why people are getting behind him. Nobody thinks he is perfect and he does not try to be.
What if he is proving, everything we know about politics is wrong?
Pray America is waking
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