Posted on 09/15/2015 3:43:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one — Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after six years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.
No doubt much of the stampede of Republican voters toward Mr. Trump is based on their disgust with the Republican establishment. The fact that the next two biggest vote-getters in the polls are also complete outsiders — Dr. Ben Carson and Ms. Carly Fiorina — reinforces the idea that this is a protest. It is easy to understand why there would be pent-up resentments among Republican voters. But are elections held for the purpose of venting emotions? No national leader ever aroused more fervent emotions than Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. Watch some old newsreels of German crowds delirious with joy at the sight of him. The only things at all comparable in more recent times were the ecstatic crowds that greeted Barack Obama when he burst upon the political scene in 2008. Elections, however, have far more lasting, and far more serious — or even grim — consequences than emotional venting. The actual track record of crowd-pleasers, whether Juan Peron in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424008/donald-trump-voters-election-egomaniac
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Dingy Harry to Trump-Turn off the water.
Your move.
Cruz has a TV problem. He just doesn’t come off well on the TV.
[Now Is No Time to Be Voting for President Based on Emotion]
Why not, we did the last 2 times. /s We live in a Kardashian country.
I don’t support Trump, but I don’t blame his supporters for his popularity. He offers a similitude of a vision, though devoid of substance. It all sounds good—like Obamacare did to some—but what is he truly selling? Shall we all channel Pelosi and find out after we vote?
I will not vote for anyone based on some nebulous appeal to populism. We need a fighter, but a fighter who fights based on conviction, not ego. That is not Trump, but it’s also no other candidate.
Very few on FR even those who defend Trump are blind to his shortcomings. But at least I hope that his love of our nation overrides those as he is the only conservative candidate with enough support to date to win. Cruz is a wonderful man but not soaring in the polls. Carson lost me with his immigration stance and his belief that he could have subdued not shot the 300 lb bully Michael Brown- another seeming “cops acted stupidly” idea.
I say this as one of the original supporters of Cruz. He needs time.
Well said.
Own it. It's a cult of personality. Nothing Trump says or does can disprove how great he is. Everything he is saying now is his true feelings, though they've apparently been hidden for 69 years.
The want to believe is great among these.
Yeah, because neither Bush ever did that and Jeb or Krispy have the giant stones to squash any democrat agenda.
I really hope Cruz can win the nomination, but I love seeing the hysterics by dem’s and rino’s over Trump.
Hahahahaha.....Good point. Sowell fails to say that.
It was very evident last night listening to Trump, that this country is really not divided along political lines, it’s divided between the people and the politicians.
I see no difference in the leaders of our party and the leaders of the other party.
In Trump, we see someone who may call himself a republican, but he seems to represent all of us.
I think he can win all 50 states. If he has someone running with him like a Ted Cruz, this country can be transformed, and then from here on out, we get the best most competent CEOs as president, NOT the career politicians.
Term limits. WE need term limits.
Yes. That is why he is way down the list for me. He was my top pick until the trade issue.
He lost me right at the start when he equated Trump to Obama.
“For God’s sake, wake up from the fantasy of having our own “strong man” magic dictator and work on selecting a real candidate.”
We do have a real candidate and his name is Donald Trump.
“For God’s sake, wake up from the fantasy of having our own “strong man” magic dictator and work on selecting a real candidate.”
Here’s the latest idiotic pronouncement from the GOP:
“Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says an 1883 poem requires Americans to accept huge numbers of Muslim refugees who are fleeing the jihad-shattered wreckage of their home nations and region.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3336953/posts
It’s not a mystery why conservatives are turning against the traitors at the GOPe. The GOPe has made no serious case to vote for anyone in that decaying party.
Cruz seems to be the only one that gets it and wants to get rid of the republican leadership that keeps making deals with dems and moving the dem agenda forward.
That’s exactly what we need.
Not only get rid of dems but get rid of people that are happy to work with dems.
I really don’t care about the claims of magical qualities. I care about the substantial damage he is doing to Jeb Bush.
If he were not, you’d not see the likes of Sowell, Kristol, Will, Krauthammer and every other sleazebag DC elite ‘conservative’ trash Trump every chance they get.
The won’t say anything good about Jeb or his amnesty and illegal policies, they won’t say much about him at all except to imply he’s the most electable, second-most evil alternative we have. Hogwash.
Everything - even reason - is sacrificed in a cult of personality. One thing Sowell touches upon is how the media have promoted Trump. In our society, all you need to become the god of the moment is media celebrityhood. It doesn’t really matter what you’re famous for, as long as you’re famous. Obama exploited that very well, and Trump has made a career of it and, in addition, has enough money of his own to keep turning up all over the place and keep his name in the news.
And there’s also the “if it bleeds, it leads” value. I lived in NY when Trump’s name was in lurid tabloid headlines everyday - for one of his messy divorces, for his latest affair with the Slavic model of the moment, for a ruthless property lawsuit, for a casino building scandal etc. He has found that you need neither moral character nor ideas to become a populist hero - simply Kardashian-style celebrityhood. And it is the very MSM that everybody here professes to hate that is orchestrating this.
I am not suggesting anyone vote for Graham.
There are other candidates who are sufficiently conservative to be worthy of being given a look. Not possible with Trump sucking all of the oxygen out of the room.
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