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The Beginning of the End for Trump: His Sarah Palin Moment
Heff Po ^ | 9/22/15 | Arianna Huffington

Posted on 09/22/2015 10:39:11 AM PDT by upchuck

... moment in the political life of every big-personality, more-sizzle-than-steak candidate when they step across the line of legitimacy, or illegitimacy (depending on your perspective), even for media addicted to the high ratings these candidate-entertainers provide. That moment for Sarah Palin was her Katie Couric interview in 2008 -- the hockey-mom-has-no-clothes revealing from which she, and the McCain campaign, never recovered. In Donald Trump's candidacy -- which The Huffington Post is appropriately covering in our Entertainment section -- the equivalent moment might have just happened.

It was not the moment in the second Republican debate when Carly Fiorina carved him up like an Easter ham with her withering "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said" zinger. That drew blood (as did the dramatic 12 seconds she remained silent after her response), but it wasn't fatal. No, historians looking back will peg the beginning of the end of the Trump show to his New Hampshire moment last week. Taking questions at a town hall event in Rochester, Trump listened as an audience member asserted that President Obama is a Muslim, "not even an American." Trump looked the man square in the eye, and declared: "No ... He's a decent family man [and] a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not [an Arab]."

Just kidding. That was actually what John McCain -- the one Trump said is "not a war hero" -- said to a woman at a campaign rally in 2008 who claimed that President Obama was an Arab. What Trump really said was, well, pretty much nothing: "We are going to be looking at a lot of different things and, you know, a lot of people are saying that."

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


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Never sacrifice the messenger.
1 posted on 09/22/2015 10:39:11 AM PDT by upchuck
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.

Sarah continues to live rent-free in their minds.


2 posted on 09/22/2015 10:41:35 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: upchuck
Do these people believe their own BS?
3 posted on 09/22/2015 10:42:38 AM PDT by WENDLE (Trump increased to 33% in two polls after the second debate!!!!)
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To: Army Air Corps
The article says "Sarah Palin Moment" like it's a BAD thing. LOL!
4 posted on 09/22/2015 10:43:55 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: upchuck

BS. Nobody gives a damn about Obama except people who would never vote GOP anyway. Pure bull.


5 posted on 09/22/2015 10:44:15 AM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: upchuck

Withering?

LOL


6 posted on 09/22/2015 10:44:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: upchuck

How many points has Don Trump gained in the polls since that plant asked him those questions?


7 posted on 09/22/2015 10:44:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: WENDLE

Apparently, they do,.


8 posted on 09/22/2015 10:44:48 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: WENDLE

YES, YES THEY DO.

They are so much wanting Trump, Cruz , Carson to fail and see their Bush or Fiorina get the nomination.


9 posted on 09/22/2015 10:45:06 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: upchuck

This week’s “This is the Beginning of the End for Trump” article.


10 posted on 09/22/2015 10:45:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: upchuck

Sarah was not the downfall of McLame, he was the loser in that relationship. The press had a hand in twisting the truth and projecting their opinion too.


11 posted on 09/22/2015 10:45:49 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: upchuck

End of Trump article of the day!

ROFL!


12 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:05 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: WENDLE
Do these people believe their own BS?

Yes. To be a Lib is to be deluded beyond anyone's wildest expectations.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dfwgator

One a week since early July, IIRC.


14 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:33 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Army Air Corps

These same people believe Walker is out because Richard Trumka called him a “national disgrace”.


15 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DoughtyOne

: )


16 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:46 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: upchuck

Rumors of.his.demise occur daily with a new angle every day.


17 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:53 AM PDT by BRL
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To: upchuck

Donald Trump didn’t even come close to the way the left trashed Sarah... Carly is a hag... Can’t stand the sight of her... Pull the woman card... Give me a break..


18 posted on 09/22/2015 10:47:30 AM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: upchuck

I think the heiress’s editors are hallucinating.

Crying out the end of Trump is dangerous, except when you are a liberal editor, and no one will call you out on it when it fails to materialize.

Dream, dream, dream.


19 posted on 09/22/2015 10:48:06 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: upchuck

Zsa Zsa is still writing garbage I see.

20 posted on 09/22/2015 10:48:27 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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