Posted on 10/19/2015 6:07:49 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
It began as whispers in hushed corners: Could it ever happen? And now, just three months from the Iowa caucuses, members of the Republican establishment are starting to give voice to an increasingly common belief that Donald Trump, once dismissed as joke, a carnival barker, and a circus freak, might very well win the nomination.
“Trump is a serious player for the nomination at this time,” says Ed Rollins, who served as the national campaign director for Reagan’s 1984 reelection and as campaign chairman for Mike Huckabee in 2008.
Rollins is not alone in his views. “Trump has sustained a lead for longer than there are days left” before voting begins in Iowa, says Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “For a long time,” Schmidt says, “you were talking to people in Washington, and there was a belief that there was an expiration date to this, as if there’s some secret group of people who have the ability to control the process.”
But for Trump, a dip in the polls after the second debate that many predicted was the beginning of the end has arrested; and for nearly four months, he has remained at the top of the polls. Now, long-time GOP strategists who were expecting Trump’s act to wear thin a couple of months ago worry that he can’t be stopped, or at least that he has a significant chance of winning the nomination.
It’s a drastic departure from the near-universal sentiment of the Republican establishment voiced when Trump announced his candidacy in June.
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I haven’t been so interested in a presidential election in YEARS. This is even mildly interesting.
On his radio show this morning Bill Bennett was somewhere between suicidal despondency and soiling his britches.
They’re just playing along. They know you can’t win on conservative principles. /s
Donald is less out-of-touch in Trump Tower than these dwellers of the ivory tower.
A better representative of the people will get more interest from the people, by definition. And that is how the constitution was set up, by formulation.
We can complain all day how Donald is insufficiently conservative. But the American people in general are more conservative than their government, and therefore want movement in the correct direction, and do understand Donald as being helpful there.
As corrupt the gope is, they can’t possibly prefer hitlery lording over them for the next 4 years. They need to get off the high horse and embrace the inevitable.
The media herd is changing its groupthink
I understand that many pork producers and farmers are buying parachutes for their pigs.
Satan just ordered a new Trane furnace.
Just in case.
The issue that started this tidal wave and will be sustained through the election is illegal immigration. The public has seen through the cheap labor uniparty and is ready to boot the Chamber of Commerce crowd to the curb. They may have the money, but they don’t have the votes.
He has told us about immigration, and how he would handle it;
He has told us about how to get jobs back into America, and what he would do to do it;
He has a tax plan, and how it works;
He has a gun plan, and how he would work it;
He has told us obumacare is bad for the country, and what he would do about it;
He has told us that the immigrants are being treated better than our vets, and what he would do to change it;
He has told us why he is financing his own campaign and why he is doing that;
He has told us that he wants Education back in the States, not in the federal government and why;
He has told us why he wants to shut down the EPA, and the reasons why;
He has told us why P.C. is so bad for our Country, it makes it so people can’t express their views and it’s costing our freedoms...Our freedoms are way more important that someone’s feeling of being offended...
So this is why my support goes to Trump, he makes deals, he runs multi billion dollar companies, and owns them, with someone as brilliant as this, I want someone to put America on its feet again....
On his radio show this morning Bill Bennett was somewhere between suicidal despondency and soiling his britches.
As corrupt the gope is, they can’t possibly prefer hitlery lording over them for the next 4 years.
If they have a winner, the Repubs. end up screwing it up by putting in a loser. They don’t recognize a winner. They still think the crowds in 2008 were for McLame. Trump’s crowds aren’t being bused in like a Hillary crowd. He’s the main draw, and he knows how to work them. “Look no teleprompter!” Sure he may not know who the President of Bukastan is, who cares? If Bukastan becomes a problem, he’ll appoint someone to take care of it. Not one of his contributors, but someone who knows all about it. Remember Republicans, forget who is picked, they are only as important as the people they pick. Trump won’t sell positions, and he can’t be bought. Give Hillary a few million and you can become an ambassador to Bukastan. (BTW, Its just a made up country, it don’t exist.)
I believe with the exception of Bob Dole, Hillary Clinton has more testosterone than these Republican light weights combined, but Trump is the testosterone factory in league with Putin and Eastwood, and Reagan!
“GOP strategists who were expecting Trump’s act to wear thin a couple of months ago worry that he can’t be stopped,”
Stinking National Review has been one of the biggest Trump bashers. Hope they eat crow.
If Trump is the nominee, I’ll vote for him. I just hope he doesn’t go back to his liberal views and governs by them.
True.
The insanely wealthy do have an advantage.
I can remember Nelson Rockefeller giving a speech at some fancy east coast college.
The students booed him and....
TRULY a treasured moment in American politics.
The fact that he could is a hopeful sign for We The People.
Like I stated before, if Trump is the nominee, I’ll vote for him. I just hope he doesn’t go back to his liberal views and governs by them.
“Donald is less out-of-touch in Trump Tower than these dwellers of the ivory tower.”
Great line! And very true.
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