Posted on 10/20/2015 2:43:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What a long way that we have come in this country. The Republican front runner in 2015 is parroting Michael Moore’s 2004 propaganda film Fahrenheit 9/11 almost verbatim and there’s actually a discussion as to whether this constituted good politics. Somehow almost everyone who is commenting on this story is completely missing the boat as to what Trump’s parroting of Michael Moore’s talking points actually means in the context of the current Republican debates.
In the first place, I don’t think Trump has any identifiable core beliefs about what happened on 9/11 and who is to blame. I don’t really think that Trump has frankly though through the implications of what he’s saying with respect to what Bush should have known about 9/11 and what institutional changes he could have been expected to put into place in the 8 months he was in office prior to the worst terrorist attack in United States history. All Trump knows is that he perceives this attack as being damaging to Jeb Bush, and so he is prepared to use it.
Second, I think it is incorrect to say that these comments by Trump make him a “truther.” Trump is not saying, at least as far as I can tell, that Bush directly caused 9/11, or that he had foreknowledge of 9/11 and chose to do nothing about it. Trump isn’t quoting from Loose Change, he’s quoting from Michael Moore. His argument is not that Bush was complicit, his argument is that Bush was incompetent......
The point is that Donald Trump is willingly attacking Jeb Bush from the left – and not just the center left, but the fringe, extremist left who were already routed conclusively in the 2004 elections...
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And Cruz has raised a ton of cash. Now how does someone who is only polling at the most 8 or 9 percent get so many people to contribute? Could it be that there really is Trump/Cruz ticket in the future and the Washington establishment KNOWS it?
Cruz has got the conservative base locked up. Trump is expanding past that and throwing out tidbits for centrists and even leftists.
Dubya did nothing to protect us from illegals. My formerly safe and quiet neighborhood turned into an illegal barrio on his watch with exploding crime (including an attempted murder and murder in front of my house).
That’s why I come to FR. To find out what admitted cretins think I care about.
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