Puts him in the camp with Obama.
Posted on 11/17/2015 6:42:53 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Donald Trump and Ben Carson have demonstrated more staying power than anyone predicted. But now, after the terrorist attacks on an American ally, Republican elders think their party's flirtation with inexperience is nearing its end.
The reemergence of foreign policy atop the Republican agenda will force voters to reevaluate the outsider candidates, particularly as both Trump and Carson display a lack of knowledge about national security and the terrorist threat, party stalwarts said.
"The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security," said Katon Dawson, the former chairman of the South Carolina GOP. "As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this story lasts a long time, it's going to hurt."
Indeed, in interviews with current and former GOP chairs, veteran operatives, lobbyists and strategists, the long-held conviction that neither Trump nor Carson will win the Republican nomination has only strengthened since the attacks in Paris last week.
Fred Malek, who has advised multiple Republican presidents and is not affiliated with any contender this cycle, said the inexperience Trump and Carson reveal in their rhetoric will drive GOP primary voters toward another candidate.
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There they go again. The commie ‘RATS down at Politico worrying about the GOP. Their heads are going to explode if they don’t knock it off. They should stick to licking the glue off the back of Clinton II bumper stickers.
Unfortunately for Republican leaders the Council on Foreign Relations has only about 85 of the 2 million or so Republican votes.
So perhaps they’re a bit slow with math, but they will get the idea, one way or the other.
"A prominent South Carolina conservative offered support for Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday after a local Republican party censured the senator for working with Democrats."
"Katon Dawson, the former state party chair, and a recent candidate for Republican National Committee chairman, said that while he understands the anger felt by Charleston County Republicans, Graham was just, well, being Graham."
I think they’ve been to Colorado, or Washington lately for the “Medical” marijuana.
IMO, Politico promotes hate, racism and chaos, just like Stormfront, and should be likewise banned from FR.
Yup. Any day now the Trump campaign is going to collapse. They’ve been predicting it daily for months. Someday it could actually happen. /s
When are they going to accept the fact that all of their GOPe cheap labor express amnesty pimps have been soundly rejected?
It’s over boys. Trump or Cruz or bust.
RINO elders figered it all, back to do nothing RINOs unipartying, yearrrrrgh!
Puts him in the camp with Obama.
Surprised that tripe was attributed. There is nothing amateur about Trump. He seems to maneuvered ahead of this and actually seems to have the ability to decipher conventional wisdom for the better.
It's not even like they will eventually get it right at random. What journalists seem not to understand is that their biased anti-Trump gloating is one of the things that keeps Trump strong. If they reported honestly, that would be the best way to stop Trump. Fortunately for America, they are incapable of understanding how much decent people despise these biased journalists, so they are incapable of actually stopping the outsiders by simply being honest and allowing us to make up our own minds without their propaganda.
I think the losers will be anyone associated with the Terrorists if Trump gets in, unless he makes Carson the Secretary of Defense.
Yeah, right, I predict that “experienced foreign policy senator” Linda Graham’s poll numbers INCREASE by a factor of TEN (from 0% to 0%).
Also, wasn’t it “experienced” Jeb Bush who adopted the tone-deaf position that we need to import as many military-aged Syrian men as possible, as an act of luv?
Politico HR really needs to re-evaluate their policy of stocking free hallucinogenic drugs in the employee break room.
Well let’s wager a bit: If Trump is wrong, he should step out of the race. And if this idiot is wrong, he should step off the ledge at the top of Trump Tower.
GOPe, RNC and ‘moderates” can go pound sand. Look at the light weight we have in the White House now! He’s so inept it’s laughable (if it weren’t so sad). They are so desperate to see ANY candidate that they have annointed that they’ll do anything and say anything to keep their ilk in power but the American people have seen the light as to what this bunch of idiots these people are!! Screw ‘em!!
Are these people delusional? Now Carson it may hurt because he is weak, but for Trump this is his meal ticket.
LOL the GOP elites frighten me much more than TRUMP because of ignorance, malfeasance, and blatant dishonesty. I’m certainly not worried about Dr. Ben either; he has dug an open hole and is now living in Paradise. Sorry, Dr. Ben, you are such an intelligent individual is some areas, but a real bonehead in others.
Nothing could be finer than to see the DC Cabal tearing out their hair and soiling their pants when the inevitable occurs. And it could happen. I believe in miracles.
I posted a VANITY on this the day after the attacks. I noticed Fox was spinning it that the “outsider candidates” would be done in by the Paris attacks.
WRONG.
Trump is the main candidate for ending illegal immigration and, though he changed his position, against the “Syrian refugees” (who aren’t for the most part either).
I agree with Coulter’s assessment. Trump was ahead of the curve and this helps him.
It shows how screwed up the existing political class is that they want to bring this terror to our shores.
ROFLMAO....the GOPe just can’t stand that Trump is mopping the ground up with them and everything they believe in...wonder how they like that ‘pledge’ now???? ROFLMAO....
TRUMP= A Real AMERICAN FIRST!!!
“As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this story lasts a long time, it’s going to hurt.”
Insanity reigns among the leaders of both parties. Yes, this terrorist attack in Paris makes me yearn for Kasich.
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