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GOP leaders: National security will end Carson and Trump campaigns
Politico ^ | 11/17/15 05:57 PM EST | By Katie Glueck and Daniel Strauss

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.

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


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To: M. Thatcher
Geez! Not this BS again.


81 posted on 11/17/2015 9:38:48 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump/Palin 2016. Cruz Attorney General 2017. Bolton SoS 2017. Watch liberal & GOPe heads implode!)
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To: boycott

I have never seen a big bunch of losers than the GOPe. They are almost comical in their ineptitude.


82 posted on 11/18/2015 1:52:27 AM PST by AdaGray
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To: AdaGray

Exactly, and how about the two experts quoted who stated - in this 11/17/15 article - that Trump had dropped from in the 30’s into the 20’s in recent polling? That says it all, on a day when Trump is climbing even higher in the 30’s in CURRENT polling!


83 posted on 11/18/2015 3:21:31 AM PST by RightGuy
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To: M. Thatcher

So delusional. Trump is out front on national security. These yokels in the GOOe think because he doesn’t spout off about specific numbers of cruise missiles he will build he isn’t serious. Immigration is THE #1 security issue of our day.


84 posted on 11/18/2015 3:25:43 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: M. Thatcher

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


Current and former GOP chairs, veteran operatives, lobbyists and strategists...

Now that’s where we need to get our foreign policy leadership from...

hahahahahahahahahahaha


85 posted on 11/18/2015 3:31:13 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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GOP leaders: National security will end Carson and Trump campaigns

Carson yes, since he's shown himself to be clueless on the subject. But Trump? I'm not so sure.

86 posted on 11/18/2015 3:46:50 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Funny!

It will help put Carson and Bush out of their misery but can't do anything but help Cruz and Trump.

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87 posted on 11/18/2015 3:49:43 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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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


If we had listened to the current and former GOP chairs, veteran operatives, lobbyists and strategists, we would have a Muslim in the White House right now.

Oh, wait, we DID listen to the current and former GOP chairs, veteran operatives, lobbyists and strategists — in 2008 AND 2012 — and we DO have a Muslim in the White House right now.

Please, current and former GOP chairs, veteran operatives, lobbyists and strategists, go take a flying F at a rolling donut.


88 posted on 11/18/2015 3:56:24 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: Diogenesis

Malek is the dog roasting jew counter.

Vile creature.


89 posted on 11/18/2015 4:23:18 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: M. Thatcher

LOL, Trump won’t import terror, the others will.......stupid as stupid gets....GOPe Dead


90 posted on 11/18/2015 5:13:25 AM PST by dila813
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