Posted on 12/19/2015 4:40:42 AM PST by Jim Noble
So much for the establishment's efforts to stop Donald Trump. So far, nothing's working - not a thousand earnest think pieces or Jeb Bush's gripes in the latest debate. Not the wrath of news anchors and late-night hosts, who still can't resist booking Trump on their shows, but have started to get ornery during the interviews.
So maybe it's worth looking back to 1991 Louisiana, when establishment Republicans and Democrats banded together to defeat a popular, populist, problematic gubernatorial candidate named David Duke...
I spoke this week to some veterans of the anti-Duke battle, who told me they've been talking up this very idea, while noting that the parallels aren't exact. As hard as it is to divine Donald Trump's motivations - as much as his Bulworth act can sound like bigotry, and possibly is ...
Would a little more digging into Trump's past, plus a loud dose of Louisiana-style dark humor, accomplish what all of the hand-wringing hasn't?
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As a former NYer, I have followed Trump's relationship with the media for over 35 years.
This is why Trump calls them liars and scum at the beginning of every rally and they refuse to pan the room to show how large his audience is.
mike, you’ll see.....I’m right on this. What do you think “taking care of everybody” means? It means GOVERNMENT doing it. What do you think “I’m going to be fabulous for women’s health care” mean if not big government?
Any lame brain can be for the obvious state line thing....sheesh.....but this is a man who described himself as A LIBERAL ON HEALTH CARE. Not that long ago.....ignore at your (our) peril!!!!
He (or one of his lieutenants) should be. They might learn something.
Look at it this way: channel your inner Donald and answer this question: ““Mr. Trump, you’ve praised Vladimir Putin as a strong leader who gets things done through government - and you’ve talked about your ability to lead and to use government to get things done….so do you believe at all in the concept of limited government - and if so - where do you have plans to reduce the size or power of government?
This is just killing Jeb (that he can't find some trash to take Trump down).
I will count that as a trump vote. Welcome aboard, , because that will be the choice.
I’m not drifting left, I hope anyone who knows me knows that my bedrock fundamental social conservatism wouldn’t allow me to do that, I just couldn’t. But it doesn’t take a genius or a deeper thinker than I’ll ever be to see that both sides are all in on global, centralised power.
And that’s whether they even realise it or not (that they’re all in on globalised, centralised power).
Tells us something about Louisiana.
Middle finger to political correctness and to giving away our country to people who hate us.
In a nutshell....most of us who are anti trump are because we absolutely do not trust him to be right most of the time because his entire life history states otherwise.
“Tells us something about Louisiana.”
Like what? Hillary Clinton is running for the presidency. Does that tell us something about Louisiana?
That was 1991, a far different America than we have now.
The “republican establishment, and. Democrats...” Banded together, but Trump has the momentum of the people, and the people now have learned the tyranny of the combined republican establishment, the democrats, and the media.
In 1991 we didn’t have the Muslim problem, no did we have an America that had been taken to its knees by the Muslim-in-chief...in 1991, not only would Duke been rebuked as president, but so would have Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
A LOT of things are different now, and some of those old ideas just won’t work anymore. He’s no David Duke. When he speaks of immigrants, it’s about the crimes, Muslims, it’s about the terrorism, and having listened to most all of his speeches, he barely says anything about blacks, at all.
It’s just the left, digging their old “racism hammer” out of the dust bin and brushing it off to again batter a conservative. It used to work better, but now it’s about as effective as a “nerf” hammer would be.
But the progressives keep gathering in groups to work out their latest and greatest “dump Trump” schemes, but nothing is taking hold. So far, Trump has the people, and when you’ve got enough of the people, you’ve got everything.
No. trump folks just don’t care about his past. I mean, heck, if proposing a 14.25% wealth tax doesn’t get you disqualified as a Republican, WHAT DOES??
So what?
The GOP supports and full funds Obamacare.
They have zero credibility to oppose Trump on single payer a la national health care.
That ship has sailed. If they were principled conservatives, they might have a point.
They aren’t.
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Ahhh...No.
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No you absolutely cannot
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