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How To Stop Donald Trump? A Lesson From Louisiana
Boston Globe ^ | December 19, 2015 | Joanna Weiss

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?

Joanna Weiss can be reached at weiss@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @JoannaWeiss.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: delusions; elections; immigration; leftism; trump; trumpwasright
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To: Axeslinger
Agreed. I have asked til I am blue in the face to name something he has done that shows he has a sincerely conservative held belief...and all I ever get is attacked. I did finally have one trumpster say that she conceded his past was worrisome but she trusted him now to do what he says he will. I vehemently disagree, but I can at least respect the intellectual honesty there.

I feel you bros. And yeah, your example is a rare supporter who admits that his past is worrisome...(and present too...he's gone left in the last two weeks on some things...but shhhh.....you can't say that on nsFR.) To your first point, he never says "limited government" or "Constitution" (unless he's zeroing in on an amendment he happens to like) - while he is all the time talking about what a big powerful government will do with a big powerful person in the Oval. Wasn't but a couple of years ago when that alone would send conservatives running for the hills.

Now we have them supporting Kelo and ethanol and all kinds of leftist stuff.....

61 posted on 12/19/2015 5:54:36 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: Jim Noble

Exactly. It is also a smear whether they think the plan is plausible or not.


62 posted on 12/19/2015 5:55:23 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Jim Noble

Holy Cow! A breakthrough!

The so what would be, so why do you trust him to follow through on what he says he will. When the times get really tough and the decisions are excruciating, how do you know which set of guiding principles he will use to make his decision? Doesn’t that matter?


63 posted on 12/19/2015 5:55:45 AM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: traderrob6

I’ve seen more anti trump posters use ad hominem than trump supporters. You used ad hominem in your post.

Your second paragraph commits the fallacy of two few alternatives.


64 posted on 12/19/2015 5:57:10 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: BroJoeK
and when the time is right, they will certainly turn on Trump, all guns ablazin'

And they haven't already?

65 posted on 12/19/2015 5:57:28 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: BroJoeK

uh huh ... sure ... uh huh .... yep


66 posted on 12/19/2015 5:59:05 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: abclily

“Edwards said he could get away with anything except being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”

He lifted that line from a former Louisiana governor, Huey Long.


67 posted on 12/19/2015 5:59:18 AM PST by odawg
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To: abclily

Donald Trump is our middle finger!


68 posted on 12/19/2015 5:59:39 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Texas Fossil
BUT, here we are and he may actually be the poison pill needed to crush the ComDem Destruction of the nation.

....and that alone is the reason I support him over all Democrats and most Republicans....but I will not avoid the truth of his past, and present, big government liberal reflexes.......I will not.

69 posted on 12/19/2015 5:59:43 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: DaveA37

A bulldozer does not have to run as smooth as a Mercedes to be effective. We need a real estate guy to clear the terrain and reset the foundations. Trump’s the man. He’s not just a candidate, he’s a counter revolution.

However, the single most corrupting influence in our entire political system is CAREER POLITICIANS. To get term limits we need an Article V. Convention of States. Also, that’s the only way to get a balanced budget amendment and restoration of our Constitution.

http://www.conventionofstates.com/


70 posted on 12/19/2015 5:59:45 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Jim Noble

What these geniuses can’t see is that what made David Duke David Duke was his history as a Klansman, and his rhetoric.


71 posted on 12/19/2015 6:00:49 AM PST by odawg
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To: dynoman

{too few alternatives}

You mean like the trumpeter swans all saying that if you don’t vote for trump, you’re choosing the GOPe....as though Ted Cruz is either part of the GOPe (laughable) or he doesn’t exist.


72 posted on 12/19/2015 6:01:20 AM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: BroJoeK
You should have no doubt that plenty of dirt is being held back on Trump, until after the nominations.

Trump has been an open book his whole adult life.

Jeb and Kasich and Perry and everyone else would have used any dirt they had if it could damage him.

Hillary has nothing that they wouldn't have found (which is why they hate Trump with such a passion...they know he's unstoppable).

73 posted on 12/19/2015 6:03:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: Axeslinger

Tax plan including corporate inversion solution.

Extremely conservative 2nd amendment position paper - backed up with what he says rallies, pressers and media appearances.

Immigration reform is as conservative as anyone else.

There are more, just watch how other candidates cobb on to the issues Trump bulldozes into the open.


74 posted on 12/19/2015 6:03:58 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: BroJoeK
Sure, Trump has held up pretty good so far, but the media wants a Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs contest (May 1973), and when the time is right, they will certainly turn on Trump, all guns ablazin'.

Pretty good?

The media despises Trump. They have had their guns blazin' from the start...and they can't so much as scratch him.

75 posted on 12/19/2015 6:06:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; DoughtyOne
SAY there old boy! Hope all is good with you and yours?

Doing fine way back here in the hills, as for the single-payer / health care issue, our esteeemed FRiend Doughty One made a great post about this that I think explains it well:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3373611/posts?page=158#158

And btw - *MERRY CHRISTMAS* !!! :)
76 posted on 12/19/2015 6:06:33 AM PST by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. What's that tell ya?!?)
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To: Axeslinger

No I meant that second paragraph.


77 posted on 12/19/2015 6:06:39 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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The referenced election in Louisiana resulted from the
primary which brought about the Edwards/Duke runoff.

Candidate Party affiliation Votes received Percent
Edwin Edwards Democrat 523,096 33.76%
David Duke Republican 491,342 31.71%
Buddy Roemer Republican 410,690 26.51%
Clyde C. Holloway Republican 82,683 5.34%
Sam S. Jones Democrat 11,847 0.76%
Ed Karst None/Other 9,663 0.62%
Fred Dent Democrat 7,385 0.48%
Anne Thompson Republican 4,118 0.27%
Jim Crowley Democrat 4,000 0.26%
Albert Powell Democrat 2,053 0.13%
Ronnie Johnson None/Other 1,372 0.09%
Cousin Ken Lewis Democrat 1,006 0.06%

78 posted on 12/19/2015 6:07:03 AM PST by deport
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To: RoosterRedux

You don’t mind if we have some elections first before you declare it over, do you?


79 posted on 12/19/2015 6:08:01 AM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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To: Axeslinger
how do you know which set of guiding principles he will use to make his decision? Doesn’t that matter?

No.

If he closes the border, that is sufficient. If the border is not closed, nothing else matters.

80 posted on 12/19/2015 6:09:10 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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