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To: Steelfish

Donald will lose because he doesn’t unite the base with his crude and childish reality show antics. Keep schlonging on Trumpeters.


12 posted on 12/22/2015 8:58:51 PM PST by gwgn02
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To: gwgn02

Who’s going to beat the Dems? I have serious reservations about any of the alternatives.


19 posted on 12/22/2015 9:07:37 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: gwgn02

I don’t know, the thousands of people attending Trump rallies in packed auditoriums look pretty unified to me.


21 posted on 12/22/2015 9:08:38 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: gwgn02

Neither does Cruz apparently.


22 posted on 12/22/2015 9:09:06 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: gwgn02

Oh, I think the base is pretty united and will go with either Trump or Cruz, preferably both. I think it is just the elites that are in disarray.


23 posted on 12/22/2015 9:09:12 PM PST by erkelly
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To: gwgn02

Yeah, un huh, you really make a lotta sense. Donalds speeches garner tens of thousands of people who drive many miles, bad weather or good, stand in line and wait until he speaks and cheer him on. Hitlery and all the rest can’t muster enough followers to fill a good sized room.And you’re gonna tell me that all those millions of Trump supporters aren’t going to vote? Yer outta yer mind!
As far as childish antics are concerned, I’ll take them any day to doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We’ve had it with the lying, cheating, thieves called politicians who inhabit our government for what they can rake out of it for their own pockets.

FYI The “Base” is finished, shot, kaput!


24 posted on 12/22/2015 9:10:36 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: gwgn02
If Bush (any Bush) is an example of what it means to appear "presidential", then I'll take Trump's antics any day of the week.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

30 posted on 12/22/2015 9:36:40 PM PST by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: gwgn02

31 posted on 12/22/2015 9:37:17 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Born in America of two US Citizens! A real Natural Born Citizen!)
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To: gwgn02

And yet Trump is at close to 40% and someone else is at around 11% in one pole today.

Why it almost seems as if someone else can’t unite the base.


33 posted on 12/22/2015 9:38:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: gwgn02

Oh boo hoo. Trump will win. These polls are BS.


50 posted on 12/22/2015 10:38:36 PM PST by dforest
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To: gwgn02
I somewhat disagree.

Trump and his supporters trumpet the polls when they show him winning. If they don't show him winning, they say you cannot trust the polls.

Trump's base is secure. Reaching beyond that base, even against Hillary, may not be possible. He's secured his base by blasting and insulting many people and groups, which proves that he's not PC. This approach worked well to obscure his own history of supporting Hillary and people like Hillary and being a crony capitalist. No one can confuse the former Democrat donor, former independent, and now Republican presidential candidate of being an ideologue. Far from it. He changes his beliefs to fit his needs. Now, he needs to be president. But success will require some votes from people outside the %30+ who support him now. As mercurial and ungrounded in principles as he is, he can flip on some positions to maybe pick up a little more support, but I still doubt that he's going to be able to break out beyond his fervent supporters. Trumps using the bludgeon when the rapier would have worked just as well has defined by his example. It's appeal has its limits. Trump is a pseudo conservative. It's possible too many of them will be turned off to vote for him, too.

53 posted on 12/22/2015 11:03:51 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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