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Notes on a Phenomenom... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 9 Jan 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/09/2016 5:51:29 AM PST by Rummyfan

On Tuesday night, my daughter and her friends went down to Claremont, New Hampshire to see Donald Trump in action. She and her chums range from the not terribly political to those with the usual enthusiasms of youth, so they went mainly because Trump's a hot ticket, and we don't get a lot of those in the Granite State. Her only other candidate encounter this season was at the North Haverhill Fair last summer when Lindsey Graham pounced outside the 4-H barn, no doubt with an eye to recruiting her for one of his "rotating first ladies".

At any rate, after hearing my daughter's account of the night, my sons said they wanted to see Trump, too. I wasn't particularly enthusiastic, having wasted far too much of my time in New Hampshire on campaign events, going all the way back to the oxymoronic "Dole rallies" of 1996. But they persisted. So we checked out the schedule and discovered that he was due to be in Bernie Sanders' socialist fortress of Vermont on Thursday. Which is how we wound up crossing the Connecticut River and traversing the Green Mountain State, and eventually found ourselves in an unusually lively Burlington

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To: Rummyfan

Good old Mark Steyn. That was a great report.

There is just no denying that Trump is cool.


21 posted on 01/09/2016 6:39:48 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Rummyfan

Mark is brilliant. He cuts to the core, sees the details the establishment misses.


22 posted on 01/09/2016 6:40:40 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: Rummyfan; going hot; V K Lee; hoosiermama; RoosterRedux; JoeSeales; onyx; Jane Long; DoughtyOne; ...

Thanks for posting this Rummyfan!

TTTT!


23 posted on 01/09/2016 6:42:57 AM PST by Amntn ("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

‘Trump delivers without a net’

For some reason this made me tear up.....
...I have waited so long for a man of courage and deep love for our country.

He’s here!!!!!
And I am so thankful!


24 posted on 01/09/2016 6:43:25 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Rummyfan

Steyn is the best.

Few writers cause me to look up certain French words or phrases, and laugh.


25 posted on 01/09/2016 6:43:44 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Rummyfan
I love Mark Stein! He is a great wordsmith and very entertaining!

Stein's take on Trump is dead on!

26 posted on 01/09/2016 6:48:10 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Cruzin' with Cruz!)
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To: CAluvdubya

I like him but, obviously, don’t know how to spell his name -——>Steyn.


27 posted on 01/09/2016 6:49:25 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Cruzin' with Cruz!)
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To: xzins; C. Edmund Wright; Servant of the Cross

Well worth the read ping.


28 posted on 01/09/2016 6:52:10 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: SoFloFreeper

Trump will win NY, NJ, and MA. Don’t know about VT.


29 posted on 01/09/2016 6:52:59 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: onyx
Ping to a good read, you'll surely enjoy your day better.
30 posted on 01/09/2016 6:53:24 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Rummyfan

I good read.


31 posted on 01/09/2016 6:53:28 AM PST by poinq
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To: RummyChick

Trump has totally taken away “I am a woman” I deserve to be president. You are sexist if you don’t vote for me. Can’t go there now Granny. It’s your personal third rail. Trump will remind people how you abused and destroyed woman who were attacked by sleazy Bill. Wonder if he brings George Step into the fray also? Granny has been an enable and an abuser of women. Trump has remove her only reason to vote for her. He has actually taken that card and put in his hand. He is so politically smart.


32 posted on 01/09/2016 6:54:18 AM PST by Kozy
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
"But when through, you have that same feeling of relief when the daredevil walks away from the feat unharmed.

That is an awesome sentence...I always said the Trump campaign is like driving past a bad car accident...you can't help but look and stare...

33 posted on 01/09/2016 6:59:27 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: trebb

Steyn is a showbiz pundit as well and he sees a hit in the making.


34 posted on 01/09/2016 7:06:18 AM PST by xp38
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To: Rummyfan

“Yes, Trump supporters are indignant (and right to be) about the bipartisan cartel’s erasure of the southern border and their preference for unskilled Third World labor over their own citizenry, but “anger” is not the defining quality of a Trump night out. The candidate is clearly having the time of his life, and that’s infectious, which is why his supporters are having a good time, too. Had Mitt campaigned like this, he’d be president. But he had no ability to connect with voters. Nor does Jeb (”I’ve been endorsed by another 27 has-beens”) Bush.”

Wonderful!


35 posted on 01/09/2016 7:09:40 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Rummyfan

Mark’s observation about Trump’s local GOP support:

So if, as some of the dottier rumors suggest, the Republican establishment is planning to run third-party if Trump gets the nomination, it’s not clear how much of the state apparatus they’ll be taking with them. “If Trump were the nominee, the GOP would cease to be,” declares Michael Gerson. The state legislators and volunteers present on Thursday would disagree.


36 posted on 01/09/2016 7:10:34 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ecomcon

Agree, Steyn is a writer nonpareil.


37 posted on 01/09/2016 7:15:54 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Rummyfan

Bump


38 posted on 01/09/2016 7:18:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: poinq

‘I good read.’

Or maybe, ‘I read good’?


39 posted on 01/09/2016 7:19:08 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Rummyfan

I loved the point on the prep - no staff. I had a relative who voted for Slick Willie because he was the youngest candidate. I’m thinking of supporting the candidate with the smallest staff - it means he thinks for himself.


40 posted on 01/09/2016 7:21:07 AM PST by budj (beam me up, scotty...)
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