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Trump the Bully Hits a Wall
Politico Magazine ^ | 1/15/16 | Jack Shafer

Posted on 01/17/2016 7:04:11 AM PST by libbylu

It's worked on one opponent after another. Here's why he's met his match with Cruz. s every verbal bully can tell you, simply slathering your adversary with insult is never enough to drive him publicly, humiliatingly into the ditch. If you’re going to wound, the insults have to contain some truth—often just a seed of truth, enough to nurture injury bitter fruit. So in calling Jeb Bush low energy again and again and again and again, Donald Trump is not dishing a random taunt at his opponent.

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KEYWORDS: blog; clickbait; coup; cruz; deepstate; elections; fakenews; libbylu; tedcruz; trump; wall
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1 posted on 01/17/2016 7:04:11 AM PST by libbylu
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To: libbylu

Just the blurb in the original posting sounds like the author is describing Baraq Obama...


2 posted on 01/17/2016 7:06:17 AM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: libbylu

You must have suffered from la petite mort after reading this.

Have a smoke with your cracker, Polly. LOL


3 posted on 01/17/2016 7:08:32 AM PST by mkjessup (Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe, RINOs & the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass)
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To: libbylu

You are a big bully. What are you complaining about? You share many of the same traits you use to complain about Trump.

Takes one to know one.


4 posted on 01/17/2016 7:08:38 AM PST by dforest
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To: libbylu

This video shows why the tens of millions of Trump supporters like him. Trump talks to people like he’s in their living room. Others lecture and talk *at* people in a patronizing way.

Trump Supporter Video - EP 4 “The Last Hope for America”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKAmQvxG2g


5 posted on 01/17/2016 7:09:26 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Trump’s a sleazy con man who has all of you fooled.


6 posted on 01/17/2016 7:12:05 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Trump’s a sleazy con man who has all of you fooled.”

How does a sleazy con man rear, from all accounts, such outstanding children?


7 posted on 01/17/2016 7:15:18 AM PST by odawg
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To: Timber Rattler

Maybe, maybe not.

Ted Cruz’s Full Speech At South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention Todayhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3384618/posts

There was even a pathetic hit on Trump’s age. Cruz is punching way above his level. He already just about got KOed in a “youth and inexperience” moment when he doubled down on his NY values statement at the debate.

Both Cruz’s and Trump’s speeches are on the link on that thread. I watched both. Ted’s hit parts are sad, and the crowd response is weak compared to Trump’s. Ted hit on Trump for WAY longer than the 35 seconds Trump talked about Ted. Trump was direct and factual, Ted was not.


8 posted on 01/17/2016 7:15:19 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: libbylu

Good morning, back onto the barricades....
I still see Trump having wide mass appeal that Cruz can simply never hope to have. Don’t understand why, but it’s true.


9 posted on 01/17/2016 7:15:26 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: libbylu

i didn’t know rand paul was 5’ 8’’.

he looks shorter.

cruz and trump are the two alpha dogs. everyone else is lacking.

the writer really PUMMELS carson in the article.

wow


10 posted on 01/17/2016 7:16:05 AM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: Timber Rattler

Hey, thanks for letting me know. I think I’ll run off and support Jeb, Christie, Kasich, or Rubio now. Real leaders who’ll fight the Dems and will have this country’s best interests at heart.


11 posted on 01/17/2016 7:16:54 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: libbylu

I thought you were a conservative. Why use a liberal news outlet as an authority worth posting?

A bully, according to leftists, is a conservative who fights back. The nerve.


12 posted on 01/17/2016 7:17:13 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

“How does a sleazy con man rear, from all accounts, such outstanding children?”

And all of his ex wives speak highly of him too. And where are all his employees who hate him?
I actually think he’s a very nice man.


13 posted on 01/17/2016 7:17:48 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: libbylu

Oh yeah, Trump is definitely finished this time. All those other times were weakening him. I bet Donald just forfeits everything and doesn’t even show up at the next debate...


14 posted on 01/17/2016 7:21:22 AM PST by Enduro Guy
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To: libbylu
If you're going to wound, the insults have to contain some truth often just a seed of truth, enough to nurture injury bitter fruit.

Cruz's claim that he's beating Trump in Iowa was false and post debate polls show Trump widening that lead.

Cruz should have waited until he solidified a lead in Iowa before attacking Trump.

15 posted on 01/17/2016 7:23:10 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: odawg

“A bully, according to leftists, is a conservative who fights back. The nerve.”

Ann Colter got one thing right about Trump. Trump isn’t a bully, the government has been the bully abusing the American people for 2 decades. Trump is the big kid who steps in and shoves the bully around and tells him to beat it.


16 posted on 01/17/2016 7:25:05 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Timber Rattler

“a sleazy con man who has all of you fooled.”.........

Precisely as I see Rubio, the used car, snake oil and Florida swamp land salesman.


17 posted on 01/17/2016 7:25:52 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Timber Rattler

Trump’s a sleazy con man who has all of you fooled.
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Trump has built an empire doing what he said he was going to do and is generally very admired for all of his accomplishments.

It is just flat out irrational that as he gets into his latter years, his goal is to become one of history’s biggest pariah’s by lying to the American people and acting in a manner different than he says he would once he gets into office.

At the very least the chances of Trump being some kind of Trojan horse are trounced by the chances that he means what he says and he may be one of the countries most important and best leaders.


18 posted on 01/17/2016 7:28:00 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: dp0622

“i didn’t know rand paul was 5’ 8’’. he looks shorter.
cruz and trump are the two alpha dogs. everyone else is lacking.”

Well that’s the secret....height. That’s why Clinton, W, and Barak are sooooo dreamy and awesome. I say lets just go whole hog and elect Kobe Bryant, he would have to be even BETTER of a President.

Lol


19 posted on 01/17/2016 7:29:26 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: odawg

Still another premature declaration that The Donald is about to implode.

People STILL misunderestimate The Donald. Like the giant Antaeus, from the labors of Hercules, each time he is slammed down, he arises with ten times the strength.


20 posted on 01/17/2016 7:29:42 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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