RINO Central.
Posted on 02/01/2016 11:33:34 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
For the past year, one political power player after another has tried to negotiate with Donald Trump, and gotten bitten for the effort. Yet, like lemmings, each successive figure stepped up to meet the same fate, convinced despite all available evidence that gravity would give them a better deal.
These movers and shakers seemed to think they could control Trump, and attempted to reach a bargain with the man who wrote The Art of the Deal. It did not end well for any of them.
Ted Cruz bent over backward to avoid criticizing Trump, in hopes that the billionaire's campaign would eventually flame out, leaving his supporters to flock to the man who'd treated him best. Trump responded by repeatedly insisting Cruz's Canadian birth renders him ineligible for the presidency. Just three days ago, Trump called Cruz "an anchor baby" and declared that the Texas senator "may not be a U.S. citizen."
Fox News's Roger Ailes gave Trump every conceivable venue and outlet to make his case, often letting him literally phone in interviews. Last week, Trump turned around and skipped out on the network's debate because he didn't like Megyn Kelly's questions back in August and a snarky press release had offended him. Not only did Trump skip the debate, but he staged a competing event for veterans, stealing viewers away from the candidates who did participate.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus got Trump to pledge that he would support the party's nominee rather than running a third-party campaign should he lose the primaries; Trump periodically says he may break the pledge because he thinks he isn't being treated fairly.
Yet no matter how many times he burns those who try to deal with him, there's always some new high-level Republican convinced he'll be able to reach an amiable agreement with the unpredictable real-estate mogul. Charlie Black, a lobbyist and former GOP campaign staffer, seems convinced that Trump will, at some point, eagerly seek out advice from more-experienced party insiders, hat in hand: "You can coach Donald. If he got nominated, he'd be scared to death. That's the point he would call people in the party and say, 'I just want to talk to you.'"
While Trump finds a way to pull one over on every GOP power broker who approaches him, his true believers remain convinced that they're the ones he would never betray. All those other past statements, promises, and pledges mean nothing to him; you, the fans, are his one true love.
And his fans believe him, no matter what. When he flip-flops in such a way as to render their past arguments inconvenient, they simply make a U-turn, declaring, "I changed my mind." Svengali had less influence.
Which is a good thing for Trump, because over the course of his campaign, he's changed positions more times than could be counted. On September 9, he told Bill O'Reilly he believed the United States had to take in Syrian refugees; on September 10, he said the country shouldn't take in any. He's called for fully de-funding Planned Parenthood, then argued that some funding should be preserved, then gone back to advocating full de-funding. He's gone from arguing that Russia should take the lead against ISIS to promising that he'd bomb the excrement out of the group as president.
What does Trump stand for? Whatever benefits him the most at a given moment. When Cruz was low in the polls, Trump didn't give the fiery Texan's birthplace a second thought. As soon as he posed a real political threat, the great Canadian menace began showing up in his rival's stump speeches.
The ability to quickly and completely change positions is even a perverse point of pride for Trump: He brags about it, and flatly says that the man you see now is different from the one you'd see in the Oval Office.
"When I'm president, I'm a different person," Trump said at an event in Fort Dodge, Iowa. "I can do anything. I can be the most politically correct person that you've ever seen. I can be the most politically correct person in the world and I can be the opposite."
Trump undoubtedly believes his mutability is a strength. In an interview last month, he told CBS News's John Dickerson, "You want to be unpredictable. And somebody recently said - I made a great business deal. And the person on the other side was interviewed by a newspaper. And how did Trump do this? - And they said, 'He's so unpredictable.' And I didn't know if he meant it positively or negative [sic]. It turned out he meant it positively. We have to be somewhat unpredictable in this whole thing."
At this point, the easiest thing to predict about Trump is that he'll renege on a deal the moment it becomes inconvenient.
Fox got out Foxed Fox got out foxed
National Review = GOPee
RINO Central.
Yup. The news is out. FOX and NR are in the tank for the open borders lobby.
National Review = Cheap Labor Express propaganda
The non-stop final volley of rabid Trump-bashing really reeks of desperation.
Guess in a few hours we’ll see if it’s been effective.
Winning. A new political concept for Republicans. I would remind people that Democrats and MSM have been winning like this for a long time.
Bottom line is if I wanted an advocate, someone to take my side and deliver. Someone that would fight tooth and nail for my interests, who would I choose? Everyone that has taken on Trump has come out of it pretty much destroyed. I like that, but then again, I am an old Marine.
If someone outwits you in deal after deal, it doesn’t mean that YOU are morally superior to them.
Sounds like a bunch of teenage girls hating on the prettiest girl in school, and wondering why the boys pay so much attention to her.
Problem for the blie projectile votmers at NRO, they don’t show any evince at all to back up the claim “Trump went back on the deal”. Instead they just scream the accusation hoping no one looks to closely at the facts. Odd how the “Conservative” media has adopted the drive by tactics of the Leftist media.
Screaming an accusation without any base in fact is why NRO, Red State, Town Hall and the rest of the self styled “Conservative” media has been so ineffective this year. They been screaming the same sort of childish hysterics about Trump so long people have just stopped listening to their infantile nonsense
It sounds like a teenage boy telling a girl what she wants to hear to get her into the voting booth.
Whaaaa! Trump will not stand still and let us hit him the way the RINO canidate do! Whaaaa! He is fighting back! Whaaaa!
"When I'm president, I'm a different person," Trump said at an event in Fort Dodge, Iowa. "I can do anything. I can be the most politically correct person that you've ever seen. I can be the most politically correct person in the world and I can be the opposite."
“He’s fighting back!”
That’s what you see in someone without character, principles or consistent message?
Jim Geraghty complains about Trump’s deal breaking. Cites the GOP-e and its minions as the bearers of truth and integrity.
Idiot.
What on earth are "blie projectile votmers"?
You just posted an article that tells us everything we LIKE about Donald Trump! Thanks! It won’t be long now!
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