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Trump Nation's Faded Boarding Pass
The American Thinker ^ | February 2, 2016 | Geoffrey P. Hunt

Posted on 02/02/2016 1:25:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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".........Trump Nation is tired of failed transactions leaving only humiliation, disrespect, hardship, and despair. Trump Nation wants a transaction president.

Donald Trump knows transactions. Donald Trump advertises that he's not only a high stakes negotiator. Trump will save the nation in the grandest transaction yet.

It is that simple.

Just like Trump Airlines.

Recall Trump's promises in 1988 -- a lot more than a simple transaction in keeping the aging Eastern Airlines shuttle fleet flying. Trump promised luxury, convenience, style, personal touches, affinity to grandeur, and profitability.

Except for convenience, Trump delivered nothing else for which customers were willing to pay. The Trump Shuttle was a flaming financial wreck. Customers had already defected to upstart Pan Am. In desperation Trump trashed his rival, claiming Pam Am execs were losers, and Pan Am was unsafe. (Sound familiar?)

Soon enough, Donald Trump's transaction to transform the airline business was a bust. His most important transaction was confounding third party creditors in bailing out his personal guarantees.

Donald Trump's prefabricated brand is of the quintessential transactional leader. He's a master, even negotiating brilliant escape hatches when he fails.

Trump Airlines, perhaps Trump's boldest venture far removed from his core expertise, still displayed Trump's leitmotif -- engineering a brash makeover for an overvalued transaction to get into the airline game, unable to command the nuts-and-bolts knowhow needed to gain market share and stop bleeding margins, thus in desperation finally piloting a perilous landing, coaxed to the ground by Citibank controllers leaving the third party creditors, and employees, to find the exit row chutes, fending for themselves.".......

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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruzhillarywins; cruzjihad; donaldtrump; holywarriorsforcruz; pastortedschoir; totallosercruz; trump; trumpairlines
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To: Louis Foxwell
...I have found myself defending Trump with no particular interest in supporting him simply because of the scurrilous attacks made by you and others against him...

Please give me an example of a "scurrilous attack."

101 posted on 02/02/2016 3:47:03 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is why you’re not being taken seriously. One state....which rarely predicts the POTUS, was one by one delegate. And we have states coming up where Trump has a massive lead. Yet, you and this article are using this to predict Trumps demise. Please....


102 posted on 02/02/2016 3:49:20 AM PST by Solson (Trump plays to win. Deal with it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sadly’, you’re enjoying this......
.....and there are many like you here at FR today who will enjoy this too

I have had the wind knocked out of me......

....I know you......and others here.....and the media.....will have their day or days of gloating

But Trump will press on....
...I will press on too....

This morning I realize.....like a slap in the face......that the ‘powers that be’ ...will stop at nothing to derail Trump.....even worse than the past 7 months
But if God wills, Trump will prevail, Trump will win!!!!!

God is soverign.....God is good

I have such an amazing dream of Trump as our President .....restoring the dignity of our military
.....honoring our Vets
......stopping Common Core
......building that big wall
.....bringing back jobs.....
making America great again.

So I will not give up.....I will not back down.....I WILL PRESS ON!

I just need a day away from FR to regroup!


103 posted on 02/02/2016 3:49:51 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Is anyone surprised that the Trump haters would be out in full force gloating over Trump’s second place finish in Iowa?

I wonder if they all remember how elated the supporters of former presidents Huckabee and Santorium were? I do. Or how Reagan lost in Iowa?


104 posted on 02/02/2016 3:57:12 AM PST by odawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh please it’s Iowa! One state. Trump did not need to “win” Iowa. Good for Cruz though, he desperately needed this claim to fame. Anyone that spends the time and money to visit every County in the state deserves to win. What else does Cruz have in all of the other states is the question?


105 posted on 02/02/2016 3:59:09 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“...venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters...”

I invite you or anyone to click on my forum page to see the venom of the Cruz supporters.

However, you already know that.


106 posted on 02/02/2016 3:59:41 AM PST by odawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

No. If you are so lost in your rhetoric that you see it as righteous there is no way for me to change your perspective. Suffice that you have been relentless in your defamation of DT.


107 posted on 02/02/2016 4:01:41 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: TigerClaws

Trump had a rather large lead in Iowa, too.

In the polls.

Then the actual ELECTION happened. :-)


108 posted on 02/02/2016 4:03:45 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Do you believe Donald Trump is an honest man?”

Well, we know that Cruz is not. He lied when he told voters that he was liquidating his assets to finance his campaign. He lied when he failed to properly declare his loans. He lied when he failed to notify the voters in Texas that he was a Canadian citizen, etc.

Do you happen to know what kind of document Cruz used to obtain his driver’s license?


109 posted on 02/02/2016 4:04:57 AM PST by odawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I'm a Cruzer that is OK with Trump so my guy won, {I sent in a small VICTORY donation this AM} and Trump came in second which is fine with me. Of the top four candidates, two first term TEA party senators and two non-politicos, they collectively garnered 84% of the vote.

I know that marco was a tiger that changed his stripes with the gang of 8, but he was a TEA party guy {I know he betrayed us because I sent him money}.

The rest of the field should just go home, get off the stage, get some rest.

I posted this on another thread today. It's fine to celebrate victory, but cincinatus witch, must you rub the faces of all Trumpsters in our victory. You are a small minded, evil, hate filled person, that relishes your opponent's defeat.

The Trump voters are not feeling good this AM, and your posting of a nah, nah, nah article is just salt to an open wound.

It must have been tough on you when you walked in to witness your spouse and best friend...

110 posted on 02/02/2016 4:05:11 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Set a record. Little more than 50,000 votes. What is that to crow about?


111 posted on 02/02/2016 4:06:47 AM PST by odawg
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To: Louis Foxwell

Where did I defame Donald Trump?

Defame: to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious.


112 posted on 02/02/2016 4:07:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Popman
Trump fanboys are like their man - he can dish it out with his stumpy-fingered hands but he cannot abide criticism.

Quite frankly, I think Cruz hurt himself at the last debate with his comments just like Trump hurt himself by not showing up.

I don't think Rubio's extra 8 points came from any special love for him personally - I think it was late breaking from both Cruz and Trump.

I thought Cruz would get above 30% and Rubio would get below 20%.

No reason for Jeb, Christie, Kasich to continue.

113 posted on 02/02/2016 4:09:59 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

114 posted on 02/02/2016 4:10:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: TigerClaws

“If amnesty passes this is the last election any of our vote will count in ever. It’ll be over for Republicans and America will slip into third world hell.”

I agree completely, except the Republicans are in on it just as much as the democrats. Trump is our only hope. It is laughable to think Cruz will deport, and once the illegals are legalized, they bring in all their relatives. It has been estimated a fifty million increase practically overnight.


115 posted on 02/02/2016 4:11:52 AM PST by odawg
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To: jpsb

Trump hate looks a lot like Palin hate!!!


116 posted on 02/02/2016 4:13:32 AM PST by GregB (Palin/Trump....Trump/Palin sound great!!)
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To: USS Alaska
...It's fine to celebrate victory, but cincinatus witch, must you rub the faces of all Trumpsters in our victory. You are a small minded, evil, hate filled person, that relishes your opponent's defeat.

The Trump voters are not feeling good this AM, and your posting of a nah, nah, nah article is just salt to an open wound.

It must have been tough on you when you walked in to witness your spouse and best friend.....

Have you stopped by threads like this and given them your condolences?

117 posted on 02/02/2016 4:14:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Just mythoughts

“...well, now, that is if he really is against open borders and amnesty.”

Before Trump got in, he was. The “poison pill” thing is a complete lie, by the way.


118 posted on 02/02/2016 4:14:21 AM PST by odawg
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To: TigerClaws

Read the article. It has nothing to do with him being finished in the campaign. It is about his business style, and specifically, the failure of Trump Airlines.


119 posted on 02/02/2016 4:18:54 AM PST by mak5
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You have defamed DT in every one of your last 500 posts. Your failure to see and understand the extent of your perfidy is attributable to your unflinchingly defensive posture.


120 posted on 02/02/2016 4:18:54 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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