The complete idiot's guide to being right about Donald Trump

The Hill ^ | February 12, 2016 | Eddie Zipperer

[Albion Wilde]

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 AM to12:30 PM EST, 213/16:
Cruz and Trump poised for the ugliest debate yet
Bernie Sanders Crowds Are Whiter Than Those of Donald Trump (Humor) [vanity]
The complete idiot's guide to being right about Donald Trump [The Hill]
South Carolina Poll - Donald Trump 36%, Ted Cruz 19% (Trump above 50% with second choice) [Sundance]
Elite Don't Get Trump's Appeal [NewsMax]
Before Trump takes the stage tonight [RNC using Trump name to raise funds]
How seven years of Obama created Trump [UK - Telegraph]
Trump Short on Details?
Peter Morici: How Donald Trump could become president [TulsaWorld]
Trump tackles Clinton's emails, calls Bernie a Commie
Trump versus Cruz (Saturbray)
Message Matters: Trump Succeeded, Yellen Failed
Trump Leads GOP Field In South Carolina By 16 Points After NH Win [TMP Poll Tracker]
Trump's America [WSJ]
CONFIRMED: South Carolina Debate Will Be Another GOP Party Insider Audience Stacked against Trump
Trump Has Huge Lead over Cruz in Two SC Polls
Capacity crowd at Sun Dome picks up Trump call to 'win again'
Why I Can't Learn to Love Donald Trump (Ross Douthat) [DT rollin'; NRO hatin']
With a Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters [whaa, whaa! NYT]
Coulter's W&L mock convention speech [video]
Donald Trump's Emotional TV Ad Slams Illegal Immigration
'Pro-Faith' or 'Profane?' Trump Surrogate Gets Heckled at Faith and Family Forum
Lincoln's Birthday Reflections: His insights on liberty and tyranny still ring true today
Politico: Trump Freezes Establishment Mega-Donors in Place
Four GOP Candidates Pledge To Pass FADA In First 100 days
When did Freepers turn so nasty? (vanity)
Joe Scarborough-Donald Trump friendship increasing source of discomfort at NBC
Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread XXV
Donald Trump rally draws more than 10,000 in Tampa
Trump, Kasich Get a Bump in Latest South Carolina Poll
Trump blames Romney for super PAC attacks

[Lazamataz]

Ha ha! You lose!

[GOPJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52a0rhf72Co

[kjam22]

Believing that helium is heaver than air is like believing Trumpy is a conservative who is going to do what he’s promising.

[PGalt]

Very good article by Eddie Zipperer. Thanks for posting.

HOORAY Trump

[HotHunt]

[GOPJ]

Bad assumption: Manners are of the utmost importance. Every time Trump utters a naughty word, the media go nuts. The story was everywhere on Tuesday (you know the one; he repeated an audience member's use of the word "pussy"). I heard more than one talking head predict that Trump would lose the New Hampshire primary when voters found out. Didn't happen; never will. Trump doesn't do manners, and his supporters don't want him to.

Washington's well spoken elites have bankrupted the country.

They've allowed the borders to be unprotected and flooded the country with illegals who prey on the rest of us...

They've sold State Secrets and Access... BUT within their DC drawing rooms they speak in poetry and have the right tailors and eat in cool restaurants...Monsters who 'speak well... And we're suppose to be impressed with their shallow narcissism?

So really who gives an 'eff' what they think - our elites are horrors destroying our county while...'speaking' well? Speaking well - as if that's an excuse for what they've done to us and our jobs and our lives/ A pox on their house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52a0rhf72Co

[V K Lee]

Never forgets 'that dirty rotten traitor" Never fails to include that description - LOL as if we would forget exactly who this individual might have been. :-)) Go!! TRiUMPh

[Chode]

truth is like a lion, you don't need to defend it, just let it loose and it will defend itself...

[Robert DeLong]

I for one am not deluded into thinking Trump is a conservative, but then again neither was Ronald Reagan. Both are/were more conservative than liberal who came from liberal beginnings. But both aged into a more conservative stance. Your impressions of Trump are based upon Trump in earlier stages of his life. When you read Trump's more recent thoughts you realize he has grown to be more conservative with age. I myself was more liberal when younger, not to mention easily swayed and more impressionable. Granted I probably turned more conservative at any earlier age, but then that was because I was affected more by what liberalism was really doing. Taking away freedoms and replacing them with hallow promises.

The truth is well documented that Cruz does not know how to build consensus for his beliefs as was evidenced by his lack of accomplishment within the Senate. We can blame the RINO's, and to a certain extent that is true. But Ted also played a part in his ineffectual ability to accomplish anything. A true leader finds a way to get things accomplished, just like Reagan did. If you think he didn't face the same type of opposition, you are wrong.

Beyond that I do not believe Cruz qualifies as a natural born citizen, thus is ineligible to hold the office of President of the United States.

[kjam22]

Cruz did not have the standing as a first term senator to effect change in that body. NOBODY would. Rubio went the route of joining the liberals who live on both sides of the isle in order to fit in. Cruz stood up for what he believes and for the reasons he was elected. As a president, everyone who is elected president has a lot lot lot lot more influence than a first term senator in the United STates senate.

For me, when I hear that Cruz wasn't able to get anything done in the Senate.... that means nothing to me. The fact that he stood on principle means a lot to me.

[Robert DeLong]

Cruz did not have the standing as a first term senator to effect change in that body.

True leadership figures out how to get support, regardless of supposed standing. He has as much standing as any other Senator. Cruz got minimal support at best. Sure he had great ideas but because he couldn't figure out how to sell his great ideas those ideas never materialized into results.

I have serious doubts he could build enough support to win a general election, just as I have doubts he can even win the primaries. Ideas are the starting point, but if you fail to make anything develop from those ideas they remain ideas and are soon either dismissed or forgotten about.

[kvanbrunt2]

He adds another adjective each time. Dirty rotting stinking cowardly traitor>>> yes he does keeps me watching. only one i have heard that brings it up. it sickens him for our government to have done that trade and many other things. he is fed up as i am and he shows it. that is what we like. in pa i’ll probably be voting for bernie and holding my nose in august when the marxists arrive.

[ChildOfThe60s]

In the long run, we are going to get screwed. One way or the other. It’s too late for anything else.

After 3 decades of the never ending crime and everything else filthy and disgusting from this evil harridan I am going to enjoy the small pleasure of seeing her nose rubbed in her own crap. And I don’t give a damn who does it.

[jeffersondem]

“He calls Hillary a liar . . .”

But does he have the knowledge and courage to call Mitch McConnell a liar?

[ChildOfThe60s]

But does he have the knowledge and courage to call Mitch McConnell a liar?

Knowledge is a given, Everyone knows McConnell is [at best] a liar.

I imagine he has the gumption to do it, should it become politically expedient to do so. If "Harry's Bitch" keeps his distance, there is no point. He's skewering the GOPe already, which includes MM by inference.

[Duchess47]

Thanks for the ping, good article.

[Theophilus]

The GOP electorate is just not drinking the Kool Aid this time around.

No, if the polls are correct, they've graduated to Trump's hootch.

[keving]

Presidential Sun Tzu

Trump 2016!

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>“He calls Hillary a liar . . .”
But does he have the knowledge and courage to call Mitch McConnell a liar?<<<

Mitch isn’t running as a DemoncRat the against the Republican Nominee in November. At least not yet.