Posted on 02/15/2016 8:33:05 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Joe Scarborough says that the people who boo Donald Trump during debates are "idiots" because it plays "into [Trump's] hands."
Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Scarborough argued, "It was all the rich donors that were booing and I just thought all you're doing is helping this guy that you want to beat."
Referring to Saturday's Republican debate where a chorus of boos rained down after Trump and Jeb Bush got into it, allowing Trump to criticize the debate audience, Scarborough noted that ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd had it right when he said "that anybody that thinks booing Donald Trump if you're the Republican establishment, anybody who thinks that hurts Donald Trump, has not been watching if the past year."
Scarborough added, "I mean, that's another thing that bothered me about the booing, I thought what idiots, they are playing into his hands," Scarborough said. "Everybody knows it's the rich donors that get the tickets."
BBC World News America anchor Katty Kay added that Trump "played it brilliantly during the course of the debate. Kept referring to the people of the crowd that were booing, the lobbyists and funders that were booing. Clearly, he's doing well at the moment."
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I opined a few days ago that Trump was trying to push Cruz into even more of a religious mode, and that seems to have worked. Cruz delivered a sermon yesterday. Except for a pretty narrow group, I don’t think this image helps Cruz at all.
and Cruz tried to copy Trump with the bash the audience thing too but it fell flat
I cheered their boos! I cheered Trumps answer to their boos!
The Boos of Boobs is a good thing for Trump!
Trump may think he won already. Now he can say anything.
We have a President in the W.H. who will say anything too.
Obama doesn’t care if 60 or 70 percent of the country disagree. They should both look at the damage certain actions and comments do in the long run. The country has a short attention span. If the general election comes down to just a few percentage points, Trumps comments could come back to haunt him.
Did it helped Huckabee? who was actually a Pastor and also Gov.
Liar in chief now acting as Pastor, what will be next gig - Pope.
Really, do you thing after 2007-2008 financial crisis, there is any love for Bush or establishment. You should meet people outside bubble.
Why Jeb lost even with Shunnu machine in NH? People hate last name Bush.
Here's the deal with evangelical people. They do a lot more in their lives than read the Bible and go to church. They have to live in the world.
The scramble for jobs, because their old job has been shipped to Mexico. They hate having to send their kids to crappy schools, or else incur a great deal of expense to enroll them in private schools if they can't homeschool. The pay the same taxes non-religious voters do, and they see how it has been wasted. They're ashamed of how veterans have been treated. They know their children are being saddled with enormous debt. They are hunters; they have guns to protect their families.
Evangelicals are not china dolls sitting on a shelf that are going to automatically be swayed because a candidate quotes scripture.
You’re right there.
Good points. And, again, I think that is reflected in this CBS poll with Trump beating Cruz handily among “evangelicals.”
I honestly don't think he can be beaten.
Those of us who are not evangelicals may get a skewed version of them right here on FR. Many of them here are constantly quoting the bible and spend a lot of time bashing religions that are not their own. It would do my heart proud to know they are a minority voice.
“Here’s the deal with evangelical people. They do a lot more in their lives than read the Bible and go to church. They have to live in the world.”
I’m glad to hear that. I respect them for their beliefs, and glad that they see that electing a president has implcations that go beyond their faith. Too often, I see posts here from self-described “religious”people who tell us that if they don’t get a candidate for whom to vote that subscribes to their beliefs, that they are going to stay home. They are the ones who gave the country Barak Obama, a competely godless man.
CBS ADDS to the debate...
I posted in the LIVE debate thread and a couple of later threads that the booing/yelling and applause seemed canned or rehearsed and queued.
It seemed to start in unison and end in unison.
Generally speaking, they are not at all like what what you've described. So, no, what we see too often here is not the mainstream of the evangelical community.
The evangelicals I know enjoy a good laugh... maybe even a snicker at an off-color story. They might take a drink every now and then, even if they don't keep liquor in their houses. They pray for guidance and they want to bring people to Christ, but they also pray for people they disagree with... and not like "Dear Lord, please help that Trump supporting neighbor see the light before you smite him, as he so richly deserves!"
They like to hunt. They don't like war. They pray for the government, but don't completely trust it no matter who is in office. They are conservative, but the definition of conservative is not cookie-cutter.
Mainly, they just want to live their lives in peace. They want to have enough money to live comfortably, leave a little to their children, and give a little to the Lord.
These are not snake-handling freaks, as is so often portrayed in the media. They are normal people with great faith.
“I opined a few days ago that Trump was trying to push Cruz into even more of a religious mode, and that seems to have worked. Cruz delivered a sermon yesterday. Except for a pretty narrow group, I don’t think this image helps Cruz at all.”
Especially with the dirty politics and lies. The two don’t mesh.
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