Posted on 02/16/2016 6:42:50 AM PST by RoosterRedux
To these Establishmentarians the Trump performance was a call for the smelling salts. Trump attacked the Bushes. O...M...G!!!!
What seems to go right over the heads of these fine folks is that there is more to this than just the battle between Ronald Reagan and the GOP Establishment all over again. To be sure, Trump isn't Reagan. As noted often enough, no two human souls are alike. But while the animosity on display towards Trump from the Bush camp and the larger GOP Establishment is exactly what was on display as Reagan did battle with both the Bushes and the GOP years ago -- there's more here.
Put aside the Reagan-Bush divide. With President Bush 43 now campaigning in South Carolina for Jeb -- and with Jeb Bush haughtily defending John McCain as a "hero" and taking such umbrage at Trump attacks on the Bushes -- let's take a look back at the 2000 GOP primary in South Carolina between George W. Bush and John McCain. -- Let's just see how "the Bushes" and the GOP Establishment work when challenged. Suffice to say the Bush campaign of 2000 and its allies treated John McCain as anything but a hero. And conducted the Bush campaign in a way far distant from the public image Jeb Bush seeks to portray.
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Indeed, the McCain campaign did not fight back in 2000. And they didn't fight back against Obama in 2008. Nor did the Romney campaign fight back when running against Obama in 2012. Which is why neither man became president -- and George W. and Barack Obama did.
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The bottom line? Donald Trump fights. And in being utterly unafraid to take on the Bush campaign apparatus that left John McCain both defeated, bitter, and angry in 2000 after South Carolina...
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He praised nationalized healthcare before he ran and in the first debate and alluded to it again in September in a 60 Minutes interview. His statement, “the government will pay for it” demonstrates a leftist worldview. The government pays for nothing. The correct answer would have been the tax payers, the working men and women of America or any number of non-leftist descriptions.
Make America Great Again is a slogan, not a policy.
I will support who ever is the nominee against the opposition.
Why?
Because I am a team player and will stand shoulder to shoulder against the Red Menace.
I will not sit it out in noble principled pride and watch my country sink into a world of chains and chaos that is the fruit of Socialism.
I certainly would not break rank at time of war. How about you? Are you the guy in the fox hole that will fight or run, or say “I told you so” while being marched into the POW camp?
He’s way more liberal than McCain. he attacks other conservatives way more than McCain. Trump ain’t no McCain. (normally that would be a good thing...but...)
His repeated reference to healthcare at his rallies refutes that false interpretation.
Make America Great Again is an all encompassing policy.
It is the guiding principal, leading to his other policies.
His statements *since* his prior statements conflict with his original policy, they do not refute them. All from this campaign season. When one brings in statements made during the current administration it should send up warning flares that you should run away from Trump as fast as you can. Okay nationalizing banks as well as healthcare - this is Bernie Sanders thinking and it has also been Trump’s thinking. He said it, not me.
A Future To Believe In — a fine campaign slogan. It is Sanders’ slogan. It is not a policy yet it is just as good as Make America Great Again. Slogans are meaningless tripe.
Attacking W for 9/11 is a far left talking point that Trump is all to easy using. So is Bush lied, people died. Trump uses them because he too is far left in his world view.
The Bush’s and Clinton’s are so close, I wonder if Jeb is getting some of that money from the Clinton Foundation? Would make sense to fund Jeb to disrupt the Republicans. Other than that, there is NO support for Jeb among the American people.
A lot of that $130-million-plus that Jeb has spent may have come from the Clinton’s or their friends.
I'm no fan of McCain by any stretch of the imagination, but there are just limits, and the Bushes blew right past them.
What I initially considered a Trump mistake, going hard on the Bushes, may turn out to be brilliant. While I may not have known all about what was going on in SC back then, I don't live there. I wasn't witness to it. SC voters were, and Trump has reminded them of it.
The Bush clan is on the defensive, and now W can have it thrown in his face at every campaign stop for Jeb.
Whatever made you say that?
;>)
Phew! What a goofball.
BTW, Trump just took Jeb’s domain address (I guess Jeb didn’t renew or something) and wrote below his name in giant letters: TRUMP 2016!!
Just read that on Facebook. Hilarious.
But Jeb is the ‘smart one’, or so they say.
Remember when they were saying that back in the early 2000’s?!
I seem to recall some comments here at that time, that the wrong Bush was on the ticket.
Oh, I’m sure. I think most went off during the Terry Schiavo debacle.
Uh oh! Horrible Cruz ad on the radio! Gotta hold my ears!!!
One Cruz radio ad was enough for me. Quit all talk radio. Just catch 5 min news breaks for local news and traffic then and it shut down.
You can’t possibly believe that any of us here are going to fall for your half truths about what Trump said about the government paying for the truly needy being the same thing as single payer healthcare.
You Cruz people don’t seem to be the least bit aware of what you’re doing to your own reputations here continuing to lie about things FReepers can check on their own.
For some reason I’m unable to comprehend, the Cruz supporters are all convinced that the courts would take the position that he is in fact a NBC. If that were the case, why did the Left fight so hard to prove that 0b0la was born in Hawaii rather than kenya? what’s the difference in their birth circumstances?
Never mind the fact that merely the question about his birthright citizenship being raised would lose him votes among the voting public whether the courts agreed that he is or not, especially given the almost universal opinion that 0b0la has been a disaster, even among many not loony democrats.
For other reasons I’m unable to discern, you’re also fully supportive of candidate Cruz, who none of you had ever heard of before he won his senate seat in Texas 4 years ago.
As if that were not enough, it doesn’t bother you in the least that he’s been a government employee almost his entire adult life, he was an insider for GWB for years, that he was a full throated supporter of Justice John Roberts, he of 0b0lacare fame, or that his wife is a managing director of Goldman Sachs as well as being a member of the CFR.
Apparently, everyone here knows how patriotic and concerned for everyday Americans both those organizations are, except me.
Frankly, I’m at a loss to understand why true blue conservatives are so firm in their support of Ted Cruz.
It must be because I’m a Donald Trump supporter and therefore I’m stupid.
I know. I’m shutting it off now. Better things to do.
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