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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Why is it so hard to fathom a way to make Mexico pay for the wall? There are easy ways to achieve that but no will to do them in the Uniparty. You do know that we give Mexico foreign aid don't you? Personally I would just put up toll gates at border crossings or mayby cut off the money transfers from illegals here.
The U.S. Government gave a total of $209,432,920 to Mexico in 2012. ... Let not forget these figures don't reflect any yr.s except 2007 & 2012 nor any covertly funneled ... Similar Foreign Aid Recipients Compared by Their Total (FY 2012).
Jeb, John. How can we tell the difference in GOP Elites?
That is not my idea of “saving America”.
We have democrats and socialists for that.
DONZIE has jumped the shark.
TINFOIL OPTIONAL.
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