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Donald Trump's Honesty Problem
Commentary Magazine ^ | 2/22/2016 | Max Boot

Posted on 02/24/2016 2:01:38 PM PST by MeanWestTexan

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To: MeanWestTexan

If Das Boot thinks Trump is dishonest, wait until he get a load of what the Canadian has been spewing.


21 posted on 02/24/2016 2:12:03 PM PST by patq
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To: MeanWestTexan

“The larger point is that Trump is wrong to claim that we can defeat ISIS and al-Qaeda by emulating their tactics. The more likely outcome is to create more enemies than we eliminate.”

No Max. The larger point is Odumbo has been appeasing them for seven years and look what we have. Time to go Patton on them.


22 posted on 02/24/2016 2:12:29 PM PST by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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To: sparklite2

At least she would not pretend to be a Republican.


23 posted on 02/24/2016 2:12:32 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

You got it. The FACT is that, “Thank you sir,
may I have another?” has worn out its welcome.
If you keep voting for what you’ve been voting
for, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting.


24 posted on 02/24/2016 2:13:48 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: MeanWestTexan

I don’t think Max Boot is a Cruz fan, actually.

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Member of The Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to Marco Rubio.

http://www.cfr.org/experts/national-security-warfare-terrorism/max-boot/b5641


25 posted on 02/24/2016 2:14:04 PM PST by deport
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To: MeanWestTexan

I’ve listened to Trump on his Stern appearances too many times over the years to have illusions about the man. But what I have heard convinces me that he’s got a far better chance of finally getting a manned border fence constructed than any other candidate. Trump has shown the ability to set the agenda and drive the MSM conversation on topics that the weak-sister GOP will not touch. The last GOP president who could do that was Reagan. Trump is not Reagan, but if he can drive the conservative agenda forward, he’ll have done more for the nation than any president since Reagan.


26 posted on 02/24/2016 2:14:05 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: MeanWestTexan

Max’ first mistake was to think anyone gives a sh!t about his opinion.


27 posted on 02/24/2016 2:14:08 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: MeanWestTexan

That “pretend Republican” is further to the right than Cruz on immigration, trade, and taxes.

That “pretend” dog don’t hunt.


28 posted on 02/24/2016 2:14:39 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Then why isn’t he in prison?


29 posted on 02/24/2016 2:15:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Is that all you got? Her history of sleaze, lies, deaths, and corruption weigh as for nothing? I suppose you could say, “Vote Hillary. You know what you’re getting.”
Sorry, I’ll take door number two.


30 posted on 02/24/2016 2:16:13 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: MeanWestTexan
One can make their points without resorting to hyperbolic screams of anguish. What ever ‘points’ the author makes are lost in a cloud of invective and personal disdain.
31 posted on 02/24/2016 2:16:15 PM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

This is tiresome. Max wrote a few books. Trump has a world wide organization that contributes substantially. Max calling Trump an ignoramus is really taking inflated self importance to new levels.


32 posted on 02/24/2016 2:16:19 PM PST by major-pelham
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To: MeanWestTexan
Placing cursor over Trumpnado is allowed.

33 posted on 02/24/2016 2:16:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

34 posted on 02/24/2016 2:16:50 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: MeanWestTexan
Baa haa. Libcons tears of rage so delightful. Let's add to them:


35 posted on 02/24/2016 2:16:54 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie (Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Doesn’t matter to those who think he is the next coming. They have sacrificed their reason for a guy whose entire history is replete with progressivism. They wouldn’t see it if it was a freight train approaching them. And it is.


36 posted on 02/24/2016 2:17:21 PM PST by alstewartfan (CRUZ OR LOSE, AMERICA!)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Well...at least she is covering half of them this time.


37 posted on 02/24/2016 2:17:54 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

It’s called terminal convulsions...


38 posted on 02/24/2016 2:18:09 PM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Donald J. Trump is the very epitome of the anti-social-justice-warrior, and he’s galvanized an entire nation of the like minded who have been desperately waiting for years for a leader who could lead them from the desert of political correctness.

Only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart! That’s what he’s done!

Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.

The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.

Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb. That’s what Trump has done.

Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”. That’s what Trump has done.

After only four state primary elections, Trump has already taken out all but one GOP RINO candidate. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has used the enemedia against itself, exposed FNC for being Rupert Murdoch’s personal propaganda channel, and made the other cable networks realize they can grow their ratings by playing more fairly. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has attracted the “big tent” coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west. That’s what Trump has done.

The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump’s coalition of voters have panicked the Senate into growing a backbone and standing up to Obama by refusing to consider any Supreme Court nominee until the next President is in office. That’s what Trump has done.

And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin. That’s what Trump has done.

And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice. That’s what Trump has done.

President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.

So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.


39 posted on 02/24/2016 2:18:48 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: sparklite2

Many millions will choose “none of the above”, sad to say. They loathe Trump, as I do, but they will stay home, unlike me. I will vote for the lesser sleaze, Trump, if he wins.


40 posted on 02/24/2016 2:20:12 PM PST by alstewartfan (CRUZ OR LOSE, AMERICA!)
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