Posted on 03/11/2016 4:17:48 PM PST by mandaladon
THE MORNING PLUM:
At last night’s debate, Donald Trump lorded it over his rivals with supreme confidence. Gone was narcissistic, rambling, insult-spraying Trump. In his place stood calm, unifying, presidential Trump. The Donald noted with satisfaction that his foes were mostly laying off of him. “I can’t believe how civil it’s been up here,” he said, by which he really meant, “all you losers have surrendered to me, and I’m loving every minute of it.” And Trump may be right: it’s possible that by next week, he will be on a path to winning the nomination outright.
But if there is anything last night’s debate really revealed, it’s that Trump may not have any idea what is about to hit him soon enough. If Trump does become the nominee, he will run into a buzz saw of reality otherwise known as the general election, and he may not know how badly mangled he’ll get.
Last night’s debate is being widely described as a shift in tone: rather than lob schoolyard insults at each other, the GOP candidates had a real policy debate. And that’s true. But in the process, the debate really revealed the limitations to the scrutiny Trump has faced on policy in the context of the GOP primaries — and that foreshadows, by contrast, just how brutal the scrutiny of Trump on policy will be in the general election, once those limitations are removed.
Consider a few of the main attacks that Trump had to endure last night. When Trump vaguely promised to keep entitlements solvent and to cut “waste, fraud and abuse,” Marco Rubio made a spirited case against Trump’s budgetary hocus pocus, repeatedly saying the numbers “don’t add up.”
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This is a complete repeat of the Establishment vs. Ronald Reagan, 1980.
He's a loose cannon, doesn't know the issues, just an airhead, he's dangerous, he's crazy, etc., etc., etc.
Yes. That's the ticket. Learn how to sound like Al Gore.
One of the people who has given him advice on pro-life issues was Roger Stone co-founder of Republicans for Choice, a pro-abort organization.
Yep. The first debate with Hillary is going to be a thing of beauty. Shock and Awe.
#9 Sounds like the jackackson currently in the Whitehouse. Nobody smarter, just ask him! Oy vey.
In the general, “fighting back” will only gain support for Hillary. If he wins the nomination, get ready for a disaster and electoral loss of epic proportions.
I’ve been waiting for Trump to do just that for the last six months and except for a few questionable comments about universal healthcare, he either has one hell of a poker face, or he’s the real thing.
Buzz saw of the general election... Okay, I’m sure that the Washington Post which has predicted Trump’s demise, oh gosh, what? Once a week since last June? July? Well, in any case, I’m sure that they’ll be absolutely correct.
Not normal people and not most people. Just an easily bamboozled minority within a minority.
The reason Trump is successful is that "the issues" are mostly inside the Beltway issues that no one outside the Beltway could care about much less possibly understand [not that those outside the Beltway are stupid, but that those inside the Beltway are terribly styu-pid and wrapped up in their own hypderconvoluted sense of superiority witness this Compost article].
It's hard to say because on so many topics Trump will say one thing one day, walk it back the next, and wind up back where he started a week later.
“Get ready...”, what, again?
Jeez, the eGOP has declared every single month that Trump is “about to get it!”
Or at least not use their policy knowledge to **** the hoi polloi who elected them.
Nope.landslide Trump. It won’t even be close. The smartest analyst out there already gave his model out 54% Trump in the general
What’s going to happen to Trump will be similar to a video I saw of ragheads firing a mortar at an emplacement of U.S. Troops. They’d yell allahu akbar as they dropped a round in the mortar tube and the projectile went arcing toward our troops.
Meanwhile, our troops’ equipment was calculating the precise azimuth of the incoming, and after about the third incoming, our guys launched a round right back precisely to them, and all three of them disappeard in a red mist of blood, guts and rags. Allahu akbar, indeed!
Don’t mess with The Donald.
No, he doesn’t have to sound like Gore. But he has to come off as if he understands the issues beyond giving soundbites. It is about damn time to hear specifics on policy if he wants my vote. I am torn between him and Cruz.
I don't think he believes he needs to learn anything.
“I’m not in here with you. You’re in here with me!”
Rorchach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_%28comics%29
Trump constantly sad 80% of the media are despicable humans. I believe he is more than ready for the “Buzz saw”
Partisan hack and Washington Post writer Greg Sargent
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