Posted on 03/11/2016 4:17:48 PM PST by mandaladon
THE MORNING PLUM:
At last nights 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 cant believe how civil its been up here, he said, by which he really meant, all you losers have surrendered to me, and Im loving every minute of it. And Trump may be right: its possible that by next week, he will be on a path to winning the nomination outright.
But if there is anything last nights debate really revealed, its 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 hell get.
Last nights 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 thats 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 Trumps budgetary hocus pocus, repeatedly saying the numbers dont add up.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Trump is coated with Vanadium, which takes the power of that directed against him and sends it back the other direction with increased force.
Considering the more they attack him , the more people rally to him..please do it ahole!
It’s the WaPo doing the article.
The Washington Post is assuming that Trump will do what Republican presidential candidates normally — willing walk into it.
Lol! Funny, but true.
Trump needs to let his kids run the business and get busy studying policy with advisers 18 hours a day. He is woefully lacking and will be torn up in the general.
I think Trump’s defense is that both candidates have gone so far left he can paint them as unamerican.
Trump doesn't need advisers. He already knows it all.
Kind of like I am rubber you are glue?
Trump hits back... while losers like Mittens stand there and take it.
No wonder Greg Sargent is frustrated to no end!
Do Rubio's numbers "add up"? Do Bernie's? Do Hillary's?
It's an interesting if not novel thesis that Trump's candidacy is doomed because he's a hypocritical, opportunistic liar. When everyone outside the Washington beltway thinks that everyone working inside the Washington beltway is a hypocritical, opportunistic liar.
Depends on how much farther to the middle Trump goes once he has the nomination locked up. He may overshoot and wind up to the left.
WaPo openly threatens D. Trump
More like the verbal equivalent of Active Armor.
Response is instantaneous, intense, devastating and on target ...(no focus groups or teleprompters involved)
Followed up by "Next Question"
Political Science major, law degree, career politician. That does not encourage me to trust Marco Rubio with numbers, especially if they involve dollar signs.
Trump may be a a hypocritical, opportunistic liar but he isn’t a Washington establishment hypocritical, opportunistic liar. That’s why people follow him.
The problem with current politicians is that the people are aware that they have “policy knowledge”, but have zero confidence that the politicians will USE that knowledge to Make America Great.
WaPo and NRO same pos
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