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Weak and Getting Weaker: Electability argument against Trump in the general election is hardening
Weekly Standard ^ | 04/10/2016 | Jonathan Last

Posted on 04/10/2016 8:52:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: exDemMom; All

After all, it’s the Weekly Standard of Journalistic BS!


41 posted on 04/10/2016 9:26:55 AM PDT by seekthetruth (Still praying for a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They can’t beat Trump at the ballot box so they resort to endless polls and stories about his electability in an attempt to diminish his support.

All these polls are nothing but BS until we have the nominees and voters are comparing them and their positions to each other in reality, and not in these hyped up speculations and non-existent choices.


42 posted on 04/10/2016 9:27:14 AM PDT by Will88
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To: RIghtwardHo

This country is just too far gone.


43 posted on 04/10/2016 9:27:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind
RE: This is going to change very quickly once Trump becomes the nominee. Can you explain why?

Sure. Trump has been meticulously crafting his campaign to peel off Democrat voters. We've already in the primaries how many blue collar dems are crossing party lines to vote for Trump. Independents as well.

Secondly Trump has not even began to campaign yet against the Dem candidate. When he begins the general campaign he's going to lay Hillary bare in the starkest terms like no other candidate we've seen. We've seen that in the primaries he's not afraid to defend himself and especially no afraid to counter attack in what is usually a very effective fashion.

But even though he's not actively campaigning against a Dem opponent he's already been hard at work defining Clinton. Look at how many times he says "If she's allowed to run" or other statements.

Lastly Trump is competitive. Very competitive. He does not like to lose. He doesn't take it well because he expects to win every single time no matter what the odds are against him. This trait has carried him throughout his life and more then anything else defines his success. This is the biggest deal of his life. You can bet he's not going to fold up his tent like EVERY other Republican candidate the last few years.

44 posted on 04/10/2016 9:27:52 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: SeekAndFind

Your posting the Weakly Standardt -instant disregard....

Truth be told , Cruz is weaker than Trump and Kasich ...


45 posted on 04/10/2016 9:28:24 AM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (We are watching an election be stolen in real time -Defeat Cruz/GOPe - Vote Trump)
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To: exDemMom

The facts that democrats and independents have been voting for Trump has been used to argue that he is not a ‘ real’ republican

Yet they expect these voterr to pick Cruz in a General election when they didn’t pick him in a primary

Do these people even read what they are writing?


46 posted on 04/10/2016 9:29:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: SeekAndFind

You’re the first honest Cruz supporter to admit he has no path to 270. I give you kudos for that.

I think Trump has an outside chance. He’s popular in the swing states, and appeals to the independents and moderates who, whether we like it or not, determine the winner of presidential elections. At the very least he makes the Dems spend time and money to defend states they would not other wise have to defend.


47 posted on 04/10/2016 9:30:56 AM PDT by LNV
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To: exDemMom

Currently polls have Trump losing Utah and Mississippi to Hillary, and you think he can win? His unfavorables grow every month. He has the worst unfavorable ratings of any to ever run and worse than Hillary.
And he has NOT and is not growing his base.


48 posted on 04/10/2016 9:30:57 AM PDT by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Weekly Standard, National Review, etc. They are all part of the Stop Trump movement. The GOPe wants their own candidate, not t6he one selected by the voters.


49 posted on 04/10/2016 9:31:08 AM PDT by kabar
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To: LNV
After the shenanigans we are seeing , and the total liberal establishment sellout of the “ conservave” media and the GOP

expecting 2/3 of trump voters to remain loyal to a party that is shafting him and us is way too optimistic ....

50 posted on 04/10/2016 9:34:13 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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51 posted on 04/10/2016 9:35:49 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: DesertRhino

Hillary is likable?


52 posted on 04/10/2016 9:37:52 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: exDemMom

Trump knocked out 13 opponents and is still in the lead even with the GOP establishment, the Democrats and both the liberal and pseudo conservative media against him. He is like a Chinese martial arts champion that you see in the movies taking on a dozen opponents and winning in the end.


53 posted on 04/10/2016 9:40:01 AM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Dan in Wichita

The problem is that Cruz would only win Utah and Texas. He lost the entire south and northeast and possibly the west coast. His fringe is very small.


54 posted on 04/10/2016 9:41:22 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: arl295

The idea that Utah would vote for Hillary over Trump is ludicrous. No need to even rebut that. It’s a talking point created out of thin air by a dishonest campaign.


55 posted on 04/10/2016 9:41:51 AM PDT by Defiant (The Shills are alive, with the sound of Cruz-ick....)
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To: Don Corleone

They’d like to propagandize that those rallies are hitlerian. But tgose people, ironically, are not there for trump. They’re there because they want America back


56 posted on 04/10/2016 9:41:52 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Don Corleone

They’d like to propagandize that those rallies are hitlerian. But tgose people, ironically, are not there for trump. They’re there because they want America back


57 posted on 04/10/2016 9:41:53 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Lazamataz

Wait, isn’t the Weekly Standard one of those pseudo conservative publications?


58 posted on 04/10/2016 9:42:15 AM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump hasn’t even started yet on Hillary
Though he did smack down her predictable “ war on Wymyn” meme when
he brought up her own husbands behaviors

The path to Hillary’s deconstruction must be forged by someone who is bold. outspoken, non PC and unowned by the establishment
An HONEST common sense campaigner
Someone who has millions of people will to get behind him and vote her out
If it’s not yuge it will be stolen


59 posted on 04/10/2016 9:42:18 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: stanne

The big Tea Party rallies were similarly smeared

Lots of the same middle class folks, too


60 posted on 04/10/2016 9:43:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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