Posted on 05/03/2016 7:01:26 AM PDT by rktman
Republican and Democratic strategists marveled at the phenomenon of Donald Trump on Monday as they debated where to lay blame for the success of the political outsider who pundits originally wrote off as a joke.
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If you wanted a clear demonstration of Beltway cluelessness you needed to see NRO’s Rich Lowery on Stuart Varney’s show this morning commenting on Cruz’ one-on-one “debate” with the Trump supporter yesterday.
I cannot disagree with that assessment!
Then his geusts were whining about all the "free" airtime Trump had received.First the media covered him because like Fallon they thought he was a joke.
Then they covered him even more becuase they thought surely he would say something so bad or stupid that everyone would laugh him out. Now that has bit them on the ass big time and they will (like all liberals will.)not take the blame for their mistake of discounting the american people's disgust with uniparty system.
What they are hearing and reading are figments of some progressive socialist's imagination.
Now, the reality hits them upside the head, and they shake their head in disbelief.
DC elites have been feathering their own nests for a long time... at the expense of taxpayers. They might not want to see the truth..
I’m not afraid of Bernie Sanders as President. If our uneducated, inexperienced young people vote him in, I’m prouder of them than of the previous voters who were electing Obama and Clinton and even Bush the second time.
Bernie is not corrupt. And he sees (and feels) the corruption. He isn’t part of the Slavery Lite cabal. The youth don’t have the lesson we do about communism and top down government. Hell, if Bernie found that lesson difficult, lets forgive our kids.
Bernie would not be able to implement more than one -if that - of his really socialist ideas. Whichever one he went for (I hope it’s college) WILL FAIL. And it will fail like a textbook example, and teach us all about “free stuff” and “unintended” (but seen if you play chess with any idea before implementing it, imagining three moves ahead, always) consequences.
IF OUR NEXT GENERATION THOUGHT SOCIALISM MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA, THEY BLEEPING NEED THIS LESSON.
I do not want Bernie Sanders as President. But he isn’t part of the oligarchy and for that reason alone, he’s better than Clinton. He’s an honest outsider with very wrong ideas. But he isn’t the king with the bear trap around our limbs like we have now.
This is hugh and series!
The Cheap Labor Express has always been able to get the amnesty candidate they paid for.
They are stunned that they were unable to manipulate the process this time.
The press has been collectively wrong about Trump from the moment he stepped out on the political stage. According to them, he was kaput after his announcement speech. And then they called him finished just about every other day for months on end when he would say something outlandish. The press covered Trump because he WAS the story. He didn’t play their game but he is “playing” them. He is playing his own game, not theirs. And it is a game with which they are unfamiliar. He is like no candidate the press or the American people have ever seen. He was underestimated and dismissed as a circus act his whole campaign and now the politicos and press are at a loss for why he has done so well. They are out of touch.
So I don’t see the press all of the sudden getting smart enough collectively to stop this guy. Hillary’s got more dead bodies buried than Trump has so-called scandals that haven’t already been exposed in the New York press for years. The general election campaign will be a blood bath on both sides. The press has been wrong about him every step of the way. I don't think that now, all of the sudden, they’re going to somehow become more effective at going after Trump. He will continue to confound them.
Trump is the new shiny, bright object in this election cycle. Hillary is the old, dim bulb. One-on-one, he looks and sounds like a winner and a leader. Hillary looks old, stale and dreary. That screeching, screaming, hoarse, fingernails-scrapping-across-the-chalkboard voice of her’s will get old quickly. I predict Trump beats Hillary in November going away.
We’ll see. Stock up on the popcorn for the fall. It will be a good one.
The lobbyist who represent both sides
Look at what and where disgraced former Speaker Bob Livingstone , Haley Barbour ( who might be the richest person in Mississippi) , Trent Lott, Former head of Hollywood lobbyist Billy Tauzin and it didn't matter when he retire that Chris Dodd a Democrat became the nest Hollywood Lobbyist.
I hope they don't kill Donald Trump like Kennedy
And will cost them billions or even trillions unless they murder him first.
It’s because they haven’t a clue what goes on outside the beltway...They haven’t a clue as to what the American people (the unwashed masses to them) want or think...
I’d like Jimmy Fallon to get run over by a train.
Slowly.
He is emblematic of a generation who needs desperately to be “edgy” and “ironic” at all costs, and who see sincerity and empathy as a behavior for uncool losers.
I have a brother in law like that: he is absolutely obligated to view all new developments in life as an opportunity to be cool, clever and edgy. The most important thing when faced with tragic events is mock it and somehow blame George Bush!
I also have a homo brother who does the same thing. They both really appear to be stuck in perpetual adolescence.
Its more than that, we indeed want Illegal to mean Illegal, we also want Life to mean Life, Good to actually and objectively mean Good, Bad to actually and objectively mean Bad.
We want the Central Government out of the State’s way in Environmental, Educational, Energy and Commercial matters.
We want the Central Government and those we send there to represent the will of the MAJORITY of the CITIZENS of the USA. Not the infinitesimally small minorities of people with same sex attraction, transgender individuals, Illegal Aliens and non-Judeo Christian believing peoples, and all the others the Main Stream Media would have us believe are now majorities.
In short, we want the USA back to the same shape it was at the time of its founding. Liberalism, Modernism and DemonRats have caused this mess since the great depression. We want it fixed.
I refer to this as one of many manifestations of ‘Center of the Universe’ syndrome.
Reagan did not have the internet in 1980. Back then ALL information went through the filter of the MSM before reaching the people.
I can’t really pin Jimmy Fallon down. First of all, some might be surprised about what generation he’s in - he’s in my generation, born in 1974. I think most people believe he’s younger.
He’s certainly a liberal...and his jokes have a very narrow ‘bandwidth’, as he can’t mock any of the protected groups.
I do think his true colors shined through, not only when he mocked Trump to his face, but also in how he handled Hillary on the show. It reached levels of absurdity when he asked her if she fought with Bill over the TV remote - well golly gee, shucks, we all know they watch tv together every night...Fallon has to know that they rarely spend the evening in the same time zone.
I don’t think he does too much damage, on a political level. However, as a man who is old enough to know better, he does set a bad example with younger people with his fixation on selfies and hashtags...as if they matter in the real world. So I agree, he is contributing to/an exhibition of the extended adolescence in our culture.
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