Posted on 11/09/2016 11:59:47 AM PST by Red Badger
I sat watching in astonishment. The one who couldn’t bear to show up to concede was not, as expected, Donald Trump, but Hillary Clinton.
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The Republican establishment couldn’t stand Trump. The Democratic establishment mocked him. The Republican nominee didn’t even really seem to have much of a campaign. He spent more on “Make America Great” hats than on polling. When I visited his campaign headquarters this summer, there were more pictures, paintings and cardboard cutouts of Trump around than Trump advisers. If you don’t count Newt Gingrich — and I don’t — only one major political historian, Allan Lichtman, had predicted that Trump would win.
But then the impossible happened. As Salena Zito had presciently written in The Atlantic: “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”
When the Apocalypse came at midnight and the TV analysts — even on Fox — were scrambling to reverse their analyses and justify their bad polling data; and the stock exchanges had to temporarily halt the futures market because it was falling too fast, and the world was spinning off its axis, I called my conservative brother to see what the heck was going on.
“As flawed a candidate as Trump was, he had his finger on the pulse,” Kevin said. “The polls were off because nobody wanted to admit that they were going to vote for him. But it’s a populist revolt and a lot of people believed in Trump’s message: too much regulation, too much government. The whole thing is a bunch of guys getting rich on Capitol Hill and not paying attention to the people who elected them. They stay in Congress a couple years, then move on to K Street and call on the same people who replaced them.”
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I’m just here for the CZJ pics, come on guys, RULES
Bullsh*t on both points. They just can't help themselves.
This old maid had to take a shot at Newt who will be returning to government next year and is a fine historian. Can we replace photos of Catherine Zeta-Jones with photos of Melania?
And the polling was off because they were +8 Democrat!
K Street = Kleptocracy Street = Ground zero of the DC swamp.
If you read her full column, her brother, a conservative, schooled her on the Trump phenomena..................
So Ms. Dowd, the fact that you didn’t get is because some strange event took place How about you didn’t get it because you only know what you want to know, in other words you have your head where the sun don’t shine.
Thank, you, just brightened up an already great day!
Days like these are golden, savor them. They don’t come often.
Maureen Dowd is the quintessential precious little brain-dead, self-deluded, self-righteous snowflake. Just a sickening example of the leftist delusions and fantasies. A Pox on her.
Seems the ONLY ones that loved him and took him seriously were
THE PEOPLE
Of course, we're the only ones that count!
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I saw Trump on TV last night in real time and he was not "terrified" ... he was humbled by the honor of being elected by "we the people" and the burden he was willingly shouldering "for the people". The Left doesn't know the meaning of "humble" anymore, nor do they recognize it after 8 years of the narcissist Obummer & decades of the arrogant, elitist Clintons.
The “impossible” is only considered such when one’s intellectual arrogance and blind spots block out the possibility of undesired outcomes.
Yes, he was humbler than a KKKlintoon could ever even pretend to be...................
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