Posted on 02/07/2019 6:01:14 AM PST by Zakeet
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi withdrew her original State of the Union invitation, preventing President Trump from delivering the address as scheduled on January 29, she was probably surprised when he responded with such calm forbearance: "This is her prerogative. I will do the address when the shutdown is over." By the time Trump finished the rescheduled speech Tuesday evening, she no doubt understood that her petty political ploy had been a blunder. Trump, being no mean showman, had long since realized that the highly publicized delay would increase public interest in the speech - and that is precisely what happened.
By the time he entered the House chamber, it was already obvious that the national audience would very likely exceed last year's larger-than-usual viewership for such speeches. This is not typical for the SOTU address. The normal pattern is a reasonably large audience for a president's first address, followed by a gradual decline in public interest each year thereafter. ... According to a report in the Hill, broadcast TV numbers from Nielsen show the audience share was 10 percent over last years speech.
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Moreover, CBS and CNN conducted polls of public reaction to Trumps words and the vast majority of viewers liked what they heard. The CBS/YouGov poll found that 76 percent of the public approved of the address, including 97 percent of Republicans and a whopping 82 percent of Independents. And a majority of viewers agreed that the President accomplished one of his primary goals for the address - improving national unity.
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And, in more than one case, their answers debunked Democrat talking points. A particularly glaring example of this was the public's response to his points on illegal immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
She’s trying to tie a cherry stem into a knot for all the good it will do her. /s/
“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.”
Napoleon I
I agree with all your points, except I don’t think he’ll win many of them over. I worked around many liberals over the years and there’s no winning over people who are incapable of accepting logic, reason and the lessons of history. Make no mistake, they want to control us, restrict our freedoms, and make government the end all in our lives. Their relentless drive toward socialism is just a first step toward even greater evils. I’m afraid our differences with them are simply irreconcilable.
The Democrat Party of today is moving ever further to the Left. They have spent decades preparing for this moment in time having successfully politicized nearly every institution in our country (i.e., the education establishment, the media, the courts, entertainment, etc). This has been a crusade for them and they are not going to abandon that committment any time soon, if ever.
The GOP still labors under the illusion that the Left will compromise in the interest of the common good. The problem with that naivete is when the Left talks about compromise it always means “let’s do it our way”.
Please see my #23 (related comment).
Trump should send her one of those blank books with bound pages. It should keep her occupied for hours.
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He should include a box of crayons.
Trump engages people. He will actually sit down and listen and talk to them. He got This Jones to see his side, although he’s now gone back to trashing the president.
I think in their hearts, they know he’s right.
Another thing. These democrats are thinking that all these immigrants from the SA are going to vote democrat? Bull Crap. These people for the most part are Christian and conservative. Strong Family. They will vote republican. You watch.
Another strategic move by the President, perhaps overlooked, was to take his time and cover a broad range of topics. The result was that his speech ran 1 hour 20 minutes. When it was over, most of The Country was ready for bed and had no time (or inclination) to listen/watch the fat, ugly, gap-tooth socialist give the dem reply.
Shes just a Dem Bulb...
Botox won’t deal or give up, so in 9 days Trump can call it the BOTOX SHUT DOWN PART 2.
She is batting SO far out of her league ... !!!
Between that and the shuffling of papers
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The papers was a copy of the speech that the President handed
her just before the speech. I assume she was following along
as he made the speech. Just a guess.
Even if the SOTU ran over, the TV would have been SHUT OFF after the President finished. WE had no desire to listen to the 2 faced lair give a response.
This house does NOT watch NFL or other anti-American screed. It does fly the Flag, we have 5 buried under it, more to go. We like our Guns, Hubby is 20 yr career Navy, Ret. SCPO. We also like being Christians and FREE.
Yep, nasty nanny really showed her petty hate for Trump. Vile is a good word. The rat party people are the arrogant snobs. They cannot change. They are too self righteous to change. They want you and me gone. Erased from existence.
Think of it like this...if you’re the odd, geeky, smart kid in school....you get pummeled by the rich kids......
MAGA is you and me. We are the TeaParty, not President Trump. Trump is the Rocky taking all the blows for us. Clobber Lang is the Rat party.
POTUS needs us......we are “Adriane....Adriane”
“Just cook the meat....”
We are MAGA. We are Trump. Trump is Rocky. We are Adriane. We must fight Now. There IS no tomorrow!
I enjoyed that article. Trump does know how public relations and promotions work. Nancy did his work for him by making a big deal of postponing the address, creating a drama between her and Trump, so of course when the speech did happen viewership was up and Trump had a home run speech ready for that increased audience.
I wonder if this occurred to Nancy while she was sitting there adjusting her dentures.
My favorite part was when he let the non-hooded klanswomen have their little self-congratulatory pep-rally, then went right back to praising the real heroes of this country.
I do agree that there’s an opportunity for Trump to bring a lot of immigrants over to his side for the reasons you cited but also because a strong economy is good for them too. If the Democrats thought there was a chance for Trump to do this they would build the biggest border wall in history. LOL
With regard to what’s in liberals’ hearts, the reality is that they want power and they want things their way. That is never going to change. Thinking about converting’ them is simply wishful thinking and a waste of time. They see the world purely in emotional and often irrational terms. They are addicted to their liberal ideology. How do you win over people like that?
Bear in mind my first comment above regarding your own point about immigrants voting conservative. Democrats should be able to see the logic behind that — but they don’t and won’t. They are immune to logic, just like they refuse to see any unintended consequences from the crazy things they want to do. They simply block out inconvienient facts. And that is one of the things that makes them so destructive and dangerous.
You’re never going to peel off those hard core 20% lefties, but OTOH, there’s a fair number of them who are closer to being INdependent, who might come over to Trump’s side ON SOME ISSUES.
The trend now is to NOT buck Pelosi or Schumer. If Trump can peel off a couple of them, and gets a couple wins in his pocket more will come.
BUT HE’S GOT TO HAVE 100% SUPPORT FROM THE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. 100%...
But even then, there's the inevitable "morning after."
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, each time expecting a different result. Yep. They're insane.
Don’t get me started on the House and Senate Republicans.
Imagine the progress we could have made over the last two years if those feckless backstabbers had instead backed our presdient. The GOP politicians kind of reminds me of Patton’s comment about having the French behind him.
“”let the non-hooded klanswomen “”
You got that right.
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