Posted on 02/10/2020 9:19:03 AM PST by Kaslin
Former one-term Republican congressman and radio host Joe Walsh recently withdrew from running against Trump in the Republican primary. He apparently got the message that his candidacy was dead when the Iowa caucus crowd responded with raucous cheers for Trump to his comment "if you want four more year of the Donald Trump show" and roundly booed his claim that the president "makes every day about himself."
Any birdbrain knows that Trump makes every day about us and the U.S. The only reason he has had to talk about himself is because he's been under constant attack, and Democrats demanded his head. Past Republican presidents likely would not have responded, concluding that it was beneath the dignity of the office. Perhaps. But at some point, you have to fight back, or you'll eventually be ousted. When they called George Bush a liar and accused him of starting a war for oil we never got but would somehow benefit him, he just took it and virtually disappeared. When you don't present your case forcefully, the accusations become the truth, no matter how false.
Republicans are trained to respond like that. When running for office, you are advised not to address outrageous accusations — because it drives more media and public attention to the issue, keeping it in the spotlight. Instead, candidates are supposed to pivot towards what they can do or have done or what one's opponent hasn't done, etc. The tactic of punching back should be deployed only in very rare circumstances. This might have worked in a more chivalrous period of American politics, but once the Democrats shifted to a strategy of relentlessly lobbing mostly false accusations at their competitors, Republicans should have altered their strategy.
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People often call him a populist but actually he’s more of a nationalist, that is he’s not strictly for one segment of society, believing in more of a “float all boats” policy.
Cult? Like the Obamunists? mmm mmm mmm.
I’m just a brain dead fox watcher cultist...is what I’m called...when I make a salient point that cannot be refuted.
In conversations, I’m required to produce a reliable link of the things I post.
Breitbart, Fox news, American thinker are right wing..they are not acceptable.
I know I have made an impact when I’m banned from the conversations
Another home run from American Thinker. It seems like they are on the top of their game most of the time, one of the best. Thanks for posting!
People often call him a populist but actually he’s more of a nationalist, that is he’s not strictly for one segment of society, believing in more of a “float all boats” policy.
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So what if people call him a populist. It’s funny to me that a group of people who call themselves “Democrats” decry populism. It’s like saying “We strongly support democracy!” while crying “That person is too popular with most voters!”
Is it just me, or does it seem like more and more columnists on the right are starting to find their inner Colonel Schlichter with their prose?
We are also the majority.
We also have all the guns and ammo.
And the left keeps agitating for war?
63,000,000 American voters = “Cult”
12 tut-tutting pearl-clutchers in the Every Other Wednesday Afternoon Womens Discussion Group = NOT a Cult
got it.
Barry R McCaffrey Verified account @mccaffreyr3 Feb 4 Our two political parties are broken. Republican Party a Trump cult. Refuse to hold lawless President accountable.
They call him lawless constantly, but never name a law he's violated. Phony bastards.
Like I’m gonna give a squat what a 77 year old clintonite has to say about me and my Vote:-)
Walsh claims to be a conservative.
Yet he hates Trump so much (for.....reasons...?) he’d vote for Sanders.
Conclusion: Never Trumpers are the cult. Their only sacrament appears to be losing elections.
“ Conclusion: Never Trumpers are the cult. Their only sacrament appears to be losing elections.”
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