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Trump becomes the 'new Sarah Palin'
The Quad City Times ^ | April 16, 2011 | Ruben Navarrette

Posted on 04/16/2011 3:03:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: GeronL

Trump is a shill and was never conservative. Trump is no Gov. Palin...


21 posted on 04/16/2011 3:31:01 PM PDT by hiram569
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I was starting to warm up to Trump, until I learned some things about him from the Mark Levin yesterday. Heard sound clips of Trump insisting that the Iraq war was "unconstitutional" and that Bush was the worst President ever and should be impeached.

Trump is no Sarah Palin.

22 posted on 04/16/2011 3:35:38 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Rocko

...and Levin has some great points regarding this Trump bump. I don’t think DT has ever considered the obsurdity of his past positions other than it helped him grease the buracracy in his favor.

But if he wants to be president, that’s a level of responsibility DT IMO has never seriously considered. Sarah has.

He is just a really good business guy, but sending boys to war?? I’m not there by any stretch. He’s got a lot of splainin’ to do and I don’t think his achilles ego can be controlled.


23 posted on 04/16/2011 3:36:07 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Shooting fish in a barrel since 1966)
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To: AndyTheBear
Our war in Iraq was as Constitutional as they get. Bush asked for and received Congressional confirmation well before any military action took place.

Compare and contrast to 0bama and Libya. How long are we going to allow him to give his Dem allies in Congress cover by NOT making them vote either for or against this military action?

24 posted on 04/16/2011 3:40:56 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: GeronL

Don’t be baffled. The answer as to why is obvious. We are no longer a serious nation with a populace willing to face serious issues. Roughly half the electorate will once again vote for Obama, a self-professed Marxist. Roughly half may be prepared to vote for a self-promoting, self-loving showman in the best P.T. Barnum tradition. The mystery is not why Trump has spiked in the polls. The mystery is how our once great nation hasn’t collapsed yet.


25 posted on 04/16/2011 3:41:56 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: GeronL

Trump is a fraud.

Trump is a fraud.

Trump is a fraud.

[How true. Can’t say it often enough.]


26 posted on 04/16/2011 3:42:37 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: allmendream
How long are we going to allow him to give his Dem allies in Congress cover by NOT making them vote either for or against this military action?

Think of it this way...

The Democrats are the Harlem Globetrotters and the Republicans are the Washinton Generals.

27 posted on 04/16/2011 3:45:33 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Shooting fish in a barrel since 1966)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump is the new Sarah Palin, then consider me the new Pissant - cause I'm going to be relentless here exposing him as the fraud he is.
28 posted on 04/16/2011 3:46:42 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Eddie01
Well unfortunately it is most likely that the issue isn't being pressed because not being on record voting for or against it is also giving cover to the Republicans - who don't want to vote for ‘0bama’s war’ that funds Islamic revolutionaries in Libya - or vote against a chance to get rid of Kadaffi.

I think, as per your analogy, the only ones getting ‘gamed’ is anyone in the audience who takes it seriously. Well, damn it, I take the Constitution seriously.

29 posted on 04/16/2011 3:49:27 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hardly, Trump is a liberal in conservative clothes right now, Palin is instinctively a conservative like me meaning all three planks of the conservative stool.


30 posted on 04/16/2011 3:55:13 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anything Ruben Navrette says is salient, WHY?


31 posted on 04/16/2011 3:59:36 PM PDT by Rytas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They know she’s inevitable.

They knew it the first time they saw her.

It's why they go insane every time they think of her.

ineluctable

32 posted on 04/16/2011 4:01:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Trump becomes the ‘new Sarah Palin’”

I doubt it, but we’ll see.

Donald Trump Just on Fox News: Bring on the Trade War with China
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624420/posts

Donald Trump Says He Would Threaten to Tax China 25%
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698460/posts

Donald Trump: Chinese ‘Looking to Strip Us of Everything’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2666755/posts

Palin Speaks to Investors in Hong Kong
(in favor of “free trade”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2346270/posts

The Chinese Connection via the CLSA: Sarah Palin Enters the Lion’s Den
(in favor of globalism)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2345119/posts


33 posted on 04/16/2011 4:07:30 PM PDT by familyop ("Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." --Foghorn Leghorn)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump’s own audio clips from Mark Levin show.

Devastating in my opinion, and I’m sad to say they were a real eye-opener to me. Decide for yourself. This is really, really not good.

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/04/sound-trumpet.html

Highlights:

He says he is “liberal” on healthcare, and that we must have universal Canadian-style healthcare 

He says he can’t understand why Nancy Pelosi didn’t do more to impeach the “evil” (his word) George Bush for “lying” to get us into Iraq.

He says he doesn’t understand why John Kerry didn’t win in 2004.

Said that George Bush was the worst president ever, although now he has changed his story to say Obama and Carter were the worst.

Don’t be fooled by this guy.


34 posted on 04/16/2011 4:12:34 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (The "11th Commandment" applies to Republicans, not RINOs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any comparison of Trump to Palin is such an insult to her.

I believe he is a fraud and watching all these FReepers getting sucked in makes me sick.


35 posted on 04/16/2011 4:23:34 PM PDT by justsaynomore ("We cannot fight a war being 'politically correct'." - Herman Cain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You may have to wait. Palin’s Wisconsin speech did nothing to unite the GOP in opposition. I found it incoherent—first she applauds unions, then she condemns unions.

For giving sound-bites to the dims, even Frank Lunzt couldn’t do better.

Lot’s of emotion, but nothing that will help win votes from conservative Independents.


36 posted on 04/16/2011 4:35:56 PM PDT by saltus (God's Will be done)
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To: bigbob

His track record shows that he throws his money behind the RATs.

He’s a fraud.


37 posted on 04/16/2011 4:48:12 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: saltus

She did not condemn unions. She condemned union leaders.

Perhaps you found it incoherent because you wanted it to be incoherent. There was nothing incoherent about it.


38 posted on 04/16/2011 4:58:19 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Trump becomes the 'new Sarah Palin'"

Um, no...

39 posted on 04/16/2011 8:12:58 PM PDT by redhead ("I think I'm the best fish filleter in the whole third grade." --Piper Palin)
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To: allmendream

Agreed, which is why this among other revelations about Trump made my opinion of him as a candidate plummet.


40 posted on 04/16/2011 8:51:21 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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