Posted on 07/17/2015 11:14:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You might think that the recent poll showing Donald Trump spiking among Republicans is about Donald Trump. It is not. It is about the Republican Party and its very dark soul when it comes to immigration. The rank and file didn’t much care for Trump as recently as May. It swooned this month when it discovered he’s a bigot.
In May, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65 percent of Republicans saw Trump unfavorably. In their relative and blissful ignorance, these Republicans had it about right. But then Trump declared his candidacy in a frothing statement about Mexican rapists, and the GOP’s heart started to pound. The numbers got reversed. All of a sudden only 40 percent of them view him unfavorably. The rest — about 60 percent — can hardly quiet their hearts.
This stunning turnabout — this depressing and somewhat scary endorsement of frustration, fear and old-fashioned hate — is sure to be noticed by the other GOP candidates. Trump is now up in Jeb Bush territory — Jeb the moderate conservative, Jeb the realist on immigration, Jeb the scion of all those Walker’s Point Bushes and Jeb the husband of a Mexican woman. He cannot take on Trump by becoming more like him.
The very many others are not so constrained, and it is the nature of politics to move where the votes are. Moderation on immigration is, as Newt Gingrich found out in 2011, a loser in the GOP. What Trump is showing is not just that a hard line on illegal immigration pays off, but it pays off big if the overall message contains, like a rock in a snowball, a core of anger. As The Donald himself knows, his text is just a piece of his message. More important is his demeanor....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If the GOP has a “dark soul,” the Demos has a black hole (in the astronomical sense) in their collective cranium.
Nanny-naa-naa...I know you are but what am I.....See my thumb, gee you’re dumb.....we want a pitcher, not a belly itcher....etc.
He writes like a childhood bully.
In case people didn’t know, here’s what RICHARD COHEN thinks of Polish people. Not very ‘inclusive’ and ‘tolerant’, I’d say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060702583.html
Richard Cohen...he’s a one note nelly DNC operative. Always has been, and always will be. There is nothing racist to talk about the pain Americans suffer under the open border policy and even massive immigration as it stands now. Our country and people have needs and that comes before foreigners and foreign countries. We are being abused by our treasonous globalist leaders right now. They are not even respecting the constitution anymore nor do they respect the people’s interest they are elected to represent.
Finally, it’s the democrats who egg on race hate and even racial violence against white Americans. They are America’s racists and conveting radicals (communists) and always have been. When Cohen points his finger at Republicans, he has three fingers pointed at himself. Dems always blame the other guy for the ugliness and messes they have made.
Dick, you ignorant slut.
I just love it when the holier than thou sexual harrasser looks down his nose at the GOP.
He’s no better than what he denounces.
How dare you stop the invasion!
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