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Clinton sharpens, Trump softens. He’s rising, she’s falling.
The Washington Post ^ | September 15, 2016 | Dr. Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 09/16/2016 10:04:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you are the status quo candidate in a change election in which the national mood is sour and two-thirds of the electorate think the country is on the wrong track, what do you do? Attack. Relentlessly. Paint your opponent as extremist, volatile, clueless, unfit, dangerous. Indeed, Hillary Clinton’s latest national ad, featuring major Republican politicians echoing that indictment of Donald Trump, ends thus: “Unfit. Dangerous. Even for Republicans.”

That was the theme of Clinton’s famous “alt-right” speech and of much of her $100 million worth of ads.

Problem is, it’s not working.

Over the past month, Trump’s new team, led by Kellyanne Conway, has worked single-mindedly to blunt that line of attack, on the theory that if he can just cross the threshold of acceptability, he wins. In an act of brazen rebranding, they set out to endow him with stature and empathy....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: hillary; trump
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

George Will and Krauthammer are so yesterday. Worn out elitists that do what all elitists do - milk whatever they can for themselves. Their taps are running dry...


21 posted on 09/16/2016 10:27:56 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Krauthammer lost me early in this election season when he totally discounted the possibility that anyone but Hillary, Bush or perhaps Rubio could possibly be our next a President.

And this was going on as we Freepers argued about Trump vs Cruz who we correctly believed would be the finalists on the GOP side. And while the great majority of Freepers had foreseen correctly that Trump would win the nomination and was the likely winner in November against Hillary.

So that Political Commentator Genius label that Krauthammer wears has faded for me. I no longer see any value in his opinion on anything let alone Trump vs Hillary.


22 posted on 09/16/2016 10:35:13 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you should have endorsed. Big mistake.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, that’s it - Trump is doomed. Doomed I tell you.


23 posted on 09/16/2016 10:36:42 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: InterceptPoint

wasn’t DrK on the wrong side on the Sarah Palin fiasco, too?


24 posted on 09/16/2016 10:37:01 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

He’s a psychiatrist, an M.D.


25 posted on 09/16/2016 10:41:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

That’s an ouch.......:-)


26 posted on 09/16/2016 10:42:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

27 posted on 09/16/2016 10:44:06 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Illiarily is the mentally ill/staggering/falling/terminal left wing candidate for president!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary is now on a demented tweet rant. She and the MSM got schlonged by Trump today and they are coming undone. Good times.


28 posted on 09/16/2016 10:57:11 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

I used to watch him a lot. Dumped him when he stood against Trump.He can go fly a kite.


29 posted on 09/16/2016 10:59:05 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Sacajaweau

I’m beginning to think the more she lashes out and reacts to Trump, the more we will see dizzy spells, coughing fits...you name it. It probably spikes her BP, too.

When she can’t handle the heat, she resorts to one of the above tactics.


30 posted on 09/16/2016 11:10:29 AM PDT by hsmomx3 (Deplorable for Trump/Pence)
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To: TakebackGOP

On election night 2008, Krauthammer was beside himself with joy on Fox News when it looked like Obama was going to win. I’ll never forget it.


31 posted on 09/16/2016 11:24:46 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Grampa Dave

That’s a cute tweet!


32 posted on 09/16/2016 11:50:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: hsmomx3

I remember that after one of the debates with Obama, she was wrecked out and even cried she was so upset. I must have seen a video because that’s how I remember of things.


33 posted on 09/16/2016 12:13:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: hsmomx3

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/opinion/08dowd.html?_r=0


34 posted on 09/16/2016 12:16:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: miss marmelstein
Scott Adams's Dilbert has been a favorite of mine since I had a couple of point hair bosses decades ago.

One of my in laws will be voting for Trump, but he miss read Scott's tweet and thought that he was saying Illiarily would win. His wife and kids had to help him with this Tweet!

35 posted on 09/16/2016 12:21:53 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Illiarily is the mentally ill/staggering/falling/terminal left wing candidate for president!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t think people will buy into her tears this time.


36 posted on 09/16/2016 12:26:28 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (Deplorable for Trump/Pence)
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