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The right should denounce Trump and Palin (from an NRO/CNN hack???)
CNN Opinion ^ | April 29, 2011 | Will Cain

Posted on 04/29/2011 10:13:39 AM PDT by Baladas

(CNN) -- The other night, having a few beers with a conservative friend, I mentioned how hacked off I was that there hadn't been a wholesale denouncement of the likes of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin from conservative politicians and opinion-makers.

To be sure, many, many, many, many have denounced both -- but I think a chorus as simple and clear as a Cee-Lo Green song is deserved. It should be unanimous and unmistakable. (The past 48 hours should make it pretty easy to dump on Trump.) My buddy, though, responded with an (almost) perfect analogy. He said:

It's kind of like having a friend who's engaged to a total b!@$h. Everyone knows she's awful -- everyone except your friend. Do you:

a.) Tell him she's no good. In which case he will almost certainly kill the messenger. Pride will force him to dig in, he'll cuss, you'll cuss, you'll trade "you've changed" insults, and the friendship will be ruined. Or...

b.) Say nothing. In which case he'll maybe marry her, pay off her credit card debt, have a couple of kids, turn his drinking from fun to sad, and emerge seven years later divorced and a shell of his former self.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: palin; populism; trump; willcain
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To: Baladas
 

Jourbilists: Is there anything they don't know?

 

41 posted on 04/29/2011 11:12:01 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Shemp was the Fourth Stooge of the Apocalypse.)
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To: Baladas

Unless and until Sarah Palin herself puts “Sarah Palin” and “Donald Trump” together in a sentence, clause or phrase, it is political illiteracy to do so.
But this is CNN, after all.


42 posted on 04/29/2011 11:14:42 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Bad posters drive out good; don't post and drive!)
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To: Dead Corpse

” ... but her timing is going to need to be exquisitely done”

What the heck are you talking about?


43 posted on 04/29/2011 11:21:49 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: Baladas

I don’t think too highly of Trump. I do think quite highly of Palin. But all that is relatively moot.

The main thing is that I now know the name Will Cain. I know to keep an eye out for that name. And also that this Will Cain fellow is a worthless scumbag. Next time he’s on CNN, undoubtedly promoting some GOP hack politician, I’ll immediately discount his views on anything and everything. Frankly, he and his smug ilk can just go rot in hell.


44 posted on 04/29/2011 11:24:08 AM PDT by greene66
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To: coon2000
"I am voting Trump."

If he's smart he'll ENDORSE PALIN when he makes his "announcement". bttt

45 posted on 04/29/2011 11:32:25 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
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To: greene66
The main thing is that I now know the name Will Cain. I know to keep an eye out for that name. And also that this Will Cain fellow is a worthless scumbag. Next time he’s on CNN, undoubtedly promoting some GOP hack politician, I’ll immediately discount his views on anything and everything. Frankly, he and his smug ilk can just go rot in hell.

LOL (snort)

46 posted on 04/29/2011 11:35:14 AM PDT by NathanR (,)
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To: Jeff Chandler
The greatest president ever had an answer for that question:
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.

47 posted on 04/29/2011 11:42:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (What other people think of you is none of your business.)
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To: fantom

Interesting. So whom should the left dump?


48 posted on 04/29/2011 12:24:42 PM PDT by Force of Truth (You don't have to be smart or be good even. If you want my vote, you just have to be CHEAP.)
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To: frposty
If she jumps in too early, she'll suffer the same candidate fatigue others have. If she jumps in too late, she won't peak in time for election.

Add to this some of the goofballs jumping in this early and their antics, her timing could make a world of difference.

My two cents and worth the electrons they are printed with.

49 posted on 04/29/2011 12:49:27 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: Baladas
a wholesale denouncement of the likes of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin

In a pig's eye!

I'm taking names of any cowardly "conservatives" who are running for cover since Obama's "release."

50 posted on 04/29/2011 12:55:12 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: Baladas

Cain is a so-called conservative who writes an article that could have been written by the worst, foaming-at-the-mouth, nutty lib. What does Cain omit? The reason why he dislikes Palin. Nowhere in the article does he list any issue that he disagrees with Palin about. And this guy is an NRO contributor? Reflects very poorly on NRO.


51 posted on 04/29/2011 1:40:40 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: onyx; Josh Painter; Virginia Ridgerunner; Lakeshark

Ping!!


52 posted on 04/29/2011 5:59:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. TR)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; Lakeshark; Brices Crossroads; sarah fan UK; Victoria Delsoul
JP's gone.
53 posted on 04/29/2011 7:29:16 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; Josh Painter
Bummer.

A fine patriot.

54 posted on 04/29/2011 9:52:07 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Baladas

The “left” should denounce racist Holder, Obammy and Moochelle.


55 posted on 04/29/2011 11:22:28 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: winnotwhine
We—the right, true conservatives—should denounce that bloated, blowhard Trump. He’s in this only for his own ego; he’s not one of us. He’s a pretender and he’s using a conservative platform for his own self-aggrandizement.

Well! Mission accomplished! ;D

56 posted on 04/30/2011 12:59:28 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Baladas
I think a chorus as simple and clear as a Cee-Lo Green song is deserved. It should be unanimous and unmistakable.

Do you mean, Obama Stooge, something like this?

FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD!
FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD!
[Repeat ad nauseam]

Something like that?

57 posted on 04/30/2011 1:03:11 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Unless and until Sarah Palin herself puts “Sarah Palin” and “Donald Trump” together in a sentence, clause or phrase, it is political illiteracy to do so.

It's "bracketing", an underhanded propaganda technique (been around since before Goebbels).

Alinskyite journalists do it instinctively, in their sleep even. Even to Shari Lewis and Sally Fields and Big Bird. Depends who the hate-object of the moment is.

58 posted on 04/30/2011 1:06:41 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Dead Corpse’s exquisite timing remark:

Thanks for the clarification. You were referring to the timing of her entrance into the campaign. I thought you were referring to the timing of Trump-style bomb throwing.


59 posted on 04/30/2011 6:47:31 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; Josh Painter
JP's gone.

"JP" is a pussy. I've zero tolerance for someone who throws a hissy fit because everyone else doesn't think exactly as he/she does.
If Palin doesn't run, and win, "JP" will probably hang himself in his apartment. Of course before doing so he'll submit an entry to his blog!

Goodbye, cruel world!
(Good riddance, "JP")

60 posted on 04/30/2011 8:20:25 AM PDT by jla
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