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Donald Trump fires back at 2016 rival: You 'couldn’t be elected dog catcher'
Reuters/Business Insider ^ | July 1st, 2015 | By Colin Campbell

Posted on 07/01/2015 4:48:55 PM PDT by Mariner

Real-estate magnate Donald Trump fired off angry tweets at one of his GOP rivals in the presidential race Wednesday, accusing him of being a has-been who couldn't get elected to office again.

The rival, former New York Gov. George Pataki (R), has recently been criticizing Trump's controversial comments about illegal immigration.

Pataki told Business Insider on Tuesday that Trump was "disrespectful" and subsequently wrote a letter to the Republican field urging them to join him in denouncing Trump.

Trump, as is his wont, responded by trashing Pataki on Twitter:

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016gopprimary; donaldchump; donaldhump; donaldtrump; election2016; georgepataki; newyork; pataki2016; therug; trump; trump2016
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To: Norm Lenhart

No trump supporter hear, but he was on Howie Carr and winked that you have to pay off politicians if you want to get anything done, grease the wheels.


41 posted on 07/01/2015 5:12:44 PM PDT by qman (The communist usurper must go!)
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To: jonrick46
"The Republicans don’t know how to handle the Method because the first step is to show you have strength."

Immediately strike their weakest point, twice as hard and keep pounding until you have total capitulation.

That's the only way to beat that Method and that's what Trump is doing.

42 posted on 07/01/2015 5:13:57 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: ansel12

“That is a weird thing for a 69 year old man who has been trying to run for office for 16 years, and never won an election, to say to his Governor.”

Six presidents who never previously won an election:

1. George Washington
2. Hebert Hoover
3. U. S. Grant
4. D. D. Eisenhower
5. Zachary Taylor
6. William Taft


43 posted on 07/01/2015 5:14:23 PM PDT by odawg
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To: bkepley

“Stay classy Donald...real presidential material.”

Like Jimmy Carter?


44 posted on 07/01/2015 5:15:07 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Mariner

Which has voters that candidate hop like a hooker with a crack habbit. So that likely isn’t a big hurdle for him to overcome with reality TV theatrics.

See: Perry/Rubio/Paul/Walker and the entire 12 primary for details.

Yea hes 100% right on this. But what lies beyond that is the problem.


45 posted on 07/01/2015 5:15:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: bkepley
He says what his "conservative" followers want to hear. And they eat it up.


46 posted on 07/01/2015 5:15:58 PM PDT by South40 ("I probably identify more as a democRAT" ~Donald Trump)
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To: qman

And thus he is already cool with crony capitalism and political graft.

Not a plus.


47 posted on 07/01/2015 5:16:12 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: bkepley

While I don’t support Trump for pres, I’m truly enjoying this back and forth with libs play out. It’s refreshing to hear somebody put them in their places.

As for his political experience: I’m not a D.C. elite snob. I’d love to have some fresh blood in the swamp.


48 posted on 07/01/2015 5:17:18 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: ansel12

“That is a weird thing for a 69 year old man who has been trying to run for office for 16 years, and never won an election, to say to his Governor.”

Well said. It is Trump who cannot be elected even as a dog catcher. Just watch this freak turn this primary from liberalism’s failure to Trump’s private freakshow.


49 posted on 07/01/2015 5:17:40 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Norm Lenhart
"Not a plus"

I'd rather do business with the John than the whore who took the money.

Where is the money coming from for the ENTIRE rest of the GOP field?

50 posted on 07/01/2015 5:22:22 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner

Dons ‘business’ partners. Thus the problem


51 posted on 07/01/2015 5:23:53 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Mariner
"You're conceding the GOP and General Electorate is really stupid enough for a majority to vote for him."

Well the "majority" was stupid enough to vote for Clinton twice, Obama twice, and now Hillary thinks she has a chance. And the GOPe has been been leading conservatives around by the nose for decades, fooling them into accepting "reach across the aisle" RINOs as conservatives while betraying their base by supporting Democrat policy.

At least Trump isn't afraid to call these wimpy "Republicans" out. I want to see more of this. If the Republican Party can't take it, well, just too bad for them. I think Trump should just call the Republicans "racist." That will cow them and have them them licking Trump's shoes clean.

52 posted on 07/01/2015 5:32:48 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Mears

Trump sold Paradise Island in the Bahamas to Merv.

After the Deal was done, Trump said Merv got the short end of the Deal. Merv denied it.

Don’t know what transpired that would make Trump act like he screwed over Merv in the Deal.


53 posted on 07/01/2015 5:33:42 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Erections have Consequences, just ask Obama's Parents. Oh wait, they're Dead.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Thank you.

I loved Merv——even the coconut song.:-)

.


54 posted on 07/01/2015 5:36:19 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mariner

I believe you have nailed it! Just what I was thinking.


55 posted on 07/01/2015 5:40:11 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental deficiency: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: onyx

There is no reason why Pataki is running except maybe blind ambition flying in the face of reality. Ditto Trump. Lucky we have some actual strong conservatives in the mix. Let’s see how it plays out and who survives the librul shredding machine.


56 posted on 07/01/2015 5:47:25 PM PDT by Chatlee
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To: odawg

First, that has nothing to do with my post, and how stupid Trump’s remark was, zero.

As for your list, Trump didn’t command American forces in it’s two biggest wars, and Trump wasn’t in politics and Secretary of War like Taft who was the U.S. Solicitor General, judge, Governor-General of the Philippines, and other offices, ditto Hoover.

As far as George Washington, as you dare compare this real estate/TV personality huckster with Washington and the other great men of American history.

Washington was a lifelong politician, who lost his first election in 1755, but was elected in 1757, and he held elective office for about 25 years, spread out over 42 years of his life.

Trumps remark to a man who was his Governor, has been elected Mayor, and into the state Assembly, and the state Senate, that he couldn’t be elected a dog catcher, is stupid.


57 posted on 07/01/2015 5:50:28 PM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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To: StormEye
Well the "majority" was stupid enough to vote for Clinton twice, Obama twice, and now Hillary thinks she has a chance.

Do you realize that Bill Clinton is Trump's favorite President, and that Trump has supported Hillary, and that Trump left the GOP and was a democrat from 2001 to 2009?

Trump joined the party of the Al Gores' and Clintons, and Obama, and John Kerry.

58 posted on 07/01/2015 5:54:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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To: ansel12
Pataki said Trump was "disrespectful" in his comments about illegal immigration.

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That is a weird thing for a 69 year old man who has been trying to run for office for 16 years, and never won an election, to say to his Governor.

Hi ansel12,

If you prefer, feel free to respect for illegal alien robbers, murderers, rapist, drunk drunk drivers, burglars, gangs and thieves.

Maybe Trump will strive and endeavor to be as good as these career professional politicians.

59 posted on 07/01/2015 5:54:46 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rikkir

It was Pataki’s 30 year old son-in-law, who suffered the serious stroke. Sad news...prayers up. Seems like Pataki should be focusing on family - since he did suspend his Presidential campaign over this - rather than shoot arrows at Trump, over illegals.


60 posted on 07/01/2015 5:55:14 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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