Posted on 07/02/2015 9:01:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump is not the most cautious speaker in the Republican presidential primary field.
He's in a public feud with the nation's largest Spanish-language television network, one of its premier broadcast networks, and a major retailer over comments suggesting Mexican immigrants are "rapists" and drug runners.
And despite all that, Trump is rising in recent polls, placing second both in national surveys and in polls of key early-voting states.
This means one thing: In a little more than a month, the outspoken Trump will almost certainly be one of the candidates who polls high enough to earn a spot onstage at the first Republican primary debate. He is now in seventh place, according to the Real Clear Politics average of five recent national polls — the top 10 make it into the debate.
It's a potential disaster in the making for Republicans who desire a more prim and proper run-up to selecting their nominee.
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Walker has not declared.
First, who cares what the GOP establishment wants.
Second, It’s eyeopening to see how the media is ALREADY twisting a GOP candidates words to attempt to help the Dems.
By the time the primaries get rolling Trump will be an afterthought and out of the race.
But he is doing two things that none of the others, including Cruz, my favorite, are doing: 1) he is addressing in a combative manner that is getting attention the critical issue of illegal immigration and he is doing it partly as an aspect of national security . . . which it IS.
2) He is showing that he is unafraid of the PC police, the liberal media, and all attempts to shut him up. He has NOT issued and "apology" for anything.
THAT is what our side is waiting for. Everything else is meaningless if you don't win, especially if you "lose gracefully." We are dying for anyone who will fight for ANY of our ideas unapologetically, and just because he doesn't (yet) fight for ALL my ideas, I'll take something over nothing. And that's Trump's appeal.
Trump is running in the Republican Party, not as an independent.
They should calm down. When the punch line arrives, that the new Donald is just as temper tantrum-driven as the old Donald, that will take Donald out of the picture.
He’s saying stuff many of us feel
He’s not a politician
He fights
He’s very flawed but there is an honesty to his brashness
Once again, the GOP is quite capable of losing with or without Trump.
regardless of Trumps liberalism or donations to democrats.
Trumps strength(at least for the time being) comes from others weakness.
[[Donald Trump is quickly becoming the GOP establishment’s worst nightmare]]
Yeah, his “I’m very rich” and his “I know very rich people”and his “I’ll put up a wall and make mexico pay for it” must really have them trembling-
Ted Cruz hasn’t even yet begun to fight- when he does- when the rubber meets the road- THEN the GOP-e will be trembling
Trump is slash and burn...the landscape we are faced with is in need of dire measures.
Were he absent we would have milk toast conversations, broad-based accolades with no real answers to the fact that the entire country is under a carpet-bombing of UN-State Dept. dumping of 3rd worlders in tandem with the SW open border.In addition to the cultural devastation. Walker is bought, Ben Carson, what will he do on this? its down to Cruz & Trump as the only ones drilling down.
A “prim and proper” run up so they an nominate one of their own and stab allofus in the back along with their gentry liberal friends.
Any man that calls Michelle Malkin “stupid” isn’t very bright.
Cruz is going in the gospel direction.
Trump is being populist, better than nothing as they say, but his elephantine ego is driving it all in the end and he might even get the popular mood wrong.
"THAT is what our side is waiting for. Everything else is meaningless if you don't win, especially if you "lose gracefully." We are dying for anyone who will fight for ANY of our ideas unapologetically,"
NAILED it right there! sneaks
Hey EL
It’s because Trump’s shake up is stealing thunder from Ted and Scott
The only two candidates most here tolerate
Freepers love their notions
Fox News
Richard Scaife
NeswMax
All the Bushes
The Kochs
Plenty so called GOP supporters have given to the toons either cause they were asked or for access
It’s the lay of the land sour as it might be
On a small scale
City of Nashville had taken millions from myself and others in my industry in 2010 flood wake
Who did we pay to get it back
Democrat lobbyists and Democrat council members.....Nashville city is a democrat lock
Even though I’m sure I have given more time and cash to conservative causes for 30 years years than 99% here
I’m working for democrats too By that logic
Per Free Republic keyboard arbiters of what’s conservative enough
I’m still waiting for that birth certificate he was going to produce any minute now. LOL
The man is a charlatan, an effective one but a charlatan just the same.
When he was basking in the hero worship after throwing Kadaffi off his property, only a few of us were asking why he rented the property to Kadaffi in the first place.
What will you do with ISIS?
How will you get rid of Obamacare?
What do you think of Hillary's e-mail stuff?
Things like this will start coming up. In fact, the minions in the drive-by media have missed the REAL opportunity to "get" Trump early by hitting him before he has developed these policies. (For ex., he said Paul Ryan was a "loser" because he said he'd cut entitlements. Well, is that because it's a bad idea or because you don't SAY that it's a bad idea?)
“Anything that gives the GOPe nightmares is OK by me.”
I second that emotion.
Trump is a bulldog.
The GOP-e: chihuahuas.
yes. we have plenty of time to watch him in the playpen
At a minimum, Trump may be elevating the conversation but, he isn’t going to file...
A bulldog that will probably end up locking down on his own tail...
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