Here is repost of another good post from CPE:
#1: Re; your McCain comment: Never make a public comment that does not bring you benefit.
#2: Every public comment will be approved by some, disliked by others. Work to increase the % of the former, decrease % of the latter. Never play for a tie, or worse, a loss. You are smart enough to know which is which before you speak.
#3. In today’s electronic age, every comment is public. Just ask Romney, Jesse Jackson (W’re going to cut the nuts....”) or even fumduck Obama (”Please tell Vladimir...”)
#4; Just because it’s true, you don’t have to say it. Just because John McCain is not a great “War Hero” for his time spent in captivity, the truth of the comment did not make the comment beneficial to you.
#5: When you attack personally, you give those attacked the ability to respond personally. If McCain now said, “Does Trump’s combover hide a hole in his head where all the brains flowed out”” no one would blame him. Yesterday such a comment by McCain would have been thought of as petty. Today, it would be a fair shot. Keep your comments about opponents to their policies, actions, demonstrable failures, not the people themselves.... (and why make the small fry like John McCain an opponent?) You’ll have enough real, meaningful enemies. Why add to them?
“Praise a person and their actions.
Criticize only their actions.”
#6; Never forget Rule #1 Every national election is decided by the 8-12 % “middle of the roaders.” Right or wrong, they like McCain. Whether they agree with his policies or not. the 8-12 % think he at least is a “nice guy.” Why take that shot when there was no gain in it for you?
“Why take that shot when there was no gain in it for you?”
Because Trump is Trump and if he stays the course and isn’t cowed by the opposition Trump being Trump could be the difference.
Look, I don’t agree with everything Trump wants to do, but my feeling is we need a guy who’s confrontational and will set these jokers on their heels. Anyway, I like him and I hope he doesn’t worry about what others think of him and does and says what he thinks is right. If at the end of the day he loses because of that, so be it. At least he was willing to say what needed to be said, like in this case with McCain. McCain’s not off limits just because some people call him a war hero. Maybe he was, but that has nothing to do with his political record which stinks.
Trump’s a lot like Obama who also couldn’t care less what others think of him. We need one of those guys.
Trump’s never going to change and I hope he doesn’t. If the 8%-12% don’t like him after it’s all said and done, fine. At least Trump made it interesting. America’s answer is not coming from any political candidate anyway. America’s answer will come from the American People when they decide through their individual states, to take back THEIR country, THEIR freedom, and THEIR Constitution by nullifying unconstitutional federal acts which by definition are acts of tyranny.