Posted on 07/23/2015 3:13:15 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Donald Trump has criticized or mocked conservative candidates, politicians, and pundits nearly five times as often as liberal-leaning folks on his personal Twitter account.
A Washington Examiner analysis of the individuals Trump has mentioned on his Twitter feed — excluding mentions included in retweets or quoted tweets — found that the Republican presidential hopeful strongly prefers to launch attacks against members of his own party on social media.
On June 21, less than a week after launching his presidential bid in New York City, Trump tweeted that GOP strategist Karl Rove "spent $430 million in the [2014 campaign] cycle and didn't win one race." In a separate tweet on the same day, the billionaire businessman called the Fox News contributor and former Bush adviser a "jerk."
Since then, Trump has tweeted a total of 46 negative remarks about Rove and other GOP presidential candidates, politicians, and pundits in comparison to the 10 times he's gone after Democratic candidates, politicians and pundits during that same time frame.
-PJ
And I have heard him say multiple times that he LOVES HILLARY!!! He has two sides to his mouth....on ALL things!!
Pretty much everyone Trump has attacked has attacked him first.
No...I have a life.
Seems pretty far fetched to me. Why not just support Hillary instead of bringing up things nobody in Washington (including Hillary) wants to talk about?
Gee. Wonder why Donald is fighting back and not just taking it from the RINOs?
How about a link? I have found some links where Trump praised Bill Clinton, but nothing on loving Hillary. Many links attacking Hillary.
It’s the Ross Perot theory: that’s how Bill Clinton got into office, so it’s pretty reasonable to think the Clintons might have shopped for an ego to do them the favor a second time.
In which case, of course Trump would state conservative positions, because that’s the vote he’s trying to siphon off to assure her victory.
I really don’t know if that’s what he’s up to or not. But his bludgeoning of the GOPe right now is too delicious not to enjoy.
Trump is the drama queen. Where a tactful reply would work he goes nuclear to assure attention.
Bull. Rove is no conservative and most of the Republicans attacking him are damn establishment RINOS.
I’m really enjoying all the fear from the butt-hurt Bushies.
I’m not wrong in assessing Trump based on his history. That doesn’t make me smarter; it means that I look at his character and how effective he might be if he were to be president. He won’t be able to be effective if he’s run a scorched earth policy against both parties. The presidency isn’t an entry level job and real estate developer, reality show host, and gadfly are not the types of jobs that should be considered the career path to POTUS. I agree with a lot of people on politics who would not make a good POTUS. I don’t see that as disloyal to them or to conservatism. Lots of people have wanted Rush to get into politics. He’s very much aware that it doesn’t suit him. Trump has gotten the bug and decided he’ll first destroy anyone that’s not a fan of his and then he’ll be elected. It’s not just novel as a way to win and be effective; it’s wrong.
LOL!!
It’s the Ross Perot theory...
That only works if he runs third party.
I’m not a Bushy. I would most prefer Cruz. I suppose he’s not a real conservative, though, in the minds of Trumpies True Believing troopers.
Let me quote you post back to you
“Has he EVER said anything bad about HILLARY??? She zinged him the other day and he said NOTHING!!”
You don’t like Trump. That’s fine. Don’t tell lies though. He’s said plenty of things critical of Hilary lately.
I support Cruz, too but he’s smart enough not to trash Trump.
You like Cruz and yet Cruz seems to be the one out of all the candidates who get along with Trump the best?
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