Posted on 08/08/2015 9:59:30 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Battle of the Elephants: Making Sense of the Fox News GOP Debates
Robert W. Merry
August 7, 2015
The most revealing moment in the Fox News Republican presidential debate last night was when Donald Trump reacted to loaded questions and oppositional comments about his provocative statements regarding illegal immigration. For a moment the New York real estate mogul looked as if he might actually be feeling some slight quiver of defensiveness over his suggestion that Mexico was fostering this flow of its citizens to America in order to get rid of some of its most undesirable people. Clearly, he didn’t have an answer when Fox’s Chris Wallace asked him to back up his allegation with some hard evidence.
But then the scowl left his face and he declared in a tone of defiance and triumph: “We wouldn’t be talking about this if it weren’t for me.”
This reflected more than just Trump’s absolute conviction that he is utterly correct in everything he thinks or says. The fact is, Trump had inserted the immigration issue into the campaign in a way that most Republicans have been trying to avoid. In doing so, he touched a nerve in the American body politic and forced the issue onto the stage.
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Here’s the thing, you don’t say FU to Donald Trump, he says FU to you. Megyn Kelly should have known this before she said FU to Donald Trump. He has made it clear that he wants to run as a Republican. Fox made it clear that they don’t want that but who the hell are they to tell him to get off their stage and don’t get on your own stage because that might hurt Jeb’s chances? Trump ought to run third party after that BS. Why? because FU, that’s why.
Trump is learning that politics is way nastier than business,
And my experience (in a much smaller way, of course) has been that business can be pretty nasty.
Keep that in mind when he runs as an independent because he wasn’t Republican enough for Megyn Kelly and the gang.
If he does care about the future of the US, and I believe he does,
He will not run as a third party candidate. He knows we have a couple of serious,
Capable, principled candidates—most notably Cruz and Walker.
If he doesn’t win the nomination or is treated unfairly, and if he cares about our future, he will work for the election
Of one of these worthy men.
Nah, Trump running third party would hand over to Jeb his 15 min of me too fame. Even if Jeb got nominated, let Jeb flounder on Jeb, without having to blame Trump running third party as an excuse.
I agree with that actually. Mind you, I don't want Trump running third party but it's kind of like saying, I don't want a tornado to tear through my town. A Tornado is going to do what it is going to do regardless of what anyone wants it to do. And when it comes for your town, you only have so many options.
If Jeb is the nominee, it will make no difference whether Trump runs as an independent. It will be a repeat of Romney, McCain, Dole, or whomever the GOPe anoints to be defeated by the Dems. History will repeat itself, and no lessons will be learned.
dear rcone,
re: “And when it comes for your town, you only have so many options. “
1. find a basment.
2. find a ditch.
3. put your head between your legs, and you know the one-time-only drill.
lemme tell yas, lying in a ditch, in a Wisconsin summer, with carp angry at your intrusion, while watching a tornado tear up your mobile home park, isn’t the idea of how to spend one’s birthday.
trumpnado! Trumpnado!
As the little guy in the brown raincoat used to say ...
‘one more thing’,
when these folks are talking ‘entitlements’, they are talking your’s and mine Social Security, too.
Trump isn’t talking about messing with social security or retirement ages. He’s the only one I’ve heard even talking about creating jobs in America to pay for social security. Americans need jobs. Americans need to get their asses back to work. I’m not buying this 5.3% unemployment BS for a second. That doesn’t sound like a happy birthday btw. memorable though clearly.
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