Pollutico is an echo chamber for the statists.
I understand the magazine version has lots of pictures...
Posted on 08/22/2015 5:28:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives
MOBILE, Ala. — It was immigration, not segregation, that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted — out for Donald Trump on Friday night, but the ghost of George Wallace loomed large.
Wallace, an avowed segregationist, was the last presidential candidate to win electoral votes as a third-party candidate. The threat of Trump doing so, propelled by a hardline immigration stance that many have condemned as racist, looms over the Republican Party now as it did over the Democratic Party then, even as the enthusiasm of his following, for once, fell far short of expectations.
Wallace carried five Southern states, and Trump, who is leading early national polls in the race for the Republican nomination, touted his leads in Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Texas.
Trump also panned birthright citizenship as a bad deal for the U.S., saying, “We’re the only place just about that’s stupid enough to do it.” Trump’s recently released immigration plan calls for ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, according to the legal consensus, though Trump disputes that point.
Trump invited Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of Congress’s most ardent immigration hardliners who helped the businessman craft his immigration plan, to the podium, where the two embraced.
He also attacked his favorite punching bag, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, on the issue. “ Jeb Bush, ugh,” said Trump, pausing for dramatic effect, before calling the former governor “totally in favor of Common Core, weak on immigration.”
Praising a woman who had brought Trump’s book “Art of the Deal” to the rally, he said, “I’ve got to get her the hell out of here, she’s so beautiful.”
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“Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace”
OF COURSE!!!
I was just waiting for the first media hipster idiot to run with a title like that.
Don’t try to pick a fight with me. That’s what I saw and that’s what I’m writing.
No mention of the fact that 20,000 is TEN TIMES the originally expected turnout.
Ben is a good little apparatchik....a tool of his master Soros.
I was there. 30k at least.
The sodomites at Politico, who work for the DNC, are not happy with Trump. The insidious effort to tear him down is well under way. Of course the way to do this is to subtlety create a toxic narrative about a person, such as lashing him to someone like George Wallace.
I watched the whole event on three different channels, FOX, znn, pmsnbc and if the stadium held 42,000 it lookd closer to 20,000 than 30,000 but it was a big crowd.
The people loved the donald and what he was saying and every pundit and politician that watched it knows that Trupmania is for real{outside of Washington}.
Clinton is too worried about emails to concentrate on the donald, but the professional hangers-on know that the demonRATs are in for a rough ride.
The economy is in the tank, the iran deal stinks to high Heaven, isis is murdering people all over the globe, ILLEGAL immigrants are raping and murdering American citizens every day, and Trump is screaming, "I will build the Trump Wall and it will be big and beautiful and it will have my name on it every 500 feet {both sides}.
You will get a good job and will love America {and your President, me} and all bad things will end, including obamacare.
I will fix everything, a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, a new trumpophone, and most of all, NOT A SINGLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.
Any one that watched this event knows that the people that attended and most of the viewers were in agreement and loved to hear someone have the balls to say it and say it WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING RIDICULED.
Sorry Ms M...not trying to pick a fight. I am quite worried about his safety. The left and the right appear to be getting unhinged about him as per the article.
I would guess very few could give more than a single piece of information about George Wallace unless they were at least 70 years old. This was a pertinent piece.
Well Trump has ONE thing in common with George Wallace, which is telling the truth, especially when Wallace said “there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties!”
Only when the RINO-Rovians are vomited out by the GOP like the rotten salmonella infested food they were, will it be possible to regain a healthy political body.
20,000 not a significant crowd?
Ben Schreckinger has his head so far up his Jebuardo that next, he’ll start speaking Spanish!
He’ll be fine.
I see you live in the Northeast part of the country. I live near Houston and we’ve been having thunderstorms/lightning conditions similar to those Trump faced. They are scary. It’s been the most HUMID spring/summer I can remember in over 10 years of moving here. It is like being in a sauna all day long and into the night. There is no respite from the oppressive humidity/heat. After 5 minutes outside, you have sweat dripping into your eyes. Wearing makeup is almost impossible; everything has to be waterproof to last. I thought Trump looked amazing, not only for being in the heat but for having the hot lights blasting on him, too. He had zip and energy which is the opposite of how you physically feel. The crowd looked happy, too.
I believe this was an anti Obama anti establishment rally.
Might want to bear in mind that Wallace was a Democrat.
I didn’t say he acted tired; I said he looked his age which is true. I have friends in TX who have been complaining about the excessive weather, lol. We northeasters often have trouble dealing with it. Also, thunder in the south is unsettling - we never have anything like it.
Pollutico is an echo chamber for the statists.
I understand the magazine version has lots of pictures...
This was a pertinent piece. s/
“the Democratic Party”
It’s the “Democrat party”; not “DemocratIC.
There is no more republican party. There is the only the ‘progressive’ politburo, and the ones they own via endemic corruption. There are a few conservative free agents, like Cruz. Trump is way out there with his rhetoric. Remember what happened to George Wallace. None of this is good.
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