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Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace
Politico ^ | 08/21/2015 | BEN SCHRECKINGER

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; benschreckinger; mindlessmeandering; politico; trump; wallace
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To: Flick Lives

Keep it up POLITICO. Trump will gain another 10%-20%.


41 posted on 08/22/2015 6:14:11 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: IronJack
Might want to bear in mind that Wallace was a Democrat.

He ran as an Independent in 1968, and when he returned to the Democratic fold in the '72 primaries, he got shot and damn near killed for his trouble, thanks to one Arthur Bremer and whoever was behind that attempted assassination. Then the 'RATS ended up being taken over by the left wing McGovern wing of the party, and we all know how that turned out for them.
42 posted on 08/22/2015 6:15:21 AM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Re: BTW Pollutico - Wallace was a Democrat.

BRAVO!!! Many people lose sight of the fact that most of the institutionalized racism and bigotry ( i.e. the Jim Crow Laws ) which existed after the Civil War and beyond can be laid at the door of the Democrats.

BTW Pollutico - Martin Luther King was a Republican.

Democrats even tried to smear Martin Luther King back in the 1960's - until they decided it was politically expedient to hijack the Civil Rights Movement!

Here is an interesting article from the National Black Republican Associatiuon

Democrats Smeared MLK

By Frances Rice

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-DemocratsSmearedMLK

43 posted on 08/22/2015 6:27:29 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Now darlin', he looked cool as a cucumber in his body armor, and you know it!

Plus, the crowd adored him!


44 posted on 08/22/2015 6:28:09 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Flick Lives

The ghost of Nixon is Hillary...

Hillary and the filthy lying democrats who back her.


45 posted on 08/22/2015 6:31:40 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Hillary done in by Anchor Emails" - freeper AU72)
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To: Flick Lives

Why post liberal propaganda?


46 posted on 08/22/2015 6:32:08 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Hillary done in by Anchor Emails" - freeper AU72)
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To: Flick Lives

What a hack the author is.


47 posted on 08/22/2015 6:32:27 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Flick Lives
What's great is that most libtards & progtards are historically illiterate to the extent that they don't really know who "George Wallace" was...

LOL!

48 posted on 08/22/2015 6:32:44 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Flick Lives
that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted

Seriously? A month ago, who would have predicted 20,000?

49 posted on 08/22/2015 6:38:04 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Oh heavens and it was opening night of hs football down there.
If that was Burney Sanders the MSM would be fainting.


50 posted on 08/22/2015 6:39:54 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: odawg
I heard that they were expecting 30, which is why they got the stadium, which (again, heard) holds 40.

Right there I saw the problem with the visuals of a stadium being 1/4 empty, knowing some would focus their cameras on the empty seats.

51 posted on 08/22/2015 6:40:04 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: GOPJ

Know your enemy


52 posted on 08/22/2015 6:40:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: FlyingEagle

I have a friend who was guarding Wallace that day and disarmed Bremer. He said when you are in crowds like that, viz. the Trump picture, personal protection is impossible. I am sure Trump was wearing a vest.


53 posted on 08/22/2015 6:41:24 AM PDT by quantumman
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To: mkjessup

“... and when he returned to the Democratic fold in the ‘72 primaries...”

He won the MI demorat primary that year.


54 posted on 08/22/2015 6:43:19 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: smoothsailing
Great photo!!!

I love the "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat. Sessions wore one in white at the rally. Hope they become "the fashion" for 2016!!!

55 posted on 08/22/2015 6:43:29 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: Flick Lives

Yes, as we all know ANY political rally that takes place in the south is automatically racist to idiots like this author.


56 posted on 08/22/2015 6:48:42 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: smoothsailing

Look at the expression on that woman’s face!


57 posted on 08/22/2015 6:48:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Flick Lives

forgot the barf alert


58 posted on 08/22/2015 6:49:36 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: Flick Lives

Everyone knows that Trump is not a racist. They’ve seen him interact with people of all races on his tv show and in his business life as well as his celebrity life. If they want to start this smearing of him as a “George Wallace” they will not have the desired effect. Foolish attacks of political correctness have failed against him so far and they will continue to fail.


59 posted on 08/22/2015 6:50:05 AM PDT by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: Beagle8U
He [Wallace] won the MI demorat primary that year.

He did indeed, in addition to the Maryland primary, and in Florida, Wallace won EVERY county. He had a lot of grassroot support (as did Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson who actually had more delegates than Wallace at the convention, 525 to 382, of course nobody shot Jackson), all of which is why I think there was more to Bremer's assassination attempt in Laurel Maryland than will ever be known.
60 posted on 08/22/2015 6:50:09 AM PDT by mkjessup (Iran has an ayatollah for it's 'supreme leader', America has an ASSAHOLLAH !!!)
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