Posted on 08/25/2015 5:37:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican pollster Frank Luntz reported wobbly legs after hearing from a group of Donald Trump supporters, according to TIME.
Luntz conducted a focus group of 29 people from Washington, D.C. and its suburbs that either like or adore the GOP front-runner, paying each participant for the more than two-hour session Monday night, the magazine reported.
“I used to sleep on my front porch with the door wide open, and now everyone has deadbolts,” one man said during the session, according to TIME. “I believe the best days of the country are behind us.”
“I’m frustrated beyond belief. I feel like I’ve been lied to,” a woman said. “Nothing’s getting better.”
“We know his goal is to make America great again,” another woman said. “It’s on his hat. And we see it every time it’s on TV. Everything that he’s doing, there’s no doubt why he’s doing it: it’s to make America great again.”
After the group watched recordings of Trump's political flip flops and remarks on women, the individuals reportedly said they liked Trump even more.
“You guys understand how significant this is?” Luntz asked reporters, according to TIME. “This is real. I’m having trouble processing it. Like, my legs are shaking.”
“I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them,” Luntz continued. “Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”
Luntz conducted a focus group aired live on Fox News immediately following the first GOP debate early this month, finding mostly negative views of Trump – then also the front-runner.
Trump then went to Twitter to attack Luntz as "a low class slob" who "picks anti-Trump panels!"
TIME reported that most people in the room Monday night are angry about national security, including the nation's porous southern border with Mexico, and complained about the U.S. falling behind in the world.
People in the room also panned Congress. But when asked to describe Trump, they used words such as "tough," "successful," "has guts" and "kicks ass and takes names.
They get it.
They HATE the miserable, lying, treasonous,
selfserving, EXEMPT Congress, including
the complicit hyper-lying GOP.
“Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”
Blind Squirrel syndrome
The grassroots have abandoned them (the GOP “leadership”)? Hardly! They’ve abandoned the grassroots, assuming the GOP ever actually represented grassroots voters anyway...
Pints trying to save his career.
“I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them,” Luntz continued. “Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”
The GOP abandoned the grass roots, Frankie. This is the natural result. People have had it with the criminal class in DC.
The middle class is being destroyed by both establishment parties.
Who’s this “they” you speak of, Kimosabe? We!
LUNTZ
The Dems’ media pawns get tingles up their legs over their most promising and partisan candidates.
The GOP’s media have their legs shake at the thought of a non-uniparty candidate in the lead.
To the GOPe, the National Chamber of Commerce and the other K Street Pimps are the grassroots.
Neither do many Freepers.
I hear things all the time like “Trump isn’t a conservative!”
And that is where the disconnect is. Most people, most voters, are not political people.
They don’t care what an actor’s views are, they don’t care where a product was made, they don’t care if someone has a different view of economics.
For most Americans, politics is not something that defines who a person in.
So even voters who are conservative really don’t care if Trump is conservative or not.
Instead, they define him with words and phrases like ‘tough’, ‘gutsy’, ‘says what he thinks’, ‘tells it like it is’, ‘honest’.
Those words used to define ‘man’ in America. But now those traits are so rare, that when someone comes across that way it is refreshing and makes you feel good.
Trump wants to make America great again, and that idea, that concepts, those very words make people smile and think that if he wants to make America great again, then maybe America really can be great again.
I’m still voting for Cruz.
“They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them.”
That’s the ‘effect.’
The ‘cause’ was the GOP abandoning the grassroots.
We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years. The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters.
The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.
— Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006
Apparently Luntz couldn’t find any of those supporters after the first debate. What a farce.
Pray America is waking
first and foremost he is a businessman. He unapologetically speaks his mind and those two aspects make him appealing to a particular segment of the voting population that see nothing else working
Conservative or not Trump is definitely a Capitalist. More importantly he is a 100% dyed-in-the-wool American Capitalist. After the last 7 years that’s startin’ to look pretty good. He appears to love his country and hates seeing it lose over and over again because it’s being managed by incompetent schmucks.
The choice between ‘Rat and ‘Rat lite ain’t cuttin it...
“I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them,” Luntz continued. “Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”
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No kidding? Didn’t they even NOTICE the Tea Party?
They are the only constituents that really matter, after all.
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