Posted on 08/26/2015 12:38:42 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
This past week, Donald Trump just did his most outrageous thing yet: he started being less outrageous. It's time to acknowledge he's too smart to risk flaming out. On the contrary, like any other pol, he'll reposition as needed to stay viable as the campaign trail winds on.
Here are five ways he's crossed the line into conventional-candidate territory:
1. He's got an electoral strategy. Phase I was a national air war at cable-network expense; Phase II means ground troops at the state level. Picking Alabama for his recent rally shows that, whatever happens in the Iowa and New Hampshire beta tests, Trump is gearing up to play to his strengths once the race goes geographic.
2. He's tamping down the rhetoric. Gone is broad-brushing Mexicans as "rapists"; these days on "Face the Nation," he singles out "tough dudes" in urban Latin gangs that he says are the real problem in Baltimore, St. Louis and beyond. He's now trumpeting the "very big, very beautiful gate" smack dab he'll put in the middle of his Mexico-financed wall, to let "the good ones" back in who have lived here for "10, 15, 20 years."
3. He's playing nicer with Republicans. "I have nothing against Jeb Bush, I think he's a very nice person," he told George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. On Scott Walker: "He's a nice man...I like him very much." The gloves may have been off in the debates, but he took care not to throw them away altogether.
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UH OH...this is YUGE.
Has he taken steps to get on the ballot in any states?
Have faith!
I’m talking about in the primary.
You just ruined it for all those Freepers who get great joy posting "In before Nick Carroway."
You should be ashamed.;-)
Sorry, but I enjoy being the resident conservative here.
And you do a fine job. A little obsessive, perhaps, but fine none-the-less.
BTTT!
....”I enjoy being the resident conservative here”...
Well what you claim you are that could be said to be something else.
People underestimate Trump. They think he’s stupid.
Thanks.
As I’ve been saying, his “madness” has a method and his bluster is intentional. It’s thought out. He can turn it on and off when he wants to.
They’re the ones that decided not to take Trump seriously and relegate him to the entertainment pages of their so called news site. They’re real journalists all right. I won’t read the rag.
You people who think he’s an out-of-control crazy are falling right into his trap.
do not click on the link
huffpo entertainment section
Hahaha. Craig Livingstone. I remember that name and that whole time. Wonder where that dude is now? Think he’d be in a Hillary WH? LOL.
Huffpo hasn’t moved him out of the “Entertainment” section yet.
Today’s media word for Trump: OUTRAGEOUS
That’s ok. Gives him more exposure to the LIVs not yet tuned into politics.
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