Posted on 08/29/2015 4:50:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Spot On! That the Republican Establishment/GOP-E haven't picked up on this yet should tell us much about the "quality" of candidates running in this election cycle.
Waite till his tax plan is unveiled....he has a plan ...read this book....
A common sense point so few around here seem willing to acknowledge. I think we can count out Pataki, Graham, Gilmore and a few others...but I don't think we can make much of it in stone at this point. I think Jeb is going nowhere, and have from day one. I think it even more now.
With Trump - the lesson is air traffic control......or the analogy is air traffic control. It's a long long slog, and all it would take is one bad trip up. For ATC, 99.9% is not good enough. Gonna be hard I think to front run for the entire distance.
If you want to trust a ghost written book over the man’s life long instincts, go ahead. I’ll not join you in your folly.
Who have you ghost written for?
“gonna be hard to front run for the entire distance”
An excellent point, one not made often enough.
“Running” diminishes most candidates, over the long run. This process is much, MUCH too long, and it works against the people’s interest in self-governance through representative institutions.
I just hope it ends up a bit this way:
In January 2016, we are still hanging in there as a country.
In January 2016, the cabinet appointments look something like this:
1. A Surgeon General Ben Carson who has been tasked with destroying and replacing Obamacare.
2. An Attorney General (Giuliani types) who announces a mandate to prosecute the IRS scandal and other festering illegalities caused in past eight years.
3. A Secretary of State and Defense Secretary (Rumsfeld types) who are given the green light to go after ISIS, both of which will spit in the face of Iran and Cuber.
4. Secretary of Energy Sarah Palin (oh to watch the media soil itself for years on end over that one).
5. A Secretary of the Treasury who is a Friedman disciple.
6. A Czar from day one to deal with the illegals issue.
Probably a few others, but I have to run along now and stop day dreaming......:-)
In full agreement.
Personally I'd love to say, but um, there's a reason it's called "ghost" writing.....and not "publicly known pinch hitting." But there's three, and two related to politics you have 100% heard of....one of which you've 100% heard speak my words at some time....and one guy you've never heard of probably. Of the two in politics, one is a major, and I mean MAJOR media figure...the other was a Presidential candidate.
An irreverent (and perhaps irrelevant) anecdote that might appeal to you ...
“Poppy Bush came up with the idea that if Jeb would go skydiving, that it would generate some favorable publicity for his dying campaign, so Poppy Bush charters a plane, Jeb gets suited up, and when they reach altitude, Poppy opens the hatch, and says “enjoy the ride!” and pushes him out...
...Jeb is sailing down towards the Earth, picking up speed amd pulls the rip cord, and nothing happens. NOTHING. Alarmed, he pulls the emergency back up chute cord, and once more, NOTHING. No chute. Now he’s scared.
Jeb is picking up speed, and wondering what to do, and suddenly sees a man flying UP rapidly from the Earth in his direction, and as the man gets closer, he sees that it’s Donald Trump! As Trump flies by, he shouts “hey Don?!? You know anything about parachutes?”
Trump calls back down as he continues to ascend, “NOOOO, do you know anything about gas stoves?!?”
Most people don’t vote issues. They might vote political clan, but if you asked 100 people on election day what the detailed positions were on the candidate they’re going to vote for, you’d get blank stares out of 90. They vote for the candidate because they like him/her.
To a certain extent issues matter in the background, but not the forefront. It’s not what wins elections. And to the defense of the 90 out of 100, its been shown over time that detailed policy positions really don’t matter that much. Since when has a political candidate, particularly on our side, delivered on those detailed policy positions? Or even tried for that matter? Hell. They can’t even deliver on the broad issues or even be bothered with them.
It's drizzling here, the coffee is wonderful, and we get to have fun with the Donald on FR......
:-)
....you’re into the “first miracle” wine this morning, aren’t you????
LOL
Just poking my proboscis in here for a moment to say (to Fresh Wind) that C. Edmund isn’t blowing smoke here, I’m aware of who he has ghostwritten for, and while I likewise cannot go into detail due to confidentiality issues, the man is on the level and I more than respect what he has accomplished in his ‘outside-FR’ life. ;)
As Jimmy Durante used to say “I gotta million of ‘em!” lol
First you write:
“...and so often contradicts himself that eventually those who support him will tire of defending what it is they think he’s saying.”
Then you write:
“For the record: I like Trump. He speaks for so many people on immigration, the economy, government corruption and incompetence and more.”
Aren’t you contradicting yourself?
I guess I’m a little ticked at those who say - if all he does is this or that. IF he goes down - then what? Who do we have to fill his shoes? They will all go back to being the wimpy, spineless bunch of do nothings as we’ve always had. Ted might be a fighter, but, he is no Trump - nor does he have the same cajones and bully pulpit that Trump has. It isn’t enough, nor is it right, for him to have to do all the heavy lifting, just so someone else can steal this from him. Nothing will change if he leaves the race - NOTHING!
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