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To: SeekAndFind

More bs from beltway pundits. NR will depend on liberals to stay viable after 2015.

Now for more real news why Trump is kicking asses across America and in the Beltway.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3331205/posts

Why Donald Trump Dominates GOP Race: He Has A Bold Agenda And His Opponents Don’t (Steve Forbes)
Forbes ^ | Steve Forbes
Posted on 8/31/2015, 6:32:31 AM by RoosterRedux

DONALD TRUMP’S CONTINUING surge in the polls has left his GOP opponents flummoxed and floundering. Some are trying to sound like mini-Donalds. Jeb Bush garnered eye-rolling publicity by referring to “anchor babies” from Asia, as well as Latin America, and muttering about the need for a crackdown. (How? By requiring a pregnancy test for every woman who visits the country and a forced trip to Planned Parenthood if she tests positive?) Scott Walker says we should cancel China’s strongman Xi’s upcoming trip to the U.S. to show our displeasure with Chinese foreign and economic policies. That’ll show ‘em!

And on it drearily goes. One would never know that Trump’s rivals have substantive records in politics, business and/or medicine. Instead they come across as high-pitched miniature dogs, pathetically yapping at an unassailable alpha dog.

They have only themselves to blame for Trump’s steadily increasing lead. Why? Because these veterans of the public square violated the first law of politics: They let Trump set the agenda. There was a vacuum in both policy and, astonishingly, searing criticism of Barak Obama (in the recent debate there were a few passing whacks at Hillary Clinton but hardly a mention of Obama). If you’d asked anyone before Trump’s roaring entrance what the other 16 GOP presidential aspirants stood for, at best you might have elicited a few mutters but no real enthusiasm. Everyone was just waiting for things to unfold. None of the 16 had firmly identified themselves.

Then, like a thunderstorm on steroids, came The Donald, and ever since the 16 have complained that they can’t be heard.


7 posted on 08/31/2015 7:27:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump, causes Beserk Trump Derangement Syndrome, aka, BTDS! Trump/Cruz 2016/2020! Then Cruz!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Because these veterans of the public square violated the first law of politics: They let Trump set the agenda.

None of them had an agenda other than they were not the other guy. I told someone last week it is not so much that people have picked Trump as they have un-picked all the others.

30 posted on 08/31/2015 3:16:53 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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