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Predictable Political Maneuverings: Two Weeks Ago We Dispatched A Warning About Hugh Hewitt
The Last Refuge - Conservative Treehouse ^ | September 3, 2015 | Sundance

Posted on 09/04/2015 12:53:55 PM PDT by Sontagged

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To: DoughtyOne

I meant see post number 22 for more on Cruz’s liabilities: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3333152/posts?page=22#22


81 posted on 09/04/2015 2:41:05 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: Sontagged

I knew about that one. There’s one more too.

I’m sure there are many more if we looked into it.

Not interested in taking him down because I do want Cruz as the V.P.

I just get tired of the one way street.


82 posted on 09/04/2015 2:44:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Sontagged

Hugh Hewitt has been extremely up front about the questions he will ask candidates, both on his radio program, and when he is a moderator at the debate.

Salem also is extremely up front. There are no hidden agendas or back room strategies. There were no gotcha questions because Hewitt’s questions have been known for weeks.


83 posted on 09/04/2015 2:53:33 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

That’s fine but please take the “GOPe Roadmap To Victory Challenge” before you write off Sundance’s theories (and get back to me):

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/09/gope-2016-road-map-to-victory-tree-house-challenge/


84 posted on 09/04/2015 2:58:20 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: Mouton

You speak truth brother.


85 posted on 09/04/2015 3:00:55 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Cruz is a liability on the Presidential ticket, fine for SCOTUS.


86 posted on 09/04/2015 3:04:23 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: hoyaloya

It’s not important that candidates pass trivia tests, I agree. That’s inside the beltway perspective, imposed on candidates for decades by Washington press corp, who want to revel in their minutia as an intellectual status symbol. I’ve longed for years for some candidate to brush it off on the way past the questioner to an articulation of the correct principle. Principals make encyclopedic knowledge unnecessary.

That said, this is the opposite of what Trump is doing. The candidate who would simply say “I don’t recognize the name. What’s the point of the question?” - would be the one I’d like. But the opposite of this is to be thin-skinned and whiny, complaining that some reporter is trying to play “gotcha”, as if the leader of the free world is not going to have “gotchas” played on him all day long.

Trump is not brushing past trivia in order to articulate principle (which would Reagenesque.) He’s whining. He’s a fragile flower with a thin coat of bluster on top. And not a conservative.


87 posted on 09/04/2015 3:04:31 PM PDT by Taliesan
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To: Taliesan

I posted Sundance’s article to show the concerted effort against Trump involves Hewitt, so we could see a larger map of what the Establishment is doing.

I.e. the way they are pushing back on Trump reveals their own motives and goals.

Trump needs to figure out why the Uniparty Establishment wants the destruction of this country, and it’s not because they are “dumb”.


88 posted on 09/04/2015 3:13:05 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: GeronL

So, who’s your man, or woman?


89 posted on 09/04/2015 3:31:48 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: DoughtyOne

HH is going to do what HH is going to do. Its not a big deal. He is going to co-moderate the CNN debate with Jake Tapper. I expect it to go much more smoothly that the debacle that was Fox.


90 posted on 09/04/2015 3:33:23 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: steve8714
Hewitt is a flea

I saw that weird piece of garbage on Morning Joe about a week ago and after spending some time giving the latest numbers on Trump and so on Joe asked Hewitt who, in his sage opinion, was going to be nominated.

Without batting one of his weird google eyes Hewitt said Jeb with probably Kasich or Walker as a running mate.

He had no time for and not a single word for any of the conservative candidates. It was one of those airy hand waves and let's get down to the grown-up topics of the day.

He's to creepy to be a full-fledged birdbrain of the establishment but it is his life's ambition.

91 posted on 09/04/2015 3:40:32 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Sontagged

Fifth-column SeeBS leftist skank, Scott Pelley, gave plenty of negative coverage to Trump’s answer to Hewitt’s question. Scott then switched to a story about Biden’s possible bid for the presidency, without even one mention of Biden’s cornucopia of incompetence.


92 posted on 09/04/2015 4:05:07 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse; DoughtyOne; BenLurkin; onyx; hoosiermama; RoosterRedux; Black Agnes

Sadly, I just caught Hewitt on OAN saying that Trump’s “temperament” makes him unsuited for office.

Signing a pact with the GOPevil might just be Trump’s Chamberlain moment.


93 posted on 09/04/2015 4:08:09 PM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: Sontagged
Trump is smarter than Hewitt by an order of magnitude.

It is easy for Hewitt to stand on the sidelines and snipe. I wouldn't blame Trump if he decided to not attend the CNN Debates because of Hewitt's pettiness.

No one would watch.

94 posted on 09/04/2015 4:11:04 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: bagman

hat the media does not like is being whipped by their own whip. The media as the right to whip but the those they whip have no right to defend themselves.

Good for Trump. If he did not like Hewitt’s questioning he has every right to fight back and let the chips fall where they may.


95 posted on 09/04/2015 4:16:01 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: Sontagged

I think so too. I guess Hugh would rather have a joyful tortoise’s temperament in the oval office.


96 posted on 09/04/2015 4:17:43 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: detective

I was thinking just that.

Those who want to skin Trump alive would not dare do the same to Hillary or Obama. Hewitt does not have the stones to attack Obama day after day. He is just part of the media weasels. It is amazing to watch.


97 posted on 09/04/2015 4:18:43 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GeronL

Rush: Trump Had A Fairly Decent Answer to Hugh Hewitt’s Questions, It’s Not Going To Hurt Him
The Right Scoop ^ | 9/4/2015 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 9/4/2015, 1:18:37 PM by conservativejoy

Rush Limbaugh talked about the Hugh Hewitt interview with Donald Trump today on his radio show and basically said that Trump had a fairly decent answer to Hewitt’s questions about the names of the terrorist organizations in the Middle East. And because of that and the fact that both Reagan and Bush had a similar problem and were both elected twice, he really doesn’t think this is going to hurt Trump at all.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3333160/posts


98 posted on 09/04/2015 4:20:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump, causes Beserk Trump Derangement Syndrome, aka, BTDS! Trump/Cruz 2016/2020! Then Cruz!)
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To: bagman

I sincerely doubt that. Trump is first class.

I question why Hewitt only interviewed Fiorina. Why didn’t he take a cross section of candidates. Why didn’t he grill Carson?

Hewitt set Trump up. Fiorina was way too rehearsed.

Trump will figure it out. He is a quick study.

Get over it . He will win the presidency!


99 posted on 09/04/2015 4:21:03 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: JustaCowgirl

“Hugh Hewitt is George Will with white hair and a 100$ haircut, disguised with a microphone.


100 posted on 09/04/2015 4:22:18 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump, causes Beserk Trump Derangement Syndrome, aka, BTDS! Trump/Cruz 2016/2020! Then Cruz!)
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