Personally, I do not think Trump can be stopped now. And, all the way to the White House.
Who knows, people may regret it later, but we won’t know how Trump will govern until he’s in office.
I’m saying this not as a Trump supporter or opponent, but as I see the momentum that is shaping up to be the campaign of 2016. The anti-incumbent/anti-politician thinking that so many people have this election is a very, very strong phenomenon and don’t think that’s likely to change—in fact, as more people pay attention, it will only grow stronger. It’s almost like the anti-Watergate era that gave us Jimmy Carter (ugh!).
Looking back on the 2008 election, it now appears to me that Bush had poisoned the well for any Republican. McCain had no chance. Stupid people thought voting for Obama would make them hip and cool to support a black man, and the media did its job by not getting into his details so people knew little more about him except he was a well spoken black man. Bill Clinton screwed up Hillary’s campaign with his screed after South Carolina, when he made remarks that the press jumped on to say the Clinton campaign was racist, and this propelled Obama further. The press pumped up McCain as an liberal Republican (The Maverick) but when it was Obama versus McCain in the Fall, McCain became a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal conservative, and picking Sarah Palin proved it to the low information voters who absolutely believe to this day that Sarah said she “could see Russia from my house!”
Trump is impervious to this driveby smear campaign. As they attack him on his faux pas, his support actually GROWS in the polls!
Why?
People—say the electorate in general, always fight the last war.
So, Carter ran as the anti-Nixon outsider, Reagan ran as the anti-Jimmy Carter “I love everyone naiveness”, Bush beat Dukakis by framing him as a Jimmy Carter-like moron, Clinton beat Bush because (Ross Perot) Clinton was seen as a Southern, not north-east bleeding heart “New” democrat. Gore almost won against Bush 2 using the Bush 1 versus Dukakis campaign tactic of 1988, but fell just short, as Gore was a horrible campaigner and debater. Obama won because people were tired of Bush, the war in Iraq, which the media spent 2003-2008 telling everyone that it was a failure, a morass we had slipped into with no way out, and Bush NEVER defended himself nor fought back. The bottom line is the pendulum really swings from one cycle to the next.
Now what do the voters have in the forefront of their minds?
Obama over reaches. Obamacare. ISIS on the rise. And remember Bill Clinton and “It’s the economy, stupid!”? Yeah, Trump’s absolutely hooked into that, as millions have lost their jobs, and illegal aliens have been hired in droves.
Trump’s stand on illegal aliens is actually an economic issue that stirs a “F Yeah!” in most voters, whether they admit to it or not. It really is a brilliant move.
The pro-illegal alien, pro-free trade with China, pro-environmentalism/Global Warming, anti-police, pro-political correctness movement noose is being steadily tightened around the democrat/GOPe necks, and the idea that Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce runs the democrat and Republican party elites in DC is growing, not abating.
This all plays directly into Trumps run. I see it as all but a done deal.
If anyone thinks otherwise, fine, but show me how Trump loses.
I’m with you AB.
Every single word.
I am okay if Trump wins though I’d have him do something with that hair.
I’m jus’ sayin’.
I disagree.
The fact is with Sarah Palin, the GOP actually had a lead until RINO-McInsane suspended the campaign and began campaigning on behalf of Comrade obamatollah.
Not coincidentally, this was when the GOP-E attacks on Sarah ramped up. Sarah recognized the GOP-E attacks and went "rogue".
So in summary, Sarah Palin proved a Conservative candidate in 2008 could have won the election...despite the failure of RINO-Bush.
That's the magic Karl Rove question. The easiest way it could happen is if one of the professional lifer politicians decided to stop calling it "immigration reform" and admitted that it is an invasion of illegal aliens. If that had happened at any time in the last (10, 20?) years Donald Trump would not even be in the race.
Instead we have a spectacle of all the professionals standing around waiting for Trump to fail. Like watching a running back break away from all of the tacklers, and the defense waiting for the runner to trip and fall down.
Wow. You two have made my Sunday. AB, I cannot argue with one word of this. Nor can I add anything. Between the two of you I’m sitting here with a giant smile on my face, enjoying my last cup of coffee for the day.
I fondly remember the first time I read Free Republic and the first day I listened to Rush on the radio. In both cases I felt the same way. It was heartening to learn others thought the same way I did and that we conservatives really weren’t alone in our opposition to the left.
Another item the media/press seems to be missing is the attraction of Trump by many Democrats who have been marginalized by the progressive left for the past number of years. It used to be called the Silent Majority and later called Reagan Democrats. If this election continues along the current path, I believe there will be a significant number of Democrats and independents who will be voting for a Trump presidency.
They're all in for him!
Excellent points. Spot on IMO
Brilliant post bud I totally agree.