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How the Republican race has become a total circus, explained in 1 picture
Wash Post ^ | 9/16/2015 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 09/16/2015 1:13:44 PM PDT by bkopto

After delivering a 13-minute "foreign policy" speech in which he touched only briefly on anything approaching foreign policy, Donald Trump began to throw his signature — and highly sought after — "Make America Great Again" hats into the California crowd.

Welcome to the 2016 Republican presidential primary race!

Trump has turned the whole process into a giant circus/game show/reality TV program. His speeches are heavy on bombast and lighter-than-air on policy specifics. He uses his Twitter feed and Instagram account to taunt his Republican rivals for being "low-energy" (Jeb Bush) or an "okay doctor" (Ben Carson).

He says things — about John McCain, about Megyn Kelly, about menstruation, about Carly Fiorina's looks — that would doom other candidates but seem to have no negative effect on his candidacy.

In short, Trump does Trump. And, man, is it an entertaining show. Hell, he gives away free hats!

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alltherightenemies; california; carlyfiorina; chriscillizza; demagogicparty; districtofcolumbia; election2016; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump; trump2016; trumparticle; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; yawn
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Scare quotes in the first sentence of this screed. The leftist opinion makers and the wall streeters are in a tizzy, throwing anything at hand at Trump.

Problem is, over the years, these leftist rags have lost all credibility, and any sentient person can see through their crap.

1 posted on 09/16/2015 1:13:44 PM PDT by bkopto
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After delivering a 13-minute "foreign policy" speech in which he touched only briefly on anything approaching foreign policy

So it was like an Obama speech, only 1 hour shorter?

2 posted on 09/16/2015 1:14:50 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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So it was like an Obama speech, only 1 hour shorter?

LOL indeed

3 posted on 09/16/2015 1:15:43 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: bkopto

The same type of man who screamed that Reagan was in a movie with a chimp and was a dim cowboy who’d get us all killed in a nuclear war.


4 posted on 09/16/2015 1:15:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: bkopto

It ain’t rocket science. Just need a true leader.


5 posted on 09/16/2015 1:16:11 PM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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6 posted on 09/16/2015 1:16:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: bkopto

So Obama’s Greek Columns and fainting idiots, er followers, were just good old plain politics. But this...this is just a reality show. I don’t know if the left realizes it but they cheered on a circus act 8 years ago, and not it is what it is.

Obama didn’t do any news shows throughout the 2012 campaign. He did morning talk shows, ESPN, viral videos and all pure entertainment. No one at the Post had an issue when the presidency became a celebrity figure and not an actual governing entity.


7 posted on 09/16/2015 1:16:48 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: bkopto

Problem is, over the years, these leftist rags have lost all credibility, and any sentient person can see through their crap.


So you suppose TRUMP is NOT A LEFTIST?...
On what logic?..


8 posted on 09/16/2015 1:16:52 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: bkopto

The sneer is strong in this one.


9 posted on 09/16/2015 1:17:37 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (the left has redefined the word 'racism' to mean any disagreement with any liberal about any topic)
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Actually last night's rally did the following:
10 posted on 09/16/2015 1:17:59 PM PDT by DannyTN
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ROFLMAO. I’m surprised that hat’s not in spanish.


11 posted on 09/16/2015 1:18:32 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: hosepipe
42 reasons why Trump is a conservative
12 posted on 09/16/2015 1:19:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: bkopto

If Trump is the nominee, I’ll vote for him. If it’s Jeb, I will stay home for the first time in 40+ years.


13 posted on 09/16/2015 1:19:18 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: bkopto

So Obama was really ilustrating how deep a thinker he was when he ran on two words,

HOPE AND CHANGE...now that was a real circus and the media was the lemmings.


14 posted on 09/16/2015 1:19:41 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bkopto

Gee, sounds a lot like the kenyan.


15 posted on 09/16/2015 1:20:03 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: hosepipe

Don’t get me wrong - I have my doubts about Trump. But whatever the coastal elites are against, I’m usually for, if nothing else than to poke a stick in their eye.


16 posted on 09/16/2015 1:21:14 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: dainbramaged

If Bush does the right thing and drops out I will reconsider one of the main stream candidates, NOT! This is way to much fun!


17 posted on 09/16/2015 1:22:18 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Not any specifics!?? really CNN? You’ mean like “hope and Change”??

Now there’s some specifics you can sink your teeth in.

That was all of the specifics you needed from ANY democrat.


18 posted on 09/16/2015 1:27:13 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: central_va

So, Trump should make a long spiel about just what policy he will invoke to run the country, just like the Professional Politicians running for office-—then, do nothing at all to chnge the country for the better but keep right on taking the bribes, etc they get for ‘conning’ the voters—Go Donald and give them all a new ‘a—hole”


19 posted on 09/16/2015 1:31:43 PM PDT by cmomm44
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To: bkopto

When these leftist media cretins created and anointed the “celebrity” candidacies of JFK, Zero (and the Clintons, for that matter), thoroughly unqualified lightweights that were big on ego and light on ethics and morality, for them to be complaining about Trump under any circumstances is hypocrisy on an epic scale.


20 posted on 09/16/2015 1:36:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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