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The Beginning of the End for Trump: His Sarah Palin Moment
Heff Po ^ | 9/22/15 | Arianna Huffington

Posted on 09/22/2015 10:39:11 AM PDT by upchuck

... moment in the political life of every big-personality, more-sizzle-than-steak candidate when they step across the line of legitimacy, or illegitimacy (depending on your perspective), even for media addicted to the high ratings these candidate-entertainers provide. That moment for Sarah Palin was her Katie Couric interview in 2008 -- the hockey-mom-has-no-clothes revealing from which she, and the McCain campaign, never recovered. In Donald Trump's candidacy -- which The Huffington Post is appropriately covering in our Entertainment section -- the equivalent moment might have just happened.

It was not the moment in the second Republican debate when Carly Fiorina carved him up like an Easter ham with her withering "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said" zinger. That drew blood (as did the dramatic 12 seconds she remained silent after her response), but it wasn't fatal. No, historians looking back will peg the beginning of the end of the Trump show to his New Hampshire moment last week. Taking questions at a town hall event in Rochester, Trump listened as an audience member asserted that President Obama is a Muslim, "not even an American." Trump looked the man square in the eye, and declared: "No ... He's a decent family man [and] a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not [an Arab]."

Just kidding. That was actually what John McCain -- the one Trump said is "not a war hero" -- said to a woman at a campaign rally in 2008 who claimed that President Obama was an Arab. What Trump really said was, well, pretty much nothing: "We are going to be looking at a lot of different things and, you know, a lot of people are saying that."

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To: upchuck
the one Trump said is "not a war hero"

My dear Arianna, Donald Trump never said (McCain) is "not a war hero."

Trump said "He's a hero because he was captured." I think he said that three times.

And again, my dear Arianna, that Katie Couric interview was highly edited - that's "doctored" to you and the folks in Rio Linda.

121 posted on 09/23/2015 7:32:10 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: JoeProBono

Is that a nose or a penis?


122 posted on 09/23/2015 7:41:28 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: The Final Harvest

I agree...


123 posted on 09/23/2015 9:29:04 AM 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: eCSMaster

BUMP & BUMP!


124 posted on 09/23/2015 9:44:51 AM PDT by upchuck (Drinking buddies and BFFs: Satan, nobama and the AntiChrist. Different subject: Go CRUZ!)
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To: upchuck

I puke on the messenger and her message is similarly a small bucket of puke.


125 posted on 09/23/2015 10:29:08 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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