Posted on 09/25/2015 5:45:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
My initial reaction to the billionaire entering the race was decidedly negative. Words like "caustic" and "bombastic" – often used to describe Trump – don’t exactly bring to mind the sort of “reach across the aisle” leadership we need to get Washington functioning again. After four terms of two of the most divisive presidents in American history, the last thing America needs is another divider-in-chief.
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But as I listened to his words on the day he announced his candidacy from Trump Tower, I realized two things. First, there was no mistaking that he was all in this time. You could tell by the sincerity, urgency, and emotion in his voice. Second, everything he said resonated with my long-standing frustration with the federal government’s fiscal mismanagement and leadership dysfunction
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While many find the messenger and his choice of words off-putting, most republicans would have a hard time disagreeing with his positions. And the way they’re resonating with folks may actually galvanize the party behind a common platform: a common set of “calls to action“ that whoever wins the nomination must get done if elected.
Secondly, any candidate capable of beating Trump will have to be very strong indeed. That candidate will have to have the party and the people behind him or her 100 percent. For the past two elections, the party has chosen weak candidates seemingly by default. That will not happen this time.
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-——After four terms of two of the most divisive presidents in American history, the last thing America needs is another divider-in-chief.-——
If staying mute against the lies and slander of the democrats, Bush endured is being divisive....
I might need a new dictionary....
If its better than Trump its from the future, from another galaxy, or a clone.
America should just skip all the debates, the media taunt shows and just hold the election next week.
Thats the problem, its like wsiting for a movie to begin in the movie house, by the time the main feature starts all your popcorn is gone.
Really. I really, really liked W as a man, thought if he had somehow quit after four years he would have gone down as a really good president. But his (and Rove’s) unwillingness to fight against the lies, more than anything else, gave us not only Obama but the Dem House/Senate from 2006-2010.
“Words like “caustic” and “bombastic” – often used to describe Trump”...
Hell, that could be said of 95% of ALL New Yorkers, its not that they are bad people, its just the way they come across.
The rest need to drop out of the race if they cared about this country. It’s obvious he has the best shot at representing us. The longer it drags on the more I resent the mediocre.
Ping.
(which is what free, capitalistic America was meant to be and prospered under)
A basic sense of American patriotism with a heaping side of American arrogance
(which we were so often accused of and we didn't much give a shit WHAT others thought of us)
and a history of accomplishment that inspired and challenged the planet to emulate us, and angered the various ruling powers that loved evil
All wrapped up in a Sunday that shut the country down so we could be quiet for at least a day
That one day of rest was what made us great
Our decline started when we began buying into the false nobility of 'work'
Well Rooster I think Trump is caustic, bombastic and a little too reactionary with criticism. Flaws indeed however he’s doggone capable and accomplished to get things done and he loves America. Besides who else can we win with in 2016? Therefore I support Trump but not out of fawning blind allegience.
LOL.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
And the US being a punching bag on the world stage.
Bunch of vultures, none have the full enchilada Trump has, not even all combined. Just gonna tarnish their reputation much worse in the long run years later during the next election.
Best to bow out gracefully than to be labeled now as something the voters will remember.
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If you can't honestly define the enemy, you can't win the war.
Even Obama knows this, which is why he refuses to permit anyone in his administration to use the term "radical islam" (and, of course, we know, it isn't radical islam anyway...it's just islam).
Reach across the aisle? Only if done, as Mark Levin used to say, to “reach across the aisle and give them a slap!”
An enemy must be defeated. The GOPe has conflated compromise with capitulation.
It’s simple:
We’re sick of the perfidy of our elected representatives helping fraudulently documented foreigners invade our country.
It’s simple really.
2016 is going to be all about POPULISM! I hate to break it to the GOPe, or even to friendly fellow travelers like Mr. Limbaugh, but a Conservative is NOT going to win the race this time. A POPULIST will.
This is the result of years of pent-up frustration with bad trade deals, crony capitalist corruption, bailouts for “too big to fail” banks, and other events which have led to a general feeling across the political spectrum that elites have stacked the deck against the little guy.
We can debate to what degree that is true or not, but that is the general feeling. And two terms of Obama have taught us nothing if not that elections are now won or lost on FEELINGS.
The only question remaining is whether the winner will be a right-leaning populist or a left-leaning populist. Personally I’ll take Trump over Bernie any day.
If Cruz of Trump can destroy the machinery that is tearing down our Constitution and our nation, then they have my vote. America is going to give the ballot box one last try, but I get the sense in talking with everyday people, that it is glancing over at the bullet box on the shelf with more frequency.
I know, right?
I quit reading after that.
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