Posted on 12/03/2015 8:39:05 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Even the pollsters now wonder if Republican front-runner Donald Trump is made of Kevlar, Teflon or maybe tempered steel. Despite the efforts of an unfriendly news media and hostile political operatives, Mr. Trump continues to best the competition on both sides of the aisle. Trump is Trump; he is a candidate who ignores polls and embraces candor, humor, nerve, verve and occasional bombastic insults. Republican voters stand by him. Why is this?
"Millions of Americans who are currently supporting Donald Trump may not even be too thrilled with him as a person. They are supporting him because they feel he could be a person capable of turning the country around. They are also supporting him because they don't have confidence in America's current leadership," says Frieda Birnbaum, a New York City-based psychologist and author. "Supporting Trump is a means to vent their frustration on the establishment. America appears hungry for strong leadership, and for right now Trump is fulfilling that need."
He also appears to articulate what big blocs of voters are thinking at any moment. As case in point, here is a sample description of President Obama's strategy on Islamic State to Fox News:
"He doesn't know what he's doing. We have someone who doesn't know what he's doing. Every time he sends troops over, even if it's a small number, like he's sending another small number. He announced 50 last week. He has a press conference to inform everybody he's sending troops, and it's like they have a target on their back. If you do your job, do your job. Don't talk about it. Too much talk," Mr. Trump told the network Wednesday.
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PING.
They called Ronald Reagan the Teflon president.
The MSM have losttheir power to make or break presidential candidates....so far. They are searching for an alterbnative way to re- achieve that power. The political elites of both parties are working to re-secure MSM power to make or breal presidential and Congressional candidates.
THE PEOPLE must work against the re-establishment of the MSM over the political process, in any way they can, and THE DONALD needs to renew his focus and efforts in politically disempowering the media when it becomes abusive and inaccurate while making propaganda instead of news.
So far so good Cap!
If elected Trump will be the greatest president since Reagan or the greatest failure since Carter. I think he can do the job—even if he has to get people to help him out. Its worth a shot! He has Leadership skills that can not be learned—they were bred in him. I supported Arnold S. for Gov. of California and it was a mistake—he wasn’t up to the job. I feel Trump is! he will be better than what we have now—or Hillary-Obama’s 3rd Term.
Trump Bump!
Ping!
I hope he is indeed wearing kevlar since the establishment GOP has made it clear they HATE him along with the dems. In fact, all of the Washington cartel (that includes lobbyists, banks, big business, etc) are on the hate Trump bandwagon.
Trump knows he has the nomination.
He is now setting his sights on Hillary.
He is very near 40% support. See you at the top President Trump.
To quote Limbaugh: “If the media didn’t make you, then the media can’t break you.”
I really don't care what he is like "as a person." I'm not going on a date with the guy. I want him to make correct decisions for this country, following the Constitution. That is all we should know of or care about any politician.
The hostile media is helping, not hurting. Folks are beginning to figure out who the enemy is. I’m not a big fan of Trump, but he has made the right enemies.
Either is fine with me as long as he purges the GOPe. The Left cannot be confronted while the GOPe acts as their Secret Service. If the Left wants to implement Socialism let them own it. Don't grease the skids for them to protect your petty fiefdom while pretending to stand for the people.
President Trump
Winning, lots of winning, so much winning we’ll get kind of tired of winning all the time. -Trump
Sounds good to me. Better than losing all the damn time.
“We The People of the United States are saying “no more business as usual” from the combined ‘RAT and RINO wings of the UniParty,”
I pray for Trump, because I know he is fighting a trillion dollar Congressional cartel. He is in constant danger.
That’s right!
What does Arnold have to do with Trump?
As Rush said the other day, they are hugely threatened by Trump because they can’t break you if they don’t make you.
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