Posted on 12/04/2015 1:04:56 PM PST by RoosterRedux
We're at the stage of the cycle when Donald Trump envy has set in. First, there was denial that the businessman's fast rise in the polls was real. No shortage of excuses were offered by observers and practitioners who assumed his candidacy would quickly fade. Next, anger from fellow Republican candidates. How could someone with so little substance continue to pull away from the pack and resonate with voters?
Then reality began to set in: Trump wasn't going anywhere for a while. That's when Republican candidates began the bargaining phase. They inexorably shifted their policies and statements toward what Trump had successfully tapped.
Now, acceptance has given away to envy. This week the Washington Post published an internal NRSC memo detailing how Republican candidates can learn from the real estate tycoon.
"Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm,--and believe he can't be bought," Ward Baker, NRSC's executive director, wrote. "These are the same character traits our candidates should be advancing in 2016. That's Trump lesson #1."
So despite all his faults and the pitfalls that his nomination might unleash, Trump's attitude and tactics could and should be emulated, according to Baker. "Grab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda," he encouraged candidates.
This isn't as crazy as it at first sounds, despite some reservations being expressed by members of the GOP over what Trump's nomination could do to Senate candidates running in purple states.
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignsandelections.com ...
Ping.
That’s a rhetorical question, one with no definite answer. Similar to “How many licks of a Tootsie Pop to get to the Tootsie Roll center?” Then Wise Mr. Owl yields to temptation, and crunches down, thus making the experiment null and void.
The citizens have been clamoring for border security and interior enforcement.
The GOP has been doing everything they can to thwart those desires.
Their paymasters in The Cheap Labor Express have demanded that they keep the flow of cheap labor going, regardless of the cost to the citizens and the nation.
The nation has finally had enough.
If Trump stays true to his stated policy on illegal aliens, he will win in a landslide.
Obama could have been defeated in 2008 by a candidate with the same policy, but the GOP at the behest of The Cheap Labor Express had to have McAmnesty.
How much has he got?
TRUMP TO THE TOP!!!
How much ground could a grounhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground???
Trump isn’t the problem, the problem is the weaselly RINOs up for re-election.
Best thing would be for them to drop out and let a conservative-friendly candidate ride coattails IMO.
Enjoyed the article, eh?;-)
The article is more than the title. It is actually interesting.
At a minimum, just enough to destroy the Bush candidacy.
Not pretending to be a candidate, but as a solid AMERICAN citizen, I’d like to embrace the entire being of TRUMP! Tank God every day that the man has stepped up to the plate to take a swing at knocking the bozos out of the park.
GO TRUMP! GO CRUZ! ~ YOU WIN OR WE LOSE!!
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