Posted on 12/07/2015 8:16:38 PM PST by VinL
Donald Trump just trumped all the Republican candidates for President.
The day after the mom jeans wearing squat to pee President came out to assure us that tolerance, gun control, and climate change would save us from ISIS, Donald Trump demanded we bar any muslims from entering this country and bar any American citizen who is muslim from re-entering the United States.
Set aside the merits of what amounts to at least, in part, an unconstitutional position.
This is actually brilliant politics for the here and now. Immediately, every other Republican candidate except Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% rushed out to attack Donald Trump. Heâs unhinged, hateful, etc. And the responses all amounted to "we must let muslims enter our country," which sounds a whole lot like "we must allow all Mexicans in our country," which everyone knows is blatantly untrue on both counts.
We do not have to do it, but the other candidates, unable to nuance their spittle, went all in with "no religious tests" and "yes we must do this because it is who we are."
So, to put it another way, the day after the President failed to reassure a scared public following the second worst terrorist attack since 9/11 on domestic soil, Donald Trump not only got himself to the right of all the other candidates, but also got every single one of them save for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% to align themselves with Barack Obama.
Hate Donald Trump all you want, be offended by his proposal all you want, but it is really brilliant politics for Trump right now in the Republican primary and the reactions from the other candidates prove it. All the people attacking Trump on his immigration proposals now attacking him on this have done themselves no favors within the primary process.
Have none of these people read Art of the Deal? This is an opening, bombastic salvo to set the terms of negotiations and the other candidates except Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% just decided to negotiation in Barack Obamaâs position. And it comes at a time some polls are suggesting Trump is starting to fade in places like Iowa.
So true. American are forgiving and tolerant but can only take so much. I can imagine they reached their tipping point right before 1776.
You can almost feel these guys talking to us:
Yes...Sir! I agree with you and will, in the future refrain from bringing up the press...
Trump might have just jumped the shark.He just handed the other side a huge club to hit him with.
They have lots of clubs, they use them to keep you in line. Shut up and play ball and we won't hit you - much. Surely you don't think the answer to dealing with an enemy is to carefully avoid upsetting them?
What seems to be happening is that they are grabbing their clubs one by one, and watching them splinter as they swing away. They will run out of clubs eventually, or run out of strength to swing them.
If Trump continues to be successful he will have through multiple inoculations built up the required immunity necessary to survive the general election, and the inevitable politically correct attacks they will use to save Hillary. Witness Lazio invading Hillary's safe space.
Rather than slinking away under the pressure of the offended media like Lazio did, Trump would be able to say something like: 'Poor baby. There is no safe space now since we're at war with Jihadists thanks to you and President Dumbo breaking the World'.
That’ll be all ... As you were ;)
Hahahahahaha. Now thats funny?
Why not?
What are a mere 14 American lives compared to "hurting the feelings" of 1,500,000,000 muslims?
Besides, none of the dead are family or close friends of Barak Hussein...
At this point, what difference does it make?
This is a conservative forum and you talk about a conservative in this way?
No one can claim superior conservatism than mine.
It is what it is. I reject the "party uber alles" approach to mindless attacks.
Cruz DID use (lawyerly) weasel words!
Not exactly accurate.
If memory serves me right, it also INCLUDED (fake) American muslim "citizens" who travel to ISIL controlled countries and return, or totally proven koranimal countries like Yemen and Pakistan, for any given reason, real or invented.
No one should have the balls to presume to tell us who we are, least of all that incompetent ass Hussein, or the koranimals themselves...
Has nobody commented on your "sub-conscience..." phrase?
You might want to check that.
And the problem with that is....?
Treason, aiding and abetting a de facto active enemy has historically been grounds for either execution or loss of citizenship, which must apply both to phony or real "natural born" citizens...
There.
Fixed it!
I meant to say subliminal...but couldn’t think of the word.
They should be shot on sight.
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