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To: caww
That strategy is working because it's drawing on the emotions of the public.......and the media picks it up because it “sells”....We have a good ‘show’ that every one wants to watch like those who fight in a wrestling ring...as I stated before.

Emotion is part of politics. Obama's hope and change resulted in the two highest vote totals for President in American history, by far. You can use whatever analogy you want, wrestling, war, etc. In politics as in wrestling and war, there are winners and losers. The objective is to win.

rump rouses the crowds at every rally with all the pageantry of a Wrestling match....from his Grand Entrance to cheering fans while he struts the stage in his grandiose way.....Then he tells his fans everything they want to hear....boisterous and taring down his opponent as fighter's do in the rink.......with all the vocabulary fighters use...”He's rotten” He's bad’’ He's this and that and the crowd cheers him on loving every minute .....anticipating the next moment he might "perform" another unexpected "hit".

That option is open to every candidate. You seem to have a rather odd view of politics. You seem oblivious to how politicians orchestrate their campaigns and appearances. They want and need an audience. I have worked on Presidential advance teams overseas. Every move by the minute of a President is planned. The venues are scouted to ensure the right photo-op. Audiences are screened and vetted. Many hours are devoted to creating the right impression. Trump seems to be a natural. He knows how to appeal to his audiences. What is wrong with that?

.Our country doesn't have time for Trump to figure out the landscape in Washington...let alone the rules of that game....we don't have the time for him to "learn" by busting the wrong things up and leaving a mess where the good men we have there need to pick up after him, ....we need them all on the deck steering this ship out of the storm.....and while doing so know where the enemy has buried their landmines.

LOL. Lots of conflicting and silly analogies. Look, Trump is the real outsider who represents the people's discontent with the political class that is disconnected from the people. The idea that Trump is incapable of running the country is nonsense. We have had 8 years of a first term senator who was a community organizer with no achievements. Now we have another first term senator who has spent most of his working life in government and with little executive experience.

Right now Cruz has a team all in place to move when his feet hit the ground there....they know who each other is and what the plan is......Cruz's returns to Washington over his campaign hasn't been just to attend congress....the game is being set.....I don't want to see a deckhand, (and Trumps not even that) grab the wheel of this ship who has no understanding of how to steer let alone keep the course or change it!

Cruz is a grandstanding gadfly who is a pariah in his own party. He is consumed with political ambition similar to the current occupant of the WH and Hillary. Trump is right, Cruz is a nasty guy who is not liked after people get to know him. Cruz is not electable in the general election.

354 posted on 01/18/2016 8:05:41 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar
Well at least we do agree Trumps putting on a show with all it's pageantry..... You said....."Many hours are devoted to creating the right impression. Trump seems to be a natural. He knows how to appeal to his audiences. What is wrong with that?"

First he's not a "natural" at manipulating an audience...he spent 30 years learning the Hollywood trade of honing in on an audience.... That's what entertainers do and are by trade........You ask..." What's wrong with that?"....because in this Presidential race Trump is wearing 'a mask of conservatism' which he is not. ....therefore it's deception.

You added that.... "Trump represents 'the people's discontent' with the political class."........Oh!..so now we vote because a candidate 'represents discontent' rather than standing strong on the 'principles' of Conservatism that should be their foundation? ....I don't think so!...But then there are a host of people who are content to just have a "fighter" though they have no idea where Trump 'really' stands on the issues that concern us....he has no history of 'doing' anything for those principles or this country of that which he now claims he wants to "Serve". ....what service has he performed aside form that of his own self serving ideas?

You mentioned Obama's Lack of EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE but you must know that all the executive experience in the world wouldn’t have made Obama a good president because he is so wrong ideologically.....but also because Obama has neither the temperament nor the perspective to be an effective leader....... With Obama, it’s always ALL about Obama, and executive experience would not have changed that because it’s fundamentally who he is.....the same applies to Trump...it's 'ALL' about Trump 24/7....and most assuredly his History reveals just that and to date!

Furthermore...I would certainly rather have 'a Principled Conservative, tried and proven, and that 'with less management experience then some might expect,... who follows the Constitution and Laws for the people's benefit and done so within the Government.... than a 'liberal', (which Trump is), with lots of business experience, who boasts of those he's "payed for from both sides of the aisle",... who knows little at best of our Constitution or of the framework of how Government branches operate..... There's a huge difference there!

And BTW Cruz has had far more experience then Obama did, (who isn't running keep in mind), for five years as Solicitor General CruZ had charge of of 700 Ego maniac lawyers to coral and kept in line an agency of over 4000...not to mention orchestrating a campaign with thousands on the ground working for him throughout the nation.... I don't think he'll have any problem navigating the Washington terrain at all... He's been there...knows how things are done and where the power is and needs to be dealt with....and he's already got people in place to move when his feet hit the ground....

Should we also add Trump, unlike Cruz, has no moral compass?....

360 posted on 01/18/2016 4:05:06 PM PST by caww
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