Posted on 01/20/2016 1:09:18 PM PST by xzins
At a store recently, I overheard a middle-aged woman shouting on her cell phone while marching down an aisle.
The woman exclaimed: "Forget about that! Trump will get in there and clean the place out!'
It gave me my biggest laugh of the week. I had no idea what the woman and the other person were discussing, but I wasn't surprised by her assertion.
Polls show many Americans are angry and frustrated - from their skyrocketing health insurance premiums and their inability to keep their doctors under ObamaCare - to stagnant wages, the $19-trillion federal debt, immigration and terrorism, and other dysfunctional foreign policies.
So as I thought about the humorous store incident, other developments and historical events, I started thinking about the 2016 presidential election.
My conclusion: The Republican race is over - if the establishment Republicans wake up and smell the coffee - and accept that Donald Trump holds the only ticket to success. Further, he has already won the election.
"What?' you incredulously ask.
Agreed, Mr. Trump has been crass.
However, this also means he won't suffer the same fate as former Gov. Mitt Romney, an astute businessman, but too tepid in responding to disingenuous political attacks. Although leading President Barack Obama by 5 percentage points in the June 2012 polls, Mr. Romney lost because he failed to respond to any attacks that summer.
Mr. Romney was ostensibly defensive about his wealth. Not Mr. Trump. He sees it as a marketing strength and is known for his acerbic responses to political attacks. He crushes his opponents.
With the overwhelming problems facing the U.S. and world, the campaigns demonstrate a lot of voters would rather cope with occasional dubious behavior from a patriotic American than a demagogic socialist as president.
They feel any of the Republican candidates would be preferable over Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sec. Hillary Clinton or any other Democrat should she be indicted.
But not necessarily in an order of priorities, here are the eight things that have led to my sense of Mr. Trump's odds for success:
1. Mr. Trump has softened his sarcasm. Notice he hasn't been sarcastic lately with insane, personal attacks. In some ways, he's softened his tone.
2. Only Mr. Trump understands retail marketing. He's employing classic marketing principles:
A) His campaign slogan is in the proven range of three to five words, "Make America Great Again!' Contrast that with his competitors - none has positive, memorable slogans.
B) He repeats his slogan often. For effective messaging in the 21st century, a frequency rate of five times is needed to persuade the average American.
Unlike Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, for example, Mr. Trump knows not to claim he's the "best Conservative.' He's more influential by his promoting a patriotic image than it is to proclaim he's the only candidate who can wear the label of "best Conservative.'
His rhetoric most-effectively addresses the angry emotions of most Americans. He anticipated they'd like the idea of a temporary ban on immigrants from Islamic countries to sort things out.
Also, Mr. Trump realizes he has to attract a like-minded pool of voters over economic and national-security issues. Friends have told me their liberal friends from New York to California will secretly vote for a Trump ticket.
It's also been widely reported that he under polls because respondents to pollsters don't always tell the truth about whom they support.
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Oh I guess we should all go home now, the votes have already been cast.
Liberals don’t run on gun rights, strong military, building a wall, lower taxes, etc. No matter how many times you say it the liberal meme won’t stick.
Bob Dole has been posion for a long time and you very well know it.
Ted Cruz for President. Of Texas.
LOL. Do you realize you how silly you sound promoting that fact. Of course, Liberals should love Trump. He's a win/win for them.
Doesn't it make you think when Romney was "too conservative" for them, but Trump isn't?
At least with Obama, there was some token Republican resistance. If Trump were elected thew left would control everything.
Yet, you have no proof on any of those issues; If you know anything about Trump, you know he’d be terrible on guns and taxes. And he has no intention of building a wall. Illegal immigration puts money in his pocket. Why did he bash Romney for being “too tough” on immigration?
Uh, no...I don't know it. Dole hasn't been relevant in what, 20 years? Alot has changed in that time.
Bob Dole has been anathema to Freepers as the epitome of a RINO for a very long time. It would be more surprising to find someone on this forum who thinks a Dole endorsement would be positive for ANYone than to find someone who thinks a Dole endorsement would be a negative...
Than we are enemies.
Bless your heart! Your TDS is out of control.
Maybe you need to take a look at the boss’s list of Trump’s conservative positions.
When did Romney ever even mention a Wall? Or, deporting illegal immigrants?
Romney was owned by the same amnesty PAC’s that every other candidate is owned by.....except Trump.
Maybe you’re all in for Clinton, since you like to reference Billy Jeff.
“Not voting for a New York liberal. No way, no how. That includes Hillary and Donald.”
Good! At least you are not going to hurt the rest of us.
No conservative should win, so we should always vote for the most liberal candidate? What exactly is that going to accomplish?
There’s a piece of me would like to see them secede. I don’t think in this age anyone would have the stomach for gunplay over it. I think they could maybe pull it off.
Maybe that’s the salve that soothes the bum hurt so many are suffering from, around here.
Whatever you gotta do. ;-)
I don’t know your state.
Who’s leading in it?
” If someone attacks him, he just turns back on them and beats the sh!t out of them all over the TV news and the internet.”
And that’s a good thing because there are untold numbers of politicians of both parties that need “the $hit beat out of them” on national TV. In fact, probably most of them. And while he’s at it, he can beat the $hit out of the SCOTUS.
Will you vote for Trump if he’s the nominee?
Really?.... REALLY???
Yep, I recall Romney drawing 15,000 people to rallies.
Yep, I recall Romney getting a lot of "excitement" from the electorate.
Yep, I recall Romney carving up his opposition in his own Party, the Press, and the Democrats. Yep,.... 'this is Romney all over again'.
Interestingly, that is exactly the campaign strategy Chris Christie used in 2009 to get elected in a predominantly Democratic state. His press conferences — where he ridiculed his opponent as well as the idiots in the media who covered the race — were legendary.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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