Posted on 01/22/2016 8:56:08 AM PST by TBBT
He's not going to get fully pregnant, just a little bit pregnant. What's the harm in that?
"I think they're warming up. I want to be honest, I have received so many phone calls from people that you would call establishment, from people -- generally speaking ... conservatives, Republicans -- that want to come onto our team," Trump told reporters in Las Vegas before an appearance at the Outdoor Sportsman Awards...
At an earlier rally, Trump painted himself as a pragmatic dealmaker capable of working with lawmakers, in contrast with Cruz, his top rival in the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses...
"You know what? There's a point at which: Let's get to be a little establishment," Trump told the crowd at the South Point resort and casino. "We've got to get things done folks, OK? Believe me, don't worry. We're going to make such great deals."
A fine soundbite for a general election candidate, which I think is the point of him talking like this. He's not puffing either when he says that establishmentarians are cozying up to him. They are, and some of them aren't shy about admitting their preference for him over Cruz.
Nice memory of a great American, Larry McDonald. Thanks.
That “holding their feet to the fire” has worked so well in the past.
Riiiigghht.
Trump fans of today remind me of the Schwarzenegger fans in California in 2003.
They thought they were electing “The Terminator”, but they got “Kindergarten Cop”.
I’m sure, but I hope it does not come to that and people wake up.
I will not, the similarities are exactly the same, and I will use this little box that I paid for to state my opinion.
Let’s not forget that just a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
Your 3 reasons are what has added to my severe angst this past few weeks.
I’m for Cruz in spite of any perceived or real flaws and will happily crawl over broken glass to vote for him.
Trump was my #2 choice, but for very, very different reasons.
Now, my carefully thought out justification to myself, as to why I should vote for him ... such as his destruction of the GOPe and leftists cretins, has to be rethought. It seems he was simply trying to lull me, with his anger at the same things I’m angry about, and now it seems he wants to side with them just a little, “okay?” — well, actually...no, it’s not okay!
BTW, how much is a little? No specifics are given, but why now is he saying this?
He’s been on the right path with his trashing of PC idiocy and his truthfulness for months. My faith that he’s sincere is all but gone and I’m fearing a Trump presidency because of his own words and actions as of late.
Well said. He’ll stabilize after the election and blister the Washington Cartel. He hates lazy, lying, filthy, crooked bureaucrats. He hates waste, regulations and incompetence. Hopefully he’ll eliminate the EPA, Energy, Education, HUD, and a few other agencies and departments.
No doubt, I like Trump for his ANTI PC /anti-establishment talk as well.
Immigration, which is our biggest problem, was brought to the forefront by him.
However, how he will govern and what he may be willing to compromise to get along has me very concerned.
He is willing to be “a little establishment”, but as you say, what is a little? On what issues?
That's exactly how we got Obamacare.
LOL
Trump himself is slowly telling us that every day.
Or a bare minimum trying to let us know they really aren’t such bad guys to work with.
There truly are none so blind as those who will not see.
It is nice to have faith.
Personally I don’t think it wise to have blind faith in a double minded reed in the wind.
For that matter what kinds of deals has he made with Putin, or Pakistan or Bill' pedophile friends. There could be thousands of unknown secret deals please find them and post here to prevent us delude Trumpsters from making an awful mistake.
Battlefield surgeon has been added to the list. Thank you. :)
**That “holding their feet to the fire†has worked so well in the past.
Riiiigghht.**
Exactly. And here we finally have a candidate who held his own feet to the fire, actually jumped into the fire feet first, while challenging the rest to join him and do what they were elected to do.
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But you have left Trump’s idol off the list: Perot.
He is the bigger, taller, more profound Perot.
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>> “ and do what they were elected to do.” <<
Who did we elect to throw the constitution in the toilet???
Who did we elect to appoint incompetent self-important judges?
Who did we elect to grant every illegal Mexican gardener Amnesty?
These are the things Trump would do.
Correction:
The thread that added Napoleon was deleted. He will now be deleted from the list (until someone else adds him again).
Here’s the reality — the Establishment can be bought off on the cheap. Save 20 tax dollars by offering 1 dollar of pork. That’s how you work with the Etablishment. Cruz supporters would end up losing us more money than Trump through fiscal trench warfare — if he even manages to win the White House.
To speak in military terms — a brilliant general knows how to outmaneuver. A mediocre general gets you mired in trench warfare. Better than a ‘General Jeb’, but not ideal.
Look at Big Ethanol. By compromising on that one stinker of an issue, Trump is now getting Establishment support and at the same time gaining support in Iowa. While I hate Big Ethanol, I hate the thought of Cruz trying to rein in a rogue-RINO senate even more.
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