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When Trump Gives up on the Right
Commentary Magazine ^ | Jan 25, 2016 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 01/26/2016 7:18:45 AM PST by Theo

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"Roughly half (52%) think Trump would make a poor or terrible president, with 38% saying he would be terrible. Just 12% think Trump would be an average president," Pew Research Center revealed this weekend. In his favorability ratings measured by an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, Trump is underwater among every key voting block; African-Americans (72 points), Latinos (47 points), women (36 points), independents (26 points), and suburban voters (24 points). It's hard to find any demographic other than self-described Republicans who view Trump positively and think he would make a good president. This is a portrait of a figure that cannot win the general election unless he transforms into an exceptionally conventional center-left candidate. The groundwork for that metamorphosis is already being laid.

"When I'm president, I'm a different person," Trump told another audience of idolaters this weekend. "I can be the most politically correct person you've ever seen."

1 posted on 01/26/2016 7:18:45 AM PST by Theo
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Trump will win in Iowa, and beat poll estimates.

Amazing, when you think how little influence all the hate-Trump articles on the internet have over the voters in Iowa.

Really amazing.


2 posted on 01/26/2016 7:20:36 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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The average voter is sick and tired of pundits and politicians.

It is time to put America back to work and the politicians and pundits are non-value added. We really can’t afford your ilk, anymore.


3 posted on 01/26/2016 7:24:19 AM PST by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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Surprise, surprise, another neocon who doesn’t like Trump.


4 posted on 01/26/2016 7:27:04 AM PST by euram
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...Trump's jest at his supporters' expense is that they are utterly undiscerning.

Well put.

5 posted on 01/26/2016 7:29:47 AM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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And, for a few more days, the media covers statements by Trump more than anything Cruz, Rubio, or other candidates say/do. If Trump can keep the others out of the media he’s got the primaries wrapped up.

The more difficult problem will be to get the media to report on Hillary in the general.


6 posted on 01/26/2016 7:30:16 AM PST by LostPassword
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The transition has already begun. Trump will soon abandon the conservative marks to which he had to appeal only in order to secure the nomination.

Which means he won't be any different that any other republican elected to office in the last 30 years.

yawn

7 posted on 01/26/2016 7:31:26 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am a person as created by the Law of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man.)
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> “Trump needs Republicans in November less than any of his GOP competitors, and he knows it.”

Stopped reading right there.


8 posted on 01/26/2016 7:39:17 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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Utterly undiscerning.


9 posted on 01/26/2016 7:42:23 AM PST by skeeter
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Which means he won't be any different that any other republican elected to office in the last 30 years.

Is that meant as an endorsement?

10 posted on 01/26/2016 7:43:23 AM PST by optiguy ("They've got us surrounded. Poor bastards."--- New saying by democrats in congress.)
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I think it means a Trump is Eastern Socialite Uniparty.


11 posted on 01/26/2016 7:46:42 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Is that meant as an endorsement?

I was ridiculing the writer's paranoia. Figured the yawn was pretty much a giveaway on that.

12 posted on 01/26/2016 7:51:06 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am a person as created by the Law of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man.)
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“When I’m president, I’m a different person,” Trump told another audience of idolaters this weekend. “I can be the most politically correct person you’ve ever seen.” You might think this admission against interest *****would shake the intellectual foundations of those that gravitated toward Trump due to his unvarnished and unapologetic abstention from tact ***** — a personality quirk his supporters confuse with being “un-politically correct.”

No Cruz fans have to wonder what his next stance will be over tomorrow’s breakfast, as they’ve been consistent since Ted was 10 years old.


13 posted on 01/26/2016 7:53:07 AM PST by txhurl (I'm with the Nasty Canadian '16)
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The way the statists around here dismiss and excuse anything trump does that should give conservatives pause, it’s hard to tell sometimes.


14 posted on 01/26/2016 7:55:36 AM PST by optiguy ("They've got us surrounded. Poor bastards."--- New saying by democrats in congress.)
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“Over the weekend, something remarkable occurred: Trump let the veil slip. In an appearance at an Iowa Christian college, the celebrity candidate marveled at the seeming unflappability of his fans and the reverence they hold for him. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” he joked. “It’s like, incredible.” “

LOL!

These sites are just embarrassing themselves at this point.


15 posted on 01/26/2016 8:01:24 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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I am resigning my self to the fact that Trump will more than likely be our nominee. fear is that Trump has disrupted the conservative movement more than he will the establishment. He will either end up being great or horrible. Either way there will be a lot of “I told you so’s” on FR!


16 posted on 01/26/2016 8:07:53 AM PST by rwh
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American politics are so depressing. What is wrong with the voters? First eight years of an America-hating, racial-strife-fomenting Marxist, and now we get a liberal charlatan likely in the Republican slot against whichever new Marxist the Dems come up with.


17 posted on 01/26/2016 8:08:43 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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Trump’s party affiliation has changed over the years. Until 1987, he was a Democrat.[4] Then he was a Republican from 1987–99.[3] He then switched to the Reform Party from 1999–2001.[3] From 2001–09 he was a Democrat again,[3] and switched to the Republican Party again from 2009–11.[3] An independent from 2011–12, he returned to the Republican Party where he has remained from 2012–present.[3]


18 posted on 01/26/2016 8:13:56 AM PST by navet97
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Let's let Trump explain it:

""I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he joked. "It's like, incredible."""""....

In Trumps on words: Unbelievable, true, it's true, the masses love me no matter what.....

19 posted on 01/26/2016 8:15:15 AM PST by annieokie
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Of course the TrumPETs won’t heed a word of the truth. They are mesmerized by the Piped Piper’s sound byte song.

I think a large degree of Trump’s attraction regardless of his liberal past and liberal slips is his blatant bullying of anyone who dares say No. Because a lot of Americans have been pushed around and left with no power, they clamber to Trump’s bullying which they can not openly and safely practice in their everyday real life. Sadly, its not rational, its escapism, not unlike drugs.


20 posted on 01/26/2016 8:34:01 AM PST by X-spurt (Pied Piper's tune sounds too much like Rap)
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