He’s pulling the Nixon: run to the right in the primary, move to the center for the general, govern on the left if elected.
Ping
It's a little long for a bumper sticker, but it sure is a fitting summary of 'Lyin' Baby Donald'
I don’t think anyone speaks for Mr. Trump other than Mr. Trump.
This is how winners act.
In victory, you don’t rub salt in the wound; you become magnanimous. Thus, pulling the vanquished onto your team.
It’s been so long since our team has had an actual winner, I’m not surprised people here don’t recognize one.
I think many feared that Trump moved right in a vociferous bid to be the nominee and win the nomination. I will not be surprised if he gets back in his moderate left comfort zone if elected. This fastidious conservative approach only started about 7 or 8 years ago. But he has certainly been a cunning opportunist for the greater part of his life.
I have never heard him speak of the origins of our conservative constitutional republic with any admiration or longing. But he has certainly preached about “fixing” the problems we now have. I would like to see an approach that eliminates the causes of the problems we have and reduce the size and scope of government influence and economic asphyxiation.
I will vote for Trump, assuming he is the nominee. And I hope he sticks to the “Primary Donald”. I hope he brings the guns that got him the nomination. And I hope he can beat Hillary and all the poles are wrong. (Polls being wrong would not be the first time.)
“while Manafort acknowledged that Trump has ‘personality flaws,’ he argued to RNC members that the billionaire’s weaknesses would compare favorably to Hillary Clinton’s ‘character flaws’.”
Your candidate is more rotten than our candidate? I guess it could make for a catchy campaign slogan.
More from the article: Do leaders take Trump seriously?
But options dwindling, some party leaders said they could make the distinction between Trump’s sharp attacks on the party and his political strategy.
“I think that’s just part of his persona, I never take that stuff seriously or personally,” said Pennsylvania R. P. Chairman Rob Gleason. “He cannot be elected without the Republican Party. That’s the long and short of it. He needs us. We need a candidate and he needs us, so we all need to work together.”
Henry Barbour, a party national committeeman from Mississippi who has said in the past it would be “very hard” for him to vote for Trump, agreed.
“I think that’s Donald Trump being Donald Trump. He’s an insurgent candidate trying to appeal on a populist level. I don’t take it that he really means it,” said Barbour.
The populist furor sparked by Trump, along with his campaign message, that he is being cheated out of the nomination — with the public’s voice being ignored — has exposed a deeper rift in the Republican Party which may have to be worked out after November, no matter who is their nominee and no matter which party wins the White House.
He needs to do that, so they will support him, instead of undermining him.
He can only help the country, if he gets elected.
FR folks need to read the entire article but they are making some false assumptions. It’s not about running to the Left. It’s about Trump running his mouth at rallies and exposing the rigged system.
It’s about Trump bashing the Republican Party for their crooked system.
‘”In Harrisburg, Trump compared the primary system to “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, getting two attacks against his enemies in one.
“The system is rigged, the voting is rigged, the whole deal is crooked 100%, almost as crooked as Crooked Hillary. It’s a crooked deal,” Trump said. “And that’s why you have a case where I go in and win with the vote, and these guys go in, they buy delegates, they buy them dinners, they send them to hotels.”
On Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning, they played the actual recording of the meeting, with Manafort speaking to the group.
How did the RNC allow a recording of a private meeting get into the media?
Ted meet bus.
The trumpsters will rationalize anything. This election period (if Trump is nominated) is going to be fun to watch trumpsters rationalize every stupid move he makes right up to the historical loss to hitlery.
Problem for Trump is he has pissed all over the brand he will be running under in November. What he and his followers have said about the GOPe will come back to haunt them in November.
So the bathroom and abortion comments were olive branches to the establishment?