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Donald Trump, the centrist, has attracted an army of disaffected patriots
NAtional Post ^ | May 6,2016 | Conrad Black

Posted on 05/07/2016 5:41:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk

She is having inexplicable difficulties with the septuagenarian former Stalinist kibbutzim, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and 70 per cent of the country finds her untrustworthy.

She will have to deal with her speech of apology to the Muslims, her inaction while the ambassador to Libya was murdered, the serious legal problems with her emails, and her many recorded misstatements, such as that she was fired on by snipers in Bosnia, a conjuration she blamed on “jet lag.”

Trump has steadily outperformed his polls and the primaries show that he has attracted very large numbers of generally politically inactive voters and working-class former Democrats. A spectacular campaign between two vintage hard-ballers is about to begin. It will be what Nixon used to call a “rock’em, sock’em campaign.”

Apart from taking a hard line against Islamist extremists and horrifying trade deficits, he is the radical centre. Useless idiots on the left who try to disrupt his meetings are responding to a caricature — the conservative intelligentsia have more reason to despair that he isn’t one of them.

He isn’t, but the United States is not governed from the right-wing end zone, any more than from the opposite end of the field, where Hillary is scruffing after votes with Sanders. Donald Trump is a centrist who has attracted an army of disaffected, economically vulnerable, patriots. There is nothing very frightening in that.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; conradblack; election2016; newyork; trump

1 posted on 05/07/2016 5:41:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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My understanding is that Trump has been friends with the Clintons. Will he attack Hillary WITH NO HOLDS BARRED - or will he stop short of putting a stake in her heart like so many RINOs before him? I hope and pray that Trump is relentless in showing Hillary for the evil person she has been and is.

We'll see soon enough.

2 posted on 05/07/2016 5:52:31 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: JesusIsLord

It’s going to look like a death of a thousand cuts, I think. Donald doesn’t want to elicit the sympathy factor for Hillary, so might not just paste her with a widow(er)maker.


3 posted on 05/07/2016 5:55:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JesusIsLord

Trump needs to string her out. We have a long way to November.


4 posted on 05/07/2016 5:56:30 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: JesusIsLord

Do you not read the news?


5 posted on 05/07/2016 5:57:39 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: Hojczyk

I heard the fascinating Lord Black on Laura a few days back. So friggin smart. The center has always been there we just needed someone who didn’t care about electioneering or raising cash to find it. Centrist always seemed a negative term, and it was, given it really meant go along to get along. But I love it now. Go Trump ! Go USA!


6 posted on 05/07/2016 6:01:12 PM PDT by major-pelham
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It’s the only fall back possible given that the republic itself has rotted.


7 posted on 05/07/2016 6:02:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Death by a thousand tweets with a couple of Rosie O’Donnell ghetto beat downs thrown in along the way. :-)


8 posted on 05/07/2016 6:12:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Donald is a tweetmaster alright


9 posted on 05/07/2016 6:17:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Tweety bird going peckety peckety peck peck peck peck PECK


10 posted on 05/07/2016 6:20:38 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Yep he’s going to tweet her to death. :-)


11 posted on 05/07/2016 6:22:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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12 posted on 05/07/2016 6:24:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Hojczyk

Check out trumps website you’ll find he’s no centrist


13 posted on 05/07/2016 7:24:34 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to youGo to trumps websites look at issues an)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Excellent — death by a thousand tweets!


14 posted on 05/08/2016 3:26:59 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: JesusIsLord
My understanding is that Trump has been friends with the Clintons. Will he attack Hillary WITH NO HOLDS BARRED - or will he stop short of putting a stake in her heart like so many RINOs before him? I hope and pray that Trump is relentless in showing Hillary for the evil person she has been and is.

Your understanding is misplaced and confuses "acquaintance" with "friend".

If you've been paying any kind of attention, you already know that he will go after her like she's a cancerous mole on his butt.....

15 posted on 05/08/2016 4:14:31 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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16 posted on 05/08/2016 7:15:43 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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