Posted on 05/27/2016 12:50:21 PM PDT by onyx
You want Trump to embrace Bernie, and what he represents, to attract Bernie supporters. Trump, and conservatism, doesn't need to pander to these minds of mush. What they need is a lesson about which side butters their bread. Trump can make that argument by explaining the differences between capitalism (freedom) and collectivism (slavery). That would be the smart thing to do, and it is what will work. Playing silly gotcha games may make you feel good and believe that you're winning, but that's all superficial nonsense that doesn't change the electorate in any in any material way, or that builds for the future.
But you keep focused on the bark, rather than the tree and the forest.
It seems you are the true idiot because I did not say anything remotely like “I want Trump to embrace Bernie”. Maybe you need to out down the gin. I was commenting on how Trump used the debate talk to diminish Hillary. If you can’t understand the complexities of media manipulation and political strategies of such things then please don’t comment on politics. You are clearly out of your depth. Stick to watching Bingo games.
You are not getting what Trump is doing - just talking about the debate is what Trump wanted - it diminished Clinton without him having to debate Sanders at all.
You best be ordering popcorn by the truckload.
Debate here used to be elevated and focused on big ideas and winning hearts and minds. Then came you.
It certainly should help him with the youth vote. Plenty of democrats are sick of Hillary too.
By candidate Donald Trump initially entertaining the Sanders invite the media storm elevated Sanders California profile. As a consequence, by declining the debate Trump initiates a sympathetic energy release amid the electorate toward Bernie which will, most assuredly, ensure Sanders wins the California primary against Clinton.
The long game of Clinton’s nominee marginalization is better served with Sanders winning the CA primary. A well played maneuver of strategic political chess.
BTTT
Why does Trump keep calling Warren “pocahontas”? I wrote him on Twitter and said the real name is “FAUXCAHONTAS”
You are not looking at the big picture at all - you sadly assume there will be a come to Jesus moment in debates with Bernie’s die hards. Laughable.
Oops. It was all a joke.
Because the entire country is not on Free Republic.
The rest of the country knows who "Pocahontas" is. Most of them wouldn't have a clue about Fauxcahontas. Humor must have broad cultural underpinnings, lest it fall flat.
Go read Scott Adams' blog [Dilbert] on Trump strategy & tactics..
Yes - but Hillary still has to clean a load of Mitt out of her panties...
Lieawatha
Now California democrats are even more in awe of Bernie — “the man Trump was afraid to debate” and is supposedly leading Trump in all these hypothetical head-to-head polls. Meanwhile, Hillary remains the candidate who is afraid to debate anyone and is just running the clock out. Advantage Bernie. It will help him win the Cali primary, which of course won’t help him win the nomination at all but just piss off Bernie supporters more and delivery another major blow to the beast’s credibility when in comes to the general. Nice chess move.
LOL!
ROTFLMAO~!!!
Trump - WTF kind of mindfrack do you do?!!!?
“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”--Thomas Jefferson
It seems Jefferson expected folks would CONTRADICT the errors made by the nature of the uniparty instead of exploiting (or "diminishing") them.
Exactly my take.
Trump just 1) proved Hillary a coward, 2) helped Bernie in CA, and 3) got a blast of PR!
Without doing much of anything, other than challenge Bernie to a debate. BRILLIANT.........
I think h e was responding to a Bernie request for a debate - Trump did not initiate.
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