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Trump Gets It. The GOP Doesn't
American Thinker ^ | June 10,2016 | Sally Zelikovsky

Posted on 06/10/2016 5:48:56 AM PDT by Hojczyk

But we don’t. Instead of explaining our candidate, rallying behind him, and jumping aboard the Trump train, we call him a racist and jump on the politically correct, anti-Trump bandwagon -- which, by the way, is engineered and steered by the Democrat-Media Complex. No rational being can possibly expect that bandwagon to take us all the way to the White House.

And herein lies the rub -- it is the very ineptitude of Republicans articulating our principles and policies and their failure, once elected, to implement the policies promised during campaigns, coupled with all of the politically-correct backtracking they do in an effort not to be criticized by the Democrat-Media Complex, that is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump in the first place.

And this leads to my final query: are Republicans deliberately undermining this nominee because they truly believe 4-8 years of Hillary is better than 4-8 years of Trump? Are Republicans really that stupid? Or, by doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, are they just nuts?

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To: RedWulf
Trump's going to have to run against the GOP in the general to win this

Agreed. The only use the Republican Party serves is to provide Trump with ballot access in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. I suspect that has been his strategy all along. So far, it has worked better than Perot's attempt to establish a third party. Because the primary process took so long, the neo-con and GOP-e wings of the party cannot set up an independent Presidential run at this late date due to state ballot access laws. They have only two choices against Trump: Hillary and the Libertarian candidate. I suspect Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Mitt Romney, et. al. may choose the former.

41 posted on 06/10/2016 7:56:15 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: BlackAdderess

“Looks to me like that international group of powerful people is about to have their hands full with rebellions springing up all over the world!”

Yes it does. My co-worker, who is a person of color, believes the little guys have been powerless victims throughout history.


42 posted on 06/10/2016 8:01:18 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

The little guys also periodically turn into an inelegant blunt object that smashes things. The key seems to be to find good leadership in this endeavor. Otherwise it turns into mob rule with many regrets in the morning :(


43 posted on 06/10/2016 8:15:13 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Hojczyk

“As clumsy as Trump’s comments might have been,”

And THIS is defending him?

“This is why people like me — reluctant Trump supporters...”

Ah ha, you just can’t let it go, can you?

Thanks, but no thanks, for your help.


44 posted on 06/10/2016 8:21:07 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Hojczyk
And this leads to my final query: are Republicans deliberately undermining this nominee because they truly believe 4-8 years of Hillary is better than 4-8 years of Trump? Are Republicans really that stupid? Or, by doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, are they just nuts?

The answers to your final query are: Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes.

45 posted on 06/10/2016 8:26:33 AM PDT by sport
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To: Hojczyk

They simply want to keep their gravy boat full. Which party doesn’t matter to them.


46 posted on 06/10/2016 8:27:53 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Proud heterosexual, married a long time, same woman - is it still ok to use a public restroom?)
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To: Doogle

I just responded. I answered yes that tey are nuts. I had not thought of your answer, I like your answer better than the one I gave.


47 posted on 06/10/2016 8:28:34 AM PDT by sport
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To: patriot08

That is 100% right, patriot08...

I don’t know why this isn’t clear as a bell to all those who claim to be republican/conservative patriotic American voters...Not voting will almost assure Hillary of winning and that will effectively end the country as we have known it...


48 posted on 06/10/2016 8:29:50 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

They are just trying to keep their $J$O$B$S$!


49 posted on 06/10/2016 8:42:46 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Hojczyk
And this leads to my final query: are Republicans deliberately undermining this nominee because they truly believe 4-8 years of Hillary is better than 4-8 years of Trump? Are Republicans really that stupid? Or, by doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, are they just nuts?

The author left out option three: Republicans and Democrats are actors in a puppet show, and serve no governing purpose other than to loudly condemn things that get in the way of The Agenda.

50 posted on 06/10/2016 8:48:14 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Hojczyk

Tar. Feathers. Republican politician.

Some assembly required.


51 posted on 06/10/2016 9:43:21 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“It requires only a willing tyrant to complete the journey.”

That tyrant would have to somehow put down 100,000,000 armed citizens. If even as few as one in ten resisted, it would still be an insurgency 10,000,000 strong - the largest standing army on the planet - bigger than all the military forces of the world, combined.


52 posted on 06/10/2016 9:52:43 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

A lot of tyrants had families, once.


53 posted on 06/10/2016 10:06:48 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Cboldt; tinyowl; sargon; Albion Wilde; V K Lee; HarleyLady27
I like what you say.  Also, newspapers were around before radio and also spread yellow journalism or passive indoctrination of false knowledge.

What's missing from mainstream media today is a sense of moral authority and what should be done -- above and beyond the motive to make money.

Freedom's great in economics, but a citizenry uneducated in the Constitution and the civility it brings cannot remain free forever.  A force outside of freedom is also essential to institute righteous laws and ensure the media benefits the society as a whole and moves it in the proper direction.  And this notion harkens back to the time when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came to the U.S. and severely chastised America for moral weakness.

H. L. Mencken (the most influentiual newspaper pundit of the early 20th century) talked about the fact that America never had an aristocracy -- and he saw that as a major defect of our republic.  The Old World Great Britain (back then) had an aristocracy and it served as the guiding light for the moral character of that nation.

It's all explained in a wonderful essay Mencken wrote called Vox Populi. The text (5-6 pages) is full available on-line at Google Books ebook.

So in Mencken's view, the only course left to save democracy was for the minority of right-thinking Americans to beat the demagogues at their own game.

Though it may be distasteful, the minority was compelled to adopt the same tactics the progressive demagogues use.  Otherwise, the corrupt majority will win and drag the nation down.

And that's precisely what Trump is doing.  He's on the side of civilization, moral character, hard work, and freedom, but he's also an expert at popular persuasion and demagogic tactics.

Thank God, he's on our side.


54 posted on 06/10/2016 11:19:58 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: Hojczyk

Our patience is not bottomless and the Uniparty had better remember that before it is to late.

Once the public “snaps” there will be no turning back.


55 posted on 06/10/2016 11:47:46 AM PDT by DNME (This is the government that the Founders warned us about.)
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