Posted on 07/19/2016 6:35:46 AM PDT by Mariner
CNN couldn't stop Donald Trump. Neither could Fox News.
Some of the nation's most influential conservatives, from Glenn Beck to Bill Kristol, were powerless. Karl Rove and the Bush family had no effect. Scandal after scandal failed to put a chink in his armor.
And the 16 other GOP contenders, comprising some of the party's brightest and budding stars, proved to be impotent.
But some observers say that one man may have had the power to prevent Donald Trump's accession within the Republican Party: Matt Drudge.
"If Drudge had come out really negatively against Trump and had supported someone who would have played well with his reader base like Cruz, it would have been much harder for Trump to win," BuzzFeed political reporter and editor Andrew Kaczynski told Business Insider, referring to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
The news mogul, one of the most mysterious individuals in the media industry, operates entirely outside the New York City and Washington, D.C., apparatus. He is seemingly accountable to no one. He is rarely spotted in public and holds close company with only a few select people. Reporters tip him off to stories through email or instant messages but never expect a reply, knowing he is unlikely to write back.
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Aaaaaahold is an enviro-nut. Drudge was right to sound the warnings on him.
I’m trying not to think about it. But I hear you.
It is the media’s job to report, not indoctrinate.
It's a silly argument. It's like speculating on how many home runs Babe Ruth would hit if he was to face modern day pitching.
Ronald Reagan is not walking through that door. Donald Trump is the hand we've been dealt.
Superman could stop Trump...jeez, these articles are ridiculous.
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda.
All Drudge does is post headlines. He doesn’t editorialize. I guess the little people are enjoying to much diversity in their information sources.
They (the GOPe) did it to themselves.
I live in Dave Brat's district. I remember Eric Cantor on the campaign trail in Richmond with Sarah, but he betrayed his people when he quit listening to them.
He forgot a tenet of our form of government - Consent of the governed.
I'm loving every bit of it...they are going down in flames and there isn't one thing they can do about it...he, he, he,
GO.TRUMP/PENCE.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda! Why even bother posting this crap! It isn’t even old news and it didn’t happen.
Oh well, they should have done something about turning our neighborhoods into third world slums. Eventually they will be forced to admit publically that the nomination was Trumps the moment he came out against the invasion.
This.
Check Drudge’s own link to the story. More importantly, check how he answers the question by the nature of the links directly below. . . .
Get over it, Biz insider...your traitor MSM industry is dead. You should get a job somewhere else before the robots take it.
“He is rarely spotted in public and holds close company with only a few select people.”
I don’t blame him at all. If I were in his shoes, I’d be very cautious about who I associated with and taking walks at night alone.
I think once the momentum had been established, it would have been hard to derail Trump by anyone. Had Drudge, Limbaugh, Beck or Hannity early on poo-pooed Trump it probably would have put a damper on his rise. But they didn’t. They all like that he was giving the establishment a belly ache and they propped him up because of that. They belly ache turned into a campaign cancer if you were one of the other 16 candidates. But Trump’s momentum started rolling, it was too late to stop him. Beck was earliest. Limbaugh, while never going full throttle, became less neutral and did share some Trump negatives. Hannity and Drudge remained ever loyal.
According to the media handbook:
“scandal”
For a non-democrat: if you don’t say what they think you should say.
For a democrat: a smear campaign by evil right wing fanatics
what most people in media and in politics don’t understand is that trump taped in to the political reality that a good portion of the republican party and the democratic party have not had there thoughts on immigration, foreign policy, business, and military as related to how the general public feels. most of those that support trump would of fallowed anyone that we sensed was saying what he has said as long as we felt they believed it.
for a long time the curtain has been removed by social media and we have been seeing in the news and on the web the consultants brag about there manipulation of the general voting public. this is what most voting for Trump are reacting to. there is a big realization of how those like Romney, bush and McCain truly did not believe what they were saying instead they were listening to there advisers that were saying if you say this you will lose this segment of the vote.
one of the big mistakes made this year was by bush who openly bragged that he was going to win the presidency by being left center on republican issues his thoughts was that he controlled the election because he had the support of the big money within the republican party. his thought was to flood the lineup with candidates so the fact that he was center left would not eliminate him. his thought was that the election is won in the first 5-7 primary’s and caucuses instead what happen is that Trump entered the race and had a solid 25% of the vote in a race that had over 15 people running. As different politicians were nocked out there constituents went to either trump cruz, or another candidate still in the running. the split was 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 in the end Trump won because he had the stronger base of support....
Any one that thinks that bush , Kasich or any of the sore losers have a chance against Hillary are deluding them selves other then Cruz none of them had a strong base of loyal support. in this election it had to be either Trump or Cruz running against Hilary or there would be a major embarrassing loss of the type carter had in 1980. at this point I am confident that Trump is going to win and it is going to be the democrats that see a lopsided los to Trump.
this is just my thoughts on what has happened this election cycle
Wait until these Einsteins discover Fred Thompson!
No offense to Matt, but this is just strange.
You wonder where some of these writers come up with this stuff. And you wonder why anyone would pay them to write it.
They want the FCC to regulate Drudge for Contributions in Kind.
But his defense is perfect...he didn't write a single story.
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