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Joe McCarthy was brought down by attacks on his decency. Trump will lose the same way.
Washington Post ^ | August 1, 2016 | Harold Pollack

Posted on 08/02/2016 10:53:39 AM PDT by Enchante

What the Khans can teach us about the Republican nominee's vulnerabilities....

....Khan’s words call to mind another unexpected moment from more than 60 years ago, when another dignified lawyer rebuked Sen. Joe McCarthy....

....Welch drew blood from McCarthy with his famous question: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; demagogues; democraps; democrats; dnc; khan; media; mediascum; msm; republicans; trump
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To: conservativepoet

Not going to work. Public not as gullible as it used to be. If that were the case he would never have made it in Republican primary.
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Trump’s followers on twitter jumped about 600,000 in 2 weeks.

Trump has close to 25 million followers now and with re-tweets his messages get to 50-75 million people within minutes.

McArthy never had this to defend himself.


61 posted on 08/02/2016 11:16:22 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: Steely Tom

“The USSR left innocent people — children in particular — alone.”

You must have bought into the communist propaganda. Your statement is totally incorrect.


62 posted on 08/02/2016 11:16:40 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Enchante

post #41 ~ “... Fortunately, it is a different era, Trump is a fighter and has the internet, so the MSM cannot control all of the messaging as in the past.”

Agreed. Trump also has the advantage of facing the WORST candidate ever imaginable ~ yes, even worse than twinkle toes Obama...


63 posted on 08/02/2016 11:16:59 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson))
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To: All

http://shoebat.com/2016/07/31/what-the-media-is-not-telling-you-about-the-muslim-who-attacked-donald-trump-he-is-a-muslim-brotherhood-agent-who-wants-to-advance-sharia-law-and-bring-muslims-into-the-united-states/


64 posted on 08/02/2016 11:19:22 AM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: Huck

Not when you’re right.


That’s arrogant.

We were right in 2008 & 2012 and this is what happens:

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010


65 posted on 08/02/2016 11:20:01 AM PDT by laplata ( Speaking The Truth Is Now Considered 'Hate Speech')
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To: Enchante

tossing falsehoods about Trump has really worked well this election cycle

I guess more of the same will not reap different results

LOL

and boy do I have a bridge for these folks...

some Florida land in (under) the Everglades too...


66 posted on 08/02/2016 11:20:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: All

Within the next few weeks, there will be YET ANOTHER large scale terrorist attack on innocent people and this silliness will be forgotten: Allying yourself with muslims in 2016 is NOT a winning strategy.


67 posted on 08/02/2016 11:21:55 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Enchante

TID Kitty comes out anytime there is a post that says Trump is done. Reactions to the little guy are always interesting.


68 posted on 08/02/2016 11:25:55 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!e)
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To: Enchante

Like Hillary has decency. HA! That’s rich!!


69 posted on 08/02/2016 11:25:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Enchante

Doesn’t matter. They want to win the White House now, apologize later (for all the good that will do).


70 posted on 08/02/2016 11:27:40 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: RummyChick

In what way is Khan “scrubbing the internet?” That is a story that could have significant consequences.


71 posted on 08/02/2016 11:31:37 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Enchante

Buffett said the same thing yesterday, must have been a new DNC memo sent out


72 posted on 08/02/2016 11:31:50 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Enchante
First Trump was portrayed over and over as the, "Ross Perot" candidate, then Hitler, Mussolini and now the lying media has him as "McCarthy".

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73 posted on 08/02/2016 11:36:05 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Enchante

Here is what Trump actually said. Do you see anything disparaging or untrue. I had to look very hard for this. This is it. This is absolutely nothing.
“I saw him,” Trump said of the speech. “He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife … if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say.”

“She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me,” Trump continued. “But plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet, and it looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that.”


74 posted on 08/02/2016 11:37:33 AM PDT by WENDLE (hillary in an unindicted criminal.)
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To: Enchante
It will be a miracle if Trump can survive the propaganda attack each and every day. Every major "Elite" i.e. political. economic, religious, social and cultural is turned against him and their opinions are published for days.

If the propaganda attacks do not seem to stop Trump look for him to be assassinated. The leftist B*astards are playing for keeps.

75 posted on 08/02/2016 11:38:19 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Enchante

Problem they have, is Clinton is no paragon of virtue.

For everything they try to sling at Trump, a thousandfold can be hurled at Clinton.

I don’t think the people are the same as in those days and there are other outlets for news besides the media.


76 posted on 08/02/2016 11:38:58 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Enchante

But, keep in mind that “Tailgunner Joe” was posthumously VINDICATED when the Venona Papers were released, following the fall of the USSR. The US Fed.gov AND Hollywood WERE BOTH infested with Soviet agents!


77 posted on 08/02/2016 11:41:55 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
It will be a miracle if Trump can survive the propaganda attack each and every day.

Take a deep breath. after 14 months, Trump KO'd them all. They don't have anything. You can always tell when there is no scandal. It's all about, "He said, she said, he said" bull sh*t. They have nothing else so they have to manufacture a scandal.

78 posted on 08/02/2016 11:42:56 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Enchante

Democrats have no decency or morals or honor or anything. Bring it on scumbags. You and your media will have a hard sell this time due to the fact that we are used to your low down snivil’en lies by now.


79 posted on 08/02/2016 11:43:33 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: sheikdetailfeather

We can attack the Left by holding the magnifying glass of scrutiny on their entire criminal enterprise. They enrich themselves from the money stream pouring into this nation’s treasury in the way of taxes. It is a money laundering scheme and influence peddling. It is protection money like any mob operation. The political criminal enterprise is a big business operation whose goal is to own the wealth of America. Trump should recognize the business aspects of this enterprise and take it apart stick by stick.


80 posted on 08/02/2016 11:43:54 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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