“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Have the Pundiots declared Harpy the debate winner yet or are they going to wait til Monday, but enough about FOX SNOOZE. There is no question just like the primaries the experts are going to say she won on points, demeanor and knowledge while Trump failed in every phase of the contest. The Echo Chamber will get all wonky and completely miss the point of the debate and declare Trump the loser while the people will say otherwise.
All the pressure is on Hacking Hillary. She has to turn her campaign around and stop Trump’s momentum or her financing will begin drying up. She has been a DC wonk for forty years which means she should have the gummit answer for every question. As Secretary of State she better know the names of all the leaders and all the factions throughout the ME since most wrote checks to her. Any slip-up will be catastrophic and lead to more suspicions of a serious mental issue. If she cannot beat a commoner like Trump her campaign will be over and a post-debate Trump bump will be devastation.
What Donald has to understand and likely does is people don’t care about what the Establishmedia obsess about since they live in their bubble. The media cares about promoting the Marxist agenda and destroying Conservatism. Lester Holt will do whatever he can to help Hillary and stop Trump, it is his religion and what will get cheers from his peers. What he doesn’t understand is the commoners already expect his bias and will make Trump a sympathetic character.
Trump should assume most of Holt’s questions are going to be to either stump him or get him. They are going to be the usual racist, sexist, homophobe accusations to make him another Repub Boogerman, it is their only hope. Trump should ignore those questions and simply answer the questions he wants in his usual NY style. When Holt comes at him with the Income Tax question he needs to say the American people are not interested in his taxes since they understand why his well-paid lawyers demand he not reveal them, but voters do care about their taxes and the rigged system. He can then go on a variety of tangents whether it is lowering corporate to bring jobs or lowering their taxes to help them pay for Obamacare, those are issues Americans care about and will make real points. There is no rule he has to answer those liberal worldview questions nobody cares about so don’t.
He needs to stay on offense and keep Hillary on defense. He has to bring up the emails, pay to play and the corruption of the Clinton Family Laundry. He needs to explain the difference between the building of skyscrapers and her selling American access. He has to keep it civil and explain it in a way the low IQ voter understands how she is corrupt and why she is a threat to their security. He can give a series of rally speeches which are interesting and to the point. He needs to stay with America first, and kitchen table issues which are the last things the Punditocracy wants to discuss. The mediots are going to hate what he says no matter what, so he may as well give them a reason.
The only thing he has to do in this debate is to give the American people a viable alternative. Most of the people do not want to vote for her and he has to give them somewhere to go. They see how bad the economy is and if he comes out with a Reagan jingo like, “A Recession is when your neighbor is out of work, while a Depression is when you are out of work.” A quick phrase that will define the situation most people are in and frame the fear around the country then hang it around her neck.
A verbal visual would be extremely effective and especially if he could tie his experience into it. She will say he is inexperienced and the presidency is no place for on the job training like we did for Obozo. He needs to come back and say that the President is the CEO of America and you hire the best and most talented manage the details while you tell them where you want to go. Just like when building a building he doesn’t know how to weld a steel girder or install windows and doors, but he knows how to hire the most talented people who do who can create his vision.
He can then explain how America is a building needing to be rebuilt from the ground up. It has been run down and all the windows are broken and he is just the man to rebuild it. He can bring in the fabricators who can fix the foundation with the Wall and renegotiating bad agreements. He can fix the windows by cutting the fat and corruption out of DC which should only take him a year or two by bringing in his sharks to look at the books for waste. He can say with his leadership he can turn this rundown building into Trump tower where everyone wants to live and work and Make America Great Again.
Why Harpy has needed to spend two weeks cramming for this debate is cough, cough, a mystery. After forty years inside the system at the highest levels what does she need to study? You are going to get the most boring, focus tested Frank Duntz clichés ever devised. She is going to sound exactly like Al Gore rambling on for two minutes making sure she never says anything about anything except to call Trump a racist, sexist, xenophobe. Her biggest problem is she has never been challenged in the last twenty years and she is not going to enjoy it happening now. The entire country is going to enjoy watching her stew in her juices while she tries to attempt to be likable yacking about her mother and daughter to bump that female vote while men push ice picks in their ears.
Her biggest problem is you cannot lie your way into trustworthiness. You cannot lie your way into the truth, and her Clinton speak answers are going to arouse suspicion. The last thing she wants at the end of the debate is the country to see they have a choice between a liar and Trump. A good share of the country already knows she is one and that she only wants to become President is to funnel more money into her pockets and how does she change her image especially if Trump reminds them over and over?
Donald only has to be standing at the end of the debate. As long as he doesn’t throw water on her or call her lying Ted, he will pass the test. Anything more is a bonus and when he beats her with knowledge on economics and capitalism while promoting conservatism he can win going away. If he does that, showing himself to be the superior leader then he will have all the momentum and draw bigger and bigger numbers into his campaign. He understands what it is like having a 1 shot lead at the turn and how to play the course the rest of the way in. He is about to tee up on 10 and has to decide on the 3 wood or the driver. With a million watching and waiting, he is playing his own Doral CC.
Harpy has already been declared the winner by the DC Echo Chamber. They have been working on their Trump snark for days waiting to unleash that one sound bite to underline their moral superiority their fellow mediots will chuckle at. He needs to treat this as a giant rally and speak directly at America to lay out what they are all feeling and how he can begin to work on their massive problems. If he does that there is no Marxist cliché she can recite to solve anything and the whispers of our Forefathers will begin to be heard again.
Pray America wakes
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Beautiful, Bray ... praying it all works out just this way. Thanks for posting, AB.
Think you got it right on the mark. To me, the debates carry no or little, weight at all for HIllary Clinton. She has already doomed herself in the eyes of the overwhelming majority of American voters. American voters want to see and hear their chosen candidate for whatever office they seek. The mere fact that Hillary Clinton has disappeared into her hiding, closet, and away from the clear view of the American voters for almost the entire months of August & September,....tells me, and any objective, common sense, voter...that she has no substance, no goals for the country, other then that they elect her POTUS, because she is simply entitled to it!! Fact is: She is a boring, terrible, unlikeable, crooked candidate....across the board. and...the vast number of American voters know it!!!
Yes....the print & TV media will adore & worship at her feet, post debate,....but the vast majority of American voters, will crown, Donald J. Trump...King of the after debate, internet, online polls!!! Go Donald J. Trump...Onward to massive victory!!! Fact is: Hillary Clinton on that POTUS debate stage is nothing but a big joke, a major farce and, insult to the American people and voters!!!
It's actually, not a mystery at all. She HAS to get her lies straight. She doesn't speak from facts and conviction, she speaks from talking points and pander. She can't afford to mix them up.
Since they are wholly a construct of the television industry, I find that Presidential “debates” are little more than TV game shows wherein the candidates *and* the moderators compete to see who can come up with the cleverest one-liner, the most cutting insult and the best “gotcha” comment or question and the winner is determined by the political proclivities of the viewer.
Simply not worth this deplorable vulgarian’s time.
Wonderful post, bray! I hope Trump or some of his people read it, pass it on, and he takes heed. This really is The Big One where everyone will be looking for the contrasts.
OMG! She'd melt right on stage!
Her biggest problem is you cannot lie your way into trustworthiness. You cannot lie your way into the truth, and her Clinton speak answers are going to arouse suspicion. The last thing she wants at the end of the debate is the country to see they have a choice between a liar and Trump.
Once again,You have captured the essence of Hillary Clinton and much of the dem party.It's all based on lies and their ability to pretend that they are true.
Fortunately the Pinocchio syndrome catches up to them and sooner or later they self destruct.