Posted on 10/08/2016 6:14:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump first has to realize he’s dealing with a weak opponent. He’s not competing with a rich businessman in Manhattan for a prime piece of real estate. He’s competing with Hillary Clinton and the liberal ‘basket-cases’ that run her campaign.
They are arrogant and conceited. In the last debate Clinton baited Trump into discussing former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado for five days (following) instead of promoting his winning policy. Clinton will appear at Sunday’s town-hall debate armed with a host of insults and twenty-year-old controversies expecting Trump to take the bait. If he doesn’t, she’ll be dumfounded and ill-prepared to handle an the unexpected rebuttals propagated by Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, in the vice-presidential debate this week.
Her campaign truly believes Trump is not capable of being successful. This is evidence of their inability to understand business success. Liberals like Clinton see everything through the lens of politics with virtually no business acumen.
When Trump is attacked by Clinton, his best option is to limit himself to a twenty-second explanation followed by the assertion that she is lying and pivot to the audience speaking directly about Clinton’s record of illicit behavior and his own policies to repair the economy while creating more jobs.
If Trump attacks Bill Clinton’s affairs, it will be received by voters as hypocritical. After all, Trump has been married three times himself resulting in two high-profile and contentious divorces. By contrast, I do not believe it’s off limits to discuss Hillary’s ‘war on Bill’s women’ as a defense to character attacks.
Trump would be well served to litigate the foreign policy failures of Clinton while Secretary of State: Benghazi, Lybia, Syria, Russian ‘reset,’ Iraq and the ridiculous Iran nuclear deal (which she instigated). Expect her defense to be the old and tired line of “I am proud to be part of the team that killed Osama bin Laden.” It’s hardly foreign policy experience to sit in the corner of the situation room and watch a television as our military men and women risk their lives. Trump might be well served to point out that fact.
Since killing bin Laden, a far worse enemy has emerged as a direct result of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy: ISIS.
Trump performs better when speaking to crowds. Clinton does not. She will not have a script even if she’s prepared for tough questions. And, unlike the town-halls she’s participated, she will have Trump fact-checking and refuting her many lies and distortions.
He will face the typical claims of being racist, xenophobic, et. al. He should not dignify petulant, liberal attacks with a single answer. Just talk to the voters and ignore the lady yelling to your left. He should try the line, “I love my protesters” (referring to Clinton) and then speak to the voters (ignoring Clinton as if she doesn’t matter).
Trump campaign manager, Kelly Anne Conway should confiscate Trump’s phone for 24 hours following the debate: No Tweets! However, if any accusation made by Clinton is still circulating in the media 24 hours after the debate, I do believe Trump has to answer it and set the record straight. That’s his style and that is what unifies his base.
Many ‘experts’ say Trump should stop discussing these negative attacks by the Left. They are wrong. Trump should stop giving life to them. He should only respond to issues that won’t ‘die’ in the media such as his leaked tax return.
Trump benefited from a nearly 100 year-old tax code that allowed him to carry over real estate losses and depreciation to escape taxes for a period of unknown years in the 1990’s. He should admit it, explain it and then offer the solution that every American should be able to invest in properties, depreciate them and apply any losses toward their income (regardless of which industry they work).
It would be hard for Clinton to battle that solution other than to claim people in poverty (who pay zero taxes anyway) can’t afford those investments and wouldn’t benefit from those deductions. In such a response, Trump could simply assert she has been in national politics for forty years, has yet to make any progress on poverty, has gotten incredibly rich and took a $699,000 deduction in 2015 on the same tax return line-item. He should say, “I didn’t get rich manipulating voters; I got rich running a business and employing tens-of-thousands of people. How many people have you employed?”
“The American people are too stupid to understand the difference.” Those words were uttered by professor Jonathan Gruber who was the architect of ‘Obamacare.’ Instead of taxing people with ‘cadillac health-care plans’ his ‘think-tank’ decided to tax the insurance companies. These ‘stupid people’ were excited that the ‘bad insurance companies’ are being punished not realizing they would eventually pay the costs in insurance-premium increases.
Liberals, including Clinton, think they are better, smarter and more important than you. They prey on Americans’ ignorance regarding complex matters in order to gain power. Our citizens simply don’t have time to investigate the complexities of our weak economy and stagnant wages. As a result, it’s much easier for liberals like Clinton to blame it on the greed of ‘the top one percent.”
The silver bullet to winning this next debate is pointing to the policies and behavior of liberals (like Clinton) and speaking directly to Americans about their most pressing issues while completely ignoring her petulant personal-insults and distortions.
Trump must enlighten voters and expose Clinton while introducing policies to solve our challenges and divisions. If he does, Clinton doesn’t have a chance.
Good one! I hope ya don’t mind if I use this. I haven’t seen this one out in the “wild”
It may get some of the few fence sitters to take the red-pill.
There is only ONE way Trump can pull this out now..
Go Nuclear, and I mean freaking GLOBAL THERMO NUCLEAR !
It’s should be wall to wall 24-7 blitz against Hillary, Bill and heck ANYONE one left Trumps got dirt on !
Say what? I vote for Trump because he is God sent at the time we most need him. He is not the lesser of two evils.
Many of us have listened to 90% or more of his rallies, even been to his rallies.
I turned the TV off weeks and months ago. I didn’t listen to the Trump tapes, and won’t.
I think we’ll see who is the most presidential come Sunday.
Oh, and one more thing. Judges on the supreme court is the most important thing in my mind right now.
Two words SHOULD finish off the 'Beast - her advocacy of Open Borders, but these days with so many girly men prissing around, and people living in an alternate reality, I just don't know my Country any more.
Get lost troll. It's just a 4 year job and he is 70.
Go vent your emotional frustration elsewhere. You sound like a teenage girl.
So Sir!...........WHY, in YOUR opinion, does AMERICA “DESERVE” whichever she gets???
Your on the WRONG channel pedaling that bullshit sir! I suggest you get off and stay off. I’d wager 99.9% of us disagree with you most vigorously.
Your bravery on your keyboard is impressive. Try verbally hating America like that in a local bar!
I’ve heard this argument from you “purist” pukes about Trump being nothing more than a Clinton patsy. Yeah, right. A man like that answers to no one, and why would he have his professional and personal reputations destroyed like this just to get a payoff? He has more money than the Clintons and has everything to lose. Go ahead and stew in your NeverTrumper, holier than thou bubble. Keep dreaming that Ted Cruz or some other “real” conservative will come along in 2020 to rescue America. Ain’t happening. This is for all the marbles.
Only the unrepentant are denied heaven. St. Dismas “the good thief” was nailed to a cross right next to Jesus. But he repented of his sins and Jesus assured him that before the day was done they would both be together in paradise. Who are you to decide who gets in? Nobody, that’s who. Just like the rest of us sinners. don’t try to wear God’s shoes, you’ll find they’re too big for you. P.S. A little brush up on your theology may be in order.
CC
I made the same observation this morning when a friend of mine and I discussed the election.
lol
“There is only ONE way Trump can pull this out now.”
Things are not so desperate. The tape will not cost Trump a single vote. The election could go either way.
Okay Mr Holier than thou art. I think you forgot Jesus’s greatest commandment about loving others. People who love others do not call them “disgusting pieces of trash.”
Good point! I have been pointing the same things out to this person. God always confirms His truth through 2 or 3 witnesses.
Thank you. I only endeavor to speak the truth.
CC
"Article Two of the United States Constitution requires the President of the United States to nominate Supreme Court Justices ...
A sinner called Donald Trump will be doing this, your children and grandchildren can thank him later...
This has been a sad two days. As usual, the panty-waists, hypocrite, liars and holier-than-thous have shown in spades. It’s enough to make me cry. If she gets in, according to Wikileaks and my own knowledge, the Republic is over.
LBJ? Yuck!
We DEPLORABLES are coming for YOU, HILLARY on Election Day
AND we are NOT coming to crown you Emperor.
President Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America
NO MORE DAMN CLINTONS!!!!!
Unfortunately , no conventional republican ever seems to undo or fight the policies of the left or the antics of people like clinton. The left calls them the same names and gets the same feigned outrage ( folders of women was over the top 4 years ago). So given that the republicans can never put up a fight I think the base said screw it and figured they would rather lose with a fighter
That account has been pulled. Interestingly, he or she hasn’t been on FR since January!
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