Posted on 10/11/2016 5:36:30 PM PDT by Mariner
Donald Trump declared war on the Republican establishment Tuesday, lashing out at House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.), Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other GOP elected officials as his supporters geared up to join the fight amid extraordinary turmoil within the party just four weeks before Election Day.
One day after Ryan announced he would no longer campaign on Trump’s behalf, the GOP nominee said as part of a barrage of tweets that the top-ranking Republican is “weak and ineffective” and is providing “zero support” for his candidacy. Trump also declared that “the shackles have been taken off” him, liberating him to “fight for America the way I want to.”
Trump called McCain “foul-mouthed” and accused him with no evidence of once begging for his support. The 2008 nominee pulled his endorsement following a Friday Washington Post report about a 2005 video in which Trump is heard making vulgar comments about forcing himself on women sexually.
“I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people, that I can tell you. ... especially Ryan,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. He said if he is elected president, Ryan might be “in a different position.”
In perhaps the most piercing insult, Trump said his party is harder to deal with than even Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whom conservatives loathe. Yet he also released a new TV ad featuring footage of Clinton coughing and stumbling during a recent bout with pneumonia — signaling that few issues are out of bounds for his scorched-earth campaign.
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It’s a cat owner....forgive them.....My favorite pass time is baiting cats and popping them in the head with a .22 Filthy little vermin killing machines. If ya got a cat...Keep it in your house or it is fair game. ;)
Speak for yourself! I think you might need a new forum.
Well, to be truthful it is probably the media making more of this than it really is. As I understand it, Ryan didn’t withdraw his endorsement but just said he wasn’t going to campaign with Trump. Ben Carson says it’s so he can campaign for down-ticket R’s.
The rumors about Ryan’s people producing the tape for the media could also be a media lie, or at least the media could use it for their own purposes, to feed the narrative of the GOP backing out on Trump - which, you might notice, is right there in Hillary’s ads now too. That sure made it into an ad quickly... Maybe too quickly...
I think the public is waking up to the lies of the media. Both the media and Congress have the lowest approval ratings ever right now. Every time Trump confronted the crooked media his poll numbers went up. If the media slams him and he exposes their lies, deceptions, and manipulations, it will only help him.
And now he’s got a bunch of Podesta emails that will prove his case for him. He’s got CNBC censoring out Joe Scarborough’s comments about the NBC/Wall Street poll being cooked.
Most of all, though, his new ad makes the point that we live in dangerous times. It’s the political silly season so what’s really happening in the world takes a back burner, but if Trump can outline just how badly Obama/Hillary have compromised world and national security, that will make all this other silliness pale by comparison. Who knows or cares if Winston Churchill used the n-word?
There’s talk in this thread about who you want in the foxhole with you. Well, the USA needs to figure out right now that we are really and truly in a foxhole - because the coup of 2008 put a foreign enemy combatant into our White House and he has used that opportunity to strengthen our enemies worldwide and import them to the front lines here, divide and radicalize our own people, and make all our defenses much, much more vulnerable.
Democrat congress, Republican congress, it makes absolutely no freaking difference.
Our daughter did just that earlier this year from California to Texas. She’s trying to convince us to do the same, but I don’t think my wife and I would enjoy the weather.
Love your way with words, butterdezillion.
Just go vote and dont be a cuck. The GOP is dead
Pound that vile criminal into the dirt from which she sprang.
“He’s on his own.”
No he’s not......
Patriots in this country are still with him.
Vote TRUMP!!
Um, didn’t the GOP declare war on him a while back? Meh......
He's punked them twice BIGLY, without even trying.
Like John Paul Jones, he has not yet begun to fight.
Think about it this way:
Trump has shoved the Media over the line. WAY over the line. Now, they're no different than a gang of Brown Shirts beating on a Jew, and they're doing it front of God and everybody.
He's going to push them even farther. I presume he has a plan, because he always has a plan. He had a plan for the 0bama birther punking in Washington, and he had a plan for the debate Clinton rapee punking.
There's a VERY good chance that "journothugs" might even end up in a VERY dark place in America. And I don't think they even see it.
Most of the journothugs are on Twitter, and they're being attacked. And the attacks are ramping up, and they're getting ugly. :)
“He’s on his own. Whatever he says won’t be accurately stated in most of the MSM. He’s pissed them off, and while it did please me at the time, is now coming home to roost. The MSM will get Hillary elected whether we like it or not.
Starting to regret the decision I made over a decade ago to cut back drinking alcohol to infrequent occasions ...”
So basically he nor any gop should ever fight back because then that will really make the propaganda ministry mad and they’ll make sure that that gop-er won’t get elected (as if they don’t try to do that with all their power anyway).
So why even try to win any election then because if a republican even tries then the MSM will make sure they don’t so by definition no gop would ever win?
“The Uniparty will not allow Trump to win. Period.
And the American people are too in love with free stuff and political correctness to do what needs to be done.
I had hoped all of this would be resolved peacefully. I’m no longer confident of that at all.”
Hold on......let’s try to win the election. Don’t disagree that the American people love the free stuff but let’s not give up too easily.
This is nonsense unless you want to elect a dictator.
Stupid Hillarybots see all this going on and think than now Trump is sunk! NO FRIGGIN’ WAY!!! I am SICK of a gutless wimpy GOP that is absolutely no different than the Dims and insists on serving up tomato cans like McCain, Romney, Ryan etc...
NOW we are FIGHTING BACK and not screaming in disgust at the TV screen watching another gutless RINO take it on the chin!
And exactly how would you characterize the current administration?
What does that have to do with wanting to elect a dictator? Why did you jump to that?
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