youbetcha !
Posted on 03/02/2018 7:27:11 PM PST by little jeremiah
When President Trump made his startling comment during bipartisan televised White House gun discussions about taking guns first and due process later, I suspected he was doing the same thing he had done during similar immigration discussions a few weeks earlier. He likes to toss out ideas and let them be debated.
He heartens his opponents, and because they are so emotionally driven, they overreach, and he comes across looking reasonable while they look extreme.
His proposal for a deal, when it comes, seems reasonable to the public.
This is "unpresidential" behavior because in the previously existing culture of politics, a president must not speak until all the implications and ramifications of an idea have been researched and buttoned down.
But for President Trump, being unpresidential is not bug. It is a feature.
This time, as with illegal immigration, his opponents, intoxicated by what they eagerly embrace as a wedge between the president and his enthusiastic backers in the Civil Rights Movement, Second Amendment Division, let it all hang out, as Susan Ferrechio of the Examiner reported yesterday afternoon: "Democrats to propose weapons ban, gun confiscation powers in bill inspired by Trump."
Shortly after this came out, news arrived that the NRA's Chris Cox had met with the POTUS in the Oval Office and is confident that the Second Amendment is quite safe.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
People get way too fretful.
His critics insist that President Trump is childish, unpresidential, and unreliable. And they keep getting outsmarted. Go figure.
The only other bits at the link are copies of a tweet from Chris Cox and POTUS DJT which should alleviate anyone's fretfulness.
I assume this is the article you referenced...
I love it. At the beginning he said, you know what *I* want? I want to arm the teachers and CCL carriers. What do YOU GUYS want? Those are great ideas! Yay! What else?
The only trouble here is that his opening position wasn’t as strong as I would have liked it.
I’m not saying every school has to have a metal detector that every student has to pass every time... but every entrant to every school should have an ID and two or three pairs of eyes on them as they enter. We are at war.
People on FR are a bunch of nervous nellies.
Some. Others are just ant-Trump trolls ready to pile on at a moment’s notice.
Chris Cox Verified account @ChrisCoxNRA
I had a great meeting tonight with @realDonaldTrump & @VP. We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control. #NRA #MAGA
Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!
I can’t understand why the “nervous Nellie’s” just don’t seem to grasp that Trump is a seasoned NEGOTIATOR. Negotiators weave and bob like Ali doing the rope-a-dope, demanding something, giving up something, working the room to their advantage. This is a fantastic skill for a President.
“People on FR are a bunch of nervous nellies.”
You have that right.
So you want to turn government schools into prison prototypes?
youbetcha !
Trump plays his opponents like you’d play with a cat with a laser pointer.
I never believed for a second that Trump would turn his back on the the 2nd Amendment or the NRA - but I wish he’d seen fit to endorse and support the NRA-backed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. It would have been a way to up-end California’s war on concealed carry.
He’s “flooding the zone”.
“he’d seen fit to endorse and support the NRA-backed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.”
He does endorse and support it. Why do you say he doesn’t?
Rope a dope...BAM!
The metaphor I used on an earlier thread was "using a laser pointer to play with cats."
“People on FR are a bunch of nervous nellies.”
pffft FR is not really a conservative forum. I’ve found never Trumpers, socialists and faggot-lovers and homo marriage pukes throughout the years. Doesn;t surprise me.
to understand President Trump read WIN BIGLY by Scott Adams. it will ease your stress.
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