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Presidential Trolling at Its Worst
National Review ^ | July 15, 2019 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 07/15/2019 2:33:35 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Trump outdid himself with anti-“squad” tweets over the weekend suggesting that the four Democratic congresswomen go back where they came from. The tweets were clearly trolling and meant to be sardonic — supposedly they are to go back home, fix their countries, and then return here to tell us how it’s done, with Nancy Pelosi happy to pay the airfare.

They are several things to say about this: 1) As always, presidents shouldn’t troll; 2) on a tactical level, it’s incredibly dumb for the president to insert himself into the middle of the Democratic circular firing squad between Nancy Pelosi and Co. and AOC and Co.; 3) politically, this kind of thing repels Republican suburban women, and he’ll need to win back some increment of them in 2020; 4) substantively, three of the four targets were born in this country, but his tweets suggest that somehow they can’t be true Americans; 5) as for Ilhan Omar, who came here as a refugee, it’s absolutely fair game to excoriate her for being a poisonous ingrate, but the barroom-stool taunt of “go back to the country you came from” isn’t the way to do it.

A poor show all around.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; bushlostdealwithit; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fraudsquad; mediawingofthednc; nationalreview; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; partisanmediashills; pleaseclap; presstitutes; richlowry; smearmachine; stupidthingtosay; trump
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Rich Lowery is always my go-to-consultant when I need the absolute very best in strategic planning for GOP.


21 posted on 07/15/2019 2:43:52 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Vaquero

Low LIfe Lowry, Dirtbag of the Conservative, Inc caucus needs to stop wasting our valuable air.


22 posted on 07/15/2019 2:44:28 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: reaganaut1
Lowry misses an important point. The “circular firing squad” he describes is exactly what Nancy Pelosi wants ... because she needs to distance herself and the Democratic Party from those four nitwits in order to protect her House majority in 2020. Turning them into the faces of the Democratic Party is the best thing the GOP can possibly do.

How many suburban Republican women does Lowry think actually identify with those four mutants?

23 posted on 07/15/2019 2:46:00 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: reaganaut1

New Name for Publication: National Disgrace.


24 posted on 07/15/2019 2:46:28 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: reaganaut1

Get out of here with this stinking trash.


25 posted on 07/15/2019 2:47:47 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Oh, I see, he’s a sniveling little Bill Kristol RINO.


26 posted on 07/15/2019 2:48:11 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: reaganaut1

Rich, Rich, Rich. You Never-Trumpers will never learn. Ninety percent of the country…agrees with President Trump that we would be FAR better off without these spawn of immigrants who act like they hate the USA. We have enough whiners without importing more.


27 posted on 07/15/2019 2:48:41 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: TexasGurl24

There are several on here like that. Mother always told me to ignre them.


28 posted on 07/15/2019 2:48:58 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: reaganaut1

“on a tactical level, it’s incredibly dumb for the president to insert himself into the middle of the Democratic circular firing squad between Nancy Pelosi and Co. and AOC and Co.”

Hard to believe that a word smith who has been so wrong about everything for the past 3 years, deigns to give the master at getting things done (POTUS) advice on tactics. Just one little example of something RINO’s like Rich Lowry had been trying unsuccessfully to get done for 30 years that POTUS got done almost as an afterthought. Opening ANWR for drilling. Not only does Lowry not know how to get things done, he’s literally incapable of recognizing someone whose tactical genius has already allowed him to do so.


29 posted on 07/15/2019 2:51:03 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

With each passing day I am getting more convince that Trump is making a hard push for support from the one demographic group that might despise these four harridans more than I do: BLACK MEN.


30 posted on 07/15/2019 2:52:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: reaganaut1

Hey, Rich...

Why don’t you go back to kindergarten and learn a bit of common sense, and perhaps a bit of logic.

The president is the best person around to voice the American people’s thoughts and feelings about people like the 4 anti-American women who are making more noise than they’re worth.

If anybody but the president gave voice to our thoughts, that person would go unnoticed and the 4 losers would end up being heard even louder.

So, Trump needs to be twitting often and ‘loud’ and defending America against its internal enemies, such as the 4 horse-shits of the apocalypse.

Those 4 nobodies need to go back to their countries and/or to a country that best fits their idea of what the U.S. should be like. The U.S. its not their country, and we Americans don’t want them here.

So, Rich, why don’t you wise up and start paying attention to the president, who is actually doing the work of the people, while you are simply complaining with some ‘statesmanlike’ commentary. Trump understands the people, and you don’t.


31 posted on 07/15/2019 2:52:58 PM PDT by adorno
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To: reaganaut1
Not many suckers people sign up for one of your cool cruises?
32 posted on 07/15/2019 2:53:14 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: reaganaut1

Lowry dedicated a total issue of NR to stop the Trump candidacy. He was and is a never-Trumper. He has no credibility or insight. Hillary would be President if Trump had listened to Lowry.


33 posted on 07/15/2019 2:53:57 PM PDT by kabar
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To: reaganaut1

The Trump Curse takes out the trash on a regular basis.

Enjoy your trip to hell!


34 posted on 07/15/2019 2:54:07 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( America - A country so great that even her haters will not leave it!)
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To: reaganaut1

We’ve given RINO’s like Lowry, 30 plus years to show us how to win. They’ve failed every time. A professional sports coach with their track record would have been fired years ago.


35 posted on 07/15/2019 2:54:48 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: reaganaut1

Trump should apologize...

“Judge Roy Bean:
[Bean apologizes to the marshals’ wives] I understand you have taken exception to my calling you whores. I’m sorry. I apologize. I ask you to note that I did not call you callous-ass strumpets, fornicatresses, or low-born gutter sluts. But I did say “whores.” No escaping that. And for that slip of the tongue, I apologize.”


36 posted on 07/15/2019 2:54:58 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: reaganaut1

Trump Is Trying to Force the Dems to Circle Wagons Around AOC, Tlaib, Omar, etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHRVyyEh9Rg


37 posted on 07/15/2019 2:55:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: reaganaut1

FOAD

Idiot...

Trump got them off message...

5hise tarzs run their mouths all day with no response worth wasting breath on

Now, we are at the time when the gloves must come off and call these sniveling punks out.

I’ve had several “friends” square off me recently and trying to claim by virtue of my vote, support and dollars I too am a racist, misogynist, anti-semitic, etc and ought to be ashamed.

KcuF them and I no longer want anything to do with them.

Their position is a lie and their punk statements about me are unacceptable and I will not tolerate it.

So, KcuF You Rich...


38 posted on 07/15/2019 2:56:38 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: reaganaut1

This idiot misses the strategery!


39 posted on 07/15/2019 2:56:56 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: reaganaut1

Another member of the Kristol Brigade complete with the smarmy look on his face.


40 posted on 07/15/2019 2:58:13 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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