Posted on 07/10/2015 9:19:09 AM PDT by Mariner
How do you solve a problem like The Donald?
That question is currently consuming the minds (and fueling the nightmares) of leading Republican power brokers.
And you gotta have some sympathy for their plight.
Actually, I take that back. It's entirely possible to have nothing but schadenfreude for what the GOP is going through. There is certainly a chickens-coming-home-to-roost character to Donald Trump's meteoric rise in the polls over the past couple of weeks. This is a party, after all, that has spent close to the entirety of the Obama administration stoking right-wing populism, encouraging conspiracy theories about the president and his policies, and deploying wildly irresponsible rhetoric about the dire threats posed to the nation by mainstream members of the Democratic Party. Trump's campaign, which is powered almost entirely by demagogic bluster and insults, is a kind of apotheosis of the party's strategy these past several years.
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Knowing a few folks on the hard left, they really believe that.
They don’t just believe it, they know it.
The citizens are completely fed up with the perfidy of our elected officials who refuse to enforce the laws they have passed and took an oath to uphold.
The citizens are being killed by illegal aliens and the only answer our elected can envision is to legalize the killers.
It still has a conservative base? I thought we were asked to leave.
He compared the fuss about what Trump is saying with the beginning of Rush's career, where suddenly, a whole bunch of people figured out that someone was finally saying aloud what they had been thinking all along...and that they were no longer alone.
Yeah, but Trump is not a conservative. At least he wasn’t a few years ago.
The GOP IS the problem.
Sooner or later there’ll be enough of us that either the Tea Party wing or an independent party will become a viable contender for nominating and electing high officials.
The problem is not with the base. The problem is with the corrupt GOPe.
Donald Trump is willing to say what is on his mind, even if that upsets the delicate plans of the GOPe.
I say, make the GOPe sweat! And make the GOPe back off its corrupt campaign against Ted Cruz and Evangelicals and Tea Partiers.
Cruz/Trump works better for me.
I watched CNN last night to see Trump on the Anderson Cooper interview and the panel later discussed the Republican “crazy” base supporting Trump.
I don’t thin Trump or Cruz will play second fiddle to anyone.
The strategic goal of Democrat Donald Trump is to split the base for a Hillary or other democrat win in 2016.
I amazes me as I watch this unfold, so many simply REFUSE to consider Trump’s political history verses his current ‘hardcore’ rhetoric.
The sooner we waking up to the fact we’re being punked and manipulated, the sooner we can find a truly conservative candidate.
Maybe not, but his straightforward attacks at political correctness is like a breath of fresh air in a stale, smoke-filled Leftist-dominated room.
I have thought those thoughts too, but look what the 3 party system did to the UK.
No “conservative” would be supporting Trump
Cruz/Palin works best for me.
I’d prefer Cruz/Trump to Trump/Cruz... The Donald cannot help but throw verbal hand grenades and cause an awesome and important fuss with his unexpected statements. That’s perfect for the VP slot! (Right Joe?) But the President needs to be thoughtful, an exceptional speaker, measured, and patient. Cruz may be the best example of those traits of any President in the modern era, possibly even including REAGAN.
(1) We have a strong Politician that knows his way around government, smart, likable, doesn't need a lobbyist in his pocket...and can stand up and say what he thinks, and will take someone to listen to his ideas and reason everything out...
(2) Then we have a person who is NOT a Politician who has built and butted heads and is not owned by anyone, who speaks his mind, knows money matters, can stand up and be heard....
This is something that is refreshing to me, I haven't seen this in a long time....
Cruz would be filling the same bill, if the MSM wasn't so obsessive in their attacks on him.
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