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Trump: The Art of the Bluff
National Review ^ | September 11, 2015 | John Fund

Posted on 09/11/2015 6:24:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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Does anyone remember reading 1/10,000th as much negative reactions to Barack Obama running for president?

Trump isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but seriously folks, this is an eye-opening moment.

Look at the collective against Trump.

That alone should scare the —— out of anyone not thinking of voting for him.

Be on their side, that side...

If I hadn’t planned on voting for him prior to this, I would be after this.


61 posted on 09/11/2015 8:20:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: CaptainK
Yes, but he was a rock solid conservative and Republican (the two are not, as we know, synonymous) and a had become a successful and experienced political executive during the thirty years following his conversion and before becoming president. That's why comparisons between Ronald Reagan being a Democrat during the Roosevelt administration and Trump becoming one after a record of changing party affiliation about as often as he changes trophy wives is to many of us ludicrous. In short, you're entitled to your faith in Grump but I do not trust him.
62 posted on 09/11/2015 8:21:10 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: going hot

You will vote for a man who supported the Clintons, wanted (and got) them to his 3rd wedding, said they were great people, praised Hillary for her skill as Secretary of State?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120277819085260827

In case you have forgotten how Hillary Clinton won her New York Senate Seat:

“...........On Aug. 7, 1999, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. African embassy bombings that killed 257 people and injured 5,000, President Bill Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to the victims of terrorism, vowing that he “will not rest until justice is done.” Four days later, while Congress was on summer recess, the White House quietly issued a press release announcing that the president was granting clemency to 16 imprisoned members of FALN. What began as a simple paragraph on the AP wire exploded into a major controversy.

Mr. Clinton justified the clemencies by asserting that the sentences were disproportionate to the crimes. None of the petitioners, he stated, had been directly involved in crimes that caused bodily harm to anyone. “For me,” the president concluded, “the question, therefore, was whether their continuing incarceration served any meaningful purpose.”

His comments, including the astonishing claim that the FALN prisoners were being unfairly punished because of “guilt by association,” were widely condemned as a concession to terrorists. Further, they were seen as an outrageous slap in the face of the victims and a bitter betrayal of the cops and federal law enforcement officers who had put their lives on the line to protect the public and who had invested years of their careers to put these people behind bars. The U.S. Sentencing Commission affirmed a pre-existing Justice Department assessment that the sentences, ranging from 30 to 90 years, were “in line with sentences imposed in other cases for similar terrorist activity.”..................................


63 posted on 09/11/2015 8:21:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DoughtyOne
Does anyone remember reading 1/10,000th as much negative reactions to Barack Obama running for president?

I remember reading TONS and TONS of opposition rants and articles about Obama. I posted many of them.

64 posted on 09/11/2015 8:24:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: katana
Should be becoming a Conservative and Republican
65 posted on 09/11/2015 8:24:35 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You have already proven yourself to be a clueless wonder.

Lying about this isn’t going to help your cause.


66 posted on 09/11/2015 8:26:05 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If Trump doesn’t win FL, Bush will get the nomination. Is that what you’d prefer?


67 posted on 09/11/2015 8:26:59 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: DoughtyOne

What lie?


68 posted on 09/11/2015 8:28:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thank you for your daily “Trump is bad” post.

I will continue to support him for speaking truth to power & for his stance on immigration, caring for our veterans & most importantly for talking about what’s best for AMERICA & not for the GOPe.

Till tomorrow. Peace :)


69 posted on 09/11/2015 8:29:49 AM PDT by TheStickman
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To: katana
Reagan began his political career as a liberal Democrat. He joined numerous political committees with a strong left-wing orientation, such as the American Veterans Committee. He fought against Republican-sponsored right-to-work legislation and for Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, when she was defeated for the Senate by Richard Nixon

I don't know if Trump ever leaned his left.

70 posted on 09/11/2015 8:31:21 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If you think the full court press against Trump was in any way mirrored by a full court press against Obama, you’re absolutely stark raving nuts.

Was the GOPe trashing Obama as it has Trump? No.
Was the complete Leftist media doing it? No

As I said, you have absolutely destroyed your credibility here.


71 posted on 09/11/2015 8:31:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: ebshumidors

I understand the winner take all rule in FL and the primary season schedule (and the screwed up primary rules) but you ASSUME something and then decide to back a jerk and a liar because you think that FL decides the primary.

You’ll probably end up getting exactly what you don’t want. Once all the other candidates are knocked off and Trump blows up we’ll end up with Jeb!


72 posted on 09/11/2015 8:32:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: TheStickman

Footnote:

http://www.DCwhispers.com had a post story about the GOP-E planning an all out attack on trump after labor day.

Today we have Jindal, Maria Bartelomo (of FBN), Fiorina, jbush all ganging up on attack mode.

This really defines the useful stooges of the insider class.


73 posted on 09/11/2015 8:32:45 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

I concur. CW & others are pushing “hard” to comply with their GOPe mandated scree.

The funny thing is, the hard they try to trash Trump the higher he polls. Reminds me of a definition for insanity: doing the same thing over & over hoping for a different result. Peace :)


74 posted on 09/11/2015 8:36:16 AM PDT by TheStickman
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It was an honest worry.

You clearly care.

But you sometimes seem obsessed with Mr. Trump.

And you seem to be a Walker partisan.

Which is fine.

I lean towards Cruz myself, but I’m enjoying this primary because the elitist Washington power brokers are having daily conniptions.

All the best.


75 posted on 09/11/2015 8:37:40 AM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: DoughtyOne

I see that you have now conveniently added “GOP-e” to your previous comment that I responded to.

So much for your credibility.

I will keep my integrity, thank you.

Insult away.

Trump would admire your technique.


76 posted on 09/11/2015 8:37:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

that is the plan of the GOP-E.

Have multiple vote splitters for the “not jeb voters” so they can not firm up behind one “not jeb” candidate.

Jeb needed 17(!) splitters in order to make this work. Trump was NEVER supposed to succeed. Remember Bill Clinton is a good friend of HWBush. A primary alliance to have Trump persuaded to enter the race is SOP for DC insiders.


77 posted on 09/11/2015 8:38:06 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Then you choose to ignore history and go with the guy that tells you what you want to BELIEVE.

I told you exactly what i thought you chose to ignore what i said.

No matter how much Dump Trump propaganda you post it will not make Scott Walker President. Scott Walker could have been President if he had the guts to stand against k-street but he didn't.

78 posted on 09/11/2015 8:39:11 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You regurgitate that stuff onto the forum, and get huffy when someone calls you on it?

I can’t even respect the work you do for your candidate, the lengths you’ll go to in your attempt to lie about things everyone here is aware of.

Keep your integrity? I gain no pleasure from noting you haven’t had any for some time now.


79 posted on 09/11/2015 8:40:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: TheStickman
I concur. CW & others are pushing “hard” to comply with their GOPe mandated scree.

How Alinksy of you.

Gov. Scott Walker is a rock solid conservative and he's done (to use a Trump word - but this time it fits) amazing job fighting and winning against Wisconsin's Left (and all their fellow liberals that flocked to try and overpower his actions).

80 posted on 09/11/2015 8:40:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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