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Hey Republicans, This Is How You Beat Trump—For Real [the Daily Beast wants to save the GOP]
Daily Beast ^ | 17 Feb 16 | Stuart Stevens

Posted on 02/17/2016 11:23:49 AM PST by elhombrelibre

A few months ago I wrote that Donald Trump was probably going to withdraw before the Iowa caucuses rather than face the embarrassment of defeat. Wrong. He did lose Iowa, seemed momentarily humbled, but then quickly reverted to form by asserting that he really won. He went on to a landslide victory in New Hampshire and now leads in South Carolina.

While much of the political world speculates that Trump may be creating a new kind of candidacy largely immune to normal attacks, let me make another assertion (that may prove as wrong as the previous): Donald Trump should be easy to defeat. What makes him not a “normal” candidate actually makes him more vulnerable rather than stronger. Let me explain.

In a Republican primary, Trump lacks both an ideological or geographic base. For all the focus on his bigoted remarks about Mexicans and Muslims, Trump has won self-identified moderate voters in both Iowa and New Hampshire. In Iowa, he lost conservatives and very conservatives but won them in NH (in a landslide victory like he had in NH, it’s hard to win everything.) In a party that is increasingly dominated by the South and Sunbelt, Trump lives on Fifth Avenue.

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Great advice to save conservatism.
1 posted on 02/17/2016 11:23:49 AM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

Great advice to save Conservatism would not be coming from
The Daily Beast.


2 posted on 02/17/2016 11:25:13 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: elhombrelibre

Here’s how you beat Trump - you emphasise to his supporters that if they don’t vote for Cruz, then they hate Jesus and America. That will get to them to rethink their flawed and ridiculous support for him.


3 posted on 02/17/2016 11:25:24 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: elhombrelibre

Plan 2,319,042

Now..., back to reality.


4 posted on 02/17/2016 11:26:49 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy
That will get to them to rethink their flawed and ridiculous support for him.

Or, it will expose just how desperate the anti-Trump crowd is, leaving us Trump supporters laughing and ridiculing the anti-Trumpsters all the way to the White House.

5 posted on 02/17/2016 11:28:00 AM PST by dware (Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
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To: elhombrelibre

If nothing else defeats Trump, it will be all of the actual conservatives who won’t vote for him come November. It’s pretty easy to skip that ballot line if that orange clown’s name is on it.


6 posted on 02/17/2016 11:29:54 AM PST by Goldsborough (Damn the torpedoes! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Trump event; North Augusta, South Carolina 2/16/16

The protester is carrying the message from the politicians, lobbyist, donors, influence peddlers, the well connected and those with motives of bad intent

7 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:25 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: elhombrelibre

This guy was wrong before, what is to say that he will be right this time?


8 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:27 AM PST by Parmy
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To: elhombrelibre

I’m rather tired of a party that insists on eating its own rather than the left.


9 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:35 AM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: DonaldC

Trump is a life long lefty.


10 posted on 02/17/2016 11:31:27 AM PST by Goldsborough (Damn the torpedoes! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!)
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To: elhombrelibre
The media wants Trump to be completely unvetted. The GOP establishment wants Trump to be completely unvetted.

Even Obama was more vetted than Trump. Jeremiah Wright and all that stuff came out.

11 posted on 02/17/2016 11:31:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: DonaldC
I'm rather tired of a party that insists on eating its own rather than the left.

This.

12 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:24 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Stuart Stevens’s building his argument on flawed perceptions... which works for us... AND is the reason he’s been wrong in all his ideas about Trump so far...


13 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:39 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary has 416 'superdelegates'... Bernie has 14...Democrats don't trust the people - it's rigged.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Maybe they should call Trump supporters names and taunt them with juvenile schoolyard insults.

I know that when I’m called an idiot, a cultist, and a moron for not hating someone as much as they do, that always convinces me to listen close to their arguments


14 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:48 AM PST by digger48
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To: dragnet2

Lol. She is representative of Trump’s historic negatives as found by Gallup. That orangey moron is not as popular as you imagine him to be.


15 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:59 AM PST by Goldsborough (Damn the torpedoes! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!)
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To: Goldsborough

Yep...looks that way.


16 posted on 02/17/2016 11:33:01 AM PST by caww
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To: DonaldC

Why doesn’t Trump turn his big wicked mouth on his dear liberal friends.


17 posted on 02/17/2016 11:33:12 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: Goldsborough

At first when I read your post my mind saw it as “Trump is a life long baby”.:) I agree in either case.


18 posted on 02/17/2016 11:33:20 AM PST by beandog (TrumperTantrum)
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To: digger48

Trump supporters deserve every brickbat tossed at them.


19 posted on 02/17/2016 11:34:17 AM PST by Goldsborough (Damn the torpedoes! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!)
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To: elhombrelibre

Because he really, really likes them.


20 posted on 02/17/2016 11:34:35 AM PST by beandog (TrumperTantrum)
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