Posted on 02/26/2016 7:06:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama is playing a cynical game. He's consistently raised Donald Trump's profile in an attempt to boost the mogul's chances of winning the Republican nomination. Obama's theory is that Trump is unelectable. And it's true that Trump is the only candidate in the Republican field who consistently loses in general election match ups against Hillary Clinton. A Trump nomination, Democrats believe, would be the best way to hold the White House for another four years.
Does the idea that Trump is unelectable sound familiar? It should. Republican elites said much the same thing in the six months preceding Trump's second place finish in Iowa and first place finish in New Hampshire. The GOP's top political consultants laughed Trump off, calling him names and saying he didn't have a chance. Now he's on track to winning the nomination. While I still believe he would be the underdog in a general election, there are several reasons the Democrats are underestimating his powers. Here are seven:
Clinton's Lead Is Surmountable
Clinton enjoys a 2.8-point advantage over Trump in the current Real Clear Politics average of polls. Not exactly a landslide.
Trump's Positions are Popular
Typically a Republican candidate moves to the right during a primary in order to win over conservatives. But the positions that candidate takes in the primary can hurt him in the general election. But Trump hasn't moved in any direction. He's consistently voiced his opposition to illegal immigration, free trade, foreign wars, "people dying in the streets," and entitlement cuts. Support for the Great Wall of Trump is mixed, but the public supports the Trump view of trade and foreign policy. And Trump is closer to the general electorate on social issues than the other Republican candidates....
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
97% chance of trump victory. wish the rubio and cruz shills would leave
Sums it up very, very well.
The must win Rust-belt states will go Trump ...the Northeast, on the other hand , will be a good indicator of a Reagan like landslide if Trump can pull a good portion of it ...the Dims are very worried ..
interesting article here:
Hard to think of one thing that Obama has been correct about - this could be the mother of all failures for him.
You ever get those Cruz emails requesting donations? It’s the cyber equivalent of a NYC squee-gee man pre-Giuliani.
Please let’s not take our eyes off of Bernie. The article seems to ignore him.
The old elite Republican party should be more afraid of Trump.
They have more to lose.
The disasterous Obama/Demo economic policies have thrown tens of millions of American workers out onto the ashheap. And there are tens more millions of good people who realize (intellectually and/or instinctively) that their jobs are next on the chopping block...
They’ll very likely vote for a charismatic (or at least attractive) well-known figure who is reputed to be successful at business
and who’s outspoken about the screwing Obama/Hillary/Reid/Pelosi have given America
Thanks for posting FRiend.
I have been getting 10-20 per day in my Junk box for almost a year. There is no way to unsubscribe. Hopefully they will end on Weds.
Pray America wakes
Terrified of Trump? Here come some Americans.
I don't get any spam from any of the candidates. Maybe it's because I'm an independent. Whatever the reason, I'm not complaining.
Reason #8- They will see Trump when they look in the mirror. Scary at first until they realize “hey he’s one of us”.
I HAVE A SUGGESTION — Why don’t you get off the website? I’m supporting a conservative — Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz has never supported abortion. Ted Cruz has never been a Democrat. Ted Cruz has never been for gun control. Ted Cruz hasn’t left two wives for mistresses. Ted Cruz hasn’t been a serial adulterer. YOU SUPPORT A MORAL DEGNERATE — and sadly it says something about YOU.
Here’s what one senator has said about Trump:
Nebraska senator Ben Sasse crossed the border into neighboring Iowa last week to warn fellow Republicans of the dangers of voting for Donald Trump.
Although Ben Sasse has Ivy League degrees and was the president of Midland University from 2010 to 2014, he had broad tea-party support in his 2014 Senate run from groups such as the pro–free market Club for Growth and the libertarian-leaning Freedom Works.
“I ran because the country is in constitutional crisis,” Sasse told me in an interview. “America already has a president who has run roughshod over the Constitution; we don’t need another. I’m pro-Constitution, and if that makes me anti-Trump, that’s Mr. Trump’s problem,” he told reporters in Iowa.
So Sasse began his Trump critique with a series of Twitter questions for him on where he stands on issues such as support for government-run health care in Canada and Scotland. He also threw in this zinger: “You brag abt many affairs w/ married women. Have you repented? To harmed children & spouses? Do you think it matters?”
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Other than calling that question “a cheap shot,” Trump ignored Sasse until the day after Thursday’s Trumpless GOP debate. He then let loose with two Twitter barrages. In the first one, he wrote: “The great State of Nebraska can do much better than @BenSasse as your Senator. Saw him on @greta — totally ineffective. Wants paid for pols.”
In the second tweet, he sneered that Sasse’s donning of Nebraska Huskers football gear while on TV made him look “more like a gym rat than a U.S. Senator.”
The “gym rat” responded by saying that since he was the son of a football and wrestling coach, he viewed Trump’s taunt as “high praise.”
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What Sasse doesn’t praise is Trump’s willingness to endorse almost every shortcut he can think of that would allow a president to impose his will without constitutional authority — and if that means imitating Barack Obama’s high-handed executive orders, so be it.
Take in New Hampshire. Trump appeared before the New England Police Benevolent Association and pledged he would issue an executive order mandating the death penalty for anyone convicted of murdering a law-enforcement official. “It’s going to happen. Okay? We can’t let this go.” After his speech, unsurprisingly, the police union endorsed Trump for president. That the president has no power to mandate the statutory punishment for crimes (it’s the exclusive mandate of Congress) was apparently of little or no concern to Trump.
Nor was that Trump’s only foray into potential Ceasarism. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked Trump if he would emulate Obama and use executive orders. “I won’t refuse it,” he replied. “I mean, he’s led the way, to be honest with you.”
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When asked a similar question on CBS’s Face the Nation, Trump said: “Well, I will say this: There’s a lot of precedent based on what he’s doing.”
And given Trump’s impatience, unilateral action probably appeals to him. At a rally in December, he told the crowd, “You know the great thing about executive orders is that I don’t have to go back to Congress.”
But Trump has made so many puzzling and conflicting statements, Sasse contends, that he owes his supporters clarity. He points out that Trump recently said: “When I’m president, I’m a different person. I can do anything. I can be the most politically correct person that you’ve ever seen.”
TRUMP IS A BAD MAN AND SHAME ON THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT HIM.
Why can’t Ted win?
Thank you for your question. I think Cruz has been too nice a guy to Trump for the most part until last night. It is my hope Cruz will take it to the adulterer and casino guru in new ways every day.
I also pray for the political demise of Trump. I think he would be a plague on the nation. Do we really need a serial adultery in the White House? Do we need a man who calls women ugly and bimbos and compares a surgeon to a child molester to be our president? I don’t think so.
I was donating to Cruz for 6 months before I decided to put him in second palce and go all-in for Trump.
Had to tell them to stop calling about dozen times and the calls still come. Get 3-5 mailers a week talking about how he needs money to save us and I finally got most of the texts and emails to stop.
Everything is a crisis moment and a "generous donation will be matched by them fat cats I ain't no-way beholden to".
Traditional Republicans ala Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush, Kasich, Rubio and yes Cruz, will be ignored, insulted, demonized and marginalized. They will be suffocated by lack of exposure and trampled under the media/popular culture stampede to elect THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!
Only Trump has the ability to crash the party and bring the facade crashing to the ground. Only Trump is big enough, loud enough, bold enough to be the game changer needed to stop the coronation.
Unprecedented and unpredictable are the only reliable constants in this cycle. Lots of people get payed big bucks to tell us what is going to happen. They look like fools when they cant do that. Trump makes them look like fools.
I think nobody likes a person who's right all the time and doesn't mind letting you know when you're screwing off. People deride such people as prigs and prods; people who're prone to moral and intellectual slackness especially dislike them and throw the kitchen sink at them.
I state this generally and not as a critique of Ted Cruz in particular. He has his own issues which add to the criticism. I'm just saying that he would receive obloquy even if he were Jesus Christ because he approaches many questions from a moral perspective.
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