Posted on 08/21/2015 6:22:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Given the "failures" of the Obama election, Republicans can only lose in 2016 if "they out-extreme the far-left"
On “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday night, host and new favorite Coulter punching bag Bill O’Reilly expounded on the difference between “Trumpians” and Democrats, and warned Republicans that the real estate mogul’s brand of undisciplined extremism could hurt the party whose nomination he currently seeks.
After rattling off the predictable litany of Republican complaints about Obama’s economic and foreign policies — the suggestion being that Democratic party is weak on both fronts because of the president’s reckless, ignorant actions — O’Reilly claimed that “it should be easy for the Republicans to win the presidency in 2016, but that’s not how it’s shaking out.”
“Donald Trump,” he said, “has bludgeoned the GOP establishment by seizing on a number of emotional issues that conservatives are furious about. His brand of straight talk blows traditional politicians away, making them seem small and dull.” While that might sound like the sort of thing O’Reilly would gladly cheerlead, he argued that it “may be good news for the Democrats.”
The reason? Because “there’s an over-the-top element to Trump’s rhetoric and support.” O’Reilly singled out Trump’s claim that that the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to the children of illegal immigrants as being particularly without merit — a position which put him at odds with guests and panelists on all of Fox News’ other editorial programs.
The amendment clearly states, O’Reilly said, that “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Anyone who tries “to parse the amendment will fail, and it’s a waste of time.”
“It also,” he added, “gives the left ammunition,” noting that an editorial in the New York Times “demonizes the Republican party for Trump’s immigration plan.” That, O’Reilly said, will allow the Democrats to “turn defeat into victory by portraying Trump and the entire Republican party as racist brutalizers.”
The GOP, he concluded, will lose the very winnable 2016 election “if they out-extreme their far-left competition.”
Watch the entire segment below via Fox News.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Bill, here’s your script. Dance monkey, dance.
What are the Newsweek poll numbers. I can’t get to the article.
1st time. Man am I glad Foxnews is not the US airport cable news of choice.
BOR and Queenie Megyn are off at my house.
BOR/Ted Baxter does not understand the Constitution and I guess does not want to. He’s pretty irrelevant as we hardly ever watch him anyway.
The problem I have with the defeatist reasoning of those like O’reilly is summarized in a simple question. How can we ever truly win if we allow our message to be limited to the rules of an opposition that will always cast us in a negative light. Its stupid. We are not racist because we oppose anchor babies and illegal immigration and if we allow ourselves to be cowed into behaving like and reinforcing the idea that we are sounding racist because we even dare discuss these issues in a way where we are not gushing as if “Illegal immigration is an act of love” then we will have lost before we even start.
Our worthless Republican “leaders” have allowed issue after issue to become defined as such that if we dare speak the truth as we see it and defend the constitutional limited government pro traditional American view then we are racist, we are bigoted, we are homophobes, we are anti-Woman, and anti-Immigrant. I don’t care who you are but if you believe this failed strategy is the way to win then you are so used to losing that you don’t know how winning feels.
Let’s face it, to say “republican party” doesn’t’ mean anything anymore. We have the GOPe and the anti-GOPe.
Dearest K, me too.
Been FoxNews-free for two weeks now. Feels great.
and... why is it news when Bill O’Reilly reaffirms that he’s a poltically correct idiot?
It will be news when he isn’t.
I never watch O’Reilly any more.
American Hispanics in the Great Southwest from what I have seen, are generally class conscious about their colonial kinsmen. When they wish to deal with Mexicans they go to Mexico City, to interact with the more affluent citizens and not the undesirables massing at the border.
BORing
Amen. He has done himself in.
Don’t see much of mascara boy anymore. Guess he was too light in the loafers for even Ailes.
I will never watch either or them again.
O’reilly is that Roger Ailes hand up you ass or is Karl Rove the Ventriloquist ?
Eff Ted Baxter
Unusual to see an item from Salon that is relatively correct.
I was screaming at my TV when BOR was spewing his BS regarding the 14th A. and ignoring the fact that it was not intended to apply to foreigners or aliens. ...He’s a bloviating blowhard!
Racist brutalizers? Well, I do feel like brutalizing some racists from time to time.
O’Reilly’s been hanging out in the country clubs too much. He needs to get out and meet some real Americans and see what’s been going on.
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