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It’s Time to Declare War on Donald Trump: An open letter to the candidates about tonight’s debate
The Politico Magazine ^ | September 16, 2015 | Rick Wilson, national Republican message and media strategist.

Posted on 09/16/2015 9:10:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: LS

IMHO the real target is the liberal/socialist/progressive/democrat/RINO cabal and their enablers.

The Republican portion of the electorate should be choosing the candidate that has the best chance to do so.

What this author wants is to incite a bloodbath that results in a weak and damaged Republican candidate in November 2016 - like the last several election cycles.

If any of the “lesser candidates” want my support - time and money - they need to come up with ideas that are better and more practical than anything that Trump has proposed to date. Attacking Trump to improve their personal chances is a failing proposition as proven by the last two Presidential elections.

Why do we want to repeat a failed process? I don’t!


41 posted on 09/16/2015 10:04:38 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

gosh I wish they would have directed THIS MUCH ENERGY TO DEFEATING OBAMA


42 posted on 09/16/2015 10:07:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Perhaps Trump has already figured out the “Gang Up On Trump” GOPe tactic, and has decided to stay above the FRay and to attack LIEberals and the Ophonybama administration?

Wouldn’t that be a hoot? Where everybody piles on Trump, and he is, for all intents and purposes, not under the pile, but is instead leading a press conference about how to destroy LIEberalism and the Ophonybama administration?

I’d pay good money to watch that event!


43 posted on 09/16/2015 10:08:56 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: morphing libertarian

OMG someone get that to the TRUMP TEAM!

They should hire you as a consultant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


44 posted on 09/16/2015 10:14:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Fresh Wind

he can set up an alternate anytime and invite whoever he wants. If he gets pulled off or shut down, all the other networks will interview him. If they won’t he can stream. He is the only candidate I know can work around the media.


45 posted on 09/16/2015 10:14:10 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: SmokingJoe

What if Trump said that it was time to declare war on Fiorina. How would that be greeted? Sexist, woman hater blah,blah,blah; yet, Trump is expected to take the pummeling like a good boy!

I hope he counter punches harder than the first debate.


46 posted on 09/16/2015 10:14:24 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: Mr. K

Thanx. I’m more of an INsultant


47 posted on 09/16/2015 10:14:38 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about a war on the worst POTUS in history?


48 posted on 09/16/2015 10:16:56 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Taxman

Me to.


49 posted on 09/16/2015 10:20:23 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: morphing libertarian

And his poll numbers will go up another 10%.


50 posted on 09/16/2015 10:22:53 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Night Hides Not

This.


51 posted on 09/16/2015 10:30:48 AM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: Mr. K

Yes. I’m absolutely amazed at the arrogance of this - the façade is totally gone - as Rush has said - it’s not that they’re out of touch - they absolutely just don’t care that WE THE PEOPLE ARE and SHOULD decide who we want to run the country.

I don’t know about you - but I SO despise the manipulation and false witness.


52 posted on 09/16/2015 10:37:29 AM PDT by time4good
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmmmmmm . . . . do you think that the GOPe will breakaway and form a third party?


53 posted on 09/16/2015 10:48:50 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
HE WORKS FOR THIS MACHO MAN!
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54 posted on 09/16/2015 11:07:15 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert

How can you say “attack Trump!” and then complain every time he responds? These people think we are stupid.

I watched an interview with Trump on David Ferherty’s show on the Golf Channel last night. Actually just the 2nd half.

Trump came across as thoughtful, kind, energetic, empathetic and, dare I say it, kind of self effacing. And this was from 2012 so I don’t think he was trying to burnish his image in a run to the Presidency.

Worth watching. Hope I catch the whole thing in the next couple of days.


55 posted on 09/16/2015 11:31:27 AM PDT by saleman (?)
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To: LS
Have you, by chance, ever looked at how many of the political consultant class, have close looks with Corporate management consultants? I have not, so I am just winging it. Or better approaching in backwards, from the perspective of how closely some of the political consultants seem to mirror the same myopia that afflicts Corporate managers, when they mentally stray out of their work day niches.

A current example of that myopia would be the penchant of otherwise competent & experienced commentators in the financial end of the broadcast media, to continue to accord Jeb Bush an inordinate importance, which his demonstrated "effectiveness" clearly cannot justify.

56 posted on 09/16/2015 11:45:03 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

I have not but you are on to something. You mean the “tail fins on cars” guys in the 50s/60s who didn’t really address any of the real, important changes in autos?


57 posted on 09/16/2015 1:12:43 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS
Yes, but they were pretty!

Corporate managers tend to be myopic for the obvious reasons; so too, one supposes, the political consultants, who also depend upon the favors of those up the chain of command in the funding sources.

Not quite the same thing as the terror in the peacetime army, when an unrecognized Pfc. with a clipboard shows up in the area, until someone figures out to whom he is reporting.

58 posted on 09/16/2015 1:32:13 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

Well, the myopia in large part comes from the fact that the consultant class works for the pols because they come from the same Ivy League schools and live in the same neighborhoods. I’m starting to think that one reason Clinton was so successful is that outside of Dickie Morris, his consultants were from Arkansas/Louisiana (Like Serpenthead). So I think they always kept him pretty well informed of what real Americans wanted.


59 posted on 09/16/2015 1:56:29 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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