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Trump is a Bad Deal for the GOP
Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2015 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 07/08/2015 3:45:57 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Jonah has been called upon by the GOPe, I see.

Jonah....focus....we’re trying to defeat the DEMs/Libs.


41 posted on 07/08/2015 4:56:02 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: CodeToad
By my way you mean a strong, smart conservative, not these wimpy RINOs?

Eight RINOs in a row and you want another RINO?

42 posted on 07/08/2015 5:06:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Kaslin

Oh Jonah just admit it. You had to attack a man who is standing up for what your best friend Andrew Breitbart would have championed. You messed up Jonah and piled on. Trump took umbrage and fired back. Suck it up lick your wounds and move on. I have now lost respect for you.


43 posted on 07/08/2015 5:06:44 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Reeses

Well, that is a another, and interesting, way of looking at it.


44 posted on 07/08/2015 5:09:28 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Reeses

That’s your standard for which is the better choice for president?


45 posted on 07/08/2015 5:10:04 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: stanne

Self made? Trump? Ha!


46 posted on 07/08/2015 5:11:08 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: stanne

Trump is telling “the poor” and everybody else that the Illegal Invader problem is directly affecting their personal Economic Situation because their Government is selling them out.

That’s when the Illegal Invaders aren’t here killing them that is.


47 posted on 07/08/2015 5:11:23 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (They Live, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kaslin

WASHINGTONIANS RAUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


48 posted on 07/08/2015 5:12:53 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Oho Trump has a benefactor?

You don’t know any Wharton grads, I guess.


49 posted on 07/08/2015 5:14:34 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Kaslin

I’ve never been a fan of Trump. But with so many of the right people hating on Trump right now, one has to wonder.


50 posted on 07/08/2015 5:15:29 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Oh, yes. I heard this line on Bill (yes yes) Bennett this morning.

Steve Winn (sp?) was on groaning about Trump and Bernie Sanders going after people by selling them on their victimhood.

Buuhlechh!!

If you don’t think immigration, this out of control immigration, affects us, our sovereignty, our consciousness, our culture, future, don’t talk to me. You don’t pay any attention.

The flash of agreement, the sustained and growing support that Trump gets will get to you at one point.

Something out there frightens the pols. There’ll be Hell Toupee


51 posted on 07/08/2015 5:20:15 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Well, he inherited a large sum of money. He’s obviously made much more himself, but to call someone who inherited somewhere between $60 and 200 million “self made” is....a bit of a stretch.


52 posted on 07/08/2015 5:26:54 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Fred Trump, Donald’s Father, did very well in life but he never left or gave Donald anywhere near that kind of money.


53 posted on 07/08/2015 5:30:24 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Kaslin

I’m angry as hell about being forced to submit to PC and to genuflect to the cultural Marxists and their ceaseless propaganda campaign against America of “racist”, “sexist” and “homophobic”, so hell yeah I’m supporting Trump.


54 posted on 07/08/2015 5:30:58 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Kaslin

Democrats would piss their panties if Trump with his money ended up as the V.P. candidate.


55 posted on 07/08/2015 5:36:52 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

He inherited his family’s business. He grew it from a two hundred million dollar business to a 9 billion dollar business.

If those figures are off, even if he’s exaggerating the 9 B twice, $200,000,000 is a percentage, a small percentage of 5,000,000,000.

Trump went to Wharton. He learned about making deals and investing money. If you don’t know anyone who is talented at that, fine, but it is a talent.

There is a faction of people, I’ve known some, not been friends with them, who hate people with money but in a bigoted way of hatred. It clouds their thinking. It comes from formation they were taught that having money necessarily goes along with fault of character.

Those people have an obsession with money much stronger than the people I have known who have money, a lot of money, or old money, or who work for it.

The most benevolent people come from both camps and there are stingy jealous greedy people with no money.

But Trump turned 200 mil into many billions. He did it, and not like michelle Obama did it, taking double digit million vacays twice a year on her husband’s 400 K salary, taking it from me.


56 posted on 07/08/2015 5:40:06 PM PDT by stanne
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Oh, I respect what Trump has done in business. I have absolutely zero interest in seeing him anywhere near the Oval Office, but I respect what he has done as a businessman. Great dealmaker, sure.

I just have a hard time calling someone with his background “self made.”


57 posted on 07/08/2015 5:47:25 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Kaslin

Goldberg’s article says nothing about Trump’s positions. He just repeated the empty utterances of other critics.

Also, I was disappointed in Firona’s comments about Trump, as she also said nothing about his positions.


58 posted on 07/08/2015 6:00:38 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: CodeToad

That’s good.

As for the article by Jonah Goldberg, I expect no less from him. Bill Buckley left a really good magazine. It has since become nothing but a sniveling mouthpiece for the gop wing of the Uniparty.


59 posted on 07/08/2015 6:02:03 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I think someone who can get into the ring and change the entire national presidential election conversation and sustain it, and bring it forward on the merits of power level money, street smarts and tactics is rare.

Name anyone.

I see it as something he achieved. He took his father’s inheritance and grew it exponentially.

You put a price on that. If it’s $100 form a Cuban refugee to a son who makes it big in Law and State government or $200 mil to a son who makes it huge in real estate ventures the percentages are not even equal. Trump made more money.

Who made him, if he’s not self made?

But the real question is, why, on a conservative website forum such as this, does anyone come out and harass me for what I am thinking. I think he’s self made. You don’t.

what totalitarian idea gives you the right to bug the crap out of me for just saying he’s self made?

He is.

You don’t think he is.

Why do you have to try to back me down from my idea?

Come up with your own.


60 posted on 07/08/2015 6:02:36 PM PDT by stanne
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