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Trump's candidacy not all about him - no, seriously
foxnews.com ^ | Chris Stirewalt

Posted on 07/28/2015 10:37:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

If Donald Trump can lead his closest rival in New Hampshire’s Republican primary by a 2-to-1 margin even after mocking local favorite John McCain’s five years as a prisoner of war, it’s time for Republicans to drop the idea that Trump will burn out or be blown away.

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While there may be some who like the idea of a businessman in the White House, the core of Trump’s support seems to be among those chiefly interested in his power to smash the system – as a destroyer in chief.

You don’t care too much about the policy views or personal life of the guy you hire to bulldoze a building, just so long as he can put it asunder. Republicans have tried hitting Trump for serial flip-floppery, crassness and a lack of qualifications. The collective response from nearly one in five Republicans nationally: So’s yer mom! They don’t want Trump to make Washington work. They want him to burn the place down.

And guess what? That percentage of the party isn’t shrinking. Far from it.

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1 posted on 07/28/2015 10:37:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

“You don’t care too much about the policy views or personal life of the guy you hire to bulldoze a building, just so long as he can put it asunder. “

I think he’s on to something. This is a big reason why despite his many attacks on Trump as not being much of a conservative on many issues, conservatives still back him.


2 posted on 07/28/2015 10:42:26 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: RoosterRedux

[power to smash the system – as a destroyer in chief.]

We already have a destroyer in chief. TRUMP and TED CRUZ are the only two candidates that have the moxie and pizazz to rebuild the system.


3 posted on 07/28/2015 10:44:24 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (t)
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To: RoosterRedux
The conclusion of this article, that Trump will eventually lose, is inconsistent with its own premise.

IMHO, there is much more anger out there to be tapped into.

And as Trump said back in 1990 IIRC, (I paraphrase) "if I ever run for president, it should be as a democrat. Not because I'm a liberal, I'm a conservative, but because the working man likes me."

I think Trump will in the General Election pull the not-so-far-left democrats who have been disenfranchised the Marxists in their party.

I can almost see a tsunami on the horizon.

4 posted on 07/28/2015 10:46:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

While I am not predicting this. I keep getting the feeling that Trump will win the nomination and then shift hard left and then win a landslide.


5 posted on 07/28/2015 10:48:18 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

He won’t need to shift. He’ll pull all the right (except the GOPe) and the center left.


6 posted on 07/28/2015 10:50:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Why couldn’t he have done this in 2012?


7 posted on 07/28/2015 10:52:52 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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Why couldn’t he have done this in 2012?

The anger was there in 2012, but not like it is today.

People are literally spittin' mad. And not just at the Libs but against all of DC.

8 posted on 07/28/2015 10:55:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Nah,,let the naysayers yak it up. I’ll follow Cruz’s lead. He doesn’t even speak to them. He often says Trump is right. Trump IS right.

The ankle-bitters need to vent so they can have their day. It will all come out in the wash.


9 posted on 07/28/2015 10:56:07 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: RoosterRedux
it’s time for Republicans to drop the idea that Trump will burn out or be blown away.

It's past time, but that's not how Derangement Syndromes work.

10 posted on 07/28/2015 10:57:02 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: RoosterRedux

Yes. At that time, the realisarion hadn’t comletely settled in yet that conservatives don’t have a political party, and the GOPe hadn’t come completely out into the open, brazenly and without shame, and in specific words to boot, that they had blatantly lied in their campaigns, and won’t be advancing conservative policies. Heck, they’re not just sitting still, they’re advancing Hussein’s agenda!


11 posted on 07/28/2015 11:06:38 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RoosterRedux
The Washington Cartel is going down, either with Trump or with Cruz or with both together, but it's going down...

The American People have had enough...those reps and senators that are lining their pockets and saying the ‘right words to get voted in office’ and then doing what the lobbyists are telling them to do, are over, it's a done deal....

If you have any doubts, sit back and watch what happens in the next year....

12 posted on 07/28/2015 11:20:46 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Nice thought, Foxnews, but the Repugnant Party machinery doesn’t understand subtle “trends” or “indications” of what his poll numbers mean. They won’t get it until they’re defeated.

But given how much they learned in 2008, 2010, 2012... which is to say, nothing... a angry mob of millions with torches could burn down GOP headquarters, and that party would still try to prop up the next Bush or other Beltway Boob while begging us to vote for the (slightly) lesser of two evils compared to the latest Democrat hedonist.

Until folks on this forums and other who call themselves “conservative” figure out this is essentially a one party, big government republic, right out of the Founding Fathers’ worst government nightmares, and go all in for a strong Natural Law party, the decline will necessarily continue.


13 posted on 07/28/2015 11:26:15 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus
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To: RoosterRedux

I think he’d bring a lot of people out who would have otherwise and typically do stay home.


14 posted on 07/28/2015 11:27:54 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The article is a fine example of a graduate of post-modern journalism school, exhibiting his prowess of circular reasoning, while seeking a clusterbuck as a touchstone.


15 posted on 07/28/2015 11:32:07 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: RoosterRedux

I agree, Trump is a tidal wave that will grow...


16 posted on 07/28/2015 1:10:34 PM PDT by CalTexan
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To: Terry L Smith

PREF ECT ©


17 posted on 07/28/2015 1:12:32 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: RoosterRedux; Jane Long; hoosiermama; smoothsailing; RedMDer


Chris Stirewalt is Megyn Kelly's partner in crime, scheming with her to come up with those "gotcha questions" to spring on Mr. Trump and Senator Cruz.

Governor Huckabee might be on their list now too, after daring to say that holocaust word.


18 posted on 07/28/2015 1:17:21 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE Support FR - GO MONTHLY - Join CLUB 300 - God bless FR's Donors!)
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To: onyx

dear onyx,

The reason i got out of the electronics field is quite evident in your multi-colored response..

I thank you for it, although, in my eyes, my mind can see the word ‘prefec(t), but as to it actually appearing so, no, as to how i typed it, for you.


19 posted on 07/29/2015 2:39:28 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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