And Newt stands head and shoulders above Trump.
Posted on 08/13/2015 2:34:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Let me see if I’ve got his straight:
There’s a man who is a pure product of the City of New York, one of the great urban cesspools of our time, a borderline third-world metropolis run as a combination nanny state and dictatorship.He is the epitome of all that is hated about that city: he is brash,loud,boastful,vulgar,insincere,and only as honest as he has to be. Furthermore,he has few of the city’s virtues.Where the typical New Yorker is hot-blooded,he is cold, where generous,he is close-handed,where magnanimous,he is vicious. You could look long and hard for a more impressive illustration as to why NYC is feared and hated, and you would find little or nothing.
He is also a product of the city’s political culture. He has spent the past forty years soul-kissing the Democratic establishment,taking advantage of a crippled,corrupt city government to line his own pockets. He has been awarded hundreds of millions in contracts while slipping back millions in “contributions” to the party coffers--a process of “clean graft” developed into a science since the days of Tammany. Worse than that,he is closely involved with the epicenter of corruption in our time. He consults regularly with none other than the Clintons--Hillary,in fact,attended one of his weddings. It can be said without exaggeration that he is major factor in maintaining liberal dominance over the New York metropolitan area.
He was born to the Purple Chamber,a member of the elite that has been taking form in this country over the past half-century,and is even now fastening its chains over American society as a whole. Heir to a vast fortune, he has expanded it, and claims to have an 11-figure fortune(though this is unlikely.) He virtually personifies the iron triangle of wealth, politics,and media that has been undermining this country’s institutions as long as I’ve been alive.
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That was an impressive long post that has absolutely nothing to do with reality.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Nice try, no cigar.
Very well said. My sentiments exactly.
In the past week Trump has decided Planned Parenthood SHOULD be funded, he’s in favor of progressive taxation, and socialized medicine works great in Canada and Scotland.
RINO Republican? Naw, liberal democrat better describes Trump.
Dunn has Trump and New York City all wrong. NYC is not Third World. It is the exact inversion of that: it’s what happens when a city is very, very rich. Even the poorest of the poor survive, because there is so much money to go around. It’s almost impossible to fall off the train here.
And Trump is a unique product of New York.
People don’t understand him. We in NYC understand him more than most. But his candidacy is something everyone is still grappling with, because it’s a phenomenon of unique times and he’s a very unusual person. He is generous and accessible and expansive, not selfish and isolated and narrow, and that is throwing people off their stereotypes. He’s a very large personality, for many reasons.
I am not surprised that many feel called upon to hate him. How dare he take the comfortable political rug out from under everyone?
Phenomenon does not necessarily mean flash in the pan, but we will see. I do think it’s more than people think it is.
You tell me that like you think I have some stake in him. You should be telling that to his supporters and convincing them. Or not say anything to them and let them come to their own conclusions. Like I said, let him talk and that will do the telling.
Good article. One thing that I find particularly disturbing about this situation is that self-proclaimed “conservatives,” at least on this site, always seem to find a candidate on whom they build a cult of personality that has nothing to do with the candidate’s positions on the issues or even his history and background. This is particularly true in the case of Perot and Trump, but virtually every election has us seeing supposed conservatives running screaming after some new messiah who has emerged from obscurity under obscure conditions and who has absolutely no qualifications for the job. A bit of populist rabble-rousing is all it takes to be considered the GOP messiah, apparently.
The candidate always crashes and burns or goes third party, but the damage that has been done is significant, because huge amounts of time, money and press attention have been sucked away from the genuinely solid, experienced conservative candidates. In this case, I would say they are Cruz, Walker, Jindal and even Fiorina, who is articulating some very good positions and not afraid to attack Hillary directly; but you’d never know they even existed, because the press is having a field day with every lunatic utterance to come out of the Combover’s spittle-flecked mouth.
jeb! bush is a maggot.
The German people felt the same way about the Weimar Republic, so they were ripe for the rise of a man who told them what they wanted to hear, a loud, politically-incorrect man who got things done.
The Cuban people felt the same way about Batista, so they were ready to follow anyone to overthrow him, and fell in love with Castro because he told them what they wanted to hear. And for a long time people insisted he was not a communist, and even elevated his pet mass murderer Che to godlike status.
Yup. For noting Fred Thompson’s support of some very progressive stances like the National Popular vote I was “outed” as a democrat troll. For noting the seriously flawed things about Newt Gingrich its the same.
With Trump I would hardly know where to begin so I’ll just say I don’t believe that any man changes his ideology that fast that late in life.
All I know is that conservatives are never going to win until they adopt an ideology that isn’t totally dependent on their chosen candidate of the moment.
Meant it for the Trump cultist. It is early in the morning.
I”ve been wondering when someone would bring that up. Put NY in the GOP column and game over.
Trump is equivalent to Hitler and/or Castro?
I have whiplash from the full spectrum of Trump analogies. The latest is the purported outrage over Trumps planned parenthood words. The reality is Republicans control Congress. Republicans in Congress will not end funding planned parenthood. I already ‘feel’ dirty to be in association with elected republicans.
I do not understand the double standard.
(Full disclosure: I don't have a favorite in this GOP race for 2016.)
Trump only leads the field because he's one "outlier" candidate matched up against more than a dozen opponents who are largely interchangeable. As time goes on and some of these characters drop out, Trump's numbers will remain pretty static while someone else's numbers will rise. I don't see a Mike Huckabee supporter, for example, to support Donald Trump when Huckabee ends up dropping out of the race.
This article is spot-on in one critical respect: Most Americans don't like New Yorkers. I've said for years that a New York candidate has a serious uphill battle in a presidential election. FDR was the last candidate from New York to win a presidential race -- in 1944. Interestingly, he was also the last New Yorker on a winning ticket as President or Vice President.
You shouldn't dismiss the underlying sentiment at all. In fact, this is why even popular, successful leaders at the state and local levels in the NYC area can't even get a national campaign off the ground. I'll cite Rudy Giuliani (2008) and Chris Christie (today) as perfect examples of this.
Good. A lot of Americans will tell you to keep him, then.
Trump is a Trojan Horse's Ass.
“He’ll tell you what you want to hear”
What do I want to hear?
well stated ...
Very good ( should clean up the language though).
The media and politicians don’t care about the conservatives supporting Trump.
But Trump’s appeal to moderates/liberals is devastating them.
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