Posted on 08/29/2015 12:19:18 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he is leading the GOP race because he represents Americans who have had it with their nation coming up short.
“People in this country are smart,” he told listeners at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies’ 2015 conference in Nashville on Saturday.
“We’re tired of being the patsies for everyone,” Trump said.
“There is a big, big, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds silent majority out there. [The 2016 race] is going to be an election based on competence.”
Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.
“I love the Tea Party,” Trump said. “You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting.”
“At least I have a microphone and can fight back,” the outspoken billionaire added.
Trump indicated he envisions a much wider base for his campaign than traditional Republican voters next election cycle.
“You don’t know how big you are,” he told listeners. “The Tea Party has tremendous power. It’s Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody.”
The New York business mogul also vowed he would not succumb to the prestige and power of Washington’s political establishment if he wins in 2016.
“They go to Washington and they get weak,” Trump said of Democrats and Republicans alike. “They get there and they see these beautiful, vaulted ceilings and they say, ‘Honey, I’ve made it.’ That won’t happen to me, I promise.”
Trump also said he intends on saving taxpayer dollars by focusing his energy on the nation’s capital if elected next year.
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Pretty much.
Trump’s popularity is a response to the GOP-E’s disconnect from and perfidy towards the conservative base.
I don’t think he is someone we want to elect, but it would be nice if the ‘Pubbies would learn their lesson in time for the Primaries. Unfortunately, the GOP-E shows no sign of doing so.
Making excuses for your candidate gets you nowhere in defending his liberal ideology. It just makes you look desperate and weak. But considering you are attempting to defend a liberal in a conservative forum I can understand your desperation.
You Sir, are right on the mark. This is all about Trump attempting to take the Trump brand global like Nike and Coca-Cola without having to spend a dime. Trump has been all over the map. Pro-Choice; scolded Romney for his harsh anti-immigration stance; has given wads of cash to the Clintons, Pelosis’, has favored a single-payer plan; and has “evolved” on just about everything else.” While I must say I like his rhetoric and his take-no-prisoners attitude, he is unelectable on account of his super high negatives and the high percentage of voters who would definitely not vote for him. In short, he is taking us all for a shipload of fools. In some ways, he is making it harder for the likes of Ted Cruz to move to the trop.
Making labels is the weakest excuse of all... you might adjust that makeup in a mirror before presuming to lecture me.
So you are saying I’m one? How many wars you have been to defending this country? Maybe you were one of those soldiers I didn’t think they shouldn’t have been in the military to start with. Panties
Traversing a map from left to right certainly puts someone “all over the map” but to carelessly mix past, present, and future without looking at the overall factors and trends is only to indulge in foolishness.
“probably”...? LOL!
Would we call someone who travels from left to right, and says nothing about reversing gay marriage, an opportunist?
My wife Patsy resembles those remarks! LOL
She gets so mad when people use her name that way, says she’s going to copyright it and make it a crime. LOL :)
Like I told South40, label hanging is the feeblest excuse of all.
“Gay marriage” also saps America, and if Trump follows logic long enough he will realize that and not interfere with a popular pushback. People are talking as if the question is whether we will have a one-man Trumpocracy or not, failing to realize that his present coattails are both conservative and broad.
I don’t understand. I said Trump was a socialist. I don’t even know you.
You can call my highlighting your liberal candidate’s liberal past as “making labels” all you’d like. But you can’t defend it, all you can do is ignore it. In the end, you are still supporting a liberal in this conservative forum.
Deport the illegals, build a wall. Definitely sounds like a democrat party plank to me....
Nicely said. It’s getting so bad, posters are starting to say; “ibnickcarraway” (in before *nickcarraway). Seriously, I saw that a couple of days ago. LOL!
Define “troll” = *nickcarraway
He is otherwise harmless, immature, but a Trump thread troll, for certain. Like fur on an ice cube, melted wax on a candle, like moss on a pond, like a fly on ....., well you get the drift.
At least he identifies with Tea Partiers.
How many establishment Republicans have had a good word to say about them?
I can forgive his ideological inconsistency. At least he knows Americans are mad like hell.
Can you say the same for Republican Party elites?
We have a Republican Congress. What has changed?
I don’t hate him. I just don’t like what he’s doing to my country. He has no intention of running, he’s just using a primary that’s supposed to be about conservatism. He’s a liberal Democrat. If he wants to pretend to run for president he should do it as a Democrat. I am curious why you don’t think I should be able to defend my country against the Trumps, Obamas, Jebs, and Hillarys of the world.
pinging you at 55.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat who backed the New Deal.
If Trump wanted to run as a liberal, he would have run as a Democrat.
I understand what's happening a liberal failure is demolishing the last pieces of the Reagan legacy from the Republican party. When your idol switches back to being a Democrat are you going to go with him?
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