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Donald Trump’s bad week: Speculation of waning star abounds after debate
Yahoo Politics ^ | September 18th, 2015 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 09/18/2015 5:40:07 PM PDT by Mariner

Is Donald Trump fatigue setting in?

After fighting off attacks from all sides during Wednesday night’s debate, Trump stepped into his latest controversy at a campaign event in New Hampshire, and it appeared as if the GOP frontrunner’s week was as kind to him as he is to his adversaries.

Liberal and conservative pundits alike agreed that Trump’s performance took a back seat to his GOP rival, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who dominated the evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also made strong cases for themselves.

Trump’s glib insults, though warmly received at kickoff, did not fare as well later on as Fiorina and others addressed legitimate issues with poise and conviction. The standout moment when Fiorina got Trump to uncharacteristically back down from his comment about her face was just the feather in her cap.

For once, despite speaking the most, Trump was not the star of the show. Political commentators started questioning whether Trump-mania was fizzling out.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; debates; fiorina; trump
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To: Mariner

New Speak, wishful thinking= speculation


41 posted on 09/18/2015 6:20:30 PM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: exit82; hoosiermama
Why do I feel that Trump’s best week is about to start?!!!

Remember when DOC asked Marty McFly who the President was after
sending him into the future? #FlashbackFriday #Future
pic.twitter.com/ITJsFRQONF— Daniel Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino)
September 18, 2015


42 posted on 09/18/2015 6:21:30 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: Mariner

>> Is Donald Trump fatigue setting in?

Dunno, but media fatigue is off the charts.

My latest dream is to see the earth slowly yawn open forming a giant crevice beneath (for example) the Yahoo! media complex — slowly swallow the entire building and all the urinalists inside — and then close up over it. When the crevice closes again, grass grows, trees sprout, birds sing...

Ditto MSNBC, Faux, CNN, New York Slimes, WaPo...

“what a wonderful world...”


43 posted on 09/18/2015 6:21:48 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: quantumman

Ah yes I forgot.


44 posted on 09/18/2015 6:22:39 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Fhios

Tonight CBS quoted Trump as saying he is prepared to spend as much as one hundred million of his own money to win the presidency.


45 posted on 09/18/2015 6:22:47 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: Mariner

20,000 in Dallas on Monday, Battleship Rally on Tuesday.. A 3-hour debate that he didn’t lose on Wednesday (despite constant incoming). Carly as a media darling... How is that a bad week?


46 posted on 09/18/2015 6:25:31 PM PDT by proust
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To: proust

Plus a fantastic 2nd amendment position paper.


47 posted on 09/18/2015 6:28:45 PM PDT by proust
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To: Boonie

Here is some more lefty crap from the same Michael Walsh-—

Nashville hotel cancels reservations for hate group CCC, cited by Dylann Roof

By Michael Walsh August 21, 2015 Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/-nashville-hotel-cancels-reservations-for-hate-group-ccc—dylann-roof-s-inspiration-154205634.html

A Nashville hotel canceled reservations for an annual conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) this week after learning of the group’s white supremacist beliefs.

The Guesthouse Inn disavowed the racist organization that has been cited as an inspiration for Dylann Roof, the man charged with murdering nine African-Americans at the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in June.

Michelle Jameson, director of sales for the hotel, told The Tennessean that she thought “about four or five rooms” were booked for this weekend at a special price for the event.

She said they would not be able to tell whether other guests were connected to the group if they did not reserve their rooms using that rate.

“This is definitely not what the Guesthouse Inn represents,” Jameson said to the local paper. “The group will not be at our hotel, nor will they ever be at our hotel.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit dedicated to civil rights, says the CCC was founded in 1985 in St. Louis, Mo., from the ashes of old White Citizens Councils, which had fought against desegregation in the South.

Mark Potok, a senior fellow for the SPLC, said the CCC depicts any black violence against whites as racially motivated when only a small percentage of it actually is.

“They have been very tightly focused on black-on-white crime for quite a few years,” Potok said in an interview with Yahoo News. “It is an explicitly racist group. They say they oppose ‘all efforts to mix the races of mankind’ – that’s in their platform statement.”

The CCC recruited its first members from the mailing lists of the White Citizens Councils, making it their modern incarnation, Potok explained.

Red Lion Hotels Corporation, the hotel’s parent company, responded to a series of tweets from concerned citizens about the event – and confirmed that it was canceled.

Roof, 21, is believed to have written the racist manifesto that was posted to a hate website called “The Last Rhodesian,” which also includes dozens of photos showing the accused shooter burning the American flag, brandishing a gun and visiting Confederate monuments. He embraced racial hatred after learning about black-on-white crime on the CCC website, according to the screed.

“The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief,” the racist manifesto reads.

A board member for the group told The Tennessean that none of their members had ever heard of Roof and said that he alone is responsible for his actions.

The SLPC broke the news of the scheduled event after obtaining an email sent exclusively to CCC members. Roof’s racist manifesto brought the racist group under intense media scrutiny.

“The CCC apparently does not want to draw attention to this weekend’s gathering. The conference was not announced on its website, and major racist forums like Stormfront and VNN do not have any threads about the event,” the law center’s Hatewatch staff said in a blog post on Tuesday.

A Guesthouse Inn representative was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Yahoo News.


48 posted on 09/18/2015 6:29:02 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I don’t think $100,000,000 buys a Presidency. He’ll need $600,000,000 to give himself a shot. His shtick is fading quickly and he’ll need some seriousness to his campaign.

That would be genius. Right at the height of his silliness
Trump turns to a real serious approach, with some comic relief. I wish him luck.


49 posted on 09/18/2015 6:33:38 PM PDT by Fhios (Racial balkanization is just the .....)
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To: MarvinStinson

Fox and CNN are just trashing Trump like their live’s depended on it. PC is abounding everywhere.


50 posted on 09/18/2015 6:35:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Fhios
His shtick is fading quickly and he’ll need some seriousness to his campaign.

Source?

51 posted on 09/18/2015 6:36:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: Mariner

They keep writing it because they are used to driving the narrative. In this case, the narrative is driving and they have no idea what to do about it.

Ain’t it grand?


52 posted on 09/18/2015 6:39:11 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: manc

Yes, the media seems to have latched on to Carly after her performance at the debate.

Oddly, they don’t seem to be pushing Ben Carson so much.

They may have given up on Bush ... I don’t see him being pushed much anymore.

The ones they fear are Trump and Cruz... the ones we like.


53 posted on 09/18/2015 6:40:02 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

The lefty media.

They’ve been saying that for months.


54 posted on 09/18/2015 6:40:44 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: frnewsjunkie
ANYONE the media likes, I won’t.

I think I love you.

55 posted on 09/18/2015 6:41:57 PM PDT by Rona Badger (Heeds the calling wind.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Sources: Aunicorn from Narnia told him so.


56 posted on 09/18/2015 6:43:28 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Rebelbase

Where did you go today? Idiotville?


57 posted on 09/18/2015 6:43:33 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Personal Responsibility

HA!!!


58 posted on 09/18/2015 6:45:17 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: Fhios

Dana , that you ?


59 posted on 09/18/2015 6:45:31 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: Mariner
Liberal and conservative pundits alike agreed that Trump’s performance took a back seat...

Just a reminder to folks: this BS was predicted:

Republican establishment to attack Donald Trump after Labor Day?

60 posted on 09/18/2015 6:45:38 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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