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Donald Trump's bile is a healing balm for spurned Americans
Financial Times ^ | December 27, 2015 | Frank Luntz

Posted on 12/28/2015 10:35:10 AM PST by EveningStar

Those who support him now will support him next November, writes Frank Luntz


Outraged by what Donald Trump says? You are not alone. No high-polling presidential candidate in the modern era has so intrepidly drawn the ire of so many within the American electorate. And there remains no end in sight.

Yet in rendering one voting bloc utterly apoplectic, he has appealed viscerally to another. The balance of middle ground politics is not, shall we say, Mr Trump's bailiwick. But America is no longer a middle ground country. We are already scared by our division -- and it is getting worse.

The simple truth is, the more provocative his language, the deeper and more passionate his support. He is no dummy; there is a method to his proverbial madness. Mr Trump says -- to the growing legions who will listen -- what tens of millions of Americans are already thinking. Respect or revile him, the man has hit a vein.


The writer is a pollster and communications adviser

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; financialtimes; frankluntz; immigration; readbeyondheadline; trump; trumpwasright
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To: EveningStar
Hey Luntz,

Buy a clue from Vanna.

Obama has been doing things MUCH MUCH more outrageous and bilious for the past 7 years.

Were you shipwrecked on an island since 2008?!?!

If you are still there, give the Arrow and Gilligan my regards.

21 posted on 12/28/2015 10:51:04 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: newberger

To be truthful, today’s GOP leadership would have knee-capped Reagan as well.


22 posted on 12/28/2015 10:52:27 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: EveningStar

We want someone who will bring fundamental change to the former “Land of the Free” .

Trump is the only candidate who will work to change the politically correct, diversity mongering, internationally timid, limp-wristed homo loving. muslim worshiping, Christian hating, minority idolizing, open border, socialist debtor nation that the liberals and RINOs have created back into “America, The Land Of The Free” created by, and handed down to us by, the Founding Fathers.


23 posted on 12/28/2015 10:54:59 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: proust; Raycpa; McGruff; MNJohnnie; rktman; TornadoAlley3; eyedigress; PATRIOT1876
You need to learn to read beyond the headline.

In most cases, authors don't write their headlines anyway.

24 posted on 12/28/2015 10:56:05 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: dragnet2

Had me there for a second, dragnet. I thought you posted a picture of the RNC leadership.


25 posted on 12/28/2015 10:58:21 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: JFoobar
muslim censoring slab

Luntz is a Jew.

26 posted on 12/28/2015 10:58:41 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

It’s a pay site.


27 posted on 12/28/2015 10:59:16 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: newberger

I do not care about the GOP. Got it?

The best thing for this country isn’t that cabal of miscreants that have been running the show and rotting this country all the way through.

Done with it. I am voting Trump. You go worry elsewhere!


28 posted on 12/28/2015 11:00:00 AM PST by dforest
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To: EveningStar

I stand by my comment.


29 posted on 12/28/2015 11:00:28 AM PST by McGruff (Merry Christmas)
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To: newberger

Who would be your choice for GOP nominee?


30 posted on 12/28/2015 11:01:07 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Iron Munro

OK, find me some quotes from Trump on limited government.

I challenge you!

Trump is the American Putin.


31 posted on 12/28/2015 11:01:25 AM PST by newberger (Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men in whom there is no salvation.)
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To: newberger
will cause America to rot from within

Did you not hear about Ryan and the budget deal last week that gave Obama everything he wanted? Even Pelosi was shocked that they got so much with so little effort.

News Flash: America is already rotting and it is coming from DC -- and not just from the Democrats.
32 posted on 12/28/2015 11:01:45 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: PATRIOT1876
Were you shipwrecked on an island since 2008?!?! If you are still there, give the Arrow and Gilligan my regards.

The Minnow? (I'm sure you're better off not knowing that. Or maybe you're referring to something else and I'm the one that's better off not knowing.)

33 posted on 12/28/2015 11:02:29 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: MNJohnnie

Exactly.

Well stated.

Spot on.


34 posted on 12/28/2015 11:04:26 AM PST by Hulka
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To: proust

Ditto. His bile is my bile.


35 posted on 12/28/2015 11:05:11 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: newberger

“Trump is the American Putin.”

After Obozo being the countries Mao, it is a good thing.


36 posted on 12/28/2015 11:06:42 AM PST by Hulka
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To: newberger

Agreed 100%. Reagan would never stoop to criticizing people in personal attacks. Reagan had class. Trump has no class whatsoever. He is an embarrassment. I feel sad for the people that have been so disenfranchised by Obama that they have turned to an idiot to express their anguish.


37 posted on 12/28/2015 11:07:22 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
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To: Raycpa

And we have been fed lies too long.


38 posted on 12/28/2015 11:07:27 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: newberger
I agree but not for the same reasons I would guess.

So what if he is not a conservative? Neither is the Republican party from what I can see. He is more conservative than many in the race but not as ideological pure as some would hope for. But then who is?

What he is, is a winner, a leader, and a very successful business man who could do no worse that Obama or Little Yeb.

What he is not, is a politician or politically correct, two of the biggest reasons, in my book, why this country is in the crapper already.

His biggest asset in the political arena this election is that he is tough-as-nails and the most qualified to kick that lying, loser b*tch Hillary's ass into the gutter where it belongs.

39 posted on 12/28/2015 11:08:35 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: EveningStar

Now I know what it feels like to get schlonged.

40 posted on 12/28/2015 11:09:01 AM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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