"Don't you think we won that debate? Yes we were great. I've got more gotcha questions ready for the next one.".
Posted on 02/13/2016 5:18:25 AM PST by blueyon
"CONFIRMED: South Carolina Debate Will Be Another GOP Party Insider Audience Stacked Against Trump" At the New Hampshire debate last week the House was stacked against Trump— And it showed — The Republican audience roared throughout the debate for the GOPe candidates.
It was only until Donald Trump confronted the stacked audience that they began to not appear so in the tank for the establishment candidates. Donald Trump shushed Jeb Bush at GOP New Hampshire Debate.
Then scolded the audience and Republican Party for its ticket policy. Trump claimed the GOP only gives tickets to certain campaigns and GOP donors. The crowd didn’t like that either.
CONFIRMED: South Carolina Debate Will Be Another GOP Party Insider Audience Stacked Against Trump
Jim Hoft Feb 12th, 2016 6:47 pm 67 Comments
At the New Hampshire debate last week the House was stacked against Trump— And it showed — The Republican audience roared throughout the debate for the GOPe candidates.
It was only until Donald Trump confronted the stacked audience that they began to not appear so in the tank for the establishment candidates. Donald Trump shushed Jeb Bush at GOP New Hampshire Debate.
Then scolded the audience and Republican Party for its ticket policy. Trump claimed the GOP only gives tickets to certain campaigns and GOP donors. The crowd didn’t like that either.
It looks like the GOP establishment has already stacked the audience on Saturday night against Trump and Cruz. WYFF reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
The Republicans are getting as slimey as the Democrats.
The Establishment is in panic mode.
GOP mega-donors frozen in frustration
Big money stops flowing as donors question its effectiveness, worry about Trump.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/gop-megadonors-fundraising-freeze-219228
Kind of a “No Sh!t, Sherlock” article.
The fix is in. The Dems want Hillary and the pubbies want anybody other than Trump. And they will go to any lengths to ensure we get the candidates they want.
Good-bye, USA.
"Don't you think we won that debate? Yes we were great. I've got more gotcha questions ready for the next one.".
Before some Cruz people here get too gleeful the audience won’t be pro Cruz either. Hope Trump states number of seats available and how many he and Cruz were given.
The Organized criminal syndicate rewards its gang members. The party thugs are trying to stay relevant. I hope they are history.
UNIPARTY unite!
(HOORAY Trump)
The audience will most certainly for Cruz, as long as it makes Trump look bad.
“Before some Cruz people here get too gleeful the audience won’t be pro Cruz either. Hope Trump states number of seats available and how many he and Cruz were given.”
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Don’t worry we realize that Cruz is in the same anti-establishment boat as Trump, loathed by the GOPe...it says something that they are the two leading candidates....
No applause or cheers allowed for Trump or Cruz. Business as usual for the GOPe. And they wonder what’s happening to them.
This is a new kind of campaign, and they are playing by the old rules while Trump has effectively rewritten the rulebook.
I’m not worried about it, Trump will make them look as foolish as he did in the NH debate.
“Getting”? The rino’s have been slimy for a long time, we just haven't seen them this desperate and their methods are just surfacing.
Trump needs to “clear his throat” frequently tonight:
“Harrummpht...STACKED AUDIENCE!!!...pardon me.”
I don’t really like trump but this is BS.
Pass the word
If the Donald gets elected, he is going to owe these guys a good bit of payback. They’re really going into debt on this.
ugh, how many more debates are there?
Yeah, I don’t it’s fair that they give tickets to people who aren’t hard core Trump supporters. I mean, like, he has all that money, and all, and he, like, really doesn’t like it when people don’t, like, like him. When he hears boo’s, his hair does, like, funny stuff.
Or in other words why doesn’t he grow up. He is not debating the audience.
There’s nothing like the warm, satisfying sound coming out of the Republican nomination process these days.
The sound of the Republican establishment being kicked by voters where it hurts.
Trump is opening up the light on many of the establishment tactics for years. Jeb! Marco, Kasich, and to a large extent Cruz all taking large contributions by Wall Street and the mega donors who control the Republican Party. The establishment nor the candidates they support like it. They will not go quietly.
Every dirty trick in the book will be used to try and take down Trump. He is unelectable, he will cost us the House and Senate, he is xenophobic, bigoted, and a racist. They will say he is a liberal and before long claim he really had ten children but ate five of them. It will not work. The shaming will not work this time. The voters are angry and more informed. Trump is making sure the information does not get suppressed.
But that’s the campaign as entertainment. What I’m enjoying now is a bit subtle, taking place in the shadows, where the establishment lords are quivering just a bit. And I plan on savoring it for a while, because finally both sides, Democrats and Republicans, are getting what they deserve.
The establishments sends out their meat puppets on TV to preach the talking points about who is electable and who is not and who is an embarrassment and who is not. But about half the voters in each party loathe the establishment candidates. They’ve had enough.
The middle-aged are tired of being afraid for their jobs, or working part-time jobs, and they’re angry. And the young, raised to expect the world, don’t see much of a future.
Trump and Cruz promise battle. They’re the ones with the energy. They’re the ones telling voters they’ll put the boots to the status quo. And the others? They’re just holding on.
So far in 2016, all the voter anger and insurgency and passion seems to be a surprise to the insiders, and to the salons of common wisdom along the Beltway, including the politicians, lobbyists, and the media. But it shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s been building for years.
In 2016, the establishment hasn’t lost complete control. But winning elections isn’t the main thing.
Elections are what the people believe in, what voters care for, what you and I argue about in the battle of ideas; how much government, how much liberty, how large a safety net. We fight it out. We care. We go tribal.
But the insiders don’t get angry that way. They’re about what insiders have always been about — control. They need control of the parties to put their hands on the levers of government, to make treasure. They’d rather lose an election than lose control of that machinery. A political party isn’t a bumper sticker. It isn’t a slogan. It isn’t the true passion of voter who believes they can make a real difference for the first time.
The establishment doesn’t think that way. Their parties are a gathering of interests, formed to use government to protect what they have, to take from others, to increase their slice. The candidates are chosen like fine horseflesh, the idea being to find the one you can ride to the gold.
Voters know this now. There should be no doubt except among the thickest partisan meat puppets.
They know Jeb! and the others are of the establishment, and they’re tired. They’ve watched the banks that are too big to fail get federal bail outs after the economic catastrophe, and none of the big fish went to prison. They’ve seen their jobs shipped overseas, and they’re told that their anger isn’t only irrational, but bothersome.
I’m sure the establishment believes they can herd this anger, as they’ve herded it in years before; goad it all into chutes and pens, so it ends up as tasty sausage in fine chafing dishes.
They have five months to get the herding done before those conventions in July. Question is do we allow it to happen THIS time.
The above comes primarily as excepts and paraphrasing from an article by J. S. Kass that was in the Chicago Tribune. His article addressed both Parties and the uprising and I adapted it to be more specific to our process.
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