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To: shortstop
Trouble is, if Trump starts acting like a grownup, he will alienate his base.

And, he won't win over the rest of us who have been watching his clown act for the last 9 months.

17 posted on 03/07/2016 5:33:11 AM PST by Johnny B. (Donald Trump: the choice of the Jerry Springer generation!)
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To: Johnny B.

I don’t think so. I’ve watched a number of his rallies. In Michigan he talked about watching Japanese cars rolling off of ships by the thousands and stood there what the ‘heck is happening?’ Those are the things he recalls to his audience.

In Alabama when he spoke of waste, fraud and abuse he cited his experience with the U.N. building in New York City. he was asked to look over the plans and even met kofi annan. The cost at the time was projected to be 1.5 billion. This was back in the ‘80’s. He looked at the plans and proposed that he could do it for 500 million. He never got a call back. The ultimate cost 4 billion!

These are just two of the examples he cites. They are real and they have impact.


42 posted on 03/07/2016 5:45:19 AM PST by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: Johnny B.
Trouble is, if Trump starts acting like a grownup, he will alienate his base.

Yep.

74 posted on 03/07/2016 6:06:27 AM PST by Washi (Don't blame me. I voted for the conservative.)
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To: Johnny B.
More like the last thirty years. Donald Trump has a schtick (Yiddish Word meaning "gimmick, comic routine, style of performance, etc., associated with a particular person") which has served him well and it will be hard for him to abandon it to play act statesman. It's his strength but it's also his vulnerability.

In the almost eight months until the general election the Democrats and their media army of orcs will drive home that Trump is a mafia associate, misogynist, Richie Rich trust fund brat, serial adulterer, beauty show barker/pimp, egotistical, ill mannered, rude, and crude monster. Simon Legree with a comb over. Statesman? Knowledgeable in how to manage government in a constitutional republic? Or even someone you'd feel comfortable inviting over to meet the family if you had an attractive seventeen year old daughter?

He polls poorly against Hillary because most people know what a president is "supposed" to look and act like. His fans can't see it and don't care, which is why arguing with them is as futile as with an Obama worshipper.

89 posted on 03/07/2016 6:19:32 AM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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