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Trump has lit a fire. Can it be contained? (long, loud, lovely libtard lament alert)
Washington Post ^ | March 12, 2016 | Karen Tumulty, Jenna Johnson and Jose A. DelReal

Posted on 03/12/2016 4:40:41 PM PST by Zakeet

An already ugly presidential campaign has descended to a new level - one where the question is no longer whether Donald Trump can be stopped on his march to the GOP presidential nomination, but whether it is possible to contain what he has unleashed across the country.

Violence at Trump's rallies has escalated sharply, and the reality-show quality of his campaign has taken a more ominous turn in the past few days.

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GOP political consultant Stuart Stevens, who was a top strategist for 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, said Trump's rhetoric is "almost verbatim" what segregationist George Wallace was saying in his third-party 1968 presidential campaign.

"I don't know what's in Trump's heart, but I don't care. What he's saying is really hateful," Stevens said. "What did the Democratic party do with Wallace? They rejected him."

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Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton also jumped into the fray.

"The ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from Donald Trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong, and it's dangerous," she said at an appearance in St. Louis. "If you play with matches, you're going to start a fire you can't control."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; protest; trump
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Well said!


21 posted on 03/12/2016 4:50:59 PM PST by JennysCool (My hyprocrisy goes only so far.)
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To: Zakeet

I don’t get this. The left including professional agitator types, go to Trump events and cause trouble. But the reaction among the liberals, media, and some Republicans, is to blame Trump for the actions of thugs who decide to disrupt his events. Rather than blame the leftist goons who are staging all of this.

What am I missing??


22 posted on 03/12/2016 4:51:04 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Zakeet

Absolutely scum. The GOPE better wake up. This is a Wellstone Memorial moment and the GOPE are on the WRONG side. Utterly stupid for them to be with the rioters instead of the voters.


23 posted on 03/12/2016 4:52:41 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Zakeet

24 posted on 03/12/2016 4:53:27 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: JPJones

A lie screamed loudly is still a lie Washington Po


25 posted on 03/12/2016 4:54:33 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Zakeet
""I don't know what's in Trump's heart, but I don't care. What he's saying is really hateful," Stevens said. "What did the Democratic party do with Wallace? They rejected him.""

I'd take that as a death threat.

26 posted on 03/12/2016 4:54:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Zakeet

The article refers to “an unidentified man who charged the podium”.

His name’s Tommy Dimassimo, and he’s a long-term rabble-rouser and ISIS fan.

https://videopress.com/v/HJsZbrCA


27 posted on 03/12/2016 4:57:57 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JPJones
Mussolini, Hitler, now he’s Wallace....

Speaking of Wallace....


28 posted on 03/12/2016 4:58:06 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Zakeet

The left is not used to a Republican standing up to the thuggery of their anarchist wing. Cruz, Kasich and Rubio gave the standard capitulation that every Republican does in the face of Democrat violence. Trump is telling the thug class and the media to go pound sad, and so he’s the agitator because be isn’t cowering to any of them.


29 posted on 03/12/2016 4:58:17 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: dfwgator; All

There you go!

Every Freeper should see this photo!


30 posted on 03/12/2016 4:58:45 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: dfwgator

Is that Papa Bush with a young Bill Clinton? I thought I read their pseudo father/son relationship began after Clinton left the White House?


31 posted on 03/12/2016 5:00:24 PM PST by daisy12
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To: daisy12

Yep.


32 posted on 03/12/2016 5:00:47 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: daisy12

Bushes and Clintons go way back.


33 posted on 03/12/2016 5:01:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Zakeet

This is how communists and islamonazis work. Disrupt free elections. They hate free elections. They want to finish obama’s “legacy” with a permanent new reich or dictatorship.


34 posted on 03/12/2016 5:06:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Grampa Dave

excellent graphic, post 10


35 posted on 03/12/2016 5:12:44 PM PST by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Zakeet

They protest too much in the communist media after all it is their allies doing the protesting,communists,black lives matters,illegal aliens,these are not republicans.
This is what happens FOLKS when you have groups who have no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law,namely Democrats especially Obama and hillary


36 posted on 03/12/2016 5:14:47 PM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: Zakeet

They protest too much in the communist media after all it is their allies doing the protesting,communists,black lives matters,illegal aliens,these are not republicans.
This is what happens FOLKS when you have groups who have no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law,namely Democrats especially Obama and hillary


37 posted on 03/12/2016 5:15:01 PM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: dfwgator

All the way back to Mena.


38 posted on 03/12/2016 5:18:14 PM PST by US Navy Vet (I am "Chump" for Trump,)
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To: Zakeet

the street rabble that’s disrupting our American election is being organized and paid by very powerful large interests (the obvious candidates being the IslamoNazi-communist bloc fromted by O and, behind the scenes...organized by the Soroz network maybe?)anyway, follow the money, pull the rat bosses out of their plush hiding holes and string them up (legally, of course)


39 posted on 03/12/2016 5:18:54 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Zakeet

Bookmark


40 posted on 03/12/2016 5:23:12 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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