Posted on 04/27/2016 2:51:12 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
What was once furious Republican opposition to Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. has turned to virtual silence in the face of widespread GOP voter approval.
Exit polls from the nation's biggest Republican primaries show impressive majority support for Trump's proposal. In the latest example, in Pennsylvania Tuesday, 69 percent of GOP voters said they support "temporarily banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the U.S." In New York last week, the number was 68 percent.
In Wisconsin, 69 percent supported Trump's idea. In Florida, 64 percent. Georgia, 68 percent. Ohio, 65 percent. Michigan, 63 percent. New Hampshire, 65 percent. Texas, 67 percent.
Huge majorities across the country in states won by Trump and states won by Ted Cruz — and even the one state won by John Kasich. If those exit polls, measuring the opinions of tens of thousands of people, are correct, the temporary foreign Muslim ban has become a Republican staple.
Indeed, approval is so extensive that Trump's proposal is rarely the subject of extended discussion today. But it set the race on fire when Trump introduced it last December. And some of its most vocal opponents were leading figures in the Republican Party and the conservative world.
All of Trump's rivals in the 2016 race said they disagreed with the proposal. Some used stronger terms than others: Jeb Bush called it "unhinged," while others called it "idiotic," "fascist," "racist," and "dangerous." House Speaker Paul Ryan called the plan unconstitutional and "not what this party stands for and, more importantly ... not what this country stands for." 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused Trump of "scapegoating" Muslims. Karl Rove called it "stupid." Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Trump's proposal "goes against everything we believe in."
Influential Southern Baptist Convention official Russell Moore called it "reckless, demagogic rhetoric" that "would make Jefferson spin in his grave." Various writers at National Review and the Weekly Standard condemned it. Charles Krauthammer called it "absurd."
That was then. No doubt those critics still believe what they believe, but two-thirds support among Republican voters has changed the playing field. The white-hot controversy of December is no longer even warm.
Trump has moved the Republican debate on all sorts of subjects — trade, immigration, entitlements and more. In the case of temporarily banning foreign Muslims, Trump created an issue out of whole cloth, stuck to it through an enormous controversy, and, with voter approval, appears to have come out ahead in the Republican race.
Ping.
I have a problem with Trump's proposal as well. Specifically, the word "temporarily."
“We will no longer surrender this country, or its people, to the false song of globalism,” the billionaire stressed. “Under a Trump Administration, no American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of foreign countries.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/27/donald-trump-rejects-false-song-globalism-nationalist-foreign-policy-speech-2/
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““We will no longer surrender this country, or its people, to the false song of globalism,” the billionaire stressed. “Under a Trump Administration, no American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of foreign countries.” “
Y E S
... and this, mind you, is the man referred to as a "buffoon" by the yip-yops over at Hot Air and National Review(!).
Exactly
Why is it that not bringing people who hate you into your country counts as some genius idea that only Trump can come up with?
Trump is the Master Persuader. A Reuters poll now shows that 51 percent believe the primary system to be rigged. It took Trump just 3 weeks to get that message across, and the majority to believe it, and that the majority of everyone, not just republicans. I also saw a story that says that a survey in Pennsylvania found that the majority of people described Clinton as being “crooked”.
Those who don’t think Trump can persuade people to vote for him are badly mistaken. He’s got just over six months to hammer home that Hillary is not only “crooked Hillary” but the main beneficiary of the “rigged” system. He’ll hit her on every issue and from every angle. She won’t know where the hits are coming from, and will be continuously on the defensive.
Islam is at war with us even if we don’t admit it.
Islam has been at war with all non-muslims since 622 A.D.
Islam must remain at war with the rest of the world until they have subjugated, converted or killed the rest of the world.
Mad Mo made it so.
The ONLY reason Europe has more problems with Muslims is because they have MORE Muslims. Like any political or ideological group, they get more organized and achieve more of their goals as their percentage in the population increases.
This article is a short, simple must-read that shows how problems and disaster increase in direct proportion to the percentage of Muslims in the population.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30675
The FR discussion on the article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2004674/posts
The Bernie supporters probably didn’t need much convincing on that point. #superdelegates
We should have started some restrictions and closer scrutiny of Muslims entering the US immediately after 9/11. But, instead, W informed us that “Islam means peace” and he went around visiting mosques and warning against Islamophobia.
Telling us Islam was a religion of peace was the second worst thing W did as President.
Reducing interior and border enforcement AFTER 9/11 was the worst.
“Byron York: In state after state, strong GOP support for Trump’s Muslim proposal”
Maybe because we (in the USA) see what’s happening to Europe.
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