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The Party of Trump
WFB ^ | 18 Aug 2017 | Matthew Continetti

Posted on 08/18/2017 7:01:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan

On July 18, 2015, about a month into his long-shot campaign for president, Donald Trump famously attacked John McCain. "He's not a war hero," he said. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured.

Campaigning in Iowa that summer, Trump mocked Jeb Bush for being "low-energy." In February 2016, Trump said Bush's brother, the forty-third president, had lied in order to invade Iraq. When Mitt Romney attacked Trump the following month, Trump responded by calling the 2012 Republican nominee a "choke artist." On his path to the 2016 GOP nomination and then the presidency, Donald Trump positioned himself at odds with the leadership of the party he sought to command.

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1 posted on 08/18/2017 7:01:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Pure mental masturbation. Why are you posting this crap?


2 posted on 08/18/2017 7:04:43 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Rudy Guiuliani for Head of FBI)
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To: Rummyfan

Mccain got his own men killed because he is stupid. No war hero.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 7:05:50 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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To: Rummyfan

Pure pap.

They won’t even allow comments, at link.

No thanks.


4 posted on 08/18/2017 7:08:21 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: nikos1121

I agree. Posts like this is are of no use to anyone. I know, don’t read it if you don’t like it. OK, I won’t...


5 posted on 08/18/2017 7:14:27 AM PDT by Russ
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To: Rummyfan

I love everything Trump has said and done up to now. As far as the GOPe, uniparty and RINOs well they can all go...


6 posted on 08/18/2017 7:14:55 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Rummyfan

7 posted on 08/18/2017 7:22:26 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Rummyfan

The last time Republicans betrayed a sitting Republican president, like they’re doing right now, was in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt, a progressive Republican, fought against Wm. H. Taft, a conservative Republican, for the entirety of Taft’s presidency (1908-1912), tearing the party in half. Roosevelt completed his destruction of the party in 1912 when he formed his own party (Bull Moose) and ran for president as a third party candidate against Taft, who was the Republican nominee.

The result was a landslide victory! For leftist democrat Woodrow Wilson.


8 posted on 08/18/2017 7:23:02 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: nikos1121

It keeps us from being an echo chamber like DU. It’s good to discuss what, exactly, is wrong with it.

Otherwise, we’re just a bunch of bigots.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bigot+definition&oq=bigot+definition


9 posted on 08/18/2017 7:24:00 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: KyCats

Great point on Teddy and Taft.

I found the article worth the read.

i will support Trump to the end .... Just hope he figures out how to keep all of his original base and win over some others for the long road.


10 posted on 08/18/2017 7:38:44 AM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOS / PC guy forever and always e)
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To: Rummyfan
I found this article to be mostly truthful...

I have never seen an ‘outsider’ go into a 16 candidate run off for President before in my life, and then Candidate Trump took each one of them apart, piece by piece for us to see what they were made of and then WE cast them aside...

When it was Trump running against the evil, vile witch, he did the same thing, and the night of the debate when Mr. Trump had three of the rape victims and the woman that the evil, vile witch laughed at and walked out onto that audience and the look on the Rapist in Chief sitting there and them looking back at him, oh yeah, only a person of Mr. Trump's steadfast could have done that, and it upset the evil, vile witch, would have been worse if Donna hadn't given her questions of the debate earlier, but you could tell it was to the bone shattering...

And the fear of the Fraud in Chief sitting listening to what was going on in Trump Tower before as President Elect Trump was preparing to take the Oath of office...

He is a great person, and you can't do what he has done with his life, the people he has touched and the way he works and the goodness he wants for America and the American people if your not good to begin with...

GO. PRESIDENT TRUMP GO!!! MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

11 posted on 08/18/2017 7:59:42 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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12 posted on 08/18/2017 8:02:08 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: robroys woman

I really have a hard time watching TV, or reading posts on this forum because every day we’re getting the incoming. We see Trump doing the heavy lifting. His own party is doing nothing.

He needs wins in his pocket to get the negative crap out of the news cycle.

Sometimes a negative column is good for us to look and scrutinize, but for now, I want to hear from the good people here and out there that are writing to support Trump. For example the two articles from yesterday by Ben Stein and the other by Horowitz.


13 posted on 08/18/2017 8:14:15 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Rudy Guiuliani for Head of FBI)
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To: nikos1121

Too much of the lefts propaganda articles being plastered on FR.....seems more like we’re in their court when I come here.........most positive thread is the ‘Freepathon Thread’....


14 posted on 08/18/2017 8:17:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: Rummyfan
"This is not how presidents act."

BS. How would anyone who came of age after Reagan know how a president is supposed to act?

A president should act like Clinton? Or obama or the Bushs?

We are here in this mess now due largely to the way those past presidents have acted or refused to act.

Personally, I think this is the first real president we've had since Reagan left the building and I'm enjoying the show for as long as it lasts.

We finally get a Man as President who has no fear of cutting through the polite and phoney PC BS and will call things as they actually are! Thank You, Jesus!

Do you know what's not supposed to be this way? 1) The bought and paid for uniparty politicians who fight against him and our national interests and 2) we, the pampered and confused, who can't handle someone speaking honestly about US and our neurotic state of mind.

Yep, I'm enjoying the show for as long as it lasts. Few times have I seen such a mass self-unmasking of personal truth and honesty as when Trump says or does anything!

He's like makeup remover that's just rough enough to reveal their actual truth beneath their careful maintained facades.

What a gift President Trump is to our nation at such a critical time!

15 posted on 08/18/2017 8:36:52 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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