The president's speech at CPAC was a bedazzling mix of bravado, B.S., humor, and positive vision

reason.com ^ | 3/2/19 | Nick Gillespie

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It's way too early to be thinking this, much less saying it, but what the hell: If Donald Trump is able to deliver the sort of performance he gave today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual meeting of right-wingers held near Washington, D.C., his reelection is a foregone conclusion.

There is simply no potential candidate in the Democratic Party who wouldn't be absolutely blown off the stage by him. I say this as someone who is neither a Trump fanboy nor a Never Trumper. But he was not simply good, he was Prince-at-the-Super-Bowl great, deftly flinging juvenile taunts at everyone who has ever crossed him, tossing red meat to the Republican faithful, and going sotto voce serious to talk about justice being done for working-class Americans screwed over by global corporations.

In a heavily improvised speech that lasted over two hours, the 72-year-old former (future?) reality TV star hit every greatest hit in his repertoire ("Crooked Hillary," "build the wall," "America is winning again," and more all made appearances) while riffing on everything from the Green New Deal to his own advanced age and weird hair to the wisdom of soldiers over generals. At times, it was like listening to Robin Williams' genie in the Disney movie Aladdin, Howard Stern in his peak years as a radio shock jock, or Don Rickles as an insult comic. When he started making asides, Trump observed, "This is how I got elected, by going off script." Two years into his presidency and he's just getting warmed up.

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Full title:

The president's speech at CPAC was a bedazzling mix of bravado, B.S., humor, and positive vision no Democrat will be able to top.

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"Darling...Darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch television!"

[rktman]

One of the anti bunch preferred to call it a profanity laced diatribe. Or something.

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"It's way too early to be thinking this, much less saying it, but what the hell: If Donald Trump is able to deliver the sort of performance he gave today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual meeting of right-wingers held near Washington, D.C., his reelection is a foregone conclusion."

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Gotta like that sentence.

;-)

[BenLurkin]

Hard to take a publication seriously that confuses conservative with “right-wingers”

[Lurkinanloomin]

If Gillespie is saying that, it makes me hopeful.

[knarf]

You reduced two hours of blown out of the water to that puny criticism ?

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"Hard to take a publication seriously that confuses conservative with “right-wingers”'

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I hear you, BL.

It is a slip of the lip that a guy like Nick Gillespie often makes ..... for he considers himself one of the last of the beatnik/hipsters. He takes himself too seriously at times, but I think, all in all, his point here was that the speech was a beautiful, sturdy, and vigorous political triumph.

So try not to be bothered by his foolish "right-winger" comment. Hipster types seldom get over being (in their singular mind) hip.

[BenLurkin]

It’s a talent.

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"One of the anti bunch preferred to call it a profanity laced diatribe. Or something."

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They must not have heard it.

One could hardly call it "laced with profanity". Perhaps "grazed by profanity" would have been more accurate and appropriate.

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If Gillespie is saying that, it makes me hopeful.---

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Yep.

[euram]

I listened to it all the way thru and enjoyed it all.

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You reduced two hours of blown out of the water to that puny criticism ? ----

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Agreed. See # 7.

[eclectic]

For an article that accuses Trump of misstatements, this one is full of misquotations and misstatements of its own. The author is an idiot.

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You reduced two hours of blown out of the water to that puny criticism?

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Raisin Cain didn't mind.

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"As the economy continues to expand (however anemically compared to historical averages) and he continues to avoid credible charges of impeachable offenses, Trump is becoming sunnier and sunnier while the Democrats are painting contemporary America as a late-capitalist hellhole riven by growing racial, ethnic, and other tensions."

Could differently read ......

"As the economy continues to expand ...... Trump is becoming sunnier and sunnier while the Democrats are painting contemporary America as a late-capitalist hellhole riven by growing racial, ethnic, and other tensions."

Feel better?

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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1101912771975962624/video/1

Me too. My wife and I were howling with laughter at times, especially during the DARK Iraq landing.

[gunnyg]

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AND THERE STANDS TRUMP.45! LIKE A STONE WALL !!!!!!!!!!!
GunnyG@PlanetWTF?
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[a little elbow grease]

"It's way too early to be thinking this, much less saying it, but what the hell: If Donald Trump is able to deliver the sort of performance he gave today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual meeting of right-wingers held near Washington, D.C., his reelection is a foregone conclusion."

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Gotta love that sentence.

[Made In The USA]

I saw that this morning it was called a “profane speech. Give me a break... the constant stream of lies by the leftist media is profane to me. Their collusion with the demotard party is profane to me.

[Scarpetta]

I love you and I hate you, but mostly I love you, for reasons I can’t express right now.