It is agnostic on whether Trump would be a good nominee or not, but these are lefties. What is amazing is that they understand what's going on.
Trump leading all the polls for 4.5 months, drawing crowds of thousands and he might win. I would never have come up with that one. :-)
Ezra Klein was the organizer of JourNoList, the outfit made up of about 200-300 bloggers and reporters who were actively campaigning for 0bama. When Palin came on the scene, this same crew are the ones who spent the campaign trashing her, and her family, and even continued long after the election.
Essentially, Klein is just another dirtbag.
Yes, it is.
I am not an analyst and dont have a degree it political science.
I look at the polls and he is beating all republicans and Hillary in some polls. That’s good enough for me.
Agree with other FREEPER. Author is a dirt bag.
If Trump is nominated he will win YUGE!
The issue that has been purposely thwarted by the establishment is the illegal alien inundation.
People have finally realized that both parties are responsible for the non-enforcement.
And it has not been incompetence, but malfeasence bordering on Treason.
yeah well these guys are like weather forecasters, they call for sunshine all but they don’t stick their heads outside to see that it is raining
Might? Hell he is the next President and America will make a turn around to sanity.
I agree with much of the reasoning in this article. Those that dismiss and underestimate Trump do so to their own demise. His support is very strong and consistent. He is not only strong in the South but blows everyone away in the NE. He’s also strong in the Midwest though places like MI and WI have been a bit tighter with Carson leading there slightly in the polls but the problem is that even in places where Trump is not leading he’s still racking up very strong double digit showings that are within the margin of error of the leader.
It is without a doubt that if Jeb Bush had the Trump numbers the GOP-E and the media would have declared the race over. Its going to be very hard to change the trajectory of this race if Trump wins Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. If Trump wins Florida and he has had consist big leads there then its over for Rubio and Bush. Cruz needs to win Iowa which he appears to have a really good shot at. Trump at this point has a near lock on New Hampshire and I work in the north east and they love Trump in a way I’ve never seen people love a Republican in that area. Trump has a big asset and that is he is animating large numbers of disaffected voters who have in the past voted infrequently or not at all. If Trump gets those voters to the polls then its going to be very hard for anyone to beat him and though I support Cruz I think its very good for the GOP. I’ve always though it was better to appeal to blue collar voters and working class voters than to water down party positions to be more like liberal Democrats and Trump is really putting that theory to the test.
I think the undercurrent of the article is to warn the lefties to start taking Trump seriously.
I posit he fears their oppo has been too focused on the FL twins.
Supporters of a certain candidate don’t actually READ THE DAD GUMMED article PING.
They are getting VERY NERVOUS now. They need to cover their bases as they’re realizing the hold Trump has on his supporters.
They are starting to realize that the ONLY WAY Trump can lose now is by turning left on immigration, and he seems to know not tot do that.
Hell, thats an easy question that Ann Coulter already answered. The ONLY people who like Trump are..........................The voters.
In 2008 we witnessed the total destruction of Sarah Palin at the hands of the GOPe and the MSM. Nobody defended her but the conservatives who were totally ignored.
Here we are 7 years later and the same groups that hurt Palin are after trump. Sarah had no money to defend herself even though many conservatives tried to help but she was FORCED to resign as Alaska Governor.
Donald Trump doesn’t have that same money problem and because he is so determined to fight fire with fire, he has earned the respect of the people who hate the way most other campaigns have been run.
Trump is our candidate not the golden boy the GOPe wanted and he will have our support until he is elected or rejected.
For those who would be happy to see him rejected, better be careful how they try to do it and more so why.
I am glad to see this type of honesty does exist in far left media. Usually it is hand-wringing pajama boy shi-ite like THIS ....
I would argue the establishment understands the situation very well. Further, they are not delusional in reaction.
Their problem is a very charismatic Trump and a somewhat charismatic Carson. The second tier is coalescing into Rubio and Cruz. Both are lifers and therefore subject to disdain by the masses fed up with the House Of Cards all politics all the time mentality.
The establishment problem is at root, nothing effective with which to respond to charisma.