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The Art of the Deal-Breaker
The National Review ^ | February 1, 2016 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 02/01/2016 11:33:34 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sorry, I don’t understand what you wrote.


21 posted on 02/01/2016 11:55:00 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Another crap article by someone who wants to ben seen as important.


22 posted on 02/01/2016 11:55:16 AM PST by BAW (It's gunna be YUGE.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Those who have come to “put The Donald in his place”, came not to deal, but to demolish and destroy.

Now The Donald may be really an old softy at heart, willing to indulge others their opinions, but not when they are swinging, trying to land a blow. Be assured his underbelly is girded with the finest twenty-four inch cold-rolled case-hardened titanium-tungsten-molybdenum alloy armor plate steel available, and the seams are all sealed with the finest polymer elastomers known in state-of-the-art chemistry. Nothing sticks, and in fact, a good deal of it just glances off. Heat-proof, too.

When he turns to respond to an attack, The Donald is not merely a bull in a china shop. He becomes Godzilla on steroids, and burning adrenaline for fuel. Those bugs who were in search of a windshield, are picked up later, and set back on their journey, just so long as it no longer a collision course with The Donald.

Some of them even end up later being Trumpsters.


23 posted on 02/01/2016 11:55:48 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: donna
If someone outwits you in deal after deal, it doesn't mean that YOU are morally superior to them.

Trump excels in the three card Monte street hustle.

24 posted on 02/01/2016 11:56:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: alloysteel
Those who have come to "put The Donald in his place", came not to deal, but to demolish and destroy.

You've just described Trump's campaign.

25 posted on 02/01/2016 11:57:33 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Try actually reading your articles rather then just racing around posting the latest anti-Trump vomit you can find. There is NO evidence of “deal braking” in this article. Instead the author claims there is with examples that have nothing to do with any deals being made between Trump and the parties he cites.

Just another case of a NRO posting yet another infantile weakly reasoned personal attack being hoping their bile lace tirade will stick to the target this time


26 posted on 02/01/2016 11:57:38 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Just curious, where did you buy that high horse you’re riding?


27 posted on 02/01/2016 11:57:46 AM PST by bluecollarman
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To: woofie

I think Trump’s song should be “You’re So Vain.”


28 posted on 02/01/2016 12:00:24 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: bluecollarman

Here’s my post from back in Sept when I went to see Trump at his USS Iowa speech. He has been very consistent in his campaign. My remarks still stand:

“I attended the USS Iowa event last night. It was a very patriotic gathering with a lot of veterans in the audience. There were also a lot of enthusiastic young people. One thing that stood out for me is that all the attendees were of the happy and optimistic type that love this country and what it represents. I believe Trump’s popularity stems from the fact these people feel someone is finally standing up for many of the things they believe and will fight hard for them and not give a damn about the consequences. In any event, everyone there had a great time. Of course I can’t say the same for the 200 or so protesters. They were not the happy type.”


29 posted on 02/01/2016 12:02:18 PM PST by Shark24
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

LOL!

You continue to display your ignorance daily.

Your Three card Monte has zero relevance, even less than your posts on bankruptcy.

Hope your financial affairs are taken care of by a family member or court appointed guardian. You are a danger to yourself.


30 posted on 02/01/2016 12:02:39 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: bluecollarman

God bless you and thank you for your service to our Republic.


31 posted on 02/01/2016 12:03:50 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY - GO MONTHLY - JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: bluecollarman
"...As has been the case with Trump's politics, his foundation has also waffled allegiances granting contributions to charities with diametrically opposed interests.

For example, in 2013, it gave $10,000 to the Iowa Family Leader Foundation-boosting a group dogmatically opposed to same-sex marriage. But the year before, it gave $20,000 to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. So regardless of your views on gay rights, the Trump Foundation has backed some group you should find extremely upsetting.

And the organization has always kept its friends close.

In 2014, it gave $25,000 to the American Spectator Foundation—a foundation backing a small conservative magazine whose contributing editor Jeffrey Lord is one of the most reliably pro-Trump voices on cable news.

Above and beyond his giving priorities, Trump himself has a less than admirable record on veterans issues. The closest he ever came to military service was being a cadet at a military academy in the early 1960s, where he earned a medal for cleanliness. When a real war in Vietnam broke out, Trump was of prime age to be drafted—but ducked service multiple times."... Donald Trump Donated More to Clintons Than Veterans

32 posted on 02/01/2016 12:03:50 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Covenantor
...You are a danger to yourself.

Trump is a danger to conservatism, and a boon to Big Government.

33 posted on 02/01/2016 12:05:56 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: bluecollarman

From the Cheap Labor Express

This is the same poster who was for Perry and then Walker.
She seems to really want an amnesty candidate as bad as the RNC does.


34 posted on 02/01/2016 12:06:36 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mkjessup



LOLOLOLOLOL

35 posted on 02/01/2016 12:06:49 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY - GO MONTHLY - JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What is this “conservatism” that you speak of?

I’ve never actually seen it.


36 posted on 02/01/2016 12:07:39 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Rush just had a hard time defending Meygan Kelly's behavior to a caller over this:

FR THREAD: No, Ted Cruz Did NOT Support Amnesty, Concedes Megyn Kelly After #GOPDebate

37 posted on 02/01/2016 12:08:31 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: chris37
You need to look here.
38 posted on 02/01/2016 12:09:44 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’m sorry, I’m no longer interested in Ted the Creep.


39 posted on 02/01/2016 12:14:10 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Slyfox; Cincinatus' Wife
The more I read his own words the more troubled I become:

"When I'm president, I'm a different person," Trump said at an event in Fort Dodge, Iowa. "I can do anything. I can be the most politically correct person that you've ever seen. I can be the most politically correct person in the world and I can be the opposite."

That's very troubling as are some of the other things he's said and then "unsaid" as was pointed out in the piece. However, even more troubling is the fact that most of the commenters on this thread aren't troubled by his flip-flops or that he talks out of both sides of his mouth. Most, in fact, seem to have mastered the art of Trump's tacky tweets and are only able to reply to such pieces by hurling an invectives, questioning the source, dissing those of us who back other candidates and/or insulting Cincinatus' Wife. I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that an inarticulate and mean-spirited candidate would have the same kinds of followers.

I think Trump has told the world pretty much what his approach to the presidency would be -- whatever's expedient for this moment even if it's not expedient in the long haul. Just like others we've rightfully criticized over the years for lacking a set of core beliefs, Trump's of that same mindset except that he's passing as a Republican. Were he elected president, you'd have to wonder ... which Trump will be "ruling" (deliberately used word) today? How about next Thursday? Or the third Tuesday in August? Who could possibly know?

40 posted on 02/01/2016 12:35:25 PM PST by ru4liberty (I wish FR were still "The Premiere *CONSERVATIVE* Site on the Net" :'(.....)
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