Posted on 02/15/2016 5:12:56 PM PST by icwhatudo
Here we are in a Republican primary, and Donald Trump, out of the blue, starts blaming the Bush family for 9/11, for knowing that the intelligence was made up, that there never were any weapons of mass destruction, and they knew it, Trump said.
Michael Moore doesn’t even say that…
On the stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump defended Planned Parenthood. Not the abortion stuff, he said, but the fact that they do great things for women’s health. Folks, there were a number of occasions where Donald Trump sounded like the Daily Kos blog, where Donald Trump sounded like the Democrat Underground, sounded like any average host on MSNBC.
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Rush hit on part of it, but not all of it.
Rush surmised that Trump thinks he's edging closer to getting rid of his rivals: and since South Carolina is an open primary, he's reaching out to disaffected Dems to get them to cross the aisle, just for this primary, so he can goose his results.
Rush wasn't sure whether it was for a knockout blow against the other candidates, by setting an air of inevitable momentum, *or* as a hedge against high Cruz numbers which are due to Cruz-related PAC ground efforts.
But *I* think there's another couple of things, which even Rush hasn't picked up on.
First -- note that the debate *was* right before South Carolina. But it also, and you'd have to be blind as a bat to not know this going in, had an audience packed with partisan GOP-e donors. Who booed all the usual suspects, and cheered for Bush and Rubio.
So, Trump decides to make the anti-Bush remarks, and the Planned Parenthood remarks, in front of an audience of packed partisans: that way, he can defuse the booing, and blame it on GOP-e plants: exactly the opposite of the astroturf groundswell *against* Trump, the GOP-e was trying to start.
But that leaves the question, why make those remarks at all?
I think the answer is, Trump is a master promoter. Not the "any publicity is good publicity"...but rather, he has a rare opportunity in *time*. Hillary and Sanders are going after each other instead of anyone from the GOP. Many of the other GOP candidates are fighting for second place. So Trump starts establishing the *memes* -- quotes right in the open, in broad daylight, that *he* has given to all kinds of politicians, and that he hated the Iraq War, and that Planned Parenthood does good things for women, not just he abortions.
What does that get him?
Battlespace preparation. The libs can't start their patented "wild-eyed redneck right-winger fanatic" and "war on women"...when *Medea Benjamin* has praised trump for trashing Bush. And by praising the "health care" part of Planned Parenthood -- he's taken the leftist propaganda literally, at face value: and this insulates him from "Bible-thumper fanatic" charges from the unthinking, low-information left. In the meantime, he can point to what he said about "not the abortions" and insist that Planned Parenthood tone them down.
He's thinking several moves ahead in terms of strategy, and positioning later on in the campaign: which most other candidates are not doing...
He *may* be lying: but most of the other GOP candidates are *definitely* lying. If the base, the dispirited conservatives who have watched the DC party and the elites cave over and over, feel their chances are "slim" (Trump) and none (anyone else), they'll choose slim.
But Trump is now setting out mindspace for the rest of the electorate.
Where’s your ‘like’ button? 😎
I thought you were in the shower with the rest of your Trumpbots?
“Wait, do you cheat on your spouse too?”
How low can you possibly go?
That happened weeks ago, about the same time Thomas Sowell became persona non grata.
Please try to keep up. ;)
Well said .
I stole it from Savage!
You’d have to ask tRump that. He’s gone pretty low.
You’d have to ask tRump that. He’s gone pretty low.
“his bride wanted to be sung to by Elton John.”
I wouldn’t marry—or even want to be an acquaintance of—a woman who could stand to be in the same room with that disgusting sodomite.
Nice! That would make an awesome campaign ad...for Sanders! Feel the Bern, baby!!
I love how all the kool aid drinkers can somehow rationalize that Rush and Levin, two of our staunchest and unwavering intellectual leaders of conservatism, are suddenly morons and liars when it comes to Trump. Good grief, they’re only stating the obvious and offering up reasons why throwing our support behind someone without the intellect or inclination to lead this ideological war against the liberal statists is short sighted.
Why would you have to work so hard at trying to convince yourself that Trump was conservative? If he were actually conservative it would be self-evident.
Ontheissues.org ranks Lindsey Graham as a hardcore conservative...
http://ontheissues.org/Lindsey_Graham.htm
That was my impression too from half-listening to Rush today, and no wheels falling off.
“What kind of man pays a singer $1,000,000 to sing One song to his bride? Someone who doesn’t respect what it takes for Joe & Jane Sixpack to earn that amount, a lifetime of work. He’s an elitist puke.”
So do you object to Rush earning that kind of money or are you against him spending it the way he wants?
By golly, that’s a pretty rational analysis.
“Amazing how many people we’re not supposed to like or respect anymore.”
Well, this is the new Trump party. Where a person’s value rests entirely upon his usefulness to The Leader.
I’m embarrassed and ashamed for my conservative movement. We used to wonder with amazement how this happened in other countries, how people fell for the charismatic charlatan. And now we know all too well.
Pretty much since George Washington.
Don’t forget, most Presidents (with one notable exception, Obama) are hemmed in by their own words.
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