When the PR lapdogs for the illiberal Democrat Party run headlines like this:
Donald Trump Steals the Show, Mixing Politics and Pizazz
… you understand how worried they are about dragging Hillary into the White House, ala Obama.
I mean, I didn’t watch the debate, I listened on the radio (as did hubby on his commute home) and we both agreed that Trump was shallow, thin-skinned and unprepared.
He proved he’s little more than a bundle of demagoguery wrapped in thick coating of narcissism.
In analysis, William Jacobson watched the same debate I listened to:
This is becoming the present-day Rorschach test. I thought he did horribly. Trump did not appear comfortable in the setting. Many of his one-liners that work so well when he is alone and has a camera close up didn’t work. He was petulant, shallow and thin-skinned. BUT, if online voting is any indication, he didn’t hurt himself with supporters.
In my opinion, there is little difference in the acolytes of The Donald and those of Bernie Sanders.
It is the summer of Bill Starbuck.
I found it a bit uncomfortable watching Trump tell us about how he buys access in DC.
After weeks of stories of the Clinton Foundation for the criminally insane, you’d think the populace could recognize when they are being played by yet another player, but alas, no.
The “DC clique” (as Ted Cruz like to call them) was openly present at the debate.
Given the choice of a Republican Trump or a Democrat Clinton, I’ll take the Iranian Mullahs, at least they only lie to the “weak minded.”
They probably wrote most of it before the debate.
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I didn’t watch and I’m not listening to the post-game analysis.
#TheWorstPartOfDepressionIs not being able to cope with a lot of external drama.
Though I’m thinking maybe this is a feature and not a bug.
Trump’s shtick brings a smile to my stone face.
Gee, is this the SAME blog with regulars who go on about RINO Establicans (Rightfully so, mind you)?
The Donald resonates because the Establishment won’t listen on all to many issues, immigration most notably.
To neutralize the Donald, all that needs to be done is to co-opt the Donald.
I wanted to dislike Kasich, couldn’t quite manage it. But I don’t expect him to last very much long. Rand Paul is done, fork him. Dr. Carson did well, possibly cementing the VP spot behind Cruz or (more likely) Scott Walker. Bush made me seethe, as did Christie, every time they opened their claptraps. Anyone else? Seems I’ve missed a couple unremarkable fillers.
Trump is only good to create heartburn in GOP establishment ass holes. But if the do manage to nominate Bush or Christie, I’ll support the gilded Perot.
Gathering just from random commentary seen today, as opposed to watching the FoxNews showcase extravaganza, it seems to me that if Roger Ailes has an opinion who the next Republican nominee ought to be — which opinion he wishes to exclusively shove down the ear canals of gibbering Americans — he ought to just present himself on the stage and announce it. Rather than insult the intelligence of those Americans who may have cast his dog and pony showcase a sideways glance, say.
Gleening Ailes’ skulking strategic directions from the stage-craft just isn’t worth the candle, really. Hell, it’s so tedious it borders on attempting to winnow out ClownDisaster’s aims with the Shia Persians from the stage managed events he sculpts across the world, a tedium itself beyond endurance, since the reward for so many will still be their deaths.
I wanted to dislike Kasich, couldn’t quite manage it.
I couldn’t either. Mr. Kasich was the only candidate to say something that needs to be said: Trump voters are angry and are right to be, and the GOP and the Fox News lackeys need to address that not focus on Trump.
That said, Mr. Kasich is a “reasonable, safe and mature” establishment pick. “I won in Ohio twice” will be music to the “pragmatic”/electability crowd.
Make of that what you will.
What would be worth witnessing take place among these 17 candidates?
Either just the 17 of them in a room discussing the hierarchy of political needs facing the United States, independently, each to his own views, with no external controls whatsoever, no “moderator”, no leader they don’t choose from among themselves or choosing to take turns, leading the discussion one after another, save the cameras, sound and camera-men in the room, and with tv control-room selecting camera views, or perhaps in an auditorium with a single wide angled camera and mics arranged to capture everyone’s words.
Let them sort themselves out as they attempt to sort out the nations’ needs. Let them show themselves for what they are in their treatment of one another, as well as in their treatment of their audience. Surely they all have ideas. Let them persuade with the tools of persuasion.
If Trump is actually taking advice from Bill Clinton, he WILL go third party to ensure a democrat win.
Because of the conspiracies that are not theoretical.
curmudgeon
Trump voters are angry and are right to be
Carly has acknowledged so. And Cruz is a thorn in the Establicans side.
Trump is NOT this stupid
Really?
>Trump is NOT this stupid<
oh my he referenced
Alice Cooper – Only Women Bleed (Live 1979)
megyn kelly ruining class whore
Megyn Kelly took Trump ‘on your knees’ comment out of context, CONTESTANT AGREES
>Really?<
i'm told that the womens really do that once a month. so? oh noes we be not equal.
Trump is the gift that keeps on giving
Lately he’s exposed the propagandists and those most susceptible to media manipulation
The mans like a spotlight sweeping the landscape and revealing every agenda.
Most amusing!
Voice Of Truth
Heh. Different era speaking. The Donald refuses to get dragged into the soft-jelly 21st century by whiny whimperers who live and breathe PC. He is still living LARGE 1963; the Madmen era for reals.
Unpack that for us? The differences between the two men are staggering, and well beyond the superficial point that Trump earned billions vs. wherever that bedraggled socialist rat got his money
Bernie Sanders (and his Commie acolytes) aren’t worth having their pin heads used as Teh Donald’s commode brushes.
Megyn’s hot and she did everyone a favor. I appreciate Trumps shaking up the establishment and the other candidates need to listen and learn; however, if “binders full of women” can be twisted into something misogynistic, Donald was going to eventually say something that was going to sink him.
If only someone in the MSM would do this to Hillary.
Trump is far from sunk, bgbear.
https://twitter.com/serr8d/status/629295794709884928
serr8d
The difference in the men is staggering, but not in their acolytes … who are EMOTIONALLY attached to them AND refuse to look at the substance (if any) of what their candidate is saying.
Sanders socialism plays off the covetousness of his followers — That guy over there has more than you and it is not YOUR fault but his!
Trump plays off the anger of his followers, and while the anger is legit, Trump is not. Nothing in his past or present goes to actually ameliorating that anger in any substantive way.
gynaikeios polemos
Mr. Erickson has made this a badge for his conservative friends to wear, and for his Democrat enemies to use to their advantage. Strange choice, if you ask me.
By the by, for those in search of a spelling mnemonic, just recall Me-gyn, as in “me“, the object case of I, and “gyn“, from the Greek root for woman, so: Me-woman. Any following Neanderthalish grunt of self-gyn-satisfaction is to be understood as strictly non-obligatory. Same goes for any accompanying titters.
If Trump is actually taking advice from Bill Clinton, he WILL go third party to ensure a democrat win. Because of the conspiracies that are not theoretical.
If the GOP nominee is a cretin like Jeb, or even Rick Perry, bully for Trump. They will deserve to lose in that situation.
Curmudgeon
Jeb was totally disengaged and lackluster. Meh.
and Perry didn’t do anything to shake his past brain freeze.
None of which stopped McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012, etc. You can be utterly lame and still become the GOPee nominee.
We let the Left define both the McCain and Romney runs.
From the attacks on Palin to “binders full of women” … WE didn’t counter the attacks. Indeed, sometimes the right joined in.
Which frankly, only further proves the point. And in 2008, Romney was the “right” alternative to McLame in the primaries no less.
In fairness, I think many of us were shocked that Low Information Voters would be *stupid* enough to take “binders full of women” out of context, and the DemSM would be brazen enough to lie about it.
But as Kipling wrote, “If you can bear to hear the truth you have spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools….”
We HAVE to stop playing by the Left’s rules.
Erickson shouldn’t have dis-invited Trump. He should have had him on stage front-and-center.
(Erickson should talk, too, after his attacks on Palin)
Then not all of Trump’s cheering section are acolytes. I would posit very few really desire to see the blowhard get the presidency, but instead desire to see the GOP taken down several notches.
Call us ‘hobbits’; that’s what the cool establishment kids do.
“The difference in the men is staggering, but not in their acolytes … who are EMOTIONALLY attached to them AND refuse to look at the substance (if any) of what their candidate is saying.”
I would assert Trump detractors are the mirror image.