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How to End @realDonaldTrump #1: Get him to listen to all the GOP “policy minds” who’ve “reached out” to offer ideas wpo.st/MT1U0
Monthly Archives: August 2015
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Rodman must be behind this twitter.com/DPRK_News/stat…
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Robots putting low-skilled workers out of job in INDIA. Imagine havoc in US. Do we need more low-skilled immigrants? bloom.bg/1TbkjZm
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Hearing his (weak) plan, I’m glad they didn”t ask//”Carson: ‘I Wanted to Get Asked About Immigration'”
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Standing up to the massed Nates of the left kausfiles.com/2015/08/09/sor…
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New NBC Post-Debate Poll: Luntz Hardest Hit kf’s Post-Debate Insta-Analysis: Holding up! Except that ¿¡Jeb!? seems to have been a much bigger loser than I’d thought. (But he’s taking the gloves off! Look out.) Trump did well. Walker lost ground mainly because the pack caught up to him .Always trust content from kausfiles. …
P.S.: Why did Trump do well? Take his five-part answer to Megyn Kelly’s (completely legitimate) you-use-sexist-language question: a) “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” Best laugh of the night; b) Truthfully admits OK, it wasn’t only Rosie O’Donnell; c) “[T]he big problem this country has is being politically correct.” Another winning line with GOPs, and maybe others; d) “[W]hat I say, and oftentimes it’s fun, it’s kidding.” So he’s not that big a jerk. This was basically Arnold Schwarzenegger’s winning formula in the key debate before he was elected governor. Schwarzenegger is at least as infamous a pig as Trump. …
If Roger Stone told Trump he’d lost this debate, Stone probably should have been fired. …
Maybe it was in part this false worry (that he hadn’t done well) that caused Trump to get personal in his distracting attacks on Kelly (including part (e) of his answer), which were almost certainly not helpful to him in the short run. (Trump may think they intimidate future interlocutors, which seems unlikely.) If you’re going to make it personal, why not go to the root cause and say “I’m sorry if Mr. Murdoch, who owns your network, doesn’t like my stand on immigration and would like to see me disappear. He has dinner with Valerie Jarrett and supports Obama’s and Senator Rubio’s amnesty bill.”
P.P.S.–Die Naterdammerung! Josh Marshall doesn’t like Trump but admirably stood fast against the left’s massed Nates (Silver and Cohn) who thought Trump did himself in. The NYT‘s Cohn predicted Trump “probably won’t receive as much media attention coming out of the debate as he did in the weeks before.” Nailed it. … Cohn is clearly a smart and knowledgeable analyst. One day he’ll be right about something, which will further burnish his reputation. ….
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Luntz hardest hit. twitter.com/swin24/status/…
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I stand with @joshtpm talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/josh-do…
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GOP “circles” might decide to “run [Trump] out on a rail”–NYT Haven’t they been trying for months? nyti.ms/1KXhwPb
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Am I the only one who thinks Huckabee’s idea of using 14th Amendment to protect unborn isn’t crazy (as legal issue) wpo.st/BayT0
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Hypothesis: When @realDonaldTrump talks about immigration, he gains GOP votes. When he talks about other things, not so much.
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“I’d like to see him, but it’s not my show” is not “Erickson was right to disinvite him.” @LovelaceRyanD washex.am/1KbyWBT
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This guy’s 5 taxi drivers don’t even say what he says they say (that Erickson was right to ban Trump) washex.am/1MdxrYa
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“a consensus is forming in Republican circles” that Trump’s done. He’s lost Matthew Dowd! #strategistssay wpo.st/QUyT0
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.@RogerJStoneJr thought Trump lost the debate? I don’t think Trump lost the debate. politico.com/story/2015/08/…
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Eerily prescient twitter.com/francesmartel/…
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or ‘Rubio-You admit now you were wrong to back Gang of 8 amnesty? Why’d you do it then? Were you hornswoggled by Schumer?’
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e.g. Nobody asked ‘why not do all these border & enforcement things *before* you legalize at all, unlike failed 86 amnesty and Gang of 8?’
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Those were all of Fox’s immig questions. All good! It was a good debate. But none (except maybe 6) asked from perspective of Gang of 8 foe.
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6) ‘Finally, let’s toss a bone to Bill O’Reilly’s pet “Kate’s Law.” Cruz, you support it, right?’ And defund sanctuary cities?’
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5) ‘ Gov. Walker, why did you abandon your support for comprehensive immigration reform?’
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4) ‘OK, Kasich’s not biting. Sen. Rub’io, don’t *you* want to blast Trump?’
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3) Gov Kasich –‘Don’t you want to blast Trump for his comments? Are they an “adequate response”? What would St. Peter do?’
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2) ‘Mr. Trump — You don’t really think Mexican government is sending rapists, do you? What proof?’