Fox was trying to screw him the other night, saying that it would only be 15,000 at the event before Trump spoke, (John Roberts I think was reporting that). Saw today it was 30,000 being reported now.

I know this borders on being old news. But, maybe this is why the folks @ Fox News have changed their tone toward Mr. Trump:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...ces-10-day-vacation/

The "timing is a touch curious".....? Hmmmmmm.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...ger-ailes-phone-call

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Originally posted by cda926:
I know this borders on being old news. But, maybe this is why the folks @ Fox News have changed their tone toward Mr. Trump:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...ces-10-day-vacation/

The "timing is a touch curious".....? Hmmmmmm.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...ger-ailes-phone-call

This is one of the things that impressed me about Trump. Any of the other candidates I can't even imagine. Trump didn't confer with his team. He knew just what to do.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
Trump is going to be really dismayed when he figures out that all the grand and glorious stuff he plans can't be done without the herd of cats at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, who have their own ideas about some of these things, their own needs, their own bases to mollify.

I personally think he harbors no such illusions. First off, he is not stupid, and second, he has spent his entire life getting things done where others have found them to be impossible. Imagine trying to do a major real estate development in New York City or New Jersey.

The city governments and each department is against you - each department head running his or her own little kingdom controlling permits, surveys, inspectors, etc and none of them wanting you to develop anything. Then you have EPA, OSHA, unions, public utilities and who knows what else to deal with.

No one just walks in and orders those people what to do - each one requires different levels of cajolery and/or behind the scenes manipulation to get what you want done.

Trump has proven a master at this - getting developments done where everyone thought they would be impossible.

Do you think he would do what Obama did and insulate himself in the TrumpHouse and never meet with the leaders of Congress? I don't - I think he would have them there all the time and would quickly learn what he needed to do to get each one to either go along or step aside - whether it was political favors or threats to expose them to a media firestorm or funding their opponents in upcoming elections. I think he would figure it out and do whatever he had to do to get his way.

Maybe I'm wrong about that and he would insulate himself like Obama did and just cry when things didn't go his way - but I would submit that his record does not indicate that he would react that way.

I learned more about getting developments done than I ever wanted, thank you. I can only refer to Socks, the Clinton's cat when they moved to DC. Socks is reputed to have said, "the mice in Little Rock ain't nothin compared to the rats in DC!"

No past President has ever been, nor will any future President ever be fully qualified for the job.

Good think Trump came along, or we may have had that Jeb guy in office.

Rats in NYC? Never heard of 'em!

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Originally posted by 46and2:
Dirty Harry for SecDef.

Talk about a dream team....

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I gotta edit the subject line of this thread.

It's so easy to spot the term "ass clown" among the other topics.
I like the title.

Every morning when I check in, I am looking for the "ass clown" topic.

"The assclown-a title stays like-a before!"

Even the left is starting to root for Donald. Sort of. Here's a quote from Maureen Dowd's column in the NYT today:

"He’s tapped into a hunger among those who want to believe that America is not a shrinking, stumbling power passed like a pepper mill between two entitled families."

Another tidbit from this article is that (following Trump's lead), Jeb used and defended the term "anchor baby." Bold Jeb! But Maureen points out that Jeb co-chaired a committee that recommended Republican candidates avoid the term "anchor babies."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08...on-c-col-left-region

By Kent G. Bailey, Ph.D.

In 1987, I published the first book in the field of Human Paleopsychology. This approach is premised on two basic assumptions: First, human beings have an ancient and rich evolutionary history, and second, that ancient history is thoroughly involved in everything we feel, think and do personally, politically and morally. According to famed neuroscientist Paul MacLean, the human brain is composed of a primeval reptilian segment at the lowest level, a mammalian segment at mid-level and a human or neocortical segment at the highest level. I added the notion that we human beings are constantly “regressing down” or “progressing up” MacLean’s triune brain system in the natural flow of behavior.

The concept of “paleopolitics” is an obvious derivative of human paleopsychology. Indeed, we may easily infer that humans are, at base, political animals who obey more the law of the jungle than the pieties of high culture or the moral righteousness of the godly. Politics is selfish and egoistic, tribalistic and xenophobic to its core, and will readily go to war to win at any cost. It sells itself as “progressive” and of higher things yet most often operates in the gutters of human nature. Politics is not for fops, Pollyannas or the faint-hearted; it is internecine war by another name. It is the game of war, and only the true warriors win.

In the past 60 years or so, America has become progressively feminized, and the archetypal warrior male has virtually disappeared. However, some tough ladies have stepped in to fill the vacuum including Phyllis Schlafly, Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin and many others. But how would any of these wonderful and strong women compete head-to-head in a private conference room with Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un of North Korea, or the mullahs and emirs of the volatile Middle East? We have seen how poorly our current girly-man-in-chief, Barack Obama, has dealt with the world of violent supermales out there. From the dawn of time, mutual respect among warrior males is the coin of the realm in these matters.

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly seems to see herself as an alpha female capable of taking on any and all opposition – male or female. Yet, when set against the unadulterated masculine intellectual powers and cunning of Donald Trump, it was not a fair fight. She was overpowered to the point of speechlessness and had to take a 10-day vacation to lick her wounds. When the ladies operate within a protective penumbra of political correctness in a highly feminized culture of girly men, it is pretty easy to win intellectual pillow fights.

In 2006, I published a column suggesting that Ann Coulter was the last of the “real men” on the intellectual right. I believe that Ann is the closest on the distaff side to the “in your face warrior hawk” profiled in that article. She may be the brightest and most courageous conservative intellectual in the country who can breathe fire when fire is needed – and that is most of the time. She has wonderfully set the stage for her male warrior counterpart, Donald Trump, who takes primal maleness to levels unseen for at least half a century. The everyday people of America long for strong warrior male leadership of the kind that has sustained the human race from the dawn of time.

Do you support Donald Trump’s no-nonsense candidacy? Tell the world with this brand new magnetic bumper sticker: “DONALD TRUMPS THE REST”

Donald Trump is the prototypical, archetypal and testosterone-driven alpha male who rules by the sheer force of his personality, imposing physique, quick wit, mastery of repartee and almost hypnotic control over his gathering masses of adoring followers. He is Attila to the Huns, Henry V to the outnumbered English army, Winston Churchill to desperate allied forces, and now our fearless leader against the pagan forces of progressivism and political correctness. He is the unapologetic, quintessential warrior male of yore capable of vanquishing any and all opposition in his way.

Trump is not a clown, a bloviating buffoon, an intimidating bully, or just a really rich guy hoping to buy America as a shiny new toy. He is ambitious to a fault, relentless in his desire to control, own and build, and he has success written into the DNA of every cell of his body. Yes, he is egotistical, over the top at times, and less soft and sentimental than some would like, but I think he would do pretty well in that closed conference room with Putin or Kim. They would respect him but not necessarily like him. These are the ways of the warrior males who have ruled the world from the beginning of time.

Link

Some great advisers you have there, Jeb

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Mr. Bush, a daily target of Mr. Trump’s attacks, is offering increased pushback against them even though his campaign’s top officials and donors insist Mr. Trump’s campaign isn’t a threat in the primary.

Towards the end of the Biden article.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/jo...-2016-run-1440373384

One media guy, Howard Kurtz, may be starting to open his eyes to what is going on.


http://www.foxnews.com/politic...p-and-thats-too-bad/

The ‘insiders’ are freaking out about Trump, and that’s too bad

The Politico headline practically jumps off the screen:

“GOP Insiders to Trump: Enough Already.”

To which I respond:

“Earth to Politico: Nobody Cares About These Insiders!”

It’s not that I want to pick on Politico. It’s just that if there’s anyone who has completely misjudged this campaign cycle, it’s political insiders.

And media insiders. Who are sometimes indistinguishable, since they often appear on the same shows.

Together, they mocked and minimized Donald Trump as a sideshow. Among the worst offenders is the Huffington Post, which still refuses to end its little stunt of putting Trump stories in the entertainment section, with one writer calling him a “fringe candidate” (who happens to be the Republican presidential front-runner).

As Trump soared, the insiders soon shifted their stance to one of bemusement: Well, he’s hot now, but he’ll burn himself out. Always happens. We’ve seen that movie.

And now that Trump is drawing 30,000 people to an Alabama rally and beating Jeb and Marco in their home state of Florida? Well, say the insiders, thoughtfully stroking their chins, he’s tapped into a deep vein of anger. We have to figure out how to connect with that anger, and we’ll be fine.

That’s progress, I guess, but they’re still kind of clueless. Conservatives in particular are furious that Trump, with his ideologically checkered background, is whipping their candidates, at least for now.

So Politico surveyed its insider “caucus” in Iowa and New Hampshire and found that seven in 10 Republicans say they’re heard more than enough about Trump’s immigration plan. The insiders are identified in tiny type at the bottom of the piece but granted anonymity so they can provide juicy quotes.

Said one Iowa Republican: “He’s solidly put an anchor around the neck of our party, and we’ll sink because of it.”

“Enough already,” vented another Iowa Republican, who like all participants was granted anonymity in order to speak freely. “This kind of garbage only appeals to the hard core … while alienating the soft middle that we must win in order to take the presidency.”

Now this isn’t to say that Trump hasn’t complicated life for the Republican Party. By calling for an end to birthright citizenship, along with mass deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants (before many are let back in), he has put the issue front and center for a party whose last nominee lost the Hispanic vote by 44 points.

But he’s got candidates like Jeb Bush now using the term “anchor babies” and others saying their policy is like Trump’s. That doesn’t sound like the impact of a fringe candidate.

On the other hand, Scott Walker told CNBC’s John Harwood that he doesn’t have a position on birthright citizenship. Or is it that the candidate who described himself in the same interview as “unintimidated” doesn’t want to say?

What the insiders don’t get is that Trump’s bombastic style, and occasionally over-the-top pronouncements, tap into a rejection of the whole failed, gridlocked, special-interest-driven system. And that’s in part why his street talk is important.

“I don’t think the people running for office are real,” Trump told Time, which features him posing with an eagle. “They have to throw a lot of consultants away and be themselves. I think it is one of the things that has helped me.”

After two months of embarrassment, the insiders—both media and political—are finally starting to understand that Trump is on to something. It took three New York Times reporters to produce a front-pager yesterday with the headline "Why Donald Trump Won't Fold"--which was obvious to some of us right from the start:

"The breadth of Mr. Trump’s coalition is surprising at a time of religious, ideological and geographic divisions in the Republican Party. It suggests he has the potential to outdo the flash-in-the-pan candidacies that roiled the last few Republican nominating contests."

Journalists are having to “Deal With It,” as Time’s cover says. That doesn’t mean The Donald can defy gravity forever, but he has exposed the insiders as living in a highly insular bubble.

Apparently the biggest Republican donors-- the billionaires-- are ignoring Trump, certain that he will not be the nominee. My suspicion is that unless Trump runs the table, some victories for Jeb could mean a brokered convention, with the fix in for Jeb.

On the other hand, the MSM has had it all wrong, the "pundits" have had it all wrong, the RINOs are clueless, so why not the billionaire donors as well? They are all together at the court of Louis XV1, in their silks and brocades, sipping champagne and trading bon mots while we, the roiling masses, sharpen our knives, hammer together gallows, and cheer Trump's name.

http://nypost.com/2015/08/23/r...ald-trump-seriously/

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by lbj:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I gotta edit the subject line of this thread.

It's so easy to spot the term "ass clown" among the other topics.
I like the title.

Every morning when I check in, I am looking for the "ass clown" topic.

"The assclown-a title stays like-a before!"

And the cat (pictures) can stay

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Originally posted by justjoe:
Apparently the biggest Republican donors-- the billionaires-- are ignoring Trump, certain that he will not be the nominee. My suspicion is that unless Trump runs the table, some victories for Jeb could mean a brokered convention, with the fix in for Jeb.


http://nypost.com/2015/08/23/r...ald-trump-seriously/

That goes along with the WSJ quote I posted. I looked at the Real Clear polls yesterday and Bush is back to second place. Who are they calling? I haven't heard one person online or in real life say they support him.

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I looked at the Real Clear polls yesterday and Bush is back to second place. Who are they calling? I haven't heard one person online or in real life say they support him.

Yep. Trump +11.3
But Cruz and Carson have been on the rise.

http://www.realclearpolitics.c...nomination-3823.html

Bush sees it as a war of attrition. He has the financial backing to stay in until the end.

chellim1,

Good point! I don't know who they are calling....I suppose some damn fools if they are finding Bush supporters.

We can do soooo much better than Jeb. I would never vote for that turd. Seriously. If that is the best the GOP can do then they absolutely diserve to lose the election.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:


On the other hand, Scott Walker told CNBC’s John Harwood that he doesn’t have a position on birthright citizenship. Or is it that the candidate who described himself in the same interview as “unintimidated” doesn’t want to say?

Thank you very much for posting this article.

I found the Walker statement very interesting and a bit disappointing...

I think this says a lot about Walker and was not something I was expecting to hear.

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I don't know who they are calling....I suppose some damn fools if they are finding Bush supporters.

Bush has name recognition.
It doesn't matter much to those of us who are paying close attention to the candidates and what they say.... but for the casual low-info voter answering a poll.... they will pick out a name they have heard.

At this point... these polls mean very little, other than you don't want to be at the bottom with Christie Perry Santorum Jindal Graham

So, what we see is business as usual. Candidates choose their words so as to not offend anyone, or to offend as small a group as possible. That's why we get all this weasel worlds, namby-pamby, waffling horse shit from these guys. They couldn't care less about us. All they care about is getting elected.

And now we have Trump come along, no speechwriters, no weasel words, and just lays it all out in unvarnished language and whadda ya know, he's the leader of the pack.

You know what? I think Trump is our only hope. There's not one ounce of moral courage coming from Scott Walker, and most of the rest of them as well. Ted Cruz is the only one who seems to come even close to the candor exhibited by Trump.

Just look at all the lies the Republicans in Congress told us, about what they were going to do after the elections last fall. Lying, self-serving motherfuckers. I have had it with you crooks.