05-08-2016, 12:49 AM
(05-07-2016, 07:11 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(05-07-2016, 06:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 1. We liberals are trying to understand his strengths.
I'm not sure liberals can understand his strengths. I fully expect him to unsystimatically thrash Shillary just like he did with Jeb and Cruz. Mostly because he's not playing by the playbook.
Appealing to anger and ignorance, but only those of white people? Just look at his abysmal approval ratings.
Quote:2. Donald Trump is getting hit hard in the political arena. The negative ads practically write themselves.
Cruz flooded PA, IN and several other states with negative ads against Daddy. He won both by huge margins. If there was real dirt on him he'd have been smeared by now. The Establishment GOP hates him as much as you guys do.
Primaries and the general election work under very different rules.
Quote:3. Donald Trump has gotten sleazy endorsements, and he has been slow to reject them.
So what? At least he doesn't need to buy a nascar jacket to show everyone what corporations have bought him. A pitty that isn't a requirement. You know what...Keep Citizens United, constitutional amendment Politicians must display the logos of the corporations that are sponsoring them for truth in advertising. Can't wait to see Shillary with her Goldman Sachs jacket.
So who gets to sport "Peabody Coal", associated with the coal gangster Don Blankenship?
Quote:4. There are far too many low-information voters for my comfort. They elected Dubya twice.
And here I thought Democrats were for the "common man". The irony would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
It's also a declining constituency.
Quote:5. As the states that Donald Trump needs for election drift away from him, we liberals are going to quit punching him.
Ohio is baked in as is PA. He's got the south, and the #Nevertrump people and the Mormons will tow the line or they will find themselves in the hostile camp. Shillary will never be president. No one who has lost their party's nomination to someone other than an incumbent president has ever later become president. That is a hard truth for you to swallow but she'll get safe blue states but he's going to pick up the purple ones.
Face it. Because we have never had a female President we will never have one. We never elected a handicapped President before FDR, so he had no chance of being elected. Just like we were never going to have a Catholic President until JFK was elected. Or like we had absolutely no chance to ever elect someone black.
Some rules are relevant; some aren't. We have never had a President born in the Mountain Time Zone; we have never had a President born in Michigan; we have never elected a non-Christian President; we have never elected a Hispanic, Asian-American, Polish-American, Scandinavian-American, or Italian-American President. James Buchanan was so awful that we will never vote for a President from Pennsylvania again.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.