Trump - Make America Great Again!

[Ron Burgundy]

Beck is a rabid Cruz supporter....I wouldn't believe anything that guy has to say

Beck is a paranoid type.

Beck's choo-choo went around the bend a while ago. I don't listen to him any more.

 

[Yinzerlyn]

Beck's choo-choo went around the bend a while ago. I don't listen to him any more.

Same. I think it started when he was diagnosed with the progressive blindness that he has....then his show got taken off Fox. That's when the trainwreck began.

 

[SteelChip]

Same. I think it started when he was diagnosed with the progressive blindness that he has....then his show got taken off Fox. That's when the trainwreck began.

I agree, he used to have some classic shows before Fox cut him loose and he went independent. I think he was the first to boil a frog on TV and have a direct telephone connection to the White House. I haven't seen him for awhile except for guest appearances, I guess his illness has had an major effect on him.

 

[Yinzerlyn]

I agree, he used to have some classic shows before Fox cut him loose and he went independent. I think he was the first to boil a frog on TV and have a direct telephone connection to the White House. I haven't seen him for awhile except for guest appearances, I guess his illness has had an major effect on him.

YES!!!!! The red phone to the White House!!!! I had forgotten that!!!!

 

[Coach]

The New York Post just endorsed Trump. A nice pick up.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ost-endorses-donald-trump-president/83065752/

 

[Spike]

The New York Post just endorsed Trump. A nice pick up.

New York Post Endorses Donald Trump for His 'Common-Sense Sensibilities'

Trump has electrified the public, drawing millions of new voters to the polls and inspiring people who’d given up on ever again having a candidate who’d fight for them.

A plain-talking entrepreneur with outer-borough, common-sense sensibilities.Trump is a do-er. As a businessman, he’s created jobs for thousands. And he’s proven how a private-sector, can-do approach can rip through government red tape and get things done

http://fortune.com/2016/04/15/new-york-post-trump-endorsement/


Battle of the tabloids! - New York Daily News, endorsed Kasich

Cruz gets.......nothing!

 

[Coach]

New York Post Endorses Donald Trump for His 'Common-Sense Sensibilities'

Trump has electrified the public, drawing millions of new voters to the polls and inspiring people who’d given up on ever again having a candidate who’d fight for them.

A plain-talking entrepreneur with outer-borough, common-sense sensibilities.Trump is a do-er. As a businessman, he’s created jobs for thousands. And he’s proven how a private-sector, can-do approach can rip through government red tape and get things done

http://fortune.com/2016/04/15/new-york-post-trump-endorsement/


Battle of the tabloids! - New York Daily News, endorsed Kasich

Cruz gets.......nothing!

Observation...most of the states Cruz won will vote Republican anyway. However Trump is far stronger in the North East, which tends to vote Democratic.

I think Trump is picking up momentum. I just wish he look a bit more Presidental and watch his mouth.

 

[Spike]

Trump's new professional campaign hires have kept him off the twitter rants and off the news shows for over a week


Trump's Campaign Adds Heavy Hitters

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...ers-attempt-lock-nomination/story?id=38405801

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Donald Trump's Op-Ed the Latest Sign of Changes to Campaign Approach

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-op-ed-latest-sign-campaign-approach/story?id=38426672

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The Wall Street Journal

By DONALD J. TRUMP


'Let Me Ask America a Question'

How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-me-ask-america-a-question-1460675882

 

[IndySteel]

Here's part of his op-ed.

Donald Trump attacks ‘voter-nullification scheme’
04/15/16 01:02 PM
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By Leigh Ann Caldwell
In an ongoing battle between Republican front-runner and the Republican Party establishment, Donald Trump penned a scathing opinion piece, writing that a “planned vote” in Colorado had been “canceled,” causing Republican voters to be “sidelined.”

The piece, published in the Wall Street Journal, is the latest move by Trump, who won zero delegates in Colorado after a series of local party conventions, to paint the process as tainted. The storyline also fits into his larger campaign message to voters who feel disaffected that the political, economic and social system is working against them.


THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, 4/14/16, 10:18 PM ET
Trump: 'We have a rigged system'

“In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system. ‘These are the rules,’ we were told over and over again,” Trump wrote. “Let me ask America a question: How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family?”

Under fire, the Republican National Committee shot back. Communications Director Sean Spicer released a memo that landed in reporters’ inboxes early Friday morning.

“And for decades, the grassroots-driven, democratic process has been transparent and effective,” Spicer wrote. “This cycle is no different.”
Spicer notes in the memo that each state develops its own process, which the party’s activists approved in October “with over 100 members of the media in attendance.”

Colorado joined Wyoming, North Dakota, the Virgin Islands and Guam in not holding an election or a caucus and instead used conventions, which are attended by the most ardent party activists, to choose the delegates.

Trump didn’t do the work. He had no presence in Colorado until the very end, while opponent Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, had organized supporters to vote for delegates who backed him.

RELATED: Cruz rejects Trump’s claims of ‘rigged’ delegate system

Since being swept in the state, Trump has criticized the system, calling it ”rigged” and a “total fix.”

In the battle for delegates, each one matters. Trump has the best shot of winning enough delegates by the end of the primaries to clinch the nomination, but he must win an impressive 60 percent of those remaining. Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are attempting to win enough delegates to keep Trump from gaining the necessary 1237 to win the nomination, making the convention a contested one.

In his opinion piece, Trump went on to tie Cruz to the establishment.

“The great irony of this campaign is that the ‘Washington cartel’ that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme,” he wrote. “My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.”

He added: “The political insiders have had their way for a long time. Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.”

If you are against Trump, then you are for the establishment and their corrupt politics as usual. The GOP establishment would rather vote for Hillary than Trump. That proves that they don't care about any republican platform, they just want to keep getting paid by lobbyists. Their security blanket is threatened and they're scared.

 

[deljzc]

Here's part of his op-ed.



If you are against Trump, then you are for the establishment and their corrupt politics as usual. The GOP establishment would rather vote for Hillary than Trump. That proves that they don't care about any republican platform, they just want to keep getting paid by lobbyists. Their security blanket is threatened and they're scared.

That's why half the people voting for Trump are sticking with him through thick and thin.

The more the establishment and media paint him to be the next coming of Hitler, the more reason there is to vote for him just to put all those real Hitlers in their place. The amount of hypocrisy coming from the liberal left, the media and the religious right about all the things "wrong" and "immoral" about Donald Trump makes my ******* skin crawl.

I haven't seen a bag full of corrupt, egocentric, warmongering, money hungry jackals in politics that currently run Washington like this in my lifetime.

They all need to go. Every last damn one of them.

 

[TDX27]

Trump looked very presidential in his speech last night and I am guessing he will do the same when he gives his policy speeches that are coming up soon. He just needs to stay off twitter. He twits too fast for his own good.

 

[Tibs]

Great read.

Trump’s Exit Strategy
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...should_he_lose_the_republican_nomination.html

Donald Trump is already plotting his escape should he lose the Republican nomination.

One of the reasons that so many incorrect political observers (including myself) assumed Donald Trump wouldn’t actually run for president was that he wouldn’t be able to cope with certain loss. Early last year when he was considering a run, he was registering nothing in the polls and his favorability ratings were comically poor among Republicans and the general population alike. Since he was going to lose everything, and by a lot, what would be his exit strategy from the race? Wouldn’t he have to quit by, say, December, after getting some good publicity but before real voting commenced, so he could lie about how he could have won the presidency but didn’t feel like it?

As I was saying: incorrect. Trump will almost certainly finish primary season with the most votes, states won, and delegates to his name. But he has not won anything since Arizona’s primary on March 22 and, in the meantime, he has lost the Wisconsin primary and has been outhustled on the ground by Sen. Ted Cruz in Colorado’s convention delegate hunt. His disorganization in selecting loyal convention delegates from the states he’s already won means he has little chance of winning the nomination if it extends beyond a first convention ballot, and winning on the first ballot will likely rest on his ability to woo some not-insignificant number of scattered unbound delegates to his corner. Though the next stretch of contests are favorable to Trump, the possibility that he does not become the nominee despite having the most votes, states won, and delegates to his name has emerged, setting up the likelihood of a lively Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

After all that, it returns us to that original question: How would Donald Trump cope with a loss, or as he might call it were anyone else in his shoes at this point, a “choking?” How would he spin such a convention defeat to prevent his brand and his legacy—because he has earned himself a sizable legacy in modern American political history, regardless of what happens next—from forever being associated not just with defeat, but with an inability to close out the greatest deal of his life?

This eventuality is what he seems to be planning for, consciously or subconsciously, if you read anything into his recent bromides against the “rigged” system of delegate selection, formalized Thursday in an extremely ghostwritten column for the Wall Street Journal. In it, he attacks the idiosyncratic Colorado delegate selection process. Republican insiders have treated this as nothing more than whining. The rules were put in place last year, they say; if he didn’t prepare, then he has no grounds on which to take issue. To his supporters, though, these complaints ring quite true. And they have a point. Why couldn’t Colorado have just held a primary instead of skipping straight to district and state conventions that allow in-the-know types to dominate? Was 34 delegates for Ted Cruz, however impressive a feat of organization, really the most accurate representation of Colorado Republicans’ political preferences?

Trump is cleverly trying to spin his apparent lack of organization into a virtue of his candidacy: that the rules are complicated by design to prevent an outsider from succeeding. “In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system,” the writer writing under the name of “Donald J. Trump” explains in the Journal. “ ‘These are the rules,’ we were told over and over again. If the ‘rules’ can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it.”

“Let me ask America a question,” the writer continues. “How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family?”

The column goes on to introduce a new campaign promise. If president, Trump will “work closely with the chairman of the Republican National Committee and top GOP officials to reform our election policies. Together, we will restore the faith—and the franchise—of the American people.” (Presumably there are few plans within either the Trump camp or RNC to cease real disenfranchisement efforts, but that’s another story.)

It’s useful to read this column and listen to the rest of his ravings about the flawed process as him articulating his contingency plan in the event of a loss. In such an event, he would argue that the party used every trick it could muster to stop him, the people’s choice, from winning the nomination. In this, he would be right and wrong. The party will have used every trick it had to stop him. But that he has gotten as far as he has demonstrates the dearth of tricks available to the party, since winner-take-all or winner-take-most rules frequently allowed him to turn his narrow pluralities into majority delegate pickups.

Trump may be denied the nomination, but that won’t stop him from saying he won it anyway. He will argue until his death that he actually is the rightful GOP nominee but that the RNC pulled some rules run-around on him to deny him his crown. Trump should be able to successfully spin that to his need, and his need is simply to avoid being labeled a choker every place he goes for the rest of his life. What it doesn’t mean, though, is that he would be a gracious loser in defeat (not that anyone is expecting this), or urge his supporters to move on and to back the eventual nominee. That would not help his brand, and the brand comes first.

 

[Spike]

Bernie is finished...keep smacking Hillary in the face for us though, good for some laughs


Now...Time for another installment of Babes For Trump!

 

[deljzc]

That first girl might be hispanic.... just saying....

 

[IndySteel]

That first girl might be hispanic.... just saying....

I want to see what she's doing with her hands.

 

[Troglodyte]

If you are against Trump, then you are for the establishment and their corrupt politics as usual. The GOP establishment would rather vote for Hillary than Trump.

Oh, please! Trump needs the establishment, it's the only way he has a chance. Why doesn't he just run 3rd party if his party is so corrupt?

 

[BAS]

Great read.

Trump’s Exit Strategy
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...should_he_lose_the_republican_nomination.html

Donald Trump is already plotting his escape should he lose the Republican nomination.

One of the reasons that so many incorrect political observers (including myself) assumed Donald Trump wouldn’t actually run for president was that he wouldn’t be able to cope with certain loss. Early last year when he was considering a run, he was registering nothing in the polls and his favorability ratings were comically poor among Republicans and the general population alike. Since he was going to lose everything, and by a lot, what would be his exit strategy from the race? Wouldn’t he have to quit by, say, December, after getting some good publicity but before real voting commenced, so he could lie about how he could have won the presidency but didn’t feel like it?

As I was saying: incorrect. Trump will almost certainly finish primary season with the most votes, states won, and delegates to his name. But he has not won anything since Arizona’s primary on March 22 and, in the meantime, he has lost the Wisconsin primary and has been outhustled on the ground by Sen. Ted Cruz in Colorado’s convention delegate hunt. His disorganization in selecting loyal convention delegates from the states he’s already won means he has little chance of winning the nomination if it extends beyond a first convention ballot, and winning on the first ballot will likely rest on his ability to woo some not-insignificant number of scattered unbound delegates to his corner. Though the next stretch of contests are favorable to Trump, the possibility that he does not become the nominee despite having the most votes, states won, and delegates to his name has emerged, setting up the likelihood of a lively Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

After all that, it returns us to that original question: How would Donald Trump cope with a loss, or as he might call it were anyone else in his shoes at this point, a “choking?” How would he spin such a convention defeat to prevent his brand and his legacy—because he has earned himself a sizable legacy in modern American political history, regardless of what happens next—from forever being associated not just with defeat, but with an inability to close out the greatest deal of his life?

This eventuality is what he seems to be planning for, consciously or subconsciously, if you read anything into his recent bromides against the “rigged” system of delegate selection, formalized Thursday in an extremely ghostwritten column for the Wall Street Journal. In it, he attacks the idiosyncratic Colorado delegate selection process. Republican insiders have treated this as nothing more than whining. The rules were put in place last year, they say; if he didn’t prepare, then he has no grounds on which to take issue. To his supporters, though, these complaints ring quite true. And they have a point. Why couldn’t Colorado have just held a primary instead of skipping straight to district and state conventions that allow in-the-know types to dominate? Was 34 delegates for Ted Cruz, however impressive a feat of organization, really the most accurate representation of Colorado Republicans’ political preferences?

Trump is cleverly trying to spin his apparent lack of organization into a virtue of his candidacy: that the rules are complicated by design to prevent an outsider from succeeding. “In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system,” the writer writing under the name of “Donald J. Trump” explains in the Journal. “ ‘These are the rules,’ we were told over and over again. If the ‘rules’ can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it.”

“Let me ask America a question,” the writer continues. “How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family?”

The column goes on to introduce a new campaign promise. If president, Trump will “work closely with the chairman of the Republican National Committee and top GOP officials to reform our election policies. Together, we will restore the faith—and the franchise—of the American people.” (Presumably there are few plans within either the Trump camp or RNC to cease real disenfranchisement efforts, but that’s another story.)

It’s useful to read this column and listen to the rest of his ravings about the flawed process as him articulating his contingency plan in the event of a loss. In such an event, he would argue that the party used every trick it could muster to stop him, the people’s choice, from winning the nomination. In this, he would be right and wrong. The party will have used every trick it had to stop him. But that he has gotten as far as he has demonstrates the dearth of tricks available to the party, since winner-take-all or winner-take-most rules frequently allowed him to turn his narrow pluralities into majority delegate pickups.

Trump may be denied the nomination, but that won’t stop him from saying he won it anyway. He will argue until his death that he actually is the rightful GOP nominee but that the RNC pulled some rules run-around on him to deny him his crown. Trump should be able to successfully spin that to his need, and his need is simply to avoid being labeled a choker every place he goes for the rest of his life. What it doesn’t mean, though, is that he would be a gracious loser in defeat (not that anyone is expecting this), or urge his supporters to move on and to back the eventual nominee. That would not help his brand, and the brand comes first.

You mean a great liberal read from a democratic leaning website.

 

[deljzc]

Oh, please! Trump needs the establishment, it's the only way he has a chance. Why doesn't he just run 3rd party if his party is so corrupt?

Because it's better to divide and conquer. First rule of war.

Trump is an independent. No doubt about it. He just hoodwinked the RNC into letting him eliminate them FIRST before he gets to tackle a democrat one-on-one. Brilliant plan if you ask me and the only way an independent would ever succeed.

Bernie Sanders is attempting to do the exact same thing on the other side. He's a ******* communist that convinced the democrats to let him run so he can divide and conquer. Fortunately he failed in his first battle. Trump did not.

 

[Spike]

 

[Coach]

Cruz looks to be 3rd place in 4 of the next 5 states. 400 more delegates for Trump would give him how many?

 

[Tibs]

Uh, oh.

#‎BREAKING‬: Ted Cruz swept Wyoming’s remaining 14 delegates at Saturday's state convention, shutting out Donald Trump.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/276575-cruz-sweeps-wyoming-delegates

Palin cancels pro-Trump speech in Wyoming
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-looks-for-another-western-victory-in-wyoming

Things appeared to crumble for Donald Trump's campaign at Wyoming's convention as surrogate Sarah Palin canceled her trip to stump for the candidate, and his organization failed to fill a full slate of 14 preferred delegates, only coming up with six.

 

[SCSteeler4life]

Uh, oh.

#‎BREAKING‬: Ted Cruz swept Wyoming’s remaining 14 delegates at Saturday's state convention, shutting out Donald Trump.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/276575-cruz-sweeps-wyoming-delegates

Palin cancels pro-Trump speech in Wyoming
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-looks-for-another-western-victory-in-wyoming

Things appeared to crumble for Donald Trump's campaign at Wyoming's convention as surrogate Sarah Palin canceled her trip to stump for the candidate, and his organization failed to fill a full slate of 14 preferred delegates, only coming up with six.

Oh no !! 14 delegates the sky is falling. Oh no wait NY is coming up.

 

[IndySteel]

Uh, oh.

#‎BREAKING‬: Ted Cruz swept Wyoming’s remaining 14 delegates at Saturday's state convention, shutting out Donald Trump.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/276575-cruz-sweeps-wyoming-delegates

Palin cancels pro-Trump speech in Wyoming
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-looks-for-another-western-victory-in-wyoming

Things appeared to crumble for Donald Trump's campaign at Wyoming's convention as surrogate Sarah Palin canceled her trip to stump for the candidate, and his organization failed to fill a full slate of 14 preferred delegates, only coming up with six.

SMH... Every time you post I think that your mom should have swallowed you.

 

[Tibs]

SMH... Every time you post I think that your mom should have swallowed you.

Every time you post I think of how completely void you are of a single original idea or thought. Your posts regularly put me to sleep, really. They are lullabies of the mundane.

 

[Spike]

ha ha