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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
Glad to see Rubio really attacking Trump tonight. Really busted his chops on Trumps health care "plan".
As for flip flopping Donald on the Univision/Telemundo question starts off by saying "i dont believe a word they say", then pressed by the moderator says "i like them, theyre great people". What a phony, on plain display, how is he not imploding?
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Trump's primary appeal - of which he has A LOT,apparently - is that he is seen as a non-politician, someone who isn't milquetoast like most/all the other candidates. A lot of Trump supporters are disaffected Republicans/Libertarians who view Trump as nothing more or less than a wrecking ball on a divine mission to smash the GOP establishment machine into little insignificant bits.
Quite simply, a large number of the conservative, paleo-conservative, and libertarian-conservative GOP base feels betrayed by the Party, that the last several election cycles have proven that the Dead Elephants are no different, fundamentally, than the Donkeys across the aisle. They feel the party is run by shysters who have been playing the base for shmucks for a long time.
And so they have decided the GOP ought to go the way of the Whig party - into the dustbin of history. The TEA Party was the first rumblings of a grassroots rebellion against the status quo national biparty. When the TEA Party movement got co-opted by the shysters and establishment hacks, things started getting sporty. The treatment of Ron Paul and Tancredo and some others, the Party's illegal violation of their own rules in order to force Romney on the base, the underwhelming disappointment in Rand Paul's record and public cozying up to the establishment, the fact the Party has held both houses of Congress for quite some time now and hasn't done either Jack or Squat about an out-of-control Executive, but has instead given the 'opposition' pretty much everything he demanded, etc etc etc...
Quite simply, an awful LOT of people are disgusted at the GOP, have utterly given up any hope that the Elephant is going to do anything productive for America, and have decided to simply burn the house down and start over.
Trump represents American Anger, personified. Most people I know who are pushing Trump know full well he's a democrat, friends with the Clintons, a typical NYC big business slime ball, BUT they are just tired of the games. This is their Revenge play against a Party they feel has betrayed them and their core values.
Most of them also know full well Trump will likely lose to Hillary. And most of them also know that Hillary will be NO GOOD NEWS for America. This is the conservative-libertarian variation of 'burn, baby burn!' When people get fed up with being lied to and cheated by their own party, we ought not to be surprised if they just suddenly knock the table over and let the game pieces go flying.
Meanwhile, did you realise that Hillary is actually quite popular with mainstream Republican (wealthy) donors? Her policies are actually quite regular GOP. Watch the GOP begin to signal that Hillary would be better as POTUS than Trump.
The whole thing is a game, however. Trump is 'controlled opposition' meant to ensure Hillary's selection can be excused with plausible deniability ('Trump split the vote, just like Perot did...'). Trump is a political steam valve meant to provide pressure relief. He keeps people from literally grabbing the pitchforks and torches and storming the Bastille in DC.
Agendas behind agendas behind agendas within other agendas...
And behind all of it, is God, who apparently has decided America is not going to get away much longer with her continual flipping Him off.
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