I hate to agree with Palin, but I think this immigration pivot is a desperate Hail Mary heave from the back of his own end zone that is destined to be swatted down by a swarm of d-backs at midfield. If it has any effect at all, it strikes me as more likely to discourage his hard-core supporters and lead them to think all politicians are the same after all. Which then probably spurs them to just give up in disgust and stay home, helping Democrats downballot. [ETA: the problem is that both sides will see him as insincere and untrustworthy.]
A thought going around, which makes sense to me, is that this is a play for more moderate whites not for non-whites. Basically he’s trying to show he’s not a complete racist so you can still vote for him without feeling guilty. If it worked, the gains in traditional college educated GOP voters would more than offset any losses of rabid “deport them all” types. Clinton’s KKK ads are perfectly timed to blunt this attempted move by Trump.
Megyn Kelly has given up any pretense of being neutral in the Trump election. She criticizes Trump spokespeople at every turn. Even Fox News has gone anti-Trump. This clip is from Fox, and is even on the Fox Channel YouTube channel, labeled “‘Oh Good God’: Megyn Kelly Flips Out Over Donald Trump Relitigating So Many Controversies”
Megyn Kelly has given up any pretense of being neutral in the Trump election. She criticizes Trump spokespeople at every turn. Even Fox News has gone anti-Trump. This clip is from Fox, and is even on the Fox Channel YouTube channel, labeled “‘Oh Good God’: Megyn Kelly Flips Out Over Donald Trump Relitigating So Many Controversies”
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Not to disagree with you, but that clip was a month ago.
Megyn Kelly has given up any pretense of being neutral in the Trump election. She criticizes Trump spokespeople at every turn. Even Fox News has gone anti-Trump. This clip is from Fox, and is even on the Fox Channel YouTube channel, labeled “‘Oh Good God’: Megyn Kelly Flips Out Over Donald Trump Relitigating So Many Controversies”
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I just watched that clip, and I know political rallies are often raucous affairs, but watching the reactions and gestures and faces of the people behind Trump reminds me of the Jerry Springer show.
That whole rant of bullshit just sums up my opinion of the Republican party at this point.
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At the same time, he opens up the paper each morning and sees our nation’s leaders giving a hundred billion dollars to Iran,
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That we owed them
This claim is just absurd, I can’t imagine he’s even referencing a remotely real incident
The number of high-level Republicans (with knowledge of foreign affairs, defense and the economy) who are repudiating Trump is simply astonishing, and without precedent.
Do you not see the contradiction between your two consecutive posts?
Many high level Republicans are repudiating Trump even to the point of crossing over and voting for Clinton (of whom they have no love). It seems to me that a fair number of Republicans, including some who I disagree with strongly on many things, including some who I otherwise hold in little regard, are willing to go beyond mindless support of party.
Eric Trump’s claim that his father was upset over school districts that have banned the pledge of allegiance reminds me of an incident in which a Facebook friend of mine posted some right wing screed about schools banning the pledge because it offended people, and I asked for evidence that that had ever happened. I even looked online and in multiple news archives, and could never find a single incident of that having ever happened.
It was during a CNN interview about crime statistics. When confronted with the actual FACT that crime was trending down, Gingrich said that the facts were not important here. What was important was that people FELT that crime was increasing.
Therefore,he concluded, crime was increasing and this was a problem. Damn the facts - people’s feelings were more important.
The interviewer could just not handle this amount of stupidity and denial of facts.