is Trump trying to lose?
September 30th, 2016 at 5:25:51 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 |
Alpha males don't sleep. They're like The Terminator. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
September 30th, 2016 at 5:49:12 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
Reminds me of some good Chuck Norris jokes Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, Chuck Norris waits some more :-) When Chuck Norris jumps in the water, he doesn't get wet, The water gets Chuck Norris When the boogyman goes to sleep, He checks his closet for Chuck Norris Chuck Norris doesn't flush, he scares the shit out of it Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
September 30th, 2016 at 7:46:20 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I think it is going to go down in history as one of the most brilliant campaign maneuvers ever. Trump can't beat this one. It doesn't matter if it was a fair charge or not. If Trump attacks the Clinton marriage, they certainly are prepared for that one. The Clintons have a 5152 square foot single family home with 4 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms at 3067 Whitehaven St NW Washington, Washington, DC. (behind the New Zealand embassy) only 2 miles from the Whitehouse. Bill can stay there and entertain girls and be within easy hailing distance so she can trot him out for special events. I doubt he will sleep in the Whitehouse much. |
September 30th, 2016 at 9:16:31 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
I recognize that Bill & Hillary are very smart, competent, organized, and experienced at winning elections. But Bill & Hillary are also lucky. Bill was lucky that Ross Perot was in the 1992 race. Hillary is lucky that Trump is an erratic lunatic. |
October 1st, 2016 at 9:13:02 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 |
Is she lucky? Or is Bill smart? Report: Bill Clinton May Have Encouraged Donald Trump to Run for President
Much like Putin, it sounds like Bill Clinton knew how to pay Trump like a fiddle. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
October 11th, 2016 at 5:13:05 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 | Trump is threatening to go hard after Bill Clinton if more tapes are released WTF He is running against Hillary Amazing Does he really think threats against Bill Clinton will convince somebody not to release Old accusations are not news, its old and known New recordings of Trump. Previously unknown and people are interested, that's news. Old info is not news new info is news Trump doesn't seem to understand this. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
October 11th, 2016 at 5:35:40 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEWPwU6GoTg&feature=youtu.be Time of my life |
October 11th, 2016 at 7:03:22 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
The GOP establishment hates the Clintons. Part of it did nothing between Nov. 1992 and Nov. 2000 but try to undo the 1992 election. At some level, a substantial part of the establishment still wants to see the Clintons defeated. That may be what Trump is playing for. And if it were 1996, it might even work. Last I heard, though, it's not 1996 any more (citation needed).
I'm reminded of a scene in "Liar liar" where Jim Carrey objects in court, and the judge asks him on what grounds. He answers something like "Because it's devastating to my case!" This is exactly how Trump is coming across now. What he doesn't understand, is that he's confessing to having done or said terrible if unnamed things in the past. BTW, word leaked out that Clinton's strategy depended on having Trump be the GOP nominee. The date of this email, March of last year, seems a bit suspect, as Trump wasn't even the silly-season candidate then. But when the best happens and Trump loses badly, hopefully dragging down much of the GOP with him, he can blame it all on the Clintons. It's rare for a candidate who's lost a general election to run again for the presidency, but not unheard of (there was Cleveland, though with like three asterisks, and Nixon). I wouldn't be surprised if Trump runs again in 2020, should he still be alive then. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
October 11th, 2016 at 8:05:28 AM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
That article you linked to is from August of 2015-- we've known all along that the Clintons wanted Trump in this race. And yet no one told the right-wingers about this news from 2015! Last Friday in some emails hacked by Wikileaks, the right-wingers finally learned about this. Here's the headline on redstate.com: Leaked Emails Show That Trump Was A Tool Used By The Hillary Campaign From Day One Here's the headline on Erick Erickson's right-wing blog: New Wikileaks Revelation: Clinton Was Desperate For Trump They're pissed. And it's too bad that they got played by the Clintons, but this was already in the public domain. Time magazine, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Newsweek, MSNBC, and the Huffington Post had already disclosed this fact in the summer of 2015: 6 months before the first votes were cast! I know they don't trust the liberal media, but the liberal media gave them plenty of warning. Moreover, as the liberal media was warning the GOP primary voters that Trump was bad news, the conservative infotainment industry was defending Trump. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Fox & Friends all bent over backwards to excuse every Trump controversy of the last 18 months. If Trump's candidacy really was a Clinton conspiracy, it's shocking that Limbaugh & Fox News were so easily manipulated to go along with the conspiracy. Ann Coulter will sell some books, Rush Limbaugh will have higher ratings, and what will their audience have? A lost Senate, a lost Supreme Court, and Hillary Clinton in the White House. |
October 11th, 2016 at 3:51:28 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I think to refer to that as a "conspiracy" is stretching the meaning of the word. Every candidate has someone they would prefer to run against. Hillary has been called polarizing her entire career, and it's natural that she would want to run against someone who is equally polarizing. But when was the last candidate for a first term POTUS not been polarizing? I would venture to say that Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard Nixon slate of 1952 were the last first term presidential candidates that were not polarizing, losing only 9 southern states that at that time were almost institutionally Democratic. Second term runs are different. Several times the incumbent has lost in post WWII elections, but the term polarizing does not readily come to mind. Possibly LBJ might have been considered a polarizing candidate, but he dropped out quickly. |