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Brutal New Ads Preview the Trump Effect on GOP Senators
Conner Eldridge is a Arkansas Democrat trying to oust incumbent Republican Sen. John Boozman. He doesn’t waste time arguing right vs. left or Dem vs. GOP, but focuses solely on pro-Trump vs. #NeverTrump.
Brutal.
In another Republican stronghold, Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick hit long-time Arizona Sen. John McCain with a similar attack.
https://youtu.be/UFa0dNY3QtU
Goodbye suburban moms … and most suburban dads. A Trump nomination doesn’t just endanger the GOP’s once high hopes for the White House. With attacks like these (and far worse ones to follow), Democrats can take both houses of Congress as well, not to mention the Supreme Court.
Consider wisely, Indiana.
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There is a lot that is beyond understanding, if these were normal times. They are not. The Destroyer has been loosed amid sulfurous fumes, because he was beckoned.
There is no shortage of negative material to devalue Trump. The widespread use of it is entirely due to fear in the hearts and bank accounts of the beltway bandits and the feckless media.
Even Ann Coulter is now being attacked, as if she must be perfectly, linearly consistent in her views. She could change her views normally, citing reasons and possibly evidence, but not in the case of Trump support.
I’m starting to like the hysteria, in a perverse fashion. A lot less boring than Romney.
I haven’t seen the media rolling out a lot of negative material, especially Fox. They’ve given him a platform.
Unless you mean playing videos of what Trump actually says. Is that the negative media you’re referring to? Is playing back Trump’s words somehow wrong and out of bounds?
And where does this accusation of fear of Trump and hysteria about him come from? The establishment GOP prefers Trump to Cruz. Corker loved Trump’s foreign policy speech and Boehner is “texting buddies” with him. What the “GOPe” fear is principles, which is why many of them have no issue with Trump.
In the not so distant future, this will be considered mild when compared to what the Clinton Criminal syndicate will release on Trump. Aside from Trump’s tax records and real net worth his corrupt record isn’t even skillfully hidden from public view.
Trump is the most flawed and weakest candidate in the history of the Republic and to argue otherwise is fatuous delusion.
The left always goes negative on Republican candidates, it’s just that this time they don’t need to lie.
I listened to Larry Kudlow’s radio show over this past weekend. He and Steve Moore, now with Heritage, seem convinced that voters will vote for “change” in November, even if that “change” is Trump.
Voting for change is how we ended up with Obama.
I can understand being unhappy, but to the extent that this was fairly predictable, it doesn’t seem like that big a deal.
Trump fans don’t care. #NeverTrump is validated that Democrats would use Trump to after people down-ticket.
Of course, I’ve accepted what’s coming, so it’s easier to handle.
Trump or Hillary either way the MSM gets what it wants “news”.
I watched the first one.
I don’t think you can attack a Republican elected official for saying he will support the nominee. I think any Republican election official needs to publicly support the Republican nominee, even if it is Donald Trump.
If you can’t support the nominee, you should leave the party, but as long as you are part of the Republican Caucus, you need to support the nominee.
I’m just glad we’re finally get a little discussion about Howard Stern. I always loved Trump on the show- he was an excellent guest. Of course, Howard was going for laughs…
There’s a whole thread on it. But I see others have already responded better than I could.
First, Conner Eldridge is not running against Donald Trump. Senator Boozman will be able to make him run for the Arkansas Senate seat, not a mock second POTUS race. And all Senator Boozman said is that he’ll support his Party’s candidate. Duh. The good people of Arkansas are smarter than this completely emotional substance-free political gimmick.
And yet Trump won their primary.
Which only supports the likelihood that both he and Senator Boozman will win in November as well. #NotBrutal
We are in the same boat with a bunch of idiots. Time to bail and introduce a third independent candidate. Soon.
I agree those clips of Trumpisms are damaging, but won’t Trump be able to marshal all kinds of negative ads against the Hildabeast as well?
Do we now find coarseness and vulgarity are the equivalent of Clinton’s shuffling off any responsibility for having abandoned a US Ambassador and three other brave Americans to their deaths at the hands of our enemies in Libya? Or placing documents of the very highest national security classifications on a privately run server in the kitchen?
Have we lost all ability to make any critical distinctions?
I’m not impressed. A rich, ambitious democrat in a republican state. That’s all he has? A stale collection of mostly decades old clips I’ve seen hundreds of times since 2015. Only a #NeverTrump voter will care. If there are any in Arkansas.
The Arizona ad isn’t worth the money it took to make it. McCain still has the tire tracks on his back from Trump.
Based on the guy “we’ve” decided to put forward, I’d say yes.
If his crass vulgarity were the only issue and he was otherwise liberty minded, I’d be all in for the guy. But he is a big government authoritarian. He supports entitlement spending, raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, single payer healthcare, etc.
If we truly want liberty, “we’ve” badly miscalculated.
I agree with that guess.
In fact, I think that is what this election is all about. Out with the old, in with the new.
Democrats I’ve known believe that–vote them out! they say.
Which would explain the low level of enthusiasm for Clinton.
None of this is going to stick, but it was a good try.
During the American Civil War, when Grant took over the Army of the Potomac, he was faced with a bunch of nervous nellies who whined about what Lee was going to do to them in the field. Grant snapped back, ” Stop worrying what Bobby Lee is going to do to you and start making him worry what you are going to do to him!”
Perhaps if the GOP nomenklatura and its apparatchiks would grow a [set of generative organs] instead of huddling in a bombproof like Ledlie and Bledsoe, and wringing their hands about what Clinton is going to do to them, they might find she has a lot of exploitable vulnerabilities and that the situation isn’t as hopeless as they seem to think.
I’m sorry, you were saying?
I can’t remember. Are women a significant percentage of voters?
Haven’t you heard. trump is terrific with women, even if he doesn’t respect them…. Ergo this means nothing, the narrative must go on; facts will not stop it.
That’s because it doesn’t.
He burbled up from the black lagoon AKA tee vee land. This is why I never saw him coming. My husband and I don’t watch tee vee anymore and even when we did, we never once saw an episode of Trump TV or any other “reality” show. Also, we’d all but stopped watching FoxNews by summer of 2012, and apparently Trump has been a staple there for years. So we missed that critical period of branding, courtesy of “conservative” cable.
Americans love their tee vee, their NFL, their glamorous celebs and their political porn. Trump correctly assessed the state of the American mind and pounced on it. In retrospect, it seems so obvious. I suppose we should be grateful Charlie Sheen didn’t decide to do it first.
I keep saying, Trump is evidence that the movie Idiocracy was actually a documentary.
The sickening inevitability of Trump vs Clinton is really hard to fathom. Yet, we are simply not allowed to despair. We must learn fast and go on rebuilding the Conservative movement – now! We shall look into the future