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New Hillary Ad Proves Trump Is Indeed a Unifier
Alas, it is all too true.
Someone should make every delegate to the Republican convention watch this ad. It is not too late for the delegates to rebel and put a stop to this nonsense.
The bright spot of that ad is that it shows the depth of GOP resistance and disgust for Trump. At least it sets a marker down that in very important ways, Trump doesn’t represent the Republican party. Not that the GOP can recover from this, but at least a large portion of the party can reboot the conservative movement and disavow ownership of Trump.
I can picture this playing on a high def jumbotron inside the convention in Cleveland.
That’s establishment talk, trying to subvert the largest plurality which supports trump with elitist back room dealing. I am sure the “working class” will be most displeased with such an event and feel all the more alienated by the globalists for it.
But ultimately this season saw a significant section of the Republican Party play with fire. They tried to use rabble rousing populism to their benefit and this resulted not in turning Republicans in droves to their faction within the party but in attracting the disaffected leftists and center leftists from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
Now the Republican Party will have to deal with the Democrats painting a caricature of the entire Republican Party based off of real life events involving the presumptive nominee. People ought to learn to be careful what they wish for. They generally get it.
He does represent the Republican party. That’s why he won the nomination.
Sure. Because the will of the people should be disregarded whenever it becomes inconvenient to the Know Betters. How very Democratic Party of you, Mr Rahe. How very monarchist.
Eric Hines
A bunch of career politicians insulting Donald Trump? Oh yeah, devastating. Sure.
This is true only if all the Republican politicians in the ad don’t turn around and support Trump.
It is devastating because, for once in their lives, those career politicians are telling the truth.
Eds,
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME POPCORN!
I’m still laughing. We are just going to learn how to take a joke. Wait till our side starts on Hillary. OH BOY!
Mike LaRoche there are cheerleaders on MFR’s post.
Sometimes it’s impossible to choose…
Regards,
Jim
It kind of just writes itself. Its not really even that brilliant of an ad.
So now we’re distributing Hillary ads?
Thanks, Jim! Cheerleaders always brighten my day.
Reckon so.
Better get used to it. It is going to be a very ugly campaign. And I continue to be a #Nevertrumper. If anything, today’s posts and comments have made me consider voting for Hillary.
So HRC is not just recycling arguments previously made against Trump, she is recycling exactly the same arguments previously made and by the same exact people.
I can only imagine she believes the general electorate has a far higher regard for the opinions of Romney, Bush, Fiorina, Rubio, Cruz etc. than voters who are actually members of the GOP. If this is the best that she has Trump may end up hugging himself on the march towards November 8th.
No, just the truth. This is the first time Democrats haven’t had to lie in order to smear the GOP’s candidate.
You know, don’t you, that the Trump delegates are getting death threats against their families if they don’t vote for Trump? Things like, “We know where you live. We know where your children go to school. Be a shame if something happened to them, wouldn’t it?” I simply can’t see enough people having enough courage to do anything unpredictable.
I do wonder how any of them will be able to bear to go to the convention. I would not be able to. What happens if they hold a convention and no one shows up?
Hillary Clinton is a career criminal, a murderess, a friend to America’s enemies, and a traitor to her country. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever vote for her.
#NeverHillary
Now THAT is an interesting idea! What if the convention does not get the delegates – if enough people abstain by staying away for the first ballot?
Trump and Hillary are both liars, but they’re both so awful they don’t need to lie about each other.
I agree completely. This madness needs to stop. Whatever it takes to deny Trump the nomination.
Main Feed PTB it’s over. Get over your butthurt.
It’s going to be Trump or Clinton, and you need to decide which you prefer.
We really don’t.
Let’s see:
Yep, that about covers it.
Hillary’s PAC should run this ad every night on Hannity.
Only if you lack a moral compass. There are lots and lots of other people who will appear on the ballot for other offices. Given the choice of Hillary or Donald, I will simply opt to leave that blank. I prefer neither. If that hurts your butt, it isn’t my problem.
I am in total agreement. Trump may have a plurality in the primaries, but he completely lacks a majority. The delegates at the convention represent the entire Republican party, not just Donald Trump. The majority of the party has made it clear that they do not want Trump. It seems to me that the purpose of the convention is to select a candidate that they, as the elected and selected representatives of the party, believe represents the best chance of winning the 2016 General Election.
And many of them did promise to (support the party’s nominee, whoever, or whatever). Brace yourselves for round two of this ad, Republicans: The Hypocrisy Files.
Or, if they don’t support Trump, brace yourselves for Republicans: The Liar Files.
Either way, most of the former candidates look bad. (I’m unilaterally giving Cruz a pass, whatever he does, because Trump’s treatment of him was so egregious and hateful).
And the presumptive nominee doesn’t look so great, either.