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I don't ever recall HW being called a xenophobic, bigoted, ignorant, petulant moron. Pretty sure those are fairly new to Trump, though ignorant and moron were certainly lobbed about regarding Palin.
I agree with all of this. And you're especially right, IMO, about the boy who cried wolf part. When Democrats spend so many years implying that every prominent Republican is a racist, a bigot, and a misogynyst, nobody takes them seriously when the real thing comes along.
He was actually treated pretty well...that is a good example...but overall I would say that is not the norm...
I have no issues with guys like that...just like I don't with someone like Maddow on the liberal-side...they are on the entertainment side of things and they readily admit who they are...they do not pretend to be anything different...if you don't like them than switch the dial or channel...
Its probably stuff like the Dallas shooting that makes people feel the country is going down the crapper. Trump tapped into it in a way that Hillary may not be willing to go.
Your statement was "dems have disparaged anyone they deem a threat". The talk radio guys, everyone who eats up their tripe, and elected officials have disparaged dems for years including the Clintons, Reed, Pelosi, Obama. The list goes on and on. I mentioned talk radio because that only amplifies the disparagement.
The GOP is no stranger to taking it's shots as well...anyone who thinks either side is clean is delusional...but overall it feels like the shots taken at the GOP heavyweights are usually of the same ilk and this may have lost some of the effectiveness...
Yes and no...both sides do it...that is a certainty...but I believe the difference (and I am sure you will disagree) is the barbs being thrown at Trump are similar to many we have heard on other Republicans...it is somewhat boilerplate and due to that they may have some effectiveness (which I believe was what got this discussion going...not the overall name-calling from both sides)...
No, Trump is in his own category. And the barbs being thrown at him are coming from conservatives and liberals.
This is what they did to Mitt and her cowered . He , at that time was a good guy , was just unfairly smeared by the give me crowd and the do-gooder elites.
But see whether Trump hits back hard or not, he deserves to be called a racist and all the rest. Romney did not.
Sir, while I do not admire your pro-Trump schtick, I do at least admire its consistency.
Here's the whole thing. He does the whole "I'm not saying his dad killed JFK, I'm just pointing out that someone else said it" bit.
He was talking up the National Enquirer before that, saying how it doesn't get enough respect. No joke.
Politicians have been doing much smaller versions of this forever to get elected. He just decided F it, it can all be a lie it doesn't matter if it gets votes. He is crushing them at the game they invented. You don't want honest politicians? White lies don't matter? This is what you get.
This is what we get? We're not all in the same boat here, my friend. I'm not the one whose idea of raising standards of political discourse is spending two weeks calling people "Hildos" on an internet message board. This is your idea of acceptable politics, not mine.
Not if we don't want them to open. All we have to do is reject his unique brand of sleaze by not voting for him. We get to draw the line. It really is just that simple. And the larger the margin by which he loses, the stronger the rejection.
And last night that white haired idiot on CNN was actually comparing Trump to FDR.
I love that term for here at FBG HRC honks, just fits well. Yes, it is probably not the most adult thing but unfortunately that is me sometimes.
Reporter: Mr Trump, on <insert your issue>, you and David Duke both say...
"I don't know David Duke. I know nothing about him. He's endorsing me? Ok. Good. I know nothing."
They attacked Mitt with his words and his policies.
The funny thing is that there really aren't a lot of HRC "honks" around here. Tim probably fits the bill, although I suspect some of his work is trolling. But IMO the rest of us think she's merely passable and acceptable. We (or at least I) get fired up because a decent amount of the criticism of her is unfair or misleading or exaggerated, because the only other potential winner is November appears to be an unprecedented disaster, and because unfair/misleading/exaggerated criticism increases the chances of that disaster.
I would like to see some examples. I mean, sure there's some overlap here and there - Democrats questioned W's intelligence, though that was largely brushed aside. But the campaign against McCain was fairly clean, until he tapped Palin. Romney had the binders thing, but that was brief and mainly he was called out for being a Wall Street elitist looking to return to the same failed policies the led to the housing collapse. What exactly is so similar?
This should get more play, I think. Its REALLY ####### weird.
The attack on the binders comment was stupid.
He was ####ing horrifying last night. It was dystopian, authoritarian garbage, played to people's worst fears, and was also completely full of ####. Better?
Assuming by the timing of that post it's that Trump wants to #### his daughter.*
That's easy, Mitt Romney is more of a WS elitist. He actually worked in the financial industry. He built his entire fortune on the carried interest loop hole.
