How many people here think Trump will get the GOP nomination?

[Spectrum]

There was a time when I thought he would fade. I've always thought he would splinter the GOP but come in #3 behind Rubio or Cruz. Then I figured he would just run as an independent and destroy the GOP and hand the Presidency to a Clinton just like Perot did.

But reading commentary online clearly indicates that it's bigger than just the low-info voters. That whole "make america great" again shit is really "make america white" again white people are really lapping that shit up. They like Trump because he's an overt bigot. He says all the shit they're thinking but only politicians won't say. I'm not so sure this muthafucka won't win the GOP nomination.

 

[thismybgolname]

After he made fun of a pow and a handicapped person I accepted the fact that he got the GOP nomination.

 

[ron_mexico]

Dude is basically running on the Nazi platform....so yeah, he got the nomination locked.

 

[doe moe]

I think he will get the nom but will NOT be elected.

He hasn't faced the big boys yet, he still performing his circus act. Y'all saw how they tore Palin a new one. She had crackers out in droves at her rallies just like the Donald. She was talking all that "Don't retreat, reload" bullshit. Crackers ate that shit up like flies on shit.

However when the primaries started and those tough policy questions began that bitch folded like a deck of cards. I expect the same side show from the Donald.

 

[alexw]

yeah man he is actually getting stronger

 

[Spectrum]

I think he will get the nom but will NOT be elected.

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I can't imagine him winning the general election.. the dems have to be excited about this. They'll never get an easier opponent to beat in the GE....but the simple fact that Donald Trump has a legitimate shot is ridiculous in itself.

 

[Coldchi]

If he gets the nomination and there happens to be a terrorist attack before we go to the polls......he will win by instilling fear

 

[BDR]

Gov George Wallace..

 

[doe moe]

Gov George Wallace..

You hit this one out the ball park Big Brother! DAMN good reference!

 

[darth frosty]

I really thought Jeb would ride in playing the role of sane statesman, compared to Trumps theatrics and win the nomination (that and jeb got a helluva linage behind him.)

Ironically this is turning out more like the 1980 primaries.

 

[BDR]

You hit this one out the ball park Big Brother! DAMN good reference!

Segregation yesterday, Segregation now, Segregation forever..

Mofos thought he was bullshitting

 

[thismybgolname]

I think he will get the nom but will NOT be elected.

Don't know about that one, Hillary has a tendency to miss layups.

 

[doe moe]

Don't know about that one, Hillary has a tendency to miss layups.

 

[water]

I'll be happy if he wins.

Black people sleeping too long

We have been chosen to save this country but he wouldn't step up.

 

[D-TOWN REP]

I'll be happy if he wins.

Black people sleeping too long

We have been chosen to save this country but he wouldn't step up.

Right and I bet if Trump is elected he will be all about the white folks

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Right and I bet if Trump is elected he will be all about the white folks

should he win ill call up H Funk to ask if he knows of any apartments for rent here

 

[D'Evils]

yeah man he is actually getting stronger

 

[BDR]

The rebellion ends here

 

[Dr. Truth]

I told yall he would but everyone was like not possible, he'll fade. Nope. He can say anything at this point. The racists have come out to support in droves. In the slim crazy chance he became president a Mexican would assassinate him.

 

[Mr. Bizkits]

Trump is going to win by a landslide, I can't wait for the general election between Trump and Clinton

 

[cashwhisperer]

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2016/winner

 

[cnc]

I think yes.

As SOON as Cruz or Rubio makes gains he's going to run the issue of their (VERIFIED) places of birth into overdrive; how Cruz held dual Canadian/American citizenship until recently and only recently denounced Canada as his home; how Rubio's parents a) weren't US citizens when he was born and how it's documented they went back to Cuba after Castro was in power (which of course means they were Communist); yeah, only HE can fuck this up for himself.

 

[gene cisco]

He should get it no problem.

Say what you want about the guy, but his marketing is second to none. Like I said in the other thread, he knows the majority of Americans distrust Muslims. He's hip to the anti-Muslim rhetoric that helped get 80 percent of Americans in favor of the Iraq war. He'll play that shit until the wheels fall off. He probably prays daily for another attack on the west. A recent poll showed that 30 percent of republicans and 20 percent of democrats were for bombing Alladin's make-believe home.

Obama and 90s Bill would destroy trump. They are rockstars. Bigger than politics. Hillary isn't. Sanders isn't. How far back do we have to go to find a Democratic president who wasn't bigger than the office itself? Why didn't Kerry beat Bush in 2004? If Americans had some fucking sense, it would have been a landslide, right? But Kerry wasn't a rockstar.

Trump is treating this election like the popularity contest that it is. Let's face it, at least 50 percent of the voters going to the polls don't know shit about politics. That's on both sides.

 

[EPDC]

He's going to crash and burn. Kasich/Rubio/Cruz will get the nomination.

 

[Coyote]

I am literally praying that he gets the nomination.
Before you lose your collective minds, hear me out.

Anyone who believes that it is important to prevent a republican presidency, and thereby republican control over the entire federal government (since they already control both houses of congress and the supreme court), should be doing everything possible to make Donald Trump the republican nominee. Trump's George Wallace style race-baiting, his xenophobia, his ignorant fact-less theories, and his general aggressive in-your-face a@#hole-ism appeals to a certain percentage of the republican base. They are the racists and low-information voters who are angry that the country is leaving them behind, and that their politicians are not somehow stopping it. Trump says the things that they think and sometimes say in private, but can not say in public, for fear of retribution, and they love him for it. Fortunately for the USA, and possibly for the human race, they are only a minority of the American voters.

Based on my conversations with people (both in person and online) the rest of the people, who do not fall into this subset of the republican base, feel very differently about Trump. They see him as a racist, a blowhard, and an all around a-hole, who does not have a single well thought out idea in his head. Their feelings for him range from general dislike to outright loathing (depending on whether he has personally offended them), and they are horrified at the prospect of such a disgusting excuse for a human being becoming president. In short, so many people already know that Trump is such a despicable person, that a Trump candidacy will almost guarantee victory for the democratic candidate.

But, just as importantly, a Trump candidacy could help the democratic party take back control of one or both houses of congress. If the republican party is forced to stand behind Trump and support him as their national candidate, then republicans will be associated with all the racist, ignorant, or just plain horrible things Trump says. His words remind people what many republicans actually believe (and what underlies many of their policy positions). And, as a republican, just by being associated with someone who is disliked as much as Trump is, could swing undecided voters to vote against the republicans. This is why many current republican office holders, who are up for reelection in 2016, are terrified of a Trump candidacy.

 

[Problematic]

yeah man he is actually getting stronger

 

[LSN]

told y'all he ain't going nowhere...there might be a strong enough contingent of cacs who wanna "make up for Obama"

 

[Dirtylakerie]

Don't know about that one, Hillary has a tendency to miss layups.

thats why the DNC is trying to rig the system in her favor. But I believe that shit is going to back fire on her and the DNC. In more ways than one.

 

[Art Vandelay]

I put money on Trump winning the nomination three months ago.

I still think he will be the nominee. He should be-- the only question is his organizational strength. It's his for the taking.

Could be Cruz. Rubio is the only candidate who could win a general election but he has little grassroots support and no organization. (If his name was Bush, he'd be the nominee.)

Trump cannot win a general election. He'll get schlonged. EXCEPT... America could shit the bed after a terrorist attack and make a decision out of fear it wouldn't make otherwise. Sad that people give terrorists so much power but Trump is a master at appealing to fear, hatred and isolationist instincts-- Terrorists could deliberately put him into office if they wanted. A terrorist attack could put him in office unintentionally, as well. It's unlikely but that's the only circumstance where I see America being so irrational as to put him into office.

 

[Art Vandelay]

If he gets the nomination and there happens to be a terrorist attack before we go to the polls......he will win by instilling fear

I wouldn't say he WILL win-- the majority of Americans did not support his Muslim ban hysterics after the Paris attack. In fact, not even a majority of Republicans did, just a plurality. Keep in mind Trump is dominating a field of more than a dozen candidates.

Clinton is so much more knowledgeable than Trump that a terrorist attack could easily cause voters to support her who wouldn't otherwise. I think it's just about Trump's only chance but he could blow it.

 

[MonkeyBizness]

He's getting the nomination. If he hasn't faded after all the fuckery he has said up to this point, what makes you think he'll fade now? Cruz and Rubio split the remaining Repubs. Shit, I bet Christie comes in 4th with Carson 5th.

The chief Repub backers are losing their minds over Trump because they know once shit gets real vs Hillary, there is no way in the galaxy he will be elected president. His whole platform has way too many holes in it. Trump is benefiting from a crowded field, so he can get over by giving the best sound bites. If there were only 4 candidates for the Repub nomination, all of his policies would have been shredded.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Gov George Wallace..

WEDNESDAY, JAN 6, 2016
Maddow demolishes Donald Trump with horrifying side-by-side comparison to segregationist George Wallace
"Close your eyes and listen to reports from the '68 election — it's almost like they're talking about Trump"
SCOTT ERIC KAUFMAN

On “The Rachel Maddow Show” Tuesday evening, host Rachel Maddow played clips from the 1968 presidential campaign of George Wallace, the pro-segregation Alabama populist, and asked her viewers to “close [their] eyes and just listen to the news reports from that election — it’s almost like they’re talking about Donald Trump.”

She played coverage of Wallace’s failed run, all of which could be seamlessly edited into stories about Trump’s campaign stops — the anger of his supporters, their distaste for the political climate, and their attraction to the blunt, confrontational style of their candidate.

Maddow played clips of protesters being hauled out of Wallace events, and noted the similarity to what has occurred at multiple Trump events, including the candidate and crowd’s reaction. “You know what you are,” Wallace says in a clip from 1968, “you’re a little punk. You haven’t got any guts, you’ve got too much hair on your head.”

She juxtaposed that with Trump telling his protesters that they’re “a bunch of losers, I’ll tell you. You really are a loser. Now, get him out.” Maddow also noted that this isn’t the first time this Trump’s popularity threatened to turn into a populist movement.

“Donald Trump has something that Republican voters like. They liked it the last time that he offered it to them for a short period of time [in 2012],” she argued.

“And now they like it this time, as well — it’s the same type of significant popularity. It just hasn’t gone away this time around because he hasn’t stopped running this time around like he did in 2012.”

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[gene cisco]

I put money on Trump winning the nomination three months ago.

I still think he will be the nominee. He should be-- the only question is his organizational strength. It's his for the taking.

Could be Cruz. Rubio is the only candidate who could win a general election but he has little grassroots support and no organization. (If his name was Bush, he'd be the nominee.)

Trump cannot win a general election. He'll get schlonged. EXCEPT... America could shit the bed after a terrorist attack and make a decision out of fear it wouldn't make otherwise. Sad that people give terrorists so much power but Trump is a master at appealing to fear, hatred and isolationist instincts-- Terrorists could deliberately put him into office if they wanted. A terrorist attack could put him in office unintentionally, as well. It's unlikely but that's the only circumstance where I see America being so irrational as to put him into office.

That's the thing man. He will use every fucking thing they do to incite the fear he knows American people have. The shit is a genius gamble. As he talks, he pisses off some 'lone wolves' who don't think shit through. They act. Bodies drop. He wins.

If 100-500 people die in an attack, he's about the only one who could say " I told you so" and that shit would carry a lot of weight. Democrats would scurry like bitches like they did in 2001 when they caved to anything Republicans wanted. Funny how Hillary caved too.

 

[D'Evils]

Who he picks as a VP will be real telling.

 

[Mello Mello]

Idk. I think he's doing his job in galvanizing the GOP base. He's got the white is right crowd to the GOP side. I think someone more serious will get the nom though.

But just the fact he has even made it this far as a candidate shows what a mockery our political process is being made into.

It's like saying anybody can be president now because we had a black president. Like nothing can be worse than having a black president so why not a bigot like Trump run for office.