There are some rather silly analogies expressed here. One is comparing the Scottish situation to blighted neighborhoods. Hey, that was farm land. It was farm land when Trump cast his eye on it. Reminds me of the fools who move next to airports, and then moan about the noise. Farms have certain characteristics; airports have certain characteristics. Oh, and Trump has certain characteristics as well. You avoid the characteristics you don’t like; you don’t try to change their character.

I totally agree with you about the MSM and Trump.

Good for ratings.

Good for the Democrats.

It’s win-win for the MSM.

And I can’t believe how many people on the right are falling for it. I feel as though I’m watching a slow-motion tragedy unfold—and this time I blame the voters on the right.

I hope this feeling of dread is misplaced.

This year marks the beginning of twitter-campaigns — real time snark — all the time.

I can’t favor Trump for one reason — it’s my deal breaker — he’ll lose to the Democrat in November.

He doesn’t even figure to prevail in a brokered Republican convention.

He’s got just TOO much baggage.

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I’m convinced that the MSM LOVES Trump in the pole position.

The MSM HATES both Cruz and Rubio — and Carson — all three are WAY too Christian for those atheists.

The GOPe THINKS it can tolerate a corruptocrat — and with either Trump or Hillary the corruption will roll on.

Dole is plainly happy to see the GOP lose to Hillary… rather than see Cruz win. The latter is what terrifies him.

Cruz totally freaks them out. He’s more on target than even Rubio.

Rubio almost got rolled during the Gang of Eight fiasco.

As the first Latino President — Ted Cruz would pull more than a few Latino voters to his camp.

Whereas, the Mexican factions will pull out ALL the stops to derail Trump.

They are sure to be a VERY significant sector of the vote — and I just can’t imagine Trump NOT losing Florida and other southern states — all of which he’d need to have any chance in November.

My experience in Honolulu, Hawaii is that ethnic blocs vote en masse — and very steady, too.

It’s an identity vote. Policy, law, tradition — in the American sense — mean nothing.

Community leaders select their choice — and then the entire super clan votes as one.

So it’s extremely significant that Trump has no meaningful chance to attract Mexican or Latino support.

The MSM is running Trump up the flag pole strictly for laughs and giggles.

Then the guns will come out — and he’ll be shot up something terrible.

What we’re seeing is a concerted surge to stop limited government.

Bush, Christie — and the rest — are de facto sabotaging America’s best hope for getting back to first principles — before the Democrats Cloward Piven this nation into the ground.

Yes, the documentary itself is typical in that way, and I’m assuming the guy who made it has a basically leftist perspective.

Environmental groups fought what Trump did. Ironically, he used similar arguments against a later wind farm project that he thought would run the golf course’s view, and he sued.

At any rate, I wasn’t saying that the documentary itself would be something the opposition should use against Trump, although it would certainly work that way in the general for the Democrats, because of the environmental angle. I’m just talking about his insulting remarks about the people who wouldn’t sell to him. Those would be the things for his Republican opponents to highlight during the primaries.

Rubio has consistently done better than every single other Republican in all the polls in a hypothetical run against Clinton, and that’s been true for many months.

You may hate him (despite the fact that, except for immigration, he has been consistently conservative) anyway. But all the evidence points to him doing the best against Clinton and all the other Democrats who might run.

Yeah, I’m so elitist that I defended Sarah Palin over and over and over against those who actually were.

Also, my remark about populist demagoguery on the part of Trump was in response to your comment that he CHANGED the zeitgeist; I was pointing out that what he did was no change.

No, I detest Trump for quite a few reasons—and I’ve described most of them—and not a single one has to do with any sort of elitist preference. I do value things like integrity and honor in a human being, and as well as reason. If that’s “elitist” to you, so be it. And if you don’t know how to recognize a demagogue when you see one, I can’t help you with that.

My impression exactly. This is the typical work of those who favor Agenda 21. What you don’t see is that when the time is right, the enviros will kick the locals off the land because their desire is to see no human activities on “wild lands.” But they especially hate golf courses. They also hate farmers and ranchers, but not as much as golf course builders.

That’s not to say that the Donald didn’t make some asinine comments in his typical high school bully manner. That, IMO, is his Achilles heel, unless the emotions of voters can brush that off as not important. We’ll soon see. The voting starts Feb. 1st.

Note I started my statement with “construed”, the things they could use in a relatively honest oppo ad, like the videos you presented. However, this election is critical to get amnesty for illegals in the near future and they know it. Besides, they will fight dirty anyway because (I paraphrase):

“The left can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. You still don’t get it, do you? That’s what they do. That’s all they do! You can’t stop them! And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

I have only ONE requirement.

Which candidate will do the most to advance conservative ideas?

People used the same argument to elect Ahnold in CA – as they are using for Trump. He’s the guy who can win they say.

Look where that got CA. A lower percentage of people registered as Republicans and LESS people understanding what conservatism is about here. CA has the highest poverty rate and the lowest education and they’ll keep voting Democrat now because Ahnold never provided people with an articulation of conservatism.

Trump can’t articulate anything but name calling. And will he change as President? No. He will always be the crass non-articulating inarticulate person who can’t advance conservative ideas.

In the next debate you’ll see. His arguments are:
1) I’m up in the polls
2) People know it’s true – China/or whatever country is beating us

When will he EVER or when has he EVER advanced a conservative thought?