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Donald Trump says he and Ted Cruz are planning a protest in D.C. over the Iran nuke deal

TED CRUZ Invites DONALD TRUMP to Speak at Anti-Iran Rally at US Capitol

Sen. Ted Cruz has invited fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at a rally against the Iran nuclear agreement in Washington, according to the senator’s campaign.

The rally will be held at the Capitol and sponsored by Tea Party Patriots, Center for Security Policy, and the Zionist Organization of America, according to the campaign. The date, time and exact location haven’t been finalized.

Trump told reporters in South Carolina on Thursday afternoon that he and Cruz were planning an event protesting the deal in Washington.

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/ted-cruz-invites-donald-trump-to-speak-at-anti-iran-deal-rally-at-capitol.html/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHZ_e0bOAao

It seems that was a mistake, according to the global middlemen union federation....

You mean Trump decided to vertically integrate and consolidate operations, and be his own donor?

Cut out the middlemen?

When the temperature of a political campaign turns up, one of the hardest traits for a candidate to preserve is patience.

At even the most marginal signs of turbulence, the pressure to react, recalibrate or reverse is enormous. It flows from a steady trickle of public polling, from a relentless swarm of media, from self-important donors and even from anxiety-ridden advisers within the operation. And it can lead to grave miscalculation.

Nothing has tested the fortitude of the cavalcade of 2016 presidential aspirants like the emergence of Donald Trump, who has defied political science by advancing a polling lead in the Republican primary for seven straight weeks now.

Rival campaigns cling firmly to the notion that the bile and bombast will lose its charm and that his candidacy will eventually dissolve into a messy cloud of dust. But even if that turns out to be true, the intervening impact of his candidacy on the rest of the contenders is already visible.

Trump has not only ridden over his competitors, he's more importantly rattled their psyches. After initially shrugging him off as a flash-in-the-pan celebrity candidate, a handful of rivals decided to counter the real estate mogul with their own show of strength. Yet attempting to out-Trump The Donald at his own game of impulsive verbal warfare has proved to be ineffective and even damaging. Trump laid the bait, and many fell into his trap.

"It's difficult to go head to head with Trump in an exchange of statements or tweets and come out the victor. In the best-case scenario, you come out a draw," says John Sides, author of "The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election."

After a month of trying to fight fire with fire, many Republican operatives tied to the campaigns are now urging calm and restraint. It's easy to read too much into the early score right now, but most of the game has yet to be played, they warn. Candidates who keep trained on their core message and resist becoming a supporting actor in the Trump show may be better off in the long run.

"At this point, ignore him and stay the course," says Mike Dennehy, a New Hampshire adviser to former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. "I am a firm believer that you try to run positive until it's absolutely necessary to contrast. And with such a large field, the contrast or attack will likely help another candidate rather than your own."

His guidance is particularly prescient given the experience of Perry, who dedicated an entire speech in Washington to lambasting Trump as a cancer on the party on July 22. Since then, Perry's fundraising has dried up, forcing his campaign team to work without pay, and his polling numbers have shriveled.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who took a gamble going at Trump for failing to rule out a third-party run at the outset of the first debate, has also seen his position in the race depreciate to single digits. Asked about his sliding numbers on a conference call this week, Paul noted, "All these questions can go to the other candidates as well. The polls are a very temporary temperature."

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the most dogged Trump critics who told CNN Tuesday he'd "beat [Trump's] brains out" in the Palmetto State, registered 0 percent in the last two national polls of the primary and just 4 percent in his home state. Before Trump was in the race, Graham polled in the double digits there.

"One of the great honors is that everyone who attacks me seems to go down," Trump boasted gleefully last week.

But even those who have been more careful about poking Trump have fallen victim in other ways, like emulation.

As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made his way through the Iowa State Fair, he was pelted with questions about Trump's plan to scrap birthright citizenship. After first appearing to embrace the idea, he later said he wasn't taking a position either way. Then, he finally said he was against amending the Constitution to get rid of birthright citizenship.

It was a clumsy string of answers by a candidate who has already shown a proclivity for changing positions due to political pressure. While a Walker aide would not concede Trump was the reason for the scattered responses, some Republicans fear the governor's lurching will ultimately make him less palatable to mainstream GOPers down the road.

"The most important thing for Team Walker is to stay with our game plan," says David Polyansky, Walker's Iowa strategist.

But to much of the rest of the political world, it looked as if the heat of the Trump show had gotten to Walker.

One political hand unaligned with a candidate deemed Walker's flailing as "an overreaction to his little slump."

"There's an example of someone being pulled in different directions trying to play Trump's game," says a consultant working for Jeb Bush, who requested anonymity to avoid publicly criticizing another candidate.

Bush, who once promised not to attack his fellow Republican rivals, has decided to ramp up his responses to Trump, predominantly on policy issues. But the answers that have provided the most ammunition for Democrats have stemmed from issues first raised by Trump, including immigration.

Bush followed Trump in invoking "anchor babies" – a disparaging term that describes children born to immigrants in the country illegally. While the former Florida governor appeared uncomfortable using the phrase – "Do you have a better term?" he sniped at reporters in New Hampshire – he doubled down on it in defiance of political correctness. Days later, in a move that displayed his weariness with the entire episode, he clarified that his use of "anchor babies" referred mostly to "Asian people coming into our country."

That only caused the ire of more immigrant groups.

Hillary Clinton's campaign produced a video splicing Bush's and Trump's comments together with a final clip of Clinton declaring with delight that "most of the other candidates are just Trump without the pizazz or the hair."

Bush's team believes they are engaging Trump on their own terms, while remaining consistent on substance. But there's a thin line between responding and becoming a pawn for Trump.

"You contrast with Trump on issues and substance, of which he has little. And, you don't allow the media or Trump himself to make you a contestant in his game show," says Jamie Burnett, a political consultant and Bush backer in New Hampshire.

At the moment, Bush isn't competing for the same lot of anti-establishment voters gravitating toward Trump. As other candidates begin to fade and drop out this fall, the Bush team sees itself well-positioned to be still standing against him.

"Emotion is a losing battle and certainly at some point, policy and ability to deliver on your vision for the country is going to be an important consideration for voters in South Carolina," says Jim Dyke, a Bush adviser in South Carolina.

When the race settles down and begins to gel, the operating thinking is that Republican voters will also begin seriously weighing electability, which will begin to lead to Trump's demise.

But in the meantime, his power to weaken a foe can be advantageous.

Maybe that's why the top adviser to Bush's super PAC is attempting to goad Ohio Gov. John Kasich into responding to Trump.

Last weekend in The Columbus Dispatch, Bush ally Mike Murphy of Right to Rise said while Bush is demonstrating leadership by taking on Trump, Kasich "takes the 5th" and "seems to be afraid to draw any distinction."

Kasich has steered clear so far, only thanking Trump for drawing 24 million viewers to the first debate. It looks like it's been a smart move. He's now overtaken Bush in New Hampshire, vaulting into second place.

There are still five long months until voting – an eternity for narratives, events and polls to shift and shift again. If Trump is still soaring into October, a more aggressive approach may be warranted.

"If any candidate has a disagreement with him on policy, it seems like it might be smart to point that out. Whether it's a winning battle is yet to be seen, but historically differences in policy have been motivating to people one way or another," Dyke says.

Trump is an unprecedented candidate, but history is all anyone has to go on.

Remember Howard Dean? The hard-charging, gate-storming 2004 insurgent for the Democratic Party nomination didn't crash and burn until the closing week before the Iowa caucuses. All the prior emotional drama was overcome by a sense of political sobriety.

Many Republicans are slowly coming to the conclusion that a singular campaign can't take down Trump, but that a smart and steady one will outlast him.

"Trump will likely collapse on his own," Dennehy says. "I refuse to believe that even a plurality of Republicans will want him as their nominee come next February."


http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/08/27/how-the-gop-candidates-can-survive-the-trump-show?int=a14709


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some of these buffoons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQh0tt7aL7A

Trump should be treated with a little more respect.

Same hairstyle... Almost


I have yet to see who kelly and ramos are...

 

Not even.


Jeb Bush: Trump Should Have Treated Jorge Ramos “With A Little More Respect”




Jeb Bush says that Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who was escorted out of a press conference held by Donald Trump on Tuesday night, should have been “treated with a little more respect.”

“I think people with the press ought to be treated with a little more respect and dignity,” he told reporters.

Ramos was removed from the press conference after Trump accused him of interrupting another reporter to ask a question about immigration policy. Ramos was later allowed back into the room.

Bush’s comments came after a town hall event in Pensacola, Florida, where Bush continued to blast Trump’s immigration proposals as “not conservative” and said the real estate mogul should be held to the same standards as other Republican candidates.

“This guy is now the frontrunner,” he said. “He should be held to account, just like me.”

“Go through these questions and what you’ll find is this guy doesn’t have a plan,” he added. “He’s appealing to people’s angst and their anger. I want to solve problems so that we can fix this and turn immigration into what it’s always been: an economic driver for our country.”


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/jeb-bush-trump-should-be-held-account-just-me-n416471

I want to know.  Did he get butt kicked out?  Did he get thrown out and sail through the air?  Did he tumble out?

Was he squawking like a chicken when he hit the hard concrete?

You and a few millions more... It is already backfiring and The Donald loves this. Also ramos came back and asked away, something the media fails to report for some unknown reason...

BUT what's interesting is not the forced removal of a political operative trying to push the limits and get forcibly removed to make a point in the media...

....but the public response to the attempt to orchestrate a forcible removal to make a media point...

We don't care.  We've had enough of this stupidity.

Is that right?  Maybe that's just my point of view.

SURPRISE! Jorge Ramos’s daughter works for Hillary campaign






Jorge Ramos, the amnesty activist moonlighting as a Univision and Fusion journalist, revealed in June that is daughter is an employee of the Hillary Clinton campaign.


In a statement on the Fusion website, Ramos wrote:

As journalists the most important thing we have is our credibility and integrity. We maintain that, in part, through transparency with our audience, our colleagues and our critics. That is why I am disclosing that my daughter, Paola, has accepted a position working with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

As a father, I am very proud that she has decided to actively participate in our democratic process. I hope that more young people get involved, regardless of political parties or ideological preferences. Our democracy and our future depend on that.

I completely support and respect Paola’s decision. In our family we have always cherished tolerance, dialogue and active participation in what you believe.

Like many reporters who have parents, siblings or other family members that are active in politics, this will not change how I approach my duty as a journalist. I will continue to report with complete independence and ask the tough questions, the same way I have done for the last 30 years.

Ramos was temporarily removed from a press conference being held by Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump in Iowa yesterday.

As Trump called on a reporter, Ramos stood and began shouting questions. Trump asked him to sit down, but instead Ramos continued to interrupt the proceedings. After Ramos was briefly removed from the room, he returned, only to debate Trump for several minutes, instead of asking questions and waiting for answers.

As Real Clear Politics reports, “The two went head to head for five minutes over birthright citizenship, how Trump would build a wall, how he would deport illegal immigrants and more. Trump fought back against Ramos and attempted to get him to acknowledge crime committed by illegal immigrants.”

The revelation certainly casts Ramos’s stunt against Hillary’s chief Republican rival in a new light.


http://www.theamericanmirror.com/surprise-jorge-ramoss-daughter-works-for-hillary-campaign/

America has been punished already, by the rodeo clown... We need a cure now.




 

Trump is what america deserves 

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/why-is-this-graphic-trump-assassination-header-allowed-on-twitter/

You mean, we don't need Obama in char....

Fuck, these are crazy times, aren't they?

http://www.oann.com/trump-breaks-new-ceiling-in-national-gop-poll/?utm_source=Copy+of+National+poll+2&utm_campaign=natonaolnnn&utm_medium=email

I think that Trump is the man. He is not afraid to speak up. He is rich himself so he won't be enticed by any lobbyists. And he speak the truth. Political correctness is a disease.
America should wake up from that nightmare, start telling people what it is, you are not offending anyone if you TELL IT LIKE IT IS.

Did you say worm?

https://twitter.com/CBSNLive/status/636309832572669952