Trump vs. Mexico omnibus thread

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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/04/politics/bush-trump-immigrants/

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I like what Governor Bush said, and he was very diplomatic in stating that Trump isn't a moron, which he is.

I remember hearing the late Norman Schwartzkopf answer a question about his assessment of Saddam Hussein  as a leader during the first Gulf War. "For someone not a soldier, general, strategist, tactician, politician, or statesman, he did well".

Donald Trump has never held elective office and never had a cabinet post. He can satisfy people in his limited area of competence... but the limits are obvious.
 
Donald Trump is more a showman and promoter than a diplomat.

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American media are now almost uniformly awful in journalism. They know how to dial the knobs on the psyche of people who read the tabloids or watch TV. They have segmented to fit the sensibilities of polarized, partisan audiences at the expense of objectivity. I question whether some of them insist upon two sources or upon fact-checking. (An excuse is made for official sources which are considered definitive).

Few challenge crony capitalism ("socialism for the rich"), perhaps because they fear the loss of advertising revenue from crony capitalists. In-depth coverage? Sure -- if it is breasts and hips of attractive women.     

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If the media did their job (FoX News certainly won't) they would grill all Republicans. The attempt to make the legislative process secret in Wisconsin, even if Scott Walker tried to keep some distance from it, portends the sort of secretive government we would have if the Koch syndicate won the trifecta of the Presidency, theHouse, and the Senate in 2017.

[pbrower2a]

Republicans are going to find the Hispanic vote going heavily against them in 2016. So farewell, any possibility of winning Colorado, Nevada, or Florida. Arizona will be close, and New Mexico will be a blowout. This will be enough to swing states on the brink with relatively-small Hispanic populations, like Ohio.  

There has never been the mass animus against non-black Hispanics in any part of America that there was against blacks. Democrats win big when they have massive get-out-the-vote drives.

Whatever conservative tendencies some Hispanics have are going to be better expressed among Democrats than among Republicans.

[pbrower2a]

Republicans are going to find the Hispanic vote going heavily against them in 2016. So farewell, any possibility of winning Colorado, Nevada, or Florida. Arizona will be close, and New Mexico will be a blowout. This will be enough to swing states on the brink with relatively-small Hispanic populations, like Ohio.  

There has never been the mass animus against non-black Hispanics in any part of America that there was against blacks. Democrats win big when they have massive get-out-the-vote drives.

Whatever conservative tendencies some Hispanics have are going to be better expressed among Democrats than among Republicans.

If the Republican nominee for President reaches out to hispanic and black voters, I think they can make inroads. That means listening, learning, and then talking. It means having an inclusive message.

If a Republican nominee takes an unrealistic immigration position the way Mitt Romney did in 2012, they won't make inroads with hispanic voters.

Ok -- but the damage has been done.

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I thought I saw a long bull market without a speculative bubble, a start on a civilized system of medicine, one of the squeakiest-clean administrations in decades, and a cautious foreign policy that allows the President to whack terrorists.

Return to integrity? Which one?

Republicans are going to have electoral problems until they recognize that Dubya was an awful President.

[pbrower2a]

Republicans are going to find the Hispanic vote going heavily against them in 2016. So farewell, any possibility of winning Colorado, Nevada, or Florida. Arizona will be close, and New Mexico will be a blowout. This will be enough to swing states on the brink with relatively-small Hispanic populations, like Ohio.  

There has never been the mass animus against non-black Hispanics in any part of America that there was against blacks. Democrats win big when they have massive get-out-the-vote drives.

Whatever conservative tendencies some Hispanics have are going to be better expressed among Democrats than among Republicans.

If the Republican nominee for President reaches out to hispanic and black voters, I think they can make inroads. That means listening, learning, and then talking. It means having an inclusive message.

If a Republican nominee takes an unrealistic immigration position the way Mitt Romney did in 2012, they won't make inroads with hispanic voters.

Ok -- but the damage has been done.

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I thought I saw a long bull market without a speculative bubble, a start on a civilized system of medicine, one of the squeakiest-clean administrations in decades, and a cautious foreign policy that allows the President to whack terrorists.

Return to integrity? Which one?

Republicans are going to have electoral problems until they recognize that Dubya was an awful President.

Because Obama isn't a Drama Seeker, he won't get credit for a lot of what he's done right until after history settles and people look at his record objectively, and not compared to the 2008 hype.

Good point. The criticism of Obama comes heavily from FoX News and similar entities that can see no good in any liberal. Such might weaken the public view of him when he is in office, but once he is no longer there, the calumnies come to an end.

"No drama" means that the President does not create his own problems.