Progressive One

RONALD BROWNSTEIN
THE TRUMP treadmill was turned on high during his blustery appearance at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee Tuesday night.
It’s a phenomenon that has shaped support for Donald Trump throughout his turbulent rise in the Republican p**********l race. A key to his hold on his constituency is his willingness to say things in public others would not — about immigrants in the country illegally, about Muslims, about women — and to defiantly double-down when criticized. That combative, unflinching talk has helped him convince his heavily working-class coalition that he’s not a typical politician, and that he will fight by wh**ever means necessary to reverse the economic and cultural trends they believe are marginalizing them.
But the serrated language and brusque behavior that electrifies his supporters has reinforced doubts about Trump among Republicans outside of his coalition, and especially in the broader v**er pool waiting in the general e******n.
This is the Trump treadmill: The faster he runs to solidify his hold on his supporters, the harder it becomes to gain ground with other v**ers. For all of his furious activity, he is largely running in place, with gains among the groups most receptive to him offset—or exceeded—by losses among those most skeptical. The treadmill effect helps explain why opposition to Trump, as the primaries proceed, is deepening, not dissolving.
It seems like a lifetime ago, but in late January thoughtful senior Republicans started to hint the party could live with Trump as a standard-bearer. Bob Dole, the centrist former GOP p**********l nominee, told the New York Times he believed Trump would be a stronger general e******n candidate than Ted Cruz. Trump seemed to make such consolidation inevitable by dominating the race’s early stages through Super Tuesday on March 1.
Now Trump still has a better chance than anyone else to win the GOP nomination. But in retrospect it’s clear his candidacy reached a turning point on Feb. 28. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that day, Trump repeatedly refused to condemn former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke or to denounce the organization itself. Trump later blamed his response on a faulty earpiece and disavowed Duke a few days later. But Trump’s refusal to forthrightly condemn Duke or the KKK two days before a big concentration of Southern states were due to v**e on March 1 seemed too clever by half—and sent alarm bells ringing through the party.
In the minuet over Duke, Trump had again signaled to his ardent supporters his toughness and freedom from political correctness. But the encounter also halted any movement toward Trump among mainstream Republican leaders. Instead, in his own version of March Madness, he just keeps stepping back on the Trump treadmill for a succession of confrontations. He defended an elderly white man who sucker punched a black protester at one of his rallies (March 9); refused to accept responsibility for the edgy atmosphere at his rallies that culminated in a near-r**t in Chicago (March 11); declared twitter war against Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi (March 22).
Trump’s unreserved defense this week of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, after he was charged with misdemeanor battery against a female reporter, continues this pattern. Both in the CNN town hall Tuesday, and in a Today show appearance Wednesday, Trump praised Lewandowski and belittled the reporter. He never so much as hinted that it might be categorically wrong for a man to use physical force against a woman. Such an omission may help explain why Trump’s unfavorable rating among all women registered v**ers reached a stratospheric 73% in the latest CNN/ ORC national poll.
It’s instincts (and general-e******n poll numbers) like those that leave Trump facing intensifying resistance from GOP leaders—at a point when previous front runners have seen the party coalesce behind them.
Trump has largely plateaued with v**ers, too, reaching a ceiling of around 40% backing in almost all contests at a time when earlier front-runners were moving toward majority support. (At a comparable point in 2008 McCain hit 50% or more in 11 consecutive contests; Trump has not won half the v**es in any of the 31 states that have v**ed.)
In the CNN/ORC poll, nearly two-thirds of the Republicans not supporting Trump said they viewed him unfavorably.
Trump is still the clear leader in the race, but Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin — a state Trump should win with its large blue-collar and relatively smaller evangelical Christian populations—will provide a revealing signal about whether his insatiable appetite for confrontation is increasing or eroding the number of Republicans willing to ride the Trump treadmill all the way through November.
RONALD BROWNSTEIN is a senior writer at the National Journal. rbrownstein@national journal.com  

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Troll is on scene.

Progressive One

Nah, I saw after 2008 and 2012 what false hopes do to you people, so I'm letting you down early...haha :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

PeterS

So you don't want to talk about why Trump can't gain in popularity? Don't blame you. I wouldn't want to try to defend him either...

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Still don't have it KH,same old worn out crap.You are a r****t first and foremost and you can't even improve on that tirade.

Progressive One

I just deal with r****ts in a manner that they understand. You can't be civil with them. They take that and any type of cordiality as a weakness.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Nah, we just know most of ya'll are just pansy boys, weakness is implyed at that point .

Progressive One

implied

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Well excuse me captain spell check

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Isn't it nice that Demon2016 is here to protect Republicans from Trump?
He will select our candidate for us.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Oh yea, so kind of him...but he lies alot, so one should not believe a word he says.

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Well he is black .......you know what they are like.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Toady....little tadpole toady to be specific

Radiance3

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Everybody is ganging up on Trump. They are all afraid that Trump will clean up their acts. From the GOP establishments grip to their power and wealth making, the democrats' corruptions, lies and deceptions, and all the liberal left will lose so many privileges and lucrative benefits they suckle from the American taxpayers, without lifting any energy or have them. They are called free loading, or free welfare, free sex and free a******ns for liberal filthy women. Free factory of baby making in order that the Federal government will add more money to support these women with no husbands, free illegal drugs from Mexico. Free Muslim takeover of America aided by the Muslim's working at the Federal government, and national security. They want to keep all of these.

That is why they are doing all means to destroy Trump.
Trump will clean them up.
1. Audit the corrupt federal government system so huge that overlaps each other's jobs.
2. Audit the US Treasury
3. Control the illegal flow of Mexican aliens with so many millions of pounds of toxic drugs sold to poison the American people.
4. Control the i*****l a***ns Muslims with terrorists among them to come to the US. Send the Muslim terrorists back where they came from.
5. Trump will build up the US military that has been partially dismantled by the democrats in power.

Trump will choose the experts to join him in his leadership.
No corruptions involved. Unlike Cruz, with recently published track records of corruptions with his wife. I am scared of Ted Cruz, the Cuban-Canadian born citizen.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Cruz's background in Texas under Bush, his banking ties, and CFR ties scares me. I have watched the CFR administrations from Jimmy Carter on.
AND;
It is anyone but Trump for the PTB.

Here is who is and has been at home with the Bilderberg Group:
Obama takes his orders from those that put him in office.
R's and D's both need to figure this out. If neither does; America will get more of the same "leadership" running our politicians:
I post this because it covers the Council on foreign Relations (CFR) in detail. I hope others will copy and save for future reference.
Every one that cares, and wants to know what America is up against; should copy, save, and share with others:

URL for Roster of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Trilateral Commission (TC) and Bilderberger Group (BB) Members is below.
Obama’s Executive Cabinet members:
Vice President of the United States
Joseph R. Biden CFR/88
Secretary Hillary Rodham BB/CFR/RS/TC
Secretary Timothy F. Geithner BB/CFR/TC/09
NOW: Jacob “Jack” Lew CFR
Secretary Leon E. Panetta CFR
Chuck Hagel CFR
Attorney General; Eric Holder CFR
Ashton Carter CFR/92
Jeh Charles Johnson CFR
Director, CIA/ DHS Secretary
Jeh Charles Johnson CFR
Secretary John E. Bryson CFR/TC/88
Secretary Eric K. Shinseki CFR
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet A. Napolitano CFR
Florida Representative and DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. CFR
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Ambassador Susan Rice CFR
Bill Daley CFR
Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack CFR

Source: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/cfrall1.htm#d
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/roundtable/CFRA-Elist.html - Initial List of Council on Foreign Relations Members

Hillary Clinton Frankly Reveals the CFR Is Running the USA ...
Hillary Clinton spills the beans at the inauguration of the new office for Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, D.C. Some have said it was simply a slip of the tongue but wh**ever the perception is Clinton frankly revealed who's running the show in these United States:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2T-5Pd3oYY
Z*****t control of CFR: http://www.rense.com/general48/captiv.htm

Some Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Facts

Since its inception, the CFR has served as an intermediary between high finance, big oil, corporate elitists and the U.S. government. The executive branch changes hands between Republican and Democratic administrations, but cabinet seats are always held by CFR members. It has been said by political commentators on the left and on the right that if you want to know what U.S. foreign policy will be next year, you should read Foreign Affairs this year.

Since 1940, every U.S. secretary of state (except for Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina, the sole exception) has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and/or its younger brother, the Trilateral Commission. Also since 1940, every secretary of war and every secretary of defense has been a CFR member. During most of its existence, the Central Intelligence Agency has been headed by CFR members, beginning with CFR founding member Allen Dulles. Virtually every key U.S. national security and foreign policy adviser has been a CFR member for the past seventy years.
Almost all White House cabinet positions are occupied by CFR members. President Clinton, himself a member of the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group, employs almost one hundred CFR members in his administration. Presidents come and go, but the CFR's power--and agenda--always remains.
The CFR's Shroud of Secrecy - On its web page, the CFR boasts that its magazine, Foreign Affairs, "is acclaimed for its analysis of recent international developments and for its forecasts of emerging trends." It's not much of a challenge to do so, though, when you play a part in determining what those emerging trends will be.
So are they predicting trends or creating them? The answer is fairly obvious to anyone who has earnestly reflected on the matter.

CFR meetings are usually held in secret and are restricted to members and very select guests. All members are free to express themselves at meetings unrestrained, because the Non-Attribution Rule guarantees that "others will not attribute or characterize their statements in public media forums or knowingly t***smit them to persons who will," according to the Council on Foreign Relations' 1992 Annual Report.

The end result is that the only information the public has on the CFR is the information they release for public consumption, which should send up red f**gs for anyone who understands the immense effect that CFR directives have on America's foreign policy. The public knows what the CFR wants the public to know about the CFR, and nothing more.
Google: “Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral, Commission, Bilderberg Group

A few more notables in Both Parties Serving Bilderberger’s CFR/TC/BB AGENDA:
Bush Sr. - CFR,B (R)
Bush Jr? Cabinet CFR (R)
Both Clintons - CFR,TC,B (D)
Jimmy Carter - CFR,TC (D)
Obama & Biden - CFR (D)
Dick Cheney - CFR,TC (R)
Newt Gingrich - CFR (R)
Mitch McConnell - CFR (R)
Rick Perry - BB,2007 (D&R)
John Kerry CFR (D)
John McCain - CFR (R)
Zbig Brzezinski - TC, BB (D)
Heny Kissinger BB,CFR,TC (R) Paul Volker- CFR,TC,BB (D) Alan Greenspan CFR,TC,BB
Ben Bernanke BB
Tim Geithner - CFR,TC BB
David Rockefeller CFR,TC,BB George Soros - CFR,BB (D)
Albert Gore, Jr. CFR,TC (D)
Donald Rumsfeld CFR ,BB(R)
Jacob “Jack” Lew CFR (D)
Robert Gates BB,CFR,TC (D
Leon Panetta CFR (D)
Lee Hamilton CFR,TC (R)
Robert Reich CFR (D)
Condoleezza Rice CFR (R)
Susan Rice CFR (D)
Ted Cruz CFR (R)
Donna Shalala CFR/TC (D)

THE MEDIA:
George Will - CFR,TC (R)
George Stephanopoulos
CFR, BB (D)
William Kristol BB (R) William Buckley Jr. CFR,BB (R)
Tom Brokaw CFR
FOX owner
Rupert Murdock – CFR, BB
FOX SPINNERS
John Bolton CFR (R)
Charles Krauthammer CFR(R)
Doug Schoen CFR
Washington Post owner
Katherine Graham CFR,TC,BB
David Richmond Gergen - CNN Spinner BB/CFR/TC/92 (D)
Robert B. Reich CFR (D)
Brian Williams – CFR

More Politicians:
Fred Thompson CFR (R)
Charles B. Rangel CFR (D)
Barney Frank CFR (D)
Richard Newton Gardner CFR/RS/TC/84
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (D) CFR/92
Sandra Day O'Connor (R) CFR/92
Robert S. McNamara CFR (D)
Warren Christopher CFR (D)
Madeleine Albright CFR (D)
Samuel Richard ("Sandy" Berger CFR/BB (R)

Military
General David Petraeus CFR,
CIA Director Chuck Hagel CFR
International Bankers - James Wolfensohn Paul Wolfowitz, Alan Greenspan, Tim Geithner CFR,TC,BB

Hillary Clinton spills the beans at the inauguration of the new office for Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, D.C. Some have said it was simply a slip of the tongue but wh**ever the perception is Clinton frankly revealed who's running the show in these United States:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2T-5Pd3oYY
Cheney on CFR, Council on Foreign Relations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAk-7F1EVU

Save as a Word Doc, copy and paste. A lot of people are waking up. A critical mass of awakened Americans can get reached when the t***h is shared.