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Title: Sheriff David Clarke – GOP Doesn’t Know What To Do With Donald Trump, Attempts To Isolate Could Backfire
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Published: Jul 22, 2015
Author: Rick Wells
Post Date: 2015-07-22 11:49:33 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: 2016, donald trump, immigration, illegal alien
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Comments: 2
After first acknowledging that it’s too early to throw his support behind any particular candidate in the Republican field, Sheriff David Clarke notes that Donald Trump has turned over the apple cart, told the other candidates and the GOP establishment “I’ll write my own rules,” and is displaying a swagger and panache that Clarke likes. He says, “I think the problem for the GOP establishment right now is they don’t know what to do with him. And I think the best thing to try to do is to keep him on their side because they’re going to need him.” He believes the GOP is better off with him “inside the tent than outside the tent” and they need to realize that he’s here to stay. “The voters will decide, Don, whether or not he’s presidential material, whether he can be the commander-in-chief,” says Sheriff Clarke. “I don’t like party insiders and I don’t like newspapers telling me who’s not worthy to be president. That’s for me, the voter, to make a determination about.” He says that the GOP establishment’s attempts to force him out of the race are conducted at their own peril, “It’s not going to work with him. Like I said, he writes his own rules. He is a brand, Trump is a brand and the GOP has to understand that.” He says that Trump “brings that kind of excitement that can attract outside voters and in the end we’ll see how far it takes him. But I think to shun him, to push him out, that’s an elitist attitude and the political establishment is going to have to learn that Donald Trump plays by his own set of rules.” He adds that “Donald Trump can do some things and say some things that the party establishment and other candidates on both sides of the aisle know, ‘I could never get away with saying that. It would destroy me,’ but like I said Donald Trump is a different kind of cat.” He points out how the conventional wisdom of the political class is that you don’t talk about certain lighting rod issues, you talk around them and Trump is not adhering to those principles. As a political outsider who doesn’t belong to either political party, Clarke says he’s, “enjoying the heck out of this.” 
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Clarke nails it.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Enjoy it while it lasts.
#2. To: Lod (#1)
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