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cali

(114,904 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:39 PM May 2016

Trump's parade of Achilles heels

He's the most undisciplined candidate evah.

He's ludicrously thin skinned

His braggadacio is insanely over the top

He believes, truly and completely, that he has the most relevant foreign policy experience.

Debates. He'll be shredded- and not just by Hillary.

No, I'm not saying he can't win, but I am saying the General election is very different from the republican primary. And he doesn't have the awareness or discipline to run any other way than he ran in the primary.

Hillary would have to run an epically bad campaign to lose to him.

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Trump's parade of Achilles heels (Original Post) cali May 2016 OP
I really wish I had your confidence hibbing May 2016 #1
Welcome back, Cali! truebluegreen May 2016 #2
Hillary has skin like iron Doctor Jack May 2016 #5
"nothing will phase her"? truebluegreen May 2016 #6
Skin like iron? TM99 May 2016 #8
His lack of organization will be his ultimate downfall Doctor Jack May 2016 #3
Wrong. TM99 May 2016 #9
Hillary's probably at home shotgunning a beer after seeing Trump win tonight. NuclearDem May 2016 #4
I live in Utah right now Doctor Jack May 2016 #7
Utah seems to be taking its religion seriously muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #12
The money agrees Egnever May 2016 #10
The money agrees Egnever May 2016 #11
Add - he cannot regard women as equal to men muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #13

hibbing

(10,098 posts)
1. I really wish I had your confidence
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:47 PM
May 2016

I'm naturally pessimistic, but not having a great feeling.

Peace

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
5. Hillary has skin like iron
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:56 PM
May 2016

If she is the nominee, no petty attack from trump will ever get to her. She has been put through so much shit over the decades that nothing will phase her. Trump will look like a psychotic clown marionette compared to clinton.

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
8. Skin like iron?
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:15 AM
May 2016


She is a shallow narcissistic who rages at the drop of hat if she feels threatened like she did with BLM supporters and the Green Peace activist.

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
3. His lack of organization will be his ultimate downfall
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:53 PM
May 2016

He has no ground game and the people advising him are people with 0 political experience. We have seen time and again, the ability to organize and plan is about 98% of winning an election.

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
9. Wrong.
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:16 AM
May 2016

He was weak on ground game and that is why Cruz started ramping up delegate stealing.

Trump hired new consultants, started playing a much better ground game, and Cruz just dropped out.

So many here are blinded by the red team/blue team aspect of this that they are not seeing things very clearly.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
4. Hillary's probably at home shotgunning a beer after seeing Trump win tonight.
Tue May 3, 2016, 11:53 PM
May 2016

The Republicans managed to nominate someone who's actually possibly put places like Utah and Mississippi in play.

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
7. I live in Utah right now
Wed May 4, 2016, 12:00 AM
May 2016

The people around here absolutely haaaaaaaate trump with a fiery passion. I am surrounded by the hardcore of the hardcore republicans and without exaggeration or hyperbole have not met a single people that doesn't think Trump is a mix of Hitler and a sexual predator. The people in this state seem like they would rather carve their faces off with a nail file than vote for trump.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
12. Utah seems to be taking its religion seriously
Wed May 4, 2016, 06:00 AM
May 2016

I get the impression (OK, I'm in a different continent) that they think he's morally deficient. A lot of the 'religious right' in the south have said 'screw that, he hates the same people we do, and that's good enough for us'.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
13. Add - he cannot regard women as equal to men
Wed May 4, 2016, 06:06 AM
May 2016

which turns most of them away - it doesn't hurt him so much in the "wives should obey their husbands" atmosphere of the Republicans, but is toxic in the wider country.

He despises minorities, and has thrown away any chance of getting a decent vote share among them.

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