Trump has reportedly turned on Lindsey Graham over Obama-bashing strategy

[Judi Lynn]

Aldous J Pennyfarthing
Tuesday May 19, 2020 · 4:53 PM CDT



The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another dispatch from the land of cray-cray kookaburras. And in this episode of the Fluorescent Lipo-Fat Golem Show, our intrepid protagonist is heartlessly tossing his most loyal puppies under the sputtering Trump Train.

Seems Trump doesn’t think his campaign team is doing a good job of spinning his congealing couch sharts into gold (“Trump feels he’s doing it all alone,” one campaign adviser told Sherman), and so he’s hit on the idea of undermining Joe Biden by attacking President Obama’s legacy.

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Vanity Fair:

According to sources, Trump believes the answer to the message weakness is to declare all-out war on Biden’s former boss: Barack Obama. “Trump knows Biden is only popular because he was Obama’s V.P.,” a prominent Republican told me. Which is why, a few days after [Trump campaign manager Brad] Parscale’s Death Star tweet, Trump accused Obama of unnamed crimes under the umbrella of “Obamagate.” “Obama is going to be on the campaign trail in a big way. He’s the most popular Democrat of the past four decades. Trump knows you have to neutralize him, and he’s frustrated Brad didn’t think of that,” the campaign adviser said. “Trump feels he’s doing it all alone.”

But Trump’s targeting of Obama has been causing consternation among Republicans, who fear he is pursuing a base-incitement strategy when he needs to appeal to crucial suburban voters in must-win battleground states. “Going after Obama is a big risk,” a former West Wing official said. “Obama is seen as trustworthy and reasonable. If you attack him and people don’t buy it, then you have a huge swing and a miss in front of the entire country.”

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/19/1946264/-Trump-has-reportedly-turned-on-Lindsey-Graham-over-Obama-bashing-strategy#comment_77386466

[leftieNanner]

1. A Swing and a Miss?

That's about right, according to reports uncovered about his baseball "prowess". Batted 138!

[erronis]

2. I probably agree with Pennyfarthing's rants but I can't get past the turgidity of the prose.

Sometimes a little clear talking up front while leading the erstwhile reader into the quagmires would be helpful. Malcolm Nance is a bit less opaque, only a bit less.

[Adsos Letter]

3. That photo.

"I get the photos out of my safe and look at them every afternoon, Lindsey."

[Judi Lynn]

10. Good one! I stared long and hard at that photo, thinking he looks as if he's bearing down on him.

Lindsey does look beaten down, too.

That scenario clearly could be at the bottom of Lindsey's sudden 180°. The relationship between the two isn't normal, it's over in the bullying category. I wonder if little Lindsey hasn't actually been fighting for his life when he has had his strange rage outbursts in hearings.

[Adsos Letter]

14. i wonder about all of them.

Trump had so much resistance from so much of the Repub establishment before the election. The 180°'s that most of them did is enough to give a person whiplash.

I wonder how many of them have been threatened, or their families threatened? The guy is mobbed up and a big fan of Putin, and look at how Putin treats his opposition. Perhaps it's far-fetched; the United States isn't Russia, and Putin has power that Trump can only dream of.

One always has to leave room for the draw of raw political power, and certainly the theocrats of the bunch see him as the key to power, and I suppose a certain percentage of them simply go along to get along. Still, I can't help thinking of how many of them chose to leave in one way or another. Certainly some, like Paul Ryan, accomplished what they had set out to accomplish and left for high dollar consultancies, but what about the rest of them? What was it that caused them to leave?

It's after midnight, my brain is scrambled, and my thoughts are wandering off into semi-conspiracy territory.

We have to win in November. We just have to.

[niyad]

4. Is it just me. That pic looks like morbidly obese is trying to crush Lindsey's hand, and bring him

to his knees. Lindsey looks fearful and in pain. You can see the strain in dumpy' clenched hand.

I find the pic disturbing.

[Adsos Letter]

5. I found it disturbing as well.

Hence my previous comment.

[niyad]

7. I just don't know the reference.

[MadLinguist]

6. It reminds me of the Helsinki triumphant Putin, whipped-dog Trump photo

In both cases, you can almost feel the kompromat hovering above their heads

[Judi Lynn]

12. Amazing image, it says so much! Worth far more than 1,000 words!

Wonderful to know someone's got him in a corner, anyway. Hope he is scared to death.

He doesn't cringe around anyone else.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Oh, yes! You describe it perfectly. It IS disturbing. Thanks, niyad. n/t

[niyad]

13. You are most welcome.

[live love laugh]

8. GOOD NEWS!

[Lord Ludd]

9. Senator Mint Juleps is on shaky ground

"Ah dew deeclayah, Ah feels the vapors comin' on."

Jon Stewart, we miss you.