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kentuck

(111,110 posts) Wed Dec 30, 2015, 09:52 AM Dec 2015

The Elmer Gantry charade of Donald Trump...

He takes his 'childhood Bible" to Iowa as proof that he is a bonafide Evangelical. He waves it about as if it were last week's People magazine.

Also, he reminds that voters of Iowa that not many Evangelicals come from Cuba, once again bringing up an issue that no one else would even think of doing, Mr Cruz's foreign descent. He may as well be an "illegal alien"...

But, will the Christians of Iowa fall for this charlatan? Will this schmuck be able to sell his schtick to the people that go to the caucuses?

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The Elmer Gantry charade of Donald Trump... (Original Post) kentuck Dec 2015 OP

To me he's more Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd. That movie is a perfect representation of him. Squinch Dec 2015 #1

Amen!!! nruthie Dec 2015 #3

Great movie! Showed Griffith's talent for dramatic acting. tabasco Dec 2015 #5

Sinclair Lewis foresaw Trump quite clearly. Mister Ed Dec 2015 #2

+ 1 no_hypocrisy Dec 2015 #6

Didn't Pat Robertson win the Iowa Caucuses in '88 or '92? Fuddnik Dec 2015 #4

Squinch

(50,993 posts)

1. To me he's more Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd. That movie is a perfect representation of him.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 10:00 AM

Dec 2015

nruthie

(466 posts)

3. Amen!!!

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:31 AM

Dec 2015

tabasco

(22,974 posts)

5. Great movie! Showed Griffith's talent for dramatic acting.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:40 AM

Dec 2015

Good comparison.

Mister Ed

(5,943 posts)

2. Sinclair Lewis foresaw Trump quite clearly.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 10:09 AM

Dec 2015

The comparison to Elmer Gantry is quite apt. It also seems to me that Trump has become the modern incarnation of Buzz Windrip, the fascist demagogue who rises to power in Lewis's 1935 novel, "It Can't Happen Here".

no_hypocrisy

(46,160 posts)

6. + 1

Reply to Mister Ed (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 12:47 PM

Dec 2015

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)

4. Didn't Pat Robertson win the Iowa Caucuses in '88 or '92?

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:32 AM

Dec 2015

And look at their newest Senator, the one who campaigned on cutting the ball off of hawgs, Jodi Whassername.

I wouldn't put anything past Iowa Republicans.

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