Priorities, priorities...

I was just trying to capture what the actual teleprompter version was for those who didn't feel like actually watching.

Sounds good on the surface. But most people don't see into what those things will actually do and create.

The education choice simply means vouchers for private schools bleeding the public school system dry. Which is the whole plan is to destroy public education - not only to try and get those tax dollars into for profit management companies but to also control the curriculum.

And yeah, rape and pillage the earth with fracking, more oil wells where there might be some oil and burn coal, burn!

Even if all us were somehow too sick to vote on Election day and he won with a landslide he wouldn't do that.

Tax cuts for everyone (but aimed at the rich and corporations), deregulation for the energy (i.e., coal and oil) sector, vouchers for private and charter schools, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policies, and no mention of closing tax loopholes or raising the minimum wage.

I can see it coming now.

The fact that it's taken 18 months or that there is still no explanation of HOW he does these things will be passed over.

Appointing a special prosecutor and having Madame Secretary put in jail. No lock her up promise? Maybe he'll do that on the 101st day.

I heard part of his speech and it sounded like something that would make sense to conservatives.

I think I understand why he does the rallies. They are to try to counter the sound bites. Thr man, with all of his bluster, tackiness, prejudice and sexism, makes sense to conservatives. And they are willing to overlook the qualities that make people like me want to gag. And fight to keep him from being elected.

The sound bites... and the tweets... they suggest a nut case. But listening to him, I hear a viable conservative candidate. One who is not politically correct (and gropes women), but has campaign promises that certain American people want.

his proposed policies are classic Republican ideas. The problem is he isn't broadening his base by talking about voter fraud, school vouchers, deregulation and tax cuts. He's only firing up his base, which is going to vote for him no matter what.

I think this was meant to win back voters who were turned off by the groping issue. This may override it, especially for the men, but also for women who aren't bothered by it.

I also think that there are men who are publicly denouncing him, but will still vote for him.

Which is what he spouts when he reads what someone else wrote for him off the prompter.

It sounds good -- that's true. Like "eat all you want and still lose weight" sounds good. If that makes him sound like a "viable conservative candidate" then conservatives need to do some soul searching.

They have always insisted that tax cuts to the rich will create jobs. That cutting taxes will bring manufacturing back to the US, and that Democrats are holding us back.

When the economy is bad, even in pockets, the Republican mantra sounds good.

Trump is singing the mantra, and Republican voters are scrambling like rats to his tune.

Not in class or content, but sense of inevitable. Dukakis loosened up and started saying he was indeed a liberal, etc.

I remember being very sad, knowing that it meant his internal polls were very bad and he was mostly playing out the string. Dukakis trailed by roughly the same amount as the current margin.

or is it Racist Rapist? I confuse those two!


Good on them! Hurrah!

So he'll raise my taxes, start a trade war that will hurt the economy, increase our reliance on fossil fuels, kill education reform, increase the deficit, and direct the resources of our nation at a gestapo anti-immigrant force. He'll sue or de-fund anyone that disagrees with him and back out of commitments that America has already made.

What a waste. I bet the Republicans wish they had nominated anyone other than him.

I listened to a 1 min clip on USA Today. He was talking about Hillary and her server. Typical red meat stuff.

He did sound coherent without anyone to refute him.

But that was only 1 minute.

Whenever he went off-prompter his usual incoherence kicked in.

First 16 minutes, I don't know how many times he used the word "rig"

Then, he got into policy stuff. Some of it was simply reading a sentence or two without elaboration.

However, some of what he said will win back some voters, especially proposals such as:

2. End Offshoring Act - establish tariffs to discourage companies from going overseas
3. American infrastructure act
4b. Expand Vocational and Technical Education (make two or four year colleges more affordable)
6. Cut red tape at the FDA (He specified fast track approval of life saving meds, something the ACT UP AIDS group had advocated)

I'm not trying to support him and I know he won't deliver on this stuff, but I don't think he hurt himself. He didn't do anything stupid and he seemed human. (darn)

GOTV

It's when he goes off script that he shows what a buffoon he is (which he did a few times).