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Take a Memo:
Regardless of the after effects of his comment when he said he prefers people that weren't captured and how quickly he turned to that after Frank Luntz pushed him, he was without question dissing McCains war hero status.
Excuse me, but he WASN'T dissing anything and every poll in America showed that you got it wrong... it was certainly not "without question" to most of America. They listened to his comments in context, they understood that Trump was responding to McCain's calling his supporters "crazies" and Trumps poll numbers skyrocketed... that is when he soared past Jeb and took a double-digit lead in the polls... so you were just plain WRONG. In what he said, in what he implied, and how it came across to most Americans. But you are stubbornly refusing to accept the polls and accept that you were WRONG.
Also, the 2 things that are the beginning of Trumps monumental collapse is when he was presumptuous and rude to Megan Kelly who is a woman. You can't win if you piss of the womens vote. In fact, you are better off quitting right now and going home. Any candidate needs the woman's vote. Period. Trump just lost it.
But again... Every major poll taken post-debate said the people thought Trump won. Megyn Kelly unleashed a vicious attack on his character and temperament as a part of a national presidential debate where 26 million people were watching. The fucking liberal feminists were never going to vote for Trump anyway! He didn't "lose" anything, the primaries are still months away.
The other thing is that Trumps supporters didn't think he's run as a 3rd party, but right away the first question that was asked in the debate was raise your hand if you are still considering running as a 3rd party candidate.He raised his hand and he totally justified it. Now his supporters a big portion of them instantaneously just left him from that moment on.
Yes... Again... A SET-UP question designed to single out TRUMP! Fox knew good and well that Trump would be the ONLY one to balk at the pledge and it was staged to "show hands" in order to publicly draw attention to Trump... no one else. The entire debate was an AMBUSH on TRUMP! They continued for over an hour, posing questions to the other candidates regarding things Trump had said, positions he had taken, asking them about HIS views! Yes... 26-million people watched the "Fair and Balanced" network try their best to sabotage the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and they F-A-I-L-E-D!
His poll numbers from this moment on will start to drop. His supporters will start to realize that he can't control himself and is an asshole, and is a prick, and he will piss off all the people he needs to even think about continuing this race.
Bottom line - Rudy Juliani was leading at this point in 2012 and we know what happened instead.
We will SEE how his poll numbers go... I believe he WILL drop a few points, but I still think he leads Bush by a substantial margin... and Bush did not impress me one bit in the debates. In fact, it was sort of despicable and shameful the way he threw his dad and brother under the bus... like the political WHORE he is. He stood there and propped up Common Core, Amnesty... hell, I thought he was going to go ahead and endorse Obamacare before he shut the hell up.
You're right though... polls this far out don't mean a thing. Reagan did not even register in the polls at this point... he was still months away from announcing his candidacy. Everyone was certain Carter was going to win re-election... the closest Republican contender was Howard Baker. So yeah... a fucking boat load can happen between now and then... we shouldn't be making brash predictions.