From: judgebean23x@gmail.com   
      
   Donald Trump Suffers from Dementia   
   Posted by clconnett on May 3, 2016 at 6:52 pm   
      
      
   Donald Trump Suffers from Dementia   
         
      
      
   Today, Donald Trump claimed that Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz's father, was somehow   
   involved with Lee Harvey Oswald just prior to the assassination of JFK.  The   
   rag that Trump got his information from is the National Enquirer.  This is the   
   same rag that used to    
   routinely run stories of the "bat-boy" and that previously claimed, with no   
   evidence at all, that Cruz had multiple affairs.  Long story short:  This is   
   complete and total crap, straight from the bull's backside.   
      
   Others on this site have noted that the easiest way to make sense of Donald   
   Trump's many contradictory statements, and his generally incomprehensible   
   speeches, is to understand that Trump suffers from dementia.  I decided to   
   take that concept and put it    
   as the title of this diary because this is the way Trump talks about his   
   competitors.  It doesn't matter if the claim is true.  It doesn't matter if   
   there is any evidence.  The only thing that matters is that me makes an   
   outrageous claim, and the media    
   reports it, chuckling all the while because they know it's all false and they   
   are just carrying his water.   
      
   If we, on the right, used the same tactics as the Left, we could easily   
   destroy Donald Trump.  We've been trying to use reason, logic, and   
   argumentation to get through to Trump's supporters.  It isn't working because   
   they aren't thinking people.  They    
   are feeling people.  And we are not appealing to their feelings by making   
   rational arguments.   
      
   Trump doesn't use reason, he uses feeling.  He seems strong, he seems bold, he   
   gives the impression of being decisive.  It doesn't matter that the decisions   
   are bad or that his strength is all bluster.  All that matters is that people   
   feel stronger by    
   associating with him.  This is the power of celebrity.   
      
   If we flooded the air waves with constant barrages against Trump, talking   
   about his hair, his manhood, his false teeth, his age, accusing him of   
   suffering dementia, acting like the rape story was true and calling him,   
   "Donald the Rapist" and other such    
   monikers, then that might actually take him down.  We can win against Donald   
   Trump, even at this late stage.  All we have to do is completely abandon our   
   principles and lower ourselves to his level.   
      
   I'm not writing this to say we must give up our hope, but instead to get us to   
   think clearly about what the real problem is.  Thinking, I mean really   
   thinking, about life is difficult.  I'm a Christian.  I have a M.Div.  I can   
   read Greek and Hebrew.     
   Given a dictionary and enough time I can eventually make my way through   
   theological German, and I know a few fun Latin phrases.  Despite all of my   
   education, I still have to challenge myself to actually think about what is   
   going on instead of just    
   reacting to it.   
      
   If we are going to win in this election, or in four years, eight years, or   
   ever, it will be because we understand what we are up against, and we learn   
   how to fight it.  We need to be able to tell the truth in a pithy way.  In   
   evangelism one of the    
   sayings used is that we must be winsome, to win some.  This is what we need in   
   political discourse.   
      
   If we believe in the Conservative message, then we need to learn how to   
   distill it down to the basic truths of it, and we need to present it in a   
   winsome, engaging manner.  And we need to be willing to mock those who should   
   know better and who don't.  We    
   need to make anti-intellectualism as repugnant to the intellectually lazy as   
   it is to those of us who spend hours reading and researching subjects to have   
   an educated opinion.  We need to become the "go to" source of knowledge in our   
   little circles, and    
   we need to be unapologetic in our political apologetic.   
      
   Does Donald Trump really suffer from Dementia?  I don't know.  But, I'd be   
   willing to tell someone, "You believe Donald Trump?  It's apparent the man is   
   suffering from dementia!  Why would you take advice from someone who can't   
   even remember what he said    
   in the morning?  Why would you believe someone who actually thinks that   
   tabloid trash in the supermarket check out aisle is all true?  Do you believe   
   him that the bat-boy has been caught on camera at last?  Come on!  You're   
   really that stupid?"  For most,   
    it's too late, but perhaps we can save one or two, and then we can start   
   rebuilding from there.   
      
      
      
      
   http://www.redstate.com/diary/clconnett/2016/05/03/donald-trump-   
   uffers-dementia/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)