I am amazed that Chris Matthews really let the truth out here. Look who you leftys are working for... look at the 5th paragraph for the truth. its establishment drones vs the "little guy" who actually gets the truth of the situation. (By the way the little guy is 80% of America or more.) http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...s-sold-out-on-immigration-trade-nat-security/ On Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Donald Trump is resonating with “the little guy” who thinks the bipartisan permanent political establishment that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush personify has sold him out on issues like immigration, trade, and terrorism and is completely out of touch with their hopes, fears, and concerns. Matthews said that though he agreed with the political establishment “about Trump’s un-American call to stop Muslims at the airport,” there is a “reason Trump’s out there and people are buying him.” “There’s a huge vacuum in this country,” Matthews continued. “And this guy is filling it.” Matthews said that Trump, “who has made billions developing properties, has discovered the vast open space in the American political spectrum. This space made possible by the Democrats’s failure to connect with the angry working guy and the Republican establishment`s embrace of the rich and ties to the Koch brothers.” “Do you think the problem of illegal immigration is being dealt with right now? Do you think the problem of losing industrial jobs to countries overseas is being dealt with? Do you believe two major parties are protecting us against terrorism or from the dumb wars we keep finding that may well only add to the problem?” Matthews said. “There’s a tremendous population out there, all the tens of millions who hold no allegiance to either the Democrats or establishment Republicans, and Trump is out there filling it.” Matthews added that though he is “not a campaign manager for Hillary or Jeb Bush,” he has “a sense that Trump’s success—if you flip it over—is really the failure of these two. Neither of them is reaching those most alarmed by the problems hitting the country, the stuff that’s worrying the little guy.” “And Donald Trump is talking directly to those worries, to the fear and the loathing that accompanies them,” Matthews said, noting that he understands the “lack of faith so many feel about a political establishment that took us into Iraq, but can’t agree what to do now.” Before Matthews, a Tip O’Neill Democrat, embraced MSNBC’s lurch to the left after he had visions of becoming Pennsylvania’s Senator, he understood the concerns of working-class voters, what drives them to the polls, and the candidates that resonate with them. Every now and then, Matthews reveals he may still understand the so-called blue-collar Reagan Democrats that determine the outcome of presidential elections either by going to the polls or, as they did in 2012 when they disliked President Barack Obama but could not vote for Mitt Romney, sitting at home on election night.
Tucker Carlson says the same thing. The huge success of political "outsiders" in this race (Trump, Cruz, Carson, Bernie) is just a bellweather to the american voters rejection of the political Establishment in America. Voters in huge numbers are waking up to the fact Obama/Clinton/Bush are sell-out, Corporate shills who ruined the economy and opened us up to more terror attacks then ever. Ron Paul started alot of this in 2004, but his ideas weren't put together well, nor was his immigration/trade policy.
Ron Paul didn't have the same fighter mentality as Trump...He was on the right side of most of the issues, but he wouldn't go to the same extremes to make his points...Rand Paul has/had been trying to play a more centrist version of his dad, but it falls flat because it feels like pandering...
very good analysis of Rand. He probably would have been my first choice had I not seen him sell out to McConnell. You can't believe what he says and then strike deals with McConnell. Hopefully he can align his internal and his external actions and then over time we believe it. He is either the establishment or not. We can't trust the establishment.
Agreed. Ron Paul was sorta confused on immigration and open borders, which was and evidently is, a galvanizing issue. His Libertarian principles supported open borders, but then he would go on to say open borders in a welfare state doesn't work. His mind wasn't made up.... Important during a terror war when terrorists are crossing the unprotected border into the country?