At Conservative Gathering, Attacks on Donald Trump Are Not Sticking

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/cpac-attacks-donald-trump-are-not-sticking

Increasingly desperate in the face of Donald Trump's growing lead in the Republican primary contest, his opponents have begun hurling attacks at him in a last-ditch effort to stop his rise. Marco Rubio is now calling Trump a "con artist" who started a "fake university" in order to trick people into taking out loans. Ted Cruz continues to hammer at Trump for having previously been pro-choice and progressive on other issues before he decided to run for president. Mitt Romney lashed out at him on Thursday as "a phony, a fraud." A new super-PAC dedicated to defeating Trump released an ad this week hitting the front-runner for the Trump University scam.

But attendees of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, just outside Washington, DC, say these attacks are one scam they are not going to fall for.

They're basically desperate attacks that aren't going to do anything," said Ronald Travino of Baltimore, who wore a "Make America Great Again" hat. On the issue of the now-defunct Trump University—which offered real estate seminars that cost students up to $35,000, and which is the subject of three lawsuits that allege Trump defrauded students by misrepresenting what the "university" was—Travino admitted it was a "black mark" on Trump's record. "But I don't care," he added. And he doesn't think Trump's supporters will care either.

Matthew Higgens, a Trump supporter from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, felt the same way about Trump University. "To be honest with you, I don't care," he said. Higgens said other Republicans hadn't gone after predatory for-profit colleges that get students to take out loans for degrees and jobs that don't pan out. "How can you point the finger at one guy?" he asked. "It's ridiculous."

[yourpaljoey]

1. Trump is WILDLY popular among the Republican base

He will be their nominee

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. i'm not surprised. A planned, establishment decapitation of an anti-establishment Trump

is as more likely to offend his supporters than it is to drive them to an establishment candidate.

[bemildred]

3. They have not been very good at stopping Obama either.

But not being able to stop Trump is a new low.

[hibbing]

4. "I don't care"

As long as keeps his racism going, that's all that matters.

Peace

[Kelvin Mace]

5. People need to grasp the reality that one qurater to one third

of our population are stone cold stupid, or stone cold racists, or both.