Trump rips Romney as ‘choke artist’ at Maine rally

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

PORTLAND, Maine — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump blasted Mitt Romney in Maine on Thursday after the party’s 2012 nominee criticized him, saying Romney would have “dropped to his knees” for his endorsement four years ago.

The billionaire mogul rallied with Gov. Paul LePage, who became a top Trump surrogate after endorsing him last week, in the ballroom at The Westin Portland Harborview hotel two days before Maine’s Republican caucuses.

Trump came to Maine with political winds behind him, something that was unthinkable when he announced his campaign in June: He won seven of 11 states that voted on Tuesday.

The political outsider has done it by running on an often vague, us-against-them populist platform: He has called for a ban on Muslim travel to the U.S. and a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border that he has said Mexico will pay for and said many immigrants are “rapists.”

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/03/03/politics/trump-rips-romney-as-choke-artist-at-maine-rally/

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Lots of anti-Trump protesters inside and outside today.

[rpannier]

1. They're both right

rMoney is right about Swampy Forrest Trump and Forrest is right about rMoney being a 'choke artist'

[bigworld]

2. What the hell is a choke artist

Do I even want to know?

[jpak]

5. If you were a Red Sox fan before 2004 - you would know what it means

[GreatGazoo]

6. Someone who has an opportunity and blows it

The phrase was popular in the 1970s in high schools, usually in reference to sports like basketball where you get the ball but don't score.

[tanyev]

3. Oh, this should be a fun debate tonight.

[GreatGazoo]

4. would have “dropped to his knees” + 'choke artist’

Unreal.

Right now everyone is focused on how Nazi and racist Trump is but he will add full nuclear sexist to those in the GE.

[houston16revival]

11. Wow

that really is not so subliminal way of calling him a 'p***y'

The word I think of when I think of Trump is uncouth.

And that is uncouth.

"Choke artist" someone posted is a 1970s term

Is that from the movie, you know ...

[GreatGazoo]

19. I think I see what you're asking

and I had never thought of that but the timing fits.

"Idiocracy" was prophecy but it didn't take 500 years to get here.

[xloadiex]

7. I just watched that comment

"Romney would have dropped to his knees." His audience went wild. WTF! Who are these neanderthals voting for this buffoon? I don't understand how anyone with half a brain cell working could think this this guy is presidential. It just boggles my mind and I find it a total embarrassment. The world is laughing at us.

Thanks Bill Clinton.

[C Moon]

8. Not only that, but I know a few left-leaning people who say they would consider Trump.

Now THAT boggles my mind.
They actually believe the lies he blurts out.

[maxsolomon]

9. Yeah, everything was so respectful and high-minded until Bill Clinton ruined everything.

No President had ever done anything similar previously, and Trump would never have used language like that unless Bill debased the Presidency 20 years ago.

[xloadiex]

12. Bill encouraged this moron

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/08/bill-clinton-donald-trump

[maxsolomon]

14. oh, well i guess it really is his fault, then

thought you meant something else.

[katmondoo]

10. I had to look up choke artist on google

I keep hearing Trump say this and until now never understood what it meant. Men probably get it as a woman not into sports I had no idea what he was talking about.

[maxsolomon]

15. It's a bully's term

For people who get flustered under pressure.

This really is the rise of American Fascism.

[bemildred]

16. Yeah, outside of sports and sportslike discourses (politics for example) you don't see it.

Guy stuff, and not all of us would even think of using it.

[William Seger]

13. "us-against-them populist platform"

Calling Trump a "populist" really irritates me. A populist sees the political sphere as a contest between the elites and the populus -- the common people -- and takes the peoples' side. A right-wing pseudo-populist sees politics as a contest between "people like me" and everyone else, which includes not only the elites but the lower classes, people from different countries, cultures, and religions, etc. And Trump isn't even that kind of pseudo-populist; he's an elitist who exploits bigots with demagoguery.

[Geronimoe]

17. Definition of terms

Drop to his knees..... begging for endorsement.

Choke-artist.... a wuss, a girlie man who melts under pressure.

[KamaAina]

18. Isn't that "chocker"?