[AndyJackson]

Trump thinks the world of Tribe has got to scare the crap out of you.

hey, from a guy on a boat that used to dock just a few piers up from you guys in New London, please don't put words in Trump's mouth. To repeat an argument about the constitution put forward by a lawyer who successfully argues before the SC is not to approve that argument but merely to point out that there is a justiciable case that needs to be settled.

I agree that Trump needs to tone it down, but I also understand what Trump is doing. He is trying to win as soon as he can with the least cost and uncertainty. Prevailing in Iowa rather than putting it off till further down the road allows him to turn his cannon on Hillary, and stop worrying about what the Republican field will do.

And if he can take on Hillary now, maybe he can stop her candidacy now, and we all win.

One enemy is a whole lot easier than 7 or 9 or 13 or however many candidates there are who are now running.

[WHBates]

Thanks for the well reasoned and friendly response. Trump isn't my favorite at this point but in the general election, if he is the nominee, I will vote for him. It isn't really Trump that concerns me, but those we don't see that surrounds him.

He looks like a one man show but you know, that in an 8 to 10 billion dollar organization, that can't be the case. Many of his adherents on this site as well as others appear to be rather well organized and have zero interest in actually discussing the issues and ferreting fact from fiction in term of campaign rhetoric or in understanding the common enemy. Again scary stuff.

I server on Bates in the New London days and am a plank owner, I sure we might have run in to each other back then, however we spent a ton of time deployed back then. Good the correspond with you.

[poconopundit]

...I also understand what Trump is doing. He is trying to win as soon as he can with the least cost and uncertainty.

You know, an advantage Trump gains through these birther and NY Values flare-ups is he's now free to choose the Vice President he wants.

And maybe what Trump had in mind was the subject of the recent Peggy Noonan article.   If Cruz doesn't have many friends in the Senate, how can he be an effective President of the Senate?

Did Trump make a deal with the GOPe?   Put Cruz in a post like Attorney General, but give us a VP and President of the Senate who we like.   In return, the GOPe turns away the dogs and agrees to go after Hillary.

The art of the deal?   What do you think?