I’m not the Jonah Goldberg fan, but I agree with the assessment:
“The amazing thing is that Trump is both a RINO and a CINO. I’m sure he has some authentic and sincere conservative views down in there somewhere. But the idea that he’s more plausibly conservative — or more loyally Republican — than Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, or any of the others is just flatly absurd. It is vastly more plausible that he is a stalking horse for his dear friend Hillary Clinton than he is a sincere conservative.”
You may be onto something. While he’s bring to the fore a sore issue with voters, this may be major distraction from Ted Cruze, the Iran deal, and the gay marriage controversy.
Anything's possible, I suppose, but I doubt Hillary's fear is any of the many republican pretenders and contenders.
As far as Hillary is concerned, at this point whatever the republicans are saying and doing is like watching a game show.
If he wanted to help his dear friend Hillary, Trump needs to take on Bernie Sanders for her. He's the one stealing Hillary's lunch money and ticket to November.
Speculations aside, someone/something needed to do what Trump is doing and for that I'm grateful.
I also tend to believe that Trump follows his own plans to meet his own goals, not Hillary's.
Whatever. Our boring, tired old political soap opera finally has a new writer and the comedy and drama, and the ratings, haven't been this good for a very long time.
I really think that he’s so popular right now because he’s NOT a politician.
It’s a welcome relief to have an American stand up and unashamedly speak without all the ‘polish’ and dancing around.
I don’t think he’ll be president, but (if he makes it through the nomination) I’ll vote for him just for the laugh. He can’t do more damage than Obama or Hillary.
I think that’s a plausible argument and most likely. Its even plausible that Trump is there to suck conservative air out of other campaigns to deflate them so Jeb can win.
Yes, it's plausible. But the truth is, it only works because the NRO/GOP-e was leaving the big issue, immigration, on the table. If the Stupid party had picked it up, they'd have a chance to win had they handled it correctly. But they won't, and so it was free for use as a wedge issue to split the NRO/GOP-e wing of the Republican Party from the conservatives.
Surely there is some level below total open borders that the gravitas folks could have promoted. But they are not willing to say anything at all on the topic, for fear that they will be misquoted and hammered by the left.
So the problem isn't Trump, the problem is their own deficiencies in stating their postion, and cowardice.