I was thinking after hearing Trumpets announcement that the best recourse for the rest of the Republican field, in dealing with his explosive stream of thoughts and pronouncements, they would have to take his applause lines as their own and move on. He says some super charged stuff that voters agree with, but Trump is never going to be coherent or proven solid enough to deliver them.
Guess that’s what Huckabee thought also. I mean, what do you do with a guy like that, especially in a debate forum if you don’t do a little co-opting on his good stuff and discard the bluster for what it is?
I don’t think Trumpet is up against any shrinking violets. Rubio and Fiorina come to mind as pretty quick on their feet, probably capable of cooling his jets.
Cruz is more than capable of delivering to the Don a tutorial on the limits of the executive branch, and to the reality of congressional power against establishing an executive branch fiefdom, noisily affecting international relations by wielding it’s loud mouth to the globe.
I have to say that although I like what Donny’s saying, for Republicans of whatever stripe to take him seriously ultimately denigrates or deteriorates however seriously they take themselves. This is bluster over substance, never mind his prior record. I am saying that IMHO, ultimately this is destructive. It would be less destructive if he was just a loudmouthed firebrand standing off to the side, kind of like Sarah Palin. That’s largely what he has been. And maybe this is purely a self-promotion for him, I have to consider that’s the 80% possibility. With this guy yakking away, not only do Republicans have to fend off liberal attacks (which they are dumb to keep responding to) but now they have to compete with a loudmouthed zero. Likely, it’s not for the better. I bet the GOPe loves this, because he makes all their idiots look good.