Posted on 07/19/2015 10:59:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"No, not at all."
That was reality TV star Donald Trump's response to ABC's Martha Raddatz Sunday morning when she asked him whether he owed John McCain an apology for suggesting that the Arizona Senator wasn't a war hero because he had been captured during the Vietnam War.
If you were expecting anything else from Trump, you haven't been paying much attention to his presidential campaign. Or his life. Trump's appeal in the 2016 race appears to be built on saying things and acting in ways that other politicians would never dream of doing. Trump, to his credit, appears to grasp that fact.
"I will say what I want to say, and maybe that’s why I’m leading in the polls because people are tired of hearing politicians and pollsters telling the politicians exactly what to say," Trump told Raddatz.
The fact is that apologizing after a comment judged as ill-advised (at best) by most politicians is exact opposite of the Trump brand. The sort of people who misspeak and then try to clean up their messes are the very people that Trump derides -- and that he believes the public can't stand either....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"I apologize for using an old joke that liberal Democrats used against McCain when he was running for president in 2000. I realize now that Democrats intended the line as a mean spirited attack on veterans, something that I never intended. I promise never again to act like a Democrat."
How will he do that?
How much has Cruz spent so far?
Trump?
I don't know either, but I'll bet Cruz is outspending Trump 10 to 1, and look who's ahead.
Where is this "divestiture of assets" notion of yours coming from?
Because who has power already and knows how to use it without spending money?
The other candidates aren’t going to learn from Trump. They are beholden to lobbyists and the COC, and big donors. They will jump as high as their donors tell them to. So, it’s wishful thinking on your part to think otherwise.
I think it’s more a case of Trump knowing how to use the pulpit, and Cruz, for whatever reason, can’t or doesn’t.
Take illegals, for example.
Trump isn’t saying anything much different than Cruz, but look how much traction his style of presentation got him. He’s done more in 3 weeks than Cruz has been able to do in 3 years.
That’s why Cruz would, or could, learn a lot as VP under trump.
http://conservativebyte.com/2015/07/fact-checking-the-trump-mccain-fight/
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/05/29/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/
http://polidics.com/ethics/fellow-pows-say-john-mccain-was-a-coward-and-a-traitor-in-viet-nam.html
http://www.vvof.org/mccain_hides.htm
http://antiwar.com/blog/2008/09/27/mccain-betrayed-viet-pows/
http://takimag.com/article/judas_mccain_guy_somerset/print#axzz3gOCRtr7x
My sense is that the MSM has already polled the McLame kirfuffle and they find it has not hurt Trump’s standing in the slightest. That is what is behind the article.
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