Posted on 09/15/2016 1:24:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Democrats are starting to panic, they should. What else do they have to throw at him?
If you aren’t seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you aren’t paying attention.
Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump was a reality-TV star with a spotty business record and a weird penchant for proclaiming he was on the verge of running for president. Now, he’s perhaps a few big breaks and a couple of sterling debate performances away from being elected 45th president of the United States.
Trump has no experience in elected office, and unlike past nonpoliticians elected president, hasn’t won a major war. He barely has a national campaign. He perhaps knows less about public affairs than the average congressman. He has repeatedly advertised his thin-skinned vindictiveness and is trampling on basic political norms, like the convention of candidates releasing their tax returns.
No major political party has ever nominated anyone like this. If Trump were to prevail, it would make Barack Obama’s unlikely rise from unknown state senator to first African-American president of the United States in about four years look like a boringly conventional political trajectory.
Obama seemed to come out of nowhere, but his steps to the presidency — law degree, state office, U.S. senator — were stereotypical. Trump won the Republican nomination despite — or because of? — attributes that would have seemed disqualifying two years ago, such as, to name a few, his personal life, his longtime support for Democrats, his newly minted, hard-to-credit social conservatism, his disdain for Republican orthodoxy, and his basic lack of preparation.
Trump now has a legitimate shot at winning the general because he got the lucky draw of at least the second-worst presidential nominee in recent memory....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Competent, smart, hard working people make their own luck.
Bill Buckley wouldn’t hire this puke to shine his shoes
During DEBATES, if Trump keeps hammering that Hillary represents THE ESTABLISHMENT as an ENTRENCHED GLOBALIST POLITICIAN for decades, she is DEFENSELESS on this count.
Rich, I’ll feel so bad for you if Trump wins........NOT! You’re such a pompous arsehole!! GO TRUMP!!
Nobody remembers Wendell Willkie...he was a businessman, not a politician (1940 Republican nominee).
Rich Lowry seems a bit angry over this development.
Too bad.
LOL poor PUKElotico..what will they do under a Trump presidency..my suggestion, move to Congo, or Iran since they are such big fans of them anyway
The writer is explosively besharting himself over Trump. Excellent!
They are terrified to admit the truth.
If Trump pulls off a victory this November (and I believe he will) he will go down as perhaps the greatest political strategist in he history of humanity.
We’re going to need extra space of Mount Rushmore - the man is going to be the President this country has been waiting for since Washington
There is the ruling class, those with their hands out for free sh!t at everyone else’s expense. And then there’s the rest of us.
Barack Obama had no experience at anything, and was installed basically as an affirmative action president. He still has not accomplished anything noteworthy, although with his inexperience and bias has managed to do a lot of harm.
Trump has oodles of experience out in the real world. We do not need people who are experienced at being career politicians, as the author of this screed implies. We need people who have real world experience, who instinctively understand how career politicians can destroy everything they touch through a combination of hubris and complete inability to identify with ordinary people. We need more people like Trump, and fewer career politicians.
Lowry should look in the mirror after what he’s done to NR.
On a side note, there are all these youtube videos that have been out there for a year or more that say the US is going to collapse on September 27th.
I always like to get a good chuckle out of them, and then I realized the debates are the day before. Could they spark it? ;-)
I love the smell of desperation in the morning! Smells like...VICTORY!
They still don’t get it. WE WANT to unleash a bull in a china shop. We are tired of the status quo. We are tired of endless corruption. We are tired of the elite forcing their agenda on us and ignoring what we want. We are tired of endless lies and empty promises. If Trump means the complete collapse of the existing political system and destruction of both leading political parties, well, that’s just icing on the cake.
Rich Lowry is a Douche Nozzle!
>>If you aren’t seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you aren’t paying attention.
Lowry has no clue what a “black swan event” is.
For the first time in Thirty Years I will not be renewing my subscription. I have been a subscriber since college!
That is awesome!
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