Posted on 08/08/2015 8:30:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
Reflections on the Trump Circus
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY August 8, 2015
I’ve paid very little attention to the Donald Trump boomlet. I confess to enjoying Kevin and Jonah’s columns on the subject, but I’d enjoy their columns if they were writing about toothpicks. When asked about it, I’ve told people, “Ignore it and it will flame out on its own.” I’ve never met Donald Trump that I can recall. He’s a big New York personality and I’m Bronx born and bred, so of course I’m familiar with him. But I’ve never seen his TV shows, his news interviews are vapid, and I haven’t taken his presidential campaign any more seriously than I took his high-profile handwringing about running for this or that in the past. What about all this psychoanalysis of the conservative base? We’ve heard the trope: Trump’s poll numbers can’t be ignored because they are not so much about him as about the anger he is tapping into – anger at the bipartisan Beltway political establishment.
Well, as anyone who cares to read my columns knows, I am not exactly a stranger to that anger. I don’t need Donald Trump to draw my attention to it, and I don’t see him as a viable vehicle for representing it since he has a history of supporting positions and politicians responsible for a lot of that anger. Besides, at this stage, 15 months before the 2016 election, the 20 percent mark at which Trump hovers is not very impressive for someone as well known as he is (a relatively unknown Carly Fiorina, for example, has a much higher ceiling than a Trump with negatives in the 60s). So I haven’t been able to work up much interest.
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are you sure YOU belong here?
A lot of people here, like myself, support Cruz, but see Trump as useful against the GOPe.
I have very much respect for Andy McCarthy.
“Andrew McCarthy is of brilliant mind and is a superb political analyst.”
What are you, his press agent? He is an idiot, and his political conclusions are so biased they’d squeal if played through a speaker.
Trump is stealing votes from Cruz. Trumnp is mouthing the positions that Cruz has championed for years.
I support Trump & Cruz.
I think we need the VIKING WARRIOR DUDE to stay for a bit longer
If you read the entire article he’s an ardent and unabashed supported of Ted Cruz (GOP-e?)
Yep. Impeccable. Did I read that he is a Cruz guy?
Absolutely on point. Time to end this Trumpomania and focus on Ted Cruz.
I read what you copied above and he says a whole lot of nothing.
He’s ‘sharing’. Do we need to spend a minute on someone ‘sharing’?
How about telling us WTF he has to contribute?
If only the rest of the Trumpophiles will read McCarthy’s superb analysis.
Suddenly , Kelly the Murdoch Assassin who crossed the line on live TV is suddenly the victim and needs an apology !
Murdoch media hacks and the Fox contributor aka subcontractor Trump smear merchants are trying to Change the focus away from Murdoch Debate Attack ! Rupert is even now running Trump is in trouble propaganda on his overseas Sky New propaganda outlet.
We are deep trouble when tne DC hacks like McCarthy show themselves to be nothing but DC - Murdoch media mouthpieces
Read his entire article. It’s “his” analysis. McCarthy is the guy who put the blind sheikh behind bars for the WTC 1 bombing.
The fact your carrying the DC media elites water speaks volumes about YOU !
Cruz respects the policy wonk stuff. Trump doesn’t. That’s why Trump is hated.
It doesn’t matter. The problem is congress and that has to change in some way for whoever the GOP runs.
It's simply impossible to reason people out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.
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