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Weekly Standard ^ | September 28, 2015 | Bill Kristol

Posted on 09/18/2015 9:06:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

How big a problem is it that the two leading Republican candidates for president aren’t actually qualified to be president?

“Oh, come on,” you’re inclined to respond. “It’s not that much of a problem. After all, Donald Trump and Ben Carson aren’t really the leading GOP presidential candidates, are they?”

Yes, they are. Donald Trump is averaging about 30 percent in national polls and has been rising steadily since announcing his candidacy. Ben Carson started to move into double digits a month ago and is now at 20 percent. No one else is above single digits. In fact, if you take a look at the Real Clear Politics averages, you’ll find none of the others is above 7.8 percent. The ones who have briefly visited the land of double digits have since fallen back. No one has shown sustained momentum.

“Well,” you’re tempted to retort, “why should we believe that neither Trump nor Carson is qualified to be president?”

Did you watch the debate? Neither Trump nor Carson has much of a grasp of the issues. Neither has a demonstrated ability to govern. Trump is certainly the less qualified of the two, a self-regarding blowhard who’s not much of a conservative to boot, who is not now and will never be qualified to be president.

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To: COUNTrecount

The CEO does not need to have the most firm grasp of issues. His primary responsibility is hiring the people most qualified to understand the issues.

Trump should be fine on this point.


61 posted on 09/18/2015 9:28:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: COUNTrecount

Define “qualified”.


62 posted on 09/18/2015 9:30:14 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Win or Lose, Still a "12"!)
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To: COUNTrecount
I wouldn't waste the money on this rag magazine just to line the bottom of the bird cage or the dog run....

The writers on this have done nothing but support Obama and the GOPee...they are not worth the time and money....

I wish there was a way we could block this crap, but there isn't so when I see something like this rag, I'll be passing by, oh and by the way, I won't be recommending this rag to anyone I know....

63 posted on 09/18/2015 9:30:37 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: COUNTrecount

They are both natural born citizens, over 35.

Therefore qualified.

Kristol is interesting in now being the first from the more GOPe side to be saying the GOP is dead or should be broken up with independent candidates or third party.

A lot of people here, who don’t share his opinions on the better candidate, should applaud him and respect him for a certain common cause and viewpoint.


64 posted on 09/18/2015 9:30:46 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: jpsb

You think John Bolton is an idiot?


65 posted on 09/18/2015 9:31:42 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: COUNTrecount

Kristol isn’t qualified to be a human being!

Yet, he lies/spins reasons for us not to vote for someone without the DC stamp of approval.

Boycott anything Kristol gets a paycheck from.


66 posted on 09/18/2015 9:31:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (So much... concern about Trump's campaign from those who don't like him. Strange!?? Cui Bono?)
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To: 5th MEB

Paleocon has a nice ring to it.


67 posted on 09/18/2015 9:32:26 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Trump “governed” thousands of employees and built a 10 billion dollar empire.

If you think that doesn’t take an incredible amount of management/governing ability I assume that you have never run your own business.

I sign the front of payroll checks, not the back, BTW.


68 posted on 09/18/2015 9:32:42 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: Objective Scrutator

“Bill Kristol has a history of outright endorsing socialized medicine”

As has The Donald.

(Although, I never heard where Kristol did, I’m taking your word for it).


69 posted on 09/18/2015 9:35:33 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: COUNTrecount

Both are more qualified than the minimum-wager elected for the previous two terms.


70 posted on 09/18/2015 9:35:41 AM PDT by moovova
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To: COUNTrecount

We have to think that question is moot... since the rule book (and everything ELSE) went out the window in 2008!


71 posted on 09/18/2015 9:35:43 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: COUNTrecount

Billie Kristol lives in a bubble. That bubble needs to pop.


72 posted on 09/18/2015 9:37:13 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (1984 Now)
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To: woofie

[is is]

It depends what is is.


73 posted on 09/18/2015 9:38:22 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Personal Responsibility
Excellent summary of the reality versus Kristol's wet dream.

For those that failed Civics (like the author, apparently) a quick Google search shows that the qualifications to become President are:

- Natural Born Citizen

- 35 years old

- 14 years of permanent residence in the United States

Carson and Trump are both natural born citizens, over 35 and have lived here their whole lives. In short, they’re qualified.

74 posted on 09/18/2015 9:39:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (So much... concern about Trump's campaign from those who don't like him. Strange!?? Cui Bono?)
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To: COUNTrecount
Did you watch the debate? Neither Trump nor Carson has much of a grasp of the issues. Neither has a demonstrated ability to govern.

And I suppose Obozo, a junior senator from Illinois who had not even completed his first term in the senate and voted 'present' nearly all the time when he was a state senator in the Illinois legislature, and was just a community organizer before that, was qualified?.......................

75 posted on 09/18/2015 9:39:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: COUNTrecount
How big a problem is it that the two leading Republican candidates for president aren’t actually qualified to be president?

I guess Billy hasn't read the US Constitution lately.

Besides, after BO setting such a low standard, who isn't qualified?

76 posted on 09/18/2015 9:39:53 AM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Trump may have a demonstrated ability to build gambling houses and host a celebrity reality show, but I expect a little more than that from a President. I would like someone who at least has some passing familiarity with the Constitution and agrees with it and can articulate it and can apply it properly. Trump is a shallow man with no substance, a rude egomaniac and a blowhard. And he is not a conservative.


77 posted on 09/18/2015 9:40:03 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: Responsibility2nd

CORRECT!

The Corpse-Man, did nothing, knew nothing, but talked a good game until he saw a big word like corpsman.

Donald Trump did more on a single Wednesday in 1974 than Obama did in his entire life.

So Trump is gimmicky, well, the whole political process is gimmicky, and that’s how Obama got in. A black Max Headroom, that checked all the right boxes, or correctly hid them. Biden called him “clean”, Reid called him “light-skinned” so that the Dem racists could accept him. If Obama were white, you would not have heard of him. Now they question the system that produces a Trump??? A little late for that.

The oceans will begin to fall......GTFO


78 posted on 09/18/2015 9:40:58 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: RetSignman

Or is isn’t


79 posted on 09/18/2015 9:42:06 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Charles Henrickson

Trump published a book in 2011, Time to get Tough, which is styled as a policy manifesto. I have yet to meet a Trump critic who has read it.


80 posted on 09/18/2015 9:43:41 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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