Posted on 03/07/2016 5:24:19 AM PST by shortstop
It's kind of like the barking dog that ran headlong into the back end of a stopped car:
Now that you've caught it, what are you going to do with it?
That's my question for Donald Trump.
Now that you've caught it, what are you doing to do with it?
Now that you seem to have all but secured the Republican nomination for president, what are you going to do with it? How are you going to assure the American people that you are serious about the job, and that you have a specific and substantive plan for moving the country forward?
How do you show the people of the world that you are worthy of being president of the United States?
How do you lay aside the showmanship of the campaign, and take up the mantle of respectability that the office and the enormity of the task demand?
The Detroit debate was a train wreck. It left those who watched it with an odd uneasiness in their stomachs, some slight whiff of panic that made them fear the primary campaign might have gone horribly wrong. After seven years of Obama, built upon a shaky foundation of the irresponsible years before, America is in peril and half of its people are in a funk. Things are bad, and this election has to count. This is when we snatch the Republic back from the edge of a precipice.
So this election is big.
And as you shouted over Rubio, and boasted of the size of your schlong, a fear arose that you might not be big enough for the task. As the Fox moderators asked you the exact same question CNN moderators had asked you before, and you gave the same demonstrably ridiculous answer, a chill wind blew through the Trump Train.
At least it did where I sit.
When you gave the same simplistic lines you had given at the nine previous debates you've participated in, you raised doubts that you may not actually have any better answer. We know it's going to be great, we know we're going to start winning, but how. Specifically. What is your plan? In any area. Pick one.
A president and his platform have to have substance and specifics, and seriousness. You don't always have to be the buttoned-down guy most politicians are, but you do have to show that it's in your repertoire. You've shown that you are a good salesman, but you've not shown that you have a good product. There is no doubt you can be elected, there is grave doubt that you can serve.
And there is doubt that you have the temperament for the job.
As Rubio melted down at the debate, for example, an opportunity arose for you to be the bigger man and defuse the awkward confrontation. It would have been a display of maturity and reasonableness, and of your supposed negotiation skills, but you responded to his immaturity with your own, and the spiral into disgrace continued.
Presidents don't do that.
Presidents have to be worthy to stand on the tarmac at Dover.
Presidents have to be worthy to lay a wreath at Arlington.
Presidents have to have a personal goodness that allows them to be able to show love to all, and keep commitments to all, and to stand as a personal representative of the Republic, its flag and its people.
The hands of a president one day may have to fasten the Medal of Honor around a hero's neck – those hands should not have been held up to demonstrate the size of a penis.
A president needs the ability to be presidential; Trump has not yet demonstrated that ability.
And now is the time.
As the full-bore sweep of big-state primaries bears down on us, as the math becomes more and more undeniable, Donald Trump needs to prove that this is about us, not him. He must show that this isn't some outgrowth of his own massive ego, but is a genuine commitment to saving a nation that has enriched him and been home to us.
He needs to start acting like a grown up.
He needs to genuinely reach out to others by respecting them and speaking to and about them courteously.
He needs to take his platform – which fits nicely on a hat – and expound upon it with specificity and credibility.
He needs to show that if nominated and elected – statistical likelihoods – that he can actually serve.
And he needs to do it now.
Donald Trump is on track to secure the presidency.
And he needs to tell us what he's going to do with it.
Or a bunch of us on the Trump Train are going to jump off before it's too late.
Good luck with that.
We are talking about a guy who boasts about the size of his penis in a presidential debate in prime time no less. You just can't make this stuff up.
Bs, wrapped in double BS. Nobody has a better trade program, illegal program and healthcare program.
I want my candidate to fight back. I am sick and tired of the old apologists who were dead in the water three months after they got the nomination.
Please don't change a thing Trump. The one thing that can kill you is you. Don't take advice from anybody on your style of campaigning or debating... hold fast, support is there once you get past where Cruz can do damage.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to spend a little more money in the winner take all states, but that is it.
Interrupt the moderators. Interrupt lying Cruz. Tell the audience, on camera, that he is a lying donor class hack.
He needs to stop taking the bait. He needs to present the way he did when he responded to Lyin’ Ted about New York values, calm, serious and thoughtful.
He set out to act grown up and Presedential in the last debate. Alas, the pressure was just too much for him to bear. And when Rubio tossed that stick into the mud puddle and shouted, “Fetch!”... Well, Donald’s instincts took over.
Oh, but just wait! Next time he’ll act grown up! He promises! He’ll be great, I tell you. Nobody more grown up than him...
The problem is that Trump was baiting them first, and then when they responded in kind, he showed he couldn’t take it. What do you think his constant, constant references to “Little Marco” were about? And while I agree that Rubio shouldn’t have stooped to his level, it shows that Trump is exactly what everybody says he is, an insecure bully who can’t take it when people come back at him on his own terms.
Ah yes, his healthcare plan. Trump gets by with sound bites and off the cuff promises for months and then when he finally puts something in writing it contradicts what he was saying earlier. So which are we to believe? The unworkable plan he laid out verbally on the campaign trail? Or the unworkable plan he posted on his website?
He can’t be what he isn’t.
Sitting out this election entirely. Perhaps in 2020, if I’m still here, we can get some real candidates this time.
I’m not sure what you’re saying. Are you saying Megyn Kelly started it? She asked him an honest question, and he lied when he said “just Rosie.”
Act grown up? He can’t. He can’t even fake it for very long.
His press conferences are toned down. Watch the one from West Palm Beach. Campaigns are hard. I’m sure earlier elections were much more fierce but they didn’t have social media. Watch a rally or two..once the bombast is out, he can cite example after example of real life observation and where he is on issues with ease and clarity in a normal tone.
Cancelling a debate won't give dignity to Trump. Only he can achieve that himself.
Who fell for the bait? Fiorina is gone, that Bush kid is gone gone gone, and little marco is shriveling up in the cold.
And each of them tried to mud-wrestle Trump and lost. Lesson - punch above the belt.
I'd rather win. . .I can survive the unsportsman-like endzone dance.
Bob Lonsberry SHOULD BE NATIONAL like Rush and Hannity and Levin
I had the great opportunity to listen to his show and read his stuff when I worked IN Rochester NY. It is a shame he is only local.
He is not only brilliant he is funny and entertaining.
The sad thing is the libtards set out to destroy his life once and almost succeeded, for a comment he made on-air (it was INCREDIBLY stupid OF THEM but it was at a time were Political Correctness was reaching its peak - today they might be told to go F themselves)
A bed-wetting crybaby - that’s how he built in Manhattan when everyone else said it couldn’t be done.
They left out “after 8 years of Bush”
The title assumes Trump is not acting correctly.
While the press tries to make his hand comment about something other than his hands it wasn’t.
Could explain why he set up the “press conference” style appearance at Mar-a-Lago after that Saturday’s primaries...an attempt to convey an aura of “presidentialness.”
Therein lies the problem. Trump has made statements on many sides of most issues. Trump loyalists pick the ones they like and say "that's Trump's position." Even Trump's web site policy statements mostly lack concrete positions. I am "interested" and I don't know what his positions REALLY are.
I’m sure by then the GOPe, if still in existence, will have found a way to keep non-establishment types out. No worries. /s
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