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.
Trump should announce that in all things political he will ask himself WWRD ... What would Reagan do.
I don’t think so. I’ve watched a number of his rallies. In Michigan he talked about watching Japanese cars rolling off of ships by the thousands and stood there what the ‘heck is happening?’ Those are the things he recalls to his audience.
In Alabama when he spoke of waste, fraud and abuse he cited his experience with the U.N. building in New York City. he was asked to look over the plans and even met kofi annan. The cost at the time was projected to be 1.5 billion. This was back in the ‘80’s. He looked at the plans and proposed that he could do it for 500 million. He never got a call back. The ultimate cost 4 billion!
These are just two of the examples he cites. They are real and they have impact.
Oh yeah? They wrote off the blue collar vote quite publicly - saying those were the kind of uneducated illiterates who voted for Trump.
Sorry, it isn’t beginning to unravel, it’s picking up steam.
You need to research Cruz and his wife, they are in bed with the Globalists.
Is that you Ted?
The loudest cries for civility come from the inside cronies of the uniparty who have run our country to rack and ruin and consider it "uncivil" when the voters try to hold them to account for it.
You should increase your meds, Rubio and Cruz lost the last debate.
For the record, I’ve heard Ted Cruz enunciate his healthcare plan in these debates, articulately, succinctly, to the point so that everyone can understand. I’ve yet to hear Donald Trump do the same. Not picking on Mr. Trump, just stating that it would be to his benefit that when he has a minute or two to speak, he needs to use that time to its fullest to articulate his plans for healthcare, tax reform, growing the economy, etc. It can be done. Cruz does it, so can Trump.
[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?]
It is very unsettling to me that Trump does not seem to be taking any of this seriously. He acts like it is all a big joke. All insults, all the time. No substance whatsoever. Then there is the fact that he takes flip flopping to a new level.
Trump will be a disaster.
I do agree that once he secures the presidency he will need to act more presidential and I think he will do that. However, if you thought the primaries were nasty and contentious, just wait until the general. Shrillary and her gang of nutcases and freaks are not going down easily. Trump is actually going to have to get nastier if he is going to defeat her.
I do recognize that Trump is losing ground with a lot of women and religious people with his approach and that his behavior offends them. I hope that in the end, they come around and pull the level for him in November because the alternative is much, much worse.
Cruz is cozy with the GOPe and he definitely lies a lot.
Oh look everybody. Concern Troll is concerned.
There are close to 100 live rally videos on the Internet right now. That means there are 100 to 150 hours of him laying out his agenda.
He has position papers as well.
And yet you want me to believe you can’t figure out what his agenda is?
For the record, Trump has not been changing his agenda radically since last June.
If you believe that he has you’re buying into the anti-Trump diatribe.
It is not true.
They can do that.. they have the 47% and the 1%ers.
[Trump will be a disaster. He may very well be the last “Republican” president ever elected.]
If nominated, I don’t think he will be elected.
These “debates” haven’t exactly been designed to allow for substantive content.
The people who say that Trump shouldn’t get “down in the mud” with others, are the same people who would argue that Trump didn’t answer the question, or ignored the moderator, or “lost the debate” because he didn’t protect himself or stand-up to the bullies.
There is no “correct” answer to these BS-debates! Trump has laid out many of his plans, and people want more, more, more details. Who in the hell lays out their entire hand in a poker match?!? NO ONE!
Once they get the nomination, THAT is when you start the REAL details. That’s the way it usually works, and should work, but not according to this person.
“In bed with Globalists” AND Goldman Sachs and Trial Lawyers. .
[For the record, I’ve heard Ted Cruz enunciate his healthcare plan in these debates, articulately, succinctly, to the point so that everyone can understand. I’ve yet to hear Donald Trump do the same. Not picking on Mr. Trump, just stating that it would be to his benefit that when he has a minute or two to speak, he needs to use that time to its fullest to articulate his plans for healthcare, tax reform, growing the economy, etc. It can be done. Cruz does it, so can Trump.]
How about we just nominated Cruz!
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