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Gail Collins: Donald Trump Gets Weirder (Now the NY Times is scared!)
The New York Times ^ | April 1, 2011 | Gail Collins

Posted on 04/01/2011 7:08:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump has run faux campaigns for president before, flirting with the Democrats and independents. This time, he’s playing a conservative Republican. By 2016, he’ll probably be talking about his affinity for the Alaskan Independence Party or the Whigs.

And, of course, he’s suddenly a birther. “This guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn’t,” he said of President Obama. “I didn’t think this was such a big deal, but, I will tell you, it’s turning out to be a very big deal because people now are calling me from all over saying: please don’t give up on this issue.”

It was a perfect vocalization of the New York Street: People are calling me up! Don’t believe everything you hear, unless it comes over the phone.

In a potential Republican field that includes Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, it’s hard to come up with a line of attack loopy enough to stand out from the pack. But darned if Trump didn’t manage to find one....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthertrump; certifigate; obama; trump
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Struck a nerve, did he?
1 posted on 04/01/2011 7:08:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s having a lot of fun and making his fellow NYer’s in the press VERY MAAAAAD.


2 posted on 04/01/2011 7:11:54 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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Struck a nerve, did he?

With a ten foot steel pike, and a twist for good measure.

3 posted on 04/01/2011 7:12:11 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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“In a potential Republican field that includes Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, it’s hard to come up with a line of attack loopy enough...”

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh...the slimes. The New York Slimes. Nobody does it more relentlessly, eh?


4 posted on 04/01/2011 7:19:10 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump sounded great on Savage today. One thing he has is gusto and passion about a topic. It’s almost like we’re so wanting someone to grow a pair and be a vocal conservative - a ‘Damn it, we’re Mad as Hell’ and we’re going to push for this, or that, or repeal this, or that, or cut this, etc. Trump communicated that gusto today. I think the left is threatened by confronting passionate people that speak the truth. Here we come!


5 posted on 04/01/2011 7:20:57 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is not an ally of the TEA Party.


6 posted on 04/01/2011 7:21:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Hmm. She comes up with an interesting variety of personal insults. But I notice that she does NOT go through the usual mantra that Obama has already shown us his birth certificate. Or even that, of course, he was born in Hawaii.

Her argument might be summed up as, "Trump is loopy. Why? Because I say so, and I represent the Mighty New York Times! Now, don't argue with me, or I'll call you loopy, too!"


7 posted on 04/01/2011 7:23:21 PM PDT by Cicero
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Yeah and sceeeeerrrd of him. The lame NY Mag press have added Trump to their list of "fake presidential candidates. "

"This Week in Fake Presidential Candidates"

8 posted on 04/01/2011 7:24:05 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Beck trashed Trump tonight on O’Reilly.

It gets curiouser and curiouser.

9 posted on 04/01/2011 7:29:40 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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Beck trashed Trump tonight on O’Reilly.

Beck trashed Trump today on his radio show too along with his sidekick who called him -- I believe he said Trump got "Idiotic."

Now, I see more idiocy coming from certain talking heads than I do with Trump. See Twiddledee and Twiddledum twins for a clue.

10 posted on 04/01/2011 7:37:53 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Paladin2

Who said he was?


11 posted on 04/01/2011 7:38:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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“Beck trashed Trump tonight on O’Reilly.

It gets curiouser and curiouser. “


Nothing personal, the public can only focus on e media whore at a time so they suck oxygen off each other.


12 posted on 04/01/2011 7:40:30 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (We can either have a free market economy or socialism, TARPers, GM and GE can't have it both ways.)
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To: Red Steel

Any of those individuals pictured, even Mayor Giuliani and Mr. Trump, would be at least 10X better than the current de facto president on his best day. Of course so would you or I.


13 posted on 04/01/2011 7:41:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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I was so happy when Gail Collins moved from the Daily News to the NY Times so I didn’t have to accidentally glance at her drivel.


14 posted on 04/01/2011 7:47:40 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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So I guess when I’m applying for a mortgage or a drivers license or federal financial aid to go to college I DON’T have to give any proof that I’m not scamming the government.
Unless I’m an illegal alien.


15 posted on 04/01/2011 7:55:18 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: Red Steel

NY Mag press are horses asses.


16 posted on 04/01/2011 7:55:36 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Red Steel

Beck called Trump a “Showboat”.

Beck fails to see he’s a Carnival Cruiseliner.


17 posted on 04/01/2011 8:00:36 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still think he is playing a game. Looking to pull a Perot against whomever the GOP candidate will be.


18 posted on 04/01/2011 8:59:58 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Cicero

Yeh kind of a personal attack without any substance. The obligatory attempt to cover for Barry no matter what.


19 posted on 04/01/2011 10:36:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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and Gail Collins has always been stupid.

husband, Dan Collins, now an editor at CBS News

20 posted on 04/01/2011 10:46:08 PM PDT by kcvl
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