Posted on 04/03/2011 5:46:56 AM PDT by Ouderkirk
Donald Trump will announce in June whether he plans on being a contender for the presidency in the Republican primaries later this year. For several reasons, my excitement over the prospects of a Trump candidacy is mounting.
Let me say first, that in a perfect world, the very idea of a man like Trump running for the presidency, on either party's ticket, would be unthinkable. This isn't to suggest that Trump is a bad man, but only that he has no experience in the art of governing. It is a common misconception among many on the right that success in business is likely to translate into success in politics. Not only does this assumption ignore the fact that the frameworks of incentives and constraints within which politicians and free enterprisers respectively operate are by and large mutually antagonistic; it ignores as well the fact that success in business could just as easily portend political failure.
Any business is an enterprise. An enterprise is defined by the goals toward which it is oriented, the goals toward the realization of which each of its members is expected to contribute. Now, obviously, the enterprises that constitute a "system" of "free enterprise" are not compulsory organizations. However, a state is indeed such an organization. It is a mistake of the first order, then, to confuse government with a private employer and citizens with employees.
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I had thought that Michigan was as hopeless as New York.
My in-laws left Michigan (both democRATS Eaton County) for no-tax Delaware. And the state was a total shambles three years ago when they moved. They still haven’t sold their house in Michigan because there is no-one left with the means to buy it for what they had paid for it 15 years previous.
My whole goal here in supporting Trump is to get rid of Romney, and to a lesser degree Pawlenty. Romney absolutely frightens me.
We have got to keep these types of lilly-livered political weaklings out of the primaries. Get some candidates who have political courage to attack Zero and the rest of the demcRAT machine for the grifting money launering scheme that it is. Instead of cow-towing to the consternation of the liberal media posing questions about how someone like Bachmann isn’t a first tier contender, and them agreeing with the premise, and she gets marginalized like the liberal media did to Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo as an unserious candidates who ideas do not deserve consideration by the electorate.
Trump would provide leadership we need. He would surround himself with experts. I see him as better than the tired old coots and one fiesty woman, we have now. We need to think outside the box or we will have four more years of the usurper Obama welted around our necks. 2012 may well be the last election we ever have in the USSA. (United Soviet States of America.)
Trump looks like Reagan compared to The Kenyan.
Give me a break about blaming Bush. Its the stupidity of the American people who put Obama in office. They had plenty of warnings from his associations with Wright, Ayers, Emanuel, Chicago. But they were to stupid to put it together,
I like Trump for the obvious reasons.
I do not question his leadership ability, nor do I necessarily have any apprehension with his foreign policy preferences. I do have some reservations about his ability to “play well with others” within the party structure, which he’s going to need. You cannot just crush some state party chairman because he pi$$ed you off.
I do think that he will eliminate Romeny. Which is my preference. I don’t like Romney for a variety of reasons, irrespective of his LDS affiliation.
I think you've got me mixed up with somebody else; I don't have any problem with bashing W...
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