No time for Trump this year

The Albany Times-Union ^ | April 17, 2011 | Rex Smith, Editor

[kingu]

The bait and switch was that I've heard of no one who claims that Obama isn't a US citizen. Doesn't mean anything in the context of naturally born citizen which is a qualifier for the presidency.

[Reagan Man]

Woohoo, struck a nerve. Get use to it.

You trumpsters sure are thin skinned varmints.

[bronxville]

- and this is the story of the fallout... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/daily-news-trump-zuckerman_n_849234.html?ir=New%20York

[kingu]

Votes can't be taken for granted. If ‘read my lips’ hadn't backstabbed the base and actually campaigned for your vote rather than taking it for granted, he might have won reelection.

Trump, if he ran as a third party candidate, would only gain as many votes as the two major ones discarded as not being worth the trouble.

Myself, I've gone to a much more pragmatic viewpoint. That no big tent GOP Republican is going to arrange the primaries so that a real conservative has a shot. I want as conservative as I can get with massive coattails. I want to backstab the big tenters with as many solid conservatives in congress as possible.

If Trump can deliver that by making New York a battleground state, it will suck tens of millions that might have been used to prop up liberals in toss up districts, and make it possible for conservatives to win.

That and most of the big tent suckups would never survive with Trump as the head of the party.

[One Name]

It’s been the “elephant in the room” since before the election within certain circles.

He could be an NBC, but with parentage other than previously portrayed.

He could be an NBC, but committed fraud with regard to student loans,passports,SSN’s,legal name,etc.

He could be a non-NBC which makes everything else secondary or moot.

Or, he could be totally legit.

It deserves airing out.

[One Name]

I don’t pretend to know the politics of every battleground state, but I do think you make a good point with respect to NY and others. I hadn’t really thought about that much- that Trump could siphon democrat votes away enough to make a difference in previously solid blue states. I’m used to third party candidates like Perot and John Anderson (and earlier on George Wallace)splitting repub votes.

Let the chips fall where they may.

[Sun]

“Trump is closer to Reagan than that RINO Romney is.”

Trump is closer to former Governor Arnold than anyone I know.

Arnold S. had a conservative image, but was really a liberal, and now we have Trump fooling folks with a conservative image, imo, and is really a liberal.

“The man behind Donald Trump’s possible 2012 presidential campaign is a registered Democrat who voted for Barack Obama in 2008.

Not only that, but Michael Cohen, an executive at the Trump Organization who doubles as Trump’s chief political adviser, once volunteered for 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and worked for a Democratic member of Congress.

More http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-political-pit-bull-meet-michael-cohen/story?id=13386747&page=1

Just like Trump Michael Cohen claims to be disappointed in Obama, or is he just saying that?

In any event, the fact that a strong liberal is the man behind Trump, should tell us that Trump is no conservative.

[Catsrus]

I believe Trump is a liberal mole inside our party. I think he’s a plant to bring down the Tea Party.

Watch the movie, “Stalig 17,” and you’ll understand just how the Nazis infilitrated the gulags during the war. I have a sick feeling that Trump is a mole inside our Stalig.

[Beckwith]

Another Democrat for Romney.

[jmaroneps37]

The Left is scare to death of Trump because want to pick our candidate again so Obama will win again. They will go all out to push Mittens and maybe even push a Mittens/ Juan McLame ticket, but the Left and Levin and BORe etc can just keep talking their insulting talk. I say insulting for their presumption that they have actually researched the issues and came away with a pass for Obama.

They DON'T understand the driving force behind the TEA party and never will. I want the people I send to Washington to act like Americans, and I won't settle for less this time. Trump has more courage than the bunch of them and telling me he was once pro abortion means nothing to me. If ONCE being pro abortion means you're out forever why should we pro lifers keep talking to pro abortion people? Why try to change their minds?

All of this reminds me of the line from “White men can't jump” “You'd rather look good and miss... “
I DON'T WANT ANOTHER BOB DOLE OR MC LAME WHO LOOKS GOOD BUT MISSES!

[crz]

If they all become candidates..Trump, Palin etc. Which one has enough clout to NOT be forced into line by the establishment?

There is only one.