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Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016
National Review ^ | August 20, 2015 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 08/20/2015 1:31:42 PM PDT by Steelfish

Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016

by Kevin D. Williamson August 20, 2015

Donald Trump’s admirers, like those of Ross Perot in an earlier epoch, cite his business success as his main qualification and believe that the acumen that he has demonstrated in making himself rich enough to do incredibly vulgar things like gold-plating the seatbelt buckles in his airplane is a skill that’s transferable to things like trade policy and immigration law. There may be something to that line of thinking, but Ross Perot is not the entrepreneur whom Trump most closely resembles.

You heard it here first: Paris Hilton 2016. Trump has a great deal in common with Hilton, much more than a famous blond hair-do. Hilton is — or was, more on that in a bit — an heiress to a splendid fortune based in part on real estate. Trump, despite his eternal posturing as novus homo, is a New York City trust-fund brat who inherited a vast real-estate portfolio from his father.

Hilton used her standing as a figure of public interest to create a career for herself as a celebrity, as someone who is “famous for being famous,” as the saying goes. Trump still owns a great deal of real estate, but his largest asset, according to his own financial statements, is his celebrity: He values his personal brand at many billions of dollars, more than any building or golf course or property he owns. .

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; election2016; kevindwilliamson; mindlessmeanderings; nationalreview; newyork; parishilton; pig; trump
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To: South40

I love how thin-skinned you two are.


61 posted on 08/20/2015 2:51:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yes, I am thin-skinned so I voluntarily inject myself into Trumps threads so I can take the abuse.

You make a bigger fool of yourself with every post.

Just be man and respect what others ask. Stop sending unwanted PMs to posters who you know do not want them.

62 posted on 08/20/2015 2:53:14 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: South40; 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz says he’s a BIG Trump fan.

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#q=Ted+Cruz:+%27I%27m+a+Big+Fan+of+Donald+Trump%27s&hl=en&start=10

He’s good enough for Cruz.


63 posted on 08/20/2015 3:07:18 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Red Steel

It’s one thing to support what Trump has been saying (I do) it’s another thing altogether to support him for the Republican nomination which Cruz clearly does not (nor do I).


64 posted on 08/20/2015 3:09:35 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: South40
It's a nice day.

Smiles. :-)

65 posted on 08/20/2015 3:13:13 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Red Steel

Nice pic. But it doesn’t prove Cruz supports Trump for the Republican nomination because he doesn’t.


66 posted on 08/20/2015 3:14:24 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: x

Not at first


67 posted on 08/20/2015 5:16:06 PM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: South40

Every Republican nominee for president after Reagan was de facto liberal that only cared about working within the DC establishment.

You know all of the primary conservatives are just theater, right?

Most would rather see a candidate than isn’t beholden to the establishment and that won’t sell out the country at the first chance.

If Cruz truly believes in the ideals that he is proclaiming, he should stating that he will go third party too. After all, what’s more important, the party/establishment or the country?


68 posted on 08/22/2015 1:38:50 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: JeffAtlanta

What’s the status of “sore loser” laws once these candidates register for a R primary?


69 posted on 08/22/2015 1:40:54 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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