Posted on 05/02/2011 2:07:24 PM PDT by ransomnote
Assumption: Donald Trump is motivated not by superego, but by ego.
Ah, hell. It’s probably the id and we all know it.
If you agree, read on. If not, run along to Obama’s re-election campaign where you belong.
Right now Donald Trump is like a pig in slop. He was just another rich celebrity blowhard “punching upward” for attention. But then Obama swung back, because the Leader of the Free World is such a genius.
When Michael Barone advances a theory, such as that Obama is no Machiavelli, what can we do but agree? But we all have the nightmare scenario searing our minds’ eyes: Obama has elevated Trump into a “serious” Republican contender. Ego aflame, he runs in the primary and does well but doesn’t win. Then he goes Ross Perot and hands the Oval Office back to (in Trump’s words) “the worst President ever”. Obama sure looks like a genius then.
Let’s not take that chance, m’kay?
The proper counter is so simple and obvious that Republican leadership will never think of it. Let’s remind them:
United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Make that An Official Plank before the primaries. “We hang together or hang separately.” Yes, it’s a real Paine going to this trouble. But if the good ship G.O.P. doesn’t secure its weapons, it will learn the origin of the phrase “loose cannon”.
So reject in advance any candidate who won’t vow to accept the will of Republican voters. Do it now, Elephants.
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It’s the only way Trump can stay relevant politically. He has zero chance of winning the GOP nomination, so if he really wants to create havoc he can run indie and siphon off upwards of 5% or so of the anti-Obama vote. That would probably be enough to ensure Hussein gets a second term.
Even though the vast majority of conservatives, Republicans and Tea Party folks would know better than to vote 3rd party, there are always some hard heads who are determined to throw their vote away as some bizarre form of protest. Just look at New York right now, a conservative district is in some danger of falling into Democratic hands because some fake Tea Party spoiler is running indie. Unfortunately, some people, whether ignorant or just plain stubborn will vote for that 3rd party candidate and may well cost us the seat by splitting the conservative vote.
We already have a 3 party system, the Tea Party & the Pubbies do not agree, has the author of this article forgotten last November so quickly??
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