“If you can’t win on ideas, go Alinsky.”
— The Trump Manifesto
The case will be made I have just contradicted everything I have posted, but hey....sometimes you have to fight a bully by being a bully.
Trump knows no one will challenge him the same way he challenges others.
If unchecked, this is how he will pick off the other candidates. One by one
You mean like Cruz’s Alinsky pamphlets?
Interesting how pit bull Trump has latched onto “natural born citizen” which was written at a time when nearly everyone traveled no more that 50 - 100 miles from their place of birth. Now someone can be born on US soil in the morning and be in China by afternoon. I hardly think that the physical place of one’s birth dictates their lifetime principles anymore. A person’s character is more important than the physical location where their bottom was first slapped.
I like many of the things Trump says but there is a dark corner of his brain that is immature and spooky.
I now look back at that thinking and realize that for me, moving seamlessly to Trump, should the time come, to place my vote for Trump (the guy I first enjoyed, hearing speak to bash political correctness and tease the wossie establishment GOP, even if rudely and crudely, especially to those who swarm in around election time whipping any conservative manliness out of our candidates!)
That time has come and gone, however, now as I realize that Trump wasn't just speaking "truth to power" and challenging the political power inside the GOP.
I also realize Trump's rude, rough and sarcastic manner wasn't merely directed at the media, the liberals, the stodgy guys insisting on picking our candidates for us.
He wasn't content just to brag about his wealth, his education, his intellect, his wealthy lifestyle, his ideas (no matter how mercurial and changeable on a dime), to brag about his ideas being not only correct but far superior to anyone else at any time, to boast about how great, beautiful and far superior all of his wives have been, and on that topic, now bragging, not merely admitting to sexual "indiscretions" have been with "beautiful, accomplished, successful and happily married his many adulterous affairs have been (one assumes that extends to his virility and sexually superiority he is), while extolling us with his great relationship with God and what a great Christian he is, not ever needing to feel ashamed over anything he's ever done because he and God are so close!
If this weren't enough, he goes after his opponents not satisfied with attacking them on policy or past voting records but also making fun of their physical characteristics, looks (Carly Fiorina), intelligence, accomplishments, family members, etc.
We've lived through many bad Presidents before, many dishonest charlatans, many adulterers many non-Christians, many incompetents, many hypocritical destructive boobs but I was never put to the test to vote for the "lesser of two evils."
It was a joke son, a joke. Kind of like Donald Duck.