Have a slurp. The cruzers drank all THEIR Canadian Ted Fool-Aid. :)
Posted on 02/28/2016 6:00:35 AM PST by Kaslin
There he was, stripped bare and standing in the middle of the debate stage. Donald Trump was eviscerated in Thursday's debate. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz took turns pummeling the founder of Trump University with his own words, his own history, and delivering body blow after body blow.
It was more than enough to convince any thinking person he was not a serious candidate for president. But Trump isn't your typical presidential candidate. He's Barack Obama-light, in every sense of the term.
What does Donald Trump stand for? What will he do if elected? What core conservative principle will he advance?
If you're being honest, the answer to each of those questions is you have no idea.
Don't feel bad, neither does he.
That's not entirely true. He was fairly unambiguous about one thing he'd like to do: change the law so he can sue newspapers. When it comes to solutions to the nation's problems, Donald Trump is the equivalent of a constitutional dumpster fire; and that's just fine to his worshipers.
The day after being embarrassed in front of the world, in part because of the lack of specifics he's provided as to what he would do as president, Trump held a press conference to get specific - or at least specific-ish - about this proposal. He said:
"One of the things I'm going to do, and this is going to make it tougher for me...but one of the things I'm going to do if I win...is I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We're going to open up those libel laws. So that when the New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected."
By the way, the reason "they're totally protected" right now is the First Amendment, that whole "Congress shall make no law" bit about freedom of the press. But who cares? Right, Trump fans?
It's the same stifling of speech outraging conservatives on college campuses; only it's Trump advancing it. If it's fascism when a student group proposes it, what is it when a billionaire does?
His supporters don't bother with strings of words ending in question marks. Their kryptonite is a simple "How?" or the dreaded "What?"
What does Donald Trump want to do as president? There is no answer yet articulated that wouldn't fit nicely on a bumper sticker. He wants to "make American great again," or "build a wall," or "destroy ISIS," etc., etc. How?
He has no answer. He makes proclamations like a dime store Juan Perón. Only he has no clue how a president must work with Congress to create or change laws. Trump supporters appear content to adopt the Barack Obama model of rule by executive fiat. They don't mind a despot as long as he's their despot.
Trump's "specifics," such as they are, about his signature talking point is a wall that grows by 10 feet each time Mexican officials say they won't pay for it. It's at least 30 feet higher than when it started, but we're no closer to learning how it will be paid for. It just will be...apparently.
Cheerleaders aren't even bothered by the fact that on his signature issue, immigration, he's imported workers rather than hire Americans. His claim of it being "impossible" to find Americans to do his jobs is right out of the liberal playbook of "jobs Americans won't do" for illegal aliens.
His supporters don't give a damn about his hypocrisy any more than Hillary Clinton's, Barack Obama's or Al Gore's do.
They love he's "self-funding" his campaign because he "can't be bought." Do they think that will hold? A general election will cost at least $1 billion. Will Donald Trump mortgage his business on the possibility that, after alienating more than half the GOP, he'll win?
He doesn't have a billion in cash lying around. Since he's hiding his tax returns, most likely because he's not nearly as rich as he claims (he's sued over that before and lost), there's little chance he'd be able to fund a tenth of a general election campaign.
He's gotten this far through free media. Sure, he's spent a few million once he absolutely had to, but the majority of his exposure comes from the cable networks taking every speech of his live, allowing him to phone in whenever he wants and being willing to broadcast any sycophant wannabe Trump staffer representing him unchallenged. Against Hillary Clinton that ends. He will need money, money he doesn't have.
He does have rich friends, and those friends would love to have a friend in the White House. And not because they'd find it "cool" to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.
When Rubio and Cruz exposed Donald Trump's inability to explain what he'd do, and how, on any issue beyond his memorized bumper stickers, they did the country a great service. Unfortunately, blinded by anger and hatred, his devotees refuse to see their emperor has no clothes, nor clue.
There is no issue on which you can find Donald Trump speaking eloquently, passionately, and with any detail that doesn't involve his poll numbers or his wealth. We have only his word to go on about his wealth, and his word has not always been accurate. That people are willing to believe him, unchallenged, and take offense when others do challenge him, is the mentality that has led to dark places in world history.
Scapegoating is a powerful weapon of manipulation, and Trump deploys it better than anyone in 80+ years. His followers want to "burn it all down," so they're willing to blindly follow a pied piper down a very dangerous path. If they refuse to open their eyes, the dumpster fire they're franticly cheering will burn them down eventually too.
PS: I urge you to watch this video, any part of it, and try to spot a coherent or even complete sentence from Trump. It's the ramblings of a man unhinged and incapable of serious or important discussion of any issue facing the country. It may make you laugh, but does it inspire? Is it remotely presidential?
Cruz and Beck showed their true colors. I noticed.
I refuse to back an open borders candidate.
No he doesn’t.
And anyway, I don’t care if they come back as workers, as long as they go through an immigration process. So we know who they are, why they are here, what they are going to do here.
There must be sanity brought to the immigration process.
I don’t even know what the point is of that ridiculous statement.
The conservative press such as Mr Hunter are playing in a sandbox and along comes Trump and kicks sand in their faces. They feign anger at Trump but they are actually running back to mommy to ask for her to kiss their booboo. The actual problem is not Trump who is merely a blowhard. The problem is that people like Hunter are part of the DC establishment.
Nice explanation of Trump’s positions. It is about par for the course around here any more.
You moron. I was responding to a post, not the op-ed. You injected yourself into a comment another poster made, not the op-ed. Then you accuse me of putting words into your mouth. Maybe if you didn’t butt into an exchange between others you could keep your facts straight and stop accusing others of quoting you.
Idiot.
You’re very welcome. Trump has a website explaining his policy positions in some areas. The rest is of course a crap shoot, we don’t know what we will get if we elect him other than Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot rolled into one (according to the Washington Post). But I’m long past the point pretending there are perfect conservative candidates. I will vote Cruz in Virginia’s proportional allotment on Tuesday and support Trump in the general.
DEREK HUNTER is not the subject of the article. DONALD TRUMP is. Please stick to the SUBJECT
It fits, doesn’t it?
It would fit just as well on a cruzer. :)
>>>The election of Trump is the French Revolution
Yeah, that turned out really well.
I will never forgive you for staying home in the 2012 general election or writing in some third party candidate that had no chance whatsoever. That goes for all of those who stayed home.
I didn't stay home. I took the day off from work and spent it making phone calls for the Romney campaign. It was one of the biggest wastes of effort in my life, as the Romney GOTV plan was pathetic.
Romney was a horrible choice and you are a jerk for attacking me like this.
Have a slurp. The cruzers drank all THEIR Canadian Ted Fool-Aid. :)
Hopefully the wall will be here for hundreds of years, well beyond the life spans of any interlopers that game the system today. It is an inter generational gift.
After Tuesday will you pleas shut up? Get used to Trump being the candidate. I don't think Mr. Robinson is going to tolerate the TDS much longer.
Exactly, and like I said , does someone that want’s to be the leader of the world behave like that? I don’t think so.
Derek is fighting the last war
One after another. The morons will not be silenced.
That noobie Donalinger never made a comment on the op-ed. All it did was bitch about the source of the publisher of the op-ed which is Townhall.com. It does so every time I post an op-ed sourced by the publisher of any op-eds. I will now allow the noobie to tell me from what sources I can post.
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