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Posted on 04/10/2011 12:57:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump. Really?
The federal government is running out of money. The country's armed forces are involved in three wars. President Obama has kick-started his reelection campaign. And who is getting the most ink as a potential Republican presidential candidate? The Donald. Seriously?
"I have never been so serious as I am now," says Trump, who was also a potential candidate in 2000, 2004, and 2008. What Trump is really serious about is his brand name.
"I have great respect for Donald Trump, but that's the last thing the country needs is a showboat," said Glenn Beck in a recent interview with Bill O'Reilly. Guess it takes one to know one. Beck appeared to be a potential candidate himself after holding that giant rally in Washington last year. But last week he was fired by Fox News for losing advertisers as well as audience share.
Suddenly, Beck is day-old bread. Meanwhile, Fox News has signed up Trump to do a "Monday Mornings with Trump" segment on the show Fox & Friends. Since Trump won't be paid, he can do the show unless and until he officially declares himself a candidate, when federal election rules would kick in.
Trump says his paid TV gig will determine the timing of any announcement. He has to wait until Celebrity Apprentice is over. That show accounts for a lot of his popularity. But Trump for president?
The thought cannot be dismissed. Not when the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of expected Republican primary voters shows Trump tied for second place with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. They both got 17 percent, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney well within range at 21 percent.
But here's the kicker: Trump leads the other contenders among Republicans who identify themselves as tea-party followers. Trump got 20 percent of the support from that group to Romney's 17 percent and Huckabee's 14 percent.
You can't help but draw a line from Trump's appeal to tea-party folks to his remarks questioning Obama's being born in the United States. The "birther" movement is strong among tea-party activists. In a Today Show interview last week, Trump actually used the word lying in reference to Obama. He claimed the president has spent $2 million to hide the truth.
People who like Trump talk about his business acumen, how he was on the bottom and is back on top. They like what they see on Celebrity Apprentice, where Trump often fires people based on a gut feeling - a contrast to Obama's logic-driven approach.
But it's Trump's attacks on Obama's citizenship that signal the type of campaign he would run. It wouldn't be about finding the truth; it would be about further dividing America. Here's hoping those polls showing that's the direction in which Republican voters are leaning are wrong.
Obama is the worst thing for black America, white America and has done nothing all to be a unifier.
That WOULD be an interesting ticket.
It appears Nature abhors a leadership vacuum, and after the immense vacuousness of the Obama crowd (another vacation, anyone?), 2 people who actually know how to solve problems could really work.
And the dividing America card already? Didn't they get the memo that it's supposed to be racist to go up against Obama or question anything about him?
Though it is amusing about liberals facing spending a few tens of millions to hold onto New York in a hypothetical match up against Trump..
the immense vacuousness of the Obama crowdAlthough I love your phrase, and though it certainly applies to Obama himself, it tends to ignore the powerful efforts of the Kenyan White House to build Socialism In America and align that socialism with Islamofacism (reminiscent of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact).
The GOP wants Romney or another demi-liberal, because the country club Republicans believe the only way to win elections is to go with liberal lite.I think you've got that wrong. It's not that the country club Republicans believe that Liberal Lite is the only way to win elections. It's that they believe that Liberal Lite is the only way to BE... even if it means LOSING elections. Look at Miss Karl Rove and Miss John McCain. Those two shemales are prime examples of that.
The important thing with those shemale Republicans is to be a Political Eunuch and have absolutely no testicular fortitude. To them, it's the Prime Good, irrespective of winning elections.
Which is why they all hate Palin so much. She has balls; they don't.
I'm convince that Karl Rove wants to lose this election to 0bama so that Jeb Bush can win in 2016.
>>The racist canard has no meaning. I’m not a racist. This card is a refuge for scoundrels.
That has been true for at least 20 years. But it is only now that people are starting to seriously stand up to it and call it out for what it is: A last refuge for scoundrels who don’t have a logical argument that will stand up to the light of day.
Believe it or not, we've seen this before from a fellow named Ross Perot.
Could be. The Saudis are neck deep in the whole mess.
...”a contrast to Obama’s logic-driven approach.”
Barf. Inquirer is another Leftwing media. I don’t know how anyone can take Obama seriously as a candidate.. but I will say this...he lowered the bar for anyone running in the future. Zero experience in business, military, government...and yet, there he is. Sickening just how stupid people were. They sucked up on Hope and Change and now they’re paying the price. And dragging the rest of us along. One thing he’s done...galvanized the right, separated the country even more...and put race cards back on the table. Otherthan that,not so much. 2012 can’t come soon enough.
That's spin on Beck, who as far as I know hasn't ever had a presidential thought (he'd be for Huntsman), but if he was "fired by Fox" for the reasons given, why is the BANKRUPT Inquirer still paying the flack who wrote this drivel? (oh yeah, under the radar, under the table lifeline from Soros.)
...”I’ve got no secret information here, with respect to GB. But I’ve begun to wonder if Murdoch’s minor Saudi investor was getting a bit antsy with respect to GB over the last month focusing on an Islamic Caliphate, etc. Makes you wonder if someone made a phone call. Or two. Or twenty five.
It cannot be the lack of top tier advertisers. GB’s show has been running in the UK for at least the last couple years with NO advertisers, only PSA’s. His show is so controversial in the UK that no advertiser will touch it!”...
A lot of people are wondering about what kind of influence the Saudi investor has in the top FOXNEWS programs. BOR seems more and more to be a left wing guy and, all of them have jumped on the leftist band wagon of labeling those who have great worry about the lack of information concerning who Obama really is. How could anyone with a brain and any intelligence at all not be concerned about those things? Donald Trump has called their hand on it and he is standing strong with the American people.
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“.....wondering about what kind of influence the Saudi investor has in the top FOXNEWS programs.”
WTF? Wondering?
We ALL just found out!!
This guy has an accute case of liberal derangement syndrome (LDS). If knowing the truth is divisive, then so be it. This notion that if we are all just clueless we can all get along [following in the footsteps of a community organizer whose credentials we just don't want or need to know.]
Living in DC I know all about this peculiar disease. It is enough to drive a normally sane person around the bend.
Some left-wing Jewish group was standing up for Soros when Beck found his connections. That could have had an effect on Beck’s leaving.
I remember saying the same thing when Obama edged out Hillary. I thought Hillary would be a dangerous president because of her thirst for power and her unlimited confidence in the rightness of her decisions over our lives, but I could at least understand the motivation of voters who agreed with her that she could make better decisions for their lives than they could (and anyone who would vote for Hillary is probably right about that).
Trump? I’m not sure he’s serious. I’m not sure he means anything he says - although he obviously loves the attention. The only thing I’m sure of is that even he would be better than Obama in our White House.
What information do you have that Jeb wants to be president?
As far as Trump goes, rising to the measure of becoming a cause for liberal hyperventilation is a mark in his favor in my book.
I will second that!
Hints from Karl Rove and Jeb’s Mother.
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