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Coming Soon To A Debate Stage Near You: It's The Donald Trump Show!
The Huffington Post's Politics ^ | July 14, 2015 | Scott Conroy

Posted on 07/14/2015 2:44:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For a long time, Republican leaders who might have known better have helped to enable the 10-car pileup in human form that is Donald J. Trump.

During the 2012 campaign, eventual GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney courted and then publicly accepted Trump’s endorsement, just months after the man who makes his name from taking and generating umbrage had led a campaign trying to prove the country's president wasn’t really an American.

Though the trend has started to change, national-level Republicans with their own political ambitions largely have been slow to criticize Trump ever since, terrified they might irritate the small but rabid fan base that has managed to launch the most unpopular candidate in the field into the realm of nominal frontrunner.

With no one daring to do much to slow down the novice politician who is known for indulging in conspiracy theory, fact-free alarmism and the occasional sprinkling of weird pop cultural commentary, Trump has gladly accepted invitations from groups ranging to take his circus act on the road at conservative conferences and early-state GOP confabs, all of which have placed him at the head of the adults’ table....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: certifigate; gop; tedcruz; trump
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To: Tucker39

We shall see ;)


21 posted on 07/14/2015 6:14:35 PM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: odawg

You are in a perpetual time warp. Get over it. Trump is running for President as a Republican. He is going to annihilate Hillary which no other GOP candidate will do.


22 posted on 07/14/2015 6:18:11 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“You are in a perpetual time warp.”

What are you talking about?


23 posted on 07/14/2015 6:30:26 PM PDT by odawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And it’s about time! Truth! Over platitudes!


24 posted on 07/14/2015 6:32:25 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: odawg

I release you from the time warp and I’m putting down the sugary drink. :-)


25 posted on 07/14/2015 6:36:40 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Nugent would be a better POTUS than Trump.


26 posted on 07/15/2015 11:39:31 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The truth is acid to them all, they will melt in thier own swill!


27 posted on 07/18/2015 4:21:34 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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