I like Trump, but his candidacy reminds me a lot of the campaign Schwarzenegger ran in California. A lot of talk about turning the things around and tossing out the girly-men. They schooled him instead and eventually coopted him. Rush warned folks but the Golden State got the man they wanted.
Trump says all the right things, seems to have all the right enemies, and acts as if he has everything to gain and nothing to lose. A compelling combination in a candidate! But...
I want a proven foe of the Dems for President. Walker and Cruz were it for me. Walker seems to be quietly talking himself out of the job. Cruz and perhaps Kasich are about all we have left.
Overall, I think Trump proves the weakness of the GOP. We wouldn’t need a guy like him if there weren’t already two or three confident, plain-speaking, and proven candidates out there.
In fairness to Schwarzenegger, he had an overwhelmingly Democrat legislature to work with, or try to work with.
I get your point about the Schwartzenegger/Trump comparison, but I think the similarities are mostly superficial. For one thing, Schwartzenegger was an actor/body builder. He had no significant business experience or managerial experience - at least not in comparison to Trump. For another thing, he was as beholden to the donor class as all the other politicians are. When that’s your reality, your principles can be easily compromised because you live and breath by making your donors happy, instead of delivering what you promised, to the voters. That’s a big difference between him and Trump.
Kasich is just plain awful. A definite plan B (or so) for the manipulators. He’s all Chamber-of-Commerce, reward the big donors, while towns and cities are starved for cash.
Kasich is a warm bucket of spit. He ain’t no conservative and likes sucking the federal teet to the point where Ohio will live to rue the day he accepted Ocare money and mandates
“a lot of the campaign Schwarzenegger ran in California.”
I’ve read this before and see only one similarity, i.e., they both are celebrities. They achieved their successes differently.
We were living in CA, and registered Republicans, during the whole Schwarzenegger - Davis mess. I figured that anyone who married into the Kennedy family had serious discernment flaws so I didn’t vote for Ah-nold. He was (still another) disappointment.
I like Trump, but I don’t think he’s a strong conservative. But we’ve voted in alleged strong conservatives before, and they haven’t done the right thing. Might as well take a chance with someone new. And it seems that in the past Trump has done exactly what he’s said he would do. It seems that he likes a good fight, and he must win every fight. It doesn’t really matter, though; the dems will cheat on a grand scale this time so the fix is already in.