Posted on 04/08/2011 6:32:01 AM PDT by shortstop
Trump to Obama: You’re fired.
As kooky as it sounds, as improbable as the whole thing seems, I’m fired up about Donald Trump.
Maybe it’s a commentary on him, maybe it’s a commentary on contemporary politics, but it actually makes sense to me.
We know him, we respect him, we like him.
And that’s two or three better than the others.
Yes, his supposed candidacy is probably nothing more than a publicity stunt, an effort to increase his profile and line his pocket. But then, the same is probably true of Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee and the perpetual never-ran, Rudy Giuliani.
But if he’s serious, so am I.
Mostly, I’m a Romney man. But in a back-alley brawl, I want Trump.
And anybody who thinks international relations are anything other than a back-alley brawl is nuts.
We need somebody to stand up to the Chinese and we need somebody to balance the books. We need somebody who knows how to make decisions and go toe-to-toe with anybody who stands in his way.
And we need somebody who speaks his mind, who doesn’t pussyfoot around trying not to step on toes.
We need somebody who says what he means and feels, and who doesn’t craft every sentence as a sound byte meant to propagandize us.
Other than the hair, Donald Trump looks like America. Not in terms of his outward appearance, but his internal strengths and weaknesses. He is a guy who wears his warts and his confidence on his sleeve. He talks loud, lives big and fills rooms.
And it’s about time we had a president who walked tall.
For more than 20 years, Donald Trump has been a public figure. He has had his ups and downs, his marriages and his bankruptcies. But he has always come out on top, he has always been fascinating, and he has always had the all-American daring do that made this country great.
Certainly, on paper, he’s nothing like a presidential candidate, which may be all the more reason why he’s the perfect candidate.
He hasn’t been polished, he hasn’t been managed, he hasn’t been packaged.
He’s just The Donald.
He says he’s tea party, he says he’s free enterprise, he says he’s America first.
He says we have to balance the budget, we have to stop deficit spending, we have to balance our trade, we have to put ourselves first.
All those things are right.
And for the first time, someone has discussed the birth certificate who hasn’t come off like a psycho.
Personally, I’m more than 90 percent sure that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, just like he says. Personally, I’ve been put off by the conspiratorial birthers and their crazy theories.
But, personally, when I hear Donald Trump talk about this issue, it doesn’t sound crazy. His questions sound reasonable. He says he doesn’t know where Barack Obama was born.
And maybe we don’t know either.
It is interesting that there is no paper trail. I was born in a tiny backwoods hospital that was torn down shortly after I was born. Yet there is documentation all over the place that I was born there, that my mother was a patient there, that her mother paid the bill there, that I was taken to doctor’s visits there.
And I don’t get why it’s not the same way with Barack Obama.
But wherever Barack Obama was born, it is refreshing that Donald Trump would talk about it. No one else will touch it with a10-foot pole. Why? Because they are afraid of looking dumb, because they guard their every word in a effort to package themselves well.
Trump doesn’t care about that stuff.
He is who he is and if you don’t like it you can kiss his backside.
And that’s the sort of guy we yearn for as president.
The ability to lead is an interesting thing. Many people want it, and study it, and presume it, but rarely have it. Donald Trump seems to have that ability. In a roomful of people, he would be the one to whom the others would look.
Whether it’s life experience, or demeanor, or just plain grit, he’s got it.
And the others really don’t.
And if he’s serious, so am I.
Trump to Obama: You’re deported.
They both have flip flopped on some issues usually important to actual conservatives.
That's not what I mean at all. With his resources, Trump can go after Obama in a way most of us could only dream of doing. I don't have the money to pay for investigators to fly over to Hawaii and dig for dirt. I don't have the money to fight a legal battle with Obama, who has the DOJ and the IRS to back him up. Obama could crush me like a bug. Trump, however, could be a real problem for him.
You do initially in order to destroy your opponent. After he falls then you offer substantive plans... if you have any.
Drop your opponent.. then assume the role of the Champ.
I’m not gonna argue anymore with anyone at FR about Trump. I’m confident he’ll make the best arguments AGAINST himself as time passes. (And, if Trump was in anyway an honest/worthy man he’d just challenge Obama in the primaries—so that he could remain pro-choice, pro-debt, pro-illegals and all the rest of it.)
As for who can run, win, and govern, that person is Sarah Palin. I’m sure a few others could do a great job, Bachmann, DeMint, and down the road Rand Paul or Rubio or Col. West as they gain experience. The conservative bench is getting deeper all the time.
Why would you assume those are the only choices?
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