Posted on 04/12/2011 6:44:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Trump just wants everybody to watch his television show and buy whatever products he's hawking these days.
It's just a matter of fortunate coincidence that his self-promotion strategy is giving Obama and his flock fits.
...pretending otherwise should disqualify one from operating heavy machinery.
The point is...we need an outsider...as long as a Dem or GOP wins...nothing will change...just the speed of the destruction of our great country.
We must dismantle the two party system...just like the founders told us...a two party system would ultimately lead to the destruction of our republic.
Stop believing in the fallacy that the GOP will save us...they are just as much to blame.
Look at Alan Simpson, etc...the reason these people inflitrate either party is because they have no choice.
He’s always been more on the strong America/Fiscal responsibility side of the aisle. His party switches haven’t changed his ideology.
I’ve read his books and followed him over the years. He’s pretty consistent on a few key issues, such as foreign policy, trade, and overall fiscal viewpoint, save for his brain fart on nationalized healthcare, which he seems to have given up in favor of allowing insurance across state lines.
He hasn’t flipped as much as we think. He’s a typical non-political business type who only cares about a few issues and has relatively little ideology otherwise, but he seems to have had an awakening the last couple years, thanks to Obama.
Forget he’s a businessman and media personality for a minute, and forget he’s filthy rich.
Doesn’t he now sound like a lot of people we all know? People who vote, swing voters in many cases, who were always somewhat conservative, but never gave it enough thought to truly know what they were, until recently, when they saw the damage Obama was doing? Isn’t that how the Tea Party movement got started?
Name one politician who doesn’t have these primary qualities?
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There’s a huge chasm separating the ego needed to pursue the presidency, and the kind of ego that Trump exhibits.
Trump takes his ego to the point of narcissim.
Really, you’d compare Trump to, say, Ronald Reagan on this topic. You’d write the following: “Reagan doesn’t help anyone but REagan. He’s a tireless self-promoter who is ALWAYS looking to play the angle that best serves his own ends - and those ends are always himself.”
It is what I said from the beginning. Trump wants to be a spoiler for the Republicans and has no intention of actually winning.
"I blame the STUPID FR on here that actually support Trump"
Really?
No blame for the stupid GOP for nominating another candidate that cannot garner enough support to win.
No blame for the "STUPID FR on here" that cannot compromise their RINO ways and vote for Trump rather than hand Obama another victory.
Try learning from the past mistakes, Perot was not the problem, Dole and the GOP was. Trump is not the problem, Romney and the GOP is.
Keep repeating your past mistakes and you can expect the same results.
That pic looks like a morph between Trump and Ted Koppel.
We have this illusion that each President and Congress did the right thing....and that includes our early Presidents like Washington and Jefferson.
The more thought I give this, the less it bothers me.
Trump won’t run if he doesn’t have a good shot at winning. Losing is not in his DNA, it’s not his way. He’ll only enter the GOP field if he has a good shot, and if he doesn’t get the nomination, he’d only run as an independent if he has a good shot and some reputable polls (and I’m sure some internal ones he’ll line up) say it can happen.
Look at the third-party candidates that “almost” won in ‘10...even Tancredo came close there in the CO gov’s race for a while. If you take Trump’s larger-than-life personality, if anyone could pull off a third-party win at the Oval Office, it’s The Donald.
And the media, and Dems...and almost everyone...
So he is trying to make Obambi win.
Though if it is between Trump and Rommney, I will vote Trump.
And with Romney or Huck as the GOP nominee...I’d probably vote for a Donald/Hillary ticket as long as Trump was at the top of it.
Yeah, I said it.
[”Trump could easily pull ~40% of disaffected white Democrats.”]
Not according to this newsmax Push Poll;
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-obama-romney-palin/2011/04/11/id/392535
Trump is a bad businessman. He is bankrupt! The two or three billion he has in his bank account and billions in holdings attests to this fact! The person writing the article most likely has a few grand in his bank account and can barely afford his home or he wouldn’t be writing for a living.
ROFL...
Regardless of his reasoning, I think he’d be damn good at it.
“... media is trying to get Repubs to attack their own possible candidates”
They always have. My honest opinion is the GOP keeps pushing Romney no matter what. The GOP wants a lukewarm, non conservative candidate more than one likes to think. IMHO
“... media is trying to get Repubs to attack their own possible candidates”
They always have. My honest opinion is the GOP keeps pushing Romney no matter what. The GOP wants a lukewarm, non conservative candidate more than one likes to think. IMHO
Um...he talked about it yesterday.
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