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So what will happen to someone like Trump who is left/liberal/populist? He’ll move further left and further populist. A lot of suckers now are buying his sudden ‘conversion’ ignoring he is a life-long liberal who among other things: supported the assault weapon ban, supported abortion, said amnesty is ‘necessary’, not only supports eminent domain seizures but used them for his own personal benefit, supports socialized health-care, supports progressive income taxes, and is financially tied to George Soros. People are starting to sound like the Rudy defenders of 2007, ignoring his history of liberalism because he was a media darling.

We better watch Trump, he's a Rat plant. He'll mess up the primaries then if it looks like Obama is in trouble at all he'll run third party. If Trump were running as a Rat everyone on here would be laughing at him.

So three years in to the Village Idiot’s Presidency and no Republican has yet actually declared candidacy and those who are in these straw polls do not seem to me capable to beating the Obama machine. Trump can match Obama dollar for dollar, but to what end? Conservatives will stay home. Palin sadly is damaged goods and Bachmann is occasionally a little bizarre. I like both of them but don’t think they will be able to beat the Obama surge. Maybe, and I pray this is the case, the GOP candidate is someone we don’t often think of. Not sure who that will be but I was one of the very few around here pimping Sarah’s name as VP for McCain. So who knows? Trump kinda popped up out of nowhere as a GOP candidate the past few weeks.

The wildcard in all this is gas/food prices. If they keep going up without a 2008 plunge then my pug could beat Obama.