Posted on 04/13/2011 5:18:25 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Today's Morning Joe offered an interesting contrast of MSM takes on Donald Trump. Politico honcho John Harris offered the conventional Beltway wisdom, writing off Trump as a "silly season" candidate who adds only entertainment and amusement value to the race.
Meanwhile, Mark Halperin was surprisingly respectful of The Donald. Halperin opined that beyond the birther issue, Trump was doing a lot of smart things that other candidates should study. Among them, Trump is the only candidate, according to Halperin, willing to "get in Barack Obama's face."
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Looks like the Mittens is bleeding to Trump. Almost a flip.
Trump: serious or silly-season candidate? Two takes from Morning Joe. Halperin surprisingly respectful, says Trump only candidate willing to get in Obama’s face. Ping to Today show list.
If Sarah decides to run, when she formally announces there will be a sea change in the numbers.
Pollutico (PR-Reps to any DNC criminal or RINO)
has two goals:
1) Protect the Kenyan King at all costs.
2) Then help Chihuahua Milt Romney.
As you read/watch/listen to the news, pay attention to how often you hear the word "serious." Someone will say they are taking very "seriously" whether to run. A budget proposal will be praised as "serious." Opponents will be criticized as "not serious." Serious, serious, serious.
I imagine there are firms who supply such information to professional talkers, and that they've all started using the word "serious" in their appearances.
Watch and see if you find the same thing. I'm serious.
I’ve been sleeping on this Trump thing and realized something. Trump is a big money supporter of the democrats. Could it be the democrats see the writing on the wall that zero isn’t going to fly in 2012 and have selected Trump as his replacement.
I Just Don’t know which wy to go.
“Silly season”—isn’t that in August, when all of Washington gets all “wee-wee’d up”? LOL.
Man I’d like to see Huckabee, Gingrich and Romney go away. Then the only people with balls — Trump, Palin and Bachman — could try to work something out between them, some kind of united front.
Interesting because Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for TIME magazine.
I agree. Currently, it's now just a 'popularity contest'. Once, the real players put on the 'official' gloves, it becomes a 'real game', and you will definitely see a whole new scoring game.
Pollutico (PR-Reps to any DNC criminal or RINO) has two goals:Wow. Now that's good. That's really good. I've been searching for what to call Obama since early 2008 and you have hit on the perfect moniker: The Kenyan King. It is so descriptive and so true. Thanks.1) Protect the Kenyan King at all costs.
2) Then help Chihuahua Milt Romney.
Chihuahua Milt Romney still needs some work. Doesn't quite have the pizzaz that "The Kenyan King" has. I think the problem is that simultaneously comparing Romney to an annoying yapping little dog and "the seminal fluid produced by male fish" is too respectful of this worthless POS. Especially the Milt part. Implying that he has anything even remotely resembling balls gives him far, far too much credit.
Anyway, keep up the good work, and long live The Kenyan King!
I love the Birther stuff coming from Trump. He is doing a real service there. But as soon as he brought up the possibility, if not the likelihood, of running as a Third Party if he loses the GOP nomination I'm beginning to write him off. Third Party Trump equals easy Obama win and you don't have to be genius to know that. Even Trump would understand that.
I believe Perot cut deals with Clinton to get him elected. History could be repeating itself here. Watch this carefully while we enjoy the Birth Certificate Circus and hope that something will come of it.
1) Protect the Kenyan King at all costs. 2) Then help Chihuahua Milt Romney.
Supporting goal #2 will effectively ensure goal #1 comes to fruition.
The media knows that they can push Huckabee and Romney as valid candidates and gullible people will think it’s true because the media says so.
Right now Trump is one of the only people on the attack standing up for Americans. He hasn’t declared that he’s running yet. So in the meantime, we could at least support Trump staying on TV telling the truth about how America can be a better place and regain it’s #1 status in the world.
Trump’s is a businessman not a career politician. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of listening to the same old politician BS year after year. It’s nice to have a newcomer on the scene calling it like it is.
Well said.
He has too many past relations with democrat heavyweights, too many expressions of liberal belief in the past, and too many conveniently recent ideological changes in his "conservative" creds.
I still like what he's been doing though. It's refreshing.
Trump is a Democrat posing as a Republican. His admission that he will run as a 3rd Party Republican alternative candidate gives him away. If he wanted to beat Øbama, he could effectively get two shots at him. He would run against him in the Democratic Primary and should he fail in the primary, ensure his defeat in the general election by running as a Democrat alternative. The fact that he will run as a 3rd party Republican alternative will simply be so that he can siphon off enough Republican votes to ensure four more years of Øbama.
This man should not be considered for the Presidency by any conservative based on one issue. At best, he should be looked at as the modern day Woodward/Bernstein if he is to be taken seriously at all. They took down a President, but I don’t think anyone looked at either of them as someone to take his place as President.
He’s one of the best at selling snake oil. Unfortunately, there seems to be a large market for it these days.
I would much prefer Palin or Bachmann to Trump. But for either of them to get to the top would take a long harrowing climb up vertical cliff faces of media antagonism and campaign funding disparities. Trump can rocket up to the top, which would be nice to see, but then the question would be, of course, what do WE have when he gets there?
A Democrat for President. Again.
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