Trump’s not terribly high on my list for the 2012 primaries, there’s others I’d support first (Palin, Bachmann for example). But there’s one overriding reason why The Donald is suddenly such a rockstar...HE’S FIGHTING BACK.
Look, most of us over on the right have always recognized that Obama’s an empty suit propped up by the MFM and his teleprompter and backed by Soros money, right? We saw that as far back as 2007. He’s a slickly-packaged cardboard cutout of a man. And yet the people we’ve elected to allegedly oppose him are too scared to do it. Boehner, Cantor, most of the rest of the professional politicians, they just play go-along-to-get-along and so we end up with things like a tiny $38 billion in cuts...no, wait, it’s actually $14 billion...well, it’s actually $352 million and spending went up $5 billion anyway.
Enter Trump. Yes, he’s politically suspect. Yes, he would’ve had to have had a conversion of Damascene proportions in order to actually believe what he’s trying to sell himself as right now. Yes, he’s the biggest publicity hound in the history of the world. BUT HE’S FIGHTING BACK. He’s even going beyond Sarah Palin in pummeling The Won. He is what we wish more of our professional politicians would be...persistent and fearless. And he’s got the big name and the self-promotion skills to spread this message—that Obama is a failure and harmful to this country—to a wider audience than anyone else, even Sarah Palin.
The GOP needs to take note. They can’t seem to figure out where Trump’s come from and why he’s suddenly so popular. But it’s really pretty simple. Oppose Obama and his socialist ideas while presenting some ideas of your own. Then don’t pander to the lowest common denominator and don’t tell us what we want to hear...tell us why your ideas are better than their ideas. Sell us on your principles. Don’t move toward the middle, MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD US. Ronald Reagan was the master at that and nobody in the GOP has done it since.
}:-)4
Well said.