Exactly. Talk about simple-minded people!
Posted on 04/24/2011 10:51:15 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
Like most people, I enjoy a good joke. But Donald Trump for president? With apologies to Karl Rove, it's not really that funny.
The Trump candidacy is not a joke; it's a scam. But its success with millions of voters shows us we are a nation very susceptible to scams if they are done on a grand enough scale......
In Donald Trump we have a liberal billionaire with a long record of supporting Democratic candidates who is willing to spend unlimited amounts of money to reinvent himself as a populist conservative. Ordinarily, that would be an impossible, even laughable undertaking. Yet Trump is doing well in the polls. Evidently, a lot of people are buying his snake oil.
A cynic might suggest the fact that Trump has filed for bankruptcy three times and then rebuilt a real-estate empire has some attraction for citizens of a country with mounting trillions in public debt. However, we have yet to hear Trump ask Social Security retirees to take 30 cents on the dollar in promised benefits. He has recently attacked Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Medicare reform, saying Republicans should avoid that issue.
There are at least three big obstacles to a Trump nomination in Tampa in August of 2012. The first two obstacles are Trump's record and Trump's ego. Trump doesn't have the self-discipline to "stay on message," often reverting to the leftist ideas he has absorbed from the New York Times and Manhattan cocktail parties. He recently admonished Republicans to "rethink" opposition to a single-payer health-care system "like the one that works so well for Canadians."
On policy matters, Trump's record makes him about as credible as a conservative candidate as I would be running for the presidency of the Council of American-Islamic Relations.
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That's what the Republicans will be saying when they ask me for donations if they nominate another boring place keeper...
I really don't like the bashing of Trump...
Palin and Trump are the only two possible candidates in the gelded GOP field that make any sense at all.
The rest of them can kiss my red rosy.
When McCain skipped off holding hands with Linsey Graham on some kind of gay pride march to Uzbekistan, they cost us an ally and undermined our war efforts in the region...
Rumsfeld talks about it in his book...
Eff-you-see-kay McCain and his whole filthy bunch...
Palin and Trump are diametrically opposed.
Sarah fights for the people. Trump fights for Trump.
I only donate to FR
Nonsense...
Trump has a rational self interest in preserving the economic viability of American business...
And since I don’t like the faggots,...
I’m sure Trump hasn’t forgotten the faggot jihad launched by Perez Hilton against one of his contestants in the Miss USA beauty contest.
And just the same way Trump ruined that fat, skanky pig Rosie O’Dumbell, I’m sure he will continue to engage his enemies like he did Elliot Spitzer the other day...
I wish the Republicans had men with balls... or at the very least they could FIGHT LIKE A GIRL...
More proof that McCain is deranged..... he got that way while in North Vietnamese torture camps. He couldn’t kiss Bammy Boy’s butt enough in the 2008 campaign
OMG, I was so busy chasing the BC, that I forgot to vote.
I don’t like the bashing of Trump...
There are legitimate issues to raise about his candidacy, but he is the only one who has any clue about how to handle themselves.
Karl Rove should retire.
The Trump phenomena is generating heavy buzz and because Trump is aggressively challenging Obama, I'm good with that. I don't think Trump is 'a joke' (a characterization of Trump attributed to the unloved Karl Rove). I also don't think he's going to run in the GOP primaries. If he did, I wouldn't vote for him. Lots of reasons for that, mostly ideological. Like many, I may not be a 'fan' of Donald Trump but I like the way he's very likely rattled Obama and stirred up the Republican race and I hope that produces stronger candidates. I also hope that Donald Trump isn't one of them.
“It was never challenged in court, but that doesn’t mean that the concept (and all the debate and background when it was written) is invalid.”
What was never challenged in court?
NBC for a sitting President.
“I agree, I would rather Trump take all the heat from the MSM and keep it off our real candidate long enough for them to get established. He has helped us in that area much already.”
Excellent point. The Donald “side show” is much more worthy of our time than the “freak show” that is the Presidency. Finally, someone on our side with almost the cajones of Sarah Palin. Let’s face it, we have to “fight like a girl” to take down that sissy in the White House. And I do mean sissy.
Not sure how a conservative could support someone who supported Kerry and Obama and who is so liberal on policy matters. Makes no sense to me.
Knowing Axelrod's modus operandi...
He should be poking around right about now making preliminary inquiries into shopping for the right NYC hack judge to unseal Trumps divorce records. For an undetectable bribe of course.
Exactly. Talk about simple-minded people!
Post of the day!
Cheers and free beers!
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