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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I rarely agree with WND. But I agree here.
Odd though that WND is ground zero for the birther matter, and that they would publish this article.
What else is he hiding..
He surely has no respect for you...
Tom Tancredo wrote this for WND.
I see that.
I am just surprised that Joseph Farah published it.
ABO = Anyone but OBama
Speak for yourself FRiend.
Every circus deserves a good side show. The Donald may be the only one with the stones and money to become the first American who the court recognizes as having “standing” to put the NBC issue to rest. Is Rove upset that he is no longer a ring-master so now he is soured on all circuses?
Granted, Shirley Temple would do better than MaObama.
Is this the same Tancredo who ran for president in 2008?
His vote getting results were a joke if I recall correctly.
Sure thing, we can ride this horse until it dies out from under us.
Notice how all Fringe Conservatives seem to have the same problem? Especially the number one choice among the loudest members of this forum?
That’s a poll I would like to see - Obama -vs- ABO (anyone NUT obama)
I think the results would be laughable
Tanc is wrong about 08 though. Trump did NOT support Obama, he supported McCain.
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.
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