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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“Obama’s reelection is really a very, very simple math problem.”
Not exactly. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, & 10 are all contained in 3 (”Liberals will vote for Obama”).
Where did you go?
Typical (R) behavior as of late.
Not that I endorse Trump, but this is how I see it:
Trump has balls of steel on the issue, whereas Republican establishment has been reaching across the isle, in a fine maverick fashion for the last 30 years, trying to ‘get along’ and be bi-partisan, all the while we’ve been getting taken advantage of, kicked around, had the courts yanked out from under us, spit in our face, and all the usual culprits want to “get along” and “heal the nation”.
And then comes Trump, and for whatever reason, I don’t know (smarter men than me have been fooled by Trump), he starts saying what the conservative voting block has been saying for two years now. Not the Republican leaders mind you, who are NOT my leaders, but the conservative voting block, those tired of all the shenanigans.
And what do the Republicans do? They see him making headway, they see him pulling out of the pack, and instead of saying “maybe this guy is on to something... maybe our constituents are tired of ‘reaching across the isle’” they focus like hell on attacking the man.
If Republicans could join forces to reduce our deficit, take back the courts, fix the border, and fight for ending the corrupt elections the way they join forces to tear down anyone who is not part of the establishment, we might actually make some progress in taking this nation back.
I am not endorsing Trump, but I am cheering for him, hoping that Republicans will take notice, that what this country is clamoring for is an earthquake not a slight breeze, in the name of ‘bipartisan healing’ or some such nonsense.
Republicans are too focused on tripping up whoever is running the race against the Dems, instead of tripping up the dems. They are goofballs, grabbing each others ankles to prevent anyone but themselves from winning the race, all the while the dems, who are unhindered, skate to the finish line, leaving a pile of RINO’s on the track, still wrestling over who is going to come in second...
You nailed it!!!
“Tom Tancredo calling any candidate a joke wins the irony of the day award.”
Why do people respond to articles without reading them? Not even the first few sentences?
It was Karl Rove who said Trump was a joke candidate, not Tancredo. Tancredo says he’s NOT a joke, he’s a scam.
“But I also am not for Tancredo in any capacity. he tanked a gove race in Colorado.”
He ran as a late-announcing third party candidate and clobbered the Republican in the race, who was a con-man and should have dropped out early on. He did pretty well for announcing just a couple months before the election and not having the support of the state Republican party. If he had, the margin would probably have been closer, but Hickenlooper would likely still have won.
I always knew Tancredo was a RINO!/sarcasm
He had better watch out for that Trump circus. Personally, I would like for Sarah Palin to be President, but Trump is playing the populist card pretty darn hard.
I pulled into the gas station the other day and the pump read $10. 2.64 ga. I guess that’s all the poor bastard could afford. This was at 5:45 AM (some guy up early on his way to work)(He is luck he has work)
Then I went to the grocery and a pint of cherry tomatos was $5.98
We should be able to whip this guy with a wet noodle.
How’s the war in Libya going?
Afghanistan? Iraq?Egypt?Tunisia?Algeria?Yemen?Oman?ALgeria?Iran?Syria?Jordan....
Wallstreet’s making a killing while folks cant buy or sell homes. Yet Property taxes rise..
This is the shittiest economy since Jim-ah Carter and our foreign affairs are in the worst state in the history of the nation.
Good Lorde This guy sucks some major *** and we are chasing the BC
The last thing I want to see is another money grubbing shyster in office.
Obama has raped us quite enough.
I don’t want the Donald in charge of the bank.
I Hope the Republicans get stronger in this area. The spoof Obama re-election video on April fools was a start.
Obama is aggressively using face-book and social media. I have talked with several bright young college grads, they don't like politics (like nails on a chalk board) and avoid learning the issues beyond basic news. But they do care if Obama is not eligible for office.
The problem with that is its a moot point.
HE IS IN OFFICE
That was then, this is now.
Plus notice how much time the media is spending on defending him. It helps get the doubts in people's mind and takes up the MSM time defending him, instead of what Obama propaganda they want to sell.
But America has gone flatline and braindead in that one term.
Ref. your Post #16: AMEN!!!
Need to break the spell first in order for people to start to hear the issues.
The more voices on our side the better. You don’t have to vote for him to appreciate his affect on the birther issue.
Never really understood the value of the Conservative circular firing squad?
Pray for America
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