Posted on 09/10/2012 4:51:00 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Monday that Republicans have "got to get tougher" in order to prevail this November, saying he thought their handling of President Obama was "unbelievable."
“The one thing I have to tell the Republicans, they’ve got to get tougher," Trump said during an interview with Fox News. "If they don’t get tough, they’re not going to win this election.”
Trump went on to say that Republicans were "pandering" to the president, and compared their current strategy to that of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in his 2008 presidential campaign.
“Well, I think there are a lot of ways of getting tough," Trump said. "I think they’re pandering to Obama. I think they’re being so nice to Obama. It’s unbelievable. And John McCain made that mistake. He absolutely made that mistake and you know they’re just afraid to attack this man and he should be attacked.”
The reality television star conceded that he thought Democrats might have run a better convention — and benefited from not sharing headlines with the landfall of Hurricane Isaac.
“Let’s face it, I think the Republican convention first of all was hurt by the hurricane, or lack of hurricane, you know the hurricane never really hit heavy in Tampa but I guess they probably had to do what they did," Trump said. "But the fact is that the Democrats gave a great convention, there’s no question about it.”
Trump added that he felt that the Republicans did not include the right mixture of voices at their party convention — mentioning Sarah Palin by name, but also possibly referring to himself. A Trump "surprise event" planned for Monday at the Republican convention was canceled because of the storm.
"I think frankly I would have liked to have seen Sarah Palin speak," Trump said. "I would have liked to have seen some people speak that weren’t invited to speak and you know I think the Republicans did not have the right speakers. They had a lot of people that people say, ‘who are they, where did they come from?’ "
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I disagree. If you want to pay for Sandra flucks condoms, go for it. Obama has not proved his eligibility for POTUS, go for it again.
Heard him say it and totally agree. I am doing everything in my being to get this SOB elected. If it fails, I leave the party and register Libertarian. Not an idle threat either, I am a person of my word.
I’m patient, your hysterical(not funny), which one best fits FR and conservative values?
Yea right Sandra Fluke the slut is the decision for the White House....... troll post.
"[My] hysterical" what, precisely? Post like a grown-up, for pity's sake.
Again: #38. I'm long since done playing with you, kiddo.
You go right ahead and keep playing with yourself, however, by all means.
So much for ANYONE could beat Obama. Idiots! Yep and some of those very idiots are on here. They swore it would be flowers and candy with Romney. Spit!
"Severely conservative!" "ELECTABLE!!!OMG11!!" ;)
Just like a socialist...dismissive....nice.
See you in November.
Let Romney surrogates go for blood (They certainly did that in the primary!), Romney can remain blissfully above it. And seem Presidential."
Oh, for the love of.....I am really tired of hearing this one.
A milquetoast wimp who's afraid to come out swinging and needs others to do it for him is not "presidential." He's just weak.
Look at Reagan for your example.
Let Romney surrogates go for blood (They certainly did that in the primary!), Romney can remain blissfully above it. And seem Presidential."
Oh, for the love of.....I am really tired of hearing this one.
A milquetoast wimp who's afraid to come out swinging and needs others to do it for him is not "presidential." He's just weak.
Look at Reagan for your example.
The GOP yes men are creating complacency. Romney needs to pay some attention to the right wingers who disagree with him and make adjustments.
I think this is all bull and media spin. If the Republicans believe that the media are truthfully going to report poll numbers. Dont believe it folks, just keep fighting.
They’re afraid of insulting a black man. Big deal. They need to strip the bark off him.
right on. right on.
I agree, we must fight like we are behind.
I agree and it will not happen.
Romney is a liberal and he loathes conservative/conservatism, we have zero chance to hold his feet to the fire, anyone who thinks that, really is deluding themselves.
lol. It this was not such a nightmare, I would think they were playing some kind of joke on us. The question is why are FREEPERS so in the bag with a Liberal Republican named Romney? That is so dang scary. We are so much done it is not even funny. They all complain about Virgil Goode who is a conservative and COULD win if the conservatives would get behind him, but no they prefer the liberal. Doesn’t make sense.
And Reagan was Reagan there was only one, we are not going to get another. We have what we have.
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