Posted on 07/20/2015 11:28:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Donald Trump has jumped to the top of the national polls for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
It's an embarrassing moment for the GOP, the country and the planet.
But everyone knows America's richest celebrity businessman will never become the Republican candidate, much less president of the U.S.
Unfortunately for the GOP's future, however, the billionaire blowhard is not going to fade away in a week or two like Herman Cain or Michele Bachmann did in 2012.
Whether he's really worth $10 billion, as Trump claims, or just a few billion, he has more than enough money, ego and media pull to keep him in the race all the way until Election Day.
With an ego bigger than America, Trump could pull another Ross Perot and put another Clinton in the White House.
Meantime, Candidate Trump has been a running political joke for weeks.
Underneath his criticism of America's weak and stupid leaders and his boasting about his being able to make better trade deals with foreign countries than anyone else, he really has just one issue - immigration.
An issue which he blew badly.
In trying to explain his crude position on that politically complex subject, he managed to offend every Latino in the hemisphere by implying that illegal immigrants from Mexico are mostly murderers and rapists.
As for Trump's positions on other issues important to conservatives and the future of America, they remain a total mystery.
The media won't ask, and he won't tell.
Is he pro life or pro choice?
Is he for national health care or against it?
How exactly does he plan to create all those new good jobs for Americans?
Is he going to raise taxes on the rich? Flatter taxes or fairer taxes?
What would he do to fix the education problem?
If indeed immigration is his signature issue, how is he going to stop or control it? And what's he going to do about the 12 million illegals already here?
Maybe Candidate Trump filled in Ted Cruz on where he stood on these issues the other day when Cruz made a friendly visit to Trump in his Tower.
But other conservatives need to find out if Trump is really a Republican.
He sure doesn't act like one. He's already broken Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment - never speak ill of another Republican - dozens of times. (Trump's 12th Commandment is "Speak ill of everybody.")
So before any more conservatives jump on the Trump bandwagon, wouldn't it be better to find out where he stands?
We only get sound bites from Trump's events. But no one in the liberal media is in a big hurry to go deeper on him and his views.
They aren't going to dig deep into his "colorful" personal or business history in an attempt to discredit him or prove, as some people say, that he's not even as conservative as Bill Clinton.
If the media did some excavating, they might be surprised by Trump's answers.
They might find that he doesn't say the same thing to conservatives in private as he when he bloviates in front of crowds and cameras.
What, for instance, did Candidate Trump say in private when he talked to the Friends of Abe, the support and networking group actor Gary Sinise started for about 2,000 political conservatives working in Hollywood?
Were the FOA's elite members put off by him? Did they embrace him? Who knows?
No one in the mainstream news media seems too eager to expose Trump for the conservative fake he really is.
They treasure him for his celebrity and his entertainment value and don't want to spoil the show.
But the liberal media treasure Trump even more because he spends so much time helping them discredit the Republican Party and conservatism.
Your anti=Trump venom has overtaken your sensibilities son.
You do realize Reagan was a liberal Democrat at one point, right? And you can’t demand others stop lecturing you if you keep spitting in their face.
Don’t work that way. You vote for who you want,,but stop stomping on others who don’t agree with you. You want Cruz? I love Cruz but I wouldn’t want you on my team.
Oh, he is? How come he took the anti-Confederate flag side? How come he won't say anything that would remotely offend gays? How come when two Muslims tried to kill Pamela Geller, he took the Muslim side. How come he keeps going out of his way to say how fabulous Mexicans are? You've been sold a bill of goods.
“He’s also pro-military.
Proof?
Ask the USMC. They’ve HONORED Trump for his support. Do a little research in between your hissy fits.
He has no credibility since his campaign manager is from an amnesty organization and flipped Marco Rubio.
One who does a lot of real estate deals and understand the value in owning politicians... especially a senator from NY where he does a lot of business.
But... that reality will NEVER change if we keep electing Democrats and RINOS.
“Donald Trump - Trading on his father’s money.”
Michael Reagan - trading on his father’s memory. Mikie is not Ronald.
Ronald Reagan could not stand McCain. Ronald Reagan was especially disgusted with the way McCain treated his first wife who was injured badly in a traffic accident. It was Nancy who was taken in by McCain.
He didn’t take the Muslim side about Pam Geller,,,he didn’t want her killed or harmed.
You’re just a drama queen.
He likes Mexicans and that’s a problem for you?
True. No candidate is perfect - not a danged one of them. At least Trump is bringing the issues to the forefront which is the namby-pamby, wishy-washy, limp-wristed other candidates won’t do. They all talk in political speak and say nothing.
False premise. It presumes the Republican Party has credibility.
Too many conservatives have succumbed to the feminization ofd men and don't remember what a real man is. They are calling this hysterical cat-fighting diva a man.
And Trump bashed Reagan - said he was a con artist who couldn’t deliver.
Has Trump ever labeled himself a conservative? Another establishment republican peeing in his pants.
You are so right. Unfortunately I held my nose and voted for him.
But Trump didn't criticize McCain for his treatment of his first wife OR his political positions. McCain is terrible, but Trump didn't go after him for that.He is using misdirection to fool the gullible.
The only thing I can conclude with so many conservatives missing the point about Trump, that being that he survives every attempt to marginalize him for his behavior, is that they either don’t have the stones to try it themselves, or they are so enthralled by the naked emperor’s advisors they can’t recognize a winning strategy.
Ya know, ya got a good point there.
The press IS PC speak enforcement.
Too bad Trump is both.
Donald Trump’s father at his death was worth 300 million. Donald, one of several children received a portion of that.
He turned that portion into 10 billion. I think that is quite an accomplishment.
PRAISE GOD: a FReeper who "gets it!"
No, he hasn't. Quite the opposite. But somehow people have allowed themselves to be fooled. The GOP establishment is laughing all the way to the bank. Trump is removing the last layer of the Reagan legacy from the Republican Party. Conservatives weren't buying Jeb, but now some are buying the Howard Stern version of Jeb and voluntarily giving up all conservative litmus tests.
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