Posted on 08/20/2015 9:10:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’re still over five months from the Iowa caucuses and — astoundingly — it’s increasingly looking like the 2016 presidential election, not just the nomination, is Donald Trump’s to lose.
It’s not only the polls, which are swinging his way. He has changed the nature of our electoral politics into a reality show with himself as star. Read his interview in Wednesday’s Hollywood Reporter if you’re looking for confirmation. Everybody else in both parties looks boring by comparison. We pretend to be interested in the others but Donald is all we really care about, even bourgeois liberal critics when they try to dismiss him. (The WaPo’s David Ignatius is now likening Trump to Putin, as if Donald were about to invade the Crimea. Well, he might put a hotel there.)
Oh, sure, Bernie Sanders is drawing twenty or thirty thousand here and there, but this is a huge country and, as I can personally attest having been around in 1972, over two hundred thousand attended anti-war demonstrations with McGovern when he was running and he ended up winning exactly one state against Nixon.
As for Hillary, her big problems are legal, not electoral. And now, with the Benghazi emails beginning to dribble out and Huma’s cell phone gone missing, no one can even imagine where this will end, but we can assume nowhere good for her Chappaquaness. The Democrats would be complete idiots to run this woman for president. Still, as Abba Eban famously said about the Arabs, “[they] never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” So you never know.
Whatever the case, Trump’s dominance has little to do with the old Tea Party vs. RINO thing. That’s so 2014. Both Tea Partiers like Cruz and RINOs like Bush are being easily eclipsed by Trump. Indeed, if you examine Trump’s record, he seems like something of a RINO himself, but again nobody cares. Inconsistencies that normally cause the far right to go ballistic just wash over Donald like yesterday’s bodywash at Walgreen’s.
This, by the way, is good. Bravo for people who change their minds. (“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little, etc.“) That no one finally knows exactly what Trump stands for is fine by me, even that he sometimes contradicts himself. I’m supposed to get upset about that — and I did originally — but I don’t now. Like others, I want things to change — as many things as possible, almost everything, really — and Donald seems like the man with the courage and will to do it.
He’s unafraid. He’s upbeat. He’s funny. He despises political correctness (as anybody with half a brain does). He’s so rich no one can buy him, has an absolutely drop-dead gorgeous wife the likes of which we have never seen as first lady (not even Jackie O, well maybe Dolly Madison) and most of all he really, truly loves America. Of course, compared to the incumbent, a dead centipede loves America, but you know what I mean. He’s an all-American success story and that’s what we need right now — a winner, even a braggart. He’s also, as my wife Sheryl says, “bad medicine,” just the kind of medicine we need in extreme times.
Now I could change my mind on a dime, as we all could, or indeed as I have, if other information comes to light or if Donald starts to act looney or, more precisely, excessively looney. But as of now, it would be dishonest not to say that not only he is the frontrunner, he is THE MAN. I can think of no greater antidote to Obama than a Trump presidency.
Well, yes, I can. It would be a Trump/Carson presidency. Watching Dennis Miller Wednesday night, I see he is on my wave length. He’s talking about a Trump/Carson ticket too. And while we’re at it, throw Carly Fiorina in as secretary of State or Treasury.
What Carly, Ben and Donald all have in common is obvious. It’s why we like them. None of them are career politicians. Double bravo for that.
100% agree.
RE: If I were in Trump’s shoes, I wouldn’t pick one person presently holding office at any level of government to be in my administration,
He did mention two people he’d like in his administration ( one for Treasurer ).
He said he likes Sarah Palin and he mentioned Billionaire investor Carl Icahn for Treasurer.
RE: TRUMP / RUBIO in a landslide
One who wants to take away birthright citizenship for illegals and the other does not?
How’s that going to work?
Yeah billionaire TWO crony capitalists.. Trump and Carl Icahn..
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?..
LOL!
They are both the Anti-Obamas and I like both of them very much. Love ya!
Obama, you know, is OWNED by the crony capitalists don’t you..
Obama, TRUMP... Icahn same thing..
The difference would be.. TED CRUZ......
Crony capitalists are scared shitless over CRUZ....
THEY KNOW what is involved...
WIth CRUZ the jig is up... literally..
With TRUMP.. the money pit continues..
really quite simple.. follow the MONEY..
The VP has to back the POTUS.
I just have a feeling, he’s looking at Rubio.
Youthful, Cuban heritage, good speaking skills.
Cruz has the same resume'.
And big ears...Plus, a RINO of the worst sort...No thanks...
Anyone who’s paid attention to the Clinton Crime Syndicate would already know that. Nothing new under the sun. Was telling hubby a couple weeks ago when it became obvious he was not going to be intimidated out of the race that he’d better have VERY GOOD security.
Perhaps we can nominate an actual conservative in 2020, then.
Sigh.
ping for Keep on Trumping
dittos
If the media were fair then Trump as President would be a sure thing
All the mainstream media is trying to destroy Trump. If the news media don't suceed with the slander , hits and smears against Trump then Trump will win the nomination and presidency.
Trump won’t stumble . He hasn’t. Trump is the most competent person I’ve seen
It’s the news media smears and drive by hits that say he is stumbling and will try to lie and say he stumbled
Appoint some business people as VP, cabinet etc.
Politicians are all owned by rich donors. Trump can't be bought.
All Senators except 1 (cotton) voted for the corker bill which made Obama’s Iran deal possible
The politicians did the same thing empowering obama on his Obama trade and other examples. Obama trade is a trojan horse for more immigration.
No more career politicians
Trump/Carson
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