If Trump's Campaign Collapses, It'll Be For One Of These 6 Reasons

Townhall.com ^ | August 29, 2015 | John Hawkins

[Lopeover]

This bears reposting here:

August 28, 2015 at 9:06:35 AM PDT · 35 of 41
Ancesthntr to luke1825; Lopeover

“There is NOTHING more conservative than stopping a permanent democrat/marxist voting majority and doing whats best for the people and the country. By virtue of Mr.Trump’s position on illegal immigration he “Trumps” all others conservatism.” [Credit to FReeper Lopeover for this quote].

We face a critical choice in the Republican primaries. Which of these 2 people do we nominate for President:

1) The practical guy who will do what I want 75% of the time, and save the country in the process; vs.

2) The (mythical) ideologically-pure guy who will do what I want 100% of the time, but who can’t get elected.

I’ll choose Door #1 every time. “The Perfect is the enemy of the Good” - because trying to attain that which is perfect necessarily precludes being able to actually DO what is good. FYI, credit to General George S. Patton, Jr. for the quote about the Perfect and the Good.

[Kaslin]

Yes it is and the Caucuses/primaries don’t start until January 2016. We have to get through them first.

[Kaslin]

I am not sure if Dr Ben Carson qualifies as Surgeon General since he was never in the Military. He does though as Secretary of Health and Human Services, besides he would rank over the Surgeon General. Check it out.

[Clyde5445]

“It’s drizzling here, the coffee is wonderful, and we get to have fun with the Donald on FR......”

At least were not talking about P. Kane. :)

[CodeToad]

“Because Donald Trump has never run for office, he has not been fully vetted”

Other candidates that have been so-called “fully vetted” suck, yet, they still run.

[Georgia Girl 2]

When you hold a press conference every 3 days followed by a rally and speech and every news channel carries it for free you can run a lean campaign. LOL!

[CodeToad]

“He Has Bad Polling Numbers Against The Democrats In 2016”

Against what democrat? Hillary?? O’Malley?? Sanders?? Who on the liberal side even wants any of those idiots??

[trebb]

I wonder if the author would be open to coming up with six reasons why he might not flame out....

[Kaslin]

I am sure he will. Stay tuned

[trebb]

I am sure he will. Stay tuned

I'm retired but even that doesn't give me enough free time to stay tuned for that long....

[Kaslin]

Remember this is from so-called political insiders. Does more need to be said?

[Raycpa]

He claimed he makes 400 million per year. That should be sufficient liquidity.

[grey_whiskers]

If you applied the old "Who would you like to have a beer with?” test that has probably determined far more elections than most Americans want to admit, Trump would beat everyone in the field combined twice over.

I wouldn't want to have a beer with him. The man doesn't drink.

This makes those claims of rigorous opposition research sound kinda silly, doesn't it?

[dodger]

The Surgeon General is a direct Presidential appointment and one need not have been in the military to serve in this role.

[grey_whiskers]

So judging by the ad placement, and the accusation that Trump isn't spending money...

You must be a Scott Walker supporter. /dry>

[Dr. Sivana]

This makes those claims of rigorous opposition research sound kinda silly, doesn't it?

Donald Trump has been in the public spehere for over 30 years. He has had opposition research from the top ranks: The New York Post, The National Enquirer, Kitty Kelley, all of the major construction unions. Obama might be able to come up with more if he had a mind to, but that's true about any of them.

There's enough on him that if he weren't known and accepted for all of it, he'd be long gone. Because he's a Republican, he's still vulnerable if someone comes up with a "dead girl or a live boy". (Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank have shown that that is not necessarily the end of a Dem career, at least not in Massachusetts.) Trump shows no evidence of that.

[grey_whiskers]

Of the two in politics, one is a major, and I mean MAJOR media figure...the other was a Presidential candidate.

MeGYN Kelly and McCain, then. Great.

A mole, a troll, or just an ___hole?

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Funny how being a man who isn’t timid, weak, small minded, or concerned about being politicaly correct when speaking his mind, makes you presidential material. As a kid growing up, that was most the fathers on my street.

Child of the 50's?

Regards,
GtG

[Jedidah]

Yes. But Trump is white.

He was born and reared in the U.S.

Of course he must be vetted more closely than a mulatto who grew up in Indonesia who claims parents and mentors of Marxist persuasion..

[Political Junkie Too]

So we've had that going for us since 1994.

Not exactly.

The Republican Contract With America was in 1994.

1998 saw House Republicans file impeachment charges against Bill Clinton.

The weakness didn't begin until after Democrats radicalized and criminalized politics after losing Bush v Gore in 2000.

Trent Lott was the Majority Leader in the Senate during Clinton's impeachment. After that, he folded during the power sharing deal with Democrats when Jim Jeffords switched sides. Prior to this, he was weak when dealing with Democrats during the prior lame-duck session when they briefly retook control.

After Lott resigned in 2002, Bill Frist became the Majority Leader, with Mitch McConnell as his deputy. This pairing of Frist and McConnell is generally when Republican weakness became metastasized. It has reached terminal levels this year.

-PJ