Look I KNOW I'm supposed to bow and bless myself at the name of Thomas Sowell, because Rush has him on once in a while, but that's not happening anytime soon. This guy Levin and Tokyo Rove and Michael Steels are the ones who are wrong here. I don't like have people derailing my county and my family's future. Trump is the only Republican with a pulse and I'm with him. Sowell's just another NR online hack. Since no one else has I'll say it; by the time Trump gets finished with Obama we'll be able to pick a name from the phone book and beat him. That's a given. If he raises a BILLION dollars unless he goes door to door giving it to his mouth breathing followers it won't do him any good. The question now is who will do the job in the White House and so far NO ONE is near Trump on that one.
the usual mealy-mouthed talk common among other Republican candidates
Says it all. A dead party lead by Rove.
This guy must be one of the 38% who think Obama was definately born in the USA.
Have any of you Trumpsters actually listened to what Trump has had to say over the years? Do you no longer care anything at all about nominating a *conservative* candidate?
Sowell is exactly right here that what Trump has that most others are missing is (in my words) *balls*. That’s his one (two?) big advantage. But he’s just not a conservative.
We need a conservative candidate with Trump’s balls. But first and foremost, we need a conservative candidate.
The check pants, elitist Republicans (McCain, Rove, etc) in the GOP have never really been conservatives. This is why they attack anyone outside their Klan (think Palin, Trump and Bachmann) that are not afraid to ask tough questions, and want to change the current Internationalist establishment back to what made our Republic great.
This proves, yet again, that birthers aren't conservative.
A conservative accepts reality for what it is, something birthers seem incapable of doing.
R-i-i-i-i-i-i-g-h-t!
Spending a couple of million$ to keep my actual record secret is totally normal!
The Lamestream media has been so credible the last 3 years that we are actually buying the "up is down," "it's not Obama's fault," "left is right," "there is a definite recovery","gas prices are not so bad," "Home sales have recovered," "we have created 20,000,000 new federal jobs in the last three months!" "Obama has saved 7,500, 000 jobs in Venezuela," and "the CPI has increased by only 0.0016% in the last 6 monts," "What inflation?" "Food prices have actually dropped, if you account for the framistan redirection," and "Donald Trump is the best thing that ever happened to the 'Rats!"
Whew!
And here I was wondering what I was going to cut next to be able to afford food, gas and local, state and Federal tax increases.
When our Cobra premiums increased by 120%, we praised Hussein and promptly canceled it.
Things couldn't be better!
Isn't that better?
Sowell's right about Trump and that 'Republican rhetoric tends to range from low key to no key'. We can do better than the Donald.
I call it Triangulating the GOP. Trump has changed the debate for the next 6-12 months, then back down as a Republican Candidate will come to the fore. In the mean time, everyone's talking about Trump's issues re Obama, leaving the eventual nominee "clean."
BRILLIANT!
Donald Trump is dangerous in at least two senses. If, by some tragic miracle, he should become the Republicans’ candidate for president in 2012, that would be the closest thing to an iron-clad guarantee of a second term in the White House for Barack Obama.
That would be a huge setback for the Republicans — and, far more important — a historic catastrophe for this country.
What seems more likely is that Donald Trump as a candidate for the Republican nomination would use his superior articulation skills — not to mention brash irresponsibility — to trash all the other Republican candidates for that nomination, leaving them damaged goods in the eyes of the public, and therefore less able to gather the votes needed to prevent the reelection of Obama.
On the first point, I'm not so sure he wouldn't beat Obama. The Donald has an uncanny ability to draw in the listener and sell them whatever he is selling (for better or worse), and he's one of those guys that you try hard not to like, but in the end, find yourself nodding and smiling as he talks. He could win over independents, I think.
On the second point, I share his concern, but if the other candidates learn from him and approach their campaigns the same way Donald is approaching his, it could work in their favor instead of as a detriment. Plus, so far, Trump has been relatively complimentary at least to Palin and Huckabee, Romney, well, not so much, but anything that knocks Romney out of first place is OK by me.
Officials in HI were unable to confirm Obama’s eligibility with the documents he had presented. Nancy Pelosi nearly had a fit. Obama was already very popular. Pelosi took it upon herself to sign two documents to confirming him as eligibility without even verifying it. I guess Pelosi thought the dems would have been in control of Congress for at least the next 4 years.
If this was true they would shut up and let us destroy ourselves. Never stop your opponent when he is willing to do it for you...
It is the liberals telling us over and over how crazy we are for bringing it up that makes me certain we need to bring it up.
The Donald’s a fun guy, he’s a hell of an attack dog, he brings up the BC, doesn’t take s*it and the GOP hates him these are all traits I love about him. BUT, there are some definite causes for concern his flip-flopping on positions being a key factor, his endorsement of universal healthcare, numerous contributions to both sides of the aisle, eminent domain, gun control, etc. The Donald is not a true conservative we need a candidate who can attack like Trump, but who is also a bonafide conservative.
Well, I agree with Sowell that Trump is not presidential material. But I am disturbed that Sowell says that for all the wrong reasons, beginning with the assertion that birthers are crazy.
Trump is a bad candidate because he is very liberal, and because he cannot be trusted since he has no basic moral principles.
But the more he stands up there and demands that Obama show his birth certificate, his academic records, etc., the better.
Trump is certainly a potential spoiler. But only if the dimwits in the Republican Party help him by lining up behind someone like Mitt or Huck. What Trump has shown them, although they don’t seem to be listening, not even Sowell, is that it pays to speak out and attack Obama directly, instead of beating around the bush, making deals, and hiding in back rooms.
Look, it’s not Trump for President the good people of this country are worried about. It’s the constant refusal of people who say the birth certificate is not relevant and why it is not relevant. They seem to make up all these excuses; but never show proof or actually say why they don’t consider the issue relevant.
Quit lying to us no matter which side of the fence you are on.
Any birther who believes Trump wants to solve the birther issue is politically naive. He will use it to get some conservative street cred, and will toss it overboard as soon as it no longer serves his purpose. In the meantime, he will keep hinting at all the “evidence” he’s uncovered.
Thomas Sowell a jackass? Have you lost every ounce of common sense with which you were born?
The rest of us in FReeperland don’t want to see FR birthers tying some of our best conservative voices to the track of the Donald Trump Express. Support The Donald if you wish, but don’t start trashing our best conservatives.
Having anyone look at a professional entrepreneurs background looking for political stability is farcical at best.
Of course “the Donald” has said and done contradictory things! His business persona and fiduciary responsibility made him go with whatever he needed at the time to get the job done, or exhibit the image he needed, when necessary.
That said and done, he has done quite well for himself inside the Capitalist system. He has created many jobs, and his enterprises have generated untold millions in tax revenue, as opposed to just about any of the politicians attacking him from Washington, or highly intelligent writers comparing his past business actions and survival tactics with future political decisions.
Can “The Donald” make decisions...I’d say yes.
Does “The Donald” respect America...I’d say yes.
Has “The Donald” repeatedly, or ever, complained about the constraints of the Constitution, and the shortcomings of our forefathers creation...no, not so much.
Has “The Donald” gone out of his way to praise a Communist country with slave labor, implying America should be more like them...no, never.
Has “The Donald” ever bemoaned the fact he wasn’t president of that same Communist country, because it would be easier to get things done, (without free citizens)...no, never.
I posit we have never seen a political Donald Trump. We cannot use his past decisions in the private sector to judge him, except to determine whether he has the ability to collect, sort and absorb facts, and, along with his advisers, reach decisive, logical decisions.
From his past successes, I’d say yes.
Does his vast world-wide experience give him a sufficient worldview to run the worlds largest Capitalist system?
I’d say YES!
Putting Trump and obama side by side, is there any position, issue, or level of experience that obama has that comes near Trump’s?
I’d say, (EMPHATICALLY), NO!
We tried an inexperienced, American-values hating failure, This time, lets go with an experienced, American-values promoting success.
donald wasn’t vetted by dana pe-rino and karl rove.