Posted on 12/05/2011 12:05:25 PM PST by Kaslin
I heard this on air today, and I think Rush is only half right. I think he is totally right about the elites inside the beltway and the media who are opposing this and trying to demean Trump. And I agree that we should not have liberal media folks who want Obama to win to moderate the GOP debates either.
BUT: Trump is more liberal than almost all of the GOP voter base and his interests are not in the GOP picking the strongest candidate. I just don’t believe that.
Have Breitbart and Levin and Rush moderate - or some group like that - not our liberal media folks, but not Trump either.
TRUMP does not give the GOP credibility in my opinion. On the contrary, it trivializes the political process and lowers the importance of these debates.
Going to this "show" is more like...."Politicians dancing with the starts" or something like that... IOW, Stinks!
Presidential candidates should stay AWAY from tacky shows like its host, MR Trump.
And moreover, Trumps view is that our problems are OPEC and China and not unions, out of control government. When have you heard Trump call for a return to Constitutional Principles. He is a deal maker with whoever is in power, the ultimate crony capitalist.
And by the way, check out Newsmax for the other debate staff. They are ALL MAINSTREAM MEDIA hacks. Thats who will help prep Trump.
This will be just as bad if not worse than what we have now!
When Dem's move to the right, they do it in stages, but Dem Trump is suddenly uber-conservative (suspicious yet?)
Trump's whole life has been one of a deceptive, wheeling-dealing show-person, and this is absolutely no different.
I used to thing that El Rushbo would eventually figure this out; but now I suspect that he knows it, and he's stringing Trump along.
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I see this differently.
1. Trump is likely to ask the most interesting questions yet.
2. The “Trump debate” (none of them have really been debates) will get the best ratings of any that have been put on.
3. The rest of the chattering class is jealous of Trump.
Better Trump than CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS or ABC.
That is true
I agree with you.
I want Trump to keep stirring things up and keeping people honest. Why? Trump is all about the dollar. He knows what’s wrong and he knows how to fix it. Now Washington D.C. might have kittens with his unorthodox cures..but hey, I want a business man this time around. If America tanks with it’s economy, nothing else is going to matter..no money = no military, no nothin’.
I say turn that big bad dog loose. I’ll be grabbin’ a beer and having a swell time watching it. This is the kind of thing that can sort some candidates out. We may be very surprised by what is asked and the answers.
I wish Paul was willing to go to it.
They’re afraid Trump will probe a little too deeply.
I really liked Mike Huckabee’s Republican Forum on Saturday evening where 3 different Attorney generals asked the candidates questions, instead the lame stream media pundits
Too bad. FOX has sold it’s soul.
Yes, we should stick to a tacky media choosing a tacky fraud like the One they elected last time around. Inquiring in to his fundamental fraud is soooo tacky.
And CNN and MSNBC don't?
You have a good point about business expertise needed, whether it’s in the Oval Office or the Cabinet. Both would be nice.
I don’t call myself a Republican. I call myself a conswervarive. There are Conservatives in both parites. I would think as a capitalst, Trump would be a financial conservative. So in my book he surely has that going for him.An I likre his foreign policy, too!
I don’t call myself a Republican. I call myself a conswervarive. There are Conservatives in both parites. I would think as a capitalst, Trump would be a financial conservative. So in my book he surely has that going for him.An I likre his foreign policy, too!
Quite possible. I think Trump would ask some real zingers. Not the stupid gotcha crud like the libs, but tough questions that need to be addressed.
I am not sure I get what you mean
>> There are Conservatives in both parites. I would think as a capitalst, Trump would be a financial conservative. So in my book he surely has that going for him <<
There are no conservatives in the Dem party that I know of now, but more to the point - Trump is no capitalist in the sense of free market capitalism. He’s a deal maker and has almost always cut deals with political power brokers to get his real estate deals done. In that way, he’s a cronyist more than a free market guy.
Not everyone who is rich in business is a free market capitalist. Trump is an example.
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