Posted on 09/18/2015 9:06:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
How big a problem is it that the two leading Republican candidates for president arent actually qualified to be president?
Oh, come on, youre inclined to respond. Its not that much of a problem. After all, Donald Trump and Ben Carson arent really the leading GOP presidential candidates, are they?
Yes, they are. Donald Trump is averaging about 30 percent in national polls and has been rising steadily since announcing his candidacy. Ben Carson started to move into double digits a month ago and is now at 20 percent. No one else is above single digits. In fact, if you take a look at the Real Clear Politics averages, youll find none of the others is above 7.8 percent. The ones who have briefly visited the land of double digits have since fallen back. No one has shown sustained momentum.
Well, youre tempted to retort, why should we believe that neither Trump nor Carson is qualified to be president?
Did you watch the debate? Neither Trump nor Carson has much of a grasp of the issues. Neither has a demonstrated ability to govern. Trump is certainly the less qualified of the two, a self-regarding blowhard whos not much of a conservative to boot, who is not now and will never be qualified to be president.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Kristol flailing desperately and failing to make his COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT point about NOTHING.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/762591/posts - “How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great Escape”
Arrrhhhhhh!!! Credentialism!!!!!!
LOL, GMTA, that was my first thought.
Still he had the fire in his heart to make this country work.
I want to hear substance and specifics from Trump himself, out of his own mouth. He gets more air time than anyone else, and yet I hear almost nothing from him on these questions. It’s all bluster and bloviation: “I’m great! I’m rich! Look at these losers! Look at my poll numbers! They’re great! I’m going to build a wall, and it will be great! People will call it the Trump Wall! I don’t know anything about these issues you bring up, but believe me, I’m going to have some fabulous people working for me, and I’m going to fix all these problems, and it will be great! Look at my poll numbers, they’re terrific!”
Yes, I will never forget Obozo’s triumphant emergence from the Greek columns, but apparently Kristol did. Talk about an arrogant, self-regarding blowhard.
I meant to say Trump is an old moderate DemocRAT.
I join you in your pledge never to read Kristol tripe.
They’re both certainly far less unqualified than the current incumbent.
I mean - it’s not as if they were illegal aliens, born in Kenya and couldn’t produce a legitimate US birth certificate.
And they aren’t running with their sole campaign policy something meaningless like “Hope & Change”.
‘I dont know anything about these issues you bring up’
Do you have a link for this supposed Trump quote?
Heck, Hissein was so unqualified that he couldn’t even state his own religion correctly, and had to have Stephanopoulos correct him. Not just his denomination, his religion.
This is called satire.
There have now been two ‘debates,’ the second lasting over three hours. How many questions, in these combined venues, was Trump asked about the policy specifics he laid out in Time to get Tough?
There are other terms for putting words in people’s mouths that they never said.
The part of this statement is an opinion, and I could let it go in an opinion piece. We're all entitled to our opinion, no matter how ill-informed it is. HOWEVER, the second part of this, goes way beyond mere opinion and into vicious, unwarranted attack.
Even if Trump isn't qualified to be president now, Bill Kristol has no way of knowing where Mr. Trump will be in 20 years. I mean, if he solved global warming and global hunger, cured cancer, and brought peace to the Middle East, would he be qualified then?
So you’ll be voting third party with Kristol if Trump gets the nomination?
Right, the Weekly Standard releases articles for the following week.
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