Posted on 01/14/2016 5:40:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Mr. Trump has no desire to acquaint himself with most issues, let alone master them. He has admitted that he doesn't prepare for debates or study briefing books; he believes such things get in the way of a good performance. No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.
It is little surprise, then, that many of Mr. Trump's most celebrated pronouncements and promises - to quickly and "humanely" expel 11 million illegal immigrants, to force Mexico to pay for the wall he will build on our southern border, to defeat the Islamic State "very quickly" while as a bonus taking its oil, to bar Muslims from immigrating to the United States - are nativistic pipe dreams and public relations stunts.
Even more disqualifying is Mr. Trump's temperament. He is erratic, inconsistent and unprincipled. He possesses a streak of crudity and cruelty that manifested itself in how he physically mocked a Times journalist with a disability, ridiculed Senator John McCain for being a P.O.W., made a reference to "blood" intended to degrade a female journalist and compared one of his opponents to a child molester.
Mr. Trump's legendary narcissism would be comical were it not dangerous in someone seeking the nation's highest office - as he demonstrated when he showered praise on the brutal, anti-American president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, responding to Mr. Putin’s expression of admiration for Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Trump's virulent combination of ignorance, emotional instability, demagogy, solipsism and vindictiveness would do more than result in a failed presidency; it could very well lead to national catastrophe. The prospect of Donald Trump as commander in chief should send a chill down the spine of every American.
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Yeah, I heard all of that garbage last time around, about how it was the most important election ever, and if I didn’t vote for Romney I was voting for Obama, etc., etc.
Not buying it.
Yes, it was somewhat flaccid.
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And the bad news for us right-thinking Jerseyans is that he's as close to conservative as we're ever likely to get.
I can only disagree. The Constitution is everything. It changed the planet. It has survived centuries of idiots and corrupt jackals. It is what we must fight for in the end, even more than the economy and just as much as the borders (if not moreso).
“Romney is a lot more dignified and knowledgable than Trump.”
He is also a ‘gentile’ genociding turd, whose father was hatched at a Mexican chicken ranch.
The Silent Majority doesn’t need you anyway. Move to France if you like.
Yes, just as long as you know he is rich, very very rich.
You do know that don’t you?
Last night, one of the most rabid Trump newbies went all out in a full-throated defense of progressivism. Not one single Trump supporter called her on it, even after I invited them to do it.
Ten or more people on a stage before a live audience and millions of viewers attempting to receive more camera time by violating the agreed upon protocols and expressing rehearsed short speeches is something akin to entertainment but at once also just a bit obnoxious.
Trump at least recognizes the fraud show for what it is. He is expressing exactly what people already recognized. Our Politicians are lying, hypocritical incompetents who shamelessly promise unceasingly to fix stuff that they broke.
Well, stuff is really broke and if Americans want to have nice things, they will need a real fix it guy.
Only Trump fits that description and people see it.
So the Establishment and others have a lot to lose.
I am just fine with that.
There is a landslide coming, and amazingly, people are still going to be surprised about it.
... Some seem to want that to feed their fantasy that Trump is electable but they’ll be better off if they just rely heavily on democrats to support their guy.
I will never vote Trump and I don’t care what anyone says. Just like the 4-5 million who did not vote for Romney except I am guessing it would be much higher with DT.
Yes, when it falls flat though, all one can do is apologize.
Don’t worry. It is likely you’ll get your wish. It is a good bet that trump will get the nomination, and then we’ll have two liberal parties
But the white guilt factor will not be in play this time, though the vote fraud is not going away.
I notice you don’t address my points only insult. Thank you for providing more evidence for my POV.
Wait, that sounds like someone else in the race.
That attitude seems to be common with a lot of Trump supporters. Get out of the country if you won't support Trump! Get on the Trump train or get the hell out of the way!
People who long for a strongman enjoy the keyboard warrior act, I guess.
I'm going to stand right the hell where I am, regardless of how loud anyone shouts, and reject that loudmouthed liberal sleaze.
When you do business in liberal dominated markets you do that if you ever want anything approved; it's a cost of doing business. Maybe he can help get that crap changed.
“I will vote 3rd party if the Republicans destroy the party by choosing trump as the nominee.”
Wake up. The party has already destroyed itself. It is now “Democrat Lite’”.
Trump represents a change in course to putting America first.
Well said. This requires an indomitable fighter rather than a diligent clerk.
“Trumpees all know this but they do not care.”
A maddened bull does not care. Once aroused, nothing is going to mollify that bull until he is either exhausted, or the adrenaline simply runs out. But until this rash of anger has run its full course, there can be ENORMOUS collateral damage.
But the anger can be tapped into, if the options for where the anger can be channeled to some useful end are set up in place, then the objective is to get the maddened bull into a wide enough corral so all the energy can be burned up.
The Donald is going for the biggest deal he has ever approached in his life. The management of that piece of real estate once known as “the United States of America” has to be a LOT more challenging than starting up an airline, or building impressive structures in the premier city of the world, or getting a majestic casino launched. That if sometimes each of these ventures fell flat, or went sour, that was because it had already been dealt to other hands, and no longer the personal concern of The Donald, who has been making major bets with his money right from the start, and preserving that capital by shrewdly bargaining with the other party or parties that sat down at the table with him.
The Donald is not “low information”, he has a VAST amount of information available to himself, and he marshals it up on demand just about any instant he needs it.
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