I kinda half imagined that the Republican primary would be a (more or less) sedate process, to select a nominee who’d take out the lib trash in the general, and who’d restore order and dignity to the White House.
When Trump entered the race, the energy cranked up a thousand-fold, and because of his no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, bust-you-in-the-lip, sort of bluster, it quickly became more like the sort of knock down drag out arguments we see at our own back yard barbecues.
Trump forced the other candidates to put up or shut up. Many, if not most, were totally unprepared to be challenged in public as bluntly and effectively, as he’s done. He’s basically called them out to their faces, and forced them to act like men - or at least try to.
He’s definitely separating the wheat from the chaff.
Great comment! Thanks.
Great comment, Windy.
It has been awhile since we have had an Alpha male in the GOP.
| ...When Trump entered the race, the energy cranked up a thousand-fold, and because of his no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, bust-you-in-the-lip, sort of bluster. And you have to respect the way Trump has disposed of his opponents. He hits hard after an opponent goes nasty on Trump. The MSM meme is that Trump is trashing Cruz for no reason. But who wouldn't fight back when a guy is spending millions of dollars in negative ads to tell lies about you? And yet he took down Carson very artfully. Trump simply repeated the words Carson wrote in his own book. Trump exposed the "stabbed my best friend" and "hit my mother with a hammer" stuff as nonsense and out of character with who Carson really is. So ironically he actually raised Carson's character by exposing the book's fairy tale that "here was a violent youth who became a God fearing neurosurgeon." And I sense Carson respects Trump today. The Art of the Finesse. |