Trump is meeeeeeeeen!!!!
Posted on 03/07/2016 5:24:19 AM PST by shortstop
It's kind of like the barking dog that ran headlong into the back end of a stopped car:
Now that you've caught it, what are you going to do with it?
That's my question for Donald Trump.
Now that you've caught it, what are you doing to do with it?
Now that you seem to have all but secured the Republican nomination for president, what are you going to do with it? How are you going to assure the American people that you are serious about the job, and that you have a specific and substantive plan for moving the country forward?
How do you show the people of the world that you are worthy of being president of the United States?
How do you lay aside the showmanship of the campaign, and take up the mantle of respectability that the office and the enormity of the task demand?
The Detroit debate was a train wreck. It left those who watched it with an odd uneasiness in their stomachs, some slight whiff of panic that made them fear the primary campaign might have gone horribly wrong. After seven years of Obama, built upon a shaky foundation of the irresponsible years before, America is in peril and half of its people are in a funk. Things are bad, and this election has to count. This is when we snatch the Republic back from the edge of a precipice.
So this election is big.
And as you shouted over Rubio, and boasted of the size of your schlong, a fear arose that you might not be big enough for the task. As the Fox moderators asked you the exact same question CNN moderators had asked you before, and you gave the same demonstrably ridiculous answer, a chill wind blew through the Trump Train.
At least it did where I sit.
When you gave the same simplistic lines you had given at the nine previous debates you've participated in, you raised doubts that you may not actually have any better answer. We know it's going to be great, we know we're going to start winning, but how. Specifically. What is your plan? In any area. Pick one.
A president and his platform have to have substance and specifics, and seriousness. You don't always have to be the buttoned-down guy most politicians are, but you do have to show that it's in your repertoire. You've shown that you are a good salesman, but you've not shown that you have a good product. There is no doubt you can be elected, there is grave doubt that you can serve.
And there is doubt that you have the temperament for the job.
As Rubio melted down at the debate, for example, an opportunity arose for you to be the bigger man and defuse the awkward confrontation. It would have been a display of maturity and reasonableness, and of your supposed negotiation skills, but you responded to his immaturity with your own, and the spiral into disgrace continued.
Presidents don't do that.
Presidents have to be worthy to stand on the tarmac at Dover.
Presidents have to be worthy to lay a wreath at Arlington.
Presidents have to have a personal goodness that allows them to be able to show love to all, and keep commitments to all, and to stand as a personal representative of the Republic, its flag and its people.
The hands of a president one day may have to fasten the Medal of Honor around a hero's neck – those hands should not have been held up to demonstrate the size of a penis.
A president needs the ability to be presidential; Trump has not yet demonstrated that ability.
And now is the time.
As the full-bore sweep of big-state primaries bears down on us, as the math becomes more and more undeniable, Donald Trump needs to prove that this is about us, not him. He must show that this isn't some outgrowth of his own massive ego, but is a genuine commitment to saving a nation that has enriched him and been home to us.
He needs to start acting like a grown up.
He needs to genuinely reach out to others by respecting them and speaking to and about them courteously.
He needs to take his platform – which fits nicely on a hat – and expound upon it with specificity and credibility.
He needs to show that if nominated and elected – statistical likelihoods – that he can actually serve.
And he needs to do it now.
Donald Trump is on track to secure the presidency.
And he needs to tell us what he's going to do with it.
Or a bunch of us on the Trump Train are going to jump off before it's too late.
Get it together, Donald. We've got no where else to go. Not Cruz, not Kasich, not Romney and certainly not Rubio.
I can’t believe they have another “Debate” Thursday evening hosted by CNN. If this dwarfs into another mud slinging contest, I will be extremely disappointed. I wish they would cancel it, but that is probably not going to happen.
Disagree. Cruz is the best presidential candidate I’ve had the opportunity to support since 1984.
Trump is meeeeeeeeen!!!!
Just Rosie
Pretty noticeable who started all this cr**.
It amused me when Trump complimented her and she blushed and said "be still my heart".
Then there's little Rubio with the small hands comment...
Huge Trump fan but Trump better act like an adult and state he is no longer playing that game. No more insults.
“It’s kind of like the barking dog that ran headlong into the back end of a stopped car”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/feb/16/hillary-clinton-barks-like-dog-video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WovYnLL9Yow
It’s sad that thinking of dogs now makes my mind go there.
What makes you think he can?
Trump is acting like the “typical American” that Europeans (AKA: cheese-eating surrender monkeys) despise.
This would be considered “good”.
I’m going to agree with this. Time to show your an adult Donald. No more little Marco comebacks.
Trump will be a disaster. He may very well be the last “Republican” president ever elected.
I have to agree with you. These are not so much debates as they are sources for Democrat campaign commercials in the fall.
The premise is nutty, and the championing of it is even nuttier.
Trump has laid out his agenda, and anyone who is interested knows what it is.
What will he do?
Good grief what a clown.
He’ll walk?
Who gives a rip?
So walk already. Trump isn’t going to be any clearer what he will do.
Be gone with you.
He’ll give us 24 years of the Republican party.
Agree with you Bob 100%. I believe Trump is the best person to handle the issues this Country has but he needs to start looking like a President.
And, he won't win over the rest of us who have been watching his clown act for the last 9 months.
Go on his web site and READ THE HEALTHCARE PLAN AND THE TAX PLAN.
Everything is not a 30 second sound bite, and if people won't go and read written policy plan, don't expect to have all of your fears allayed by a quip.
Why is every fag writer so interested in an old man's schlong, go ax marco, he's the guy that has been hanging out {and got arrested} in an after hour queer boy park.
Here in FL we are getting bombed by AD’s lying about Trump. I have just seen three in a row, first by Club for growth, then conservatives for a better future, and the third AD is by the establishment. I forget it’s name , but it is based in Iowa and worked for Romney back in 2008
But the media gives Dems a pass on every childish and criminal action that they take ...
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