Oh, it’s a spectacle for sure. But pre-planned? No way.
Is it being capitalized on? Absolutely. What did you expect?
I'll admit, The Donald had no way of knowing that Carrie would be selected from California. But in a field of fifty young women, it's not hard to figure out that at least one of them would be from an evangelical background. And I'll admit that while I have no evidence that Trump fed the poofter the information, it really wouldn't have been that hard for him to figure it out on his own.
But, Trump clearly picked Mr. "Look at Me, Look at Me" to judge this contest, with no obvious qualifications to do so. It wouldn't have been too hard for one of Trump's lackeys to have figured out which flamer would have provided the best fireworks.
And why was it that the attention whore was enabled to ask the inarticulate (I'm still trying to figure out why she called it 'opposite marriage') woman with the pageant-paid-for boob job a question that a Miss-Anything has zero influence on, we'll never know. But today, The Donald gets to look magnanamous, and have his name mentioned in the "entertainment" news once again for having been so. It wouldn't surprise me that he had some influence on who got to ask questions to who.
Yes, I did expect it. I also expect that conservatives are too smart to play into it.