Posted on 06/29/2015 1:19:55 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
Those who think Donald Trump’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination is little more than an ego trip, super-sized, should probably reconsider.
The bombastic billionaire from the five boroughs ranks just behind the little man from the Monopoly game when it comes to conspicuous displays of wealth. He lacks anything close to a natural political constituency. He’s been a major donor to candidates and causes on both sides of the aisle and does not, it seems, have anything close to a consistent political ideology. And that, for most political professionals and commentators, is reason enough not to take him seriously.
According to a Suffolk University poll of potential voters in the upcoming New Hampshire Republican presidential primary released last week however, Trump – at 11 percent – comes in second, ahead of every other candidate in the race save for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
(link to full article) http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2015/06/29/dont-dismiss-donald-trumps-ability-to-shape-the-2016-race
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Sounds like Mitt.
Mitt Romney NEVER, even once, in his entire live, caused the sort of dust-up which Trump has kicked off nearly every day thus-far.
Never.
Well that’s for sure but Mitt is a gentleman..maybe not a good candidate but a gentleman. Trump is trailer park trash wins the lottery.
We don’t need a politician in the White House. We need as PRESIDENT someone who knows how to run a business and a bureaucracy. No politician, Mayor, Govenator,Senator, congresscritter or the like fills that bill. They know how to bloviate, point with pride and view with alarm. Other than that they resemble Obama except maybe their pants aren’t as well creased and they have more baby drool on their ties.
I agree Mitt is a gentleman.
Mitt lost. Because Mitt was a gentleman.
Trump is standing for what he believes in, and everyone is all in a tizzey.
I’m liking what Trump is doing. Quite a lot.
Efforts to taint Trump as racist have only just begun. He has a lot of baggage in this and other areas. He has a long history of being blunt and politically incorrect. The Donald will have lots of ‘splainin’ to do
Nonsense.
Everyone else needs to grow a pair.
For crying out loud.
“I’m liking what Trump is doing. Quite a lot.”
Me too. I would not mind seeing someone in there who has balls enough to tell other countries to piss off if they don’t like how we do things. The guy also loves the country, which I’ve never heard Obozo or Hillary utter from that open grave under their nose.
Yeah but that’s the thing...he will turn off the folks who actually decide the election. What you like in a presidential candidate is opposed to what most want. They don’t want a flaming crazy...they want stability. I would be astounded if they elected Trump. Most Republicans are conservative in more ways than one.
Which competing business do we support if we don't like the way the current one is being run?
Government is not, nor will it ever be, a business. To succeed in the task of reforming it, the problems will have to be dug out root and branch.
That requires a conservative. Trump, for all his bluster, does not qualify.
You’re just on this thread, to attempt to advocate for someone else.
Trump is 100% right, and you know it.
Mitt Romney is a communist, not a gentleman. Gentlemen don’t support murdering unborn children or legalizing sodomy.
I don’t advocate for anyone at the current time. Haven’t made up my mind. If you can show anywhere in which I have advocated for anyone then I will apologize profusely. About the closest I’ve ever come was when I said I was leaning Rand Paul but only because I’ve about given up on the middle east and I certainly have not decided on RP.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone is impressed by that reasoning.
Oh.
In that case, I apologize. But please stop just finding fault with the guy.
Every leftist on the planet is up in arms.
That tells me he’s doing quite a lot, of what is right.
He’s right. He’s saying things which make complete sense, and nobody else is.
Nobody.
I like Trump. Washington, DC needs a serious awakening. Get rid of the damn Gov AFGE union plus the TSA and place them plus every Congressman and Senator on Obamacare until they get rid of it.
I disagree.
It is fact. He and his father admired and accepted Alynsky. David Axelrod was at the last big meeting Romney had with the Republican presidential candidates. You know: the one where conservatives WERE NOT invited.
You’re ignoring facts.
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