Posted on 04/24/2011 4:05:29 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
As well; given their known inclinations; will 'elite' Repubs sabotage Trump or any Repub who does fit their prescribed MO for Prez? Are other Candidates looking at West? Is he on the ticket for same 'Party' Repubs?
Marco Rubio another candidate who needs just a bit of growing; but clearly is a presidential Conservative. We have 'star power'; but it is not Pawlenty, nor Huckabee; nor Romney, for that matter; nor any of the candidates Party appears to be featuring; who are, thus far; all 'white' but who turn yellow (and run); at the mere mention of Obama's BC legitimacy as President.
I’d just say, if I felt like saying anything. “$3.75 Way to go Obama”. but i probably wouldn’t say anything
What? They’ll all have Sarah Palin on of course.
She’s in a different league.
Oh goody, the voice police are on duty.
Trump reeks of capitalist power and profit. He knows what America used to be and what it can be again.
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Just absolutely bizarre.
Trump has always reeked of power and money. And yet, no single sentient being has ever trumpeted him as a presidential candidate until now? Why do you think that is?
Who can point back to anything they’ve written (ever) that suggested Trump would be a good conservative presidential candidate?
No one, of course, because until a few short months ago, everyone knew he was a democrat supporting liberal.
Hilarious VR.
We live in a 24 hour news cycle with microphones stuck in people’s faces all the time. Likely a pretty small percentage of Americans have NOT heard Palin’s voice.
The percentage of Americans who heard Lincoln’s voice? Miniscule.
No comparison.
Trump is the ONLY person speaking that way!
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It’s probably going to take a bit more than talk to fix America’s issues.
Trump and Bachmann should take the offensive by challenging Stephanopoulos and Spitzer with the following questions:
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There is a reason why some are real estate moguls or presidential aspiring congresspersons, and why some are anonymous posters on internet forums.
How do you know this? You may not be as senient (or smart) as you think you are. I recall Donald Trump being mentioned as a candidate for both parties in past years. In those past years I worked as a staff member in the US Senate and paid more attention back then.
Unless you are a democrat you should give Trump a fair evaluation in terms of personal energy, strength, articulation, and executive experience. I would rate him very high on a non-partisan scale.
No, he’s not!!! I am.
How do you know this? You may not be as senient (or smart) as you think you are. I recall Donald Trump being mentioned as a candidate for both parties in past years.
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OK. That may be true. I confess I have no knowledge of water cooler conversation on the hill. Which is not the same as major players trumpeting his candidacy for the office.
Trump’s statements on foreign policy make him unacceptable to me (e.g., statements he has made about sending troops back into Iraq in order to, uh, “reimburse” ourselves).
JMO.
If you look at the post you can see that it is in response to post number 96. In post 96 you said the following:
“What I said was that in a 3-way between Zero, Trump as an Independent, and some Real-man Romney type pubbie BS, then Zero would win, Trump would easily come in second, and all the party-line pubbies would end up being the spoilers”
Why is it that we find fault in Trump in this scenario, why not find fault in the spoilers. It seems the question is being asked in reverse of how it should be asked. Instead of blaming Trump because he is more interesting than all the Republican candidates, lets blame the Republican candidates that he is more interesting than the Republican candidates. Then the question becomes what to do about it? The answer should be the Republican spoilers should get out of the way.
This debate highlights a problem with the conservative mindset, namely the heuristic-driven bias of frame dependence, and more specifically a type of anchoring and adjustment where we know what the problem is but we fail to correct the problem. And not only do we fail to correct, but the corrections that we do make fail to be sufficient corrections. Its like we know we have a problem but we are unwilling to be radical enough about the solution and so our moderate response simply produces the same problem again.
Do you see how this election cycle is shaping up to be another version of John McCain versus Obama? As in the past, a media driven mainly by liberal orthodoxy, and I include both conservative and liberal media in a media driven by liberal orthodoxy, will “pick” the candidate. Allow preconceptions of what’s “acceptable” plays into the same dialectical progression as in the past. Even with all the watershed moments over the last two years we are still headed to the exact same place. Its very very sad really that conservatives can’t grab their balls and put forth an acceptable candidate, Trump or no Trump.
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