Posted on 04/09/2011 10:07:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TRUMP - The analysis begins in earnest as it should. Obama has announced his reelection campaign from the vantage and advantage of the bully pulpit.
Contenders are lining up as America as America struggles through a long recession, yearning for strong decisive leadership.
Donald Trump has teased the electorate in the past, pretending to seriously consider a run for the White House. This Presidential election finds Republican support for some politically green but very appealing potential candidates. These may well bide their time and wait until 2016 before displaying the audacity to become pretenders to the seat in the Oval Office. Past analysis such as Obama – The First Tell, was helpful in anticipating a President Elect’s road ahead. Trump’s superficial relationship with the voting public has been distorted by its inevitable distance from an unusual celebrity billionaire. Donald Trump has delighted in each moment of attention he has been able to attract by jumping onto the spotlight dot. His reach into our communal consciousness begs a little scrutiny.
• Trump is not ideologically anchored. This moves his appeal factor positively as he will carry little obligation to either political party. He will also present a more refreshing alternative to a public tired of Washington indebtedness to special interests. At the very least, he will be more honest with how he feels, and he will easily be more knowledgeable with on all topics than what we have seen subjected to since the last Presidential election.
• A lack of ideological fervor also makes it more likely that from his perch in the Oval Office he would be a pragmatist. Unlike the embarrassingly far “left” rooted individuals choking the Obama Administration, Trump would most probably pluck the best talent, however it might present itself, wherever he could find it, and in whatever political flavor it might be drenched.
• His insecurities mean his ego can be stroked to get his favor and attention, but he isn't narcissistic. In Trump’s case the insecurities also suggest that he is driven to succeed.
• Trump will surround himself with experienced talent, and it is unlikely that he will punt important decisions down the road, or to someone else, unlike Obama who is clearly controlled by his handlers and seems ready, willing and able, to have others take care of business. If and when America elects Trump, he will be the President, NOT one of his handlers. • Trump will not chase the Presidency in order to enable a retirement anxious for newfound opulence and luxury. Trump might be seduced, but he won’t be bought. • Trump will get into the face of anyone in his administration not delivering the goods whether on the economy, on international affairs, and on national affairs. His ego will not allow for anything to screw up. Trump will be a “task master.”
• He'll probably try to figure out how to get his name emblazoned over the White House front door. He has a tendency to “brand” everything he touches. One way or another, he’ll want the world to know “Donald Trump was here.” “Destiny” would be his middle name for at least four years.
• Getting elected would not be Trump's "crowning moment," . . . the four years of his Presidency would be. • He may not be as bright as Slick Willy Clinton, however he isn't as ideologically rooted, therefore his pragmatism will be more effective and he is likely to be more persuasive. Oh, and he will not tarnish the Oval Office the way Slick did. • He isn't afraid of hard work, and his track record suggests an interested, inquisitive mind, unlike what we have recognized in the current occupant of the leather chair in the Oval Office.
• Trump likes attention, obviously, but his need to be successful at everything he does, means he’s a workaholic, which would be a welcome change from the reality we have discovered in the incumbent.
• Trump has been in the construction business in New York, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Chicago where he's had to have a close and warm working relationship with the mob since the mob controls such minor and unimportant industries as Concrete. Those “guys” are not the easiest crowd in town to deal with. Trump knows how to ''get things done," and will. When you need a guy, he "knows a guy."
• Trump cleaned his bankers - got the better of them through his now legendary recoveries from the grim shadows of the poorhouse, again, and again, and again. That took unmitigated brass. • Trump comes across as a bit of a lecher who could give Slick Willy a run for his money, but that’s just a perception. Slick used other people's executive jets to take advantage of impressionable young women, and the whole world knew about it except Hillary. Trump has his own plane. • Love for America? It is impossible to deny that Trump really loves America, and is passionate about its success and leadership in the world.
• Contributions to both political parties? You're kidding? . . . . Who cares. He bought some support. That's what Congress is there for, . . . to be bought. The results are obvious and ever present.
• Trump has a long track record of being a leader. America is longing for a leader who can deliver more than long words on a teleprompter saying little and delivering less.
• Genuflection – somehow that is not a picture of a President Trump and any foreign head of state which would be served up by the MSM. Ever. Knocking fists? Perhaps. Genuflection? Not much.
• Trump’s fluid I-speak-my-mind-regardless-who-I’m-talking-to approach would be a refreshing alternative from the daily decantings of unrelenting telepromptered dronings we are served from the White House. Not that Trump’s musing are all intelligent, many are fused in common sense, but at least he’s entertaining when he drives off the road.
Elections are greatly influenced by the state of the economy. Regardless what the Administration, or its supportive pundits pretends, . . . the economy continues to be in serious trouble and will be so through the 2012 election. Additionally, there is no will or clarity in the White House, and not much of it in a majority of Congress to deal head-on with the deficit, or the debt, or job creation. Trump provides an alternative which the poles currently suggest is being seriously considered.
He may not be a Conservative by our standards and either was Reagan with his record out of being a CA Gov., but making America a strong beacon of freedom is a winning argument in my opinion.
“Trump does come with risks on social issues and 2nd Amendment”
He’s publicly said he’s pro-life, anti-gay marriage, and against gun control.
Agree with your post. Freepers need to get off the celebrity crap an start pushing the best conservative they can with an established political voting record that meets “most” of our needs. No one polidiot will meet all of our needs....not one out there now or later that can or will.
This fast food sort of selection of our polidiots is dangerous an should be avoided by anyone who votes.
Amen.
I have said as much myself.
“Anyone who denigrates Obama will more than likely receive such treatment in that type of venue.”
Those Comedy Central roasts are brutal. I saw DT on the Golf Channel and elsewhere before-hand, saying he wasn’t crazy about doing it, but it would pay him a LOT of money for charity.
I’ll be watching.
“It just seems Palin was the darling, now everybody is running to Trump”
I don’t think any Palin fans have changed their minds.
Trump was pro-choice until recently, then changed his view to pro-life. How convenient. Sounding more and more like another Romney. - Strike Two.
Trump believes we should have Universal health care. - Strike Three.
I could go on, but I hope my point is made that he is saying what is necessary to garner support from conservatives, but I don't believe his sudden “conversion” for a millisecond and his track record concerning his executive experience makes him an absolute disaster in the making, IMO.
A lack of ideological fervor also makes it more likely
that from his perch in the Oval Office he would be a
pragmatist.
Trump is not ideologically anchored. This moves his appeal
factor positively as he will carry little obligation to either
political party.
These are absolutely the most important traits a potential
President could possibly offer a wayward country such
as ours.
But a straight and narrow non political President will do
the country no good with a wayward congress. Without
doubt Trump will quickly become frustrated with the
incompetence of career politicians in congress be they
from the turnip field or cabbage patch.
You want to see this country turn on a dime?
Two possibilities:
1. Trump uses his resources to round up 435 non political
candidates to run for the House. He also rounds up 33
non political candidates to run for the Senate.
He then runs as a package deal with a slogan
”Elect us all or elect none of us”.
2. Trump buys into The American New Deal and uses
those people as his package with the same slogan.
That will win Trump the election and that will change
America on a dime.
Thomas Littlefella
We live in strange times.
I feel like those on the eve of WWII.
I have heard some will if Trump does run. But I am not so certain either Palin or Trump will run the whole course. I still wonder if someone isn’t in the shadows still and all these popular and known candidates are softening the ground before they step out. It will be an interesting year to see how this all plays along.
“Whoever ends up being the republican nominee will be ruthlessly trashed in such a manner.”
Trump did it willingly, for charity. But your point is well taken - our candidate will need a thick skin, the ability to be above it all and not feel compelled to complain about it in the media.
The big boys in corporate America do that all the time...companies close and they open another. Chatper 11 chapter 12346789 if they need to create one to get out of their mess..it's a go. And the circle goes round and round. So his bankrupties are meaningless in the eyes of those who will fund his run, they all know how that works...if he runs.
I let people learn as they go. The Donald is a reformed Conservative in my opinion. There are Beck fans all over the place here but I seem to be the only “Sick Twisted Freak” who saw his Metamorphosis. The Donald hates Universal health care. It is a job killer.
Speaking of 1979, I was affected by that personally. Yeah, Carter was “all good” on the social values, but as a President - an extreme disaster for this country, rivaled only by the present usurper in chief.
In any case, although he has not declared personal bankruptcy, the fact that he has to use such a tool in the first place for his organization(s) is a Red Flag stating to me that he is a piss poor manager when it comes right down to it. The LAST thing this country needs is such a “businessman”, IMO.
Yeah, he’s “reformed” in the same mold as Romney, and I’m not buying it for a second.
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