Why Donald Trump Is Surging in New Hampshire

According to a most recent poll, the unlikely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has surged into second place in New Hampshire. His 21 percent support trails only Mitt Romney's 26 percent and easily tops the 12 percent registered by Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee.

It was Huckabee's weak-kneed performance in the face of the "birther" questions that induced me to write on March 4, "In the Republican spirit of free enterprise, I would recommend my new book, Deconstructing Obama . . . . The first Republican candidate to educate himself on this issue, and to turn the tables on his tormentors, will likely be the next president of the United States."

Little did I expect that candidate to be Donald Trump, but he has done exactly as I had hoped, and, better yet, he has pulled his talking points from my book.

There are, of course, any number of sources Trump could have drawn from on the question of Obama's manufactured nativity story. On two other key points, however, Trump clearly drew his inspiration from Deconstructing Obama.

Most notably, as Trump told Laura Ingraham and others, former terrorist Bill Ayers wrote the Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father, which Trump correctly identifies as the foundation of Obama's "genius" myth.

Of note, too, Trump was the first public figure to draw a distinction between the lyrical Dreams and Obama's workman-like second book, The Audacity of Hope, published in 2006. Trump even hinted at its likely author, referring to Obama's wunderkind speechwriter, Jon Favreau, as "a guy that's like a sophomore in high school."

Forgive my insistence on the subject of Obama's legitimacy, and my own role therein, but I continue to face stiff resistance from the more respectable corners of the conservative media, as has anyone who has dared question the official Obama orthodoxy.

This is all a "distraction," we are told, an "irrelevance" even. Distraction or not, Donald Trump's surge has surely proved the subject's relevance.

If some of you don’t like Trump,...fine. I'm OK with him at the moment. I will just be shocked if the GOP base goes for a guy on his third wife.

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I'm not sure I would like to see Trump as my next president, because he seems to carry a lot of unfavorable baggage with him.

But I sure hope Trump runs in the Republican primaries, because his presence in the primaries will surely make an expected boring Republican primary race into a very exciting and electrifying primary race even if he loses.

For instance, I will make an extra effort to make sure that I watch the cable political talk shows every night that Trump appears on the shows to see what politician and presidential candidate Trump is scolding that day.

Trump might not have a chance in the primaries, but the fireworks he will set off every night on the cable political talk show circuit will be worth staying up late to watch.

For instance, I bet O'Reilly and Hannity can't wait for the presidential campaign season to begin so that they can listen to Trump rant and rave about this topic and that topic as they see their ratings go through the roof.

And every time Trump brings up Obama's long form birth certificate controversy over and over during the 2012 presidential campaign, I can just see President Obama and his staff looking for a hole in the White House to crawl into.

So I say this to Trump: Rum Trump Run. And I bet Obama wets his pants every time you bring up Obama's long form birth certificate controversy.

Right now, I don’t know whom I will vote for in the primary. Trump, however, despite his many negatives pointed out here on FR, is the man I’ll vote for in straw polls and might well contribute to. That’s because he’s the guy who’s shaking up the race and forcing the other pubbies to question the Illegal’s legitimacy in all its aspects, someting that wasn’t done to the Illegal in 2008. Nothing but good can come of that questioning.

Trump has a high profile and is reasonably articulate. Name recognition means a lot. Lee Harvey Oswald would pull votes simply because people have heard of him.
No clue as to why you think Trump couldn’t get elected. Step one is getting enough name recognition that people cover you. Step two is how you handle yourself after you’re in the spotlight. Trump has his skeletons, and if he moves forward, he’ll be attacked for both his divorces and the previous business failings, but he’s been in the spotlight enough to know how to deal with it. I’m not talking about how effective he would be as president. I’m talking about his ability to get elected.

Trump is a New York liberal. Have you ever heard the expression “When two Democrats run against each other the Democrat always wins”—???

The Republican party is fast filling up with liberals like Trump, Christie, Scott Brown, etc. These people might have a chance against Obummer in a Dem primary in some states but Dumbsky would just wipe the floor with somoene like Trump in a general election.

Trump has no qualification to be president. None. I agree that celebrity matters but only if you have some credentials in the industry. Unless a candidate has led the allies to victory in Europe (or better) he’d be better served running for lesser office first and proving himself.

Trump, with his divorces and bankruptcies and his long history of pandering to liberal Dems like Pelosi, would just be a laghingstock.

But I do think that a Trump candidacy could spell the deathknell of the Republican party, and that would probably be a good thing.

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