Posted on 04/11/2011 7:43:32 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
Trump is not a serious candidate, not a conservative and not a real Republican.
He will probably end up running as an independent at some point and siphon off 5-10% of the Republican vote, thus splitting the right just enough to ensure 4 more years of Obama.
This guy has already said if he doesn’t win the GOP nomination he will likely go independent. Basically, he’s saying if he doesn’t win he will take his ball and go home and screw the party he suddenly claims to belong to.
We are likely to have at least one conservative Supreme Court justice retire between 2012-2016, and it is vital we get an actual Republican in office. Donald Trump is NOT a serious candidate and will never be President of the United States, unfortunately, even if he goes independent there is a small percentage of Republicans that are so fanatical about the BC issue that they will waste their vote on him.
Would you prefer a second helping of Barack Hussein Obama then? We will have to appeal to a general electorate as well as a primary electorate and it’s the general electorate that will close the deal one way or the other. It would feel good to vote for Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman but they won’t appeal to the general electorate they way they appeal to the primary electorate. I don’t want to peddle RINO BS. I’m just offering a pragmatic opinion. take it or don’t. Seriously though, I dread the thought of a second term for BHO. OMG.
I find it interesting that Open Secrets, that is normally not afraid to post who donated what, said “ the Center for Responsive Politics” said this.... and not Open Secrets. Oh and by their way their link does not work. Hmmmmm????
If this is true, then I will wait to see what Trump has to say about it. Trump has not been a career politician he was out in the real world.
Nice try.... but its not going to work.
Trump has “more guts” than the rest of the Republican candidates
IMHO....
1. He’s NOT a politician.
2. He has nothing to lose, and everything to gain from running.
3. He can’t be hurt politically by the other politicians as he’s not one himself (this scares the hell out of all politicians).
4. He does not need to “spin” anything.
5. As such, he says what he means, and means what he says. This is absolutely the opposite of how politicians frame their words, thoughts, and deeds.
6. He is at least as intelligent as the stain, and has far heavier “street smarts” than the stain’s team
7. He has a wealth of “hands-on” management and administrative skills and experience - the stain (even to this point) has little of either.
8. He knows full well how to market himself, his ideas, and his objectives.
9. He has a fully functional managerial team of proactive experts, and
10. He hates to lose.
Yes....this is gonna be some fight!
well, you better keep a bucket handy then. lol
Another Huckatrump.
The idealists behind their keyboards are wringing their hands. Losers! Who cares what is the Donald’s current party registration. Party registrations are so passe, anyway. We’ve got ourselves a one party system, just like the Commies, who (learn your history) had nominal opposition parties in their domains, as negotiated with our genius politicians like the crippled schmuck FDR. People of this country like a practical man with common sense, who has the bollocks to stand behind his ideas. The Donald fits the bill. On the other side you have the ideologists, the Klintoons, the Obambis, the thoughtless rich like the Pelosis, who then do you choose?
Wanna rethink that statement? Here are some of the Democratic Senators in 1990:
• Dale Bumpers (D)
• Alan Cranston (D)
• Chris Dodd (D)
• Joe Lieberman (D)
• Joe Biden (D)
• Bob Graham (D)
• Daniel K. Inouye (D)
• Daniel Akaka (D),
• Alan J. Dixon (D)
• Paul Simon (D)
• Tom Harkin (D)
• George J. Mitchell (D)
• Paul S. Sarbanes (D)
• Barbara A. Mikulski (D)
• Ted Kennedy (D)
• John Kerry (D)
• Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D)
• Carl Levin (D)
• Bill Bradley (D)
• Frank Lautenberg (D)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D)
• Terry Sanford (D)
• Quentin N. Burdick (D)
• Kent Conrad (D)
• John Glenn (D)
• Howard Metzenbaum (D)
• Claiborne Pell (D)
• Ernest F. Hollings (D)
• Tom Daschle (D)
• Jim Sasser (D)
• Al Gore (D)
• Lloyd Bentsen (D)
• Patrick Leahy (D)
• Jim Exon (D)
• J. Robert Kerrey (D)
• Harry Reid (D)
• Richard H. Bryan (D)
• Robert Byrd (D)
• John D. Rockefeller IV (D)
• Herb Kohl (D)
Ross Perot, remember him? Maybe everyone should take a deep breath before getting on a similar bandwagon.
I don't have to. I lived thru those years.
I even lived thru the years when republicans tried the same thing with Ronald Reagan. Calling him a democrat who switched parties.
Hillarycare was hardly different than Obamacare in the nineties, and most of what they wanted to do was eerily similar then.
It was the loss of the house and senate that prevented them from getting most of the stuff they wanted done, not that they were truly more moderate.
Who cares as long as he’s getting under the skin of Obamabots.
I remember the Reagan era well as I supported him all three times for President. I don’t recall anyone having a problem with Reagan switching parties as he did so in 1964 (to support Goldwater, if now before). He didn’t switch parties (as an opportunist) to run for President.
Reagan’s opposition came from the Rockefeller Wing of the GOP (which is today known as the Bush Wing of the GOP, and attacks true conservatives).
You mean like this: Rodney Dangerfield's First Economics Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
“Maybe so, but at least he’s calling more attention to the BC than anyone else has.”
Talk is cheap, and its about him getting attention. The BC issue is designed to get attention not to do anything (it will go nowhere).
You mean like this:
Rodney Dangerfield's First Economics Class
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, NY (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Frederick Christ Trump, born October 11, 1905 in Queens, NY, died June 1999 in Queens, NY
Mary Ann MacLeod, born May 10, 1912 in SCOTLAND, died August 7, 2000 in Queens, NY. Arrived in US October 5, 1935. Married January 1936. Naturalized as a US Citizen March 10, 1942.
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Donald Trump is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.
I know he didn't. But those republicans that bashed him for even thinking about even running for President used that as an excuse to try to destroy him which was their way of bringing their own candidate up in the polls.
They used the liberal approach which is destroy the other guy so my guy looks good rather than focus on bringing up their guy to be able to go against the one they opposed. End result? Their candidate never went up in the polls because they kept the spotlight so much on the republican they attacked they forgot to put the spotlight on their own candidate.
The Newsmax poll just released (which mirrors very closely to another poll released a few days ago) suggests that's happening again.
Trump MIGHT get past the primary but he wont. He has to say crazier pro-rightwing things to get people to the primary voters to vote for him.
The BC issue: he’s relentless. But this is a marathon. Too early for him to peak right now and there is a reason why Palin is silent. She’s allowing him to grab the MSM target for now.
I am very grateful also for the efforts Mr. Trump has made on the BC travesty, but I am suspicious of him as a candidate given his previous contributions and positions. Despite Bill Clinton’s comments the other day; I still feel that he may be doing this right now to clear the way for Hillary. Obama has reached a vulnerable point. His hope and change has turned this country’s prospects into a nightmare and people are starting to realize it.
All of a sudden we have a guy whose positions seem more in line with traditional democrats being the one to poke at Obama’s soft under-belly, and the media has been actually been going pretty easy on him. It seems a little too convenient, but who knows...
Trump is a Trojan Horse for Soros.
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