I have my on conspiracy theory. Trump is in league with Zerobama to split the Republican ticket so that zero gets another term.
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The buffoon factor: President Trump?
What happens when you cross a narcissist with a buffoon in that great unwashed vat used to brew politics? You get a prospective presidential candidate named Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump is the bloviating business magnate whose failures rival his successes. He's been using his considerable ability to attract media attention to rattle the orchard trees to see if any political fruit falls at his feet.
Indeed, the more he rattles, the more attention he gets. And his basic name recognition has brought him success in early polls. But the more fruit that falls, the more rotten it seems to be.
Trump fancies himself as something of a populist conservative. And he intimates that should he run and should the GOP reject him, there might be an independent candidacy.
But what Trump is ideologically is more confused than anything.
Trump touts the "hundreds of thousands" of jobs he's created but supports policies that would lead to massive tax increases. He has no problem with nationalizing health care and conscripting the very wealth that feeds our investment pools.
And in matters of foreign policy, Trump redefines "imperialism," making Teddy Roosevelt look like Jimmy Carter.
Bombast and bluster might have worked for Donald Trump in his often audacious business dealings but it would make for a poor and dangerous president.
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IMHO, Trump is Obama's version of Ross Peroit --- totally designed to split the opposition. He's just another scam artist. But he's a New York real estate developer, so I'm being redundant in calling him a scam artist.