It is almost criminal to throw away this one chance in a generation to elect an actual conservative in favor of a narcissist with no fundamental conservative principles apart from the opportunistic advancement of his own ego. I have to call a major BS on that one. Have you no eyes to see what is happening? Trump is, by all accounts (especially his children) an excellent father. He is by all accounts a very successful businessman (which means he functions in the real world not some platitudinous cloyed and sequestered world.) He is nearly 70 YO. He is not doing this to stroke his ego. That is what hillary does. He's not doing this to increase his wealth, he is already fabulously wealthy. He is doing this because he sees that the world is in serious trouble, and after careful analysis, has decided that he is the best person to fix it. And he probably is. But even if he isn't "the best" then who the hell is? Nobody else that I see.
Even if Cruz is not pusillanimous (ie. pussy - look it up), even if Carson is a great man in his own right, even if bush is a competent administrator (ak!), none of them engender the quality of looking at a problem, perceiving the cause of the problem, then fixing the damned thing the way Trump can. That's why he's so rich.
I have had it with you sanctimonious Trump bashers here at FR who pompously sit in judgement and cast simple one thought aspersions at a man, admittedly just another human, because he doesn't fit your far more limited concept of greatness. Get over yourselves! If you know so much more then you go do it! Put up- or shut up. Calling him "ego driven" after all he has accomplished is the height of conceited arrogance an I for one am sick of hearing it.
At the risk of trespassing across the threshold of your tolerance once more, I submit that you do not understand the urges which motivate the walking ego with the comb-over.
Trump has made his billions and made his mark in the accumulation of money which, of course, translates to power. Now he wants to take the next step to which so many wealthy men are tempted, he wants to succeed in the grandest arena of all, the arena which will give him the most scope to gratify his ego, politics.
Politics is the means by which we govern ourselves which also means how we distribute wealth, how we force other people to do our bidding, how we force other people to refrain from doing their own bidding, in short, politics is the way we decide whether we are going to control or refrain from controlling other people.
We are conservatives because we abhor controlling other people more than is indisputably necessary for the common good. We understand the common good to be identifiable, limited and, indeed, enumerated in the Constitution. Leftists define the common good as whatever flavor tickles them this cycle.
A narcissist necessarily defines the common good to be identical with his own selfish interests. That is the definitional foundation of a narcissist. It is perfectly understandable that Donald Trump "sees that the world is in serious trouble, and after careful analysis, has decided that he is the best person to fix it."
It is absolutely predictable that an egoist like Donald Trump will seek to gratify his needs in the public arena and at the public expense.
