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The horse has left that barn, Donnie… The mouth breathing rubes don’t do walk backs. They see weakness there, Donnie. You said so yourself.
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If he makes this announcment I’ll be curious to see if a reporter asks the obvious follow-up, “Will you support and campaign for the eventual nominee if it isn’t you?” Also, will the expected obscufation from Trump in response be allowed to slide, or forcefully challenged with an insistence on a responsive answer?
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a lot of leverage
Donald’s demanding media and other candidates wear little organ grinder monkey hats during the next debate…
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I hope he doesn’t take the pledge. Honestly Trump is the best thing that could happen to the Republican party. The longer Republicans stick to this “appeal to the troglodyte” strategy and try to do it as subtext the less likely they are ever to recover as an actual sane functioning political party. Trump is exposing and destroying the monster sooner. And that is a good thing. Maybe there will be a remnant of a corpse that can be brought back to life as an actual fact and policy based party.
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He is going to take them to the cleaners. He’ll bow out and sigh a “noncompete” clause, but it will cost them dearly.
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Oh this will be a major flip-flop, if he does.
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Here’s another one. Has anybody else noticed how much Trump is focusing upon attacks on Jeb! and (except for the pot-shot about jobs) comparatively muted about Walker and Cruz? Is he in this race as a (witting or unwitting) stalking-horse to knock out Jeb! and clear the way for the Koch-suckers?
That scares me.
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Knocking out Jeb! Is a worthy cause, which I can support… I love the idea of all of the Citizens United enabled money not actually enabling the 1% to buy the nomination. I hope it forces the republicans to realize they too have an interest in limiting money in politics.
I hope we can look back at Trump and thank him for taking the money issue to its absurd logical end for all to see.
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I went out on a limb yesterday saying I thought he would run as an independent if the Party tries to do him in and that I didn’t and still don’t believe he cares if the republicans win or not. This guy is smart enough to know he is not up to the job of President. He is not even really campaigning seriously. This is all very bizarre
Rump won’t win the GOP nom. And he won’t win an Indie nom either. He will not be POTUS. I believe he knows this.
BUT, he will bow out at some point and, at which point, the damage will have been done. Doesn’t really matter if he were to drop out tomorrow or in the next six months. The damage has been done and JEB took the brunt of a lot of it. When he finally gets out, doesn’t do an Indie run BUT, at the same time, doesn’t endorse the frontrunner, that’s where his revenge will be.
That’s assuming Ailes could convince Megyn Kelly to consent to a hysterectomy.
Actually, this is just a bump in the road. Trump is showing that taking the middle-man out is a better strategy. So, it won’t take long for the uber rich to collude and choose who will be their nominee. They’ll lose one or two more elections while trying to show who among them has a bigger dick. Then they’ll wise-up, send away all the GOP politicians who come begging for money, and just agree to run one of their own.
This will happen on the Dem side too. Talk about the appeal of a Kanye West, Jay-Z, Dre, or any number of mega-rich Silicon Valley entrepreneurs would have for the Dems.
Just another one of my dystopian fantasies, maybe.
I couldn’t agree more.
But that is his appeal. The GOP is a bizzarro party. They hate government and they hate politicians so their first rule is to elect the person least equipped to run government with the idea that it will break government. W was a GOOD president in their view. If he had completely destroyed government, he would have been a GREAT president.
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Actually, this isn’t really so different from what’s happened throughout American history.
That’s the GOP. It is almost unbelievable that a party could be so full of ignorant folks
What’s to stop him from making the pledge and then backing down from it? It’s not hard to imagine a scenario where he explains that the GOP has treated him so badly he is no longer bound by his pledge. Treating Trump badly seems to be the unforgivable sin in his world.
Only IF the GOP swears on a stack of money
" I pledge allegiance to the hair on Donnie’s head, and for the the $billions for which it combs over …"
Exactly. He could take the pledge, and then later announce that he has no choice but to break the pledge because it’s what the voters truly want. He could say that he’s been talking to “people” and looking at the polling and he’s decided it would be wrong to deny the American people the opportunity to experience his awesome leadership.
I really don’t believe that. I believe Trump has spent so many decades surrounded by “yes men”, by people who tell him that he’s the greatest at everything he does in life. I watched the first couple of seasons of The Apprentice, and Trump is a guy who truly believes his own hype. I think he believes being president is just about hiring smart people to advise him. I think he’s like a lot of rich men who’ve run for president who thought the country could just be ran like a business. I see little difference between Trump and Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Steve Forbes, etc.
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In Robert Bolt’s play, “A Man for All Seasons,” the main character Sir Thomas More is struggling in doubt as to whether he can sign on to The Succession of the Crown Act without betraying his conscience and the Catholic Church.
His friend, the Duke of Norfolk, says"Oh Thomas…just sign the thing. What’s the matter?"
More replies: “What matters is not that it’s true, but that I believe it; or no, not that I believe it, but that I believe it.”
Trump will have no such crisis of conscience. Sign on now…later! Heh! Fu*k it if necessary.