Discussion: Trump: RNC Chairman Actually Called To Tell Me I'm 'Doing Well'

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I agree. Heā€™s doing great. Donā€™t pay any attention to those nay-sayers. Mr Trumpā€“if they keep giving you grief, start a third-party bid. You can afford it.
Run, Donnie, run!

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Yeah, you hit a nerveā€¦the last nerve for a lot of people. Also, when someone says ā€œYouā€™re doing wellā€¦butā€ that usually means youā€™re not doing well.

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Priebus: ā€œShut up! Shut up! Shut up!ā€

Trump: ā€œHe called to give me advice on how to communicate my message.ā€

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Creating his own realityā€¦ Heā€™s rich, heā€™s smart, and gosh darn it, people like him!

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Trump needs to give us advanced warning whenever he decides to make public announcements. ā€¦ so that we have a chance to fetch our shovels and hip waders.

Of course heā€™s ā€œdoing wellā€. Every time Trump opens his mouth, itā€™s another few news cycles where nobody pays the slightest attention to 57 other Republican nutjobs running for President. Itā€™s another few news cycles where nobody looks closely at what a bunch of incompetent criminals people like Christie, Walker, Jeb!, Rubio, Cruz, etc, etc, etc all are. They all look sane and intelligent compared to Trump.

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  What we've got here is failure to communicate.
  Some men, you just can't reach.
  So you get what we had here last week -- which 
	is the way he wants it. 
	
  Well, he gets it. 
	
  And I don't like it anymore than you men.

Which makes the fact that Trump is out-polling many of them and is ahead in NC [according to PPP] all the more gob-smacking.

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Clearly we need body cams on the, ahem, candidatesā€¦

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Is there a doctor in the house? We need someone with mental-health expertise to guess at whether this is everyday ongoing denial or if itā€™s starting to verge on actual delusion.

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Trump is more than the ā€œidā€ of the GOP; I fear that heā€™s the ā€œidā€ of a large portion of white America. Heā€™s my brother-in-law who argues for a flat tax and eliminating welfare. The guy who claims that the ā€œMeskinsā€ are taking all the jobs. The guy who wants to sell you Krugerrands because you canā€™t trust the government. In brief any dumb fuck who has simple answers to complex questions and thinks every thing would be fine and the country could save a whole lot of time and money if they just listened to him or her [mostly him by my experience].

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Wonder what Trump thinks of JEBā€™s brother snagging $100K to speak to a Helping a Hero wounded vet charity?

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Trump honed the ā€˜narcissist playing politicianā€™ ruse a long time ago. He keeps it up because the media keep paying attention. He has followers because heā€™s good at the talk and morphed his persona into a brand.

Imagine Coca-Cola running for president. Popular? Heck yeah. Qualified? Hell no. In it to build the brand? BINGO!

When you reduce things to their essence, itā€™s basically this: Republican = FloridaMan

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The GOP is big on id these days. Look at the responses to the recent SCOTUS decisions, Paul LePage, Sarah and Bristol Palin, Rushā€¦

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Heā€™s richā€¦leveraged to the hilt
smartā€¦in his own mind
gosh darn itā€¦ people (even a lot of repubs) think heā€™s a douche bag clown
:wink:

I have it on good authority that Latinos arenā€™t enamored with Trump the Chump.

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Yes!

The Donald will do anything in his power to destroy any candidate who he thinks will beat him, and in my opinion damage the brand and the eventual GOP nominee to such a degree as to leave them incapable of winning in November 2016. I think it is real justice for them, as their rhetoric, and disgraceful actions since 2008 and even earlier have spawned an ignorant, radical and hateful GOP base of wildly uninformed voters. Donald Trump is actually helping the Republican Party ā€œhit bottomā€!

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Itā€™s time to reassess whether the idea of letting casual voters decide who the parties nominate is a good one. Yeah, I know many of you will say, ā€œIt works fine as long as the primary voters arenā€™t a bunch of fools.ā€ True. But a really well-designed system is not one that works well when run by wise and knowing sages, itā€™s one that works well even when run by idiots. Especially since the Republican and Democratic parties are given special legal status (automatic ballot placement of their nominees), allowing people like Trump into their processes is dangerous. Better to let the professionals within each party pick their candidates and let the Trumps make their own party or run as independents,