One thing I like about Trump is that he is major battle-hardened. No, I don't mean military. I mean in business, which is very political in many ways itself. Having been born and raised in New York City myself, in the same year that Trump was born and raised in NYC, I can attest that his accomplishments are mind boggling. I know the real estate industry in New York, that Trump has fought his way to the top of. It contains the most valuable real estate in the world, as well as the toughest in-fighters who will destroy you as soon as look at you. Trump has competed with the best of these and come out on top. That gives me confidence that when dealing with world leaders, THEY are the ones who are going to be the underdogs, not Trump. One example is what he just said about the Iran fiasco deal. In total opposition to it, he said he would have increased the sanctions very high beforehand, and then do nothing, and wait for the Iranians to call us. This is the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal. His work ethic is incredible. He has been known to make anywhere from 50 to 100 phone calls daily, and will hold a dozen or so impromptu 15-minute meetings throughout the day. He has often worked 22 hour days when he needed to. This is a guy who, if president, is going to work at the job, not spend a lot time vacationing, or on the golf course. In contrast, if Hillary Clinton got elected, she'll do what she did as Sect. of State. Use the position to take all-expenses-paid trips around the world, wining and dining with world leaders, and not accomplishing anything (and never intending to). And, of course, this will be with her Muslim Brotherhood close aide (Huma Abedin) constantly by her side.
... which has little bearing on democratic governance. That would be tantamount to choosing a surgeon based upon the deftness of his terpsichore.
So Trump is bad, Cruz is bad, etc......anybody who dare point out Hillary's total lack of ethical behavior. Partisanship at its best.
To be exceeding rich requires sociopathy or psychopathy. Yet the idiots worship these people, for their value system is based upon wealth. And the wealthy and those that suck their kochs will totally screw up any nation, if you give them the time. Just look at our own nation where the middle class is going away, more people in poverty since the great depression, and if not for social safety nets we would have hung the rich elites already, a repeat of the French revolution. So, I would advise these Koch suckers, to do all they can to keep the welfare a coming, for that is what is saving their heads. For after the rich are hung, the mobs go after those that were Koch suckers.
Even if you deem him a blushing violet, he is still one that has failed to demonstrate a modicum of competence in governance. With actual Republican politicians such as Governor Perry calling the Angry White Guys' media entertainer a "barking carnival act" and a "toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense" and Senator Graham dismissing him as a "jackass," my proclaiming him a pantaloon would be a redundancy. Personally, I find him highly amusing.
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Yes I already knew Trump was born with a silver spoon stuck in his ass, and probably a confederate flag or better yet Nazi flag on the wall.
Obama had a resume that consisted of four years as an elected US Senator and eight years as a State Senator when he first ran for the presidency, and he was deemed sufficiently competent in that position to be re-elected by the American people. Trump's record sports multiple marriages, bankruptcies, and a stint as a media entertainer. Successfully pandering to the wacko birds guarantees him a future in show business.
Despite Donald Trump saying John McCain is not a war hero, and bullying nearly every GOP candidate, he remains at the top of the latest polls, proving some GOP voters are the real bigots and bullies. Lest you think this is an anomaly, Trump is also in the top slot in a new just-released NBC News-Marist poll of New Hampshire potential GOP primary voters, and in second place in Iowa, just two points below frontrunner Scott Walker. What does this all mean? There is a significant number of Republican voters who like immigrant-bashing. They like lies about entire groups of people. They don't actually care about the treatment of vets, nor about our service members whom they keep wanting to send off to war, and refuse to pay for their needs upon returning home. This part of the GOP electorate who supports a man with no actual policies or solutions likes having a scapegoat to explain their own failures, their own bad choices, on whom to pin their own hate, their own xenophobia, their own selfishness, bigotry, and hate. Donald Trump doesn't have any actual beliefs other than money, fame, and ego. He has merely held up a mirror to the Republican electorate. It is not he who is the ugly American for he is merely the reflection of a large part of the GOP electorate's beliefs. http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovemen...reflective_of_gop_voters_beliefs_than_trump_s
Many here seem to admire Trump because of his wealth. His connections allowed him to borrow massively and when the projects went bad he just screwed the lenders. When the projects were good he benefited, when they were bad someone else lost. Look past your envy of his money, he is a preening attention whore with few redeeming traits.
Frankly many are disgusted with today's 'governance' by the same old Washington parasites. Those who dismiss The Donald are in danger of being marginalized. Smart politicians will understand and use the momentum The Donald has created.
He is allowed to be wrong occasionally. I don't care what he has said or says now. Unlike Democrats who would put another inept lying idiot in office, all we patriots care about is what he's going to do to restore America's greatness.
I don't believe Trump is hurting the Republucan party. The only people rejecting Republicans are Democrats who vote strictly along party lines no matter what.
And some seek to break the control of the moneyed elite and the stranglehold of the duopoly it finances, whilst others are far too smitten by bombastic media entertainers to recognize the conspicuous paucity of substantive merit. He's a movement, alright. Do I hope that the reality show celebrity continues to wreak havoc with the Republican politicians? Worse things could happen, but I'm afraid the Trump is beginning to smell like his expiration date is imminent. Regarding his attack on Senator McCain and American POWs: Let's hope he befouls the GOP for a while yet, and then forms his own Trump Party that has all the allure of the riches the name promises for those he fleeces at his casino.
The 'moneyed elite' are mostly the rich left-wingers who are beholding to outside money...Like from Soros or any number of his radical leftist foundations. The Donald has his own money and has no paucity in that regard. Merit wise...Too early to tell. Obama is a bigger movement. He is wreaking havoc...That's a good thing. Here in America we say he who smells first did it. McCain is a political loser, The Donald can smell a loser from a mile away. Besides he did say McCain was a hero....He just got caught. The Donald is an exceptional success which is what America is all about. He is a great negotiator, knows most of the world leaders from his dealings and understands that Mexico IS sending criminals over our Southern border. He is bringing up issues Americans have long wanted to be addressed by our bought and paid for politicians.
You're a hardcore ideologue, so it's politically incorrect for you to indict the likes of the Kochs or Carrot Top Adelson. All fat cats who seek to further their acquisitive agendas by buying politicians must be checked, regardless of their political predilections. Meanwhile Jeb ! is challenging the media entertainer on his lack of substance. E.g., he notes that the Trump has yet to put forward any specific plan for dealing with the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally. When is he going to stop patronizing the vulnerable with his simplistic angry quips and offer the detailed legislative agenda that constitutes actual governance on this and other issues far to complex to be captured by an expletive?
Regardless Trump is dragging the Republican party dialogue down into the gutter. And the other Republican fools are following him to get the sensationalist arirtime they want so desperately. Lowest common denomenator concept is ruling the Republicans.
It's sad, actually. The US needs two substantive political parties at the very minimum, preferably more. To see one so debased as the emergent entertainment media wing routes the purportedly substantive one is appalling to all patriots. Democrats may delight in the debasement of the GOP, but it is a portent of the nation's diminution, the Kardashianization of America, reality tv in lieu of reality.
3 Years as a US Senator. He obviously vacated his US Senate Seat(which is where the whole selling controversy came from BTW) to run for President. A Senate term is 6 years So the longest of his political experience was at the State Level. Giving him credit, he was more experienced than Ben Carson ROFL. But let's not make it out that Obama was a seasoned vet. He won crucial political victories at key junctures, which allowed him to swiftly build alliances and overcame the fact that his legislative experience isn't as much compared to his peers.
You misunderstand, I was merely pointing out that most politicians are bought and paid for...The Donald is not. I don't remember Obama having divulge any 'detailed legislative agenda'....In fact he produced a bill that no one could read and it was passed in the dark of night. Frankly it is YOU who sound more like an ideologue with your Republican bashing and The Donald hating posts. I like The Donald's overall message, close the Southern border, roll back EPA regulations that make it next to impossible for manufacturing to thrive in America, negotiate world agreements from a position of knowledge and strength, stop China from screwing US, roll back stupid regulations and taxes that strangle anyone who starts a business.