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Who Wrote This?

Friday, 11 March 2016, 1:20 BFH Uncategorized 21

This pundit is a notorious Trump loather, but not so much in 2011, when they were a Trump lover. What happened, exactly?

Townhall-

For well over a year, I, along with the rest of the conservative base in America, have lamented the lack of decent possible Republican presidential candidates. Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama’s frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.Mitt Romney has about as much charm as a Ziploc bag, and his support for Romneycare in Massachusetts should immediately put him out of the running. Though brilliant, Newt Gingrich is chameleonic and impossible to peg down to principle; therefore, he’s unacceptable to many primary voters. Sarah Palin is polarizing; Haley Barbour bears too strong a resemblance to Deputy Dawg; Mike Huckabee isn’t interested in running, and his religious background makes him a beloved target of the secular press; Tim Pawlenty makes Ben Stein seem colorful.

The Republican field has not been this wide open since … well, since 2008. Sadly, the intervening three years have not cleared up any questions.

If Republicans were to construct an ideal candidate, he would have to be rich beyond belief — Obama is going to raise $1 billion for his next election campaign, and no Republican candidate has the ability to come close to those numbers without deep pockets. The ideal Republican candidate would have significant name recognition with the general public — no Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without significant name recognition going into the primaries since Warren G. Harding in 1920. The ideal Republican candidate would have stage presence, an intimidation factor, and a willingness to play dirty.

In the last several weeks, that ideal Republican candidate has materialized.
His name is Donald Trump. His slogan is ready-made: “You’re Fired.” He does not give a damn what the media thinks of him — he steamrolled Meredith Vieira during his NBC interview with her last week. He can self-fund to the tune of $1 billion.

And what’s more, he can win.

Pay no attention to the recent polls showing Obama crushing Trump by 20 points in a head-to-head matchup. That disparity is attributable to the public perception that Trump is a loudmouth with no true interest in running. The moment he declares in earnest and gets on the campaign stump, his numbers will rise dramatically.

Trump has across-the-board appeal. His show, “The Apprentice,” routinely draws nearly 9 million viewers per episode. Blue-collar workers identify with Trump’s rough-and-tumble attitude. He even has union support — he’s made a political mint bashing outsourcing, and he recently told Human Events that he has made “many billions of dollars working with the unions,” though he does not disagree that public sector unions bilk taxpayers.

Trump’s image boils down to this: he’s a no-nonsense businessman who is brash enough to take on Obama directly. He’s big enough to stand toe-to-toe with Obama and slug it out.

The biggest question that surrounds Trump of late is his focus on the question of Obama’s birth certificate. Trump has stated routinely and openly that he wonders whether Obama was born in the United States, and he has called on Obama to release his birth certificate. This has earned him the ire and scorn of Obama’s lackeys, who say he has “zero chance” of getting elected.

In reality, the birth certificate issue is specifically geared toward certain political ends for Trump. First, it is obviously calculated to attract the most anti-Obama segment of the conservative base — and it has already succeeded, if primary polling is any indicator. Second, it is designed to force Obama into defending his character — Trump has already suggested that at best, Obama refuses to come clean with the American people. Finally, it shows Obama that if Trump is nominated, the campaign will not be a McCain-style hands-off lovefest. It will be a knockdown drag-out brawl. Trump will stop emphasizing the birth certificate issue, to be sure, but not until he’s milked it for all it is worth.

Is Donald Trump the best Republican candidate for president out there? It would be tough to argue otherwise. He’s got all the makings of a breakout star; he’s got bravado and the cash to back it up. If he really runs, he won’t have any trouble finding supporters. And as he puts it, he is the Obama administration’s “worst nightmare.” So far, who can argue with him?
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21 Comments on Who Wrote This?

  1. Little Ben has me conflicted. Half the time I want a transvestite to squeeze his head until it pops like a zit. The other half I cheer for him. One of us is not consistent.

  2. But Ben hates Trump now! It’s making me crazy. He’s on the #NeverTrump bandwagon and said he’d vote third party or not vote. He didn’t like how Trump handled the David Duke comments and he gets anti Semitic hate mail from Trumpsters.

    Does he even remember that he wrote this editorial?

  6. Well how about that?

    Trump’s run has done one thing exceedingly well and that’s to draw the hypocritical cockroaches out from behind their GOPe baseboards for all of us to see them dancing with the kitchen lights on.

    If you would have told me that when Trump ran that there would actually be conservatives(?) saying they would rather have a failed 3rd party candidate throw the election to Hillary rather then have Trump win, I would have said no way.

    As the Trump movement continues to gather steam and should he win it all, what possible relevance do these scumbags think they’ll ever muster again? That’s their nightmare.

  11. –Trump’s image boils down to this: he’s a no-nonsense businessman who is brash enough to take on Obama directly. He’s big enough to stand toe-to-toe with Obama and slug it out —-

    But not Hillary?

  12. There were oh so many that liked Herr Hitler at the beginning to until they got a whiff of that stench. Should they have had the right to change their minds? Guess not!

  14. Just as an aside, I saw yesterday that Chuck Norris came out and said that he is NOT publicly supporting one particular candidate yet. Ted Cruz’s team jumped the gun/lied when they said he would be at their event endorsing Cruz.

  15. You think there is lying going on now, wait for the General, when it’s Hillary v Trumpster. This woman will be pissing on our legs and swearing it’s raining. Meanwhile, federal prison camps will be loaded with folks that lied to Congress, cheated on their taxes and defrauded Americans, but Hillary will still be running for president. Thanks to Obama and Lynch.

  16. So, let me see if I have this straight…

    Trump’s waffling and constantly changing positions on every single issue in this campaign does NOT mean that he’s really just full of shit.

    Ben changing his support from Trump after months of actually seeing Trump as a candidate in reality and not just in theory DOES mean that he’s a hypocritical, lying sack of shit.

    Got it.

  17. Pageturner; The wall has been renegotiated. It is now 1/2 a wall.
    As about half of the 1/2 wall he is now talking about has already been built, he is either going to tear that down, or just build 1/4 of a wall.
    That is his position until further negotiations.

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