The Future President, Donald Trump

But Trump has gone way too far in suggesting that we force Muslims to wear ID badges a la Nazi Germany.

I spent much of Friday afternoon rewatching that clip as though it was the Zapruder film and—I can’t believe I’m about to say this—I think Trump’s technically right: He doesn’t explicitly advocate for creating the database. Yes, he seems to go along with the general idea after the reporter asks him about it—but he also doesn’t explicitly endorse it either. The reporter is asking about Muslims in America, but Trump appears unable to imagine that group includes U.S. citizens, which is probably why he immediately starts talking about the wall—a telling blind spot for a man campaigning on nativist anger and fear.

John Kasich on Donald Trump: ‘I’ve dealt with bullies all my life’

“Gov. Kasich has shown that he is one of the only folks willing to stand up to Trump and his antics, his empty promises, his bombast,” David told The Dispatch. “Secondly, in talking to voters and listening to our donors, there is a strong push and a consensus that someone has to stand up to Trump in this election. And we feel that Gov. Kasich is the best person to do that, given the fact that he is a sitting governor with a successful record that provides voters with a template of who he would be as president.

Businessman Donald Trump .....38.8%
Surgeon and author Ben Carson ...... 14.7%
Fla. Sen. Marco Rubio ...... 10.3%
Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz ......7.1%
Wouldn’t vote ......6.3%
Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush .....5.5%
Ken. Sen. Rand Paul .....4.1%
Ohio Gov. John Kasich ......3.0%
Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee ......2.8%
NJ Gov. Chris Christie ...... 2.6%

Republican operative Liz Mair is planning a "guerrilla campaign" aimed at knocking Donald Trump out of the GOP presidential race, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Mair, a former online communications director at the Republican National Committee who also worked on behalf of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's presidential campaign earlier this year, has formed Trump Card LLC "to defeat and destroy" Trump's candidacy, according to the report.


“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,” said an internal memo that the Journal obtained.

“The stark reality is that unless something dramatic and unconventional is done, Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will become president.”

News of the recently formed group comes a day after the super-PAC supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich, another GOP presidential rival, announced $2.5 million for TV, radio and other ads over two months targeting Trump in New Hampshire, where the real estate tycoon maintains a solid lead.

Another group, the economic think tank Club for Growth, has already hit Trump with $1 million in ads in the early-voting state of Iowa.

The moves underscore growing concern among Republicans that Trump's bid for the GOP presidential nomination, which at first was considered a long-shot, has moved closer toward becoming a reality as he leads national polls with less than three months before the first votes are cast in the 2016 race.

Mair described Trump Card LLC to the Journal as "loosely organized and highly confidential."

She said she hopes to lock up funds from donors who are interested in pushing back against Trump but don't necessarily want their involvement to become publicly known.

“He's not a big believer in P.C. culture where every statement you make you have to vet very carefully through thousands of people,” Donald Jr. said. “But if people really break down what he's trying to say, there's no malice in there. He's just cutting through the nonsense and getting to the point and not wasting time. That's what he does.”

“He's true to himself,” added Tiffany Trump, 22. “And he speaks in a way that the average person can understand. I think that's refreshing for everyone.”

No, you paraphrased what he said in your first reply, and even then you said

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He also assumes that some are good people.

That's a different brush and not tarring all of them with a single brush.

Besides all that, it's political rhetoric to make a point. I've yet to see any of their top scientists or cell phone moguls or company executives coming across the border illegally. Do you?

One thing is saying that illegal immigrants tend not to be top scientists, cell phone moguls or company executives; another thing is saying that they generally have the problems of drugs, crime and rape.

Confession hour. There's something in me — something wicked which my way came while reading Maureen Dowd just now — that makes me want to see the Donald go all the way. All. The. Way. as the ghost of Howard Cosell would put it.

Not just all the way to the Republican nomination. Given Trump's competition, that would be neither much of a feat nor much surprise. Even GOP Floridians favor the Mouth over Rubio and Bush, Republican Wisconsinites now rightly find Walker a bore, McCarthyite Texans seem less than inspired by Cruz, Huckabee can't get started with those lovingly hateful evangelicals, and so it goes, throughout the pathetic list of wannabe wankers in chief. What we're seeing in 2015 is an inversion, of sorts, of 2011 and '12. Romney was just qualified enough to stomp a roster of the eminently unqualified, while Trump, altogether unqualified, is wiping "deep-bench" resumes clean.

How can Trump be stopped? The amusing part of that presumed abstraction is that his competitors have stopped trying. The loud-mouthed bully is proving his point to the once-muddled masses every day. He brushes his competitors back and he kicks them around and, whimpering, they slither away. Will China and Japan and Mexico and Saudi Arabia not do the same? Bullies win. That is Trump's message — Trump's appeal — to a bullying base.

Does Trump's appeal in fact extend beyond the clueless hordes of the GOP base? As modern Republicanism's once-preeminent theorist of ideological hash would say, You betcha. Trump speaks to the resolutely inattentive, to the low-to-no-information voter, to the beer-guzzling sofa spud and to the thumpers who think His Will is revealed through halfwitted instrumentations like Trump. Doubtless, there's some considerable bleeding from GOP base to cretinous Americanism and then back again, but you get my point. The dumber we become, the more roller-derby-addicted we are, the more appealing a Donald Trump is.

Bullies win,That is Trump's message

....leaders who will lead, who will talk to us straight, and who will fight to get better deals

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....leaders who will lead, who will talk to us straight, and who will fight to get better deals

Trumpet's experience is in "reality" television, free-market capitalism (which is failing the people everywhere), and bankruptcy. Who/m will benefit from this character actor at the helm? What deals is he proposing that will be "better", and what is the comparison for "better".

Your responses are text-book sloppy, Hawk.

Working/not working is the test for Trump.

Proving how crass his voter base is, deep down inside.

He's probably surprised that he can go this far, and he's deciding if he can push the envelope of hatred further.

....when confronted with someone who is not interested in playing their bullshit games, with someone who wants to get things done and who knows how to get things done.

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....when confronted with someone who is not interested in playing their bullshit games, with someone who wants to get things done and who knows how to get things done.

So, he'll just bypass congress, and do whatever he likes?

There's a word for that..... it's treason.