The Future President, Donald Trump

 It hurts to put these words in print, but… Ann Coulter may be right. Shortly after the Paris attacks began last Friday, she tweeted, “They can wait if they like until next November for the actual balloting, but Donald Trump was elected president tonight.”


Stephen Colbert agrees. He told us this week to get used to saying “President Trump”—and led his studio audience to repeat the words in unison and then pretend to barf.

 Yes, it’s hard to stomach. America’s most entertaining demagogue winning the GOP primaries and then the general? It can’t happen here, can it?

Democrats have been expressing absolute incredulity at the possibility, and quietly chuckling to themselves about the Clinton landslide to come if Donald is his party’s nominee. The Huffington Post has banned Trump from its politics section and relegated him to Entertainment, as if there he’d be no more than a joke.

The problem is that our liberal incredulity mirrors that of the Republican establishment, which refuses to believe that their front-runner of five straight months could possibly win their nomination. Now even after the carnage in Paris, Beltway pundits are telling themselves that the base will sober up and turn toward “experienced” pols like Rubio or Bush and away from the newbie nuts. As the always-wrong Bill Kristol said of this latest terrorism crisis, “I think it hurts Trump and Carson, honestly.”

But, honestly, it’s only strengthened Trump. Since the November 13 attacks, every poll—in Florida, two in New Hampshire, and three nationwide—shows Trump maintaining or expanding his lead against his primary opponents. Poor Ben Carson, only recently Trump’s chief rival, is losing energy like, well, you know who. In the Fox NH poll, it’s Trump at 27, Rubio 13, Cruz 11, and Carson down there at 9 percent alongside Jeb!

It’s easy to laugh at GOPers in denial, but progressives who pooh-pooh Trump’s chances of beating Hillary may be whistling past the graveyard of American democracy.

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

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

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

"Chuck you need to calm down," Kasich said. "What I've argued is the Western ethic — what is it about? It's about life, it's about equality of women, it's about the freedom of religion. It's not about going to church. That's not what I'm talking about."

Later in the interview, Todd asked Kasich the key question that has vexed many political analysts and party insiders: How is Kasich losing to Donald Trump?

"Why is this appealing?" Todd asked. "Why is it working? Why do you think Trump is working?"

Kasich, whose affiliated "super PAC" is planning an advertising blitz to try to take down Trump, suggested that Trump's popularity could simply be a figment of unreliable early polling data.

"I don't know how much he's working and I don't know who they're surveying," Kasich said. "I do believe in polls like you do, but at the same time, who are they surveying? And are these people for real? I don't think so."

First, here’s how the GOP race stands: Trump remains in the top spot with a record 28 percent support from Republican primary voters. He was at 26 percent in the last Fox poll, which was completed before the last debate and the Paris attacks (November 1-3, 2015).

Carson drops from 23 percent to 18 percent in the new poll. Cruz and Rubio are both up three points and garner 14 percent each.

All others are in the low single digits: Jeb Bush gets 5 percent, while Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, and Mike Huckabee each get 3 percent. John Kasich and Rand Paul receive 2 percent a piece.

WOW, the willful delusion runs deep.

hawkeye10 wrote:

WOW, the willful delusion runs deep.

Truer words were never spoken. Although, not necessarily about Kasich!

Yeah, I don't get the support that Hillary gets either. Runs deep.

I'm hoping for the badly needed course correction.

Unless we can actually put a change agent in the Oval Office and vote out opposition.