Trump?

If he's still playing this game com primaries, it won't matter if he wins or not. If he controls the media dialog in terms of attention, it means that other GOP candidates will have to go on record either condemning or endorsing the political narrative he is advancing.

People like Carl Rove must hate Trump right now because he is making birtherism a party litmus and that will not sail well with the general electorate. The GOP is many things, but they are not stupid. Rove et al are excellent constructors of narrative and political strategy. The longer this continues, the more it will complicate the landscape. I expect there to be a large conservative media blacklash from even the conservative media outlets to aid in this.

Already, O'Reilly has in no uncertain terms condemned birtherism and many other web meme rumors about Obama. This is good for both the Dems and the GOP. To the Dems, Obama can let the GOP argue amongst themselves about the issue, and to the GOP, they can still appeal to moderates as not all being birthers/crazy.

I'm quite positive that the GOP is aware of their challenge in finding the right candidate with moderate appeal but won't turn off the Tea Party types.

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Their voters sure the hell are stupid..........

If nothing else, a run between Trump and Obama ought to be interesting. I would just love to see them debate real issues.

This fact about democrats is well documented... just look at the turd in the White House.

Trump will either go on Dancing With the Stars or run for the presidency.

Whichever one gets him the most attention . . .

Don't give Barry any ideas... didn't he already do American Idiot?

Trump takes lumps in polls
Laughed off as a ‘liberal’

A poll and a scathing message from an influential anti-tax group serve as a blunt reminder to Donald Trump that there’s a long road ahead of him if he wants to be a serious contender for president.

With no clear favorite for the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, the Manhattan billionaire has spent months flirting with a White House bid and seen his name jump in some presidential polls, while he leveled stiff criticism at the Obama White House. He boasts about what he sees as his conservative credentials, overall smarts and top-notch business pedigree.

But the real estate and hotel magnate got a gut check Monday after Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, called Mr. Trump’s potential candidacy a joke, labeling him as just another “tax-hiking liberal” and “the King of Protectionism” when it comes to international trade. Rasmussen Reports, meanwhile, released a poll that showed more than half of the people surveyed didn’t hold Mr. Trump in a positive light — a finding that the pollster said doesn’t bode well for anyone eyeing the White House.

“A lot of the Republican contenders struggle because nobody knows who they are, so they have low support,” said Scott Rasmussen, founder and president of Rasmussen Reports. “With Donald Trump, 53 percent of the country already have a unfavorable opinion of you. That’s a tough way to run for president.”

Those negatives run contrary to the warm reception Mr. Trump has received in recent months, including at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he won a standing ovation after delivering a speech that bashed Mr. Obama’s tenure in the White House and repeated his claim that China should face taxes on imports until it stops manipulating its currency.

“And I can tell you this, if I run and if I win, this country will be respected again,” Mr. Trump told the crowd, sending them into a frenzy.

Since then, Mr. Trump has embarked on media blitz, where he has expressed doubts about the president’s birth certificate and whether Mr. Obama actually was born in Hawaii, reviving the so-called “birther” controversy that many have considered a dead issue.

Along the way, polls suggest, he has made himself into a top contender for the 2012 Republican nomination. The Real Clear Politics average of GOP presidential polls shows him running in third place behind former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

But many people wonder whether Mr. Trump is serious about running or simply is trying to score free press to promote his other business ventures, including the reality-TV series “The Apprentice.”

“I think Donald Trump is going to help his TV-show ratings,” Mr. Rasmussen said.

Yes, Trump would be considered a joke if anyone else was in office, but
he looks like a better choice than Obama (and who doesn't) right now.

Yes a man who have major compounds of his business empire go into bankrupted at least three times and who cheerfully hand the short end to his fellow investors time after time is far better then Obama.

I think this is likely to happen a few times before a real Republican nominee emerges, as "none of the above" is personified in some form and then when he/ she seems to be getting traction, it becomes "Wait I don't actually want to vote for that candidate! I just don't like Obama or any of the other Republican candidates right now!"

There is still room for someone who currently is not given any chance to emerge from the shadows, like Clinton did when he ran against George Bush I. But none of the current Republican possibilities seem to be getting much enthusiasm.

Obama is bankrupting an entire nation.

Yes indeed and he was given a country in fine economic conditions with no problems at all because of the fine and wonderful 8 years of GOP management.

So there was no reason at all to pump Federal money by the truck lot to keep from going into a great despression.

Well this is Trump in the year 2000 so I guess H2O he was not always a complete asshole and joke.


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"We must have universal healthcare," wrote Trump. "I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses."

The goal of health care reform, wrote Trump, should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. "Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork," he writes.

The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.

Trump is an Asshole and a Joke, but he is still a better man than Obama.

LOL!!

You must have the direct feed from Barry's teleprompter.
Pumping truckloads of taxpayer money into local unions did nothing to help America.
All Obama's stimulus spending bill did was stimulate votes for Obama.

It's beginning to look like Trump is an operative for Obama's democrats. More liberal obfuscation.

Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
and said goodby to the circus
off she went with a trumpetty trump
Trump, trump, trump

This morning on Morning Joe, he suggested people would like what Trump said regarding Iraq's oil. (probably too soon for a link)

Trump: Stay in Iraq and Take Over the Oil


Do any of you think Joe might be right, would American voters just come out and embrace that kind of thinking? I have a horrible feeling they just might.

Trump sounds like a liberal.