Why does GOP continue to tolerate Trump?
To ease us back into the political world after a great holiday weekend, a semi-playful little question:
What is it with the Republicans and Donald Trump?
The guy’s a Class A jerk who’s still out there peddling the toxic nonsense that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. He’s also publicly lobbying for a prime speaking spot at the GOP convention in Tampa, and for all we know, he may actually get one.
I mean, Mike Huckabee has seriously suggested Trump as a replacement for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Mitt Romney continues to play along with the fool as well, both seeking and touting Trump’s endorsement. Romney has even agreed to appear at a major fundraiser hosted by Trump tonight in Las Vegas. (Newt Gingrich is expected to attend as well, creating a concentration of egomania that may very well skew the Earth’s gravitational field.)
And how does Romney respond to the question that he lends credibility to Trump and his birther nonsense by publicly appearing by his side?
“You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in. But I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”
I’m not the George Will fan that I used to be, but over the weekend Will got it right:
“I do not understand the cost benefit here. The costs are clear. The benefit — what voter is going to vote for (Romney) because he is seen with Donald Trump? The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.”
To which Trump responded via Twitter:
As insults go, Will definitely wins higher marks, although it should also be said that with Trump as his target, Will had a little better raw material to work with. And while “bloviating ignoramus” earns bonus points as a nice, rhythmic, multi-syllabic compound, it falls well short of the classic description of Trump as a “short-fingered Vulgarian.”
The return fire from Trump, however, was disappointedly pedestrian. The American people have come to expect more from a veteran of media feuds with the likes of Rosie O’Donnell and others. They know that while Trump has always lacked wit, his utter lack of class and manners has usually served as a rhetorical combover to hide those shortcomings. Boilerplate such as “dumbest and most overrated” simply is not up to — or more accurately down to — what we’ve come to expect from The Donald.
– Jay Bookman
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redneckbluedog
May 29th, 2012
9:37 am
USMC
May 29th, 2012
9:08 am
“Why does GOP continue to tolerate Trump?”–Jay
“The Donald” is NOT running for President. (thank goodness)
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If Romney wins…Trump will be Secretary of Treasury…..Or HUD secretary…..
Gingrich will be Secretary of State…..
Thogwummpy
May 29th, 2012
9:37 am
So wait….now that documents have emerged proving that when it suited his image crafting in the past, can we also accuse Obama himself of promoting “toxic nonsense” that he was born in Kenya? (keep in mind, Obama with a slip of the tongue when he was senator…said once to an audience that he was born in Kenya) Basically, Bookman has no problem with Obama implying he was of Kenyan birth so that it would magnify his diversity cred; but later (and as a result of that earlier promotion by Obama and his handlers—such as literary agents) if people naturally ask…given that the media failed to do their job by examining the controversy in the first place (fearful it might result in a disqualification of the man they’d invested their advocacy capital in)—then they are ridiculed as whack-jobs. Look, Bookie-boy…if you claim you went to Penn State and later—embarrassed by the football sex scandal—you try to distance your reputation from that by denying you went to Penn State; are those who do a diligent fact check to find out what’s accurate….crazy?!?! That said, there’s no record that his mother went to Kenya when Obama was born, so it’s likely he was born in Hawaii. But the controversy is his own fault and the fault of a press that didn’t look into it at all (the way they did every allegation in Bush’s past), thus giving it legs.
I’d also like to say that it’s disgusting that you make an attempt to tarnish the GOP for Trump, making a leap of connection that is wispy. If that’s fair game, then I think the DNC can be dragged thru the mud for Rosanne Barr saying “rich people should be guillotined” (or the other bizzar-o stuff that blasts from hundreds of committed moonbat Libtard entertainers and politicians).
Steve
May 29th, 2012
9:37 am
TH from MC – you realize that your ‘lazy welfare recipients’ are mostly white folks in red states, right? I know, really.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 29th, 2012
9:38 am
At the end of the day, Libs need the GOP and their overtaxed bad selves. Think about it.
redneckbluedog
May 29th, 2012
9:40 am
I’m a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with…cause we’re smart and they are not
May 29th, 2012
9:23 am
Romney’s resume vs Obama’s……………Is that a debate you Libs want?
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ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTELY….!!!!!!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:40 am
St. Simons –
– your name remind me of my first car … 0-60 in, oh, about 5 minutes or so …
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:42 am
“Gingrich will be Secretary of State…..”
because DIPLOMACY is his middle name!!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:43 am
“Romney’s resume vs Obama’s……………Is that a debate you Libs want?”
all.
day.
long.
Jay
May 29th, 2012
9:44 am
“Care to prove your point?”
Sure, Ted. Be glad to do so:
Kayaker for one quotes Rush regularly:
“Meanwhile, our Head Narcissist in Charge, has taken it upon himself to edit Presidential Profiles from Coolidge to Reagan, injecting himself, complete with picture, to show his “greatness”. I agree with Rush….. this jerk should marry himself.”
“Rush had a pretty good suggestion about Bozo today. He suggested that Bozo could marry himself because he is so much in love and it would be a same sex union that he would certainly indorse.”
“As an aside on this thread, Rush was eulogizing Donna Summer today on his program and told a story about her and her husband when they met in an airport. He said that Summer and her husband approached him and told him how much they both enjoyed his radio show. They admitted to being conservatives, unusual at that time, especially for a black couple. Maybe Bookman wants a retraction now that he knows her politics.”
And JohnnyReb does as well:
“BTW, Donna was a Conservative. She even liked Rush Limbaugh. I wonder if that will result in retractions?”
And Sinkwich:
““Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s latest jab at the National Organization for Women has attracted more Facebook “likes” in 24 hours than NOW’s main page has collected in a little under four years.”
How could that be?”
And Casual Observer:
“I guess Rush was right, to piss off a liberal, just throw facts at them.
Winning!”
Joseph
May 29th, 2012
9:45 am
redneckbluedog:
ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTELY….!!!!!!
You haven’t read the memo. We’re not supposed to talk about Obama’s accomplishments or lack thereof. Dang it stay on message. The GOP has a war on women. Donald Trump is a raciest.
Steve
May 29th, 2012
9:46 am
So, how WAS Romney’s record in Massachusetts??
(crickets chirping)
Brosephus™
May 29th, 2012
9:46 am
I’d also like to say that it’s disgusting that you make an attempt to tarnish the GOP for Trump, making a leap of connection that is wispy.
Dude ran as a GOP candidate for president in this cycle. He’s met with several other candidates. He’s endorsed a candidate if I remember correctly, and now he’s making an appearance on behalf of a candidate. Jay’s not making the connection dude, The Donald is doing it all on his own. Funny how some conservatives fail to see the bad in their own party while trying to throw darts at the opposition.
Mr. Snarky
May 29th, 2012
9:46 am
Jay,
Because they’re media whores. That’s why.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:47 am
Jay – 9:44
snap.
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
9:47 am
Haven’t checked in detail, but I believe the standard ballerina modus operandi is in effect this morning.
The GOPApologists neither say that they approve or disapprove of this man.
The ONLY silly play they can think up is to say, “Sharpton! Obama! Soros! Or someone else!”
I suspect that Joseph, Ted, Sarah, Long named meat, THC from MC, et al, know that this man is a pitiful human being, but have so little moral courage that they dare not even broach the subject, because the godly one commanded so with his Party’s Self-Destructive 11th Commandment…
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:48 am
Brocephus – “Funny how some conservatives fail to see the bad in their own party while trying to throw darts at the opposition.”
I believe that’s called PROJECTION
Adam
May 29th, 2012
9:48 am
What is it with the Republicans and Donald Trump?
The guy’s a Class A jerk who’s still out there peddling the toxic nonsense that Barack Obama was born in Kenya
Sometimes you just answer your own question XD
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:49 am
Steve – “So, how WAS Romney’s record in Massachusetts??”
well, if he was a DEM, it would have been GREAT …
as a GOP??? not so much …
Brosephus™
May 29th, 2012
9:50 am
Jay
Never post facts in a debate here. That usually ends up with deflectionary posts.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 29th, 2012
9:50 am
TH from MC — “Have you every taken an inventory of the low lifes that make up your liberal democratic party? Let’s see – you have the lazy, welfare recipients, criminals, drug users, people who think that killing the unborn is a right, and the ultimate affirmative action pick of all time – Obama.”
I see the new GOP campaign to lure Democratic voters has gotten under way.
Brosephus™
May 29th, 2012
9:51 am
USinner
It’s not just projection for some, it appears to be a way of life
Jack
May 29th, 2012
9:51 am
Trump gives me a headache. I do wish he was a Democrat.
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
9:52 am
The GOP has a war on women.
Joseph, that is true, but this compassionate liberal (LOL!) calls it the more cumbersome but highly accurate “The GOP’s Full Scale Legislative Assault on Women’s Rights.”
Don’t try to hide from it. Own it.
Because American women sure know all about it…
Adam
May 29th, 2012
9:52 am
Jay: Sure, Ted. Be glad to do so
Love it. Especially coming from some of the people who repeat the same talking points as each other, and when it’s mentioned that they must be getting this from somewhere, whatever somewhere is mentioned (especially if that somewhere is Rush) they say “Oh I don’t listen to Rush.”
Nonsense. You guys have been called out for being the dittoheads you are. Your response?
Common Sense
May 29th, 2012
9:54 am
Had Trump endorsed a liberal, we’d hear nothing but what a smart business man he was, and look he endorsed “blah Blah BLAH”
You check the endorsement, and if it is for liberals, you celebrate the person. If it is for a conservative, you attack the person.
We realize how important endorsements are on the liberal side. But since you do not understand conservatives, you do not grasp that conservatives do not care about endorsements.
We make up our own minds on an individual basis. Groupthink is a liberal specialty, not a conservative one.
Bosch
May 29th, 2012
9:54 am
Because Trump demonstrates the character trait I see most in the uber right wingers: everyone who doesn’t hold my opinion is dumb.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
9:55 am
Trump gives me a headache. I do wish he was a Democrat.
Certainly easier to wish that than to admit that your side has faults, I suppose. And before you get all “hypocrite” on me, I admit the Democrats have faults on a regular basis. I just happen to think they have less of them, and are a better choice right now for the country. Especially with some of the absolute craziness coming from conservatives/Tea Party/Republicans in office and supporters.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 29th, 2012
9:55 am
Thogwummpy — “But the controversy is his own fault and the fault of a press that didn’t look into it at all (the way they did every allegation in Bush’s past), thus giving it legs.”
Horse poop.
The State of Hawaii and the REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR checked the BC and announced — prior to Obama’s nomination — that there was nothing in it that would preclude him from taking office as President if he were to be elected. This was *thoroughly* reported at the time, and the fault lies with the birthers for being sore losers.
Do you really think for a moment that if Governor Linda Lingle saw something funny in Obama’s birth certificate, that she wouldn’t have said something?
Oscar
May 29th, 2012
9:56 am
bloviating = had to look that one up. It fits well.
Don’t know the answer to the question of the day, except that the folks that tolerate him think he has a following. And he must since his TV show is still running.
Will and Trump trading insults, that is classic.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
9:56 am
Common Sense: Had Trump endorsed a liberal, we’d hear nothing but what a smart business man he was, and look he endorsed “blah Blah BLAH”
I call BS. The two sides are NOT the same, and your continued insistence on pushing that message, however slight in its form, shows that you don’t have confidence that the right’s message can stand on its own.
Common Sense isn't very Common
May 29th, 2012
9:56 am
We make up our own minds on an individual basis. Groupthink is a liberal specialty, not a conservative one.
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Oh My Freaking G0d LMAO
josef
May 29th, 2012
9:57 am
BOSCH
Howdee-do! How’s bidness…?
St. SIMON’S
Shawnee? Oooohhhh, talk about a mixed marriage! I trust you have learned to sleep with one eye open?
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 29th, 2012
9:57 am
The problem we have ( I) have is that the left has no problem with any of the following, some true, some maybe true, but worth debating and asking questions;
1. Obama may be , by our Constitution, legally unqualified to be President
2. They tell us he’s smart, we’ve seen no grades, or proof of a formal,successful education. His life experiences we know of, based on results, has shown us he’s ill prepared to be POTUS.
3. He has past experiences with known terrorist.
4. We all know his “church” history and those beliefs.
5. We all know he can’t talk to 3rd graders without a teleprompter.
6. In most of his speech’s or campaign stops, he tends to only represent half the country.
7.Gas prices going up is not his fault, but falling prices are all because of him.
.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
9:58 am
JamVet – 9:52 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQyv-43334 this bud’s for you.
BOSCH!!! haven’t seen you in AGES !!! hope the new biz is going well!!! I take it you saw how well Kam’s boys in blue did … (I can’t talk about my Spurs … it hurts too much)
Barack Obama
May 29th, 2012
9:58 am
I wasted that Trump fool after last year’s White House Correspondent’s dinner at the same time that team Six was wasting Osama. Willard is getting an endorsement from the living dead of his party like that deflated gasbag from Georgia.
Lord Help Us
May 29th, 2012
9:58 am
‘We make up our own minds on an individual basis. Groupthink is a liberal specialty, not a conservative one.’
MegaDittos!!
Joseph
May 29th, 2012
9:59 am
I’m glad Bookman got the memo that we must do damage control after Frank’s comments to try and take the heat off his gaffe.
http://nation.foxnews.com/trayvon-martin/2012/05/29/barney-frank-s-trayvon-martin-joke-shocks-commencement-audience
Aquagirl
May 29th, 2012
9:59 am
Nonsense. You guys have been called out for being the dittoheads you are. Your response?
“But…but….OBAMA!”
lol….what a beatdown.
lovelyliz
May 29th, 2012
9:59 am
“Why does GOP continue to tolerate Trump?”
Because in comparison he makes them look saner
Joe Hussein Mama
May 29th, 2012
10:00 am
Im A — “The problem we have ( I) have is that the left has no problem with any of the following, some true, some maybe true, but worth debating and asking questions.”
If those are the questions that you think are worthy of public debate given all the issues our country faces right now, then you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.
IMO, of course.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:00 am
Common Sense: We make up our own minds on an individual basis. Groupthink is a liberal specialty, not a conservative one.
As clearly demonstrated by the continued pushing of the same talking points by multiple conservative posters here.
Oh wait…
See, you’re wrong. Groupthink is not a trait assigned to a political party. Here, conservatives do that far more often than the liberals. I’m sure that you can find a place where the opposite is true. Groupthink is about not thinking for oneself, or just jumping on the bandwagon. And your side seems to value jumping on the bandwagon so much that your supporters regularly excommunicate anyone who is off message.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:01 am
another day … another opportunity for “another liberal” to totally demonstrate the irony of his name
Bosch
May 29th, 2012
10:01 am
Hi ya josef and USinUK! Yeah, things are going good — not a bajillionaire yet, but working on it.
Had alot going on my boring mundane life, so I haven’t had much blogging time. Hopefully will have more later. And yes, we are still talking about the game.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:02 am
Joseph: I’m glad Bookman got the memo that we must do damage control after Frank’s comments to try and take the heat off his gaffe.
http://nation.foxnews.com/trayvon-martin/2012/05/29/barney-frank-s-trayvon-martin-joke-shocks-commencement-audience
I see that and raise you Bill Maher: “[Obama] couldn’t be less threatening if he was carrying a can of tea and Skittles.”
St Simons - now with hamster power!
May 29th, 2012
10:02 am
I listen to the enemy ebby day, and i swear, i thought Rush’s
stenographer worked dis blog, mon
USinUK, the lovely shawnee/german mrsstsimons went to
school in Swaffham, what a small world it is.
Brosephus™
May 29th, 2012
10:02 am
But since you do not understand conservatives, you do not grasp that conservatives do not care about endorsements.
So, if that is indeed the case, why have so many GOP candidates and office holders on all levels signed Sir Grover’s pledge? Why does so many GOP office holders and candidates stress their religious affiliations and activities in campaigns? Why do so many GOP candidates and office holders chant the same groupspeakesque “I’m for small government” when there is no attempt to ever define what “small government” actually means?
Dude, the GOP is proof positive of “Groupthink” and it’s not just a liberal specialty as you think it is.
Bosch
May 29th, 2012
10:04 am
I’m a liberal……whatever your name is –
problem with everything on that list is that they defy logic and common sense to believe any of those things and we HAVE debated them to death (and common sense and logic prevailed).
Joe Hussein Mama
May 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Common Sense — “We make up our own minds on an individual basis. Groupthink is a liberal specialty, not a conservative one.”
Having played for both teams, I can assure you that you are absolutely and completely wrong on that.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Brosephus: Dude, the GOP is proof positive of “Groupthink” and it’s not just a liberal specialty as you think it is.
Right on the nose.
Ironic, isn’t it, that those who make such claims often fall prey to Groupthink without even realizing it, and demonstrate it pretty obviously to any outside observer?
Flashback on the Republican Campaign Trail
May 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Romney Won’t Attend Debate Hosted By Donald Trump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnD_bq1Y3s
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Had Trump endorsed a liberal, we’d hear nothing
but what a smart business man he wasfrom this liberal but what a horrible human being this man is.Not everyone is as blinded by that R & D thing as you…
CJ
May 29th, 2012
10:07 am
Romney on Trump: “You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in. But I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”
In other words, Romney couldn’t care less about truth and decency. He’ll hook up with anybody, no matter how repugnant, who can help him reach his goal.
Common Sense isn't very Common
May 29th, 2012
10:07 am
JHM
Sorry, I cut that from a previous cons post.
The OMG at the end was MY response
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:08 am
“Why does GOP continue to tolerate Trump?”
Why does the DNC continue to tolerate progressive liberals?
Soothsayer
May 29th, 2012
10:09 am
What I would like to see is Donald Trump marry Callister Gingrich. Can you imagine the amount of hairspray thye would use between them?
I really found this quote from one of the early bloggers interesting:
“A liberal thinks progress is government taking more from those who produce and give to the non-productive while a progressive thinks progress is taking more from the rich so everyone will have the same amount of poverty and misery.”
And I thought:
A conservative is one who thinks the government extracting $ trillions of dollars in taxes from taxpayers and squandering that money on never-ending, pointless, useless, needless, worthless wars instead of useful purposes like roads, bridges, and schools is good.
TH FROM MC
May 29th, 2012
10:09 am
Steve writes: TH from MC – you realize that your ‘lazy welfare recipients’ are mostly white folks in red states, right? I know, really.
Hey Steve while it is true that for shear numbers of welfare recipients whites win but as a percentage of the race the top welfare moochers are black – it is not even close. Over 60% of blacks get government scraps while only 25% of whites do. Same thing with the prison population – blacks are WAY over represented. Facts are a funny thing huh Steve? So your point is?
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
10:09 am
Of all of the sheer nonsense in that screed, this one sticks out:
We all know…
Why is YOUR singular, solitary opinion so worthless to you that you have to concoct others to bolster it?
n
May 29th, 2012
10:09 am
Nothing breeds success like success
Where ever he goes
Prosperity follows from the skyline of New York
To the Atlantic City Casinos
Donald wants wealth for all
The democrats sit on the wall
And have a big fall
Barack spends the taxpayer’s money
So much money it is bankrupting the country
The president is leading us into poverty
If he wins he will bankrupt the country
St Simons - now with hamster power!
May 29th, 2012
10:09 am
josef – i can tell, just by that comment, you are married to a native.
hell yes, i sleep with one eye open. i’m lookin into a webcam too.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:10 am
St. Simons – make her a chip butty and tell her “cheers” from me!!
(are you both celebrating the jubilee this weekend as honorary Brits???)
Bosch – 10:04 – which is why I laugh and laugh everytime I see a post from that person … and people think irony is dead …
GT
May 29th, 2012
10:10 am
Fred nailed it.
Trump would model some “pretty boy” wrestler trotting around the the ring in guerrilla grippers, brogan boots and an American flag cape. This my friends is where we find the Republican Party of 2012, Cartoon characters, weak characters who have wives and ex wives on rosters, make money and get contributions from gambling casinos, and bring all this trash back into the churches of America in their campaign to make church and state one entity. They have a contempt of our country, as does Murdock a foreign spokesman for the right-wing, who along with Trump and Newt and thousands of religious fakes have found a weakness in our system and exploited it to the point of exhaustion. We have spent a weekend praising the great individual American war heroes now back to reality and how a party uses these men and our religious faith to their ill gotten favor.
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
10:11 am
“the top welfare moochers are
blackmultinational, billion dollar corporations – it is not even close.”WAKE UP!
Corporations are people, my friend. ~Mitt Romney
Jefferson
May 29th, 2012
10:12 am
What would Romney do different than what President Bush did ? We see where that led us.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:13 am
“Corporations are people, my friend. ~Mitt Romney”
like Soylent Green?
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:14 am
I am not going to defend Donald Trump, howerver calling him a “bloviating ignoramus” sounds like the typical career politician. We are 16t in debt and this cost to taxpayers was by college trained minds. Now who is the ignoramus–the taxpayer?
East Lake Ira
May 29th, 2012
10:15 am
I was always way ahead of the curve. And my exposés primarily appeared in right-wing publications. Back when they were interested in serious research. I also founded a conservative college newspaper, held positions in the Reagan administration and at several conservative think tanks, and published five books that conservatives applauded. I’ve written for umpteen major conservative publications – National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, among them.
But no longer. That was the old right. The last thing hysteria promoters want is calm, reasoned argument backed by facts. And I’m horrified that these people have co-opted the name “conservative” to scream their messages of hate and anger.
Yet another responsible Rebublican. I wish there were more.
Mr. Snarky
May 29th, 2012
10:15 am
I may not agree with George Will much, but Trump wishes he had 1/10th of Will’s intelligence and eloquence. The smartest thing Trump ever said is “You’re Fired!”
Soothsayer
May 29th, 2012
10:16 am
Ira: I also read that piece — great article by Michael Fumento.
Steve
May 29th, 2012
10:16 am
My point is that black are a very low percentage of our population, and your and my tax money is mostly going to support poor white folks in red states. That is fact.
It’s also a fact that blacks were 3rd class citizens in the South through the mid 1960s, and it will take generations to erase the damage done there. We, as white people, created this mess that resulted in blacks living in ghettos and getting sucked into the welfare mentality. It will take time for that to turn around. meantime, explain to me why we have so many Republican voting poor whites in Mississippi/Alabama etc on the dole?
josef
May 29th, 2012
10:16 am
ZamVet
I was behind a corporation at Whole Foods, and….
St SIMONS
Road Scholar
May 29th, 2012
10:17 am
I wonder how many small businesses Mr Trump, the small business guru of repubs, has crushed in his multiple climbs from obscurity and bankruptcies?
Romney needs to stay upwind from Trump to stay away from the “shrapnel hair” when the winds blow and the stink of his past.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:17 am
williebkind: We are 16t in debt and this cost to taxpayers was by college trained minds. Now who is the ignoramus–the taxpayer?
You started your post about Trump, then shifted quickly to this. Why? What’s your point? What does one have to do with the other? “Oh yeah Trump is an ass, but Obama SUCKS”?
barking frog
May 29th, 2012
10:18 am
Censorship is an ugly thing
even in it’s editorial form.
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:18 am
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
10:11 am
USinUK – pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012 (same as being homosexual too)
I read that to mean that corporations were made of people. Is this not the same type interpretations liberals uses to indoctrinatine the uninformed.
Bosch
May 29th, 2012
10:18 am
“The president is leading us into poverty
If he wins he will bankrupt the country”
BS.
You guys really need some new material. The “OMG, Obama is spending us to death” meme have been judged and found wanting.
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:19 am
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:17 am
I said I would defend Trump but he is less a threat than Sorros.
josef
May 29th, 2012
10:19 am
STEVE
“Republican voting poor whites in Mississippi/Alabama etc on the dole”
Not being snarky at all, but stats on this please…
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:19 am
It’s also a fact that blacks were 3rd class citizens in the South through the mid 1960s, and it will take generations to erase the damage done there.
Exactly. And some, though they may not admit it except behind an anonymous blog name, think that the damage should NOT be reversed, but perpetuated. If only so they can continue to perpetuate the myth that there are OTHERS out there who just want to sit on their ass and don’t want to work to get themselves out of a bad situation. NEWS FLASH: Americans in general want to work to get out of a bad situation!
Peadawg
May 29th, 2012
10:20 am
“I read that to mean that corporations were made of people.”
Then Romney should have said that. But he didn’t. He said corporation ARE people. Big difference.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:21 am
I said I would defend Trump but he is less a threat than Sorros.
So basically Tu Quoque.
Hell of a college-trained mind you got there….
Ahem
May 29th, 2012
10:21 am
Same reason Democrats tolerate Obama?
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:21 am
“howerver calling him a “bloviating ignoramus” sounds like the typical career politician”
Willieb … meet George … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Will
NOT a career pol
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:22 am
Adam, I would not defend Trump…oops
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:23 am
williebkind: Ok ok I probably went too far with that. Sorry.
It’s just not a valid argument to say “your guy is worse.” Among other things it perpetuates the false idea that the sides are the same.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 29th, 2012
10:23 am
Ira, thanks for that Fumento piece.
I keep telling people my story (it’s much like Fumento’s) and they dismiss it, saying it couldn’t possibly happen. Well, it does, and there are more disaffected conservatives than just me. Many, many more.
JamVet
May 29th, 2012
10:23 am
I read that to mean that corporations were made of people. Is this not the same type interpretations liberals uses to indoctrinatine (sic) the uninformed.
I understand the first statement.
Though I vehemntly disagree. We the people is a sacred phrase coined by the Founding Fathers and used to explain our role as the SOVEREIGNS (look up the definition, if you must) in this nation.
Romney’s phrase is perverted capitalism, nothing more. (In my useless opinion)
But your second sentence? It needs some more work.
What exactly are you trying to say, willie?
Matti
May 29th, 2012
10:24 am
“Short-fingered Vulgarian”
HAHAHAHA!
To answer the question in the headline:
I think a large swath of the American populace that identifies as Republican simply lacks either the ability or desire to think critically. For the same reason they think the McRib is a delicacy and a buggy full of cheap garbage from WalMart = “living well,” the hype of The Donald as some self-made economic genius — who worked hard to get rich, just like any American could if it weren’t for those pesky gubmint regulations & taxes — is real. After all, he has a TV show, some buildings, and knows how to trade up in the wife department. He must be legit! Right? Hahahahaha!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:24 am
“May 29th, 2012 (same as being homosexual too)”
being a former girl scout is the same as being homosexual???
Soothsayer
May 29th, 2012
10:24 am
I’m always amazed with the fixation the Fright-Wing has about “welfare.” To them, their every last tax dollar is going to some Black woman, driving an Escalade, buying steaks at Whole Foods with food stamps and having kids out of wedlock. They are simply consumed with this thought.
Yet, the care not one whit about the $ trillions of dollars of their taxes being wasted on useless wars. I tell you, it boggles the mind. It just shows the power of propaganda and how minute minds can be easily swayed to fixate on one thing and completely overlook another.
But then, that’s the whole purpose, isn’t it? Take your mind off the obscene wasteful spending on wars and turn it onto the “Welfare Queen.” After all, we always need someone to hate — an enemy. And who better than a minority?
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:25 am
JHM: Well, it does, and there are more disaffected conservatives than just me. Many, many more.
I know. I know some of them. I have a feeling I would have been one had I been born a bit earlier.
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:25 am
USinUK – pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout (same as being homosexual)
May 29th, 2012
10:21 am
I have read Will’s commentary many times. He is boring, lack-luster, and piddles on inane subjects that interest him only.
williebkind
May 29th, 2012
10:26 am
“being a former girl scout is the same as being homosexual???
A target rich environment?
josef
May 29th, 2012
10:27 am
USinUK
“…being a former girl scout is the same as being homosexual???”
I was trying to get a handle on where that one came from, too. Inquiring minds want to know…
Ol' Timer
May 29th, 2012
10:27 am
The question of why the Republicans continue to embrace Trump is best understood by a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith who said: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of the oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a moral justification for selfishness.”
The alleged cache of “the Trump Brand” is diminished every time he opens his mouth. The GOP won’t trust him to make a speech for fear he’ll throw the F bomb into a group of evangelical deacons.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:27 am
willieb – what he is not is a career pol … “typical” or otherwise …
and what’s your beef with Girl Scouts???
Steve
May 29th, 2012
10:27 am
Soothsayer, you hit the nail on the head.
DawgDad
May 29th, 2012
10:28 am
“Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.”
Why single out Trump and the GOP when the Democrats have an endless supply? This is America, land of free speech.
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:28 am
Soothsayer: To them, their every last tax dollar is going to some Black woman, driving an Escalade, buying steaks at Whole Foods with food stamps and having kids out of wedlock.
Yep. And as I say every time, pics or idt didn’t happen.
One person actually asked if she could borrow my iPhone to take the picture. I said “No, you may not borrow my 3 year old iPhone that I got second hand for cheap from someone who was trading up. I wonder if anyone else might be in a similar situation….. hmm….”
Adam
May 29th, 2012
10:29 am
quote from John Kenneth Galbraith who said: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of the oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a moral justification for selfishness.”
Oooo, I like it. Keeping it.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
May 29th, 2012
10:29 am
josef … this should be interesting, if nothing else …