Too much Trump? Not for the other GOP candidates
Donald Trump is doing Republicans a big favor right now.
Right now, GOP presidential contenders could be engaging in a too-early brawl with one another, sullying everyone and causing intramural divisions that would require a too-long period of making up after the nominee is chosen. (Don’t think the divisions would last long in a race against Barack Obama? Consider the sour GOP grapes that persisted in last year’s Senate races in Delaware and Alaska, costing the Republicans one potential pickup of a seat and nearly a safe one as they were struggling to gain a majority in that chamber.)
Instead, The Donald is taking up all the oxygen– dominating the 2012 storyline with a hint that he could run as a Ross Perot-like independent if he doesn’t get the nomination, just a day after presumed front-runner Mitt Romney took his first official step toward getting in the race.
And my guess is that’s just fine with the other Republican candidates. Or at least, it should be.
Sure, contenders like Tim Pawlenty are expending a lot of energy right now to boost their name recognition, and might like to get in on the exposure Trump is receiving.
But Trump is getting attention right now for one of the same reasons he’s perhaps the best-known businessman in America: He’s willing to make the big splash, even if it’s risky. Bringing up the issue of Obama’s birth certificate; talking about running as an independent, when in all likelihood the most he could do is match Perot’s vote totals in 1992 (and, as in that case, throw the race to the Democrat) — these are the positions Trump is using to get attention. Neither Pawlenty nor Romney nor anyone else wants to make that kind of splash.
If a little less TV time means fewer chances for the rest of the field to say things they end up regretting, or having to take back or flip-flop on, so much the better for them.
There is still plenty to time to take back the spotlight from Trump. Were Trump a more traditional or respectable candidate — Perot was quirky, but at least he hadn’t steered multiple businesses into bankruptcy — it might be dangerous to let him get too comfortable in the limelight. But I just can’t imagine many voters going to the ballot box and thinking, I’m voting for Donald “Ivana/Marla/Casinos/Reality TV/Hair” Trump to be president of the United States. I really am. So, I don’t think they have to worry too much about that.
And because Trump is such a persona of his own, and only recently affiliated with Republicans, I don’t think the attention he’s getting will reflect poorly on the party as a whole or its eventual nominee — the way Sarah Palin, for instance, can have a polarizing effect for the Republican brand in some quarters.
“Trump 2012″ may or may not be good for the national political discourse, but I don’t think it’s bad for the rest of the GOP field.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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jconservative
April 12th, 2011
11:23 am
Trump obviously considers the Republican voter to be a fool.
So if he has a nomination it will need to be one he creates.
ByteMe
April 12th, 2011
11:25 am
The problem is he’s trying to out-crazy the crazier candidates and who knows where that could lead them? When you’re not getting enough attention for being crazy — yes, I’m talking to you Michele Bachmann! — then you’re liable to start taking hostages.
Jefferson
April 12th, 2011
11:27 am
He fits the mold as he says things that sound great, just can’t be done.
that's goofy
April 12th, 2011
11:29 am
I take Trump’s run at President as seriously as I did Hulk Hogan’s. Trump and Palin huge distractions to real GOP contenders. The GOP will be forced to wow the base and it will hurt them in the general election. The same way Dole and Kerry were embraced by the base – but not by America.
Boehner Tears
April 12th, 2011
11:40 am
Nothing could make me more proud.
Sean Smith
April 12th, 2011
11:47 am
Trumps interest in running will disappear as soon as Celebrity apprentice airs the finally this year.
He is only out there running his mouth for all the free publicity.
Tall
April 12th, 2011
12:19 pm
How about a Trump vs Obama debate? Now that would be interesting!!
Rockerbabe
April 12th, 2011
12:20 pm
I demand that Donald Trump prove “proof” that is hair is really born in America! And, what about all of those kids he has with all of his wives? Except for Marla Maples, are any of the rest of them Americans?
Can’t have foreign born anchor babies living in the WH can we?
Whacks Eloquent
April 12th, 2011
12:20 pm
I think you may have a very valid point there, Kyle. My first choice for GOP candidate is Herman Cain, and I know he is trying to get noticed too, but if he gets there it will have to be through grass roots anyway. It may be that whoever catches the Tea Party groups’ attention will be the eventual favorite, and that is not likely to be the Don…
Whacks Eloquent
April 12th, 2011
12:21 pm
“How about a Trump vs Obama debate? Now that would be interesting!!”
Only if the winner has to shave their head! Now that would be worth watching! (Vince McMahon, what are your thoughts?)
Jimmy62
April 12th, 2011
12:27 pm
I wish there were some good GOP candidates I could get excited about, but at this point the only thing I can think about any of them is, “Well, probably can’t be worse than Obama.”
carlosgvv
April 12th, 2011
12:49 pm
Big Business dominates politics already. Since they will eventually not only rule America but the rest of the world, why not just give the presidency to Trump and be done with it. The alternative is a long and hopeless battle against the inevitable. Money wins every time.
Intown
April 12th, 2011
1:06 pm
Trump is making a mockery of an already weak and fractured Republican presidential candidate field. The most extreme scenario that is within the realm of possiblity I could see is the Republicans ending up with a three way split and not coming together. You could have Trump and Bachmann running protest campaigns with Romney holding the actual Repub nomination. Even if you only have Romney winning, right-wing turnout will be dampened by his religious affiliation and inconsistent policy positions.
I have a hard time seeing how Obama loses this thing in 2012.
jm
April 12th, 2011
1:06 pm
Atlas Shrugged this weekend in Duluth
http://www.fandango.com/atlasshrugged:part1_136949/movietimes?location=30097&date=4%2f15%2f2011&aid=10497551&wss=CJAFFILIATE&pid=5017778
CJ
April 12th, 2011
1:15 pm
According to a last week’s NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, among those who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters, Trump was first. Repeating outrageous lies to undermine support for President Obama is a big winner in Tea Party circles.
freda
April 12th, 2011
1:33 pm
jm,
Take a look at Ayn Rand on youtube sometime. There are plenty of clips of interviews she did. Most of them would disqualify her from GOP party membership. She was, above all, a rationalist. She reasoned that once someone accepted something on “faith” (i.e. accepting that God exists, without proof) it made them vulnerable to accepting other non-rational concepts (like giving tax breaks to oil companies, agribusiness and billionaires would create jobs and eliminate the national debt.).
Freedom from Insanity
April 12th, 2011
1:35 pm
Donald Trump, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee – have any of these people said anything sensible so far? Trump is fixated with the Obama birth certificate, Herman Cain is claiming that Planned Parenthood was established to kill black babies, Sarah Palin is just plain nuts and Huckabee needs a lesson in geography in Africa. Let them all drive each other crazy and it will be the continued slow-death of the GOP. If there is a OP candidate, I have not yet seen he/she!
Brett Favre was once a Falcon
April 12th, 2011
1:43 pm
So, Kyle, I see that you agree with President Obama’s White House senior adviser David Plouffe when he said, “There’s zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job.”
Interesting.
Chris Matthews
April 12th, 2011
1:48 pm
Trump is not afraid to confront Obama on all issues..unlike the sissy Republicans and the worshiping Obama lovers! anyone would be better than the clueless and spineless Obama!
MM
April 12th, 2011
1:56 pm
I’ll vote Republican!!!
Obama has made such a mess of this country, and what does he to do fix it? Goes on vacation. He is the Invisible president, and THE ONLY way he got voted in, was the color of his skin, and his bretheren. Blacks vote for blacks, or they don’t vote. It’s as simple as that. Put a black man on the ticket, they don’t care what he stands for, but because he is black, they will vote for him.
ANYONE Else for president 2012!!!!
Kyle Wingfield
April 12th, 2011
1:57 pm
Brett: Not familiar with that line from Plouffe, but I’ll take your word for it. That said: Do you think anyone not named Donald Trump disagrees with Plouffe about Trump?
Joe Mama
April 12th, 2011
1:57 pm
Okay, MM. Let’s test your theory.
Nominate Herman Cain and see what happens.
USMc dawg
April 12th, 2011
1:59 pm
I would vote for Trump over Obama ANY day of the week.
Show me a wise man, and I will show you a man who has learned VALUABLE lessons from failures in life and moved on to be successful.—-Robert Tindall
Obama is a LACKEY compared to Trump.
Who will be better for the economy?
Grover Gaddis
April 12th, 2011
2:08 pm
NO FREAKNIK! Thank You Mayor!!! This is truly an answered prayer to many,many people. We all appreciate you shutting down the wicked debauchery called freaknk. Good riddance.
IndependentGeorgian
April 12th, 2011
2:09 pm
I’d like to know more about Donald Trump before I suppot him. He has been a very successful businessman, but where does he stand on the issues. I know that he talks a tough talk against China and OPEC, but where does he stand on other issues.
I think that he’d match up pretty well against President Obama in a debate. After Celebrety Apprentce has finished this season, I would think that Trump would announce an exploritory committe to run for President. He would definately be a fresh-faced outsider who doesn’t care about tackling issues in a leadership role – unlike the present administration!
wRENN
April 12th, 2011
2:09 pm
@ MM: Before making silly and outlandish comments, please get your facts straight…In case you have been living under a rock, BLACKS ARE STILL A MINIORITY IN THIS COUNTRY. It was the white vote that pushed OBAMA into the White House. Also, Obama’s skin make look that of a man of color but did you forget he is a mulatto?! Please get your facts straight before making such racist comments, oh i forgot, it is an AJC Blog and racism always comes into play on these blogs.
IndependentGeorgian
April 12th, 2011
2:11 pm
Cain doesn’t have a snowball’s chance against Obama, and quite frankly, most of the conventional Republicans don’t either. It would take a Christy or Trump to defeat Obama.
Gm
April 12th, 2011
2:11 pm
MM: Another idiot, Obama has to get permission from you good slave masters to go on vacation: Bush destroyed this country and stayed on vacation and you bigots never said a word, while we had 2 wars, and the worst enonomy.
Stupid people think you can run people like you run a business: Thanks Obama going on 3 years and America has not been attacked, the only enemy and terrorist are these sick bigots who will not give you credit for pulling this country out of the worst shape in 50 years. Donald Trump is a joke, this man has never ran for any political office.
Skeptic
April 12th, 2011
2:16 pm
MM please go take your meds!!!
Gm
April 12th, 2011
2:17 pm
MM: Thanks for showing why people around the world think Georgia is hick ville: Blacks voted Dem in the last 50yeas so I guess idiots like you dont account the last 50 candidates were white:
Please dont come out your trailer till dark””
that's goofy
April 12th, 2011
2:29 pm
All I need to know about Trump: He owned the NJ Generals in the USFL. He wanted to take on the NFL and then sue in court so he could merge the NFL and USFL. Trump won in court… $1. The USFL died. Trump’s greed cost a lot of people their jobs.
MM
April 12th, 2011
2:32 pm
Gm – 1/3 of the black population votes regularly. The overwhelming vote to get Obama into the white house was ONLY because he was black. This man HAS no background in politics, other than a 1/2 term senator from Illinois.. Blacks who had NEVER voted before, voted for him……where were they in November, 2010?
My other question is, if he was so poor growing up, bouncing around Africa, who funded his Harvard education? Where did he get his milliions? There was not one article about his past anywhere to be seen. I also believe his birth certificate is fake. I do not believe he was born in this country. His actions prove that to me.
JustMe
April 12th, 2011
2:33 pm
but at this point the only thing I can think about any of them is, “Well, probably can’t be worse than Obama.”
Unfortunately most of them are. I would never vote for Trump, Palin, Bachmann, Barbour, Santorum or Gingrich and there are a few others I am on the fence about (Huckabee (like him, but he’s too concerned with social issues), etc …). I am open however to Romney, Pawlenty and Daniels though. That being said, I’m not sure how much of a chance any of them really have (Romney because of healthcare and being a Mormon (those things don’t necessarily bother me though) and Pawlenty and Daniels because they’re just not known enough).
Furious Styles
April 12th, 2011
2:35 pm
“Donald Trump is doing Republicans a big favor right now.”….We’ll see about that, we’ll see.
JustMe
April 12th, 2011
2:36 pm
or Trump
The guy is a crazy, lunatic reality tv show host who has had to file for bankruptcy on his businesses 4 times in 20 years and only has most of the money he has because he inherited it from his father. Not to mention he is a egotistical, maniacal freak of a sideshow and you think Independents would vote for him?
Not this Independent!
VINCENT
April 12th, 2011
2:41 pm
gm please get a ged
Joe Mama
April 12th, 2011
2:42 pm
MM — “I do not believe he was born in this country. His actions prove that to me.”
You’ve got a funny notion of what constitutes proof, sir/madam.
joe
April 12th, 2011
2:43 pm
Headline should read “too much Obama” which fits nicely in politics, media coverage and in general. Darn that Ross Perot…if it weren’t for him Clinton would have never been President…not that he was so horrible, like our current Marxist is…Anyone but Obama in 2012.
MM
April 12th, 2011
2:50 pm
Actions speak louder than words Joe Mama.
Mike
April 12th, 2011
2:52 pm
Let’s see…we’re $14 trillion in debt. we just borrowed $400 billion to run the government for the past TWO months. Our three major social programs are all cash flow negative.
Nah…let’s just keep doing the same old thing. Keep moving folks, nothing bold needed here.
Fidel
April 12th, 2011
2:58 pm
I wish Chris Christie would run, I really do. America needs a straight shooter, take no nonsense, tell it like it is leader. Someone who isn’t afraid to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done. Someone who isn’t owned by special interest groups. And more importantly someone who doesn’t want the job simply for the power and prestige it bestows upon the electee. He says he isn’t ready until he accomplishes all his goals in NJ. I just hope he runs soon – this country needs a strong leader like him.
chef pierre
April 12th, 2011
3:00 pm
We know what the GOP will do for the middle class ,don’t vote against your own best interest .
What Goes Around Comes Around
April 12th, 2011
3:05 pm
@MM April 12th, 2011 1:56 pm
You say – “blacks vote for blacks.”
Are you serious or just an idiot? Obama is the first black president. Who do you think blacks voted for in the past? A white man!!!!
Where was the outrage when Bush put us in this economic mess and a war?
Ed
April 12th, 2011
3:07 pm
Long campaigns give the American people a chance to evaluate candidates and the Press enough time to really dig into their history. Kyle, don’t you think any of the party’s candidates can withstand a long campaign and win the 2012 Presidency?
Apparently, those who genuinely might win the party’s nomination and later have a good a chance to win the presidency, (Bush, Pence and Drier), have determined the odds are with Obama, next time around.
Had McCain taken the time to select a better VP candidate (say, Kay Bailey Hutchinson), things might have been different. Good people, great leaders, earn respect of others over time.
reebok
April 12th, 2011
3:08 pm
Actually, blacks and latinos pretty much vote overwhelmingly Democratic, irrespective of whether a candidiate is black or white, male or female.
joe
April 12th, 2011
3:10 pm
@ Chef…no, it is un-American to put your own best interest in front of the needs of our country. Just like JFK said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. The GOP and more specifically, the Tea Party are the ones who are trying to do what is best for our country’s survival and our capitalistic system/way of life…CUT THE SPENDING! Anyone but Obama in ‘12.
justin
April 12th, 2011
3:14 pm
@ What Goes Around Comes Around
April 12th, 2011
3:05 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more. I find it hilarious how some people love to play the race game by saying that blacks and latinoss “overwhelmingly” will vote democratic. Well that Barack Obama is the first black president, so who have blacks and latinos voted for in the past? A WHITE DEMOCRAT!
Gm
April 12th, 2011
3:15 pm
MM: So when blacks voted for white candidates it was ok, so when they vote for a black dem candidate then there is a problem, this is the kind of sick thinking Americans we have in our country, this is why the rest of the world see most whites in America as bigots.
Who care what you believe about his birth certificate , Obama dont have to show you bigot hicks a copy of his certificate, he has proven he is more American then the Gov of Ws, who is denying union rights, please turn off the high school drop out Rush Limbaugh,
Gm
April 12th, 2011
3:18 pm
Fidel: If he is so great, why do 50% of the people in Jersey hate him? , especially teachers and policemen.
Get on with it
April 12th, 2011
3:19 pm
Trump should run as a democrate against Obama. The fact that Trump will run against a republican is telling you he does not care if he emplodes this country or not. Because if Trump gets the nomination from Republicans, Obama WILL win another term. To many republicans and Independents cant stand that man.
Darko
April 12th, 2011
3:25 pm
“The same way Dole and Kerry were embraced by the base”
Really, neither of those candiates were embraced by the base, rather they were tolerated. A good candidate from the Republican side could have shown much better than those two with their RINO tendencies.
MM
April 12th, 2011
3:27 pm
My point was, having a black man run for elected office, caused a lot of blacks who never voted, to get out and vote. Unfortunately they voted for him because of his skin color.
And I do care where he was born. He has broken so many of our “laws” because he is an arrogant a$$hole without a clue. That idiot has spent more in 2 years, then ALL our previous presidents PUT TOGETHER!!!! Again, he has no clue. Just spend spend spend. The treasurey will make more money right???? He is driving us into bankruptcy. I mean he DROVE us to this. Gas prices are off the charts, spending is out of control and dems and repubs are fighting like the civil war. We are in big trouble!!!!
And yet when the going gets tough, Obama goes on vacation.
chef pierre
April 12th, 2011
3:31 pm
Joe , you think The Tea party is funded by who? The Kool Aid guy..
chef pierre
April 12th, 2011
3:33 pm
Its not about white or Black . It’s all about Green.
Clinton "Skink" Tyree
April 12th, 2011
3:43 pm
The Donald shoots from the lip and would be a castrophe as a politician.
First, good CEOs make bad politicians and bad CEOs make horrific politicians.
Trump thinks he knows everything, so wouldn’t listen to his advisors and would end up embarrassing himself. He knows that, so he will never run.
He’s just milking this thing for all the publicity he can for the moment.
He would be “roadkill” in a political debate where particulars must accompany charges and rants.
Illiteracy Rules
April 12th, 2011
3:45 pm
….doesn’t it, Gm?
Rush has a $85 million contract and a Gulfstream.
You?
Road Scholar
April 12th, 2011
3:50 pm
What if he runs as a 3rd party candidate? How would you feel then? Would he dilute the conservative vote?
Ramzad
April 12th, 2011
3:56 pm
Trump is an example of what is wrong with America. Lots of borrowed money. Lots of low budget publicity. Lots of propaganda, and very little effectiveness.
ChuckDoberman
April 12th, 2011
3:57 pm
Cool MM, you just encapsulated the past 6 months’ propaganda which cost the GOP big time to put out there in two or three posts! You are the result that Rush/Herman/Sean/Bill and the rest of the GOP Media Assassination Corps have hoped and prayed for! You swallow whatever they cast your way hook, line and sinker and then do your best to repeat it loudly and often to anyone you can, and the best part is you ACTUALLY SEEM TO BELIEVE IT! I mean, given a few seconds of consideration, their hate propaganda is pretty darn easy to see through and identify. Even so the GOP is picking up advocates like you by the thousands it seems (hey, some folk don’t have that few seconds to spare for thought and reason I guess), and has a really good chance of spreading that hate and possibly picking up the votes needed to swing the next election their way with the “Anybody but Obama” tribe. (see other posts on this thread) Yep, it cost the GOP big-time for the airtime (and AC with all that hot air blowing in) and we all know that $ is the true Jesus to these folk. Even so I think they believe their money is well-spent. Heck I believe that… it’s working… we become more ignorant as a country by the day.
Brock
April 12th, 2011
4:02 pm
Population:
Whites-72.4%
Blacks-12.6%
This gets old mm. If every black person including the kids voted for obama he still could not get elected because of their vote. It’s factually impossible. but don’t let that get in the way of your argument .
ChuckDoberman
April 12th, 2011
4:03 pm
For clarification purposes, I am not an Obama supporter. I was a lifelong republican until 2000. (probably 8 or 12 years too long) At present I’m registered as an independent and I vote for those I believe will lead best regardless of party and propaganda. I find myself sickened by the rhetoric from BOTH SIDES, but especially for the past 12 years or so the ignorance campaign espoused by the GOP. America can ill afford getting dumber, yet that seems to be republicans’ primary goal any more. It’s sad
JF McNamara
April 12th, 2011
4:34 pm
If I were a Republican, I would want my issues to come out early while there is time to recover. I can see it your way too though. Ideally, I would want nothing bad to come out or happen.
Trump is a promotional clown. His dad was the biggest builder in New York, but he likes to come off like a self starter who did it all on his own. He’s just a trust fund baby whose convinced the world he’s a super genius. He wouldn’t even take from the Republican front runner in the race.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Thee Magnificent!!! mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 12th, 2011
4:44 pm
Let’s see here, obozo and his fellow dummycrats have steered the entire country into bankruptcy while Trump dumped a couple of businesses but still came out with billions to spare.
What “choice” are you talking about, Wingnut?
A clown is better than what we got now…
Michael H. Smith
April 12th, 2011
5:04 pm
“Trump 2012″ may or may not be good for the national political discourse, but I don’t think it’s bad for the rest of the GOP field.
At least not for the moment, which will probably change as time goes on. As a third party candidate Trump can only hurt a Republican nominee in the general election.
Kyle Wingfield
April 12th, 2011
5:08 pm
MHS @ 5:04: Yes, that’s what I meant.
Michael H. Smith
April 12th, 2011
5:21 pm
In all honesty I hope the GOP can come together and unite this time around, no matter who gets the party nod. obama has to go, I can’t truthfully think of one good thing, other than giving the nod to shoot the hostage takers on that seized ship, the man has done for the country. He and the Democrats have created a very big money bubble that is just waiting to pop. The GOP candidate better be good at defusing fiscal bombs, this one could be the worst that has ever been created.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Thee Magnificent!!! mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 12th, 2011
5:21 pm
The real problem is a Republican psychology that is unable to understand that the entire American Left, after decades and decades and decades of tax-and-spending, has now effectively become the political equivalent of an addict. An alcoholic or a drug addict, except instead of scotch or crack cocaine the drug of choice is something even more powerful: money. Specifically, your money.
Well, I still say they are doing crack too but whatever.
gm
April 12th, 2011
5:39 pm
MM: Just found your new love for your country since Obama came in office, did not hear hypocrites like you when George Bush ran up the debt, got over 4500 American troop killed, 5000 American dead in NY under the cowboy polices:
Did not hear you when Bush was on vacation every month when 2 wars were going and driving up the debt, please hypocrites shut up.
Illiteracy Rules: he made his money off of low middle class whites like you, never seen fat boy march, rally or go to the streets for any causes, dont have to, when you have idiots like you who love to get expolited.
Give me a BREAK
April 12th, 2011
7:50 pm
Trump is an arrogant, opportunist, a$$hat who couldn’t get elected dog catcher. His repeated and shameful disrespect for the President is disgusting and shows the whole world that he lacks true substance, credibility and character. Obama’s mother was an American so what difference does it make where the man was born? He’s playing Pied Piper to the hordes of useful idiots.
Dabir Dalton
April 12th, 2011
8:38 pm
@ JConservative
The average Republican voter is a fool!
bxnyc
April 12th, 2011
8:39 pm
As a NYC resident let me assure you in the south that trump is not running because he would be embarassed at losing both his claimed home state (NY) & his casino state(NJ)by record numbers. What I see is those who think they will someday be rich are are protecting their assumed future wealth, those who are articulate racists and think we cannot see past their language into their bigotry, those still fighting the civil war like groundhog day, and lastly those who dont really care about rational reasoning if it does not comport with their narrow world view. We are happy to have trump muddy the waters because he only contributes to the margin of your party’s defeat in the presidental election and hopefully lose the right more seats than they gained in 2010.
ragnar danneskjold
April 12th, 2011
8:57 pm
Good evening all. I have not seen any name yet that would not be a significant upgrade from the current occupant of the oval office, and that includes my own suggestion nominating a cabbage if it holds a long-form birth certificate. Much heartened by the buzz around Herman Cain, good man.
MrLiberty
April 12th, 2011
10:26 pm
Ron Paul 2012. We may only get one more chance to set this country on the right course before the end. Everything he has been warning about since the mid 70’s has come true and everything he has proposed to address the problems continues to be the right solution – Liberty. All the rest of the GOP field (with the exception of Gary Johnson) are complete idiots and simply big-government pro-war neocons. We have already seen how much damage that group can do to our country and our constitution.
MrLiberty
April 12th, 2011
10:29 pm
As for Herman Cain, as a past officer of the criminal Federal Reserve bank, he is inelligible to ever be president of a country that wishes to restore its economic house. The Fed must be abolished and replaced with market derived competiting currencies and sound economic priniciples. He has been part of the problem. He will not step up to be part of the correct solution. He sounds great on paper, but then so did the idea of fiat paper money. What a mistake that was.
FootInMouthGOP
April 12th, 2011
10:37 pm
Kyle says “If a little less TV time means fewer chances for the rest of the field to say things they end up regretting, or having to take back or flip-flop on, so much the better for them.” Where is the GOP field that is not worried about these problems? Not to be found?
Michael H. Smith
April 13th, 2011
4:17 am
While speaking on the matter of foot and mouth diseases it might serve truth in advertising some good for the rabid lamo leftwing-nuts to review a few statements made by their fellow comrade and dear leader obumer, past and present: obumer before he became a war President ignoring the Congress and Constitution and obumer before he decried a failure to raise the debt ceiling as something unconscionable.
Now with both of his feet planted firmly in his mouth, as a matter of record, he hasn’t a leg to stand upon.
Bray on lil dunkeys, bray on.
Joel Edge
April 13th, 2011
7:21 am
Never thought of it that way. A target for the shrieking media to vent against. Good one.
Not a snowballs chance I’ll actually vote him.
Fletch
April 13th, 2011
8:14 am
Rather than waste all the time, energy and money on shoddy candidates from either party, why don’t we just have a sock puppet show. Sock puppets are simple, and would have broad appeal to the sheep from both the Left and the Right. The sock puppet that says the most things that people like, will be declared the winner, and we can all go on with our lives ignoring the really important things happening around us.
poison pen
April 13th, 2011
8:54 am
What goes Around, Where is the outrage when Obama keeps us in 3 Wars and our deficit in the Trillions?