As many of you know I have a bet with another Moose on who will be the Republican nominee for President. I have Pawlenty while the other Moose (I’ll let someone else “out” the poor deluded soul) has Huckabee. The field, official and otherwise, might be a bit crowded although only Romney, Pawlenty, and Santorum (?!) have officially formed exploratory committees.
But we all know who has been sucking the air out of the GOP room lately ~ The Donald.
The truth is I don’t know what to make of the guy. He has, in a matter of a couple of weeks, gone full Birther while practically accusing the President’s grandparents of welfare fraud (not that welfare existed when the President was born but let’s not let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy).
On top of that Trump is embracing the notion that Bill Ayers, Obama’s best friend, wrote Dreams From My Father. OMG! Ayers has admitted it! (Sarcasm really does go over some folk’s head.)
Apparently, Trump hasn’t met an Obama conspiracy he hasn’t felt the need to embrace.
And it’s being reported that Trump intends to announce his decision on whether he plans to run for President on the season (series?) finale of his show in May. And, if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination he has raised the possibility of running as a third party candidate ~ something he has thought about in the past.
The good news for Mr. Trump is that about a quarter of all self-identifying Republicans are single-issue (Birther) voters. The bad news is that 3/4 are not ~ and I’d dare say the GOP leadership is looking on in horror at the freak show known as Donald Trump. Karl Rove called him a “joke candidate” while Eric Cantor said Trump wasn’t a “serious” candidate. But, you know what? But refusing to allow/suggest/demand your fellow Republicans denounce or reject Birtherism the GOP leadership now gets to reap the “benefit” of some jerk like Trump riding the Birther train as far as it will take him, which may not be very far but if he runs will make other candidates own his/her position one way or the other.
A tiptoe through the FEC records shows a schizophrenic donation history:
George Allen (yeah, “macaca” man) next to
Hilliary Clinton next to
Mark Foley (yeah, of the page scandal)
Dick Durbin
Joe Lieberman
John Ensign
Chris Dodd
Chuck Schumer
Tom Daschle
Then there’s the question of Trump’s financials. Would he possibly let anyone see the truth?
I don’t know what’s up with The Donald. I don’t know if he started this as a joke and got carried away. I don’t know if he’s been seduced by the notion that the President was somehow not born in Hawaii. I’d like to think it is about ratings and that come May he’ll look into the television screen and tell the viewers that he just got his show picked up for another season, thank you very much. Given that he has tried to run for President before, however, I’m beginning to think he thinks he’s serious.
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