Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field by 9%)

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Per O'Brien, in 2005, Donald Trump was worth about 5% of what he claimed to be worth.

 

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Just saw this, as well.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/trump-least-charitable-billionaire-109247

 

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Trump is not a viable candidate, and anyone trying to paint him as anything but a curiosity that is having a ball blasting the president in a way a "letigimate" candidate could not get away with is fooling themself. Trump is out there doing as much damage to Obama as possible before, in June, saying he has chosen not to run. He is, for the time being, quite entertaining. He has the lefties all in a tizzy because too many of them are taking him way too seriously.

 

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Here's a question for the bleeding hearts on this board?

Is there a republican candidate you do take seriously?

 

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Bad News, GOP: Birther Donald Trump Now Leads 2012 Field
By Robert Schlesinger

Posted: April 13, 2011 Donald Trump … frontrunner? That was the news out of yesterday’s CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey. Fully 19 percent of Republicans identified The Donald as their number one choice as party standard-bearer in the quest to evict Barack Obama from the White House. An equal number supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, while former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (12 percent), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (11 percent), and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (11 percent), rounded out the Republican top five. This poll result is bad news for the GOP for at least two reasons.


The first is that Trump’s support has nearly doubled in the last month. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (who is trapped in margin of error purgatory, with a * in the CNN poll, down from 1 percent last month) asserts that Trump’s rise is due to the fact that he’s gotten lots of national press coverage. And while that’s true to a point, it’s not like Trump is an obscure businessman with whom GOP voters are just becoming familiar. Instead he’s a known quantity; what’s changed--and the reason he’s gotten coverage--is that he’s become the face of birtherism. This is a base electorate, in other words, that finds appeal in the crazy. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2011/04/13/bad-news-gop-birther-donald-trump-now-leads-2012-field

 

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The polls do not mean anything until after the first debate.

 

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Not quite a bleeding heart, but I'd love to believe in Mitch Daniels. He seems to articulate a lot of conservatism's good ideas without engaging in much craziness, and he's called for means-testing Social Security. I don't agree with everything he stands for or says, but there is a lot to like.

Given the Royal Rumble that's likely to take place during the GOP primaries, though, I can't see how he gets the nomination.

 

Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

How many people had heard of Bill Clinton in April of 1991?
How many people were familiar with W. in April 1999?

 

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It is so obvious that birtherism is simply coded racism (black guy=can't possibly be an American). That Trump would embrace it is not surprising, since he'll do anything for attention and is short on shame, but we ought to be clear that "crazy" is a synonym used by reporters who know that calling racists on their racism makes them very angry.
"Crazy" is calling for a return to the gold standard or advocating nationalizing the oil companies. Birther is something different.

 

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Why is it crazy to nationalize oil companies? Are you calling Hugo Chavez crazy?

 

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I don't remember anyone questioning where Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton were born.

 

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Neither of them had chance one of being President, and you know it. Plus, the persistence and most of all spread of this myth despite its obvious idiocy AFTER Obama became President makes this beyond dispute.
Don't soil yourself trying to defend a social evil.