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So far, Donald Trumps presidential campaign has lived up to, and arguably exceeded, every expectation for self-beclowning while also simultaneously having detonated a 50 megaton crazy bomb inside the GOP. Indeed, every time hes opened his yap since announcing, something horrendous has spilled out. Whomever started the rumor that Trump might be a Democratic Party apparatchik sent to infiltrate the GOP nomination process and detonate one crazy-bomb after another might actually be onto something. Trumps been acting erratically enough to merit some serious questioning not only about his party loyalty, but also whether hes caught in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Maybe its both.
Trump might very well be the least self-aware politician in the history of modern campaigning, not only because he stupidly grappled onto the third and fourth rails of Republican politics rape and race but in the wake of doing so he cant stop responding to the predictable backlash, thus keeping the story about calling Mexicans rapists alive for much longer than it otherwise wouldve been. If he was half the politician he thinks he is, hed simply shut the hell up and allow the story to fade away. By now, and due mostly to his total lack of self-control, everyone knows what he said about Mexicans, and theyre verbally and deservedly smacking him in the back of his clownish head.
Lets first recap some of the most recent responses to Trumps Mexicans-are-rapists statement, then well get into Trumps responses:
Mitt Romney, who deafeningly tooted nearly every imaginable racial dog-whistle during his 2012 campaign (remember Obama Isnt Working and Obamas policies are foreign?), denounced Trumps rapists remark at an Independence Day parade in New Hampshire, saying, I think he made a severe error in saying what he did about Mexican-Americans. Trump was talking about undocumented workers, so its refreshing that Romney would add Americans to that title.
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Sunlei
(22,651 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)I guess time will tell.
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)UTUSN
(70,684 posts)Even if we knew he's a gasbag, I was surprised that he blew himself up on his first day of announcing. What a "businessman"!1 He doesn't have a clue to a concept of running, oh something like winning votes instead of flushing them. Blames everybody else, holds the Miss USA contestants as hostages (don't disappoint the poor little girls by cancelling the pageant). His DENIAL and self-delusion might even surpass O'LOOFAH's. However, the one language he understands is: hemmoraging cash. He "gets" that, so will bail soon, unfortunately giving the Repukes time to recoup. We'll have to settle for the priceless moment of his supremely public moment of personal humiliation when he gets out. His Comedy Central roast was great, as was his being zinged at the White House correspondents' dinner a couple of years ago, but this time will be fantastic!1 It ought to be used for fundraising, but by which side?!1
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)To show that other candidates have some sort of "heart", tricking some to swallow the so called "Compassionate Conservatism" lie that a Shrub once touted.