Donald Trump is already doomed: Why his campaign is a bigger disaster than his hair

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So far, Donald Trump’s 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 he’s 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. Trump’s been acting erratically enough to merit some serious questioning not only about his party loyalty, but also whether he’s caught in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Maybe it’s 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 can’t stop responding to the predictable backlash, thus keeping the story about calling Mexicans “rapists” alive for much longer than it otherwise would’ve been. If he was half the politician he thinks he is, he’d 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 they’re verbally and deservedly smacking him in the back of his clownish head.

Let’s first recap some of the most recent responses to Trump’s Mexicans-are-rapists statement, then we’ll get into Trump’s responses:

• Mitt Romney, who deafeningly tooted nearly every imaginable racial dog-whistle during his 2012 campaign (remember “Obama Isn’t Working” and Obama’s policies are “foreign?”), denounced Trump’s 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 it’s refreshing that Romney would add “Americans” to that title.

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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/06/donald_trump_is_already_doomed_why_his_campaign_is_a_bigger_disaster_than_his_hair/

[Sunlei]

1. Trumps, "Jebbie and Trump Show" isn't getting enough paid media headlines!

Spend more media dollars republicans!

[randome]

2. "...the least self-aware politician..." I'm not sure anyone can outdo Palin.

I guess time will tell.
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[NCjack]

3. So far, the DEMs best weapon is Donald. The GOP debates should be "dynamite".

[UTUSN]

4. Too bad he'll be gone so soon, he's the best weapon we've got.

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]

5. Sadly, I fear, that his role is to allow the others to have more moderate stances.

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.