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The Hair and the HoungansThis is really telling: Donald Trump is finally facing an all-out challenge from conservatives and its coming from the Club for Growth.
And who is the Club for Growth? Its the enforcer organization for voodoo economics, for the claim, utterly refuted by all available evidence, that tax cuts for the rich generate miraculous growth. (High priests in voodoo are houngans, hence my headline).
As Ive been saying all along, while its true that Trump is a blowhard talking nonsense about policy, thats true of every contender for the GOP nomination. Hes just talking different nonsense. And Trumponomics is, if anything, more sensible than the deep voodoo that has been embraced by Jeb Bush.
Trump isnt a problem for Republicans; hes a symptom of the problems Republicans have.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/the-hair-and-the-houngans/
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)have the unerring and consistent accuracy of the finest atomic clock on the planet.
dhill926
(16,391 posts)some folks are evidently very sensitive to that...(sarcasm whatever...)
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)and was being forced to vote for one of the republicans, I'd vote Trump. How fucked up is it that this clown is the sanest and least conservative in the group?
And Trump wouldn't know how to turn this place into a theocracy if he wanted to. And everyone would laugh if he tried!
valerief
(53,235 posts)seems to be the least dangerous.
erronis
(15,470 posts)But I don't believe that either.
T.Rump didn't get his supposed wealth by playing nicely with friends. He has lots of baggage and some of it will be gunning for him.
Let's hope that he continues to suck the putrid air out of the rest of the repug field, and then has his fartuous self ignited by some well-placed fireworks.
Or maybe this was directed to Crispy, Walker, Fio, (I can't remember them all...)
The Green Manalishi
(1,054 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)If I had a gun to my head, it would be Kasich because I think he has his mental faculties in check.
Luckily I'll never have to vote for any of them.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)is certainly capable but I know he pretends to be sane but is also crazy conservative. I couldn't put someone I know is a crazy conservative in office. I know Trump isn't the conservative he's presented to the teabaggers.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,232 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)"Trump isnt a problem for Republicans; hes a symptom of the problems Republicans have. "
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)jayschool
(180 posts)Kind of like diarrhea, am I right?
TheFarseer
(9,328 posts)How many times can you tell the working class republicans you favor billionaires paying less taxes and you paying more and expect their vote in November? I'm guessing it's a finite number no matter how much you hate gays and abortion.