What Trump is doing shows that the Royal Road to the GOP nomination is blatant racism. The GOP base is just basking in all the vile things he says about Mexicans and even Jeb Bush's wife and I think best of all that he doesn't back down.
"Trump leads the GOP pack in this week’s Economist/YouGov poll, with 15 percent of registered Republican voters calling the billionaire-reality TV star their first-choice candidate for 2016. Another 12 percent said Trump was their second choice for the Republican nomination."
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) polled 4 points behind Trump with 11 percent each. Wis. Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tied in third place, each with 9 percent."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-poll-leads-gop-field
To be sure, you sense that even the GOP voters get that this is a goof.
"But despite Trump’s apparent lift among Republican voters, only 7 percent of respondents said they believe it’s likely Trump will be the party’s eventual nominee, while 29 percent said they expected Bush to take the nomination."
It's as if Trump is the base's booty call-fun while it lasts but later they'll have to bring someone home a little more presentable to meet mom and dad. He serves a need right now for a party licking its wounds on all the different defeats, wounds, and slights of the last few weeks-the court decisions, Obama's executive action on college tuition, even setting up a Cuban Embassy, things getting so bad or the GOP they actually have to take the Confederate flag.
Trump is a real relief for them to hear someone say all the things they thin about Mexicans and not take it back because he really means them. Even regarding Jeb Bush's Mexican wife.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-jeb-bush-wife
Maybe he doesn''t mean them but he's speaking for those who do.
Maybe so, this is not just a harmless fling. It is really hurting the GOP brand. It just reinforces to Latino voters the truth-that the GOP is the party of bigotry and hatred for those who aren't white Christians.
Meanwhile, Trump has pitilessly destroyed his own tv brand. He simply will have no public standing at all after the GOP admits that they can't nominate him for President.
Apparently even Trump is taken aback by the backlash on his talk about Mexican rapists:
"I didn't know it was going to be quite this severe," Trump said on "Fox & Friends." "But I really knew it was going to be bad."
"You know, maybe I'm leading in polls, but this is certainly not good," he also said. "I lose customers, I lose people."
"Macy's, NBC Universal, Univision, Televisa and Serta have all dropped partnerships and business dealings with Trump following his "rapists" remark — which "Fox & Friends" co-host Clayton Morris described as "straight talk."
"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists," Trump said during his presidential launch. "And some, I assume, are good people."
"Several of Trump's fellow GOP presidential contenders have stepped forward to rebuke his remarks, such as Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and former New York Gov. George Pataki (R)."
"For the people who say I'm doing it for my brand — this isn't good for my brand. I think it's bad for my brand," he said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-comment-backlash-severe-more-expected
Sure is. As a liberal Democrat all I can say is keep up the good work, Mr. Trump. You're destroying both your own brand and the GOP's brand at the same time. Of course, it's not like the GOP can't do bad all by itself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/09/confederate-flag-congress_n_7762782.html
"Trump leads the GOP pack in this week’s Economist/YouGov poll, with 15 percent of registered Republican voters calling the billionaire-reality TV star their first-choice candidate for 2016. Another 12 percent said Trump was their second choice for the Republican nomination."
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) polled 4 points behind Trump with 11 percent each. Wis. Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tied in third place, each with 9 percent."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-poll-leads-gop-field
To be sure, you sense that even the GOP voters get that this is a goof.
"But despite Trump’s apparent lift among Republican voters, only 7 percent of respondents said they believe it’s likely Trump will be the party’s eventual nominee, while 29 percent said they expected Bush to take the nomination."
It's as if Trump is the base's booty call-fun while it lasts but later they'll have to bring someone home a little more presentable to meet mom and dad. He serves a need right now for a party licking its wounds on all the different defeats, wounds, and slights of the last few weeks-the court decisions, Obama's executive action on college tuition, even setting up a Cuban Embassy, things getting so bad or the GOP they actually have to take the Confederate flag.
Trump is a real relief for them to hear someone say all the things they thin about Mexicans and not take it back because he really means them. Even regarding Jeb Bush's Mexican wife.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-jeb-bush-wife
Maybe he doesn''t mean them but he's speaking for those who do.
Maybe so, this is not just a harmless fling. It is really hurting the GOP brand. It just reinforces to Latino voters the truth-that the GOP is the party of bigotry and hatred for those who aren't white Christians.
Meanwhile, Trump has pitilessly destroyed his own tv brand. He simply will have no public standing at all after the GOP admits that they can't nominate him for President.
Apparently even Trump is taken aback by the backlash on his talk about Mexican rapists:
"I didn't know it was going to be quite this severe," Trump said on "Fox & Friends." "But I really knew it was going to be bad."
"You know, maybe I'm leading in polls, but this is certainly not good," he also said. "I lose customers, I lose people."
"Macy's, NBC Universal, Univision, Televisa and Serta have all dropped partnerships and business dealings with Trump following his "rapists" remark — which "Fox & Friends" co-host Clayton Morris described as "straight talk."
"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists," Trump said during his presidential launch. "And some, I assume, are good people."
"Several of Trump's fellow GOP presidential contenders have stepped forward to rebuke his remarks, such as Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and former New York Gov. George Pataki (R)."
"For the people who say I'm doing it for my brand — this isn't good for my brand. I think it's bad for my brand," he said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-comment-backlash-severe-more-expected
Sure is. As a liberal Democrat all I can say is keep up the good work, Mr. Trump. You're destroying both your own brand and the GOP's brand at the same time. Of course, it's not like the GOP can't do bad all by itself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/09/confederate-flag-congress_n_7762782.html
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