I didn't see how it could get better but they keep finding ways.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trump-and-lindsday-graham-it.html
Now a CNBC post argues that the GOP can learn from Trump. He's not politically correct so they love him.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/23/what-the-gop-can-learn-from-donald-trump-commentary.html
Sure, by all means learn everything you want to from Donald Trump, Republicans. Maybe if you all start saying Mexicans are all derelicts that smell funny this will help you crack their vote. I mean who can't applaud such 'honesty?'
You have to wonder if maybe Trump really is a secret liberal Democrat plant.
"It appears to be sinking in with top Republicans that the upcoming GOP debate, featuring star performer Donald Trump, could prove to be a full-blown disaster. Politico has this amusing report:
"Trump’s presence at center stage — his reward if he maintains his lead in the polls — is likely to transform the first Republican debate into a major media event, bringing big ratings to Fox News, the debate sponsor. By the same token, however, it will likely turn the traditionally policy-focused event into a pageant of personality, which is a potential nightmare for other candidates."
“I think you have to assume he’ll be loud and aggressive and do everything he can to stay on offense,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who gave the most commanding debate performances of the 2012 primary cycle, told POLITICO. “Trump is very smart, he has lots of TV experience and is absolutely uninhibited.”
"Considered almost unthinkable just five weeks ago, Trump’s appearance at center stage is now the most inconvenient of truths for the would-be Republican front-runners. From Milwaukee to Miami, campaign aides are already wrestling with the Trump factor — strategizing on how to engage with him (if at all) and how to stave off his attacks"
"The Hill adds this amusing tidbit:
"Republican insiders are reconciling themselves to the idea that Donald Trump won’t be exiting the stage anytime soon — and their main concern now is limiting his damage to their party…it looks virtually certain that he will be included in the first major televised debate, hosted by Fox News on Aug. 6."
"For all the handwringing among Republicans, I think it’s very possible that Trump-palooza might not actually end up mattering that much, if at all, over the long term (provided he doesn’t run as a third-party candidate). On immigration in particular, it’s my view that the GOP’s real problem isn’t Trump, it’s the actual substantive differences between the parties on the issue."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/22/morning-plum-as-donald-trump-prepares-to-hijack-gop-debate-republicans-are-already-cringing/
Of course, it's the real differences on the issues that matters. However, this is why Trump's campaign is brilliant-if he didn't exist liberals would have had to invent him. He kind of brings attention to teh fact that for all the hand-wrining there is little difference between Trump and the others substatnively on immigration.
"But the possibility of Trump hijacking the debates raises some interesting short-term questions. Politico’s report notes that the GOP candidates are privately gaming out how, or whether, to confront him directly. Some Republicans expect that Jeb Bush may use the debate to stage a dramatic confrontation with him. Bush — perhaps more so than any other GOP candidate — does appear to take seriously the idea that the GOP needs to broaden its demographic appeal beyond core constituencies, and also seems to think it’s possible to do that without compromising his chances of winning the GOP primaries. If so, Bush has a real opportunity to put his theory to the test at the debate.
"And that raises another question. Matt Lewis argues provocatively that many conservative opinion-makers, such as Rush Limbaugh, are refusing to use their influence to smother Trump’s momentum. Instead, Lewis argues, they are “cozying up to the Donald to leech off his popularity with some of the base” and “boost their ratings,” and in the process, they are letting down the Republican Party. If so, it’ll be particularly interesting to see how these opinion-makers react if, say, Jeb Bush calls out Trump’s ugliness."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trump-and-lindsday-graham-it.html
Now a CNBC post argues that the GOP can learn from Trump. He's not politically correct so they love him.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/23/what-the-gop-can-learn-from-donald-trump-commentary.html
You have to wonder if maybe Trump really is a secret liberal Democrat plant.
"It appears to be sinking in with top Republicans that the upcoming GOP debate, featuring star performer Donald Trump, could prove to be a full-blown disaster. Politico has this amusing report:
"Trump’s presence at center stage — his reward if he maintains his lead in the polls — is likely to transform the first Republican debate into a major media event, bringing big ratings to Fox News, the debate sponsor. By the same token, however, it will likely turn the traditionally policy-focused event into a pageant of personality, which is a potential nightmare for other candidates."
“I think you have to assume he’ll be loud and aggressive and do everything he can to stay on offense,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who gave the most commanding debate performances of the 2012 primary cycle, told POLITICO. “Trump is very smart, he has lots of TV experience and is absolutely uninhibited.”
"Considered almost unthinkable just five weeks ago, Trump’s appearance at center stage is now the most inconvenient of truths for the would-be Republican front-runners. From Milwaukee to Miami, campaign aides are already wrestling with the Trump factor — strategizing on how to engage with him (if at all) and how to stave off his attacks"
"The Hill adds this amusing tidbit:
"Republican insiders are reconciling themselves to the idea that Donald Trump won’t be exiting the stage anytime soon — and their main concern now is limiting his damage to their party…it looks virtually certain that he will be included in the first major televised debate, hosted by Fox News on Aug. 6."
"For all the handwringing among Republicans, I think it’s very possible that Trump-palooza might not actually end up mattering that much, if at all, over the long term (provided he doesn’t run as a third-party candidate). On immigration in particular, it’s my view that the GOP’s real problem isn’t Trump, it’s the actual substantive differences between the parties on the issue."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/22/morning-plum-as-donald-trump-prepares-to-hijack-gop-debate-republicans-are-already-cringing/
Of course, it's the real differences on the issues that matters. However, this is why Trump's campaign is brilliant-if he didn't exist liberals would have had to invent him. He kind of brings attention to teh fact that for all the hand-wrining there is little difference between Trump and the others substatnively on immigration.
"But the possibility of Trump hijacking the debates raises some interesting short-term questions. Politico’s report notes that the GOP candidates are privately gaming out how, or whether, to confront him directly. Some Republicans expect that Jeb Bush may use the debate to stage a dramatic confrontation with him. Bush — perhaps more so than any other GOP candidate — does appear to take seriously the idea that the GOP needs to broaden its demographic appeal beyond core constituencies, and also seems to think it’s possible to do that without compromising his chances of winning the GOP primaries. If so, Bush has a real opportunity to put his theory to the test at the debate.
"And that raises another question. Matt Lewis argues provocatively that many conservative opinion-makers, such as Rush Limbaugh, are refusing to use their influence to smother Trump’s momentum. Instead, Lewis argues, they are “cozying up to the Donald to leech off his popularity with some of the base” and “boost their ratings,” and in the process, they are letting down the Republican Party. If so, it’ll be particularly interesting to see how these opinion-makers react if, say, Jeb Bush calls out Trump’s ugliness."
If anything such a confrontation might serve to highlight Jeb's own essential phoniness. You can say 'No immigration reform until the border's secure' in an ugly way or a pretty way but at the end of the day it's the same policy. Trump brings relief to this and this is why there's no downside to his campaign.
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