How to Beat Trump if You're His GOP Opponent

     Think of this as in the genre of OJ Simpson's If I Did it. Here's How I Would Have Done it. 

      http://www.amazon.com/If-I-Did-Confessions-Killer/dp/0825305934/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438810923&sr=1-1&keywords=oj+simpson+if+i+did+it

      If you know anything about me it's that I'm not a Republican and I'm very happy to be able to say that. However, if I were a Republican and I was unlucky enough to run against Trump here's how I would do it. I laid out the general gist in this post.

     http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/if-gop-stops-trump-this-is-how-theyll.html

     To explain how I would stop Trump you have to understand what makes him so dangerous for the GOPers in the first place.

    Basically there is nothing he's said about immigration that the establishment substantively has a problem with. His sin is  just being too blunt about this. He should just say he's all for immigration reform but first we have to support the border like Jeb says and there'd be nothing to see here.

   http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html

   As Krugman says there really isn't any important difference between him and Jeb and Scott Walker-but that Trump is too blunt. But the base is licking its wounds and wants blunt this time around.

  "Just about the entire political commentariat has been caught completely flatfooted by Donald Trump’s durable front-runner status; he was supposed to collapse after being nasty to St. John McCain, but nothing of the sort happened."

  "So now the conventional wisdom is that we’re witnessing a temporary triumph of style over substance; Republican voters like Trump’s bluster, and haven’t (yet) realized that he isn’t making sense."

  "But if you ask me, the people who are really mistaking style for substance are the pundits. It’s true that Trump isn’t making sense — but neither are the mainstream contenders for the GOP nomination."

  http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/style-substance-and-the-donald/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

  And the real problem with Trump for the GOP base and the Very Serious People in the press is not substance but style. That's the problem for his Republican opponents. How do they attack him? I'll be very interested to see if anyone attacks him tomorrow night. Based on the record of people who have attacked him before my bet is they will all be too chicken to go after him. 

  http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/trump-takes-credit-for-rick-perry-and.html

  No Republican that has locked horns with him has come out on the better side of it yet-it's not even close.

  http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trump-on-scott-walker-wisconsins.html

  So I imagine they'll all be too timid. But this is how I would go at it assuming I was one of these border line candidates who needs to make a name for himself somehow. 

  It's dangerous to go here in a Republican primary but you'd have to go for context. Show what Trump is-a carpet bagger and opportunist who's about nothing but self-promotion. You'd buttress that point by arguing that he's really a liberal with lots of comments over the years that suggest liberal policy preferences. 

  Is he really a liberal?-not really. I think he's just an opportunist who's correctly reading the political tea leaves. But this is a GOP primary so when are you held accountable for exaggerating? So you'd have to argue the liberal opportunist line. It's dangerous because if anything seems to characterize the GOP base it's that there is little patience or time for context. 

  You'd have to show all the times he's talked about single payer, praised, Hillary, praised President Obama. You might also rerun the story about Ivana saying she felt raped by Trump back in 1989. Again in a GOP primary this is dangerous too as many Republican voters seem to think that the very idea that a man can rape his wife is just liberal political correctness anyway. 

  Still, this is where you'd have to go. The Ivana rape story is just so bizzare and perverse how could you ignore it if you're trying to crack Trump?

   http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/shades-of-bill-cosby-could-trump-be.html

  You'd need deep pockets to fund lots of ads with him praising single payer, praising Hillary, even praising Obama back in 2009. He does have a pretty good answer to that even. 

  Trump is very shrewd-when people ask him about this he does the right thing-wraps himself up in a Ronald Reagan flag and points out that the Gipper too was once a Democrat. 

  But if you kept pounding him in ad after ad that might begin to stick. That's the only way I see to do it. My guess is that the RNC will do this at some point. My hope is it doesn't work.