He had some trouble with Chris Cuomo on CNN this morning who pointed out that voters want to hear what he actually wants to do as President-not this recycled 90s stuff about Monica Lewinsky.
Trump is also the wrong guy to be talking about sexual predators with his won history on this score. Like Ted Cruz said just six days ago, Trump boasts of being a serial philanderer for whom venereal disease has been his own personal Vietnam.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/donald-trump-and-why-he-who-is-without.html
But then you also see why he doesn't want to talk about policy.
"When Trump was running against GOP opponents, he favored keeping the minimum wage where it is. Then last Wednesday he seemed to come out in favor of raising it:
"The billionaire businessman said he was studying the minimum wage issue and did not know if the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour should be raised to the $15 per hour “living wage” advocated by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders."
"Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, has said that the federal minimum wage should be raised to as much as $12 per hour. . . ."
"Mr. Trump also predicted that he would win over supporters currently backing Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent and self-described democratic socialist who has led a insurgent movement of young voters dissatisfied with the political system."
“I’m going to get a lot of his supporters,” said Mr. Trump.
"Then today he came out for eliminating the Federal minimum wage, the exact same position as the New York Times held back in 1987."
"Trump Casino: You place you bets votes, and you take your chances."
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31684
"Within a single campaign Trump is now on the record for raising the minimum wage, keeping it at $7.25, and eliminating it. "
"Sumner says his dream job would be working on the Clinton campaign:
"If I could have any job right now, I’d probably most enjoy being the marketing person for the Clinton campaign. Where do you start? Perhaps with commercials showing all of Trump’s bankruptcies, and then Trump saying that he wants to solve America’s problems by having the US reschedule its debt. Hey, it worked for Greece!"
"But the Clinton people really need to be careful here, and hold some of their fire until after the convention. Trump is rapidly becoming the laughing stock of politics, and there’s a danger that it could reach a sort of “Thomas Eagleton” tipping point before the convention. Clinton needs to make sure Trump has the nomination in hand before tearing him to pieces."
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31683
Indeed.
As I said to E. Harding, my preference is just to start with what Republicans and conservatives like Max Boot and Ben Howe are saying about Trump. The most unqualified nominee of a major party in American history.
But the best thing Trump has said of all-in terms of being used against him-is when he said wages are too high. Sure, he now says that's not what he mean-but so what? Keep belaboring the point.
Keep putting out ads with him saying this. Like Sumner says, there's no way of knowing where he stands anyway.
"Thiago, You said:
“All politicians do that.”
"Nope, Trump’s the only one who held all three positions on the minimum wage, in a single campaign. If all politicians did that we’d never know what any of them believed on any issue—no point in even having elections."
"I do love the way Trumpistas insisted that Trump was not an ordinary politician, rather he was a man of convictions, who could stop the wave of immigration. And now they defend him as being an ordinary politician who can’t be trusted on anything. Actually ordinary politicians can be trusted on some things. Hillary really will try to raise the minimum wage, you can count on it. It’s Trump who cannot be trusted on anything. The disgruntled voters who never vote because you can’t trust politicians, ended up supporting the one guy who’s even less trustworthy than real politicians. The guy who’s more like a caricature of politicians"
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31684
As it's impossible to say exactly where he stands anywhere, why not just presume it's the worst in every case and keep hammering him on this?
It's one thing to come out against the minimum wage or a high minimum wage-that's par for the course for GOPers; of course, Sumner himself is anti minimum wage.
But to say you want wages to come down-rather than saying that the MW actually hurts wages or employment-is truly something no mere politician has every tried running on.
And there is a very good reason for that.
Trump is also the wrong guy to be talking about sexual predators with his won history on this score. Like Ted Cruz said just six days ago, Trump boasts of being a serial philanderer for whom venereal disease has been his own personal Vietnam.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/donald-trump-and-why-he-who-is-without.html
But then you also see why he doesn't want to talk about policy.
"When Trump was running against GOP opponents, he favored keeping the minimum wage where it is. Then last Wednesday he seemed to come out in favor of raising it:
"The billionaire businessman said he was studying the minimum wage issue and did not know if the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour should be raised to the $15 per hour “living wage” advocated by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders."
"Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, has said that the federal minimum wage should be raised to as much as $12 per hour. . . ."
"Mr. Trump also predicted that he would win over supporters currently backing Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent and self-described democratic socialist who has led a insurgent movement of young voters dissatisfied with the political system."
“I’m going to get a lot of his supporters,” said Mr. Trump.
"Then today he came out for eliminating the Federal minimum wage, the exact same position as the New York Times held back in 1987."
"Trump Casino: You place you bets votes, and you take your chances."
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31684
"Within a single campaign Trump is now on the record for raising the minimum wage, keeping it at $7.25, and eliminating it. "
"Sumner says his dream job would be working on the Clinton campaign:
"If I could have any job right now, I’d probably most enjoy being the marketing person for the Clinton campaign. Where do you start? Perhaps with commercials showing all of Trump’s bankruptcies, and then Trump saying that he wants to solve America’s problems by having the US reschedule its debt. Hey, it worked for Greece!"
"But the Clinton people really need to be careful here, and hold some of their fire until after the convention. Trump is rapidly becoming the laughing stock of politics, and there’s a danger that it could reach a sort of “Thomas Eagleton” tipping point before the convention. Clinton needs to make sure Trump has the nomination in hand before tearing him to pieces."
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31683
Indeed.
As I said to E. Harding, my preference is just to start with what Republicans and conservatives like Max Boot and Ben Howe are saying about Trump. The most unqualified nominee of a major party in American history.
But the best thing Trump has said of all-in terms of being used against him-is when he said wages are too high. Sure, he now says that's not what he mean-but so what? Keep belaboring the point.
Keep putting out ads with him saying this. Like Sumner says, there's no way of knowing where he stands anyway.
"Thiago, You said:
“All politicians do that.”
"Nope, Trump’s the only one who held all three positions on the minimum wage, in a single campaign. If all politicians did that we’d never know what any of them believed on any issue—no point in even having elections."
"I do love the way Trumpistas insisted that Trump was not an ordinary politician, rather he was a man of convictions, who could stop the wave of immigration. And now they defend him as being an ordinary politician who can’t be trusted on anything. Actually ordinary politicians can be trusted on some things. Hillary really will try to raise the minimum wage, you can count on it. It’s Trump who cannot be trusted on anything. The disgruntled voters who never vote because you can’t trust politicians, ended up supporting the one guy who’s even less trustworthy than real politicians. The guy who’s more like a caricature of politicians"
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31684
As it's impossible to say exactly where he stands anywhere, why not just presume it's the worst in every case and keep hammering him on this?
It's one thing to come out against the minimum wage or a high minimum wage-that's par for the course for GOPers; of course, Sumner himself is anti minimum wage.
But to say you want wages to come down-rather than saying that the MW actually hurts wages or employment-is truly something no mere politician has every tried running on.
And there is a very good reason for that.
I don't know who Rubin was quoting here, but it's pretty good:
ReplyDelete"The head of the American Conservative Union now is selling a candidate who told everyone it is the “Republican” Party, not the conservative party. Shouldn’t the group, for sake of honest advertising, take out the “C” from ACU? (Also, the gathering it puts on, the Conservative Political Action Conference, will need to lose the first “C” in CPAC.)
Fiscal conservatives, such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and Americans for Tax Reform chief Grover Norquist, have vouched for someone who thinks we can always print money to avoid default, maybe raise the minimum wage and threaten U.S. companies with a 35 percent tariff if they don’t promise to stop sending jobs overseas. These are all positions they would bash Hillary Clinton for adopting.
Supply-siders such as Stephen Moore who swooned over Trump’s tax plan now learn that, depending on the day, Trump is either going to raise taxes on the rich or increase the rates for the rich in the plan, which attracted supply-siders with its big marginal tax cut rate.
Conservatives arguing that Trump must be elected to ensure a conservative is on the Supreme Court are left to argue that while Trump may be untrustworthy on a whole bunch of issues, you can absolutely, positively count on him to appoint a justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia."
I'm glad Grover Norquist and Stephen Moore got on board the Trump train. Maybe their names will be mud in right wing circles by the end of this cluster-fuck of embarrassments, and we can, as a society, flush those discredited turds for good.
Indeed. I think those who get in bed with Trump in the future may well be wholly discredited as you say.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, David Duke endorsed Trump. Trump failed to disavow Duke's endorsement.
Hence, anyone who endorses Trump is endorsing a candidate endorsed by David Duke.
I do wish I could get a RedState login... I'd leave comments like this regarding Perry (and similar people) when he disappoints them:
ReplyDelete"*ANYBODY* who didn't realize that Rick Perry was a dimwitted backstabbing cowardly sellout fraud and embarrassment from day 1 of his political career, needs to have their pea-sized head examined. You'd have to be a chump among chumps to fall for that moron's bad hucksterism."
No, but it's true: telling Bernake he'd get a butt-whippin' if he ever set foot in Texas, and threatening to secede from the Union. The signs were all there from the get go: Perry was mini-Trump in the making (with a smaller brain), and if you couldn't see it, you're judgement and/or intelligence is for shit.
Likewise for all these other frauds and demagogues. Where was the #NeverTrump crowd when Trump was at the height of his birtherism? They looked the other way (and maybe even chuckled... about him pulling another one over on the rubes that make up the GOP base no doubt).
BTW, this This Modern World cartoon made me laugh out loud whilst eating my breakfast on Saturday: specifically the panel in the upper right featuring Perry. Enjoy!
Here's another fraud I hope eat's shit on this Trump deal: Jim DeMint. Jennifer Rubin at least saw what steaming pile he and his Heritage Action committee have been from the since DeMint took over: with their purity tests, and policy of supporting primary challenges to those of insufficient purity. I hope Trump leaves him sullied (covered head to toe in a corn studded blood spackled diarrhetic explosion) for the rest of his career.
ReplyDeleteIdeally this Trump campaign will leave them all reeling ... perhaps even thinking politics isn't fun anymore. You can't even tell who the weakest ones are to throw the rocks at now days... and then you might have the rocks thrown at YOU! I'd like to see all the simple answers dry up for this lot and leave them in a state of uncertainty and confusion. They might get so frightened they all run off and join a cult (hopefully a long ways away... Jim Jones style in some steaming jungle would be nice) to reassure themselves that they don't have to think after all.
And what does the right-wing purity patrol preoccupy itself with while Rome burns around them? Why Bathroom Birtherism of course!.
ReplyDeleteI finally heard what Jennifer Rubin sounds like: she was a guest on Hardball today.
ReplyDeletePlus (by chance) I think it was the head of the American Conservative Union (from her quote above: a Trump backer) was also on. Rubin didn't miss her chance to call Trump a lunatic. Matthews thanked her for being direct, and run through a quick litany of examples to support her claim. I got the feeling she must have practiced beforehand. Lol.
She really hates Trump. And again, the biggest issue for her is Israel, and Hillary will obviously be fine on that for 'Zionists.'
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