That was today's front cover. The DN is not the only one who feel he's an embarrassment. Rupert Murdoch says he's embarrassment to the country.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rupert-murdoch-to-trump-stop-embarrassing-the-country/
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article27944539.html
I don't agree. He's not an embarrassment to the country. I don't feel any embarrassment when I see his silly antics. He's an embarrassment in 2 ways:
1. To himself. For this ridiculous campaign of his he has cut his own tv career off at the knees-it's all gone, The Apprentice, the beauty pageant, everything. He has nowhere to go home when this is done and it will be.
2. The Republican party.
Some conservatives are more honest than Murdoch. Liberals like me don't feel embarrassment we feel-levity.
"Conservatives don’t need a blubbering, narcissistic nitwit making a mockery of their positions.
"Donald Trump is a fraud. I’d call him a fool, but he’s worse than a fool; he’s a phony who makes fools out of other people. And, no, he’s not making fools out of liberals — trust me, they couldn’t be happier with the guy — he’s making one out of you."
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/to-trump-disciples-youre-embarrassing-conservatism-and-yourselves/
Trump is conservatives' problem and our punchline. You might even call him our Trump card. Of course, the way this dynamic plays out this sensible conservative writer-as he himself understands-will now be seen as not a real conservative.
In a post yesterday we looked at the way Trump was crossing GOP wires by saying the stuff that is meant for private, public.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html
However, why is this happening? The modern GOP is based on having the intelligence and the discipline to know what is meant for public consumption and what is meant for private. I think what's happened is the Tea Party base is incredibly frustrated by the defeats in the SJC, Obama's executive actions, etc.
They thought after their 'wave election' last November that Obama was the lamest of lame ducks and it's turns out that he's anything but.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/whose-lame-duck-president-obama-flips.html
Obama looks anything but a like a man who's lost something. So the GOP is frustrated and needs an outlet. Usually the double talk of the establishment GOP is enough for them. When a Republican candidate says that of course he wants immigration reform as soon as that border is secure that translates the same basic information that Trump's wild-eyed rant about Mexicans all being drug dealers, rapists, and Jihadists.
But because of their frustration the base is unsatisfied with the usual coyness. This is the itch that Trump is scratching. Again, no down side in this.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/there-is-no-down-side-to-donald-trump.html
The longer he's the big story the better it is for Democrats.
You want to know what's music to my ears? Listening to Rush Limbaugh lately:
"Mr. Trump is not following the typical protocol for public figures who are scorned by the establishment, Mr. Limbaugh said."
“The American people haven’t seen something like this in a long time,” the radio host said, speaking to the unique nature of the emerging 2016 Republican presidential contest, in which harnessing anger and money may be crucial ingredients for success. “They have not seen an embattled public figure stand up for himself, double down and tell everybody to go to hell.”
“Trump can survive this, Trump is surviving this,” Mr. Limbaugh said at the start of his three-hour program on Monday, two days after Mr. Trump took issue with the description of Mr. McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner-of-war, as a “war hero.” “This is a great, great teachable moment here, this whole thing with Trump and McCain.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rupert-murdoch-to-trump-stop-embarrassing-the-country/
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article27944539.html
I don't agree. He's not an embarrassment to the country. I don't feel any embarrassment when I see his silly antics. He's an embarrassment in 2 ways:
1. To himself. For this ridiculous campaign of his he has cut his own tv career off at the knees-it's all gone, The Apprentice, the beauty pageant, everything. He has nowhere to go home when this is done and it will be.
2. The Republican party.
Some conservatives are more honest than Murdoch. Liberals like me don't feel embarrassment we feel-levity.
"Conservatives don’t need a blubbering, narcissistic nitwit making a mockery of their positions.
"Please. I think it’s unseemly for a man to beg, so I’m not begging, but I’m as close to begging as you can get. I’m pleading. I’m imploring. I’m beseeching. I’m doing other things I could list if I had a thesaurus handy. I am strongly urging you to drop this Donald Trump nonsense. For your own good, friends. For the good of the planet. For the good of the universe itself. Just drop it."
"Donald Trump is a fraud. I’d call him a fool, but he’s worse than a fool; he’s a phony who makes fools out of other people. And, no, he’s not making fools out of liberals — trust me, they couldn’t be happier with the guy — he’s making one out of you."
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/to-trump-disciples-youre-embarrassing-conservatism-and-yourselves/
Trump is conservatives' problem and our punchline. You might even call him our Trump card. Of course, the way this dynamic plays out this sensible conservative writer-as he himself understands-will now be seen as not a real conservative.
In a post yesterday we looked at the way Trump was crossing GOP wires by saying the stuff that is meant for private, public.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html
However, why is this happening? The modern GOP is based on having the intelligence and the discipline to know what is meant for public consumption and what is meant for private. I think what's happened is the Tea Party base is incredibly frustrated by the defeats in the SJC, Obama's executive actions, etc.
They thought after their 'wave election' last November that Obama was the lamest of lame ducks and it's turns out that he's anything but.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/whose-lame-duck-president-obama-flips.html
Obama looks anything but a like a man who's lost something. So the GOP is frustrated and needs an outlet. Usually the double talk of the establishment GOP is enough for them. When a Republican candidate says that of course he wants immigration reform as soon as that border is secure that translates the same basic information that Trump's wild-eyed rant about Mexicans all being drug dealers, rapists, and Jihadists.
But because of their frustration the base is unsatisfied with the usual coyness. This is the itch that Trump is scratching. Again, no down side in this.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/there-is-no-down-side-to-donald-trump.html
The longer he's the big story the better it is for Democrats.
You want to know what's music to my ears? Listening to Rush Limbaugh lately:
"Mr. Trump is not following the typical protocol for public figures who are scorned by the establishment, Mr. Limbaugh said."
“The American people haven’t seen something like this in a long time,” the radio host said, speaking to the unique nature of the emerging 2016 Republican presidential contest, in which harnessing anger and money may be crucial ingredients for success. “They have not seen an embattled public figure stand up for himself, double down and tell everybody to go to hell.”
“Trump can survive this, Trump is surviving this,” Mr. Limbaugh said at the start of his three-hour program on Monday, two days after Mr. Trump took issue with the description of Mr. McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner-of-war, as a “war hero.” “This is a great, great teachable moment here, this whole thing with Trump and McCain.”
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/20/rush-limbaugh-rallies-listeners-to-donald-trumps-defense/
Yeah, you tell em Rush. Trump will survive it-but will the GOP?
The fun continues. Thanks for the post.
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