Donald Trump For President (?!)

SRSLY Donald Trump? I heard this recommendation from the mouth of a man who says we need to run the country like a business to get the finances of the nation back in order. With the latter I agree. With the former . . . how about we don't pick for our CEO a man who has gone bankrupt THREE times and narrowly avoided it twice more? Donald Trump has a habit of charging up a brazillion dollars in debt on unworkable schemes and then defaulting, or losing money on unprofitable ventures. Somehow he barely manages to cling to the top of the heap each time.

Those last two sentences are not something I want applied to America. Just say "No." to The Donald.

I told NP that Trump is apparently clearly going to run for President of the USA, and the first words out of his mouth were: "he's been bankrupt how many times? NP is no fan of Sarah Palin at all and he said he'd sooner choose Palin than Trump for POTUS. I tend to cuncur.

I heard Trump on a couple of radio interviews and the hosts seemed all rah-rah for him, but he sounded like a government-educated populist ignoramus to me - on both foreign AND domestic policy. Just perzactly what we DON'T need in a President. We need someone sharp AND knowledgeable, both canny and charming, and without a whole heaping CLOSETfull of skeletons waiting to come bursting out at the first opportunity. Besides which, Donald Trump strikes me as somehow slimy.

If the Republicans decide to nominate him, you can know that they have decided to either a) abandon principle and hope for a win based on name recognition or b) thrown the contest in favor of allowing the Dear President a second term. It would be possible for him to win, if Trump ran against Obama, but it would be yet another election where a plurality of voters hold their nose and vote anti-Democrat again. Again. Again.

If the Republicans pick Trump, I hope Dr. Savage does make good on his threat to start up a third political party based on conservative principles, as the Republican party will clearly have gone down the wrong road (at least) one too many times.

I reiterate my call: Herman Cain for President!