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| Does Trump need boot in behind to shrink ego? |
The
New York real estate developer who thinks his wealth is evidence of his genius
has managed to tick off so many people with his recent views on Mexicans. Now,
he’s ticking off people who probably want to believe Trump knows exactly what
he’s talking about on that issue.
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NOW, TRUMP is going after military veterans – specifically Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., whose public image relies heavily on the fact that he served during
the Vietnam War and did a lengthy stretch as a prisoner of war.
There
are those who give McCain so much credit for the fact that he was incarcerated
by the North Vietnamese faction and endured more than his share of torture.
Trump
recently went out of his way to mock McCain, saying he deserves no real praise
for his military record. Although I suspect his real criticism is the fact that
Trump donated money to McCain’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.
Which
means he wasn’t able to “buy” the ability to tell the president what to do.
That is really what interest the overly-wealthy corporate types have in
electoral politics – they want to have their business interests reinforced!
OF
COURSE, IN the case of Trump, he has a decades-old track record of having an
over-bloated ego and sense of self-importance – the motivation for his latest
bid for the Republican nomination for president in next year’s election cycle.
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| McCAIN: How heroic is he? |
Just
as Rauner got tired of trying to buy political influence through campaign
contributions and went ahead and got himself elected to a political post, Trump
is trying to do the same.
Yet
I don’t think Rauner has the nerve to pull off the trash-talk that Trump has
given us; nor would he then follow it up by spewing stupid-talk about how
others ought to apologize to him for having the nerve to think that he is wrong
to begin with.
That
is what we have got from Trump – he thinks people critical of his Mexico
rhetoric have done him wrong, and now he thinks those upset with his criticism
of McCain ought to bow down and beg forgiveness for having the nerve to say
he’s wrong.
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| RAUNER: What does he think of The Donald? |
FOR
THE RECORD, I’ll agree that McCain’s military record often gets exaggerated by
political partisans who want to score political points on Election Day. They
want to think every Republican official warrants praise, while also blasting
any military veteran (remember John Kerry from ’04) who winds up becoming a
Democrat.
But
trying to trash McCain bolster his presidential dreams just comes across as
tacky.
Because
I always thought the fact that McCain endured the mental strain of
incarceration in the service of his nation was worthy of some respect. I
suspect that Trump – if he ever had been put in that situation – would have
cracked within minutes.
The
wimp!!!
I KNOW SOME people are eager to make much of this by saying it actually benefits Trump. After all, there are polls showing Trump doing well in Iowa and New Hanpshire (the first states to express themselves in the upcoming election cycle) and leading nationwide.
That
nationwide lead is only 17 percent – or roughly one of every six people who
think of themselves as Republican. That’s a lot of Republicans who don’t want
Trump, along with all the people who don’t think of themselves as being a part
of the GOP.
Many
of those Republicans are going out of their way to avoid saying anything – they
don’t want to give the Democrats they invariably will challenge any ammunition
to be used against the Party of Lincoln.
Although
it makes me wonder if, in his private moments when he’s in the Executive
Mansion, Rauner’s shuddering in disgust is a combination of Trump’s latest
ego-bloated statements AND the decaying condition of his official residence!
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