Shot in the Dark

Unprecedented!

I’ve had some of my Democrat friends chuckling about the idea that the GOP might endorse Donald Trump for President.

And I can see why they’re so giggly. The idea that a major political party might endorse someone with almost no relevant experience, whose entire campaign is built on saying things people want to hear (sometimes contradictory things to different audiences)?  The product of cynical marketing aimed at a sincere but gullible and undiscriminating audience?  A product bolstered with breathless media hype from a bloated, entitled and leadenly incurious media – the same media that was intimately complicit with creating him as a public figure in the first place?

Why, that‘s just preposterous!  That’s almost like a bad movie!

(“Hey, Mitch – are you talking about Jesse Ventura?”  Why, no.  Very close, of course – but that was almost two decades ago).

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16 responses to “Unprecedented!”

  1. nerdbert Avatar
    nerdbert

    I will preface this by saying that I don’t like Trump. Having said that:

    Trump exists because the GOP and Demonrats agreed on the subject of unlimited illegal immigration and open borders on trade (see: TPP, amnesty). Trump dropped the bomb on that by being completely un-PC and nationalistic and attacking those shared values. He’s actually articulated the frustration I’ve been hearing for way more than a decade now from the working class, and as such he’s drawing both Democrats and Republicans into a coalition that terrifies the masters of both those tribes. If it wasn’t for those issues, Trump would have been done long ago. The problem for GOP candidates trying to mimic Trump’s popularity on those issues is that none of them supported those positions before since it was toxic to do so in the MSM/Washington fever swamp, so none of them have any credibility with voters.

    I’ll note that there’s a parallel here with Reagan back in the day. When Reagan was running for his first term the GOP and Democrats basically agreed that the Soviets were permanent and would eventually dominate the world, that government needed to take over ever increasing parts of the economy, and that tax policy should lead to ever increasing burdens. Reagan smashed that consensus by saying he’d stand up to the Soviets and cut government. At the time you had the eGOP freaking out about as much as the MSM/Democrats, thinking Reagan would start WWIII, tank the economy, and destroy their fiefdoms. But basically the working class told the beltway establishment to jump off the bridge, they weren’t satisfied with the stuff they were being fed (ever increasing taxes, worse jobs, and a declining country) and elected Reagan. So we heard about “Reagan Democrats” to no end when Reagan won. I expect we’ll see the equivalent “Trump Democrats” if Trump makes it to the general.

  2. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    I agree with Nerdbert. If immigration wasn’t an issue, Trump would have slunk back to NY long ago.
    It is a disgrace that none of the other GOP candidates has picked up the immigration gauntlet. Their is nothing extremist about enforcing the immigration laws passed by the people’s congress. On the contrary, the extremist position is to bypass existing immigration law and create new immigration law based on executive orders by a lame-duck president. The reason why immigration law has not been rewritten to suit the DC elite is because their is no majority support for the DC elite position.

  3. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    The one thing that I really like about Trump, is the fact that he’s got the knuckle dragging, jack booted main stream media morons drooling like Pavlov’s dogs with everything he does. That group is just supporting his popularity.

    In fact, I’ve heard known libidiots posit that he must have the right message, if the media is paying so much attention to him.

    Go figure!

  4. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    “The idea that a major political party might endorse someone with almost no relevant experience, whose entire campaign is built on saying things people want to hear (sometimes contradictory things to different audiences)? The product of cynical marketing aimed at a sincere but gullible and undiscriminating audience? A product bolstered with breathless media hype from a bloated, entitled and leadenly incurious media – the same media that was intimately complicit with creating him as a public figure in the first place?”

    You’re talking about Obama, right?

  5. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Trump could be the first President to do blow off a strippers ass.

  6. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    I thought he meant Al Franken.

  7. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Nah. Goobernor Moonbeam.

  8. Seflores Avatar
    Seflores

    In a country where many people get their news from Facebook, TMZ, the Comedy Channel (although I read where Jon Stewart’s replacement, isn’t doing so hot ratings wise among Stewarts former audience, a whiter than Vermont slice of America that may not like a guy who used to spell ‘Jews’ with four “O’s” and a “Z”), a guy with a ‘proper’ English accent who points out the obvious and whomever is filling in for Johnny Carson this week; is it any surprise that the no experience, famous name politician is the one leading the polls? Minnesota is a leading indicator having elected now three (four? Sen. Vanilla Fluff’s dad was some kind of sports reporter, it helped) celebrity doofusses based on nothing more than a famous name. I think the Rolling Stones called it “Star F******”.

  9. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    Still waiting for the science-loving liberals to call out Sanders on his global warming fabrication:
    The scientific community is telling us if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we’re going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable
    This is fantasy. It isn’t that the climate scientists are wrong, it’s that the scientific community is not saying that the planet may uninhabitable during the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren. It is a hysterical lie.

  10. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Trump could be the first President to do blow off a strippers ass

    Second.

    Clinton.

  11. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    Third.
    W.

  12. Mr. D Avatar
    Mr. D

    Fourth.

    Harding.

  13. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Fifth.

    JFK

  14. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    I didn’t realize this was so common. Is it part of the swearing in ceremony, or does it usually happen at the after party?

  15. Loren Avatar
    Loren

    I thought he was writing about Hillary…

  16. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    The question, Loren, is what Presidents have snorted cocaine that way.

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