You, uh, can’t think of one other guy who reached the lofty height of the Presidency? Never held elected office before, but did crowd-pleasing stuff with the pro wrestling types, and delivered some lines in movies, and hosted SNL, that sort of thing?
I understand your hopes but it isn’t going to happen. He told People, “Yeah, I’m not going to do that.”
In his recent interview on the Marc Maron WTF podcast he gave as emphatic NO as I’ve ever heard anyone give.
Plus, his discussion of his drug use during the SNL years was pretty explict.
“On those Tuesday night/Wedneday morning things, I only snorted enough cocaine so that I could stay awake to make sure no one did too much cocaine. I was being responsible.”
As hilarious as we might find that I doubt it would work well in a race for POTUS.
That’s basically Trump’s best path to re-election. The Dems run John Jackson. Third party runs Jack Johnson. The hardcore 40% of the country that loves Trump re-elects him an electoral college landslide.
If The Rock and Kid Rock are both running for office, it’s gonna get really confusing.
Except there aren’t 40% who love Trump. There are 25% who love Trump and 15% who loathe Hillary/Dems.
After 2016, I think we have to abandon the idea that a candidate can say anything so bad it knocks him out of the race.
Oh, I don’t know about that. Clinton’s “deplorable” comment was a pretty significant factor in her defeat.
I’ll say about this the exact same thing I said about trump or Carson. Let’s see how you would do as a Governor or Senator first. The presidency is NOT an entry-level position.
The only people that gave a shit about that were the deplorables themselves.
The next day, she expressed regret for saying it. Why was that, do you think?
Hedging her bets in case there were any who were offended who would otherwise have voted for her, which I don’t believe existed.
Simple decency?
Does anyone have a serious answer?
Regards,
Shodan
How do you figure? “Oh, make no mistake: they are, in fact, deplorable – indeed, they’re entirely irredeemable – but decency requires me to regret actually mentioning that. All apologies for telling the truth; it shouldn’t happen again.”
Even if someone’s a complete and utter horse’s ass, it isn’t always a good idea to point that fact out.
She apologized because she was running for office. And that means you shouldn’t tell deplorable people that they’re deplorable.
Instead you tell deplorable people that they’re great and none of their problems are their fault and that other people are deplorable and they’re to blame for everything that’s wrong.
There’s always the option of the “I’m sorry you were offended by my telling the truth” non-apology that always works with your own people.
That’s like saying the only people who cared about Romney’s 47% comment were the 47% themselves.
The 47% Romney referred to were not the same as the 47% that voted for him.
Calling Trump an actor is a stretch of gargantuan proportions. I thought of that very thing and dismissed it.