I can’t wait until someone asks him about Jesus. “Jesus was only a hero because he was crucified. I prefer my heroes to not be crucified. He’s a loser!”
Go ahead, GOP Leadership, make him angry. You won’t like him when he’s angry.
But we will… 
Straight from the Airing of Grievances to the Feats of Strength. Happy Festivus, everyone!
(no, not original)
Wow, is it December already?
Here’s The Daily Show on Trump’s attack on McCain. Very funny:
And you noticed the reference to President Trump on that same page…?
Trump does have an alternative health care proposal, unlike pretty much any of his opponents or any of his party-mates in Congress, even after all these years, and more specific than any of their trial balloons: “Repeal and replace with something terrific.”
Gallup’s polls since the McCain comments:
Still though running at 51% favorable among GOP/GOP leaners (7 day rolling average); Bush is 52%. On 3 day moving average Trump has dropped to 49 after peaking at 63 mid-July, just before the McCain comments.
FWIW.
In order to avoid opening another Trump thread, I’ll ask a question here. If we assume that Trump won’t be the nominee, what path do you see to his defeat? Will it be sudden, his support just collapsing over a few days or a sudden announcement of his withdrawal? Or do you think he’s hit a ceiling, and that as other minor candidates like Pataki and Fiorina drop out that their supporters will go to Bush or Walker while Trump stays stuck at around 20 something percent? I predict the former is more likely, but the latter would be an interesting process to see play out.
He could crater if he starts talking about all of the more left-wing positions he has, though he’s insulated against that to some extent by some righties convincing themselves that they are rooting for him to shake up the establishment and defeat Bush, not because they want to see him as president.
Otherwise, I think he’s just going to fade as it gets nearer to serious primary season. I could be wrong, though. I’ve been wrong about a lot so far with Trump, though I did guess that the McCain kerfuffle wouldn’t hurt him much.
It’s still a bit early for the big guns to start firing but I think they will should Trump be near the top in early November. The big money establishment Republicans are going to come out and start hitting Trump. They likely already have plenty of videos of Trump saying things at odds with current GOP orthodoxy and have started to put the ads together. Starting just after Christmas, look for Jeb’s superpacs to start carpetbombing Iowa with negative ads and if they can’t knock him out in Iowa, then they go nuclear in New Hampshire. Trump likely loses New Hampshire and bows out.
I kind of like the idea of Trump attacking the voters of any state he doesn’t win. “New Hampshire … Why aren’t all you people dead yet? You certainly aren’t free! You’re a bunch of hypocrite losers!”
On sharing a stage with Trump:
On Twitter last week, John Weaver, senior adviser to the Republican presidential campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, drew this analogy: “Imagine a NASCAR driver mentally preparing for a race knowing one of the drivers will be drunk. That’s what prepping for this debate is like.”
From this article about Fox News’s Chris Wallace, who will co-moderate (or try to): http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/10-gop-candidates-will-be-trying-to-win-a-debate-chris-wallace-wants-to-make-that-tough-for-all-of-them/2015/08/03/ffd27cf2-eae8-4718-af4a-6c3c08cd1a33_story.html
Yes, there’s no need to go for a big ad buy now: Trump has peaked too early. But he won’t necessarily drop out after New Hampshire. Trump says that he spends half of his time campaigning now, and half at work. There’s no reason why he couldn’t continue such a schedule indefinitely.
That’s what is different about the 2012 and 2016 GOP nomination process: when your goal isn’t the Presidency, your incentives to fall in line diverge.
Not quite. Running with the analogy Cruz, Carson and Huckabee are drunk; Trump is on LSD. And the remainder must either be crazy or simulate crazy: otherwise they can win neither the Fox News contract nor the conciliation prize that is the GOP nomination. Mark Everson can try to prove me wrong on that last point, but he is unlikely to even be admitted to the kiddie debate.
Several of the drivers are drunk. One of the drivers has a rocket launcher.
And they all have explosive diarrhea.
I’d think that if Bush had to spend a significant amount of his war chest (PAC or otherwise) to knock Trump down, that it will hurt him overall against the rest of the field.
He shouldn’t try. He doesn’t need to. Trump does just fine looking foolish all by himself. Bush needs to look like a responsible adult, and engaging Trump is contrary to that goal.
Gawker published Trump’s phone number. So Trump changed his voicemail message to a campaign ad for anyone who calls.
If there’s a bunch of idiots that Trump is capable of outwitting, the clickbait troglodytes at Gawker would be said idiots.
And anyone calling the number will probably soon wish they had remembered to hit *67 before dialing. The Trump campaign is probably the last one I’d want to have my number.