Your overwhelming evidence has sure convinced me :dubious:
If he shirks his duties, he could face impeachment and removal from office. That might be the best way for the GOP to get someone in there they want, if Trump picks almost anyone more mainstream for his VP.
Not really. He’s sold himself as someone who can make deals with the Democrats. But then, he’s sold himself as so many different things, who knows what people expect.
But have you seen your typical Trump supporter? I have a hard time imagining any of them manning the barricades during the “revolt”. Apres moi, rien.
The Donald isn’t a puppet, though. The difference between Trump and George W. Bush is that Bush had Dick Cheney’s hand up his ass eighty percent of the time. Trump would never in ten billion jillion years take marching orders from anyone on anything. His Vice President will dance to Trump’s tune, by Christ.
Trump is like George Steinbrenner; as pfar as he is concerned, if he pays you, he owns you.
Why? With evidence like the one coming from Chris Christie why you should doubt it?
You know the OP of this thread is a Republican, right?
It’s even more scary to imagine the Cabinet ‘members’ he might select. Let’s see, Palin for Secretary of State based on her geographic acumen, maybe Joe Arpaio for Homeland Security, then … [sorry, head finally exploded].
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Mantequilla!
Chris Christie wins in 2020 as the incumbent.
I think you’re projecting too much intelligence onto Trump supporters. They’re not listening to what he says, they’re listening to how he says it. He projects confidence and success, and people eat it up. They think he’s saying what all the other pols are afraid to say because of Political Correctness. His campaign ins’t about policy, it’s about… TRUMP!
Eh.
His supporters will be similar - pointing out, correctly, that no president ever manages to do everything they promise.
His detractors, though…
There’s going to be a lot more ‘oh, thank Christ the law/congress prevented him from doing that shit’.
Note: not picking on DrCube particularly; this is just one of several very similar comments in the thread.
No president has ever delivered on ALL of their promises, but most of them can at least point to some notable accomplishments. Obama, e.g., hasn’t closed Gitmo yet, and certainly didn’t in the first year of his presidency, but he can point to the ACA as his signature achievement, and has fulfilled at least some of campaign promises (e.g., the credit card bill of rights, more spending on NASA, the stimulus, etc.).
With Trump, however, is he going to be able to point to ANY promise fulfilled? His big promises such as the wall along the southern border and “no Muslims allowed” aren’t going to be achievable, so what will be the item(s) he can point to and say, “See, this is a promise I fulfilled”?
or is it going to matter to his base as long as he keeps up the appearances and the brash talking?
If the Republican front-runner was Donald Trump and the Democratic front-runner was Al Sharpton, you’d have a legitimate point. But one party is nominating a legitimate candidate and the other party is nominating a blustering idiot who isn’t aware of his own inadequacies. It’s not this thread or any posters on this board that are making the Republicans look worse than the Democrats; it’s the Republican candidates who are doing that.
They like hearing him bloviate. Plus, as noted, he’s a marketing guy. A very good one. He’ll market himself as having “restored respect for America” around the world or some such nonsense if he has to.
By then America will be too great to care, I assume.
I’d say no, it’s the Republican voter base that’s done that, over too many years of supporting nihilist blowhard oppositionist racist reactionaries. They bought the electability argument in nominating McCain and Romney, sure, but that approach proved not to work, and it’s why the relatively-sane candidates are eating dust this time. The candidates you blame are merely reflecting the voter base they’re tailoring their messages to.
I’d really like to hear form someone who thinks it’s going to matter if Trump is elected and can’t deliver. Can you map out what types of things are going to happen? Some of you are claiming that this will be different from earlier times when presidents didn’t deliver. So, tell us what America will look like in 2020 when Trump hasn’t deported all the Mexicans and hasn’t locked up all the Muslims and hasn’t brought back all the iPhone jobs. I’m really curious.
Well, I admit to already being somewhat astonished that Trump made it to Super Tuesday. I suppose I can admit the possibility that I’ll be astonished if he gets elected and turns out to be a competent president, i.e. I’ll be surprised but can’t say it’s impossible.
I’d second this. Do Trump’s supporters expect him to deliver? I seriously doubt that many of them do. Much of his support is simply people expressing their frustration with politics and politicians, and they acheive what they want to acheive simply by voting for him. The major promises he makes are plainly incredible, and just because people are angry or alienated enough to vote for Trump doesn’t mean that they are too stupid to see this. On the contrary, they don’t care about this.
I would say there would be less blowback for Trump failing to deliver that there would be for more conventional politicians. Trump isn’t going to deliver, and isn’t expected to; that’s part of the compact between him and his voters.
“Live the fantasy… Trump Number Five…”
It smells real good! It’s gotta, to earn the Trump name!
I would say that the main reason Obama won the nomination (and the election in 2008) was his anti-war stance. He was going to end the wars. But we’re escalating war instead.
What are all the “high information voters” who voted for Obama doing?