"Don't worry their here"
Charlie Cook of The Cook Report has an interesting column today where he writes in The Natioanl Journal:
Some bright, talented, and highly qualified Republicans are thinking about running for president. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts—all current or former governors—are eminently capable. Regardless of whether you like or agree with them, they are worthy of consideration for the Republican nomination.
How demoralizing it must be, then, for them to look at national polling that shows Donald Trump tied for first place for the GOP nomination.....
But what does it say about the Republican Party or, for that matter, the American people that this guy gets a second glance? Could a Jersey Shore personality be far behind?
I have been watching as Donald Trump makes the rounds of TV and Radio shows trying to pump up his candidacy. He is very clever and does a good job of pandering to the Conservative wing of the Republican party of which I am a member. However, I don't' trust the man and in the end I don't believe the American people will either. He is already talking about running as an independent. Is he a straw man for Obama ? No, he is a person who is interested in Donald Trump ! You don't run for the Republican Presidential Nomination and say if you lose you will run as an Independent.
As much as I like Teddy Roosevelt I have always believed he made a big mistake in his Bull Moose candidacy in 1912.
When he was asked last night on how he would solve our debt problem Trump said he would make better deals with the Chinese and the Japanese without the necessity of drastic budget cuts in Medicare or other social programs or increasing taxes. That's an easy answerer but totally disingenuous and demagogic. I am all for better deals with China but that will not solve our economic problems which are of our own making.
Demagogues through history have gained power by blaming their country's problems on outsiders. Trump has been blaming the Saudis, the Chinese and the Japanese for Americas economic problems. I believe we should be firmer with all of these countries but to blame all of our problems on them will delude us from making the change that is necessary at home.
