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Ive been treated very unfairly by the RNC, Donald Trump told CNNs Anderson Cooper, in a townhall forum that Trump threatened to boycott because he complained that CNN treated him unfairly. What did CNN do to treat Trump unfairly? They had commentators on panels that criticized him. What did the RNC do to treat Trump unfairly, and thus negate his pledge to support the partys nominee whoever it turned out to be? Er Mitt Romney criticized him. No, really: Lets face it The Pledge has been a joke for some time. It served a purpose until the primaries started, which was to keep Trump from bailing out of the GOP process and launching a third-party bid. Over the last couple of months, though, its been clear that Trump is too self-absorbed to rally troops on behalf of someone else, and too thin-skinned to accept criticism, let alone defeat. No one who has paid any attention to Trumps antics over the past year could possibly have thought that Trump would campaign for someone else, or even have anything nice to say about someone who beat him to the nomination. If Trump thought Cooper would be sympathetic to this kind of argument, he got a surprise tonight. Cooper dressed him down for acting like a child when it came to the War Of The Wives:
If Trump believes that the RNC staged Mitt Romneys criticism to make him look bad, does anyone think for a moment that Trump would take a loss at the convention as just the breaks of a well-fought contest? Puh-leeeeeeze. Trump either spikes the ball, or he takes it and goes home. There is no room in his world for another quarterback, and anything but cheerleading is all the evidence Trump needs to claim victimhood. |
Trump: The Pledge is null and void
| Source: | HotAir |
| Published: | Mar 30, 2016 |
| Author: | Ed Morrissey |
| Post Date: | 2016-03-30 01:14:07 by Tooconservative |
| Views: | 5294 |
#1: Tooconservative To: All, misterwhite (#0)
A man of his word, he is not.
And this was a timely story, as I was just being lectured yesterday by a Trumpkin here at LF about the Amazing Donaldo taking the pledge so other candidates should be expected to support him if he is the nominee.
Tooconservative posted on 2016-03-30 01:16:41 Reply Private Reply
#2: Tooconservative To: All, misterwhite (#0)
Not that that will matter to the Trumpkin cult at all.
Tooconservative posted on 2016-03-30 01:26:10 Reply Private Reply
#3: Roscoe To: TooConservative (#2)
"I'm not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my family." -Ted Cruz
"If the nominee is somebody that I think is really hurting the country or dividing the country, I can't stand behind him." -John Kasich
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-30 02:39:25 Reply Private Reply
#4: Vicomte13 To: TooConservative (#2)
Bye-bye corporations as people. Bye-bye gun rights.
It's all linked in train, like cars on a cable, forcing you to choose between someone you can't stand, and policy positions that, once lost, will never be recaptured again.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-03-30 06:42:10 Reply Private Reply
#5: A K A Stone To: TooConservative (#2)
You're senile or a hypocrite.
A K A Stone posted on 2016-03-30 07:25:46 Reply Private Reply
#6: tomder55 To: TooConservative (#0)
1. Security (no real issue there )
2. Healthcare
3. Education. That is not an answer that a constitutional limited government conservative would give . When asked to elaborate by Anderson Cooper ,he went into one of his typical incoherent spewing of pablum demonstrating he had no grasp of any of the issues.
All he really needs to do is memorize the Preamble to the Constitution. That would be a good start .(to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.) .
Or he could look into the text to find the few powers designated to the Federal Government . Article I, Sec. 8; Articles II-V; Amendments XIII- XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXVI. All can be catagorized as :
1) Defense, war prosecution, peace, foreign relations, foreign commerce, and interstate commerce 2) The protection of citizens constitutional rights , and ensuring that slavery remains illegal 3) Establishing federal courts inferior to SCOTUS 4) Copyright protection 5) Coining money 6) Establishing post offices and post roads 7) Establishing a national set of universal weights and measures 8 ) Taxation needed to raise revenue to perform these functions. Beyond that he can quote James Madison Federalist #45 The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. But Trump doesn't believe in small government that has it's powers limited and enumerated in the Constitution . He believes in a big expansive government with powers defined by the Executive . A typical lib.
tomder55 posted on 2016-03-30 08:18:29 Reply Private Reply
#7: BobCeleste To: TooConservative (#1)
BobCeleste posted on 2016-03-30 08:21:22 Reply Private Reply
#8: Tooconservative To: tomder55 (#6)
Trump doesn't strike me as someone who ever studied anything but how to file bankruptcy.
Tooconservative posted on 2016-03-30 08:40:43 Reply Private Reply
#9: Tooconservative To: BobCeleste (#7)
I'm supporting Lyin Ted Cruz the adulterous scum.
In fact, those are nothing more than "claims" of adultery made by a notorious tabloid that has endorsed Trump, affairs vigorousy denied by all supposedly involved. One of the women is Trump's spokeswoman. She denies it too.
OTOH, your candidate is an admitted serial adulterer who says he has never asked God's forgiveness for anything. So Trump actually is an unrepentant adulterer who seems to have no conception at all of Christianity, other than "I eat the cookie".
Stuff that in your bible and smoke it.
Tooconservative posted on 2016-03-30 08:43:47 Reply Private Reply
#10: Tooconservative To: tomder55 (#6)
We already know that Trump is the last of the Know-Nothings.
You can't expect anything else. He's dumber than Palin and even less willing to do any homework to gain a better understanding of policy.
Tooconservative posted on 2016-03-30 09:05:23 Reply Private Reply
#11: misterwhite To: tomder55 (#6)
Based on your smarmy response, it appears the questioner should have asked him what the 3 top priorities of the Federal Government
wasshould be. Then you would have gotten the answer you wanted.Trump wants to get us out of military foreign entanglements, wants to end Obamacare and privatize healthcare, and wants to end Common Core and turn education over to the states.
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-30 09:58:53 Reply Private Reply
#12: misterwhite To: TooConservative (#1)
Has Trump been treated fairly by the GOP?
By the way, both Cruz and Kasich, when asked if they would support Trump if he was the nominee, refused to answer.
"A man of his word, he is not."
Seems to me it's the GOP that is breaking it's pledge to Trump. But so typical of you -- Trump gets maligned, strikes back and you rag on Trump for his response.
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-30 10:08:23 Reply Private Reply
#13: Roscoe To: misterwhite (#12)
Well, that's different because shut up.
Roscoe posted on 2016-03-30 10:11:30 Reply Private Reply
#14: tomder55 To: misterwhite (#11)
tomder55 posted on 2016-03-30 10:29:12 Reply Private Reply
#15: tomder55 To: misterwhite (#11)
tomder55 posted on 2016-03-30 10:31:56 Reply Private Reply
#16: misterwhite To: tomder55 (#15)
By "has a history of" you mean "16 years ago Trump said that single-payer works in Canada"? Yep. He did.
Trump is running on private healthcare. I don't care what he said 16 years ago about Canada.
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-30 11:24:11 Reply Private Reply
#17: misterwhite To: tomder55 (#14)
So if a state drops Common Core, they will lose no federal funding?
misterwhite posted on 2016-03-30 11:25:55 Reply Private Reply
#18: tomder55 To: misterwhite (#17)
tomder55 posted on 2016-03-30 12:45:24 Reply Private Reply