GOTCHA - Trump: 'Very Bad Thing' For Cantor To Criticize Birthers

[kpete]

As Trump put it in his own words, "people love this issue, especially in the Republican party."

As Trump said, "people love this issue."

Trump's angle was simply to give them what they wanted. No holds barred. The full birther assault. Folks like Cantor could criticize Trump as not serious. But they were living in a house increasingly built on equally unserious ideas. What Trump did with birtherism was no different from what he later did with anti-immigrant animus in the GOP. He offered to satiate the appetite Republicans had been stoking. When he arrived they had nothing to fight him with. Their supporters - not all, but a large plurality - more or less instantly abandoned them and joined Trump. That's the story of the 2016 GOP primary cycle.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/watch-this-video--2

[Gothmog]

1. Trump is a liar and has issues with reality

[Chemisse]

2. The site includes some insightful comments

". . . the slow accumulation of nonsense and paranoia - 'debt' to use our metaphor - built into a massive trap door under the notional GOP leadership with a lever that a canny huckster like Trump could come in and pull pretty much whenever. This is the downside of building party identity around a package of calculated nonsense and comically unrealizable goals."

[maddiemom]

3. Best anaysis of the Trump phenomenom that I've read to date.

Whatever your personal status in life, education in critical thinking (increasingly being lost) and experience,directly or peripherally --say, spending time as an "corporate wife"---later than the "Betty Draper era"---men--and more recently women (hello Carly) determined to succeed in business are real pieces of work; impossible to be understood by those who's lives have never touched on the same worlds. The sensitivity felt by people in "the arts" and other professions that require understanding and empathy for others often exist in some degree in business oriented people , but they will definitely be a career detriment unless shed. Donald Trump is not a "self-made man," but grew up rich and relatively spoiled with a million dollars from his dad to launch him in business. Rather than invest his money and enjoy life, he fancied himself a business genius and proceeded accordingly. No faulting him for that. His con-man abilities became more developed than his actual business abilities, however.

[czarjak]

4. That's rich...

Birther bitch. Trying not to be too derogatory. Promise, cross my heart and hope to die.

[Coyotl]

5. Which is worse, disconnected from reality or being a criminal?

It doesn't matter if you are running for President, both are disqualifying.

We need a list of Trump's known crimes.

[Motley13]

6. He said "I brought it up"