Trump strikes terror:
- He’s a bloviating, egocentric, self-promoting, reality TV parody of himself. – Jim Quinn, The Burning Platform, 9/22/15.
- Incapable of uttering a coherent idea. – Jim Kunstler, 9/28/15.
- "[N]ot a person who should be given access to a military" – Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review.com, 9/24/15.
- A preposterous little trust-fund wuss – Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review.com, 9/24/15.
- Not really a “fighter” or an “alpha male” – Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review.com, 9/24/15.
- A thin-skinned performance artist whose peculiar shtick falls to pieces the moment someone useful elects to return a punch – Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review.com, 9/24/15.
- The Republican Al Sharpton. Trump promotes a "culture of irresponsibility." – Col. Ralph Peters, FOXNews, 10/19/15. Thank goodness we've avoided that!
- "Trump is a clown. An actual buffoon." – Ben Stein, The American Spectator, 10/24/15.
- "Donald Trump resembles Jesse Ventura in style, substance, and downfall"; "he’d be all bark, no bite"; "background as an entertainer." – Nicole Russell, The Federalist, 11/23/15.
- He’s the ultimate personification of a variety of vices (greed, intemperance, gluttony, wrath, pride) that we have embraced as a culture . . . ." – Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 11/27/15. Surely there is lust?
- Displayed "a level of cruelty and meanness heretofore only suspected." – Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 11/27/15.
- Callous; a gargantuan ego; the mad mogul. – Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 11/27/15.
- He's "just the richest person with a foul mouth and a mean streak to stalk the podium." – Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 11/27/15.
- "[A]n extreme businessman who speaks in extreme language about extreme solutions for an angry world endangered by extremists. – Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 11/27/15. Extremely insightful.
- "[H]e is starting to sound a lot like Bonaparte, well aside from a similarly narcissistic convergence of America’s future with his own Napoleonic persona." – Victor Davis Hanson.
- Wheeler-dealer – Victor Davis Hanson.
- Incoherent – Victor Davis Hanson.
- "He is a would-be Napoleon in similarly Napoleonic times that pundits and critics likewise cannot quite figure out . . . ." – Victor Davis Hanson. QED.
- Pundits and critics "are attracted to him even as they dismiss him as a buffoon." – Victor Davis Hanson.
- A "millionaire flamboyant reality-TV host." – Victor Davis Hanson.
- "[R]acist, sexist, narcissist . . . ." – Ruth Marcus, Washington Post.
- "Donald Trump is the Know-Nothing candidate of the 21st century and cannot be our nominee." – George Pataki, former N.Y. governor.
- In just six months as a presidential candidate Trump has been called “witless, gross, and unworthy,” “ignorant and bombastic,” a “buffoon” and an “a--hole,” a “clownish demagogue,” and “proto-fascist” whose “ideas range from the absurd … to the monstrous,” and whose policy pronouncements are no better than “barstool eruptions.” And those are just his fellow Republicans’ opinions. – William Voegeli. (links omitted).
- "But fact-checking Donald Trump is like picking up after a dog with diarrhea; there’s just not much point." – Steven F. Hayes, Weekly Standard, 7/18/15.
You can gauge your success by the number of enemies you reap. I won't vote for The Don; but then I won't vote for any face on either ticket. I'm just standing in the corner, pointing and laughing, as the entertainment value is priceless.
ReplyDeleteI understand your decision. It's clear from the last election that gave Republicans majorities in Congress that voters are the least of the worries of the incumbents, with some exceptions.
ReplyDeleteI do like the idea of voting for the Eat More Vegetables Party to register an affirmative dissent. Otherwise, your non-participation, which is a vote melts into the background noise of the cosmos. No sarcasm intended.