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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

The White House skewers Trump.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Inciting terrorism is unbecoming of the office he seeks.
*  Why haven't we heard from Rience Priebus ? Doesn't the Chairman of the Republican Party have an opinion on this ?
    *  LOL! That little man can't control the animal house atmosphere that has become the Republican party.
*  An absolute fact! Trump has brought further disgrace upon an already tainted GOP and upon our nation. To place a man like Trump in the WH, knowing he has made xenophobic and racially charged statements means his support base will expect him to honor them. He has cast his hook far into the morass of neo-fascism and gutter politics in an effort to remain ahead in the polls,by appealing to the baser instincts of those who clamor for him. Trump is disgusting for using such tactics when knowing the Constitution would not tolerate them nor would the majority of decent Americans. Trump should begin to decline rapidly; if he does not, thern heaven help America!
*  The GOP is scared of Trump because he has grabbed their base and holds the power they provide in his sweaty racist hands. The GOP can only blame themselves for creating this monster and now it's too powerful for them to control.
    *   The thinly disguised hatred and bigotry exhibited by the GOP is on full display. The slow-motion train wreck that has become the Republican Party, doing its damnedest to replicate the Whigs, is now in crescendo death rattle. Sadly, when the party eats itself, the hatred will remain as America's cancerous lesion seeks another demagogue.  How many of the Republican establishment elite will realize that the Southern Strategy has finally come full circle?
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White House: Donald Trump Has Disqualified Himself From Presidency

Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Trump's campaign had a "dustbin of history" quality to it.

By Reuters, December 8, 2015

The White House on Tuesday said Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's call for the United States to ban Muslims from entering the country disqualified him from becoming president and called on Republicans to reject him immediately.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump's campaign had a "dustbin of history" quality to it and said his comments were offensive and toxic.

Earnest said other Republican presidential candidates, who have pledged to support the person who eventually wins their party's nomination, should disavow Trump "right now."
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COMMENTS: 
*  Trash talking Mr. Trump only serves to demean the office of the presidency.
*  Trump is begging to get out of this race, it's way over his head in every aspect thus one increasingly bazaar statement after the other. He'll be gone soon.
*  Even Republicans KNOW that Trump will NEVER be the PotUS.
*  Ooh. Smackdown. Guess Donald will have to run as an independent now.
*  I seldom, if ever, agree with this Presidency, but this time, although they are constitutionally wrong, they are absolutely right. Trump is a blow hard idiot and his supporters are xenophobic fools....it's embarrassing to see there's so many in this GREAT country agree with this fool.
*   As an America I would like to apologize to the rest of the planet for this idiot.....I'm sincerely sorry that this is the best that the GOP can find, he's not a representative sample of the true citizens of the United States...I'm sincerely sorry that Trump didn't raise his hand and learn something about honor, courage and duty in Viet Nam, and, in closing, I'm so, so, so sorry that Trump's father was the one that got the defective condom.......
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White House thumps Trump over Muslim comments
By AFP, Decembeer 8, 2015

The White House angrily challenged Republicans to denounce their party's presidential frontrunner Donald Trump Tuesday, claiming his "toxic" plan to ban Muslims from entering the country should disqualify him from office.

Painting Trump as a "carnival barker" with "fake hair" whose campaign belonged in the "dustbin of history," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump's plan to refuse even American-born Muslims entry to the United States were patently unconstitutional.

"What Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president," said Earnest sharply, describing the 69-year-old's comments variously as "offensive" and "toxic."

The unusually strident language from the White House podium reflects concern about the impact of Trump's comments in the wake of a mass shooting that killed 14 in California that is being blamed on Islamic extremists.

But it also suggests that the White House spies a political opportunity ahead of the 2016 election.

Earnest was quick to pounce on prominent Republicans who condemned Trump's remarks -- including rival presidential contenders Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush -- saying they would still support him if he were the party nominee.

The "Grand Old Party" has long held fast to late president Ronald Reagan's so-called 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Earnest dared them to break that rule and challenge Trump, or risk being tarred with the same brush.

"What he said is disqualifying and any Republican who's too fearful of the Republican base to admit it, has no business serving as president either," he said.

That poses a dilemma for Republicans who may have little love for Trump: refuse to withdraw support and risk being branded a bigot, or withdraw support with the political risks that entails.

- Staying power -

The politically savvy real estate mogul took to Facebook Friday to make sure every Republican knows the danger of choosing the latter.

"A new poll indicates that 68 percent of my supporters would vote for me if I departed the GOP and ran as an independent," he said.

Trump currently leads Republican presidential polls by double digits.

According to a USA Today/Suffolk survey published Tuesday he is supported by 27 percent of Republican likely voters.

His nearest rival Senator Ted Cruz stands on 17 percent, with Senator Marco Rubio on 16.

Analysts suggested Trump's latest provocation was a calculated ploy to whip up support before the first primary nomination votes in Iowa and New Hampshire in February.

Trump has already galvanized core conservative voters fearful of undocumented workers taking US jobs with his oft-repeated pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border.

American University professor of government Jennifer Lawless said it was unlikely Trump would be able to win the nomination "entirely on immigration."

"But if you can link immigration to terrorism and foreign policy and national security, then you have the potential to cast a much wider net."

Trump has defied the pundits with his staying power, remaining the frontrunner with just two months until Iowa becomes the first state to vote on the nomination.

Spending very little of his fabled billions on advertising, Trump's campaign has been defined by outlandish remarks on television and social media that spur yet further media attention.

"The question now is about the rest of the Republican party and whether or not they're going to be dragged into the dustbin of history with him," said the White House's Earnest.

"And right now, the current trajectory is not very good."
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