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* I think at worst, Hillary would make a mediocre to below average president, I doubt much worse than that. By contrast, the worst Trump could do as president could be apocalyptic. Making Trump president would be like using your life savings to buy lottery tickets. The payoff could be big but the odds are that you are headed towards disaster.
* I actually think she'll be a pretty good president. She knows policy and governance cold and she's worked hard for decades to address our domestic and international issues. She'll be a better president than she has been a candidate.
* For once I agree with Cruz. The Trump Tower is a gigantic compensation.
* You can just imagine what kind of president he would be, trying to attack anyone who disagrees with him. Of course, that's what his 'authoritarian' Republican followers want. How did Republicans fail to notice that their party had become filled with people like this? After all, they recruited them by pandering to their ignorance and bigotry. Now they've got Trump, and there's no going back to the pretense that this is a party of decent people.
* I think Kristol set out to rattle Trump's cage and it worked. Just wait until his next rally -- a floor show on Kristol's supposed 3rd party candidate. And another one on Sunday's NYT drawing of Trump in a lip lock with Putin. Keep Trump busy responding to c**p, because he will.
* ... Small is the perfect description for his brain and anything that comes out of it! He appears to either be Bipolar or has ADD and is VERY insecure about being liked- to the point that his entire life is built around "Like me or else!" He is immature based on the fact that it is intolerable if he is NOT liked....He actually believes that his hateful spiteful and vengeful conduct is a normal reaction to what people say about him.... Grace, diplomacy and dignity were not traits taught to him as a young man ...Same seems to go of many of his followers!!
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Trump never misses a chance to look small
By Jennifer Rubin, May 30, 2016
Donald Trump can never get enough love. He can win the nomination, achieve widespread applause for the effort, bring the GOP establishment to its knees, and yet, it’s not enough. He continues to rail and insult the few holdouts, infuriated that they will not bow to kiss the ring.
The Post reports, “During his first big campaign swing since locking up the Republican presidential nomination, Trump went after an odd and seemingly random group of people — Democrats and Republicans, famous and obscure. There seemed little to gain politically from the attacks, and his targets were linked by just one thing: Trump felt they had all done him wrong.”
Then on Sunday, a leader in the search for an independent candidate, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol tweeted, “Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent candidate — an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance.” Neither Kristol nor others involved in the search are saying who that is and when the actual announcement is coming, but the prospect of a challenge so rattled and angered Trump that he took to Twitter to attack Kristol as — you guessed it — a “loser” and a “dummy.”
Displaying his authoritarian instincts and intolerance of dissent, Trump insisted that the GOP “[c]an’t allow lightweights to set up a spoiler Indie candidate.” How would he suggest the GOP stop such an effort — lock up Kristol and the potential candidates? Sue them to prevent exercising their constitutional rights to organize and vote for someone of their choice?
Trump’s abject inability to tolerate criticism is the telltale sign of a narcissistic personality. Combined with his lack of understanding or interest in our democratic system and values, he often resorts to stunning proposals as to how to achieve his aims. He’ll order the military to commit war crimes — and they will obey because he says so. He will “open up” (don’t even ask what that means) libel laws to take down journalists who criticize him “unfairly” (i.e., at all).
Trump is far more dangerous than Hillary Clinton in this regard. Clinton may arrogantly defy rules to insulate herself from criticism and evade persnickety conflict-of-interest rules to get rich, but she does not demand critics embrace her nor does she seek to obliterate her foes. To the contrary, her errors stem from excessive paranoia and a sense of victimhood built up over decades. She imagines her foes are far more powerful than they are. Trump, on the other hand, can never tolerate dissent; his ego allows for no dissenters or no-shows. (He attacked Gov. Susana Martinez merely for not showing up to a rally in New Mexico.)
The Post’s Jenna Johnson writes: “Why go after the GOP’s only two female minority governors — Martinez and South Carolina’s Nikki Haley — when there are many other elected Republicans who have not endorsed him? What does he gain from smearing a former employee and a federal judge whom most of his supporters have never heard of? Why comment on Clinton’s voice and appearance instead of her record?”
The answer was supplied by Sen. Ted Cruz.(R-Tex.) on the eve of the Indiana primary. “Bullies don’t come from strength, bullies come from weakness. Bullies come from a deep, yawning cavern of insecurity. There is a reason Donald builds giant buildings and puts his name on them everywhere he goes.” That’s exactly right and a frightful diagnosis for a man who seeks the presidency and the awesome powers of the federal government.
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