Posted by
flagwaver on Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:08:29 PM
I was going to do this post smacking down Donald Trump as a conservative, but others have beaten me to it and done it just right. Just listen to this blast from
Mark Levin (h/t Mediaite) where "The Great One" absolutely lambastes the idea that this moron is worthy to be our President. This is a link that you really want to open, if I must say so myself.
So, after hearing what Levin did to Trump, I decided that in keeping with the reason I created the Spade in the first place, it is time to once again call the spade on this issue.
Conservatives, what the hell are you thinking? Donald Trump? Honestly, this is the best we can do? Really?
This clown walks around with that thing on his head that looks like a Garfield hairball, and because he bleats about Obama's birth certificate, he has become a conservative hero? Is that all it takes to impress the right? I sure as hell hope not, because if it is then all the stuff Anarcho Libertine and Moshe regularly spew abut conservatives may be borne out to some degree!
Or is it his protectionist talk about China that gets so many of us all hot and bothered? I mean, we can all agree that we need to slap punitive tariffs on Chinese made goods in order to teach the heathen Chinese not to mess with us. Right? Well, uh, no...not quite right. You see, setting off a tariff war with China could be really bad for us on two fronts: first we get a whole lot of our manufactured goods from China, so increased tariffs would dramatically raise the prices of the products that we buy every day, from clothes to consumer electronics. Is it really a good idea to create a further rise in consumer prices during a very fragile economic recovery? According to Trump it is, because it would stick it to the Chinese. Further, is there anyone out there who thinks that China...and her economic acolytes...would not respond by slapping higher tariffs on American made goods? Hello Smoot-Hawley, Part Deux!
As you may be able to tell, I have no great love for the idea of a Donald Trump presidential run and I think the very idea, and the support it is getting, reflects poorly on the right. This man has absolutely no real qualifications to be president, and especially so as a potential GOP candidate. He had no love for the
Bush administration, going so far at one point to call for Bush's
impeachment; he had the bright idea that Bush should have been on
speaking terms with the leaders of Iran; and that Condi Rice was a poor Secretary of State because she wasn't
making deals with world leaders. And this nincompoop has become the person, after Chris Christie of course, that many a conservative political wet dream centers around? Give me a break!
I am no fan of President Obama's, but neither am I one of those who scream that "Anyone would be better than Obama!"...mainly because that is patently absurd. How would Trump be better than Obama? He believes in Canadian style health care...just like Obama. He is "personally pro-life, but respects the right to an abortion"...just like Obama. He believes that America should meet with the likes of Ahmadenijad without preconditions and we should be making deals with him...just like Obama. Trying to appeal to birthers and using harsh rhetoric about China does not a conservative make, and especially not a conservative presidential candidate.
We can do better than Donald Trump, people. And if we don't then we can say hello to another four years of President Obama, because that's what's coming down the pike if we choose "The Donald".