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News & ArtsMonday, September 26, 2011
2012 Kissing Donald's Ring
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Wait, so now Mitt Romney is going to New York to try to win Donald Trump's approval, too? First Michele Bachmann met with Trump, then Rick Perry, and now this. When did Trump become the Republican tastemaker? When he took the lead of an imaginary Republican presidential field back in January, before anyone was running? There can be no clearer sign of Republican distress than the rise of Donald Trump as the conservative Yoda.
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I'm not sure we have politicans per se any more, just celebritites who may or may not happen to hold elective office at any given time.
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Like Sarah Palin, he's a mouthy figurehead, the sort of asshole who can sit back and spout "common sense," secure in the knowledge that they will never actually have to aspire to a real position of responsibility (or simply blessedly naive of the fact). The republican base loves people like that since they can tell them everything they want to hear without ever having to try and make good on it. So, all the little republicans start looking to the "real" candidates to live up to the artificial standard set by their celebrity heroes.
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Forget the primaries. There should be a Republican Apprentice that determines the Republican nominee. I would watch that.
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Why is no one calling this what it is? This is publicity for Trump's television show. It's been going on since the end of the last season, and even for all of the disgusting things that have been happening in politics, this the most egregious. What quid pro quo (or what threat) is the network holding out over these people to convince them to do this? Television exists to make money. It is the only reason they do anything, ever. What is the payoff?
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@6 is correct.
Nobody wins, except our deathly enemies in Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and China.
Nobody wins, except our deathly enemies in Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and China.
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Fred Karger News Reel...announces registering for election...interview with CBS News...others...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7bbrzUG3…
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@4,
Agreed. That'd be wonderful. But they should also make them dance with each other, sing, eat insects, share living quarters, cook and any/every other stupid & ridiculous reality show idea we've been subjected to over the past 20 years.
Agreed. That'd be wonderful. But they should also make them dance with each other, sing, eat insects, share living quarters, cook and any/every other stupid & ridiculous reality show idea we've been subjected to over the past 20 years.
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@1 What we call politicians today never were politicians anyway, this doesn't surprise me. It's been nothing but publicity for several terms now, even Clinton and Bush were just celebrities.
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@10: "What we call politicians today never were politicians anyway"
Or perhaps you have a high opinion of politics throughout history?
Or perhaps you have a high opinion of politics throughout history?
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