The more I see and hear Donald Trump the wearier I am of him.
Two recent columns put his candidacy into perspective from my view. “Trump will clearly do anything to become president,” wrote Michael Gerson in the Washington Post, “Except hire an adequate campaign team, open a briefing book and make any real preparations to govern.”
“Does he honestly want the nomination?” asks Gerson, “It is possible that Trump began his presidential race as a lark, found an unexpected momentum and now realizes that the enterprise involves skills he does not possess.”
Gerson goes on to relate that a candidate who really imagined himself in the Oval Office would put together a campaign capable of counting delegates when it was early enough to matter. He would gather a serious policy operation that could form the core of a governing team. He would study up on the obvious issues in preparation for obvious questions. “Trump has done none of these things,” says Gerson in his piece entitled, “Is Trump sabotaging himself?”
During the recently televised New York GOP Gala, it appeared that Trump was going to take the high road as he began a trip down memory lane with the story of how he rebuilt the old Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt, the site of the gala. He went on to describe some of his other New York projects, bringing in some interesting sidelights.
But then, as if he just can’t help himself, he had to again wade into the New York values thing, “lyin Ted,” and the Colorado delegate “theft.” It has become so tiresome. So unpresidential.
“If Mr. Trump wins the nomination but loses in November, politicians endorsing him will be saddled with the legacy of his bombast and policies that defy GOP orthodoxy,” writes Beth Reinhard in today’s Wall Street Journal. She comments that two the nine NY Republicans in Congress and just two of the 73 GOP state lawmakers have endorsed Trump as they worry that their endorsement will eventually hurt them.
Imagine what we have to look forward to in the general election with Trump facing Hillary Clinton. I’d rather not, but I can tell you I fear a Clinton victory and Clinton Supreme Court nominees.
In the words of Chester A. Riley – “What a revoltin’ development this is.”
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