1 Hey. Moron Nation pegged this one right.

2 Where's the rest of the post? I can only see the first 1/16 of it.

3 Second look at Chris Christie?

4 Give credit where its due. Trump was able to demolish the shaky old house next to the big white one that everyone is interested in and make redevelopment that much easier for the neighborhood. It seems as soon as Sparky lost his lightning rod story of birth, he replaced toot sweet with a confused story concerning events and decisions regarding offing OBL. This story is designed to take heat of the real bomb story, the academic qualifications of the smartest man alive.

5 Aw.

Democrat "Independent" NY assholes hardest hit.

6

Profanity?

Shit...that's just Trump bein' Trump.

7 I may be insane but I stand by what I said a couple weeks back, Trump never really intended to run for president. This was a brilliant PR campaign to do one thing, keep Trump in the public eye. That fact that he got to spar with the most powerful man in the world, a guy he clearly doesn't like, and force him to do what nobody else has been able to do was a bonus.

8 This story is designed to take heat of the real bomb story, the academic qualifications of the smartest man alive.

Posted by: Goober

 

*Ahem*. That would be 'second' smartest man alive.

9
Nyeah, I wish Trump hadn't shot his wad on the birth certificate. I wish he'd started out making noise about the Transparent Genius's school records.

10

That's ok then, because Obama has selected the Republican he wants to run against in 2012.  Drum roll, please........ it's Mitch Daniels! Yea! Mitch is even more a beta male than McCain was! Bonus!

11 Flash, meet pan. Pan, flash.

12 Maybe, we should send Obammy a cat. There is a lot of cat mayhem in the sidebar.

13 Joe the Plumper's less husky cousin Joe the Mildly Overweight was unavailable for comment.

14 It's not just that he's down; he's also stopped doing interviews and saying provocative things.  I wonder why. 

15

... pegged this one right.

 

I have that thought a lot. 

Self-affirmation is important part of any relationship.

16 >>This story is designed to take heat of the real bomb story, the academic qualifications of the smartest man alive.

I hope the prez doesn't release his transcripts because, right now, most Americans don't believe he's qualified to hold his current job or most others. Releasing his grades, if they're good, only hurts that belief.

17
A lot will happen in the next 18 months.
Trump's whole thing lasted, what, 4 or 5 weeks?

We're not even talking about Charlie Sheen, anymore. Trump is just the beginning of many GOP "rise and falls" between now and November 2012.

18

Democrat "Independent" NY assholes hardest hit.
 

Nice.

 

19
But Intrade has Obama up by........okay, I got nuttin'.

20 Candidates still can learn a lot from Trump: The party is eager to embrace a tough-talking candidate who treats Obama as what he is, and what he always has been: A professional politician, remarkable only for his ambition and narcissism.

This is pretty much why I want Christie to run. No one would do this better than he would. Plus the comparison between the out of control spending while lying about it and the straight talking guy who actually is getting spending under control in a straight forward way would be great.

Oh well, there's always...Tim Pawlenty.

21 Mi gusto 4, 5 y 6. Y Ace mi amigo, que realmente han estado en el fuego esta semana. Mantener el buen trabajo

22 Live by the Birth Certificate, die by the Birth Certificate.  Still Trump has the distinction of having defused the "BC Landmine" and taking that particular tool away from the Obama campaign.

So he has done a service to the cause by throwing his hair into the ring.

23 I don't think the Donald's f-bombs hurt him.  By the time that speech was in the headlines everyone was already talking about the birth certificate, and by the end of the week we had OBL feeding the fishes to keep us occupied.  So I think it was really just a blip on the radar of a few people, but not enough to make a substantial difference in his poll numbers.

24
I'm Steve Croft.

25 In the space of just four weeks he's dropped all the way down to 8%, putting him in a tie for fifth place with Ron Paul.

But Juan Williams and Kirsten Powers say Ron Paul is in the lead!

26 I think the profanity thing hurt more than some would think. Regardless of how  people speak in private conversation most people do not like public profanity and put it down to either stupidity or a lack of self control. How many people have been behind some swearing jerk at customer service? It's just stupid.

I would put the drop at 50/50 between showing the BC and the profanity.

27

Just spit-balling here:

How about Gov. Brewer throwing her hat in the ring?

28 Mi gusto 4, 5 y 6. Y Ace mi amigo, que realmente han estado en el fuego esta semana. Mantener el buen trabajo

Posted by: El Kilo

 

Gesundheit.

29
I make Brian Williams look like a serious journalist.

30
Why is Trump staying quiet? That honey badger he was using as a toupee just chewed his ears off.

31 I wan't Trump to release his medical records- both for himself and for whatever the hell that thing living top of his head is.

32
I asked Obama the tough questions.

"Was it hard to keep the mission a secret?"
"Did you tell Michelle?"

"Were you nervous?"

"Can I massage your ball bag, for you?"

33

I think Trump was also hurt among the grassroots when the Democratic connections started falling out of the closet.

I will admit, I was partially turned off by the F-bombs and the sheer lunacy of his arguments. It was...Obamaesque.

We here have derided Obama from the begining for his lack of tact and his essentially demeaning the office of the presidency (a solemn and respected position) with doing things like commercials for George Lopez, and handing out ipods to foreign royalty. Trump's antics would have further exacesbated this condition.

Second, Obama believed a version of the Underpants Gnomes guide to the presidency: that by merely being Obama, decades old problems would cease to be in the face of his awesome. Trump too indulged in this fantasy in his speech, and I and many others like me were probably turned off to the sheer naiviety of assuming that telling the Chinese to back the fuck off or whatever would somehow work, or something.

34

But I could be wrong. Hell, look, based on my track record: I probably am wrong.

If profanity-laced attacks on Obastard are wrong, I don't wanna be right. 

35 I don't think the Donald's f-bombs hurt him. 

Posted by: MWR

 

Problem is, anyone who hangs out here isn't in a position to know. This is the opposite of the Park Central broad who was shocked when Nixon won, saying "I don't know of anyone who voted for him". If we're here, then Trumps's speech rolled off and went on by.

36 23Mi gusto 4, 5 y 6. Y Ace mi amigo, que realmente han estado en el fuego esta semana. Mantener el buen trabajo

Posted by: El Kilo at May 10, 2011 02:51 PM (le5qc)

Yo le doy mi lealtad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de America.  Y a la republica que representa, una nacion, bajo Dios, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos.

(Just throwing out some of the spanish I remember from high school.  I find it highly ironic that the thing I remember best is the Pledge of Allegiance.)

37 Anyone but am Mitch Daniels, please. Sorry, I trained seal or pet rock could destroy Prez'nit Gusty in a foreign policy debate.* Daniels is self admittedly not up to the job. Move along, nothing to see here. *note: apparently former navy pilot/ POW/ old senators with a hard on for amnesty do not rise to the standard of pet rocks or trained seals either.

38 How about, "I'm #2,3,4,5 -and- 6".

Oh, and #7:
Suspected there had to be -something- other than the actual crucial bits "Mother, Father, Location" that he didn't want out.

That is: Religion, name change, race, -something-. (Not saying I'd think they're that big a deal, but Pres. Thinskin would probably take a lot more than 16 hours to decide if he wanted to release "Religion: Jewish" or something.)

And #8:
Let's get this one the freak over with so we can move on. Staked, beheaded, burnt, ashes immersed in Holy Water then consecrated and eaten by piglets.

39

Just spit-balling here:

How about Gov. Brewer throwing her hat in the ring?

She's been flaky on some really important shit lately, which is a shame because she did some great work with immigration and Constitutional Carry.

But the real killer is that she's got a voice like a career Las Vegas cocktail waitress.

40 34 I wan't Trump to release his medical records- both for himself and for whatever the hell that thing living top of his head is. Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 10, 2011 02:54 PM (SY2Kh) Haters! What do you know about our love!?! [sobs]

41 I just think we can all now be thankful that Obama survived leading the attack into Abottobad, Pakestan without being seriously injured or worse. That was a gutsy call for him to be the first one off that helecopter and the last one on.

42 43 Time to secure the border to the thread. Then we can discuss a pathway to Moron Citizenship for MWR and El Kilo. But lets build the dang fence first!

Posted by: John McCain (Maverick - Maverick Land) at May 10, 2011 02:59 PM (OWjjx)

Hah!

Question.  If southern Arizona were to become it's own state, would that mean Northern Arizona could foist John McCain on them and elect someone who isn't a squishy squish?

43

I'm glad Trump will probably be gone, but I'm not sure we are out of the woods yet with him. I don't know if he was a positive on net, but I think that he showed the Republicans want a strong, vocal candidate.

44 Who's up for some T. McCotter??

45 There's a detective quoted on WND that says that the BC is a fake!!!11

_ducks..

46 46 I just think we can all now be thankful that Obama survived leading the attack into Abottobad, Pakestan without being seriously injured or worse. That was a gutsy call for him to be the first one off that helecopter and the last one on.

Posted by: robtr at May 10, 2011 03:00 PM (MtwBb)

And don't forget he was barefoot.  He gave his boots to a starving, homeless Pakistani urchin he saw sitting in front of the compound.  What a great American he is.  So brave.  So selfless.  So gutsy.

47 I have Joe the Plumper in my Climate Chaos-resistant porn fortress.

Did Trump's profanity-laced speech hurt him too?

Fuck no.

First, almost no one saw it. Second, it's Trump. People who object to "fuck" object to him, as an embodiment of vulgarity (the other kind), no matter what he's doing, whether he says "fuck" or not.

"OMG he said f*** I'm all [vapors and/or rage]" is a personality type no "outsider" politician can appeal to. It's why the Huckabites hate Palin.

48 Joe the Plumper's step brother, Joe the Fluffer (credited but not seen in several gay pron flicks) was unavailable for an interview on this post, as he had his mouth full.

49

I still can't help but be bewildered that a significant number of people considered Donald Trump a legitimate choice as Republican nominee.

No matter which candidate wins the primary, he'll "go after" Obama- a race against an incumbent is a referendum on the current President.  They all know that once the general election campaign begins, criticizing Obama is going to be central to their campaign.

They won't be able to go as negative as the Republican base would like- make it too personal or virulent and it'll backfire.  Negative attacks work, but only to a point- the public only has so much tolerance for them.

50 Is anyone else surprised by how well Gingrich polls here? He is basically tied with Romney and Huckabee if Trump and Palin don't run, and with Romney alone if Trump, Huck, and Palin don't run.

51 I can't help but think that Trump's flirting with the nomination proves how popular Palin would be in the primaries. I think she has a lot of room to move upward in the primaries if she ran. In the general election, not so much.

52 I never understood Trump as a conservative darling to begin with, so I don't quite know why he fell off either.  But I certainly won't complain.

I suppose he may yet follow through on his threat of a third party run, but hopefully he's been diminished for that also.

53 Is anyone else surprised by how well Gingrich polls here?
Posted by: Paper at May 10, 2011 03:05 PM (VoSja)

Name recognition.

54

Anyone but am Mitch Daniels, please.

Sorry, I trained seal or pet rock could destroy Prez'nit Gusty in a foreign policy debate.*

Daniels is self admittedly not up to the job. Move along, nothing to see here.

It was a dumb thing to say, or at least a dumb way to word it.

He should've said that as governor he's focused on serving his state, but looks forward to debating Obama's foreign policy if he decides to run.

55 @58 Obama was simply trying to put together a solid alibi by hitting some golf balls when Bin Laden was killed; just in case someone decided to throw murder charges his way. Heck, it worked for OJ.

56 Oops! My last post was in response to 57, not 58.

57 I am disappointed that we won't see his wife standing next to Moochelle. That would be a wonderful contrast.

58 If Trumpy is/was serious. My only concern is that he will keep the circus going and go thrid party and be the Ross Effing Perot of 2012.

59 Interesting....from Seattlepi...

Former GodfatherÂ’s Pizza CEO and radio talk show host Herman Cain was a surprise victor in a straw poll of GOP presidential candidates held at State RepublicansÂ’ 29th Annual Spring Gala on Friday.

Cain took 54 votes of 357 votes cast.  He edged out former Massachusetts Gov. Willard “Mitt” Romney (52) and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (51).  Daniels has yet to decide whether he will run.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has said he will not run, took 39 votes.  Ex-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty had 28, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin 22, ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich 14, and ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also 14.

Trailing were Rudy Giuliani with 12 votes, Donald Trump and Rep. Ron Paul with 10, Rep. Michele Bachman at 9 votes, Jeb Bush and Sarah Palin at 8 votes apiece, ex-Sen. Rick Santorum with 7 vote

http://tinyurl.com/44zgqd9

60 I just looked up "f-bomb" at the Urban Dictionary and I'm disgusted, Ewok.

61

Lets just say that OJ's acquittal had very little to do with what OJ did and more with me!

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cochran at May 10, 2011 03:12 PM (OWjjx)

Actually it had more to do with me

62 Another thing...  Allahpundit's point about a mix of hardcore and softcore believers I think is right on, and I apply it to several theories.  People think of the true believers when they talk about conspiracy theorists, but there are some persuadables out there also, and just denouncing the conspiracy theory while claiming its beneath you to rebut it even once only encourages the persuadables.

That's why I think its a major mistake not to release the bin Laden photos, and to dump his body immediately.  Not to persuade the true believers, but to persuade the squishes who are going to listen to somebody "just asking questions" about the "coverup".

63 #11 At least Mitch is not a feckless mavericky maverick, so we'd have that going for us.

64 Well, the problem for Obama is that he released an obviously fake birth certificate. But he had Bin Laden killed, so most people have lost sight of that.

65 Let us hope we can once and for all dismiss any talk of Trump as a candidate... of any sort. He was merely spanking his junk in public, and the public eventuallly got bored. If anyone took him seriously, you can just drop it now.

66 My problem with the BC was that it was incredulous in light of our tradition to collect the minutiae of info on historical figures and that no one could say for sure what hospital Obama was born in and he would not release a simple piece of paper that could clear it up. My aggravation was reinforced after watching an episode of Modern Marvels about the Library of Congress and the kind of info we had on other Presidents. We have nothing with this President.

67 Hey, anybody know how Labia is going? Just wonderin.

68 #49

Greg Gutfeld seems to agree with you.  Can't find a more complete clip right now, but McCotter himself didn't seem to want to do it when Greg asked him right after this clip.  Granted it's Red Eye so I'm not sure how serious anybody is being.

69 42 How about, "I'm #2,3,4,5 -and- 6".

Oh, and #7:
Suspected there had to be -something- other than the actual crucial bits "Mother, Father, Location" that he didn't want out.

That is: Religion, name change, race, -something-. (Not saying I'd think they're that big a deal, but Pres. Thinskin would probably take a lot more than 16 hours to decide if he wanted to release "Religion: Jewish" or something.)

And #8:
Let's get this one the freak over with so we can move on. Staked, beheaded, burnt, ashes immersed in Holy Water then consecrated and eaten by piglets.
  Put me down for 2,3,4,5,6, and,8.   I'd say #7 is redundant with #6, plus I knew that they don't put religion on birth certificates (or on much of anything else).   I'm just concerned that the lack of any damning information could inhibit the next stage of #5.   What we learned from the BC thing is that Obama is willing to put a lot of people - including his allies - to a lot of trouble and expense simply for the sake of his narcissism ("How dare anybody question me?"). Hell, didn't he sit back and allow some poor guy go to jail somehow, rather than spend five seconds signing a letter? This strikes me as being downright dangerous for a person in his position. How much destruction is he willing to cause for the sake of his fragile ego?   Ironically, however, what the public may have come away with is "See, those birther guys were just a bunch of conspiracy kooks."

70

You think this means ANYTHING?  ... You think I don't understand, what have you done for me lately?

I've been bankrupt so many times... This means NOTHING...

Now, about those Columbia and Harvard transcripts?

71 We do need States to require proof of eligibility. You don't need to be a major stresswad over Obama's birth location or natural born status to see that it's necessary. If just one or two states require it, that should plug that gaping hole.

We shouldn't forget Republicans wanting to introduce bills allowing foreign-born folks, specifically Arnold Shwantzenkegger, to be eligible to run for President, either.

So much for a bunch of jerks yearning for that shining knight to come save them. A good lesson there for the folks falling for the Daniels and Christie show.

Yes, the f-bombs hurt Trump. If you sound like a dimwit, you fall fast. Ask Doctor "Yearghhhhhh!" about that one if you don't believe me. Gratuitous f-bombs are purely amateurish. Even newbie standup comedians find out fast that the f-bomb is a tool, and if it's used wrong, it backfires.

72 There is nothing the D-turds would like better than to see Trump run for the Republican nomination. Then the media could spend hours and hours trashing the guy like they did Sarah Palin. They humiliated him at the Press/White House dinner in the hope that he would get all machismo'd up and run for the Presidency just to spite Obama. The Left plays us for fools, pumping up the worst/tired retread nominees like Huckabee,Newt and Romney-WTF? I am sick to death of these arseholes picking our candidate for us. Trump is an idiot, and anyway, I always thought he was a friggin Democrat. Just like Nanny Bloomberg.

73 Trump to Putin: "You're fired!"

74 Realistically, you never know what's going to happen. Once the bin Laden thing fades from the news cycle, and Trump finishes up his show, he may or may not be able to grab the limelight again.

75 49 Who's up for some T. McCotter??

Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 10, 2011 03:02 PM (pLTLS)

Not me.

You mean the Thad McCotter (R-UAW)?

Voted in favor of forced unionism, i.e., union card check?

http://www.nrtwc.org/card-check-roll-call/

Voted in favor of continuing union-friendly project labor agreements?

http://www.nrtwc.org/tag/thad-mccotter/

Voted to over ride President Bush's veto of the 2008 Farm Bill, which, until Obama's Porkulus was the largest spending bill in US history?

Voted in favor of creating Obama Motors and its UAW bailout?

Mitch Daniels looks like Rand Paul compared to McCotter.

76 Not a full pass. More like Chris Rock's joke about O.J. killing his wife: "I'm not saying he should have done it. I'm not saying any man should kill his wife. I'm just saying -- I understand."

Chris Rock?  I thought for sure I heard Sam Kinison do this routine.

77 3. They became sort of surprised (as many were) that there seems to be no clear mechanism for enforcing the Constitution's requirement of "natural born citizen," ... I'm in that category. What's the point of having a law if there's not even a mechanism to enforce it?

78 Trump's "fall" is over exaggerated. This guy bounces back faster than a whack-a-mole game in overdrive. He thrives on attention -- good, bad, whatever, and he has a skin like a Rhino.

Getting in a pissing contest with Trump is like wrassling with a pig. You get muddy, Trump enjoys it.

Or, in snooty liberal highbrow terms, Trump is like Antaeus, who, when flung to the ground, rose up rejuvenated.

Either way, Trump will be back, louder and brasher than ever. I give it about a month before he is in the spotlight again, enjoying the attention.

79

Obama, you're fired!  Still fun to say.

80 I'm a birther in a "compare his DNA to that of a known child of Obama Sr." kind of way.

81

Next question -- the REAL question, lost in the fray -- and the one Obama was probably trying to dodge with the birth certificate red herring from the get go: 

Is a Natural Born Citizen the same thing as a Citizen at Birth???

The second is defined in the US Federal Code, the first is not.

Bueller?  Anyone? Anyone?

Donald Trump, have you the balls to take this one up?

82 44

Just spit-balling here:

How about Gov. Brewer throwing her hat in the ring?

She's been flaky on some really important shit lately, which is a shame because she did some great work with immigration and Constitutional Carry.

But the real killer is that she's got a voice like a career Las Vegas cocktail waitress.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 10, 2011 02:59 PM (7YzRS)

Fuck, no.  She's my governor and I don't want her here, much less as President of the USA.

Oh yeah, the immigration thing worked out real well, huh?  She went and made nice-nice with good old buddy Barack in Washington.  We're now spinning our wheels in court and going nowhere - and she's said nothing since her big "meeting."

83

Meanwhile, y'all, Bobby Jindal has produced his birth certificate. Pointless, as who would vote for this guy?

The above statement is sarcastic as I would vote for Bobby Jindal  in a red hot minute; or as cajuns say, I have some freesons (goosebumps), pad nah, (partner)thinking about Jindal, in 2012 debating dat coo-yan (foolish) peeshwank (little person, aka JEF)...and may a gris gris (curse) be put on all Dimmicrats.

If Jindal runs, baby, laissez les bons temps rouler. He may be just who I have been praying for.

By the way, I can't take much more of The Won.

84 Is "wanting to drive Dems crazy" a subset of option 4? I want the BC laws passed for future elections, because of our illegal alien problem, nothing to do with Sir Golfs-a-Lot. More importantly, I want the ID/residency proof laws for voting in all states.

85 One thing about Barry's team -- they have no respect for the nation or the office of the Presidency, so they have no idea that they should be above any sort of fray. That's why they went berserk about setting up Palin v. Obama, that's why they jumped on Trump, that's why Obama jumped into a police call at college professor's house. And, of course, this rasslin' in the mud makes the O look unpresidential.

So it doesn't hurt to have some gadfly fluttering around and drawing unforced errors -- so long as nobody actually considers them to be serious candidates.

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