Well, The Donald has made his choice. He’s a Mitt man. The pair met up at one of Trump’s Vegas hotels and as Romney and his wife looked on smiling, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination for president of the United States.
In true Trump fashion, The Donald had them all guessing right up to the minute he made his final decision. Initial reports were that Trump would go for Newt Gingrich and even Gingrich himself thought that he had Trump’s blessing. But essentially Trump told Newt “You’re fired” as he announced for Mitt.
The whole affair last but a few minutes as both Mitt and The Donald swooped in for the photo op and then swooped right out barely spending more than those few minutes basking in endorsement after glow. After all, Trump had fawning from the media to attend to and Mitt, well he just wanted to get on with his campaign.
Many pundit’s tongues were wagging about why Mitt so heartily accepted Trump’s support. In its report CNN mentioned that a Pew poll shows that Trump’s endorsement is not much help in the scheme of things. The assumption from some of these pundits was that Trump against you is worse than Trump for you simply because when he’s against you he spends his time constantly sniping from the side lines and with all the media attention he gets that constant barrage of criticism can mount to annoyance.
So, better to spend five minutes with Trump and accept his support than spend the next untold number of months receiving Trump’s needling.
Also, in post announcement interviews, Trump promised not to run a third party candidacy for president but only if Mitt becomes the nominee. If Mitt loses the primary process, trump left the door open for his return to the race — well, “return” if you believe he was really serious the first time.
So, are we done hearing from Donald Trump about this election? Probably not, but at least for the time being he is out of the running.
February 3rd, 2012 at 5:08 am
Well, Romney wants the Independent vote and now he has one, since Trump switched his registration from Republican to Independent. And to think that not long ago, many detractors (who supported Romney) were calling The Donald a Democrat, even a Liberal.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Surprised. Endorsing Romney doesn’t help his self-promotion much. Campaigning with Gingrich would be much more fun for the press.
February 3rd, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Hey Donald, I got knews for you.
Most people dont give a flyin fck who you endorse
February 3rd, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Well, there’s an undeniable attraction there for Trump. He too likes to fire people and he too doesn’t much care for the poor. Peas in a pod.
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:11 pm
@ andy42302
You’re still milking that bullsht ?
By the way, he said he doesnt “worry” about poor people.
Not “care”.
I’m no fan of either man but any adult knows that the two of them have cared and done more for poor people in one day of their lives than you and I ever will in our whole existence.
They’re both some of the most altruistic people to be found.
February 4th, 2012 at 5:48 am
Good lord micky. Are you so absorbed in your cocoon of ODS that you actually believe what you just wrote?
I’ll concede that my post was a jab at Romney’s gaffes and that they were in fact gaffes. But his gaffes are so reflective of who he is. If Newt was to accidentally condone wife swapping or adultery, people would be all over it. Not because of the misquote itself but because of who he is an how it’s aligned with his character. You’re trying to paint these two as a Mother Teresa which would make one of reasonable intellect spew their coffee upon reading it. Do you even take yourself seriously?
And if Newt did make such a gaffe, I suppose your response would be something like;
“and Newt will strengthen family values because he’s lived his life by staying true to his marriage vows, resisting illicit temptations and denouncing illicit affairs”?
“They’re both some of the most altruistic people to be found”????????? That statement is so over the top that I find it hard that even you believe it. It makes me even wonder why I’ve even taken the time to respond to someone that’s either that ignorant, that much of a partisan hack, or that divorced from reality.
February 4th, 2012 at 7:42 am
@ andy42302,
Since LBJ launched “The War On Poverty” we have spent 16 billion dollars in aid to the poor and it has done minimal good (I heard it made a 4% difference). The poor need to get more help to get out of the situation they are in because the current system does nothing to help them. By focusing on the middle class you bring more help and opportunity to the poor class by proxy.
Think about how pathetic this concept is: A majority of the poor will vote for obama, and he is for reinforcing the system that keeps them down instead of voting for someone like Mitt Romney who will have economical policies that would have a positive effect on them.
Secondly, California spends on average $47,000 a year per inmate in the prison system. It only costs about $1,000 to put a poor kid in a program that will help him / her change their lives for the better but they don’t put that kind of money there.
You cannot take something Romney or anyone else said out of context and contort it into something that you would like it to be when it really is not what he said.
February 4th, 2012 at 11:02 am
I agree that imprisoning people is not a very good way of “dealing with the poor”, but funding for the “War on Crime” is always avaialable and since crime became privatized it has been in a boom phase.
I remember my stockbroker telling me to invest in Corrections Inc. back in the eighties. They were one of the first private prison companies.
Good tip.
People scream about entitlements, but why not invest that money in the poor rather than sending them to jail for possesing a miniscule amount of crack.
The idea that if you simply cut entitlements that the poor will simply disappear or move is ridiculous. I swear people think that will happen.
Ever watch The Wire. Truth be told.
February 4th, 2012 at 11:20 am
“The idea that if you simply cut entitlements that the poor will simply disappear or move is ridiculous. I swear people think that will happen.”
Well, they do get jobs.
But of course the govt will make sure they cant get one.
Its all very elementary.
I’ll extend your benefits.
In exchange you vote for me.
Baddabing baddaboom
February 4th, 2012 at 11:42 am
“Good lord micky. Are you so absorbed in your cocoon of ODS that you actually believe what you just wrote?”
No ass hole.
I just listen to people in context.
I heard him the first time he said and predicted ass holes like you would cherry pick it for everything it was worth.
And I was right.
I dont like the man either, have you read my posts ?
But the truth is what it is and we’d all be alot better of if ass holes like you shut the fck up unless you got something constructive to say.
February 4th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
“Secondly, California spends on average $47,000 a year per inmate in the prison system. It only costs about $1,000 to put a poor kid in a program that will help him / her change their lives for the better but they don’t put that kind of money there.”
In addition to that they also receive supplementaries from the Fed. So yeah, the incentive is there as yours truly knows this for a fact better than most.
Working with junkies and alcoholics i can bet my life that if this social and personal disease got that kind of funding our prison populations would be less than half of what they are today.
Same thing with the border/war on crime.
Theres just too many jobs and industry at stake to approach these problems realistically.
From cops to judges to prison guards to institutional food service…
theres a lot of jobs and industry dependent on a minimal amount of people getting locked up.
And quite frankly I seen this system destroy more lives than it betters.
I’m simply one of the few who got lucky by deciding to be as independent of government as possible.
The people I work with are all victims of something. Be it a shtty childhood, mommy complex, hereditary addiction, recreational use gets out of hand, but the majority are there because they’re victims of a dysfunctional government with only one function they manage to execute quite well.
To keep people in a paradoxical hell hole of entitlements and regulations
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