Trump's finger on the trigger

Quote: odiousgambit

The thing that bothers me the most with Trump is that I believe he would never have had a chance to get above 1% in any poll if he hadn't done his TV series. He would just be the rich guy who built casinos to the general public.

Quote: terapined

The most dangerous part of Trump's personality is that he is so thin skinned
I keep hearing him described as an Alpha male
Alpha males are not cry babies
Any perceived insult and Trump goes straight to twitter to cry baby about it.
He would be a dangerous president simply because any minor insult really really upsets him.

Quote: Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal

None of his offenses against propriety seem to have dinged the support that, in a crowded race, keeps Donald Trump atop the GOP primary polls.

Republicans are now talking about a brokered convention, which could be a disaster for the country, and for the GOP, and quite possibly hand the election to Hillary Clinton without a real contest or even critique of her agenda.

So goes the fear. But unless we miss our guess, our long national nightmare-cum-sketch comedy show actually has a termination date. It will end the moment campaigning begins to threaten Mr. Trump’s finances and business interests.

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In any case, his comments have become an opening. Already Mr. Trump’s Middle Eastern business interests are under assault. He lost a few U.S. deals early on due to his slurs on Mexican-Americans. Now a handful of Silicon Valley biggies—the CEOs of Apple, Facebook and Google—have ventured criticism without mustering quite the courage to mention him by name.

What happens when important business partners start letting Mr. Trump know, publicly and noisily, they think he’s doing serious damage to the country? By Mr. Trump’s own inflated reckoning, most of his net worth resides in the value of his name.

Our guess is that Mr. Trump has always planned on being satisfied with making a splash and ventilating his high opinion of himself. He will rightly be able to claim that he gave neglected voters a voice and transformed the debate. Notice that he manages to maintain his jolly equanimity even when being vilified. He is not grimly “on a mission” as so many candidates are whose self-image is wrapped up in electoral success.

Quote: Pacomartin

I like that summary "our long national nightmare-cum-sketch comedy show". He also doesn't mince words by calling a "brokered convention" a disaster.

Will Trump call it quits when he down a billion dollars?

Quote: AZDuffman

I just love how the media always call the GOP field a "comedy show" or a "circus" when the nomination is not pre-picked like the Democrat Party has done for Hillary. As if having a contest is a problem.

Quote: Pacomartin

The Democrats pretty much had a free for all in 1968,1972,1976, and 1980.

Quote: AZDuffman

Dick Morris just spoke on this on his YouTube channel and said that he predicts that Trump or Cruz will have it sewn up by March, which I tend to agree with. .

Quote: AZDuffman

I just love how the media always call the GOP field a "comedy show" or a "circus" when the nomination is not pre-picked like the Democrat Party has done for Hillary. As if having a contest is a problem.

Quote: terapined

There is a contest on the Left. Just because most Dems agree (unlike the right these days. Franklin Graham just left the party. lol) is not a problem.