Trump to self: I’m fired!
Donald Trump squandered untold political oxygen exploiting the Tea Party while backing government bailouts, Obamacare, the porkulus, and wealth/property redistribution.
Now, he’s squeezing a 16th minute out of his announcement today that he won’t run for the GOP presidential nomination.
After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country. I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.
I want to personally thank the millions of Americans who have joined the various Trump grassroots movements and written me letters and e-mails encouraging me to run. My gratitude for your faith and trust in me could never be expressed properly in words. So, I make you this promise: that I will continue to voice my opinions loudly and help to shape our politician’s thoughts. [sic]
Now, if only Trump could fire Newt…
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Boy they are going down like flies getting raid after them! Thank you God, we did not need ‘the donald’ running.
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now when is newt going to fall on the sword, or toss himself under the bus?
Oh good! Now he can continue being a self-important inconsistent twit. At least we don’t have to see his name on a ballot.
…and Mitt.
I told you Trump wasn’t going to run……..
YES WE CAIN!
Newt did it yesterday. He just has not accepted it yet.
Gas over $4 a gallon
Food prices rising VERY rapidly
Unemployment STILL over 9%
Nobel peace prize winner now has us in a 3rd war (which should be a civil war and none of our business)
And the GOP can’t come up with one decent candidate to run against a socialist.
Now the Obamatons will say the reason for Trump quitting the race is because Obama released his “real” birth certificate.
Thanks, Donald. You’ve given Obama something to use.
Moron.
That’s because the GOP wants a beltway insider, not an intelligent person like Herman Cain.
…but they don’t get it…
“I’m fired.” Ha!
This is great news for all the Democrats he usually donates money to.
…and Daniels.
That’s the preference, does Romney count? He might just as well be a beltway insider, maybe an honorary insider?
GET ON THE CAIN TRAIN!
They are all entitled to run if they want….and we are all entitled not to vote for any of them.
Let’s hope more frauds are exposed, like Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Newt, Mitt, Rick……
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/05/16/whos-a-republican/
The Latest from the Southern Avenger…
Narrowing the field quicker than I expected.
He may not know it, but Newt is out. Probably Mitt for the same reason. Johnson is a non-starter. So now we’re just trying to finalize which conservatives are in.
It’s a tossup between Mitt and Newt for the lame stream media’s choice ala Juan McCain.
Let’s try real hard to not let them pick our candidate for us this year, shall we?
Seems like par-for-the-unstable-course with this guy.
Unfortunately this gets us no closer to nominating a good candidate, it just weeds out the most likely vote-splitter on the off-chance we can get one (like Cain) nominated.
Has the money to fund a run.
Wants to run.
Wants to win.
Convinced that if he runs, he will definitely win.
Yep, I’ve seen tons of people with those qualifications walk away before the race even started.
http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2011/05/treasury-to-tap-pensions-to-help-fund.html
Interesting?
What about Santorum? I liked him a few years ago. He got stopped short because of the “throw the repubs under the bus movement,” I think. Haven’t heard much feedback about him.
As long as Huntsman stays in the race, the Dems will still be worried.
/sarc
They are entitled to run, but I will be counting on everyone else to vote for the best candidate as WA ST is looking to cancel the primary voting in our state. The Dems in Olympia (and our RINO Sec of State) figure it costs too much and by the time we get around to holding the primary vote the candidates have already been chosen anyway.
The party elite want Mitt to be the nominee, come hell or high water. They think that he has the best chance of beating Barry. Well I have news for them, Mitt won’t even make it out Iowa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA1bUIrAtM4&feature=player_embedded#at=136
Rick Santorum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iev7TKsXoHo&feature=related
Trump was a spotlight grabber and nothing more. He wasn’t serious or a Republican, just a loud mouth who wanted to punish bho for not living up to Trump’s expectations.
Trump got a strong taste of the manure that Nobama and the lib. press could smear while he sat at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Kitchen was very hot. He figured he didn’t need it. I’m glad he got the message that even a non-Republican gets the full Wisconsin smear when crossing “he who must be obeyed.”
OK, the NotTheDemocrats are dropping like flies now. Trump is out, Mitt just retied the knots on the albatross around his neck, Newt shot himself in the foot. Pawlenty and Daniels, while favored by RINOs, have made it clear they are not conservatives, nor favor conservative solutions.
Clears the way for the Cain Train!
Thank goodness!!!
The way keeps opening up wider for a true conservative. The Tea Party HAS to pick a candidate early and give him or her overwhelming support to freeze out the Mitts and the Newts.
lol
Concise and interesting point.
Trollman? Are you somewhere blowing a gasket? Punching a wall? Slamming your laptop? I know you deleted your account due to MM’s Trump bashing. But you still read it, right Rev? Take care. lol
So I can’t go onto YouTube at work. What does it say about or from Rick Santorum, stevevvs?
WOOOOOOOOT!
Now Donald – go back to the DNC and get your head patted for being the good the liberal you have always been.
Next up – goodby Newtie can’t come soon enough!!!
I am glad Trump Did what he did on the birth certificate issue. Now that it is out in the open and a moot point the lamestream media can no longer beat the republican candidates over the head and make them commit on whether or not they believe Obama is legit.
Who is the GOP anyway???
I don’t hear much from the RNC these days.
IMO:
The GOP is us – the Tea Party and other conservatives! We will have good candidates to run against BHO.
Happy Monday Everybody,
Does anyone know what a “food stamp President is?”
Thanks,
ILMC
Never thought he was seriously considering it …
When he dropped those mf bombs, I knew he was sabotaging his own candidacy. I think he did that because he was becoming more popular than he thought he was really going to. It was always about publicity for this wannabe.
He voted for Every Big Government Proposal Bush dished out. It’s very good, watch it after work!
Wanna save money? They can always run campaigns the old fashioned way. Candidates can run around the nation speaking persuasively before the public and the parties state delegates, then have the candidates make deals in the no-longer smoke filled back rooms to be selected by the state delegations at the national conventions.
Wikipedia notes:
Interesting. Ya know, having the nominee selected at the national convention does avoid problematic open primaries.
There is only one candidate so far that has taken his oath seriously. He is also the only one who follows the Constitution, has a Jeffersonian Views, understands the damage the Federal Reserve has done, believes in Sound Money, backed by Gold, isn’t an interventionist, and didn’t support the Bush regime. It aint Herman Cane.
A great example of clear thinking.
Herman Cane is for a North American Union of sorts, worked for the Federal Reserve, and is a neo conservative. If that’s what you want more of, you should support him.
Remember back in the day when Reagan created the Misery Index, prepared especially for Jimmy Carter?
I thinks that’s what we need here and for the correct candidate (Listen up HC) to pick up on that and ram in down the throat of Obama and the DNC.
1. Unemployment 9.0% Source: BLS
2. Food stamp recipients 43.87M Source: USDA
3. Mortgages under water 30% and growing
4. Foreclosures 998,545 in 2010- more expected in 2011 Source: Realtytrac
5. Fuel prices $4.00 per gallon
6. U.S. Debt $14.4T Source: US Treasury
7. Bankruptcies 1,599,276 Source: AACER
8. Food prices
9. Taxes
10. Government spending
etc., etc.
If we cannot get a decent conservative to win against this track record, then something is terribly askew.
The MSM will pick Ron Paul. His message is an easy sell, and it will be even easier to tear him down after the primaries as being a loon.
I suppose the latest Barry BC, real or not, is also suppose to make the fact that he isn’t a natural born Citizen even if he was born in the backseat of Chris Matthews car.
I believe the Obots have taken invalidating the Constitution to a new level, with most of their ostensibly, “enemies”, doing their best to assist them.
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Alinsky, it works even better than the Marxist/Commies ever dreamed it would!!
I guess his tax returns will not be forthcoming…..
Is there a decent conservative candidate out there? Bueller, Bueller….anyone…Bueller?
Glad he is out. Newt is lame, Romney the RINO is lame, they all stink. I like Palin and Bachmann but they have been diminished perhaps too far already by our own side. Please don’t make me hold my nose to vote!
Exactly why I knew he would not run…
Good. It is time to narrow the field and focus people’s attention.
When it comes down to it – it will be easy. Do you want a lying, economy, constitution, country destroying, more of the same fraud, POS or ______ (fill in the blank).
Yes sir, BOB.
They have changed the Constitution by semantic sleight of hand. Native born is now good enough, even though it was not good enough for the founders. They knew the difference and insisted on natural born citizen, born here by citizen parents to ensure undivided loyalty. Americans have been convinced native born is enough, even though the Constitution says natural born.
Native born is not natural born.
Citizen is not enough.
Native born is not enough.
Natural born is the requirement, or at least it was…….
Dang. Couldn’t he have gotten Obama to release more documentation before bowing out?
“My people are checking into his Occidental College records, and you won’t believe what they’re finding…”
Using the singular “politician’s” in a pledge to shape our politicians’ thoughts. Oh-oh, someone will lose his head and receive a few F-bombs over at Trump headquarters. The Donald could say he was just referring to The One as a type of modern-day Big Brother.
I will miss his aggressivness and not beating around the bush. Only he could get the media attention to do that.
The rest of whoever is running will not get the facetime The Donald got unless it is something negative. It will have to be a grass roots effort from here on out.
I never got the impression there were any negatives to come out of this whole process? If nothing else, Trump showed whomever it is that picks up the mantle what anything other than granny gear -looks- like?
What it’s like to roll your sleeves up against the LSM. What it’s going to take to get RID of Obeyme. If escalation isn’t for you, that’s fine, don’t run. This is simply typical sales manager behavior when the troops need to be energized.
Not the voters, the other candidates. A scene from Glengarry – Glen Ross. Rolex or set or steak knives?
Darn, we just lost the only guy with an ego bigger than Obamas. Goodbye Donald, you were entertaining, but that’s about all.
Well, WHO would you want to run?
Am I the only one who realizes this NBC funded fraud was just in it to take the birther issue off the table once and for all for his buddy Obama? Cmon. the man has been a die hard dem for his whole life, with no principles other than to serve himself.
I never believed any of this for a single second. He is a fraud thru and thru. How big of a step is it from funding all the big statists (Shmuck Schumer, Harry Reid, etc… to conspiring with the Obama camp to draw attention to the birther issue and then make all of the so called birthers look like racists?
Cmon people this is social engineering 101. This man is as big a fraud as you can find. Anyone who believed he ever drew a conservative breath is as dumb as an Obama voter. Shame.
Yeah. Thank you tone. Everyone here except you thought Trump was a die-hard conservative Republican finally coming out of the Democratic closet. (emoticon with eyes rolling into the back of its head).
Now we can all settle back and enjoy the fireworks as the Republican poindexters shine their nails, fix the creases in their pants, touch up their perfectly coiffed hair and preen while feigning disinterest as the wait for the adoring nose-holding “conservative” media to make them seem serious and “electable”.
I hear the sound of grinding gears coming down the road. Must be that bus to throw those conservatives under if they dare attack Obama.
OT, on the EO regarding compelling companies to reveal political contributions during Govt contracting:
What an Orwellian statement. No surprise.
Phil, he said he was a Democrat. It’s you that wants him to be a Republican. Still flaky I see!
**A helpful analogy**
*Your teenage daughter, a bright young woman, represents our beloved country; A young gangbanger, representing P-BO, tells you outside her bedroom door before going in, “I’m going to do things you can’t imagine, but both you and her are going to love it, or else”; He goes in and you charge the door, only to be blocked by a group associated with this gangbanger; And who are they?; Just the usual Dems, but also the RINO elite progressives that have been raping this country with so much fervor over the past 40 years; That is why it is imperative to identify these RINO perps, call them out, and chase them from the race; Now is the time for true conservatism from the likes of Cain or Bachmann!
My own personal troll has returned.
Trump: This whole President thing makes my hair hurt!
On May 16th, 2011 at 3:59 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
Hahahaha … now who’s the chump without Trump?
Yep.
I also know the meaning of the following
Marxist
Liar
Tax and Spender
Economy Wrecker
Job Killer
Wealth Redistributor
Enemy of Capitalism
Inexperienced
Shady
Thug
Opportunist
as well as many other words and phrases. You should give reading a try.
He’ll endorse Ron Paul and stay a part of the tea party movement. So no Trump or Newt, who are you supporting? We’re coming up on 6 months to the first caucus.
I like that Donald got the puppet-in-chief to respond to the birth certificate issue – but do people really think this is now a ‘non-issue?’ Based on the release of a photoshopped obvious faked up version? Did I miss a ‘real’ version getting released?? Or are people just tired of worrying about whether we were duped into electing someone who is not even eligible to hold the office? Or, for anyone in a position to do so, afraid that they’ll be ridiculed if they continue to look into it? Can Mr. Issa include the obvious discrepancies in his scope? I’d think so…
For God’s sake, they go through 1000 times the effort to figure out whether the urine of the Tour d’France entrants makes them eligible to compete.
But I suppose if you have a lap dog media, there’s no worry you’ll be investigated…for a minute there, it looked like it might actually gain traction, I was being foolishly optimistic.
Virgina Patriot,
And anyone else who cares that we have a total fake, an imposter, in the White House.
Please read this, it is very interesting and probably something you have not heard in this detail.
Worth your time:
http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/05/16/the-post-email-speaks-with-susan-daniels-private-investigator/
Thanks, I will.
Yes, MM loathes him, but the Donald has cross-party appeal that’d sadly be lost.
I wasn’t for Donald, only for his cajones and candor of the jungle world like it is — a view sadly lacking in the other candidates. We all know China’s screwing us, we all know our Arab “allies” ought be paying US, but who in this current GOP crop is daring to walk it much less shout it?? One defining point for me of Fred Thompson’s run was the debate question that asked if you didn’t believe in global warming raise your hand and Fred’s was the only one. Donald likely would’ve raised his hand too, but who in this current crop would, really? Donald was a diamond in the rough we could’ve polished in time by stressing to him to take a run seriously but it’s gone now — I fear with much much more. More than ever — sincerely — I believe we’re staring a Obama II in the face and the permanent socialization of the U.S.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Watching the 2008 campaign was enough for me to know, we’re screwed. Both parties wanted to run ineligible candidates and did! Now we have our first communist President, who is ineligible.
Our one shot is RAISING CAIN!
Thanks, BOB
The truth on Soetoro will come out someday.
Some people still won’t care.
The Joke is over…..Thank God.
No, Newt’s still running, I believe…oh, you mean the Donald.
Never mind.
hawkeye54:
I already posted in the Newt blog that that RINO is dead by suicide(he stuck his hooves so deep in his mouth that he choked). Thanks for the attention, anyway.
Donald Trump is the king of baiters.
He managed to goad the President of the United States into releasing his long-form birth certificate.
What an accomplishment.
Of course, there will be payback for this. Obama will be rewarding him or one of his corporations with some interesting federal contracts for dropping out of the race.
I think it’s *hilarious* that he said, “But if I DID run, I would TOTALLY WIN, you guys.”
I’m disappointed. I thought seeing Trump run would be super entertaining.
Glad Trump is not running.
Trump’s words say one thing, his actions another.
He quit. Who folds a winning hand in poker?
Unless he wants the Marxist in Chief to win in reality.
Ota Benga PLEASE !
And Obama!
I just don’t think Cain is as blunt and firm about international and energy affairs as Donald is. He should but he’s not. Cain’s a tea-toting boardroom animal, not a jungle animal facing lethal opponents in the world scene and I sense Donald’s far more keen and dirty dealing in that world than Cain. I’d be for any candidate that has Donald’s balls and sass, not that it has to be Donald himself, but it’s not there. Worst, I hope it doesn’t end up looking “it takes a black man to beat a black man” because in that case Obama bags it because Cain will just be labeled as the GOP’s pale carbon copy Tom.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
say what you want, but, like Palin, Trump had the media & their familiars in fits.
Frankly, I’d like a Fred Thompson/Sarah Palin ticket – both demonstrate a style I like when they are dealing with the media.