Is Donald Trump’s doctor—Donald Trump?
Are there two people on earth who speak like this? [emphasis mine]:
Trump’s physician of 25 years, Dr. Harold Bornstein, said Trump “has had no significant medical problems” and called the candidate’s blood pressure and lab results “astonishingly excellent” in a signed statement Trump released publicly on Monday.
“If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” Bornstein, an internal medicine and gastroenterology specialist who works at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, wrote in the letter dated December 4.
Bornstein is not believed to have evaluated any past presidents.
By the way—not that this really matters, but I hadn’t realized it till now:
Trump would become the oldest U.S. president in history if elected, claiming the mantle from President Ronald Reagan, who was inaugurated at age 69.
Trump is due to turn 70 in June.
He’s good for four years.
The age that really counts was Ronnie’s run in 1984.
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As predicted, Ted Cruz is picking up Carson’s voters — and will be quite likely to have an absolute plurality in Iowa by the time the vote comes in.
HRC’s camp is FINALLY freaking out — because it’s now obvious that they won’t have Trump to toy with in the Fall.
Ted Cruz is the nightmare — because they don’t have anything much to attack him with.
Trump’s problem — from the first — has been his ‘ancient’ legacy.
It’s been Carly Fiorina’s undoing, too.
She’s blamed for industrial trends that she was in no position to stop. Job shrinkage was absolutely inevitable. Every other peer competitor was shedding high tech jobs like crazy — usually by going bankrupt.
Carly can’t catch a break.
I like Donald’s teflon skin — and his rapier barbs with the MSM.
He’s done the nation a huge favor by pulling the Overton Window back towards reality.
Barry Soetoro may not be bombastic – but he’s been bombing.
HRC would consecrate his travesties.
I’d cite all of Barry’s sins — but would run out of both electrons, time — and life itself toting them up.
Like the other tyrants, Stalin, Hitler and Mao — you just can’t keep up with his and their’s crime stats.
Trump doesn’t look old because of his infamous hair, and just as important he doesn’t act old. Contrast him to the shrill haggard-looking Hillary Clinton or the zany 60s residue of Bernie Sanders. Sanders has fire, but I think as soon as you look at his posture during the BLM takeover of his even, you see a frail, old man.
For some reason I had thought for a long time that Trump was 63, which is much closer to what he looks like.
There’s a lot I like about Trump and I think he’s doing good things to the public debate, mostly by being a target for the spit-flecked hatred of the liberals. His ability to beat the media at their own game and to be completely immune to political correctness sets a tremendous example to the “real” candidates who I believe will take the lead once the actual voting starts and all the LIVs get distracted by something shiny.
For the record, my first choice is Cruz, but I still like Carson and Fiorina, and Jindal (although I do understand he’s out).
LOL Neo, so true the Doc sounds just like the Donald !!!!
Blert I agree with your assessments
there is much more vitality to Trump versus the
tired, old, white offerings of the Party of Taxation, (taxes so they can give our money to
THEIR friends!!!)
Maybe he is telling the truth…
of course, given the way leftists look at 50, they cant beleive someone could be healthy, successful, and live right… they, after all, scheme, connive, lie, and do the dirty hustle, which for some reason seems to be very toxic to their beings.
just compare the two..
just compare their live expectancies..
its weird, almost as if their negativity rots their health
A lot has been said about Trump and Cruz not being electable in the general election. I disagree.
I think Trump can be electable because I think the “Reagan Democrats” will like what he says. I also think he can cut into the black vote more than Republican candidates usually do…they’ll like his style. He’s emphasizing getting jobs. And he’ll win low information voters based on his name recognition.
Cruz will be electable because the religious right will be all in for him and conservatives will be too. And, he will match the Clinton machine for getting out the vote. His GOP campaign has been brilliant and his “ground game” is unexcelled. Don’t forget he won the Texas senate race against an establishment and popular candidate.
Add that to Clinton’s unlikeability and the fact that there’s little enthusiasm for her candidacy and either Trump or Cruz CAN win in 2016.
I agree with texexec. I can see a path to victory in the general election for both Cruz and Trump. Just different ones with different types of support.
You may not like to hear it, but I do think Trump could win with a larger majority than Cruz. Just because I know there would be a lot of cross-over voting. Especially from the black community. They are the ones who like the immigration talk and also look at his wealth and celebrity in a positive manner.
Cruz probably has a better strategy to win the election…as it seems he is doing a lot behind the scenes that we don’t know about in the primaries. He’s very smart, so I’m assuming he is already working on laying the groundwork for the general election and his path to victory. He also will rip her to shreds in a debate.
Anyway, 2016 is looking so very interesting! Can’t wait to see how it shakes out.
Trump is 70? Doesn’t look it, act it, or speak like it…. Me neither and I’m at 70 too.
I know a woman, lovely in her bones, closing onto 70, who does not at all look, think, or act her age, and is often confused with women twenty years or more her junior.
Within a range age is just a number.
K-E:
You may not like it, but no polls reflect what you think you “know.” Trump does the worst against Hillary of any of the major candidates, consistently.
I have written that so many times—with evidence and links—that I have no interest in showing it again.
Neo-con,
There was a poll in late november that showed a multitude of Republicans winning against Hillary:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261035-fox-poll-six-republicans-would-beat-clinton
Also, you are talking about polls taken in 2015. What about future polls once we have a candidate? You don’t know what those polls will show. You don’t know what the American public will think already. Opinions change over the course of an election. To take polls now that show Hillary winning (while dismissing the link above that shows the opposite) and deciding those polls won’t change in 2016 is rather short-sighted.
BTW, Cruz also loses in all of those other polls you mention. As far as I understand it, only Rubio squeaks by with a win in some of these polls…
K-E:
Trump consistently does worse than Cruz.
As I said, I’ve written at length about this, and those saying Trump will do best have not got a leg to stand on. And yet there they stand, trying to balance on that shaky leg.
And arguments that maybe this will change in the future, and Trump could win, are not most of them are saying. They are saying that it is a fact, or most likely, that Trump is the best candidate for beating Clinton. That is the opposite of the truth; nothing indicates it or demonstrates it. It is a matter of faith and hope for Trump supporters.
Normally, the Democrats would be hammering Trump on his age/health (as they did with McCain) and would be literally sifting through the trash looking for scraps of his medical records.
Unfortunately, they are running the doddering old Hillary, whose sketchy medical history we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg of. They can’t go after Trump as old and unhealthy, because if the lens were turned on Hillary, the damage would outweigh any benefits.
The argument about who can win the general election must look at two things. Can the candidate win all the states that Romney won in 2012? If he can, then you have to look at the swing states – Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Wisconsin (85 total electoral votes) are the most important of the swing states. The GOP candidate has to go all out to win the usual Red States plus the big swings states. Polls do not reflect this reality. Whoever the candidate is, his/her ground game in the swing states will make all the difference in the election. Just the facts of the electoral college math.
Duh, my bad. Add Florida (29 electoral votes) to the list of the most important swing states.
neo, with your regards to Trump consistently polling worse than Cruz et al against Hillary, isn’t it possible that Trump supporters hide their allegiance for the candidate more than other supporters of other candidates? It’s literally dangerous to say one supports Trump. There are blacklivesmatter protesters and ACLU activists calling for the murder of Trump supporters, and they are supposed to trust a voice on the other end of the phone to keep their polling demographics anonymous?
Hell, I despise the idea of a Hillary presidency, but if I knew that my vote would knock her out of the White House, I still wouldn’t cast it, lest anyone at the polling station saw who I voted for, and put my name on a list. If I were found out to vote for Trump (or any Republican for that matter), I’d lose my job (which has nothing to do with politics, mind you) and my life would be in shambles. The last time I tried to vote in 2008, a large man asked to see my ballot before I had it verified by the officer at the station. The (black) police officer at the polling station refused my pleas for help, and I had to flee without casting my ballot to cheers from the crowd.
With that much at stake to even participate in a supposedly secret ballot presidential election, who is going to be answering phone calls and telling pollsters you support the most despised person to the Left (and Islam) in the world?
It’s my general impression than many of the more famous polling organizations are unable to cork their bias.
Which shows up in the way that they structure their questions.
The polls that really count are those run by the campaigns themselves — because it’s THOSE polls that drive their campaigns.
Famously, Axelrod was polling like a maniac all through 2008 and 2012. Give the devil his due — the Dr. Goebbels stature.
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The real reason that HRC is freaking out is her internal polling is indicating — without any doubt that her hopes of beating Trump are history.
She has to gear up for Ted Cruz… the ONE opponent that she’s spent so much effort to avoid.
Cruz has the LEAST warts.
He’s going to be utterly brutal in any debate schema. That much is obvious right now.
If he teams up with Carson or Fiorina, … the polling gets ugly.
This nation has never had a female vice-president — and Carly has a lot of Thatcher in her.
( Both are certifiable Queen Bee types — see John Wareham )
Carson has too much Adlai in him for my taste.
On the stump you need a polite pit bull.
I actually think Trump has a fair shot at HRC — but I don’t want to take that hazard.
Rubio scares me on policy — and has some REAL dogs in his closet — and actually looks TOO young. After training on the potty Barry Soetoro — a Spartan warrior is the better bet.
I STILL think that HRC is going to have ‘health’ problems as her schedule ramps up.
A life-long heavy drinker — okay — alcoholic — has a lot of mileage on her frame — and a slew of micro-strokes to her memory.
The latter is plainly evident in Huma’s side chatter in the e-mails. Huma is more than a lover — she’s the repository of Hillary’s life… a walking Palm Pilot.
Ted appears to have that perfect IQ for government work — low grade genius.
( Super high IQ fellas become out-grouped and will never be found at the top of the grading curve. I know more than a few. )
The National Front in France just suffered a humiliating defeat at the polls: “Official election results put the conservative party [Sarkozy’s center-right Les Républicains] ahead with 40.2 percent of nationwide votes, helped by the ruling Socialist Party’s decision to withdraw its candidates in two regions where Marine Le Pen’s National Front had a strong lead”.
If Trump’s the nominee something similar will probably happen here — many Republicans will vote for Hillary to stop him.
I hope…..please God…..let it come to pass…..that the FBI Director recommends that Hillary be indicted for the email server. The AG won’t indict her but just the recommendation that she should be indicted should be enough to kill her campaign.
I absolutely detest Hillary Clinton. The smirk on her face when W was giving his last State of the Union address was all I needed to dislike her forever.
And she DOES have health problems. Is that what Krauthammer meant when he said that only an act of God would keep her from getting the nomination? 🙂
We do have something to look forward to — once Hildabeast is rolled out on the campaign hustings, she’ll turn off voters in DROVES. She has an amazingly grating voice and personality. I never liked her one whit, even when I was a Democrat.
I’m actually looking forward to see this, whichever candidate takes her on. If Trump is nominated, I will definitely vote for him — things would be so dire if Rodham Clinton is elected that we literally would never recover. I do favor Cruz, and I hope he’s taking notes from The Donald’s very effective style of combating the Leftmedia.
One other thing: I wonder if the experience of taking all the excrement and lies from the media could be an educational experience for Trump and shift him towards the right. Like the old saw that a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. Will be interesting to see.
Ever in esperance….
Ann, you’re dreaming if you think “many Republicans” would vote for HILLARY to stop Trump.
At most, they’d sit it out. Voting for Hillary would be like voting for your house to be burned down around your ears.
Beverly, there were quite a few Republicans who voted for Obama in 2008. Some of that was because they were turned off by Sarah Palin. So why wouldn’t they do the same if they find Trump appalling?
I have a question. Who would want to serve as trump’s VP and in his cabinet, other than a total sycophant? We all find the members of bho’s regime nothing more than useful idiots, imagine a trump regime.
Ann:
I read that “humiliating defeat” stuff. It doesn’t make sense to me. I wrote a post about the first round of the elections, where this was the result:
That was considered a big victory for the FN. But what was actually happening? The three major parties split the vote three ways, with the FN leading.
What happened in this latest election to change that? Very simple: the Socialist Party pulled out, and suggested that its voters vote for Sarkozy’s party in order to stop the FN. It’s right there in the article you linked:
Actually, if anything, the FN gained support if it got about 40% of the vote rather than 28%. But the first election was considered a big victory and the second vote a defeat? All that happened was that the other two parties united in order to defeat the FN.
wreath:
You write, “isn’t it possible that Trump supporters hide their allegiance for the candidate more than other supporters of other candidates?” Anything’s possible, but I actually think the opposite is more probable: that some people say they support Trump who don’t, or who are not even planning to vote in the primaries, just to piss off the GOP.
Seriously, that’s what I think is more likely.
But actually, I think that in general people who take the trouble to answer polls tend to answer them honestly, because I’ve noticed that in general polls are relatively accurate. However, not always. In particular, polls in primary states that involve predicting the primary vote don’t have a good track record (for example, NH is notorious for surprising everyone). In part, this is because the samples tend to be small.
parker,
Like you I wonder who Trump would manage to assemble as a cabinet. I just can’t imagine anyone wanting to clean up after all his unconsidered pompous remarks. And can you imagine what he would say about you if you disagreed with him.
All that happened was that the other two parties united in order to defeat the FN.
Yes. Sort of like what would happen if anti-Trump Republicans threw in their lot with the Democrats and went for Hillary.
Ann:
No, because that would be done on an individual basis.
If the Republican Party withdrew its support from Trump and asked people to vote for Hillary, that would be analogous. But I can’t imagine that happening. However, if it did, it would be analogous. Individuals deciding to do it on their own is quite different.
@Ann: The only thing that kept McCain’s campaign alive was Palin. She was drawing twice his crowds to the point where it was embarrassing. Then he blew his lead, when the financial crisis hit, by suspending his campaign to return to Washington to do what exactly? That killed him.
Her mistake was to agree to be his running mate.