I don’t think Trump himself is looking forward to the debates, because he’s not all that good at debating. Hrc is an awful person but she has a much firmer grasp of policy specifics than does Donald.

Better yet—why don’t YOU create an strawman analogy that makes no sense?

Look, I know you’re not from this country. But your ignorance about the party process and the political process is showing.

A political party is a political party, and it is under no obligation whatsoever to have input from the people about which candidate it chooses to nominate. In fact, until the 1960s, and certainly earlier, that’s the way it was done in this country—most states did not have primaries. And yet we were nevertheless a democracy (actually a republic).

The people have the right to vote in the election, and no one is suggesting that that right should be taken away What’s more, people can vote for whomever they wish, including writing someone in.

And a political party can nominate whomever it wishes to, and can select that person by any process it chooses.

The two processes—party nomination and election—are separate. The US Constitution doesn’t even mention political parties. The parties are free to select a nominee by reading tea leaves if they wish to, and people are free to accept or reject that nominee in the voting booth, as they wish.

Second, because there is still time to replace Trump, although I have little faith that the Republican Party leaders can manage to get their act and their courage together to do it.

Much better: why not to ban elections in the GOP?

Even better: you could ban US elections. They are ANNOYING, some times people choose leaders you don’t like. It’s disgusting. Imagine replacing Obama, and now Trump, and putting the guy you like. Doesn’t sound it wonderful? 🙂

Instead of “we the people”, much better “we the hierarchy” or “we the bloggers”. Common people are stupid, you can’t trust them with important things like choosing who is gonna govern the country.

Of course, some people wouldn’t like it. But what are jails for? 🙂

Worse. When caught he fought tooth and nail. He doubled down, as he always does, rather than admit a mistake. He never admits a mistake.

He can’t let anything against him go. Ever.

His presidency will be all about Trump. All the time. Nothing else will get done. Unless it is about Trump.

While it is true that CEos don’t manage the day-to-day business of their subsidiaries, I bet they do very careful research before they buy into them. Trump seems to invest money in or sell his name to lots of things without doing the research. Think of the Scottish golf course with the rainy weather location. Think of the Trump Steaks that no one liked.

Even if he has some staff who could check out possible investments, my bet is that Trump’s impulsive ego wins out over facts.

Absolutely NONE of this is new news — it’s OLD news.

Amazingly, (/sarc) none of this came into the MSM spotlight until Trump was confirmed as the GOP target bearer.

Ted Cruz had // has NOTHING like this baggage.

That’d be “Truthin’ Ted Cruz.”

But Trump has been proven to be guilty of saying he was much more involved in the running of Trump University than he actually was, so no generalizations about CEOs are relevant in that regard.

I already wrote this comment addressed to you about that, but I wanted to make it even more clear what I’m talking about.

Trump himself made ads in which he said the following:

“We’re going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific people, terrific brains, successful. We are going to have the best of the best… and these are people that are handpicked by me.”

But in the NY court proceedings he admitted he had nothing to do with the people who taught at Trump University:

In Trump’s own deposition this past December, Trump failed to recognize the name of a single presenter or teacher at his real estate seminars. He also confirmed he had nothing to do with the selection process of instructors who taught at the school’s events or mentors for the school’s “Gold Elite” programs.

A review of Trump University presenters and so-called real estate experts found many with questionable credentials and inflated resumes. Court documents show background-checks conducted during the hiring process could not determine whether some instructors even graduated high school.

It was a con. And he was part of the con—personally part of it, when he made those ads. That’s not an unsubstantiated allegation. It’s based on facts he admitted in sworn testimony.

Ann, my point is that you cited what HRC and Fauxcahontas were saying in the past week, to illustrate how the other candidates came up short months ago. Not exactly fair; aside from the obvious fact that most primary campaigns do not have the motivation, nor the resources, to do opposition research on their primary opponents. I do fault them for being slow to understand that they were in a back alley brawl; but, since most Republicans revere the Reagan “11th commandment” doctrine,–or at least pay lip service to it– it is not too surprising.