Quote:Alright, I guess I'll bite.

 

Sigh...

 

He's unelectable.  He's also completely unworthy of any elected office, much less the highest in the land, but for right now let's just focus on the fact he's unelectable.

 

I find it humorous that many posters like him because "he speaks the truth."  Guys, just about everything that comes out of his mouth is an outrageous exaggeration at best, outright lie at worst. 

 

Just now, for instance, I heard an interview with him on his big thing, the illegal immigrants coming to this country.

 

His take:  the government of Mexico is sending them.  They have smarter elected leaders than us, so their government is sending us all their criminals.

 

My take:  Mexico is a horrible place, for many reasons, but I'm guessing one of them is not because they have smarter leaders than us.  Because Mexico sucks, people leave to find better opportunity in the States.  Unless there's some hidden voucher system I've never heard of, I can't imagine it's government promoted.

 

This is just one example.  Whether it's his artificially inflated net worth (he assigns an arbitrary 3 billion to his "brand") or his claim to be the only guy running qualified to fix the economy (4 bankruptcies would say otherwise), everything that comes out of his mouth is either self-aggrandizing bluster, an insult to his critics, or a lawsuit threat for his business partners that will continue to distance themselves. 

 

When the fact-checkers come for Trump - and they will, just as they did when he lied trying to get the current president disqualified on a technicality - he will be political toast.  The Republican party has a real interest to expose him now, because if in the extremely unlikely event that he gets past South Carolina, he may get a VP nod.  If that happens, we will be inaugurating another "D".

 

....And one more thing:  If Trump had done his real estate/construction act in any other city in the US, no one would know who the hell he is.  He is a product of a New York City media machine that enjoys extolling their own city.  When he inevitably blames the media that created him for bringing him down, I'm going to sit back with a cold MEXICAN beer and laugh my rear off.

 

I don't think most here would think he's electable, and that's not really the point.  He is in a position to change the narrative.  That won't get him elected, but it will put a far more focused energy on the issues that actually matter. 

 

You talk about his hyperbolic talk as if he's the only one out there who has done it.  Did you pay any attention to the last 2 presidential elections?  Seriously, Obama ran around lying his posterior off and somehow he got the drones to vote  him in twice despite the fact that his only qualification for office was a pulse and he met the age requirements.  Other than that, the guy was unelectable, yet there were enough gullible souls out there to elect an empty suit because he read other people's words from a teleprompter in grandiose ways and they were inspired by a transcript. 

 

Politicians lie.  They bend the truth to keep their benefactors on board.  They'll say whatever they need to in order to win elections.  Trump can pretty much say whatever he wants.  He's not beholding to anyone but himself. 

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