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Tim MakPowerful Republicans have started to accept that Cleveland will be The Donald Show debate, but have their fingers crossed its a one time performance.
Republican grief over Donald Trumps all but assured presence on the debate stage next month seems to be entering its final stage: acceptance.
Whether its the winery-owning mega donor, or the Koch-backed Hispanic outreach group or the former head of the American Conservative Union, there is a distaste for the abrasive reality television star and businessman.
But although there was preliminary chatter about finding a way to marginalize Trump or keep him off the debate stage in Cleveland, Ohio, the unhappiness with his recent insulting comments about Hispanics has yielded to mere condemnation and an unhappy acquiescence to his presence in the race.
Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people, Trump said recently.
John Jordan, the multi-millionaire winery owner and the third largest donor to super PACs in the country in 2013, had originally contemplated gathering signatures to keep Trump off the debate stage.
Someone in the party ought to start some sort of petition saying, If Trumps going to be on the stage, Im not going to be on there with him, Jordan told the Associated Press last week. Im toying with the idea of it.
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Gothmog
(145,965 posts)I am still thinking that Trump may not be in the debate because he will have some excuse for not filing his FEC financial statements
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)http://www.salon.com/2015/07/15/the_daily_donald_trump_gets_shut_down_by_brother_of_woman_whose_murder_he_politicized/
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)about every candidate has to file before he can debate?
That would be a simple solution,although Trump could file some phony numbers and not care if he is questioned later.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)concreteblue
(626 posts)Considering the low approval ratings of the GOP in general, and the ridiculous nature of the candidates overall, I think the inclusion of Trump is probably a ratings move. Risky business for the GOP, sure. Bonanza for the media.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,217 posts)Especially the part where Rump disagrees with someone else and starts yelling "You're fired! You're fired!" just before he has to be led off the stage in a strait jacket.
Think he'll insist that his podium be two feet taller than everyone else's and be covered in gold leaf? Maybe he'll make his entrance on a throne carried by used-up "Apprentice" discards. Oh, and tossing silver dollars to the crowd. I can see him dressed as George Washington, orange-powdered wig and all. (Think Apollo Creed's entrance in Rocky.)
Or, worst of all (for the GOP), he could come off as well-mannered and reasonable.
Nah. "Well-mannered" and "reasonable" aren't in his vocabulary.
Carry on, Rump.