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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Republicans are mounting an attack on real estate tycoon Donald Trump, worried that his flirtation with a 2012 presidential run hurts their chances to field a serious challenge to Barack Obama.
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By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON |
Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:18pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Republicans are mounting an attack on real estate tycoon Donald Trump, worried that his flirtation with a 2012 presidential run hurts their chances to field a serious challenge to Barack Obama.
Many Republican officials doubt the billionaire and celebrity TV star known as The Donald actually wants the pain and suffering that comes with a presidential campaign. They see him as a self-promoting publicity hound and his talk of a White House bid as a stunt drawing more attention to himself.
But polls show Trump getting a bounce from his highly public consideration of a campaign and his foray into "birther" politics, the idea some conservatives cling to that Obama was born in Kenya instead of Hawaii and so cannot legally hold the presidency.
Concerns voiced by party elites suggest they are worried that the news media's fascination with Trump is crowding out some of the attention normally bestowed on the most serious of the Republican candidates.
Even if Trump emerged victorious as the Republican nominee, influential party players seem to doubt that he'd be able to defeat Obama.
Karl Rove, who was the architect of Republican George W. Bush's two presidential victories, called Trump a "joke candidate" for focusing on Obama's birth certificate.
"The guy is smarter than this," Rove told Fox News.
The Club for Growth, a conservative economic group, pointed to a statement that Trump had made in the past in support of government-run healthcare to denounce him as a liberal.
"Donald Trump for President? You've got to be joking," said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. "Donald Trump has advocated for massive tax increases that display a stunning lack of knowledge of how to create jobs."
And conservative newspaper columnist George Will told ABC News' "This Week" online "Green Room" segment that Trump is a "blatherskite.""
"That is a word my grandmother was fond of as someone who blathers promiscuously," Will said.
All this leads Jennifer Cook, a political expert at the non-partisan Cook Political Report, to conclude: "It does seem that the GOP establishment is now engaged in a serious effort to undermine Trump's candidacy."
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Trump is waving all the criticism aside, and holding interview after interview to rip Obama, Middle Eastern oil barons, Bush and even China.
"If we stop buying from China, China will go down like no other country has ever gone down before," he told Reuters last week. "China needs us more than we need them."
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KiazerSouze wrote:
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The Social Pages Say They’ve Got
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But We’ve Got The Biggest Balls Of Them All
Their Balls Are Always Bouncing
Their Ballrooms Always Full
And Everybody Cums And Cums Again
If Your Name Is On The Guest List
No One Can Take You Higher
Everybody Says They’ve Got
Great Balls Of Fire
CHORUS
Some Balls Are Held For Charity
And Some For Fancy Dress
But When They’re Held For Pleasure
They’re The Balls That I Like Best
Their Balls Are Always Bouncing
To The Left And To The Right
It’s Their Belief That Their Big Balls
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Ball Sucker
Apr 19, 2011 3:53pm EDT -- Report as abuse
Bear589 wrote:
Trump running for president is no more ridiculous than Sarah Palin running. So what?
Apr 19, 2011 3:57pm EDT -- Report as abuse
Kyung wrote:
Most if not all of the other Republican candidates seem very anti-American and do not bother hiding it. They seem incapable of even seeing a future for the USA and its citizens.
I am not surprised that with all of his obvious flaws that he is doing very well in the Republican field.
Apr 19, 2011 4:11pm EDT -- Report as abuse
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