The Donald will run.
With Karl Rove calling him a “joke,” Donald Trump now has all the right enemies to run as the ultimate outsider against the Republican establishment. He has shrewdly let the anti-establishment women in the Sarah Palin wing plow the ground for him — leaving behind a trail of tea leaves.
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Meanwhile, he is at the top of the GOP’s latest presidential polls.
Trump understands the “birther” movement as a way for the most vehemently anti-Obama Republicans to separate themselves from those who oppose President Barack Obama on policy grounds. The Mitt Romney’s and others decided early on to make it about issues — not personality.
Trump is on a different path.
Bottom line: Trump is no apprentice.
Think Howard Dean at this point in 2003. He decided to prove himself the most anti-George W. Bush guy in the field.
Trump is the new Dean. But The Donald is Dean on steroids. He is Jimmy Carter telling the liberal/Kennedy wing of the Democratic Party, “Kiss my ass.”
Trump is reaping what Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), and the rest planted. He is Ross Perot and Patrick J. Buchanan with a hint of Glenn
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