Just a few days after Donald Trump finally decided he’d stop teasing his phony candidacy and endorsed what seemed like a sure winner of the Republican nomination, his chosen candidate, Mitt Romney, took a dive Tuesday night as Rick Santorum trounced him in three out of three caucuses. Trump, appearing on On The Record last night, was clearly displeased by this turn of events. It not only put his own ticket on the winning team in doubt, it underscored just how little sway The Donald’s endorsement carried. So with his very thin skin looking not so important, he lashed out at Santorum with a suggestion that he had no business running in the first place. A real news host, one not in the tank for Trump, would have challenged make-believe candidate and birther Trump lecturing anyone else about their campaign’s credibility – that is, if he or she didn’t fall over laughing at his ludicrousness. But not Greta Van Susteren!
To be fair, Van Susteren did make some pretty good points, including noting at the outset of her interview how soon Romney cratered after Trump’s endorsement. But she never mentioned any of the many questionable – if not downright fraudulent – aspects of Trump’s own political record that put him in no position to be opinining about who should or should not run.
The basis of Trump’s assessment seemed to be Santorum’s drubbing in 2006 that cost him his Senate seat. “It was a record in the history of the U.S. Senate for an incumbent,” Trump – who has repeatedly teased but never actually run a campaign of his own - sneered. “He lost, and now he wants to run for President and I made the analogy today, that’s like a student that gets thrown out of high school for bad marks but wants to, then decides to go to the Wharton School of Finance… It just doesn’t work that way, in my opinion.”
Of course, it could work that way. The road to success has been traveled by many people who were abject failures at one time or another.
But Trump mostly ignored the many other reasons Santorum will likely not get elected to focus on that one.
“I just don’t think it works that way. The people in Pennsylvania threw him out and they threw him out by a wide margin and they obviously weren’t happy and now he’s gonna be president. Tell me about it.
…How do you lose like that? Maybe it’s time to go into a different business. Become a lawyer. But you’re not running for president. The people of Pennsylvania didn’t like him. They thought he didn’t do a good job. He didn’t represent them well. They threw him out, somebody beat him by tremendous numbers and all of a sudden, he says, ‘Let’s become president.’ Give me a break.”
Van Susteren pointed out that people in several states like Santorum “more than they like your candidate, Mitt Romey, and he is ahead of Speaker Gingrich in the number of delegates so far, so he can’t be doing that poorly.”
Trump replied, “Look, I have nothing against him. I just, you know, find it rather hard to believe that he put himself in a situation where he is running and, you know, it’s very early. In theory, that did not matter yesterday. There were no delegates and let’s see what happens… Maybe you’re right, Greta… but… I think when people look at his record in Pennsylvania, they’re gonna find out that, you know, there was a reason he got thrown out.”
I suppose Santorum should start accusing President Obama of not being an American citizen, questioning why and how he got into Harvard, and boasting about a birther investigation in Hawaii where he has “people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re talking.” Oh, yeah, and it probably wouldn’t hurt if Santorum let everyone know he has a “great relationship with the blacks,” too.
That what Trump thinks a real candidacy looks like.
LOL!
A big mouth & a fat ass will win the day for the White Male Power Structure.
If Santorum had any sense, he’d reply by asking The Combover which one he has more of: primary wins, caucus wins, delegates, or bankruptcy filings.
Then again, we’re talking about Rick “man on dog” Santorum, so . . .
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