I recently received an email from President Barack Obama. He wrote, "We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you -- with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers, and friends."
What a joke. It is predicted that Obama will spend over $1 billion on his reelection campaign, primarily for expensive TV ads. It's how you winelections after all. Sure, the veneer of Grassroots organizing will be maintained, and people WILL canvass, phonebank, put out yard signs. But the reality is that Obama administration has been anything but responsive to the small donors and people going to door-to-door. It's all about the corporate donors and Washington establishment. That's who Barack really cares about, and is why he will probably win the election.
And that's exactly why I'm rooting for Donald Trump to win the GOP nomination. His larger-than-life caricature will make this election FUN, an expensive TV extravaganza like none the world has seen before. Trump could potentially raise Obama's bet of $1 billion and piss away $2 billion to take a shot at the Oval Office.
I shudder at the thought of Obama running against Tim Pawlenty, possibly the only person in American politics more boring than the president himself. Trump is totally over-the-top and his inevitable loss to Obama will be hilarious to watch. Picture the blowhards in our media like Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer, and Bill O'Reilly being forced to take this clown's quixotic campaign seriously!
We have not had someone this woefully unqualified to run for POTUS since Ronald Reagan, but if he proved a simple-minded movie star can become Commander-in-chief, then why not a simple-minded TV star? Hell, he could follow in Reagan's footsteps reusing clichés from his past career while president. Imagine The Donald telling our vicious Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "You're fired!"
Best of all Trump reflects what many Americans perceive as important in their President. He is a successful businessman. He is a "Washington outsider". He has a hot wife. He has a reality TV show. He is White.
Does he make serious critiques of the Obama Administration's policies? No, he prefers to clamor for Obama's Birth Certificate and question his religion. But hey, so does a sizable segment of the American public.
Trump would reveal the campaign for President of the United States as the charade it truly is: shady corporate funding, bogus rhetoric, cult of celebrity, constant TV appearances, a spineless Mainstream Media, and colorful spectacle.
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