Trump & Romney: Mr. Potter and Mr. Burns for President

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 06:47 PM

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Karl Rove knows it better than anyone: Donald Trump's presidential run is the best possible indicator that President Barack Obama will be reelected in a landslide.

Why? Because Donald Trump looks like the man who fired your Dad.

Match him up with Mitt Romney and it's the man who fired your Dad and the man who voted against raising the minimun wage. It's Mr. Potter and Mr. Burns for President.

The Donald gave an interview (more accurately he gave a series of tightly scripted talking points) to Fox New's Sean Hannity this week (who looked like he was trying desperately not to laugh).

In the course of his interview Trump lamented that it's getting awfully hard to be an anti-gay bigot in New York these days - but gosh darn it someone's got to tell those homos that their relationships have no value and aren't worth protecting in law.

You have to feel for Trump. It can't be easy seeing a Broadway show, getting fitted for a new suit, having one of his gaudy gold skyscrapers redecorated, ordering dinner in a high tone restaurant, attending the opera, visiting any of the major networks, walking a city block or even talking to The New York Times without some outraged gay person or one of their friends screaming at him at the top of their lungs because he dares to consider gays second class Americans.

We know that bigotry still tests well in certain states and demographics. Why else are we force fed this idiotic diet of Islamophobia and missing birth certs and gay bashing?

But my word it's gotten old. And so, incidentally, have the old white conservative dudes who cynically pander to this increasingly isolated demographic for votes.

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jamthecat | Apr 16, 2011, 11:39 AM EDT

This is what now stands for political leadership in America? A blithering idiot and a bombastic buffoon? Not to mention the yapping chihuahuas in the background -- Huckabee (who would force you to listen to his religious leader, at gunpoint if need be), Palin (who never met a dollar she didn't like and never met a word she couldn't misuse), Bachman (who revises the standard for dumb down), Gingrich (who's screwed around on more than just his first two wives and who's screwed the country, too). All matched up against a "Mr. Rogers" of a president, who just wants everybody to get along even as he spits on the people who elected him. What I wouldn't give for a Teddy Roosevelt (R), FDR (D) or Harry Truman (D) right now. Hell, even LBJ (D), who was just as two-faced as any politician ever elected to office. ANYBODY other than this pre-packaged, "it's all about me" Tiffany-spoon crowd.

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allentown | Apr 16, 2011, 11:06 AM EDT

Interesting that Ron Paul was speaking in New Hampshire this weekend.

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eiriamach | Apr 16, 2011, 05:06 AM EDT

It's gotten just as old and tiresome to hear young white conservative GOP and Tea Party gals doing the same pandering and rabble rousing.

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hollabackgurl | Apr 15, 2011, 08:12 PM EDT

I don't see any evidence that the writer's bigoted against white dudes, as I deduce from the image he's one himself. I guess he just doesn't like a pampered Oompa Loompa telling us all what we can and can not do. Hasn't Trump been married three times? Who the hell does he think he is telling others who can and can't get hitched?

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hancock | Apr 15, 2011, 07:48 PM EDT

Bigoted against white dudes are you?

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