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| "Sure I'm obnoxious. But you're all still talking about me aren't you?" |
Oh, what am I saying? We have been covering Sarah Palin for over seven years, of course you do.
So my favorite bit of Trump news was the incredible Rick Perry smackdown:
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has already emerged as one of the GOP presidential field’s most vocal critics of Donald Trump, ratcheted up his rhetoric again Wednesday as he slammed the real estate mogul’s presidential bid as a “cancer on conservatism” and warned that, left unchecked, Trump could be the demise of the Republican Party.
“He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued,” Perry charged during an address at the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington. “Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”
“Donald Trump, the reality television star, is a great generator of ratings. But Donald Trump the candidate is a sower of division, wrongly demonizing Mexican-Americans for political sport,” Perry said. “He has piqued the interest of some Republican voters who have legitimate concerns about a porous border and broken immigration system. But instead of offering those voters leadership or solutions, he has offered fear and sound bites. This cannot stand.”
Okay that was pretty satisfying.
I'm sure many of you remember that Trump suggested that Perry should take an IQ test before being allowed onto the debate stage, and in fact used Perry as a barometer to suggest that Lindsey Graham was even dumber.
Speaking of Lindsey Graham, he released this video in response to "The Donald" giving out his cell phone number.
Marco Rubio also piled on, but he flubbed the shot by also insulting President Obama:
“I don’t think that the way he’s behaved over the last few weeks is either dignified or worthy of the office that he seeks. We already have a president now that has no class," he said.
Bullshit, the man has more class than can be found in the entire Rubio family.
In other news Trump finally released his actual financial-disclosure report. (Kind of.):
The document, released publicly by the government agency Wednesday, provides an unusually detailed look at the range of the magnate’s holdings. But the disclosure is unlikely to stem the ongoing debate over Trump’s net worth.
Last week, Trump claimed that his net worth for 2015 had reached more than $10 billion. There is no way to corroborate that figure from the document, which requires candidates to list assets, income and liabilities only in broad ranges.
So yeah, we still don't know exactly how much this asshole is worth.
The good news in all of this is that it appears that Trump may have peaked and according to PPP his numbers are likely to level off or even go down from here on.
Even after Trump is finally finished, which I think may not take place until he gets his time on the debate stage, you just know that certain GOP candidates are going to be kissing his ass in the hopes that he does not savage them, or better yet agrees to endorse their candidacy.
Which means that this idiot is going to be a political force in this country for years to come, whether we like it or not.
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