I was listening to the debate Saturday night while driving to Stockton to see a hockey game. We saw several fights during the game, but none compared with the brawl in South Carolina. Donald Trump was the clear winner on points, but he may have made a huge blunder. His vicious assault on George W. Bush was shocking. Here is how that played in the Washington Post:
The billionaire was flustered and cranky. Not only was he thrown off his game by sustained boos from the crowd and a pile-on by his rivals, but he often sounded more like a Democrat than a Republican.
Hohmann hit the nail on the head. Trump sounded more like a Democrat than a Republican. That is not a good then when one is running for the Republican nomination. Trump jumped the shark when he accused George W. Bush of lying about the WMD and then doubled down when he blamed Bush for 9-11. Even Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders know better than that. Only a handful of far left wing nuts seriously believe the “Bush lied, people died crap.”
I watched the taped debate when I got home. It was the best of Trump; it was the worst of Trump. He looked like a lot of things, but Presidential isn’t on the list. If anything he looked like the obnoxious bully we all remember from the eighth grade.
If Trump had acted like an adult, he probably would have won South Carolina and he might have run the table. But he didn’t act like an adult and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ted Cruz win South Carolina. This is hard to predict because Trump has done a lot of things that should have been fatal to his campaign. His supporters not only ignore this stuff, they embrace it. But, when this gets down to two or three candidates, which is about to happen, the anti-Trump movement will be larger than the pro-Trump movement. Either Trump convinces some people in the anti-Trump movement to support him or he loses. After Saturday night, that seems unlikely.
One final thought. The only time Trump loses his cool is when he thinks he is losing.
TDM.
Trump is a total embarrassment! His philosophy is that any publicity, good or bad, is good as it gets attention from the media. What an a**!