Republican strategist Karl Rove says he has a hard time imagining Donald Trump actually going through with his presidential bid and submitting filings that would reveal details about his finances.
“This guy is not a serious candidate,” Rove said on Fox News Sunday. “As of Friday at 5:00, he had yet to file the one-page declaration of his candidacy with the FEC [Federal Election Commission]. The reason he's not is because once he does that, that triggers a 30-day period during which he has to lay out in excruciating detail the range of his liabilities and his assets. He gets to have two 45-day extensions. He will delay filing that piece of paper, and mark my words, he will delay and ask for extensions as long as possible.”
“Ignore him. Look, he's completely off the base. 'I'm going to negotiate with ISIS'? 'I have a secret plan to deal with ISIS but I can't tell you about it because of my enemies'?” said Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush.
“We ought to treat him as a serious candidate when he finally files that declaration and commits himself to unveiling all of his assets and liabilities,” Rove said.
I can't believe I am saying this but Rove has a good point.
After all how many times now has Trump played this game?
He may be a bigger political prick tease than Sarah Palin herself.
Of course Trump being Trump he could not let this go without a response:
.@KarlRove, who spent $430 million in the last cycle and didn't win one race, said I'm not a candidate until I file papers. Next week Karl!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2015
And of course he wasn't done there.
.@KarlRove stated clearly that he wants to repeal the 2nd Amendment. I thought @FoxNews was going to fire that jerk after his Romney fiasco?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2015
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2015
Man I love it when these arrogant assholes fight in public.
Keep bloviating, Karl.
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/245748-trump-officially-files-to-run-for-president
Oh please let this bit just the first little dust up of what's going to be a huge f'ing bit of mud slinging between these two.
ReplyDeleteWith these two egos, it's gonna get ugly! I am talking Ted Cruz's face ug!y!
ReplyDeleteTrump/Palin 2016 -- Bankruptcies both financial and moral ...its a winning ticket!
ReplyDeleteFor those IMers who were thinking of supporting a Trump/Palin ticket, it may not happen. This was part of a message Sarah posted yesterday,...." My PAC will be supporting the brave conservatives who stood up against Obamatrade and encouraging good challengers for those who punish them for their courage."
ReplyDeleteIs this a sure sign AIP Palin intends to sit this one out and make her move in 2020 (provided her fans continue to show their $upport)? No, but it may be a signal that Sarah plans to continue to use her enormous power and influence to get real constitutional conservatives elected and keep her PAC accessible.
Enormous power and influence?!?
Delete"The brave conservatives... "
DeleteRiiiiiiiiiiight. Because pandering to racist, uninformed, undereducated, self-destructive teabaggers is just so heroic.
That LAST thing $arah is, is heroic.
Delete5:17 here,
DeleteI thought that no mention of my snark was needed....so things are just so obvious.
5:17-- I got your meaning from the first sentence (good one, BTW--what IM'ers would ever support a Trump/Palin ticket??), but in defense of those who didn't pick up on the intent:
DeleteSarah and her devoted followers are almost impossible to ridicule, because they are so intrinsically, idiotically beyond the pale to begin with...what would be obvious, over-the-top snark to us, seems like mere "common sense" to them.
So don't take it personally that some people believed you were serious. There are a lot of trolls/Sarah worshippers here who really ARE serious when they post things like that.
@7:34, I agree with everything you said.
DeleteAnd I think some of the trolls are the Palins themselves, including Sarah.
R in NC
She'll do whatever it takes for free pizza photo ops with Ivana's ex. Sarah's always had a girl crush on Ivana. And how many IM'ers can blame her? She wore a new designer dress everyday, a bathtub and a boodoir decorated like Sarah's office as Former Goobersmootcher of I'llaskher!
DeleteC'mon, Sarah!!! You're not going to let Turd Blossom get away with disrespecting your dreamboat, are you?!
ReplyDeleteSomebody dissed Teddy Nugent???
DeleteHA! Yeah, 5:54 AM, come to think of it, ol' Teddy has been mighty quiet lately. Not surprising, considering he's a lying coward like his 'bestie.'
DeleteBoth Trump and Rove are opportunistic, self-aggrandizing bozos. Perfect examples of the 21st century GOP.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
Rove is hardly a person whose judgement we should trust. When he first met W he wrote "He had more charisma than any one man should be allowed. So much swagger in the cowboy boots and leather jacket" Sounds like love at first sight!! A few more trips to the buffet and Karl's face will be so fat, his eyes will disappear into the folds. I wonder if he still sees Jeff Gannon the male prostitute who visited the WH so often when W and Rove were there?
DeleteGryphen----O/T but I see that Bristol has a new house. What have you heard?
ReplyDeleteRemember when we were kids and the GOP was portrayed as the party of rich white "fat cats"? These two look like their poster boys!
ReplyDeleteJust look at so many of the men in the Republican party - they are obese and not attractive at all. You will find them to be the middle age and older guys who will be dying off in the next few years.
DeleteLooks to me like there's a good possibility that Rove and Rush Limbaugh are twins who were separated at birth.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap! A regular at the Pond is losing what is left of his mind, here is just one of his rants:
ReplyDeletemark1955 • 5 hours ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wir... UNBELIEVABLE!!! "U.S. fast traks $29 million dollars to Charleston shooting victims"! In other words...They were ALL PAYED OFF, to stage this acted out Farce and the "Reverend" is in another part of the world with a different Identity...No one Died and you will see no one Died when they all have closed caskets!
My goodness everyone, they are doing this in plain site, in order to Try and Take our Firearms away and the fact that all of this information is slipping out, I consider a "Blessing" from our Creator that we have to take advantage of and use and call the Establishment on this joke!
Beyond the beyond. There are 5%-10% of any population it seems that can dream up fantasies and conspiracies when there are none. The internet just makes it easier for them to talk to each other. And to get guns.
DeleteIs trump show still on? I never watched it, my understanding is he can't keep this show and run for office.
ReplyDeleteHe'll pull a "Paula Deen" and have his Son do his show for him. How hard is it to say "You're Fired"? on TV?
DeleteO/T: "Putin's Plot to Get Texas to Secede"
ReplyDelete"Since the breakup of the Soviet Union two decades ago, many Russians have come to blame the United States for their plight; a seething resentment over U.S. culpability in the loss of Russian national power is one of the reasons Vladimir Putin is so popular.
"It has only worsened since the United States has led an international effort to isolate and sanction Moscow over its annexation of Crimea and incursions into eastern Ukraine.
"Thus, over the past 15 months there has been a sudden, bizarro uptick of Russian interest in and around the American Southwest, most notably Texas, where secessionist sentiment never seems to entirely die out ...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/vladimir-putin-texas-secession-119288.html#ixzz3dtl0XFjF
Just curious: anybody hear about something like that going on in AK?
Go to Facebook and ask AIP Palin. She might have heard something.
DeleteWell, he's filed now.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-president-2016-official-119295.html#ixzz3dpL5DlcN
HA HA HA
ReplyDelete"I can't believe I am saying this but Rove has a good point." Me too, Gryphen.
I'll never forget election night and the "trumped up" "statistics" he had the blonde newsreader sashay through the building in seamed stockings and high heels, trailed by two camera angles, to breathlessly "verify" why all the other stations said "President Obama Wins Second Term".