trashing a former POW just wrote himself out of the election.

a Democrat - any Democrat - said what Drumpf did.

He should get out and go back home to his money.

would have gone nuclear with the outrage and said Democrat would have already apologized profusely and possibly resigned from whatever position she held.

Remember back in the '08 campaign how quickly Wes Clark was thrown under the bus for simply pointing out that McCain's military service wasn't actually relevant to decisions that the President has to make because he was never a flag officer and hence was never tasked with making large scale operational and logistical decisions? If there's anybody who was in a position to raise that point, which was in no way a slight to McCain's service record, it was General Clark. However, Democrats couldn't run fast enough away from him once the Republicans started up with the phony outrage and the media pounced.

Besides, he hasn't unveiled a "Greatest TV Ad Ever Done In The History Of Presidential Campaigns" that he will also claim only cost him ten bucks.

I don't want to see him AT ALL. Wish he would
just go away so the issues can be discussed in a
civil manner.

Aaaaahahahaha!

Good one! You had me there! That was just...aaaaah.


















Baaaaaahahahahaha!
Ohh...

No wonder there is no civil discourse any more.

Trump probably scored points with a lot people for his remarks.

He is splintering the GOP faster than a chainsaw in a tornado.

nationally,The Donald 18% Walker 15%, Jebbie 14%...note--all of the Trump supporters seem to be coming DIRECTLY from the Ted Cruz camp. so that means he is the next wingnut surge

The Repub debates are going to be must-see.

There's no way any candidate will be able to walk back primary pandering to the base this cycle.

I surely am not the only one wondering who is the bigger nitwit here

The entire Republican Party trash John Kerry's service and supported AWOL Bush.

Rick Perry doesn't have a chance against Trump.

However the fact is that McCain is stupid. Look at his VP pick, Palin.

a dolt with a loud mouth in my book, a loose cannon.

or one of his Arizona homes before McCain made a final decision

McCain actually met and talked to her in person, and then decided she should be VP????

McCain was checking out Sarah's ass while behind her on stage somewhere.

Mr. Trump should withdraw his name from the Presidential Race. Governor Perry is right that Trump has gone too far with his attack on veterans. If Trump doesn't withdraw, I hope the citizenry, regardless of partisanship, comes together on this one issue and demands that Trump be disqualified from participating in this Presidential race. Not holding my breath on Democrats and Republicans getting together but I suspect that if polled, our outrage would be close to equal. Together we could force him out and in so doing send this message to all in politics: Don't fuck with our Vets, they've had our backs and by God, we have theirs!

There are half a million homeless Vets. Politically correct platitudes is nothing except insulting. No one is marching to DC to protest. The hypocrites who are acting outraged had no problem when John Kerry's military service was being trashed and they continually underfund care for wounded Vets.

Apparently McCain's father pulled strings to get him into Annapolis. He graduated last in his class. So more strings had to be pulled to allow him to train to become a pilot. Because he attended Annapolis, he had to serve. Unlike John Kerry who actually signed up for service. John Kerry risked his life saving the life of crew member and was wounded. I have not heard or read that McCain risked his life to save anyone. So possibly heroism should be defined. Obviously not all POWs, pilots, or everyone who puts on a uniform is considered a hero and gets medals.

I don't like Trump and would never vote for him but, I hope he stays in the race and continues to rip apart the do nothing Republicans.

man who served in the military and was a POW is NOT fun
to watch. McCain may deserve to be told about his failures, but
NOT to be insulted about his brave military service, especially
by a lunatic like Drumpf.

Can't believe you'd be okay with this.

Geronimoe was saying that this country really doesn't give a shit about its service-people - while they are in combat or serving the country, and definitely not after they have left the military. I agree with him/her and think you need to revise your post.

At the same time. I've worked with many people that have served - all the way from WWII to Vietnam. Many have been wonderful people and went on to outstanding lives, post service.

There are also a few that have used the military service as a way to get a lift in life and have not taken advantage of that. I don't know about John McCain - he did get some special points for being his father's son. But I wouldn't wish imprisonment, no matter the circumstances on anyone.

The RNC hasn't said "boo" to him to date. If (God forbid) he gets the nomination the RNC isn't going to David Duke him. They'll rally behind him 100% and there are enough idiots in the U.S. to where he could win.

There are many many ailments in this country. Homeless Veterans are but one such important ailment.

I see things from a very very simplistic mindset. Hopefully you will not be offended with my attempt here to better communicate my mindset.

As a nation, I see us at our strongest when the citizenry is moving forward as a unit tackling those things that ail us. Currently we are divided, making our task incredibly difficult, perhaps even impossible. I've heard that in Judo, one uses ones opponents greatest strength against that opponent. Our opponent, (arguably capitalism unrestrained but call it whatever you like), has us fighting ourselves. Our opponent uses our greatest strength against ourselves.

In my simplistic mindset, I see opportunities where our opponent has made an over-reach, opportunities where the citizenry can come together, if but only briefly, to push back against our opponent.

Rick Perry gave us one of these opportunities. Here is how:

The citizenry on the Left wants what is best for our Veterans, is willing to stand up for this with their voices, with their votes. It is who we are, it is almost in our DNA, we want what is best for our citizenry as a whole so of course we are willing to stand up for our Vets. Sadly, as you know, we are being blocked by the profiteers who control our Congress.

The citizenry on the Right has been propagandized by those who would profit from war into believing in 'our dire needs' for war. They have also been propagandized into idolizing our soldiers and now they too want what is best for our Veterans. Do you recall how our Veterans faired after 'Nam?...that mindset was deliberately changed, rightwing think-tanks engineered that change.

The citizenry on the Left and the Right are at the same spot at the same time and in agreement! It just needed a fuse lit in order to get it to work together, here was the fuse:

As most who are paying attention know, Rick Perry was ONLY interested in expressing his poutrage over Trumps words to further his political ambitions. Of course that's not how he portrayed it. He came out with as much self righteous indignation as he could muster KNOWING that the citizenry on the right was willing to be led this direction That was the fuse, it just needed igniting. Had we been prepared we on the Left could have lit it. Perry would have been on the wrong end of a tiger by the tail as he temporarily saw a jump in his favorability polling, a BIG JUMP because we on the Left would have been right there pushing him. (Hell he'd probably shit himself thinking he hit the lottery winning ticket!)

So lets imagine if within 24 hrs after Perry's condemnation, the citizenry, both the Left and the Right has come out in strong vocal agreement with Perry. Imagine if this spread through twitter and every nook and cranny of social media. Do you think the news media would choose not to report this? They'd be all over it too! What would have then taken place in every single Republican campaign headquarters would be the fastest pivot imaginable! All of a sudden our Right wing political leader wannabes would be outraged over Donald Trump's words! Yeah I know, more poutrage posturing but things would be about to trickle up in a good way.

Trump would be brutally savaged by both the Left and the Right, his political career would be ended. Those Right wing wannabes in the official clown car would be falling all over themselves looking to one up each other in their 'support' for our Vets after such an incident. Under such conditions, Right wingers in Congress would be hard pressed to continue fucking over our Veterans. They'd be under pretty close scrutiny by a paying attention electorate whenever Veteran's issues came up...and you KNOW who in Congress would make sure those issues suddenly became relevant!

See how that worked? I just outlined a way to use something that emanated from a right wing think tank, designed to further corporate agenda and I turned it around to be used against right wing politicians. I just detailed how to use one of their strengths against them. The end product is the citizenry being the beneficiaries, not the profiteers. Yes it COULD happen but it would take an effort by us on the Left to make it happen. I don't see anyone on the Right coming up with this because, well it just doesn't seem to be in their DNA. To my mind, I believe we could make it happen, actually I am arguing that we SHOULD have made it happen.

Let me expand on this because what I detailed above is but a skirmish in a much larger battle that both the Left and the Right citizenry needs to join together in. Bernie Sanders, long prior to his throwing his hat in the ring, was asked by a caller on 'Brunch With Bernie', if he would consider a run for Presidency. (I'm paraphrasing his response here), 'Bernie said that in order for him to make such a run, a groundswell revolution was needed, that the citizenry, not just the left or the right or those who don't even bother voting, but the citizenry as a whole had to be ready to throw off the oligarchs and get back to democracy'.

Now you don't need to be a mind reader to know that right wing think tanks are scrambling to find ways to divide up that groundswell, to squash out that revolution.

Bernie is saying the same thing that I am trying to describe, in order for us to throw off those who profit from our being divided, (the oligarchs), the citizenry must come together on issues they agree with. Bernie is doing it from the bigger picture, using the totality of our ailments as the unifier. I believe we can also get much accomplished by using some of our individual ailments as focus points for unity. If multiples of these can be stringed together, those who would keep us divided will be in a vastly un-superior position.

To my mind, this is the better use of Trump, instead of letting him continue tearing into the Republicans in the clown car, let's use a little 'Judo', sacrificing him for the greater good which results in forcing the remaining Republicans to all fight among themselves over who is more dedicated to our Vets! It's not like they stand a chance of being elected (due to the fact that they are....well... pretty much clowns), but in this case we can use them to get one of our country's ailments at least partially addressed.

My apologies for the length but I hope you can see where my mindset is. I do not agree with Perry's motives OR Trumps lunacy, I just want to use them/others like them, to unify the citizenry in order to throw these bums and their corporate backers out of our political system.

Set aside his opinion of John McCain's wartime service for a minute. Donald Trump is the loosest cannon on the GOP's deck. If the Bailout King gets elected, he will wind up pissing off the rest of the world with his combination of abrasiveness, lack of empathy and borderline Tourette's Syndrome.

He needs to withdraw from the race, but I'm not overly certain his opinion of John McCain should be the catalyst. There are SOOOOO many other reasons - starting with his fishy business dealings.

NEVER, EVER win the general election. If
gopers are stupid enough to nominate him,
he will NEVER beat ANY Dem who is the nominee.

Let me see...Paul LePage was supposed to lose twice, Scott Walker was supposed to get recalled and then was supposed to lose his reelection campaign, Charlie Crist was supposed to stomp Rick Scott into the ground, Dubya Bush was supposed to lose to Al Gore first and John Kerry second...

Ann, never underestimate the GOP's ability to put truly God-awful people into office. ESPECIALLY if they have tons of money and lots of rich friends.

dittodittodittoditto

What he said.

(Or she?) 😄😄😄

Your first three examples weren't national offices. And Bush "won" only because he was installed by the supreme court but, nevertheless, he had won elected office before.

Besides the fact that his campaign isn't serious and only a publicity stunt, Trump has never held an elected office. He has no political background. Even if he were to win the nomination, he can't and won't ever win the presidency. Don't believe me? Just ask president Ross Perot, president Pat Buchanan, president Steve Forbes, president Herman Cain or president Ralph Nader.

In fact, the only president elected without already having won an elected office in their past in modern history is Dwight Eisenhower, and that was only because he was such a prominent figure during and after World War II.

He is, however, not the only never been elected in this race; Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are also virgins to elected office, though Fiorina has lost an election before.

Enough "let's get us someone who's never been a politcian before!" people exist in the US that a Trump candidacy is a real threat to the Republic.

There are plenty of crazies in the GOP list including those you mentioned. But the fact remains that none of them will ever be elected president. So, in a way, their doomed campaign is a good thing in that it will force the whole crowd to "out crazy" each other during the primary which, of course, will scuttle the eventual candidate's chances of winning the general election.

I think he represents what a lot of republicans admire. The part with McCain probably turned a lot off, but I bet they recover. And he has tremendous resources and knows how to play a dirty game. He's brash and hard nosed, what many republicans seem to like. And he kicks people around, another trait republicans seem to like. And he knows how to bully, yet another trait republicans seem to love. And he's wealthy! To me, he carries the traits I've seen liked by many republican hero worshipers.

I think any discounting Trump are following the wrong strategy.

circular firing squad now. hmmmm ... true to form, won't another step up and try to out do him with something even more outrageous!

Nothing like a good political mud-wrestling contest with 15 or so participants.

The last two weeks has shown the media will prop up Trump to the end. If any other candidate (even GOP) said what Trump has said to date he'd be done. Regardless of his history it looks like the public is more than willing to nominate a publicity-seeking whore as a candidate for POTUS.

Since Raygun trashed the "fairness doctrine" and it became OK to lie your ass off.

"Publicity-seeking whore" is like a job description for politicians these days, it's the one essential job skill they all have. Well two, there is money grubbing, they all have to be money-grubbers, and they complain about it too, but for some reason they can never vote to change it.

Howard Dean just for a triumphal yell. MSM rode on that one for weeks and weeks. And John Kerry too. And outright frivolous fools like Bill O'Reilly whine about a liberal media. Yet another of life's WTF's.

n/t

right after the debates.

Most likely he won't have to after the debates.

McCain doesn't need your kind of republican 'help' Perry.

that Hrumpf Trump is not in the race to stay or win

He's just generating energy and headlines

Ego trip

Carson could NOT come out and say McCain is a war hero-He did not say yes.

Absolutely Not.

This guy is comedy gold and imploding the GOP field from within, something a Dem candidate could never hope to do.

He won't be President anyway, he'll back out at some point cause that job is way, way too much work and inconvenience for the Donald. Can you see him putting up with a Secret Service detail? He'd resign in a month if he somehow managed to get elected.

Heck no Donald, please stay in as long as you can!

PLEASE!!

Every so often one falls out he fires off a joke squeezes the ball on his horn runs and stumbles to catch up with the car full of clowns. As he catches with the car full of clowns one of the most ridiculous clowns tries to push him off. It is early in the act much more fun to come the clown with the Orange hair will catch up.

Great description!!!!

The McCain comments are just a good excuse to pile on.

I will be very disappointed if he doesn't make it to the first debate.

The only way to get into the Fox debates is to get attention and Goodhair has an opportunity to get some attention

.......he should immediately withdraw from the race for President," Perry said


oh yeah, and i need your spot in the debates!

If they don't make the cut for the Fox primary they are done.

Trump could turn around and decide to run as an Independent. That would truly be GOPs nightmare.

It may be self serving but his call for Trump to exit the race as least has him going "all in". The RNC still has only issued a generic "there's no place...." statement which allows Trump to walk it back.

now

Let the battle begin!

It's going to get even more heated between these fools as 2016 draws near. The GOP is truly destroying itself from within. Which is nothing but good news for us, as it guarantees a Democratic victory in the election.

Be crazy if he didn't... The entire clown car wants trump to bow out...duh

And the Chicago bears would like the green bay packers to take a year off to