The Ol' Fat Guy Blathers On

Donald Trump Versus The Field     Recent polls have Donald Trump at 22% approval with Jeb Bush second at a distant 10.7%.  One of the guys I like~ Dr Ben Carson ~has risen to third with 9.7%.  The remainder of the list as surveyed 8/09 through 8/16: Walker : 7.7%; Rubio : 7.3%; Cruz : 7.3%; Fiorina : 6.3%; Paul : 4.3%; Kasich : 4.3%; Huckabee : 4.3%; Christie : 3.3%; Perry : 1.3%; Santorum : 1.0%; Jindal : 0.3%; Graham : 0.1%. If these results were to stand, the next GOP debate (or rather press interview ) would NOT include Christie through Graham .     What most~ if not all ~have failed to realize in their fervent support of Donald Trump .  " The Donald " is highly unlikely to accept the republicRATic presidential nomination for one important reason... "...the use of a “blind trust” is one of several methods of conflict of interest avoidance under federal law and regulation. There are now uniform statuto...

A Few Items To Consider     The past two presidential campaigns have subjected the American voter to untold numbers of half-truths, obfuscations and outright lies.  While neither party is exempt, the democRATics have a lock on the practice, having raised it from an art to a science.  As the obama Mentor~~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ~~stated way back in 1919: " A lie told often enough becomes the truth ." This seems to be the mantra of both " Clown Prince " obama  "Hope and Change" campaigns.  So far there's been very little 'hope' and mountains of 'change!'     The next campaign can not rest on the various blathering pollsters, or poll results.  Remember in 2012, the pollsters had " Clown Prince " obama ahead in 4 polls, Governor Romney ahead in 1 with ties in another 5 polls.  All the polls were skewed by the (then) unknown fact that the IRS was targeting  'conservative' 501 (c)(4 ) applications for tax-free...