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Donald Trump Making Heroic Bid To Be The New Sarah Palin

by Tommy Christopher | 7:45 am, March 24th, 2011

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WithSarah Palin‘s reliability as a lava-hot content generator on the wane, and her poll numbers tanking, the shared liberal/conservative dream of a Palin presidential nod is in real peril. Into that breach has stepped up-and-coming contender Donald Trump (R-$$), who’s not content to pay the Republican “Crazy Tax,” instead appointing himself Secretary of the Crazy Treasury. Can The Donald supplant Palin as the GOP base’s go-to rabble-rouser, or can Palin reload?

Palin continues to draw plenty of media attention, but months of big news stories have taken their toll on her ability to deliver clicks, an indication that her spell may be wearing off (paging Christine O’Donnell?).

Meanwhile, businessman, Apprentice star, and self-proclaimed Gaddafi-screwer Donald Trump has seen his stock with red state red-meaters rise. Since his CPAC coming-out, Trump has been engaging in so much moonbattery, his friends now call him the Lunar Duracell. After dipping a toe in the Birther waters, Trump has gone The Full Orly, threatening to replace his “You’re fired!” catchphrase with “You’re Kenyan!”

Trump also concocted a bizarre story in which he claims to have “screwed” Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in a real estate deal that Trump actually knew nothing about at the time, which he was forced to break under threat of criminal prosecution, and used it to posit real estate rookery as a foreign policy tool. In a few short weeks, Trump has completely changed the artificial horizon of the 2012 GOP landscape, threatening to usurp Palin as the candidate liberals most want to see enter the race. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell even says he’s “ban(ned) any negative comment about Trump” on his show, for fear it might discourage Trump from running.

Palin, by contrast, has been relegated to rattling off other people’s talking points on Libya, and taking desperate swipes at non-candidates like Chris Christie (R-NJ), to diminishing returns. She just doesn’t generate the buzz she used to. Granted, Palin has been doing little to help her cause. In her recent swing through India and Israel, she didn’t bring a harpoon to the Wailing Wall, or even begin barking out cold cut orders upon her arrival in New Delhi.

Still, I have faith in Palin, who has been counted out more times than a box of Rain Man’s toothpicks, first when she lost the vice presidency, and then when she resigned her post as Alaska Governor. Since she’s slipped the gubernatorial bonds, Palin has logged countless hours on Fox News Channel and TLC, coined new words and phrases like “Death Panels” and “refudiate,” and done more to reinvent Facebook than a vengeful Winklevoss twin. There have been numerous ebbs in the Palin media tide, but she always comes roaring back.

All kidding aside, Palin has something that Trump can probably never get: a large, loyal constituency. There is a huge group of people who either love to love Sarah Palin, or love to hate her. Trump, on the other hand, has a penchant for getting attention, but isn’t very likable, and his antics wear thin quickly. Even if he somehow manages to bring Gary Busey and Meat Loaf on the stump with him, I doubt he can sustain interest the way Palin can.

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THE REAL ROYAL KING

I think the Republicans have their candidate, at long last. Will someone pass the word to Michelle-in-Utah so she’ll know form whom she is going to vote? I hope someone from FOX “News” is reading this so they can prepare a report.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

bobmoses said:
Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is No Journalist

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is a Boring Partisan

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is MSNBC’s #1 Fanboy

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Destroy Mediaite’s Reputation

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That Even Talentless Hacks Can Find Employment By Appealing To Mindless Partisanship

What’s your kvetch? This is a news item.
skyfet

TRUMP, looks like his going to thump the other phonies in the GOP to get the ticket no one wants. Even though he is liberal on social issues, I’ve started to see Phonies like Hannity taking to him because he is a Birther. The same phony moron that attacked Christie on social issue. I don’t think the Fox hierarchy would like this though, as they’ve made an attempt to sign all the potential GOP Primary Candidates (for easy access), yet Trump came from nowhere, and he has loads of cash (does not need to suck up for a job).

What a freaking life, where honesty nor integrity matters. Trump, who admittedly screw Ghaddafi, is ready to screw America.
Big Eddie

‘…counted out more times than a box of Rain Man’s toothpicks …”

Well , at least you put a lot of effort in your columns .
skyfet

bobmoses said:
Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is No Journalist

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is a Boring Partisan

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is MSNBC’s #1 Fanboy

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Destroy Mediaite’s Reputation

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That Even Talentless Hacks Can Find Employment By Appealing To Mindless Partisanship

You mentioned Partisan twice. I think you may be running our of words it’s time to check the Beck dictionary from the Beck University.
tgk

Gee Tommy, I just have NO idea why people accuse you of biased “blogging”
skyfet

Dronetek said:
I predicted a couple weeks ago that Timothy Christopher would target Trump in much the same way he (and the left) have tarted Palin.

Tarted? you must be kidding, lol. The last time I checked John McCain did that, and she’s been doing that ever since.
Barack Must Go

Go right ahead, you left wing bomb throwers go right on back to your same old, same old, tried & failed ( dismally, I might add, with the crazy town campaign against the Tea Party. That is right up until the mid terms, when in Barack’s own words, they shellacked the living _____ out of him. I would also be amiss if I did not remind you that it was Sarah Palin that was the chief architect of that success.

Unlike your garden variety, afraid of his/her own shaddow politician in both parties, Trump will not and do to his own narcissistic tendencies physically can not back down in the face of all the legitimate questions that surround the president’s fitness to even have been in our White House the first go round, let alone possibly winning a second term.

The Obama de facto propaganda disseminating distortion and cover up machine, the MSM, don’t stand a chance of keeping the president’s dirty little secrets, if Barack stands a chance of reelection, from the real American people with Trump on his case.
murf

Tommy you have some nerve to talk , you are the butt of all jokes in your own ” profession “.
Barack Must Go

skyfet said:
TRUMP, looks like his going to thump the other phonies in the GOP to get the ticket no one wants. Even though he is liberal on social issues, I’ve started to see Phonies like Hannity taking to him because he is a Birther. The same phony moron that attacked Christie on social issue. I don’t think the Fox hierarchy would like this though, as they’ve made an attempt to sign all the potential GOP Primary Candidates (for easy access), yet Trump came from nowhere, and he has loads of cash (does not need to suck up for a job). What a freaking life, where honesty nor integrity matters. Trump, who admittedly screw Ghaddafi, is ready to screw America.

Not real Americans, just the non – believers in America.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

Dronetek said:
I predicted a couple weeks ago that Timothy Christopher would target Trump in much the same way he (and the left) have tarted Palin. The left targets ANYONE who looks to be a prominent contender on the right. Christopher is just another Democrat party propagandist.

A bit paranoid, I see.

Barack Must Go said:
I would also be amiss if I did not remind you that it was Sarah Palin that was the chief architect of that success.

Yet, she is also the chief reason the Republicans did not pick up the Senate, wasn’t she? She’s like an airline who sells you a ticket from Austin to Chicago but decides to end the flight in Little Rock.

murf said:
Tommy you have some nerve to talk , you are the butt of all jokes in your own ” profession “.

Well, I am fond of Tommy’s work, but even I will admit he is no Hapless Harrigan.
skyfet

Barack Must Go said:
Not real Americans, just the non – believers in America.

Ahh, you are repeating the words of your heroine (Sarah), who claimed there are some area of the Country who comprises of real Americans.

Well done, she’d be proud of you.
murf

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Yet, she is also the chief reason the Republicans did not pick up the Senate, wasn’t she? She’s like an airline who sells you a ticket from Austin to Chicago but decides to end the flight in Little Rock.

She’s been living scot-free in your head for 3 years now , and in an odd way , that’s enough for me .
Yukon Jack

bobmoses said:
Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is No Journalist

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is a Boring Partisan

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is MSNBC’s #1 Fanboy

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Destroy Mediaite’s Reputation

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That Even Talentless Hacks Can Find Employment By Appealing To Mindless Partisanship

RIGHT ON!!

Coming to the same conclusion myself.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

murf said:
She’s been living scot-free in your head for 3 years now , and in an odd way , that’s enough for me .

No, I evicted her long ago. She nothing more than the loony bag lady I watch hiding empty liquor bottle in her skirt and holding cats to her ear to hear the ocean.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

Yukon Jack said:
bobmoses said:
Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is No Journalist

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is a Boring Partisan

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That He Is MSNBC’s #1 Fanboy

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Destroy Mediaite’s Reputation

Tommy Christopher Making Heroic Bid To Prove That Even Talentless Hacks Can Find Employment By Appealing To Mindless Partisanship

RIGHT ON!!

Coming to the same conclusion myself.

It is perfectly acceptable to infest another site, you know?
Barack Must Go

skyfet said:
Ahh, you are repeating the words of your heroine (Sarah), who claimed there are some area of the Country who comprises of real Americans. Well done, she’d be proud of you.

My words, someone else voicing the same sentiment perhaps? ” Real American ” only need reside in an individuals heart & mind. Geographic location really has nothing to do with it.
murf

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
No, I evicted her long ago. She nothing more than the loony bag lady I watch hiding empty liquor bottle in her skirt and holding cats to her ear to hear the ocean.

I knew you lived in a trailer park ! Hypocrite!

Lol.
writer

The way the extreme left has been criticizing Obama lately, maybe he’s getting better.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

murf said:
I knew you lived in a trailer park ! Hypocrite!

Lol.

You’ve apparently never been to a city.
Barack Must Go

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Yet, she is also the chief reason the Republicans did not pick up the Senate, wasn’t she? She’s like an airline who sells you a ticket from Austin to Chicago but decides to end the flight in Little Rock.

Sort of, only to the point of, once realizing some of her Tea Party offerings ( Engel, O’Donald ) were unfit for the position, she simply backed off on promoting them rather than calling for a candidate change ( if that would even be possible ).

Any one who doesn’t now accept Palin as a bona fide ‘ Rain Maker ‘ in American politics, warts and all, is simply lying to themselves.

Beyond that, winning the Republican primary or becoming president of the United States of America, I do not believe she would be successful at either. I also, due to change in her popularity ever since Tuscon, do not believe she will even try.
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Steve_27

Tommy, you should be more concerned with how BO does not “generate the buzz” that he used to either. Being though one has retired and the other is the leader of the free world, it kinda show’s what a moron you are and how what should matter doesn’t.

Could you possibly show what a partisan hack you are any clearer? Definitely not.
Steve_27

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
You’ve apparently never been to a city.

For once you are right. I am in NYC and there are tons of you liberal idiots here.
skyfet

Barack Must Go said:
My words, someone else voicing the same sentiment perhaps? ” Real American ” only need reside in an individuals heart & mind. Geographic location really has nothing to do with it.

So those who are not on the same side as you Politically, who fought for the country are not real Americans in your mind. Nice to hear.
BlueBunny

Barack Must Go said:
real American

I KNOW HARD WORKING REAL AMERICANS LIKE TEACHERS, BRICK LAYERS AND SUCH WHO COME FROM ALL OVER THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! WHICH STATES DO YOUR REAL AMERICANS COME FROM! WHY DO YOU REPUBLICAN/TEAPUBLICANS WANT SUCH A DIVIDED UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA! IT IS CALLED “UNTIED” STATES OF AMERICA FOR A REASON!
Barack Must Go

skyfet said:
So those who are not on the same side as you Politically, who fought for the country are not real Americans in your mind. Nice to hear.

Being a real American transcends political party affiliation. Your lame arguement here, just like the one where questioning anything Obama automatically makes me a racist, is merely a stinky ‘ red herring ‘ hung around the neck of cowardly liberals to deflect our attention from what’s really stinking up the place.
Bodhi

Alternate headline – Tommy making heroic bid to be the king of all partisan hacks
skyfet

Barack Must Go said:
Being a real American transcends political party affiliation. Your lame arguement here, just like the one where questioning anything Obama automatically makes me a racist, is merely a stinky ‘ red herring ‘ hung around the neck of cowardly liberals to deflect our attention from what’s really stinking up the place.

No one has called you a racist! perhaps you are paranoid by your own guilt.
BlueBunny

Barack Must Go said:
Being a real American transcends political party affiliation.

NOT ACCORDING TO YOU REPUBLICAN/TEAPUBLICA FAKE LOVE MY FELLOW MAN AMERICANS!
Yukon Jack

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
It is perfectly acceptable to infest another site, you know?

Yes, I know. You do it every and every site.
Yukon Jack

Yukon Jack said:
Yes, I know. You do it every and every site.

every day and every site
skyfet

Yukon Jack said:
every day and every site

Did you bite you tongue?
Barack Must Go

BlueBunny said:
NOT ACCORDING TO YOU REPUBLICAN/TEAPUBLICA FAKE LOVE MY FELLOW MAN AMERICANS!

Somebody needs a hug I see.
Barack Must Go

skyfet said:
No one has called you a racist! perhaps you are paranoid by your own guilt.

You’re either that guy on the new Geico commercials neighbor, or you’re just messing with me. Which is it?
tgk

What happened to BobMoses’ posts?
Yukon Jack

skyfet said:
Did you bite you tongue?

You do that better than anyone else.
lane

The only thing that Trump and Palin have in common is that if you ask them a question, they tell you what they truly believe. While surprising in politics, it’s common in the real world. I’d prefer if it was a little more common in politics. Problem is the media is awash with lazy writers, so it’s easier to ‘follow’ others thoughts. It’s amazing how consistent topics and stories are on the many websites, both conservative and liberal-leaning…
skyfet

Barack Must Go said:
You’re either that guy on the new Geico commercials neighbor, or you’re just messing with me. Which is it?

I can’t cure your paranoia.
Harry Flashman

Neutral about trump, but love Meat Loaf. Great performer, especially when he does the songs Jim Steinman (one of the most incredible songwriters EVAH) wrote for him.

How’s that for a non-sequiter?
Bill Huggins

LOL at ANYONE taking Trump seriously.

You DO realize he’s just drumming up publicity for that GAME SHOW he hosts.

There’s NO WAY thinking adults would take this dude seriously as a political candidate. I mean: really. Think on it. Or don’t. It’s HILARIOUS reading you idiots getting bent out of shape defending this yahoo.
Steve_27

Bill Huggins said:
LOL at ANYONE taking Trump seriously. You DO realize he’s just drumming up publicity for that GAME SHOW he hosts. There’s NO WAY thinking adults would take this dude seriously as a political candidate. I mean: really. Think on it. Or don’t. It’s HILARIOUS reading you idiots getting bent out of shape defending this yahoo.

Under normal circumstances I would agree. But nothing is normal around here these days. What should have been considered “hilarious” was the last general election, but it happened anyway. It makes sense to me that such a disaster would make oppurtunity for even more unique circumstances, like a real estate big shot running for president.

Who can say with a straight face that this is silly? The same people who voted for an unknown unvetted inexperienced 4 year senator that spent half that time running for president? Talk about “Idiots getting bent out of shape defending a yahoo?” Really guy, think about it. Geez.
TangledThorns

Wait a second, Mediaite, I’m calling you out on this. Is calling someone the next Sarah Palin a compliment or an insult?
njoy-d-ride

I’ll bet Tee-teeing on Trump never becomes as popular as Pissing on Palin is… Dis him and he could BITE…
njoy-d-ride

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
I evicted her long ago.

Sorry dude, I don’t believe it.
njoy-d-ride

Bill Huggins said:
You DO realize he’s just drumming up publicity for that GAME SHOW he hosts.

Of course he is. Win and you get to be Vice President until the next show…
njoy-d-ride

Bill Huggins said:
You DO realize he’s just drumming up publicity for that GAME SHOW he hosts.
There’s NO WAY thinking adults would take this dude seriously as a political candidate.

Think Barrack would want to borrow the VP idea???

BTW, Trump could man a pretty large campaign if he wanted to, and he has a better business mind than 99.99 % of the rest of us… You may be suprised what a “thinking adult” can do…
Brainstem

It sure is a good thing that Palin no longer generates the same amount of clicks and buzz as she used to or you would have mentioned her more than 15 times!
VoiceofReason

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
No, I evicted her long ago. She nothing more than the loony bag lady I watch hiding empty liquor bottle in her skirt and holding cats to her ear to hear the ocean.

Yeah you coming in here exactly 6 minutes after it was posted indicates she isn’t even on your radar.

LMFAO.

And at quarter to 8 in the morning. Too funny.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

I would pay money to see that debate: “Palin vs. Trump; America’s Future on the Line.”
The winner would get to referee the next WWF Champoinship.
The loser would get the GOP nomination.
Persistence

njoy-d-ride said:

BTW, Trump could man a pretty large campaign if he wanted to, and he has a better business mind than 99.99 % of the rest of us… You may be suprised what a “thinking adult” can do…

“… has a better business mind than 99.99 % of the rest of us… .”

You poor thing. You think a guy who BANKRUPTED a frikkin’ casino — where the house always has the edge, and does nothing but handle losers’ money — has a great business mind? Holy crap.

This is a guy who started with nothing … except a few million of his daddy’s real estate dollars. And he became a “billionaire.” Gee, you think maybe more than just 00.01% of “the rest of us” might, just MIGHT, have been able to end up w/ a billion dollars under the same circumstances?

Some of us could probably even have done it without pretending to cheat a terrorist he did (or didn’t, depending which story he’s spitting out at the moment) try to cut a secret deal with letting him pitch his tent in New Jersey.
Persistence

BTW … Great headline. For a minute, I thought I had logged on to The Onion.
http://cbcf.groupsite.com Miss Capri

Sheesh, look, Trump, some of us are just so freaking SICK OF YOU! Shut up, take your wanna-be politics agenda and cram it, and just go away already, Trump, go away!
TfT

Keep it up Trump, keep the pressure on hehimself. It is driving the leftwing media crazy. The Donald knows how to get some media attention – and playing the I’m a birther game is working. LOL

suckers.
Bill Huggins

As soon as you show us your hairline; we’ll show you the birth certificate.

Three words why Trump WILL NOT run for prez:

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That’s PRESIDENT TRUMP to you Tommy!

LOL!!!
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