Sunday, September 18, 2016

The problem with misunderestimation...

This all started with George W Bush. The man the liberal elites believed was "too stupid to be President" drove them to near insanity by winning back to back Presidential elections. There was a hundred and one different explanations about what went wrong, but none of these progressive thinking prognosticators ever considered the possibility that Bush, Cheney, Rove, and gang actually knew what they were doing. Rather it was always seen as some sort of fluke, some sort of mistake, some sort of collective foolishness on the part of the American electorate... if they even would admit that Bush actually won.

But as much as the left held Bush and his team in contempt, he was considered Albert Einstein in comparison to how these same progressives see Donald Trump.

On paper Donald Trump is a multi-billionaire. A man who has successfully built over five hundred individual businesses, and became an international business icon. He beat a field of fifteen well qualified Republican candidates (including Jeb Bush with his 100 plus million dollars) without raising any money. While splitting votes fifteen ways, he broke the all time record for Republican primary votes, and increased Republican turnout to near record numbers.

Now here we are, fifty days out from the 2016 Presidential election... in a virtual dead heat. Hillary Clinton ran nearly 50,000 campaign ads before Trump ran one. She's been prepping for this for ten years, while Trump has no political experience. Yet, Donald Trump appears to be exactly where he wants to be at this moment in time, and I am being generous when I say that Hillary Clinton appears flat footed and unsure as to where to go.

Yet, nobody in your progressive elite club of pundits will concede that there is even the slightest possibility that Donald Trump knows what he is doing. They see him as a buffoon, a bigot, a thin skinned crazed wild eyed maniac. It's only a matter of time before he says something or does something that produces the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. They seem to be banking on that as their political strategy.

The left didn't believe George W Bush was smart enough to become President. They were wrong. Now they believe the same thing about Donald Trump.

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
 

6 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Bush was too stupid. I'm certain that he's going to make the bottom ten.

Trump is too fucking crazy.

Intelligence doesn't mean you're qualified.
Nor does "successful" business man make him qualified.

The Beaner Federal judge is making him appear at his Ponzi University court case.

C.H. Truth said...

Roger -

Bush got a considerably higher college placement score than John Kerry and actually had a higher grade point average in both his undergraduate and graduate college career than Kerry.

Nobody suggested that John Kerry wasn't qualified to get into Ivy league schools.

opie' said...


Bush got a considerably higher college placement score than John Kerry and actually had a higher grade point average in both his undergraduate and graduate college career than Kerry.

And you claim to be an expert in statistics and science while busch was a drunk cheerleader majoring in basket weaving who has the curiosity of a gnat. Wow, you sure convinced me, CH.

C.H. Truth said...

Opie - Bush graduated from Harvard Business School with a Master of Business Administration. That would be commonly referred to as an M.B.A. for those of you who are apparently not so well versed in college majors.

Harvard Business School is still ranked as the top Business School in America.

I am pretty sure neither Yale or H.B.S offers basket weaving as a major. But I understand that you probably read it somewhere on Politico or Talking Points Memo and believed it to be true.

Indy Voter said...

Trump isn't stupid, and I don't recall seeing claims that he is.

He is temperamentally unfit to be entrusted with the security of 330,000,000 Americans, however.

Commonsense said...

As opposed to someone who's so corrupt and craven she would sell out the country for a speaking fee.

Talk about someone who is temperamentally unfit.

I'll take my chances with Trump.