Duncan Hunter: Why Donald Trump Has the Temperament to Be President

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Duncan Hunter: Why Donald Trump Has the Temperament to Be President

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/donald-trump-2016-temperament-214161

By Rep. Duncan Hunter
August 11, 2016

For Donald Trump, the latest recurring question around his candidacy—incited by the liberal left and parroted by even some Republicans—is whether he has the right temperament to be Commander in Chief.

With Trump, what you see is what you get. Through the course of the campaign, that’s been one of his greatest attributes and it explains why so many Americans, tired of politics as usual, are rallying behind him.

What is so hard for Trump’s detractors to grasp is that what they don’t like about Donald Trump has nothing to do with temperament—he’s got it. He’s proved over the course of his highly successful business career that he’s got all the right qualities as a leader and a visionary.

What they really don’t like is his style—and they’re purposefully conflating the two.

Trump is not some uncontrollable misfit who just happened to stumble on the Republican nomination for President. Intuitively, he’s applied his savvy business sense to the art of politics and in doing so he decimated a deep bench of Republican hopefuls. His victory cannot be ascribed to luck, but rather an innate and unmatchable ability to focus on the shortcomings of his opponents and brand only the way Trump can.

The regular incorporation of Trump-isms, from “Make America Great Again,” to “Corrupt Hillary,” continue to resonate. His latest statement, branding President Barack Obama as the founder of the Islamic State, repeats a true but unspoken belief that’s held within military circles that the President’s foreign policy and abandonment of Iraq is responsible for the growth of the Islamic State and the territory it holds.

No doubt this offends the liberal base and its allies in the media. They’re not used to it. They can’t process it. And Trump’s comments regarding the Islamic State, underscoring the President’s failed foreign policy, is proof. So the immediate reaction is to describe this comment, no different than others, as reckless and as an indictment on Trump’s temperament. It’s not.

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Why not be truthful and say, “I just don’t like the guy.”

Trump has charisma and backbone. He’s got a world view that is consistent with reality. And he’s worked and excelled in a competitive industry for his entire adult life.

Like it or not, Trump has the right temperament to be President.
 

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A great article which does an excellent job showing why leftist liberal elite democrats such as Kasich, Jebbie, McCain, Romney, et al, do not like Trump.

[sinkspur]

Yeah, a person with the right temperament talks about "blood coming out of her wherever," slams a Gold Star family, and mocks a disabled reporter.

These Trump sycophants are simply delusional.  Hunter (who ought to know better) is engaging in nothing but wishful thinking in this piece.

Trump is done, finished, without some outside event (like a terrorist attack on US soil) to change the equation.

[Stosh]

Trump is done, finished, without some outside event (like a terrorist attack on US soil) to change the equation.

San Bernadino, Orlando, Dallas, etc, not enough to get Cheeto within 10 points...are you suggesting it would take an Iranian nuke detonated in the U.S. to turn the tide??

[XenaLee]

Duncan Hunter: Why Donald Trump Has the Temperament to Be President

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/donald-trump-2016-temperament-214161

By Rep. Duncan Hunter
August 11, 2016

For Donald Trump, the latest recurring question around his candidacy—incited by the liberal left and parroted by even some Republicans—is whether he has the right temperament to be Commander in Chief.

With Trump, what you see is what you get. Through the course of the campaign, that’s been one of his greatest attributes and it explains why so many Americans, tired of politics as usual, are rallying behind him.

What is so hard for Trump’s detractors to grasp is that what they don’t like about Donald Trump has nothing to do with temperament—he’s got it. He’s proved over the course of his highly successful business career that he’s got all the right qualities as a leader and a visionary.

What they really don’t like is his style—and they’re purposefully conflating the two.

Trump is not some uncontrollable misfit who just happened to stumble on the Republican nomination for President. Intuitively, he’s applied his savvy business sense to the art of politics and in doing so he decimated a deep bench of Republican hopefuls. His victory cannot be ascribed to luck, but rather an innate and unmatchable ability to focus on the shortcomings of his opponents and brand only the way Trump can.

The regular incorporation of Trump-isms, from “Make America Great Again,” to “Corrupt Hillary,” continue to resonate. His latest statement, branding President Barack Obama as the founder of the Islamic State, repeats a true but unspoken belief that’s held within military circles that the President’s foreign policy and abandonment of Iraq is responsible for the growth of the Islamic State and the territory it holds.

No doubt this offends the liberal base and its allies in the media. They’re not used to it. They can’t process it. And Trump’s comments regarding the Islamic State, underscoring the President’s failed foreign policy, is proof. So the immediate reaction is to describe this comment, no different than others, as reckless and as an indictment on Trump’s temperament. It’s not.

{ .. snip ..}

Why not be truthful and say, “I just don’t like the guy.”

Trump has charisma and backbone. He’s got a world view that is consistent with reality. And he’s worked and excelled in a competitive industry for his entire adult life.

Like it or not, Trump has the right temperament to be President.

In light of the ever-increasing gaffes and destructive political rhetoric coming out of Trump's mouth almost daily (if not hourly) .....the fact that this even has to be addressed as an issue....is proof that Trump does not, in fact, have the temperament to be President.  To suggest otherwise is absurd on the surface, and downright dishonest on the underlying face of it.  But then....I predict that the dishonesty will continue to ramp up from those pushing and supporting Donald Trump over the next couple of months.  That's not a tough call.  It's just logical.

[sinkspur]

San Bernadino, Orlando, Dallas, etc, not enough to get Cheeto within 10 points...are you suggesting it would take an Iranian nuke detonated in the U.S. to turn the tide??

I have no idea.  I can think of nothing else that might get Trump close, though, like you, I doubt it would work.

Views of candidates are hardening.  What we're seeing is most Americans deciding between a crook and crazy.

They'd rather have the crook.

[sinkspur]

In light of the ever-increasing gaffes and destructive political rhetoric coming out of Trump's mouth almost daily (if not hourly) .....the fact that this even has to be addressed as an issue....is proof that Trump does not, in fact, have the temperament to be President.  To suggest otherwise is absurd on the surface, and downright dishonest on the underlying face of it.  But then....I predict that the dishonesty will continue to ramp up from those pushing and supporting Donald Trump over the next couple of months.  That's not a tough call.  It's just logical.

Yep.  Hunter is, in effect, saying "Don't believe your lying eyes."

[roamer_1]

I would assume this is Hunter's boy, and not Hunter himself.

[jmyrlefuller]

Trump is not some uncontrollable misfit who just happened to stumble on the Republican nomination for President. Intuitively, he’s applied his savvy business sense to the art of politics and in doing so he decimated a deep bench of Republican hopefuls. His victory cannot be ascribed to luck, but rather an innate and unmatchable ability to focus on the shortcomings of his opponents and brand only the way Trump can.

Oh, yes, "shortcomings" invented out of thin air, like multiple affairs, phony birther accusations and accusing his father of plotting to kill JFK.

But talking about not one, but two of his own daughters as sex objects while they're still children is OK.

I will say one thing, though: neither Hunter nor Trump would be where they are without their fathers' nepotism.

[jmyrlefuller]

I would assume this is Hunter's boy, and not Hunter himself.

Yes, this is the younger Duncan D. Hunter, not the Duncan L. Hunter that ran for president eight years ago.

Of course, the Hunters and Trump do share similar *stated* platforms; both ran strong, immigration-hawk, put-America-first campaigns, the difference being that Trump is rich and obnoxious while Hunter isn't, so Hunter the elder got 1% and Trump won 40-something.