Donald Trump and the Fitness Threshold...By Charles Krauthammer

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 Donald Trump and the Fitness Threshold
Trump’s latest gaffe shows clearly how unfit he is for the presidency.
By Charles Krauthammer — August 4, 2016

Donald Trump, the man who defied every political rule and prevailed to win his party’s nomination, last week took on perhaps the most sacred political rule of all: Never attack a Gold Star family. Not just because it alienates a vital constituency but because it reveals a shocking absence of elementary decency and of natural empathy for the most profound of human sorrows — parental grief.

Why did Trump do it? It wasn’t a mistake. It was a revelation. It’s that he can’t help himself. His governing rule in life is to strike back when attacked, disrespected, or even slighted. To understand Trump, you have to grasp the General Theory: He judges every action, every pronouncement, every person by a single criterion — whether or not it/he is “nice” to Trump.

Vladimir Putin called him brilliant (in fact, he didn’t, but that’s another matter) and a bromance is born. A “Mexican” judge rules against Trump, which makes him a bad person governed by prejudiced racial instincts.

House Speaker Paul Ryan criticizes Trump’s attack on the Gold Star mother — so Trump mocks Ryan and praises his primary opponent. On what grounds? That the opponent is an experienced legislator? Is a tested leader?

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http://www.nationalreview.com/node/438692/print

[Machiavelli]

...You’re a fan of his, he’s a fan of yours. And vice versa. Treat him “unfairly” and you will pay. House speaker, Gold Star mother, it matters not.

Of course we all try to protect our own dignity and command respect. But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability.

This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him...

[Jazzhead]

This is a key opinion piece.   So is Peggy Noonan's in this morning's WSJ :  "The Week They Decided He was Crazy".

This is what became obvious [this week], probably fatally so:  Mr. Trump is not going to get serious about running for President.  He does not have a second act, there are no hidden depths, there will be no "pivot". 

  Here is a truth of life:  When you act as if you are insane, people are liable to think you're insane.  That's what happened this week.   People started to become convinced he was nuts, a total flake

   

Trump's done, folks.   He can either be replaced, or he will hand our government and our courts to an uncertain and unconservative future.   

Time's up folks.  Time to choose.  Get Trump out by the end of the month.  Cut the deal, cut the cord.   

[TomSea]

So says someone widely regarded as a Neo-Con who pushed for the war in Iraq.

Leading Pro-Abortion Columnist Calls for Roe v. Wade to be Reversed

Nationally syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer is a well-respected writer and journalist when it comes to political issues. Though he’s not pro-life, an article of his in newspapers across the nation today calls on the Supreme Court to reverse its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling allowing abortion on demand.

http://www.lifenews.com/2007/05/11/nat-3113/

[Cripplecreek]

This is a key opinion piece.   So is Peggy Noonan's in this morning's WSJ :  "The Week They Decided He was Crazy".
   

Trump's done, folks.   He can either be replaced, or he will hand our government and our courts to an uncertain and unconservative future.   

Time's up folks.  Time to choose.  Get Trump out by the end of the month.  Cut the deal, cut the cord.

We probably can't save the white house but we might be able to hold the line till we can retake it.