Trump Steals A Page From His Republican Party's Notebook

The Republican party wrote the book for personal attacks against their democratic opponents and now the republican party's presidential candidates are on the receiving end of personal attacks but not from democrats.  Donald Trump has turned the page and is using those personal attacks against his republican opponents.  He has spared none of them and they are upset.

Trumped has dumped the republican's eleventh commandment according to Ronald Reagan who said never talk bad about a fellow republican.  What really upsets his opponents is the Donald saying they talk a lot but have accomplished very little.  (He is right on target there)  Most of his republican opponents are office holders so they take it personal.  There will probably be a lot of fireworks in the republican debates on August 6 and coming from all angles.

Trump, like his opponents knows personal attacks works in politics and also like his party can not articulate to the public how he would deal with the many problems the country faces.  It is the same republican con game.  The larger problem for his opponents is he has the financial staying power if he chooses to use it all the way.

The news media will bleed this thing as long as they can but the people will learn very little how any one of the 16 republican candidates would govern if elected.  And that is pretty sad if a republican is elected President since he would be taking over an economy, job creation, low unemployment and falling deficits, all in much better shape than when their party left office.

Trump is giving his opponents a taste of their own medicine.  Is there any republican in the bunch that has the courage to act like a democrat for the two party system to survive?  In fact, who knows what might happen.  Trumps opponents are starting to respond by saying his attacks disqualify him to be President.  If that is so, then they should be disqualified also.  After all Trump is only repeating the book they themselves wrote.  So why don't they all just go home and spare the people.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio