Interesting from ABC News:
Rep. Heath Schuler, D-N.C. is one of the 20 Blue Dog Democats who plan to meet with businessman Donald Trump today in New York City. The meeting with Trump, who has expressed interest in running for president in 2012, is set to last an hour. Sources say they will talk about the economy and ideas Trump has for improving it.
Just to be clear here – Donald Trump as Presidential candidate is a sad joke. Quite seriously, given a choice between Trump and Obama, I’m either voting for Obama or getting too drop dead drunk on election day to bother. But it is interesting that he’s meeting with the Blue Dogs.
If Trump really is considering a run for the Presidency, his options are wide open as far as venue goes. He can run as an Independent, as a Republican or as a Democrat. It doesn’t even matter what his registration is now; he can always switch it as necessary. When I first heard the absurd idea of Trump running, my guess was that he’d go Independent, though perhaps only after a head fake to the GOP. But what if his plan is to march in to Obama’s turf?
It can’t be that Trump is thinking he can take the Democrat nomination away from Obama – quite simply there is no one, anywhere, who can do that. Even if unemployment shoots up to 20% by January and Obama’s approval rating is at 20%, he will be re-nominated. Not necessarily because the Democrats would at that point think he could win, but because they know that rejecting Obama would cause a down-ballot destruction of the party, perhaps for good. But in preparation for running as an Independent, suppose Trump enters the early Democrat primaries and then marches off, proclaiming himself as the only real “hope and change” candidate – thus giving disaffected Democrats some one to vote for in the general election other than Obama?
There would still be no chance Trump could win – getting to 270 electoral votes is next to impossible for any third party candidate and even if such a candidate took enough electoral votes to deny the major parties an electoral majority, the House would then elect one of the two major party candidates as President. Of course, Trump might have a big enough ego to think he could pull it off…or, observing the destruction of our economy under Obama, he might just be trying to do his bit to ensure Obama’s defeat next year.
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