{"id":12660,"date":"2016-02-25T18:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2016-02-25T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:16:35","slug":"the-root-of-the-gops-trump-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12660","title":{"rendered":"The root of the GOP&#8217;s Trump problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that early on I did not take <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a> candidacy seriously.\u00a0 The reason is simple:\u00a0 The man is a gigantic clownstick.<\/p>\n<p>Given <a href=\"http:\/\/Given the sheer volume of crap that could be used against him I assumed\" target=\"_blank\">the sheer volume of crap<\/a> that could be used against him I assumed he would be taken out early on by the party machine.\u00a0 That obviously did not happen.\u00a0 I could not pin down the why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-research_us_56cf2c6de4b03260bf75b395?pmx11yvi\" target=\"_blank\">Now the truth comes out<\/a>:\u00a0 None of the remaining candidates did serious opposition research on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>There is still time to act.\u00a0 It is just a matter of one (or more) of the remaining candidates having the <em>cajones<\/em> to act, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/431858\/donald-trump-2016-campaign-must-be-stopped\" target=\"_blank\">launch a full frontal attack on him<\/a>, ignore the critics, and not stop until the majority of the country look at Trump the way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_KYiyDlCD74\" target=\"_blank\">these Irish people do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12660&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12660\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12660\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12660\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that early on I did not take Donald Trump&#8217;s candidacy seriously.\u00a0 The reason is simple:\u00a0 The man is a gigantic clownstick. 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