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"Trump Top Advisor: VP Will Do the Part of the Job Trump Doesn’t Want"

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I called this several weeks ago.

While everyone is speculating on who Trump may choose as his running mate, we should all be in heavy prayer and meditation that it’s somebody competent.

Why?

Because that is who will be running our country, should Trump manage to get through the barrage of attacks about to be dropped on him by the Clinton machine.

In a fantasy rant with Huffington Post's Howard Fineman, Trump advisor, Paul Manafort, got into several particulars about how Trump would win the election and how he would lead the nation, as president.

Some of the highlights of the interview include mention of Trump’s position on banning Muslims:

“’He’s already started moderating on that,’ Manafort said. ‘He operates by starting the conversation at the outer edges and then brings it back towards the middle. Within his comfort zone, he’ll soften it some more.’”

In other words, he feeds a line of BS, then bends.

As for doing the job the American people are supposedly voting for him to do:

“The vice presidential pick will also be part of the process of proving he’s ready for the White House,’ Manafort said.‘He needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He seems himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO.’”

This unserious, unqualified, reality TV charlatan has no intention of actually doing the job of president. He just wants the status that comes along with the title.

Elections have consequences, and every day it seems another boxcar is added to this train wreck. [….] Susan Wright, RedState writer

I do wonder how paleoCons who support Trump will fare if Trump loses in November?…or (dare I say) if wins the presidency and then goes on to do so much more damage to this country and our reputation around the world?

Unlike Lindsay Graham and most Repub political posers, Buchanan is widely considered to be a genuine, ultra-right-wing Conservative intellectual heavy-weight. So why would he take such a high-rsk gamble on supporting Trump knowing what's at stake?

It's simple. Buchanan fears his White country slipping away from him and *his people.* He figures better to cast his nativist lot with a "great White Hope" like Trump hoping and praying a Trump presidency will halt the *Blackening* and *Browning* of HIS country.

For at least a little while longer.

HAH. Puleeze! That's finished.

Repubs who support Trump can never make such a claim again. Not with a straight face anyway.

But what's also interesting to me is watching the neoCons fracture among themselves because of Trump. NeoCons. Those blood-thirsty, little war-mongering (mostly) DRAFT-dodging fake alpha dogs whose claim to INFAMY was America's illegal invasion of Iraq following the 9/11 attacks.

NeoCons like little Billy Kristol, who is so fearful of a Trump presidency Kristol can't seem to let go of the fantasy that there is still time for a third-party "ANTI-Trump" candidate to run. Though even Kristol admits that it AIN'T gonna happen.

TAC Reader:
They (Neocons) don’t dislike Trump, strictly speaking–they fear him. Specifically, they fear that true Straussianism will wither away in the Trumpian state. True Straussians are nihilists, and so power and proximity to power is their ultimate value. […]