{"id":7171,"date":"2012-05-27T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2012-05-30T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:38:00","slug":"donald-trump-is-a-bloviating-ignoramus-says-george-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7171","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Is A Bloviating Ignoramus Says George Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the Memorial Day premiere of the History Channel&#8217;s Hatfields &#038; McCoys, right-wing Nutlandia is erupting into their own epic feud.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Humor\/trump-pretentious.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Today on ABC&#8217;s This Week, the conversation turned to the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7165\" target=\"_blank\">meeting of the remedial minds<\/a> in New York between Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. When the panel came around to their most staunchly conservative member, George Will, there was a moment of honesty in political punditry that is rarely seen. Here is what Will had to say about Romney and his top surrogate Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do not understand the cost benefit here. The costs are clear. The benefit \u2014 what voter is gonna vote for him because he is seen with Donald Trump? The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious it seems to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics. Again, I don&#8217;t understand the benefit. What is Romney seeking?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mV4ObeKx5aw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s obvious what Romney is seeking. He&#8217;s seeking to pander to the mental deficients who still think that President Obama is a Manchurian alien sent from Kenya to hand America over to godless Muslim socialists. He&#8217;s seeking to bask in the reflected glow of a television reality show celebrity to raise his abysmal favorability ratings. He&#8217;s seeking to bond with another member of the out-of-touch elitists who like to fire people. And he&#8217;s seeking campaign contributions from high income, low IQ donors.<\/p>\n<p>Will&#8217;s slap at Trump is not the first shot fired in this feud. Last year Trump hit Will as <em>&#8220;third rate,&#8221;<\/em> and a couple of months ago Trump called the Pulitzer prize winning Will a hack and worse&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s a totally overrated fool. I think this guy is so overrated. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s very smart. He looks smart with the little glasses and the hair slicked to the side.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump made those statements to the overrated fools at Fox and Friends. It was typical of the Trump style of verbal assault that relies mainly on juvenile insults. Trump has previously directed his childish taunts at fellow Fox contributors Charles Krauthammer and Karl Rove, who he also called hacks.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Trump&#8217;s ire may have been in response to the near universal dismissal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5928\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s aborted attempt<\/a> to produce and moderate a Republican presidential primary debate. The debate, which Trump promised would get record ratings, never took place because the only candidates that agreed to participate were Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Romney, the man Trump has now endorsed, was one of those who declined to play in Trump&#8217;s sandbox. Will addressed the matter calling Trump an <em>&#8220;entrepreneurial charlatan&#8221;<\/em> and saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now we have a December 27th debate proposed that would be moderated by Donald Trump. Surely it is time for these candidates to do something presidential. Stand up and say, we&#8217;re not going to be hijacked and participate in this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last April, when Trump was still pretending to be considering running for president, Will fired off some brutal rounds at him and his alleged candidacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He can make a shambles of the Republican debates. Just by being there, he can hurt the Republican party. He is what&#8217;s called a &#8216;blatherskite&#8217;&#8230; that&#8217;s someone who blathers promiscuously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a month later, when asked what Trump&#8217;s political future would be. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2FC38Nb5J_w\" target=\"_blank\">Will Responded<\/a> that Trump <em>&#8220;has no future in politics. He&#8217;s a buffoon, he&#8217;s a political sociopath.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s response to the latest broadside from Will has yet to be published, but you can expect that it is forthcoming. Trump is as predictable as Old Faithful, particularly where his ego is involved. And when he is punched he punches back, though usually with far less force or intellect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the Memorial Day premiere of the History Channel&#8217;s Hatfields &#038; McCoys, right-wing Nutlandia is erupting into their own epic feud. Today on ABC&#8217;s This Week, the conversation turned to the upcoming meeting of the remedial minds in New York between Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. When the panel came around to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[612,554,885,260],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-birther","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-will","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1RF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7237,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7237","url_meta":{"origin":7171,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump Adds New Wing To His Mansion To Accomodate His Massive Ego","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/4\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes it is just too easy to mock Donald Trump for being so full of himself. 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