The Nature of Things

Thinking of doing another Throwback Thursday post with a blast from my blogging past, I was trolling through my blog entries from five years ago when I came across this long-forgotten entry. The year 2011 was the beginning of another of our interminable presidential election cycles. The events of that year and 2012 have pretty much been obliterated from my memory, replaced by the news of another of those seemingly endless races, and I had completely forgotten about the time that Donald Trump was going to host a debate featuring the various Republican candidates aspiring to be the nominee! Yes, that really happened. Or, actually, it didn't - for very Trumpian reasons. My husband, the prophet, still predicts that Trump will pull out of the final debate this year. Will he be proved correct? Time will tell. ~~~ Tuesday, December 13, 2011 The debate that wasn't So now   Donald Trump has pulled out   of his own debate! The Donald announced to his slavering public today that he would...

So now Donald Trump has pulled out of his own debate! The Donald announced to his slavering public today that he would not, after all, be moderating a debate between Republican candidates for president later this month. The reason he gave was that he wants to keep his options open should he decide (in his infinite wisdom) that the eventual nominee of the Republican Party doesn't have the right stuff. If that is the case, the Donald wants to be able to jump in and run as an independent in order to save the country. The only Republicans who had consented to show up for Donald's debate were Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, but I'm sure that the lack of enthusiasm among the other candidates for appearing on the same stage with Donald Trump's hairpiece and ego had nothing to do with Trump's decision to call the whole thing off. No, Trump is motivated strictly by his deep patriotism and desire to be of service to his fellow Americans. What a guy!