After much hemming and hawing, The Donald has finally (hopefully?) decided not to throw his hat into the 2012 Presidential race and support one of the four remaining Republican candidates. Speculation was swirling around who exactly Trump would endorse for the Republican nomination. Wednesday the rumor mill was flooded with reports that Newt Gingrich would be getting the nod, but in a last minute switcheroo The Donald decided to embrace front-runner Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump
At the press conference held Thursday in Las Vegas Trump was singing the praises of Romney, a decided shift from his previous stance on the former governor. Not even a few months ago Trump was busy taking serious digs at Romney, calling him a “small business guy” and openly bashing the Massachusetts health care system, often referred to as RomneyCare.
All this makes me wonder why exactly Romney would even accept the endorsement of a man like Donald Trump. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump did the whole thing just to get in front of cameras yet again. If he can figure out a way to do it, it is a near certainty that Trump will verbally assault Romney in the future, despite the endorsement, because all The Donald really cares about is being on TV.
So it is difficult to trust the motives of a man like Trump, but is his endorsement actually toxic? Yes. A recent Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll showed that a Trump endorsement would actually have an overall negative effect on the perception of a presidential candidate.
Trump’s all-consuming need to be constantly in the limelight has reduced his reputation to that of a circus clown. He has traded any dignity he once had in order to be a reality star on a primetime TV show saddled with continually dwindling ratings. His insatiable need to be constantly quoted by the media is more befitting a Hollywood diva than a serious pillar of the business community.
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I think the leftist media wants Romney to get the nomination because the feel BO can beat him.