To be anything but blunt about Donald Trump misses the point right now as the nation takes time to give thanks and reflect on the equality, human rights and liberties this country has long championed. The man is a liar, a racist, an agent provocateur for human rights violations — and he’s fast becoming the face of the Republican Party.

This can’t be what the majority of Republicans actually want, and it certainly isn’t what the majority of all Americans are looking for in the next president. So why is he consistently the most-popular choice among polled GOP voters?

Last week the leading GOP candidate shocked the world and became even more popular after insisting that U.S. Muslim citizens should be persecuted just like the Nazis persecuted Jews, only because they’re Muslims.

In the same week, he said that if he were elected president, he would close down Muslim mosques in the United States. And most recently, Trump said that he once saw televised coverage of Muslims or Arabs in New Jersey “cheering” in the streets and celebrating when the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001.

It never happened. No one, anywhere, has ever produced any evidence or even credible collaboration that such a thing happened. He simply dismissed charges that he’s a liar, again, and moved on unabated.

Those were but a couple of the highlights of Trump’s week as the leading GOP presidential candidate, a week that has seen him climb better than 10 percent in the polls over his closest competitor, Ben Carson.

During a Trump rally this week, a black protester was assaulted and kicked by Trump fans, and Trump later said that the audience was right to “rough him up.”

Fresh off his surreal 90-minute rant about Carson last week, Trump moved on to supporting torture and has never backed down on his insistence he would deport millions of immigrants, and build a fabulously expensive, useless wall along Mexico, even though every credible source has said such things would be practically impossible and unwise.

Yet the more Trump lies and advocates his extremist, xenophobic, nativist, backward, unconstitutional and comically bent campaign for president, the more a strong segment of the GOP loves it.

Who are these people that either idolize Trump’s nefarious throwback to the criminal Sen. Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover — supporters willing to overlook Trump’s unhinged rants and patently offensive, hateful rhetoric and ideas simply because he isn’t a Beltway politician?

Regular poll analyses consistently show that likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is seriously vulnerable to most of the other GOP contenders. But not Trump. Trump is the one candidate polls show that Clinton could almost handily beat if the election were held now. You can imagine how much worse the rhetoric and vitriol will get if Trump’s ego is boosted by real political victories.

Trump’s almost inexplicable 15 minutes of political fame has outlived everyone’s expectations that his popularity is nothing but early presidential political high jinks and entertainment. Republican voters start nominating a presidential candidate in about two months. His persistent progress eclipses any opportunity during debates to let voters see what GOP contenders are really offering as ways to solve the increasingly problematic Affordable Care Act, worry over terrorism, immigration, a seemingly endless war in the Middle East and the disintegrating middle class.

If Trump is truly representative of the majority of Republican voters, the party and the country are in dire trouble. We don’t think he is, and it’s past time for the GOP to call Trump out for the appalling, repugnant person that he is.

42 replies on “EDITORIAL: Past time for GOP voters to get rid of Trump’s turkey of a campaign”

  1. Same lies and vitriol from Dave and anyone else who writes the editorials. All in his head, and he just cannot stand opinions from others. Just like the oval office occupant, who leads from the rear. Trump has experience with Europe, Middle East, Asia, and USA while working taxes, zoning, politics, country differences, and has prospered. Starting with $1.0 million from father, is now worth more then 9, 10, 12 billion and counting. Depends on who is listing.
    While GOP candidates all think and say they can “FIX” Washington, I want more than that after the last 7 years. Obama created the vacuum by bombing-killing the dictators of ME countries, and left vacuum, which ISIS (created by Saddem’s disgraced officer and military folks) now attracting criminals and others to join their religious-criminal operations. And Obama leads from the rear.
    Dave has never written a positive editorial for any Republican while they campaign, or are in office. And that started in my experience when I first read Aurora Sentinel starting many years ago. He writes a good one, WHEN THEY LEAVE OFFICE, but is a dyed in the wool, Liberal-progressive-democrat from the first to last.
    Donald Trump is attracting those who have not registered or voted in the past, and also those who did from among the Democrats, Republicans, Unaffiliated. And I know folks among all those groups, and talk to them, while talk to me. He is saying what we have been thinking and writing, and saying through past 7 years of this change to USA quality of life.
    DONALD TRUMP CAN FIX THE PROBLEMS-ISSUES WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, WHILE FIXING THOSE IN WASHINGTON. And I don’t like seeing some of them, destroying their own validity, since I see some of them being in Trump administration, including some from past political experience, and positions. We definitely need a change in direction, and sooner the better.

    1. A “trump administration”? I fear the only administering the “quack” is going to be doing is trying to salvage his sanity (what little remains) as he returns to his, I use this term lightly, business matters bankrupting casinos and thrashing about trying to find President Obama’s birth certificate.

      Frank is star struck with celebrity mediocrity.

      Great column Dave.

      1. What American never deserved was your guy, this country cannot stand another 4 years of liberal, overspending, politically correct, hand-wringing, Democrats, who never have trouble spending other people’s money.

  2. I’m 64 and have always voted Republican. I’m very conservative and a Christian. If Trump received the GOP nomination, I’d vote for Clinton.

      1. Pefect! ‘if she is a Republican conservative and would vote for Clinton, the only thing left is to forsake her Christianity’ Well said, it proves you all are non-thinking, liberal asses. I would bet big money on one issue, you have no idea, the meaning of atheist, your uninformed brain cell, just heard that word, and embraced it.

        1. Religious freaks are no different than socialistic fools of Democratic Party. This group needs to be abandoned but they are easy vote for the party..

          1. That does not speak well for your hereafter. Majority of the world populations have a religion, different from each other in beliefs, but do believe in a power greater than themselves. You can believe in the order of the fling pancake, if you want, but you need to believe in something, or would have no reason to exist, other than to breed and fight with each other. Come to think of that, lot of folks fighting each other in this world.

    2. Then dear, you were never conservative, only in your mind, or your parents mind. Trump is the only clear choice to lead America out of this politically correct mess the Democrats have foisted upon her. Trump makes sense, stop watching msnbc, if you were really a Republican, you wouldn’t listen to that BS anyway.

      1. Note the “dear” comment. How revealing and arrogant is that! What a condescending asinine comment!

        Gooey compounds his ignorance with each new comment. If gooey were a real man for Jesus, he’d get himself a vibrator and enjoy himself for a change.

        1. just go smoke what ever is on your avatar and leave discussion to adults.. please argue substance not superfluous crap.. a common liberal tactic.. use a word here .. word there to attack others because substance of the statement can’t be refuted.

          1. Excuse me! “Substance” you say! “Trump makes sense” and you claim that is a comment with, “substance”! Who’s smoking who?

            I’m assuming you are the official “superfluous crap” site monitor. Figures!

          2. Trump makes much more sense than you do, with your attacks on gofastgo, or on me in the past. Never a positive comment from you.

        2. Why are you carrying Dave’s jock strap? If you believe his words, and his bravery, why is Dave Perry not attending a Trump meeting, and saying those words to his face? Would you? If so, you will not look the same after saying them to some folks, and in this PC world , you may not find yourself alive, the next morning.
          Donald Trump has never exhibited any of those traits that Dave described in his 2nd sentence of this diatribe. Donald’s employees, those who have been asked, speak of his listening, being attentive to their needs, and I have not seen any comments from disgruntled ex-employees in the news. If there was, reporters would find that one, or few. They seldom find those who speak in approval, or support of issues. Just as Nancy Pelosi sees Swastikas among tea party groups. No one else does, but that speaks to her delusions, does it not?

          1. Dave Perry is quite competent without my help. As for the “quack”, I wouldn’t be caught dead attending a “quack meeting”.

            Don’t concern yourself with the “Swastikas”. They’re mostly in your head.

            Get some rest. You need it!

          2. Read that again. I plainly said that was what Nancy Pelosi sees. Get with the program, bud. In other words of my deceased, philosopher father, “Go lay down, your head hurts”.

    3. Nan, please read ‘davebarnes’ below. A true liberal Democrat, who believes only in government, and now wants you to turn your back on Jesus, voting for the opposite side isn’t enough for them, starting to see how Godless and empty they are?

      1. Empty is right! gooey is totally drained still trying to be relevant. If Jesus were with us, gooey would be low on his agenda. If anyone is “Godless” it’s this pious hypocrite who claims to know who’s empty and who isn’t. Only a narrow minded fool like gooey could make such preposterous claims with a straight face.

        1. I am pretty much an atheist minority but a republican.. not all republicans are religion spewing freaks.

    4. Nan, you are not voting for the White House chaplain, the office of president is a secular job. Any Christian that votes for Clinton, they better re-examine their doctrine.

    5. I would believe you were going to vote for Hillary anyway? But I doubt that Bill would invite you to the oval office at age 64. He prefers younger, say about 20s.

  3. His persistent progress eclipses any opportunity during debates to let voters see what GOP contenders are really offering as ways to solve the increasingly problematic Affordable Care Act, worry over terrorism, immigration, a seemingly endless war in the Middle East and the disintegrating middle class.

    This is some nice concern-trolling, but does anyone honestly believe the staff of the Sentinel and their editor-in-chief in particular is really that interested in what the GOP candidates have to say about these things, other than to mock them? Trump’s best asset is that his nomination would likely split the GOP into a neocon/Chamber of Commerce wing and a nationalist/isolationist/populist wing that wouldn’t be anywhere near viable as a party past the state level, if that. He could very well implode the party, and I honestly don’t see that being a big deal in the short-term because we’re entering a window of vulnerability for a recession (about every 7-10 years) that no one running has the intellectual capability to confront. If Trump blows the modern GOP to bits and Hillary gets tagged with a recession, I hardly see why that’s a problem in the long run.

  4. Dave follows MSNBC and does not realize the so called ‘media checkers” are only taking their checks from what others like him, are reporting. Just as the claim That Trump lied about the Muslims celebrating in 2001, when WTC came down, following their attempt in 1993. That turns out to be truth, with same reporter who wrote for Washington Post on 18 Sep 2001, now working for New York Times and does not remember what he wrote, was supposedly mocked by Trump. That also turns out to be a lie on NYT and others, since Trump and that reporter NEVER met. Or so now reported.
    What Trump said in campaign, is showing GOP just how shallow the other candidates are in knowledge of world and of USA. They were quick to trash Donald Trump, but will not be as quick to now apologize since they did not check beyond the headlines of leftist papers and television.
    Trump is not spending as much of his money now, while GOP candidates are spending PAC and campaign funds to attack him, and are paying for that. Trump is not leading the silent majority, he is reflecting the anger, frustration, and absolute need to reorganize the DNC and GOP. I want to see the divisions gone, and go back to being Republicans and Democrats, and not so far right or left. Moderates, as majority of Americans are. We all experience being conservative, moderate, liberal, depending on issues. I do not trust a pure conservative, any more than I trust a strict, prim, oppressive religionist.
    In my 86 years, yesterday, I learned to cooperate with everyone I met, treat them as being honest (unless they prove otherwise), and have never paid attention to color, race, religion, or ideas as first determination. If someone does me dirt, or mistreats me, or my family, than I avoid them. But I do not reflect that onto others of same race or color or religion.
    LET US GET BACK TO WHERE HANDSHAKE IS A CONTRACT, AND A SMILE MEANS YOU ARE A FRIEND, AND NEIGHBOR. We have lost that in past 15-20 years, to where we live in enclaves and do not associate with others.
    AND WE NEED HONEST NON-PARTISAN REPORTING. NOT SPIN OR LIES.,

    1. frank talks about “seeing the divisions gone”. Great! Still it’s confusing frank would go for a clown like the “Quack” who’s only making matters worse. Oh well.

      1. You just don’t give up, do you? There was a time when folks met others, and became friends or neighbors. A few have to learn the hard way. I definitely remember in 5th grade, when I had been picked on by same young guy because my parents had told me not to fight at school. Also I was raised with admonition, that if I got a spanking at school from teacher or principal for something did wrong, I would get one at home. So I did not fight back, but just hunkered into coat or self, and took it.
        —-Never knew who told my Dad about the bullying, but one day out of blue, He said “I told you not to fight at school, but I never told you not to defend yourself, if picked on”. I gave that young bully the whupping he deserved. Being farm boy, around calves and the adult cows-horses-mules which I worked then, with chores. I was stronger than town kids. He immediately picked on my 2 years, younger brother, and got another whupping. Became friend to both of us, and quit bullying others. Met him again at school reunion few years ago, and we both laughed about that. He remembered that too, even into our more senior years. I still stay in contact with grade school and high school friends and peers, though I am 86 now. Not too many of them left, since I have outlived most of them.

      2. 2nd thought to your comment. You don’t like Donald, because he is using your traits against you, same as all the others. They expose their own bias, and attitudes when they attack him. And he is not spending as much of his money as he expected, since he throws out a thought, and the talking heads go ballistic, adding their own bias, prejudice, and thoughts into what ‘they think he meant’. When this is all over in 2017, regardless of who becomes our leader, he will still be a billionaire, he will still have his life, and he will not have lost anything by campaigning. But he has exposed the fakers, losers, and those who campaign only for ego, on one issue. Is that not true?
        IN THE MEANTIME, ALL OF CAMPAIGNING IS JUST TALK, TALK, TALK. NO ONE IS GOING TO CHANGE OBAMA, OR SEEM TO BE ABLE TO EVEN SLOW HIM FROM HIS NON-PLAN, LEAD FROM BEHIND, STUPIDITY WHERE MOST OF USA WOULD LIKE TO BE.

  5. Oh how shocking, a newspaper that doesn’t like a conservative candidate. And the part about the security wall will never work and “all the experts” say that, a really funny editorial.

  6. I remember when this same editorial showered praise for John Edwards when he was running. Not a single negative word was found.

  7. “The man is a liar, a racist, an agent provocateur for human rights violations — and he’s fast becoming the face of the Republican Party.”

    As is all so typical of the Left, when left with an absence of fact or credible platform they resort to hyperbole and slander. Keep it up, it only serves to expose your true motives.

  8. I am a life long Republican and never voted other than R in the last 7 election cycles. Everytime I voted, I felt that, I will be disappointed again because every one of those candidates spoke fiscal conservatism, but never did practice it because they, just like Democrap counterparts, needed to payoff their political debts. With Trump who is not strongly religious and bought off, we may finally have true fiscal conservative with patriotic ambitions.. Those RINO republicans who think religious support is pinnacle of Republican party is delusional, there are plenty of Atheist Republicans who only care about fiscal conservatism. In fact, despite whatever polls show, I’ll bet Trump will be a good sell to many moderate democrats who are patriotic as well.

  9. Trumpeteers actually comprise about 6% of Republican voters. About the same percentage as those who believe the moon landings were faked. Trump’s demagoguery appeals to older, white voters and the younger ones are generally non-college educated. Go figure.

  10. I’m no Trump fan, but talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Dave Perry is the most vitriol, negative, over the top, trash talking editor I’ve ever seen.

  11. The law already gives the sitting president (maybe Trump himself) the power to limit immigration when it is deemed appropriate.

    Federal law, at 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f), provides in part:

    Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

    Prof. Peter Spiro from Temple University believes that this gives the president complete discretion.

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