There is little doubt that Donald Trump would be the perfect candidate to lead the Republican Party in their quest for presidential and congressional control in 2012.
This man has virtually everything that the Republicans have stood for over the years as well as many of the personal characteristics that have marked its leadership. Consider the celebrity status of The Donald - and remember Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzeneggar. Remember the bankruptcy of the Taj Mahal Casino and recall the Reagan tripling of the national debt. Check out Trump's bleating about Obama's birth certificate and compare it to the whining of a Richard Nixon or the snarling of a Dick Cheney.
Trump epitomizes the Republican traditional values. Son of a millionaire, Trump became the champion of the self-made man. Ruthless in his business dealings, he was the "You're fired!" guy of television fame. Just the ticket for a political party that would rather cut the food stamps of kids than touch the tax status of General Electric. His adulterous relationship with Marla Mapes and subsequent vitriol-laced divorce, along with The Donald's notorious inability to recall an error (shades of George W.), makes for the kind of image America really needs to project in the world.
Donald Trump, in many ways, doesn't only represent the Republicans; he represents what we've allowed the entire country to become - a country run of, for and by the power of money. Even the often-cited American Dream is denominated by things money can buy - the house, the TV, the car - rather than the ideals we started with. Trump is the ultimate bully and personifies the "my way or the highway" philosophy of political thought. In short, Donald Trump is, in fact, what most of the Third World thinks the United States is, in popular thinking.
I echo the hope expressed by many that Donald Trump becomes the Republican presidential candidate, preferably with Sarah Palin as his running mate. Between the two, they stand for almost everything wrong with the United States - ignorance, greed, lack of conscience and superficiality. Neither one of them is as deep as the gutter they seem to relish. Both are driven by the insatiable desire for MORE - which has become the mantra for success.