Trump asks Republicans for united party if he runs for governor

[brooklynite]

Source: Politics on the Hudson

Celebrity billionaire Donald Trump told a group of more than 40 Republican leaders today that he would want a united party if he runs for governor, a spokesman said.

Trump spent more than two hours behind closed doors with county GOP chairmen across the New York and other party leaders as they encourage him to run for governor this fall against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

Trump told the group that he would need to see the party unified behind him if he were to run, said spokesman Michael Cohen.

Read more: http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2014/01/10/trump-asks-republicans-united-party-runs-governor/

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...in other words, there's nothing so annoying as a Primary.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. On a related note...

Trump's hair asked to be put out of its misery.

[riversedge]

26. ...

[hrmjustin]

2. lol good luck with that Donald!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. In other words, he doesn't want to lose in a primary. And he'd surely lose. n/t

[rocktivity]

5. DING DING DING! SleeplessinSoCal, you're our grand prize winner!

...(H)e doesn't want to lose in a primary. And he'd surely lose.

And he knows whereof he speaks:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=64958


rocktivity

[jsr]

27. +1.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Who would want a Governor with orange hair?

[LynneSin]

19. Is that hair I thought a rabid, flea infested mangy fox died on his head

just saying

[jmowreader]

20. It's from Morrie's Wigs

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Maurie was annoying...

but no where lose to Trump's level

[trusty elf]

24. Donald is not amused.

[IMG][/IMG]

[Gothmog]

6. This is a stunt for the 2014 version of his reality show

Trump would never subject himself to the financial reporting and disclosures involved in running. Trump is trying to generate interest in his NBC reality show. The ratings for the 2013 version were horrible and I was surprised that the show was renewed.

[Orsino]

25. And yet instead of a coy announcement that he's thinking of running...

...now he says he'll only run if everyone wants him to? And he's starting with party bigwigs rather than with the media themselves?

Does he sense that his schtick has become inane? Does this signal some less-phony impulse to serve?

It could be that this is as serious as Trump gets.

[Gothmog]

28. This is clearly for the TV Show

This is not how a serious candidate operates. The only reason for these meetings is so that he can generate attention for his TV Show.

The ratings for the 2013 show were bad and the show nearly did not get renewed. Trump needs to get decent ratings this year and in his mind this is a way to generate ratings

[SCVDem]

7. Income Inequality

Meet Donald Trump!

Are the poor and unemployed tired of these rich bastards yet?

VOTE!

Or die.

[MyNameGoesHere]

8. Hey bad hair day, it's governor, not god father

and really, isn't ring kissing kind of old school?

[Happyhippychick]

9. Well the democrats would certainly be united

in hoping this asshat runs.

[DonCoquixote]

10. hawhawhahwhaw

Look, nobody gets a united anything. The best you can hope for is that the Billionaires find use for you before they dispose of you. The real Billionaires, not YOU.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. "county GOP chairmen": any guesses any women "GOP chairmen"?

[bobclark86]

12. Sure, Upstate hates Cuomo because of guns and gays...

... but for the love of God, GOP, don't put up a guy who has filed bankruptcy four times and hangs out with the WWE... Anything is better than that.

Carl Paladino (the pissed-off Buffalonian businessman) is better. Even Capt. Worthless Rick Lazio is better (the guy who got beat by a carpetbagger for senate in 2000... yes, Hillary Clinton was a carpetbagger).

Cuomo turned a $10 billion deficit into a $2 billion surplus, started cutting some of the horrid red tape in this state which had pretty much killed Upstate manufacturing, put a tax cap in place for a state where taxes have skyrocketed, and a whole lot of other stuff.

But a lot of people hate Andy, on both sides of a aisle these days. Unions are pissed, gun owners are pissed, evangelicals are pissed... if the GOP gets a good candidate, it could be 1994 all over again.

(BTW, that's when Mario Cuomo, who was talked about a lot for the White House, got his ass handed to him by a Republican. Yes, for those of you who know nothing of NYS politics, the last name is significant.)

[leftynyc]

15. A good candidate could win against

Cuomo. I agree with you there. But that candidate is not Donald.

[fishwax]

13. what an arrogant tool

[leftynyc]

14. This New Yorker very much

looks forward to this. It's time for that clown to get the royal smackdown he deserves.

Edited to add: Can you even imagine what fun Jon Stewart would have with this?

[Little_Wing]

16. Oh please run oh please oh please oh please

No doubt he was handing out bad checks to all of them.

Gov. Trump? You go boy!

[truthisfreedom]

17. He's nothing but a life support system for bad hair.

[LynneSin]

18. I'm sure Andrew Cuomo is having a good laugh about that one

Trump vs. Cuomo? Cuomo would win in a landslide.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. I guess the GOP doesn't want to win in New York very badly

I'm certain that if nominated, Mr. Trump will run for governor very badly.

[Ken Burch]

23. They might become "united"...but maybe not in the way he hopes...

n/t.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. Kick (nt)

[jmowreader]

30. I thought a little about this last night

I don't think he's trying to pump up ratings for his television show - for fuck's sake, in an economy where everyone's at risk of losing his or her job, a television program where the highlight is someone getting fired is NOT entertainment. And if Trump really thinks it is, he's more psychopathic than we thought.

No, the endgame is "President Trump." Trump knows he can't win the presidential election without first holding a lower elected office, and governor of New York is prestigious enough to serve as a springboard to the office he really wants.

Trump knows something very well: his whole schtick is as this hard-nosed businessman. (You know, the "you're fired!" thing. Didn't this asshole actually attempt to trademark that phrase?) The real Trump is a bully whose businesses have filed bankruptcy four times and who makes his money in the booze-and-gambling industry. He's also EXTREMELY thin-skinned. A guy who has more dirty laundry than the state of West Virginia would probably never survive the primary, and if he did Cuomo's advertising agency would have the easiest job in the world: clipping out thirty-second snippets of the Republican debates and sending them to tv stations.

What could be entertaining, though, is for one of the Repuke contenders to demand to see the birth certificate for the animal Trump glues to his head.

[Meandyou]

31. Even with all his money

He could never win the primary.