What is it with Republican presidential candidates queuing up to seek Donald Trump’s blessings as if he were the friggin’ Pope?! Last week Rick Perry ascended the stairs of his gilded, eponymously named tower in NYC for this purpose; Mitt Romney is scheduled to do the same next week; and Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann made their pilgrimages some time ago.
If Trump had any balls or real political gravitas he would run for president himself. Instead, he seems content to play a tease while making a mockery of the process by treating it as just another storyline in the life of his reality-TV persona. Frankly, he reminds me of the little scary cats at summer camp who we used to tease mercilessly for being too afraid to jump into the deep end of the pool where the rest of us were frolicking with carefree abandon.
Therefore, it does not say much about the character of these wannabe presidents that they are kowtowing to this huckster who has shown time and again that he’s “all hat, no cattle.”