An embarrassment to America and to the GOP. Why was he invited?

Maybe it is the real Tump.

I posted when I first heard Trump was to speak that if I had been planning to attend I would consider asking for my money back because of the unserious circus he would bring. Someone remarked on my post that they couldn´t see how a 15 minute speech by anyone should keep me from going. I guess I´m vindicated by this. It´s so depressing to me that Obama is so horrendous, yet, except for maybe Ted Cruz, our side doesn´t seem to have a clue how to combat him. Rubio did say it well, though. We don´t need to moderate our positions. The idea is America and we just need to stand by that conviction.

Just listened to Donald Trump´s speech from Real Clear Politics and suggest above do too...

His point about the tent for a dinner party at the White House was that it was embarassing and a waste of money... What is so hard to understand about that?

His main point was that America needs Leadership!

You that don´t agree are welcome to throw stones my way too...

It wasn´t so much a speech as an Update from The Donald on a variety of things on his mind.

The Business Insider is a left leaning business news and information outlet, IMO. A review of this young Brett LoGiurato´s recent articles show him to report on everything Left and dump on everything Right. See for yourself...
http://www.businessinsider.com/author/brett-logiurato

There is hardly any substance to this article at all. Even more astounding is that is at the top of the page today as a "Must Read".

You don´t have to subscribe to Trump´s style, but when he said "We´re run by either very foolish or very stupid people," (which was not quoted in this article), he was right. He also rightly criticized Karl Rove, when he stated, ""When you spend $400 million and it´s a failure, and you don´t have one victory, you know there´s something seriously, seriously wrong." That wasn´t quoted in this pathetic article, either.

FTA: "He also made a strange statement about how he wants the U.S. to go back to Iraq to take some oil....I say we should take it and pay ourselves back,"

What is "strange" about that? I completely agree with Trump on this.

Yes, The Donald is an oddly mixed bag.

But he´s been the only one with the guts so far to state that amnesty is suicide for the GOP. Given that´s where they are headed, he´s made the most important statement at all of CPAC.

This is a Lucianne.com "must-read?"

Hundreds of honest-to-god excellent articles flying around out there every minute of every day, and this weird little wad of snark makes the cut. Odd.

Thank you, #7, 8. My sentiments exactly.

Trump is out of his depth. Go back to casinos, Donald.

I like and appreciate Trump.

After what we spent in blood and treaure in that hellhole, Iraq, a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. should cost about 50 cents. Maybe if we start using the word "booty" in place of the word "oil" DJ Fresh Preezy would make it happen.

...what I like about this forum - #4, 5, & 6 smart people know you always have to examine the source...the media in general is dishonest and has a clear leftist agenda...

I haven´t read the article, but I already knew that having Trump as one of our "spokespersons" is a public-relations disaster. He´s a buffoon.

I stopped reading BI for this left leaning reason. Posters are rmostly the same also. Snarky left.

I haven´t read the article, but I already knew...

Sorry for the double post.

Highly anticipated?

By whom?

Without daddy´s money he´d be penniless.

Very disappointing as a "must read" because it´s a total, tiny hit piece and distortion of what Trump said. I found his entire almost 15-minute speech and listened. It made sense to me, seemed heartfelt and his main point was we needed to start making things again - I found nothing to disagree with. So the snark backfired because I went and heard the man in his own words and now I´ll be more skeptical of Business Insider and certain people here who maybe still love Romney and RINOs too much for the good of our country.

Oh please, the democrat party has a never-ending parade of freaks, lunatics and buffoons. And they seem to have no problem winning elections, or capturing the hearts and minds of the general public, for that matter. We conservatives are allowed a crank or two.

Please don´t confuse the carpers with Romney voters. We are as tired of them as you are.

Not that there´s anything wrong with it, Trump has always been a little Stream-of-Consciousness kind of guy. Folks either love him or hate him. He reminds me of a ´´class clown with a high IQ´´ someone not really comfortable with who they are.

After his moronic ramblings about what he was going to release about "O" just before election day.......you´da thunk CPAC would´a kept their distance from the Donald, who was separated from Biden at birth!

I actually listened to him on C-Span. It is obvious that bashing posters here didn´t as they can´t do anything but call names like the Democrats do. Please list ONE thing he said that you disagree with and say why. I agreed with almost everything he said. Makes me ashamed of the IQ´s of some Lucianne posters. No different than the dispepsic Democrats on the Huffington web site.

#4 and #12, I agree with you. There was every reason to expect that we would at the very least get equitable treatment in bidding for Iraqi oil. Instead, it is going to the Chinese on very favorable terms. Give The Donald some credit on this point if nothing else.

I listened to his drivel. He did the obligatory Rove bashing and don´t let Mexicans in. He could challenge Obama on the I, me, my front. On entitlements he might as well have been Jack Lew. We can´t outgrow the future costs of entitlements Donald. Don´t forget to watch the Apprentice.

Last year Donald stirred the birth certificate kettle of rotten fish until the stench tinged the nostrils of the right people and an even "faker" version of the genuine article was produced by the fakir in chief.

People with respected knowledge in the area of fraudulent documents pronounced the Trump induced joke as fake almost before the sunset on the first day of its birth.

Donald, having received his ego fix for the day, crowed far and wide about having brought about the disclosure of the ´real thing´, and possibly ended for ever any chance of bringing to light the massive fraud that surrounds the existence of one Barack Barry Soetoro Thomas Wood Hussein Obama.

Trump, who is somewhat of a modern day P. T. Barnum, could have done some good had he used his sizeable audience and financial assets to shed light on the inconsistencies of the document that his challenge had brought forth. The problem with doing that is he would not have been able to pat himself on the back numerous times before the news cycle expired.

The end result was VJ, BHO, and the amateur forgers played him like a fiddle and he proclaimed authenticity and legitimacy for the worst of the forgeries -- just what they wanted.

Citizen Donald WAS the first with network access to speak out questioning the validity of Obamao´s birth certificate. He raised hell in an otherwise numb and dumbed down media marketplace of ideas. And, most media droids, all of the socialist/commie newscasters, simply would not even ask questions about it. Not even after Sheriff Joe’s committee released brilliant forensic information supporting the falsity of the certificate. It was, and still is, a violation of the code of "omerta", the sacred code of silence that both wise guys and news guys live and die by. Like when longtime CBS newsman Bernie Goldberg, got hit, taken off the net by mafia hitman, Dan Rather. Face it, the birth certificate is off the table for all but a few contrarian heroes. The rule of silence prevails at the risk of career and life. So, Donald really did a big one when he brought this up. You do not hear him talking about it now. Excellent odds he and family were threatened, that he was ordered to shut up on this precarious subject. So now he is just talking silly to take the heat off his early, heroic citizenship. Now, he´s maybe protecting himself and family from the premature death list. The Donald has genius, but even for Donald, truth-going is tough out there.

In this critical time in the nation´s history, all voices and viewpoints are critical - including The Donald´s.

BTW: I have become very skeptical of articles from BI. "Business" doesn´t necessarily mean "conservative".

Thanx, OP, for bringing us a six para article from a leftist rag, and the four comments which went with it. Of those comments, two were by David Freddoso, a disappointed good guy. [Much like David Stockman. another disappointed good guy who did a 180 on same sex marriage when he found out his son was a...homosexual.]

The other two comments were from a guy who writes for the LV Sun, and a chap named Jon Favreau.

LoGiurato, Ralston, Favreau, and you have made your points. We are enlightened.

Trump, neither a "dope" nor a "buffoon," is one of us -- a man who would like to see Obama removed, China defanged, and the U.S. restored to a position of honor in the world.

Serious organizations avoid unserious media hustlers like Trump.

I know this site is the ´church of the Bush´s´, and Jeb Bush out there talking about being inclusive....go away, young men killing and maiming Bush´s. You had your Iraq and for nothing...but poor boys in wheelchairs.
Trump is right, dummies are running the country....Hey you critics,,,how many have you employed lately compared to Trump. And you didn´t get a drop of oil from Iraq,,,,just a lot of drops of blood!!!

So Trump just wants to go over to Iraq and steal their oil? He´s nothing but a pirate in a business suit, but most of us already knew that before he opened his cake hole at CPAC. And Zippy didn´t return his calls? Awwww. Well, that´s one thing I admire about the Resident who´s probably jealous of DT´s effrontery.

There were a couple of impressionable regular participants on this news forum who were passionately hoping that the tawdry character Trump would enter and win the GOP presidential primaries. (Heaven forfend!) As P.T. Barnum once said about suckers, "There´s one born every minute."

There´s nothing about "The Donald" that impresses me in the least. He´s loaded past the gills and all the way to the concave portion of his skull with an unjustified self-regard that smells like

One question: Who in the hell invited DT to the CPAC get together? He knows nothing that´s useful or in the least sense worthy. Like a back alley wino loaded with Thunderbird and trying desperately to keep a firm hold on the spinning ground, CPAC needs a good healthy purge.

Please listen to the speech when commenting not just this read the hit peace.
Yes, he is selling the Trump brand in the process, I guess it is in his blood, he also makes some great points in the process.
1 country leadership is just plain stupid
2 Arabs and Chinese and others are running circles around our decision makers
3 Solving the economy and going back to 3-4% a year growth solves all budget problems and social problems.
4. We are sitting on energy treasure bigger than Russia or Arabs or anybody. Remember "stupid" governor from Texas and "stupid" Sara Palin. ENERGY is the answer and it is not windmills or solar panel for sure.

The sad truth is that at least Trump gets heard, if not listened to, which is a lot more than I can say for RINOs.

Agree with several commenters that this is a hit piece. Trump may not be my favorite go-to conservative, but his speech doesn´t deserve this. I note that the poster seems to find articles to tweak conservatives or mildly implant the idea that things with this administration aren´t so bad after all.

So...CPAC didn´t invite Chris Christie, GOProud, and Pamela Geller, but felt compelled to invite this boob? :smh:

Thank you #23.

#31, No, this is not the "church of Bushes". In fact, most folks here are tired of the Bush family and their globalist views.

At any rate, Trump has his problems. He is only human. He never claimed to be perfect. He just doesn´t care what anyone thinks of him because he is confident in himself. And yes, he does tend to fall into "stream of consciousness" speeches. But that doesn´t make him a "bufoon". I am no fan of Trump, but I also do not appreciate the snarky snipes at him either. As if all of you who are attacking him are so perfect. I doubt he said anything wrong. Just as 95% of the time Palin never says anything wrong. But the media and other detractors automatically do everything in their power to isolate their target and ridicule it so people automatically think the worst. That is what this article is doing too.

I watched the speech. Made sense to me. Why they said "nonsensical" is beyond me. Maybe I´m nonsensical myself?

#30, mark the calendar with a star, because this is probably the only day you and I will be in complete agreement.

There´ll be hell to pay.
Or should I say toupee?

Wow. Attacks on Mr. Trump´s hair, family money and even worse - the Bush family.

Wonders never cease.

I must be on a different planet. I heard his entire speech and found nothing with which to disagree.
Too much snark here and another example of eating our own. STOP already!

De Donald isn´t one of my favorite people but let´s be real. I remember when we were offered oil from Iraq at the beginning of the war and GW refused it, thinking that was as dumb as GW wanting to give Iraq zip codes.

Maybe Donald is not who you want living next door, but he went public about Zippy´s birth certificate. Who else pushed the envelope ?