Sunday, July 19, 2015
Trump refuses to apologize to McCain
And it is pure Republican campaign strategy not to do so. Think! When was the last time you heard any Republican apologize for speaking vile and disgusting spew? Just because the target was a Republican this time is irrelevent when the mouth that roars is very appealing to the base.
"No, not at all."The Republicans have been using the no apology, moving on here policy for some time now. Trump is merely taking it and running farther and faster with it.
That was reality TV star Donald Trump's response to ABC's Martha Raddatz Sunday morning when she asked him whether he owed John McCain an apology for suggesting that the Arizona Senator wasn't a war hero because he had been captured during the Vietnam War.
If you were expecting anything else from Trump, you haven't been paying much attention to his presidential campaign. Or his life. Trump's appeal in the 2016 race appears to be built on saying things and acting in ways that other politicians would never dream of doing. Trump, to his credit, appears to grasp that fact.
"I will say what I want to say, and maybe that’s why I’m leading in the polls because people are tired of hearing politicians and pollsters telling the politicians exactly what to say," Trump told Raddatz.
The fact is that apologizing after a comment judged as ill-advised (at best) by most politicians is exact opposite of the Trump brand. The sort of people who misspeak and then try to clean up their messes are the very people that Trump derides -- and that he believes the public can't stand either.
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