[TheRealThing]

Lou Dobbs is wrong. Donald Trump is a special interest and lobbyist and he has benefited immensely from a very friendly media that has given him tens of millions of dollars worth of free publicity.

As I pointed out elsewhere, Trump is not self-funded. He is loaning his campaign as much as it needs and there is nothing to stop him from paying his campaign back with donations, just like every other candidate in the race. Trump has and continues to solicit donations at the same time that he claims that he is self funded. This is just one of the many whoppers told by the Orange Opportunist.

Winning is not everything. Character still matters in this country, although it seems to matter to fewer and fewer people. I hope that Jeb Bush was right about one thing and that is you cannot insult your way into the White House. If Trump is able to lie and insult his way to the presidency, he will have set a very troublesome precedent.

I think you may have missed the arrival of that precedent by at least one administration. Lou Dobbs might be wrong, and I might be wrong, and all the other conservatives whom I respect in Trump's corner might be wrong. But I doubt it.