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The Conservative Con (Master Persuader Series)

I wouldn’t call myself well-informed about politics. But I pay attention when I can. My best guess is that I’m in the top 20% of informed citizens. Yet I don’t know the political definition of conservative.

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Scott Adams on Fox and Friends (clip)

Here’s a clip of me on Fox this morning, talking Trump. I come in right after the Trump speech clips.

If you don’t like my thoughts in that appearance, there is no reason to believe you will not love my book. But if you do, you’ll totally like my book.

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Republican Debate (March 3) Scorecard (Master Persuader Series)

The FOX News debate moderators annihilated Donald Trump last night. They highlighted huge problems with his budget plan, showed inconsistencies in his policies, and hammered him for his Trump University “scam” as some would call it. It was Trump’s first bad debate night.

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Naming Romney’s Upcoming Anti-Trump Speech

The results of my flagrantly unscientific Twitter poll suggest that Romney will not enjoy the rest of his week.

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A Letter to Donald Trump (from a voter, not me)

This letter from Troy Morton was in the comments to my post from earlier today. I am reposting it here, with permission, because it is simply beautiful.

Breathtaking, actually.

Enjoy. 

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Super Tuesday (Master Persuader Series)

Donald Trump did well in the Super Tuesday primary states, surprising no one who reads this blog. Here are my thoughts about last night, as seen through the Master Persuader filter.

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Strategic Ambiguity (Master Persuasion Series)

If you have been watching the news lately you know that Donald Trump disavowed the endorsement of racist David Duke. Unless you are watching CNN, in which case, their version of the news is that he didn’t do enough disavowing that one time.

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Trump’s VP Options (Master Persuader Filter)

Just for fun, let’s say Trump has five options for VP. 

  • John Kasich
  • Some other white male governor
  • Superstar woman or minority governor
  • Mark Cuban
  • Chris Christie

I’ll break down the choices for you and run them through the Master Persuader filter for a prediction.

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Disavowing Trump

I disavow Trump. Because of this and a few other things.

His skills are still impressive.

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The Choke Artist Versus the Watch Salesman (Trump Persuasion Series)

Let’s compare Trump’s and Rubio’s Linguistic Kill Shots from the Republican debate last night.

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