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Last week Karl Rove, the official voice of what Sarah Palin calls the “GOP Establishment,” took the bait. He called Donald Trump a “joke candidate.” Then at the end of the week Charles Krauthammer ran a lineup of what he considered to be the GOP potentials for 2012. Krauthammer, who might be considered the GOP Establishment’s apparatchik-in-chief, said of Trump, “He’s not a candidate, he’s a spectacle,” calling The Donald “merely vulgar.” A “provocateur and clown,” like the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Krauthammer proposed Mitt Romney as the GOP Establishment’s first (and only, really) choice. That’s terrible news for Romney, because in a Trump vs. Romney race with Romney as the official representative of the Rove/Krauthammer/Bush/Cheney GOP Establishment, Trump wins.

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