One lucky winner: George W. Bush

[Drunken Irishman]

38. Trump is nothing.

That's where you're getting confused. Trump is neither a hawk or a dove. He's about his own image. There's a reason he buddies up with dictators, because he likes the image they represent. With that also comes the want for war. But that want doesn't make him a hawk or more hawkish, or as hawkish, as Cheney or Wolfowitz or whatever, because their want for war is built out of an ideology. There is no ideology there with Trump. It's just about the facade. Trump looks at a war time president as tough - someone who is history making. He may look at himself as Patton. It's all about him.

Trump's whole idea of the presidency is a Hollywood-idealistic version where he's Thomas Whitmore boldly stating, as he leads his people into battle, that, "today is our Independence Day!" or James Marshall, who, after terrorists take over Air Force One, declares, "Get off my plane..."

Those are bad-ass, tough guy presidents. Trump doesn't want to be a peacenik like Jimmy Carter. He wants to be a macho president. Someone like FDR or even Ronald Reagan. Presidents the history books remember for their standing tall in defiance of world conflict.

For Trump, the best way to get that is through war. He is itching at war more than any president in recent history - including even Bush, believe it or not. He just hasn't been given the opportunity. But that's not to say it won't present itself in four more years if he wins.

And that's what makes him way more dangerous than Bush ever was. Because it's about vanity. There is zero rationalizing with his vanity.