He is over 35 and an natural-born American and been a resident for 14+ years. The only qualifications you need.
Republican logic:
Obama was a one-term senator before running for president: HE'S UNQUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT!!
Donald Trump has absolutely no experience whatsoever: "He is over 35 and an natural-born American and been a resident for 14+ years. The only qualifications you need."
Trump has immense EXECUTIVE experience; more than any Presidential candidate since Eisenhower. And he's seeking the ultimate executive job in the US.
His experience is all in the private sector. If elected, he'll experience the difference in a hurry. But to say that he is "unqualified" in the sense that his career in business is irrelevant to the job he's seeking is just not true.
Sure, he has executive experience, and as a conservative Republican, I greatly value private sector experience (I'm a huge fan of Romney and also like Bloomberg). But these men had both business AND executive political experience. And unlike Trump, they understood policy and knew how the government worked. You may disagree with them politically, but Romney and Bloomberg are serious thoughtful knowledgeable men. One cannot say the same about Trump. His expertise is in real estate, but that knowledge does not help with macroeconomics, fiscal policy, budgets, national security, executive orders, geopolitics, military, and a host of other complex issues that the President must deal with on a daily basis. And even in the business realm, Trump has been mediocre; whenever he ventured outside of real estate, he has failed spectacularly. He inherited a massive fortune from his dad, got lucky a few times, and then slaps his name on everything like the vulgar charlatan that he is.
I would have supported Bloomberg if he ran, but he didn't.
I may well have supported Romney this time if he had ran, but he didn't.
I would also mention that Romney's experience as Governor of MA was downplayed to the point where he often didn't mention it. His business experience and his role as a "job creator" was emphasized. His experience as Governor was avoided because his signature achievement was Romneycare, the blueprint for Obamacare, more or less.
Romney lost in no small part because he was billed as a "job creator" and he wasn't. He was a "wealth creator" and a leveraged buyout guy. I'm not knocking this, and at Bain Capital, Romney had lots of experience of coming into difficult situations with companies and forcing them to live within their means, which meant laying off people. But he was stuck with a false narrative by foolish campaign consultants. The real Mitt Romney was more attractive than the narrated Mitt Romney.
