Posted on 11/10/2015 8:59:58 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Well stated.
The things that resonates about Trump is he has proven leadership skills and he brings an outsider view.
For the last 30 years we have elected career politicians to DC. Career politicians see everything in terms of politics. They look for a political answer to any problem. We need someone who will look at the problem, listen to his advisers, then say “this is the right thing to do” rather then “this is the politically correct thing to do”.
For a change we need to send someone to DC who has the leadership skills to surround himself with good people, the habit of listening to the advice of those experts instead of his political advisers, and the backbone to make the tough decisions. We need someone to go to DC and say “this, this and this is nonsense, we aren’t doing that any more no matter what the Donor class says”
A career politician, being part of the party machine, is not even going to see those issues in that light. Instead he is going to see the politics of the issue. It just how they are wired.
Trump IMO is playing a masterful game of chess on his way to the GOP nomination. I have no worries about him winning the general election. Hillary can only dream of being able to attack Trump as viciously as the GOPe aided and abetted by the RNC and the MSM.
Two polls out today showing Jeb at 4% and 3% respectively. Trump at 31% and 32%. Carson at 16% and 18%.
And I'm sure he'll be infected with the ‘bipartisan’ bug - shorthand for doing what liberals want.
But my focus has been and continues to be the thousands of appointed positions that the president can put into place. Putting people who actually work and aren't the cousin of the speaker of the house or the wife of the chair of the ways and means committee, etc. Four years of no nepotism will likely have more effect on government departments than anything else, and will have a decade at least of carry on effects.
Will he be a good president if he wins the nomination and the general? Compared to what? Obama? Bush? I think the bigger problem is an infested congress and activist courts. That's the one dark mark I have on Trump; I'm less confident in his court appointments. But considering the alternatives - Bush, Rubio - hard to see either of them actually beating Clinton.
But one thing I've not really seen mentioned at all is why there's not really, at least that has popped up, any coattail effect on this national distaste for career Washingtonians - I've not really heard of many maverick congressional or senatorial runs to capitalize on the number of people who will be going to the voting booths to vote for Trump, Carson or on the other side, Sanders.
Is it just too early?
A poll showing Ben Carson leading in SC is just a joke. That is never going to happen.
You would be wrong in your assessment.
The “e” in GOPe stands for establishment and Trump is the antitheses of the establishment.
The GOPe is made up of Jeb, and the Bush family, Rubio, Kasich, Boehner, McConnell, Paul Ryan, Mitt, McCain, and all the rest of the backstabbing republicans.
I like that!
Trump ping!
Right now I prefer Ted Cruz. If Mr. Trump is the nominee I will happily support him
Gosh where do I start about how great Trump is....
He doesn’t lie; he is a man of his word; he is an American first; he can see, like we do, that this beautiful country is going into ruins...
I could go on all day, but I’ll leave some of it for the rest of you to do....
If there was ever a man that can help America, Trump is that man!!!
GO TRUMP GO!!!
Have you read either of his two policy books??? Particularly his 2000 book The America We Deserve proves you wrong
> “ I think the bigger problem is an infested congress and activist courts. That’s the one dark mark I have on Trump; I’m less confident in his court appointments.”
That’s why he needs Ted Cruz as his VP.
He’s soooooo “committed” that he’s been married 3 times!
Tells me all I need to know.
First and foremost, I've got no illusions that he'll work with anyone and everyone, including McCain and the GOPe, or with Pelosi and the Democrats - I fully expect a major case of bipartisanship to pop up if he is sworn in.
Which was kind of my point - where's the coattail effect on the primary? Who is hitching their stars to Trump to ride in on the anti-establishment charge? Because if we use this opportunity to stuff in as many anti-establishment conservatives as we can, bipartisanship will be diluted and congress itself will be reformed at the same time.
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