Posted on 09/09/2015 3:35:20 AM PDT by nikos1121
I'm directing this to fellow Freepers out there that are at this point in time:
1. Totally against Trump 2. Considering Trump 3. Warming up to Trump 4. Willing to Stump for Trump
This is about my evolution. When I heard Trump had announced, I was actually angry. I was basically for Cruz, and very much so, but wanting to hear from Walker.
I figured that Trump was going to pull a Ross Perot on us, the most despised person in my mind. He ran against Bush, Sr for no other reason than out of spite for the man. He ushered in Clinton, who was a terrible president.
Then I listened to the man, and saw someone who is sincere about running. A man who speaks with clarity of thought and is not afraid to say how he feels. I realized in Alabama for sure, that he's not here to get another Clinton elected.
When you then focus on what he says, he says just about everything most of us here have been saying for years now. I don’t give a rip what he said in the year's past. In the business world you get along and help along.
His books say the opposite.
He’s a very Pro-American, self made person who I would be proud to see as president. He embodies much of who we are as Americans ie, brash, confident, cocky, strong willed, loyal and consistent in honoring contracts.
But don’t take my word for it. Read his book. This comes right out of it:
“What people need to know is what the great conservative economist and writer Thomas Sowell taught us: in the world of economics, there are no such things as “solutions,” only tradeoffs. Every action has a consequence. Every decision has an upside and a downside. So you make smart decisions that minimize harm and maximize freedom. One of the many reasons why I’m a conservative is because I believe in the so-called Law of Unintended Consequences—the idea that, no matter how good government’s intentions, when you start social engineering or messing around with the free market, more often than not you open a Pandora’s box of negatives you didn’t see coming.”
So, I'm going to post some of the best from his latest book, Make America Great Again, in the days and weeks ahead, and ask other Freepers who are reading the book do so, also.
Mark Twain once said: “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
I think there's a lot of misinformation out there about the man. So, let's look at what the man says, and ask ourselves if we agree or disagree with the man.
1. I love America. And when you love something, you protect it passionately—fiercely, even. We are the greatest country the world has ever known. I make no apologies for this country, my pride in it, or my desire to see us become strong and rich again. After all, wealth funds our freedom. But for too long we’ve been pushed around, used by other countries, and ill-served by politicians in Washington who measure their success by how rapidly they can expand the federal debt, and your tax burden, with their favorite government programs.
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (p. 7). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. The damage that Democrats, weak Republicans, and this disaster of a president have inflicted on America has put us in a mess like we’ve never seen before in our lifetimes. To fix the problem we’ve got to be smart and get tough. There’s no time to waste.
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (p. 8). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
3. When you do someone a favor, they say thank you. When you give someone a loan, they pay you back. And when a nation like the United States sacrifices thousands of lives of its own young servicemen and women and more than a trillion dollars to bring freedom to the people of Iraq, the least—the absolute least—the Iraqis should do is pick up the tab for their own liberation.
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (p. 9). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
4. In June 2011, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California visited Iraq and told Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that he hoped Iraq would someday consider repaying America for all our sacrifices on Iraq’s behalf. The Prime Minister’s response was to have his press spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, call up the U.S. embassy and say that they wanted the congressman to get out of their country and that his remarks were “inappropriate.”
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (p. 10). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
5. Call me old school, but I believe in the old warrior’s credo that “to the victor go the spoils.” In other words, we don’t fight a war, hand over the keys to people who hate us, and leave. We win a war, take the oil to repay the financial costs we’ve incurred, and in so doing, treat Iraq and everybody else fairly. As General Douglas MacArthur said, “There is no substitute for victory.” From the very beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I believed we should have hammered out the repayment plan with the Iraqis—through exiled Iraqi dissidents—before we launched the war and rid the people of Iraq of their murderous dictator, Saddam Hussein. And back then, there were a few smart people who agreed with me and said the same thing. One of them was the director of the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment, Andrew Marshall. He recommended that oil revenues should be used to reduce the sticker price for occupation.1 Of course, that hasn’t happened. Still, there’s no reason we can’t or shouldn’t implement a cost-sharing arrangement with Iraq. Do not take no for an answer.
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (p. 12). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
6. If our “community organizer in chief” would take the time to study the marketplace, he would know that over the past year, things like fruit, pasta, coffee, bacon, and lots of other foods have registered price spikes as high as 40 percent, and there’s no end in sight—in large part because of the price of oil, which has spiked transportation and fertilizer costs.6 Until we get this country’s lifeblood—oil—back down to reasonable rates, America’s economy will continue to slump, jobs won’t get created, and American consumers will face ever-rising prices. We can talk all day about windmills, nuclear power, and solar, geothermal, and other alternative fuels. I’m all for developing alternatives to oil, but that’s for the long term. The fact is, right now and for the foreseeable future, the planet runs on oil—and that means we need to get the price of a barrel of oil down—way down, maybe even to $20 a barrel—and boy would our economy rock.
Trump, Donald J. (2011-12-06). Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (pp. 16-17). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Do you think Trump actually wrote those books?
Whether or not he “wrote” it or had a co-author, the ideas in the book are all his.
I agree.
When the candidates were ramping up originally I looked at everyone running, with the following the things I wanted to see from someone:
1) Bring back American jobs.
2) Secure America’s borders.
Thus far, Trump is saying those things loudly, and he’s the only one who I trust at this point in time.
Trump. I actually support Palin even more, but Trump is stronger as a campaigner, and seems to possibly be a better candidate.
Thanks for posting this.
Remember when you want healthcare services that you have to say “acute pain” or you will likely have to wait a long time.
Probably had those writings down along the way for books he’s always writing, so yes!
Did you know he says he’s smart by the way?
Thank-you for posting this!
Food for thought!
This is actually helpful. Thank you for putting it together. I appreciate it.
I’m still not there - but you know what - I could get there.
It is not that we hate the GOPe so much that we would vote for the devil if he put a curse on Mitch McConnell, it is that Trump offers some hope on immigration and if out-of-control immigration is not brought under control conservatism is dead in America. If conservatism dies, the Republic dies.
Trump's claim to the presidency is limited to immigration and his promise respecting shutting it down.
But when we look carefully at what he promises concerning immigration, we are left scratching our heads. He will support all illegals only to readmit those he likes. How many will he like? He does not tell us. He acts as though he alone can make these determinations about who to readmit but he must deal with Congress. Just because Obama, the First Black President and a leftist, could govern on many issues, especially immigration, with his pen and his phone does not mean that a White Republican President will be able to do the same.
In exchange for his stance on immigration (admittedly the best of any candidate but still not crystal clear), we have to accept all of the rest of Donald Trump. Is Donald Trump's convoluted stance on immigration worth taking Donald Trump?
If Donald Trump will give me immigration at a time when no one else will, I will shut up and salute Donald Trump yet I know I am not getting a Messiah, I would not even be getting a conservative.
-PJ
I would love to take credit, but this should be posted to nikos1121 :)
Great post. The information is very much appreciated.
Unlike O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, who use ghost writers, like Ann Coulter, he wrote them himself. The last book has over 200 footnotes. His book the Art of the Deal is used in business schools.
Yes, he wrote these books, and I wish he can articulate the message in the debate tonight.
I dunno—Trump seems to be going a bit wobbly, of late.
Perhaps his “advisers” are getting to him.
Are you getting ready for the debate, a week early?
:D
I have been for Cruz, since the beginning, based on his record, and his intelligent speeches.
But no one has a natural right to be President. If Cruz cannot out-communicate and beat Trump, there’s no reason to believe he could communicate well enough in the White House to prevail over the Left.
of course, he’s been disagreeing with Sowell ever since......
True....of course, THATS MY fear with Trump. Precisely.
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