Posted on 06/18/2015 4:34:22 PM PDT by cotton1706
“Trump could be a wild card doing anything. I’m waiting to see how it plays out.”
I don’t see him making it to the general, but if he’s able to “refocus the debate” maybe some good will come of it. Most of what he said yesterday is unassailable. But here we are with some shooting at him for what they think he is as opposed to his message. One thing is certain, he doesn’t need the money, which separates him from all of them. Most politicians start out broke and end up quite wealthy. At least Trump starts out with the need to get rich out of the way!
“I just filled you in on Reagan’s history with post 40, and the absurdity of your comparing him to the 69 year old Trump in 2015.”
I did not make that comparison. Please find someone else to BS.
That was a joke. He has already explained it and he laughed that the media took off with it. Stop with the misinformation.
dinodino- “Reagan had foundational conservative beliefs which shone through during his electoral campaign.
Yes, and he was a Democrat originally, so all this BS about to whom Trump has contributed is just so much crap.
Read post 40, your comparison is ridiculous.
By the way, your man has said as recently as 2004 that he identifies as a Democrat, and this week revealed his favorite president as Bill Clinton.
Dana Perino is Rove in a dress.
People who think Trump is a “joke”; the joke may be on them:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3301571/posts
You said exactly right.
Donald Trump is no conservative. He’s an egomaniac opportunist, nothing more. No conservative would ever give all the cash to Democrats that he consistently has.
He should be blocked from all GOP debates. He’s an embarrassment and a sideshow.
He even donated to Hillary from what I recall.
The greatest President in Modern-day History, Ronald Reagan, gave money to Democrats before he became a Republican.
Great article. We are seeing the true colors of phony GOP hacks. Trump is saying everything people have been ranting about here on FR for years, and fake conservatives are frothing at the mouth because he’s no one of the club.
The more he talks about walls the more I pay attention. The GOPe hates that so much.
Those aren’t jokes.
Donald Trump names his favorite prez: Bill Clinton
By ADAM B. LERNER 6/17/15 2:09 PM EDT
Donald Trump may be a Republican, but his favorite president of the last four is none other than Bill Clinton.
In 1999, while flirting with running for president under Ross Perot’s Reform Party, Trump told the New York Daily News that he supported abortion rights and universal health care.
The paper also reported that he became a Democrat in August 2001, according to election records. And in 2004, the real estate mogul praised some Democratic efforts.
In March of that year, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked whether he identified more as a Democrat or as a Republican.
“Well, you’d be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as a Democrat,” Trump said.
1999
TRUMP PUMPED TO HIT STUMP – WANTS TO RUN WITH OPRAH ON HIS TICKET
By Deborah OrinOctober 8, 1999
That was before the entire Democrat party had been overrun with McGovernite freaks.
I can understand not voting for a GOP candidate but to actively hand over cash to Hellary?
VIVA THE DONALD!!!
What specifically do you think he’s saying that everyone here would agree with?
Don’t be a fool, what does voting democrat in the 1930s and WWII have to do with Trump’s liberal politics of the 21st century?
Reagan wasn’t a draft dodger (Reagan served from 1937-1945), Trump was.
The last time Reagan voted Dem for President was 1948, for Bill clinton is Trump’s favorite president, By 1952 Reagan was campaigning for Republicans as a “Democrat for Eisenhower”, he kept using that anti-liberal, conservative campaigning slogan until 1962.
In 1952 Reagan was campaigning for Republicans like Eisenhower, who he campaigned for again in 1956, and then campaigned for Nixon against JFK in 1960, already having earned a reputation as an active speaker for conservatism for years.
Reagan formally registered Republican in 1962 and spoke at the Goldwater convention in 1964.
Reagan was famous for his conservatism before the Vietnam War, and the Great Society, Roe V Wade, the abortion wars, Jimmy Carter, decades of Cold War defeats, and the radical 1960s, before the Reagan Revolution and the Contract with America, and the Clinton years, and the Gore election of 2000, and two terms of Obama.
Reagan and Trump have nothing in common.
Correct! Watching Kraut-Hammer and Perino froth at the mouth over Trump tells me the spineless GOP elite are scared to death of the man.
Businessmen give money to politicians that can help them. If you’re in NY that means Democrats. That’s partly why Trump has such contempt for pols, he knows how easily they can be bought.
One of the author’s points was that Williamson was the ass; he acted beneath himself.
” makes democrat rich people”
What’s with all the generalities I have been seeing? We are talking about TRUMP, for crying out loud, not democrat rich people.
Just about everything being said in this thread about Trump is mostly irrelevant to how much success he will or won’t have in a run for the Republican nomination.
Trump in running against those areas where the Dims and Reps have largely been in agreement over the years, or supporting the same cause for different advantages. Saying that Dims ignore immigration law because they want future Dim voters, and that Reps ignore the law because their biggest donors want a continuing oversupply of cheap labor is entirely valid. Same goes for high legal immigration mostly from Third World nations.
And NAFTA was passed with Slick Willie and huge Republican support in Congress, and huge Dim opposition. They same Dim president, Republican Congress coalition is ramming through the current TPA and will probably pass TPP and the other major agreements being negotiated.
Trump is running against immigration and trade polices supported by both parties over several decades, policies that polls always showed that 60% of the American people opposed.
If Trump can effectively communicate how he will change the direction of those two major policy pushes of the past decades, and convince voters that he can restore economic prosperity better than any other candidate, then he can became a strong force in this primary and maybe in the general election.
I don’t if he’ll do the work and present his ideas more effectively and win over the voters, but this is where his chances of success lie, and if he pulls it off, all the mostly irrelevant criticisms and sniping going on in this thread won’t matter.
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