Posted on 07/17/2015 8:24:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Businessman Donald Trump on Thursday said the country has to provide health care for the poor and that he’s “actually a conservative with a heart” who can work out deals with hospitals to make it happen.
“I want people taken care of in the country, okay? You can call it anything you want, but I want — including people that don’t have anything,” Mr. Trump said on “The John Fredericks Show.” about “We gotta do that.”
Mr. Fredericks, a Virginia-based radio host who has predicted that Mr. Trump will win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, had asked Mr. Trump how to reconcile his statements critical of President Obama’s health care law with past statements in which Mr. Trump was warm to the notion of universal health care coverage.
“You know, I’m a very conservative guy … number one, the people that can do it, we’re going to get them plans that are so good and we’re going to break the borders, we’re going to go [to] the private plans,” Mr. Trump said. “A lot of people had plans they loved before Obamacare came along. You probably did. I have friends that had really good plans — now they have horrible plans and they’re paying five times more for [them].
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...ah, perhaps the first step towards “compassionate conservatism” on Trump’s part. I wonder, if like Bush and Rove, he means that normal average conservatives don’t have any compassion....
Been there. Done that.
Would like to see what this would look like. Private sector solution and getting rid of a federal program? Never mind......
We had free health care for the poor before Obamacare and we still have it...it’s called the emergency room.
John Kasich in a fright wig.
Geesh, Trump...you were supposed to be smarter than this...ugh
No, Donald. No, you're not.
Frankly, I felt a bit weak in the knees, myself..... looking at that pic.
Been there. Done that.
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Me too.
Conservative with a heart.
Translation: I need to take your hard earned money and give it to someone else.
We should all take this as a BIG WARNING SIGN.
I like that Mr. Trump pointed out that people had plans they really liked before Obamacare, and now they’re stuck with horrible plans and they are paying five times as much for them. A point that needs to be hammered.
Hillary is ordering double-duty Depends.
Bernie Sanders is burning copies of Das Kapital.
John McCain is GOPeeing all over the Senate.
Lindsey Graham is having fainting spells.
Chris Chrisie is wasting his lapband w/ compulsive eating.
George Pataki is up in Dannemora looking for an escape route.
What it looks like is one thing. What it sounds like is another. What is sounds like should at least be a tiny sonar ping on your conservative sensor.
Think: Would Reagan ever feel the need to say he’s compasionate? Would Cruz? Would any TRUE conservative feel the need to say they’re compassionate? NO.
A true conservative knows that conservatism IS compassion.....and doesn’t need to add the word in front. This will be looked at in months as the first loose thread being pulled......
He is a loud mouth publicity whore with a record of donating to Democrats. Current bloviations are no indication of future performance.
But we can hope...
“Compassionate Conservatism” is neither.
As you can see with my original posts, I totally agree, and this was my exact take. The unraveling begins....and with a twist....that he can "negotiate" our health care problems away. Nothing like a conservative...with a heart and ego.....
Trump is a meteor candidate. He will burn brightly for a short time and then fizzle out.
We need a serious candidate to beat the Hildabeast.
Scott Walker or Ted Cruz.
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