Posted on 09/17/2015 7:25:13 AM PDT by IChing
The amount of legal immigration this country is subjected to is no bargain either.
Cruz didn’t have any counterarguments because he didn’t figure out to name other candidates in his responses.
If he had, he would have got much more time and been able to show himself to be much more interactive—rather than just an ideas salesman on the political QVC channel.
“People are backing him based on emotional affinity.”
I back Trump based on what he pledges. I have no need for an emotional affinity with a person I will never meet. I have an emotional affinity for this country. I am not unique.
What are you talking about? People are realizing that evidence of substance is in actual accomplishments in the brick-and-mortar, Main Street private sector empire Trump has built, not in the polite gum-flapping the others do.
I like Cruz a lot. I hope he gets elected. My only nit with Cruz is that he is a little over the top dramatic now and then. Not in what he says, but in how he says it. A little to much drama. But not that it would keep me from voting for him.
Yup. He’s a very good self-promoter.
People paint their hopes and dreams on him but there’s no real substance to his candidacy.
People like him because he’s awesome at identifying with them.
That’s very different from saying why they support him.
I doubt one Trump supporter on this forum can state exactly what Trump has to say about any issue besides immigration.
If you go to his website, he has exactly one signature issue.
The rest is just the stuff as you noted, late night infomercials are made of.
I’m afraid most Freepers don’t care or want to see that Trump isn’t who they want him to be.
Thanks. 9YearLurker. I’ve been here 18 years myself, half under a different handle.
Trump has shown a better grasp of the big picture than anyone—and that is why he is leading.
You don’t want a details man (like Carter, for example) in the presidency.
...not to mention the fact that he pulls no punches on the real issue of the illegal invasion; Rand Paul even acknowledged that Trump was precisely right last night on the anchor baby/14th amendment argument, and that Fiorina was dead wrong. Substance, my FRiend.
Exactly, henkster.
Ann, your anti-Semitic tweet last night was the last straw.
You’re through.
How did all of those magnificent hotels and other structures in his real estate empire get built? Is Trump a construction engineer, laborer, foreman, architect, heavy equipment operator, lawyer, banker, electrician, security guard, bellboy, and so on ?
Well, how does he do it?
In my case, at least, it is not desperation to win at all costs.
Trump or Cruz are the only ones I will vote for.
I will never vote for the GOPe again.
I will vote for Trump because of the things I found out about him by reading his books or I will vote for Cruz because we all know he is the standard for conservatism.
More like 16, coffee ran out, glasses need cleaning.
“But they give Trump a pass because they read into him whatever they want.”
I have heard that line before; some people think it is so damn perceptive and penetrating.
Tell me, when Trump says he will build a wall on the Mexican border, what kind of meaning am I assigning to those words that really have nothing to do with building a wall?
When Trump says he will deport all illegals and make this nation a nation of laws again, exactly what meaning can I assign to those words that have nothing to do with deportation?
When Trump says he will repair our trade treaties, exactly what hidden meaning am I attaching to those words that have nothing to do with repairing our trade treaties?
When Trump says he can very Constitutionally end birthright citizenship, what exactly can I so easily construe his meaning to be other than ending birthright citizenship?
I can go on, but you get the drift.
As evidenced by what?
His bank account?
He can’t finish a sentence.
Those he starts are grand generalizations, free from content resembling specifics.
“Most,” huh?
I’m not talking about details.
I’m talking about principles.
What principles does Trump have - what is his world view?
I’d want to know how a President sees the world and leads the country.
We don’t need a policy wonk but we do need a thoughtful man who can tell us what direction our country should move in.
Trump has yet to paint that picture for the American people.
Nonsense, many of them made great points. But voters instinctively sense that Trump is really the only one who puts action and results ahead of politeness and policy wonkishness.
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