Posted on 09/17/2015 9:50:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You don’t trust Trump? Prepare to be slammed on this forum. You are right - when confronted with Paul’s junior high comment, Trump doubled-down and insulted Paul’s looks. Childish.
yep, right near the end he had finally had enough and got assertive.
Hmmm, as lazy as Trump and his debate preparation team?
I think that you are in the wrong with Foreign policy and Trump. It is a different mindset from politician and businessman. Trump is used to going into a potential deal, knowing what he wants and to be able to walk away if it is not coming. He can say to heck with it, and find a resolution elsewhere.
So, if there is a foreign policy dispute with Saudi Arabia and Trump can't reach an agreement on an issue with the Saudis, he will instead attempt to reach an accord with Peru because he can get the Peruvian ambassador to agree with the Trump position? That is insane.
While he was wrong with Walker in essence, he is not wrong that Walker is a DISASTER as a politician. He is using the wrong way to point it out.
So...
1. Trump accepts a false allegation created by DEMOCRATS,
2. Trump and his staff do not internally investigate whether there is any truth to the smear,
3. Trump blurts it out on a nationally televised debate,
4. Trump gets reprimanded by every conservative media outlet on the planet for repeating a false DEMOCRAT smear,
5. Trump issues no apology or even a correction for his error,
6. Trump completely ignores all of the media's corrections
7. Trump and his staff still do no internal fact-checking of the talking point for the next 6 weeks
8. Trump repeats the LIE at the second debate...
...and you somehow make the assertion that it is OK for Trump to be so colossally uninformed (or mendaciously LIE) because Scott Walker is a DISASTER as a politician???
Why do you dislike Cruz so much?
Why do you dislike Cruz so much?
Were Donald Trump a staunch conservative but a little “rough around the edges,” his being used as a cudgel might make some sense. “We’re tired of your failure to deliver change,” his defenders might say, “and we’re tired of the impotent sheen that accrues to your preferred candidates. So we’re going to put in this guy and see if he does any better.” But Trump is not a staunch conservative — in fact, he’s not even close. Rather, he’s a self-interested narcissist and serial heretic whose entirely inchoate political platform bends cynically to the demands of the moment. While he has been running for president, he has praised single-payer health care, advocated campaign-speech restrictions, backed raising taxes, endorsed funding Planned Parenthood, and suggested that the entitlement crisis should be pretty much ignored — all positions that would have sunk any other hopeful. This matters. Why? Well, because his champions are contending that, because they are disappointed that Republicans often cave to progressivism while in office, they would be better off electing an outspoken progressive in the first instance — a preposterous position if I ever saw one . . .---Charles C.W. Cooke, from "The Cult of Donald Trump", National Review Online, 16 September.
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