He takes flagrantly contradictory positions:
He says take the oil and the Iraq war was wrong.
Pretending that Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq is the same as supporting the war in Iraq is painfully disingenuous.
In order to “take the oil” we would have to have a credible and strong military presence— beyond the 14,000 troops currently deployed in our “withdrawal” from iraq.
The Donald is allowed to take contradictory positions because his followers refuse to follow reason.
I think I will support Trump over Hillary if that is all that is available, but I would love to have Cruz waiting tor run against Trump in 2020 once it is clear that he is a liberal authoritarian who hates conservatives.
I don’t believe trump at all but I can tell from these threads that facts don’t matter. People are mad and they are going to vote for what they think sends the ‘craziest’ signal.
I think we could have stayed in Iraq— just as we stay in Korea— stay in Japan— in order to win and prove that Islamic supremacism is as bad as communism or any other violent ideology the world has to offer.
I still think Cruz can win— especially in Iowa and South Carolina— but it is frustrating how unmoved trump supporters are to his clear anti-conservative positions.
For Trump supporters, it seems to be either “deport them all, build a wall” that wins them over or his perceived anti-PC-ness. But the “deport them all” loses its uniqueness once Donald added in that he’ll expedite letting the “good ones” back in legally afterwards. Every Republican immigration plan has always had the same elements of letting some number of the current illegals stay under some status. Trump adds in going out and in the revolving door, but in the end, “what difference does it make?”
PC is a terrible blight on our culture, and I do like Trump’s willingness to say he’d ban all Muslims to keep the bad ones out. But on the other hand, when a transsexual wanted to get into his beauty pageant he at first said no, and then a few days later let “her” in. He also told Stern years ago he opposed same-sex marriage, but that he could change his mind. Trump wants to be popular. When the media pushes back on him, he’s likely to fold to pressure. He wants to be popular with primary voters now, but it’s likely he’ll poll-test in the general election and adjust his positions to make him popular with the general election voters. That’s what happens when someone doesn’t have core values that they’re committed to. And since the push of the media and the loudest parts of the culture are always moving to the left, that’s where a President who puts his finger in the wind will go.