Posted on 04/22/2016 1:10:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since the debate over what he said yesterday is still raging, it’s only fair that you get to hear his latest comment about it. Skip to 8:35 of the clip below from last night’s interview on Trump TV.
His response to Hannity’s question about North Carolina is a dodge but it’s a dodge with a conservative pedigree. If you’re a Republican who’s been put on the spot about a hot-button social issue, you can’t go wrong saying, “Leave it to the states.” Even righties who disagree with you on the merits will tip their caps at your nod to federalism. In fact, this is Cruz’s go-to answer whenever he’s asked about gay marriage or marijuana. He’s against legalizing either, he’ll tell you, which pleases social conservatives, but he’s also not looking to use federal power to impose his personal preference, which pleases everyone else. Trump’s answer is trying to create the same dynamic — with a twist. Instead of reassuring non-Republicans that he’ll defer to their local preference, as Cruz does when he gives the federalism answer, Trump’s reassuring his own party. He’s telling the same evangelicals who helped him crush Cruz across the south that he’ll pose no obstacle to them on this issue as president, which is an … interesting position for a soon-to-be party nominee to find himself in with respect to his own base.
There’s one other key difference: Cruz opts for a federalist answer on gay marriage and marijuana because each of those issues has been pushed by social conservatives at the federal level. Marijuana is regulated by the federal government, of course, and SSM opponents have spent years calling for a Federal Marriage Amendment. Cruz, in choosing federalism, is answering a bona fide question of whether the states or the feds should govern on those topics. There’s no similar state/federal dispute over North Carolina’s law. No one’s calling for a Federal Transgender Bathroom Amendment. Trump seizes on federalism, in other words, not because there’s a legitimate question of which government should address this subject but because he understands that federalism is a crowd-pleasing way to dodge when you don’t know what to say. It’s another small example of him not knowing how to speak conservative fluently.
I wouldn’t call it a flip-flop, though, as some Trump critics have on social media. This is a flip-flop:
Trump went from fiscal hawk to dove in 3 weeks. Obama would agree with much of this: https://t.co/SXKiPa4lRo pic.twitter.com/s0RMW3VT2Z
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 22, 2016
That’s from an interview with Fortune Magazine, which pressed him on why he could possibly believe he might pay off America’s $19 trillion debt in 10 years. “I didn’t say 10 years,” Trump replied. Er, three weeks ago he said he could pay it off in eight years, and that he’d do it mainly by renegotiating America’s trade deals, which wouldn’t remotely approach $2-3 trillion per year in surpluses. How you reconcile that with what he said to Fortune, I have no idea. Maybe that’s what Paul Manafort meant by Trump playing a “part” earlier and shifting to a more sober approach now. The old Trump would lie, lie, lie right to your face about his superheroic powers of debt-slashing. The new, serious Trump will be more realistic, “realistic” in this case meaning somehow spending more on the military and on infrastructure and not laying a finger on entitlement spending (as Trump has promised before) and yet somehow still reducing the debt in the process. Old Trump, in other words, was more like Superman whereas new Trump is more like Batman — wildly implausible, if not quite outright impossible.
Here’s the Hannity interview, followed by Cruz trying to capitalize on Manafort’s comments to the RNC.
This focus on people’s bodily functions and having government interference in any shape, manner or form needs to stop.
I am a Trump voter. I respect his big picture view of the world and support him. He’s not perfect like the snarky, miserable, little nasal-voiced pipsqueak Cruz. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Frosted flakes?
I am so F-IN sick of this crap.
born with a penis then you are male and that is all the candidates have to say end of.
these perverts, sicko’s and whack jobs need to be told that they need mental help and their days of demanding have come to an end.
Where is Congress speaking about this, why is it social issues are ignored by these cowards.
I was referring to “waffle”, but the responses were just to funny....
John Kerry got blasted here for pretty much the same thing.
That’s because you are a Trump supporter unwilling to turn a blind eye to this nonsense. I applaud you.
RE: He’s not perfect like the snarky, miserable, little nasal-voiced pipsqueak Cruz.
Did Cruz or supporters ever said he was perfect?
Much better answer.
Hope Trump commits to govern conservatively across the board. His earlier answer was scary.
To destroy American Society, Leftists inserts mental illness into our everyday lives, passing laws to make it the norm and it sits back, waiting for it to erode our values.
He also proposed to change the GOP platform on abortion to allow for it in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Yes! Anything with flakes.
Frosted Flakes Corn Flakes any flakes with nuts.
Honey Bunches of Oats.
The problem here is that Trump's first response to nearly every question is from the left's worldview. His brain works with a lefty template. It is only after his handlers get to him that he adjusts to a more moderate perspective.
But his instinct is left.
No, they say he is Christlike.
RE: No, they say he is Christlike.
Cruz has no control over what other people say about him, good or bad. Just as Trump has no control over the same.
The Transgender: Normalizing Mental Illness
https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/the-transgender-normalizing-mental-illness/
Original link.
https://transgressionsite.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/the-transgender-normalizing-mental-illness/
The Transgender: Normalizing Mental Illness
Posted on April 6, 2016
Brilliant video (below) on positioning transexualism as a mental disorder.
The video illustrates the fundamental flaw in reasoning behind treating the transgender movement as the last, great progressive movement towards social justice.
The narrator references a Wall Street Journal article by Psychiatry professor, Dr. Paul McHugh, entitled Transgendered Surgery isn’t the Solution. At one time Dr. McHugh headed the Gender Clinic at Johns Hopkins University. In his article McHugh writes while the Obama administration, Hollywood, and the major media including Time Magazine promote transgenderism as normal, these “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
In the article McHugh says transsexuality is the disorder of the person’s “assumption” in that they are different than the physical reality of their respective bodies, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature.
McHugh cites studies by Vanderbilt University and London’s Portmoth Clinic of children who had expressed transgender interests but for whom over time 70 -80% percent “spontaneously lost those feelings”.
The video continues to cite a position paper by the American College of Pediatricians. In the position paper the American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not idealogoy – detemine reality.
The paper asserts among other things:
1.Human sexuality is an objective biological trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder.
2.No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex.
3.A person’s belief that they are something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.
4.Puberty is not a disease and puberty blocking hormones can have negative health consequences.
lastly,
8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse
Rush Limbaugh has said something about his flip flopping. Compared it to Obama if I recall. If Hannity has to “coach” him that means he does not know how to be a conservative, he’s learning as he goes. He knows there are some issues we care about like open boarders, but pro life and moral absolute ones he is clueless.
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