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To: AuntB
The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump only became a conservative the day he announced his candidacy for the presidency. But like all conventional wisdom about Trump, it’s wrong.

Fascinating take - considering he attacked conservatives and what we stand for straight out of the gate.

Please stop this nonsense. I accept he won the nomination - it's reality - but please stop telling us we didn't hear him say what he has been saying the whole time and insulting the intelligence of conservatives, of which there are apparently far fewer of us than their used to be.

29 posted on 05/09/2016 4:38:03 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

So you “pure conservatives” stand for open borders, illegals criminals running amuck, protecting terrorists, allowing free entry of Muslim “refugees,” doing away with guns for law-abiding citizens, keeping Common Core and the education centralized in Washington, elevating the criminals over the police, keeping the military increasingly antiquated and weak, refusing to cut regulations strangling businesses, raising corporate taxes to chase companies overseas, maintaining Obamacare, increasing H1B visas even when hurting American workers, and allowing foreign nations to take advantage of us? Interesting, because these are the positions that Trump has been attacking hard for the last 10 months, the one you say are attacks on all that conservatives stand for.

Perhaps you mean that doing away with the current eminent domain laws is the number one thing that you stand for, because that’s the only arguably conservative position I remember him attacking (and then only after he was attacked on that front), unless you want to claim that attacking unfair trade deals where we get screwed is somehow fundamentally attacking what conservatives stand for. Or perhaps you are freaking out that he wants rape and incest exceptions from an abortion ban—but that definition would mean that Reagan wasn’t a “conservative” either, since he was for the same exceptions.

If you haven’t read it yet, you really should learn more about Trump’s past positions (beyond just the anti-Trump propaganda) by reading this repost that JimRob put up:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3421864/posts
[A FReeper discussion on the history of Trump’s conservative pro-America positions]

If you don’t think these (mostly) long-term positions of Trump’s are conservative, then what in the world is your definition of conservative?


34 posted on 05/09/2016 5:31:00 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Republican Wildcat

Republican Wildcat my butt. You’re just another GOPe enabler.

Donald Trump is the only candidate shedding light on the corruption of this STINKING party!
So, go vote for HIllary. She’s another enabler. That’s the choice.


36 posted on 05/09/2016 5:41:11 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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