Posted on 07/05/2015 7:02:06 AM PDT by Mariner
Much of the MSM has been sidelined while the big dogs take their shots.
The other day Trump said illegals “are a national security threat”. When is the last time you heard ANY politician say that? He is 100% right yet that fact is constantly buried, never talked about, hidden from the media.
What is happening today is ANTI-populist. It is conservative, wanting a return to the Constitution, secure borders, the destruction of a Washington elite that has no connection to the majority of people at all, and an end to judicial and executive tyranny.
Trump is a big boy. About time somebody came along an stirred up the complacency and forced the milksops to take stands and show their true colors.
When everybody loved him I really didn’t care very much at all for him.
but now that these prominent RINOs all loathe him and the MSM lambastesd him everyday I find myself liking him more and more.
Orange hair and comb over?
Meh, I really don’t care.
I like what he says and does, now.
But unlike Perot, it may still be possible to somehow engage The Donald in such way as he does not go riding off into some quixotic third-party rampage. Perot was partially driven by his personal and visceral HATRED of the whole Bush family, dating back to some personal slight from years before. Major reason he probably took more votes from Bush than he did from Clinton. All Perot’s vitriol was poured upon Bush, leaving practically none to turn on Clinton.
Trump is a pompous ahole and nothing close to resembling Conservative, yet some seem taken in by him because they like some of his statements.
Once any candidate broke with orthodoxy on illegals and trade, all the rest are forced to respond, definitively.
Trump did a good job of painting the issue in Black and White.
And blood red.
The fence? Yes. That will work and satisfy most people.
But how about these:
"As President would you increase deportations of illegals?"
"What would be your approach to ISIS, other than to, as you said once, "Find the right general?"
"Other than negotiating better trade deals, what else would you do to restore the American economy? Tax cuts? What kind?"
"You said at one time you liked Obamacare. Do you still, and if not, would you repeal it?"
"Should the Fed be audited?"
These are just a few. Now, don't think for a moment that he can't develop good policy reponses to these questions. And it is less what those responses actually involve (policy wise) than whether or not they show that he has actually thought about this stuff. Mark my words, if he doesn't have well-defined ideas on major issues, he will become Perot II . . . but if he does, even if you or I don't like them, he will be a major player and a serious threat.
Perot ended with 17% after halting his campaign. What killed him, though, was not that he stopped campaigning but WHY he stopped campaiging: he had no policies. No answers. It was just "get under the hood and fix it." That only goes so far before ANY voter wants to know what you actually stand for. (And trust me, all Dems know what Hillary stands for, even if she never puts out a policy paper.)
Are you asking, or saying?
Trumps right if you are illegally in this country you are a criminal.
And, if you hire an illegal alien then you are not only a criminal
but a low life treasonous POS. Wetbacks are one thing but
the people that hire them need to do some serious time and have everything
they own confiscated as ill gotten gains.
“Republicans cast into turmoil”
Conservative however are just fine.
Where does he stand on sodomite “marriage” and CommieCare?
I offer my middle finger to the GOPe.
“They are concerned not because they think he has a chance of securing the nomination but because they fear he could influence the election by scarring the party’s reputation.”
Trump is not the one scarring the party’s reputation. It is Boehner, McConnell, Jeb!, Rubio, Fat (the American people are not angry!) boy, etc.
POLITICIANS ARE ALL TALK AND NO ACTION
Billionaire Donald Trump framed himself as a job-creating anti-politician in a preview of his potential 2016 presidential pitch to a crowd of conservatives in New Hampshire Saturday.
Speaking at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit, a gathering of conservative activists and figures organized by Americans for Prosperity and Citizens United, Trump told the crowd that “we need somebody who’s gonna get things done, and politicians are all talk and no action.”
“All talk, it’s all bull——,” he added. “It’s all talk, and it’s no action.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/203406-trump-politicians-all-bullsht
but now that these prominent RINOs all loathe him and the MSM lambastesd him everyday I find myself liking him more and more.
I feel exactly the same. Always thought he was a bombastic loudmouth. But now I see him serving a genuine purpose. He's showing what happens to people who try to tell obvious truths, except he's got a lot more armor than the rest of us.
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