Posted on 07/11/2015 1:59:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Clinton, Obama? You might be justified in believing that he already owns the office. Seems a bit silly to have people running around with their hair on fire worrying about it happening.
Trump likes to utilize Eminent Domain.
".....A decade and a half ago, it was fresh on everyone’s mind that Donald Trump is one of the leading users of this form of state-sanctioned thievery. It was all over the news. In perhaps the most-remembered example, John Stossel got the toupéed one to sputter about how, if he wasn’t allowed to steal an elderly widow’s house to expand an Atlantic City casino, the government would get less tax money, and seniors like her would get less “this and that.” Today, however, it takes a push from the Club for Growth to remind us of Trump’s lack of respect for property rights....."
“Jonah Goldberg: Trump Is a ‘Bane of Humanity,’ ‘Drives Me Crazy’ That Fox Takes Him Seriously”
Like Jonah, but he and other news media types are missing the fact that many of us are tired of hearing “ opinions” which in most cases have been wrong about topics that we care about.
Love him or hate him, its not hard to understand Donald. He’s an old school straight talker who has won and lost in life , and at this point seems to be the one most willing to talk about success for America in simple terms.
Well, it does prove that if you have a lot of personal wealth, you would have had to do a few things right, but that doesn’t mean you are a good politician...
That being said, I do not think Trump is in this to win...He’s in there to make a splash, and a few under the table assurances for future money making endeavors...
I do not see Trump sticking around after Super Tuesday...By then a lot of these campaigns will be done for at that point, and his purpose will be done...
To push the GOP’s Jebby to the convention and another hold your nose at the polls next year...
If that happens to be the result, you can be assured Hillary will be the next president...
I really, really hope to be proven wrong next year...
Except for Ronald Reagan, and even he changed his stance on abortion, you can not find a politician — one who studies the impact of his statements — who has not uttered inconsistent beliefs. How much more so than with someone like Trump, who has only dallied with it in the past.
After the November election, when the democrats were handed one of the biggest defeats in history, and it was COMPLETELY NULLIFIED by the Republicans, what on earth do we have to lose with a guy who at least is PREACHING the right thing. Which one of the Republican candidates can you count on to break out of the RINO mold? With the immigration crisis, this will be out last chance to preserve our nation. Literally.
Goldberg completely negated any perceptive ability he claims to have about Trump when he suggested Trump is a stalking horse for Hillary Clinton; he also wrote that Trump is a “failed man”. How is it possible to regard Trump as a “failed man’? And so he whines when Trump belittles him (he left him no choice) and he whines about Trump hurting the Republican brand, and as you point out, Trump is no where in the league with Boehner and McConnell for accomplishing that.
I do. Read around the web. Trump is the man everyone is excited about. The rest are mealy-mouthed contenders. They are going down. Trump and Cruz. The dynamic duo.
He said he will not run third party and with all the support he is getting, he won’t have to.
Trump is not an ideologue and is no conservative. Few think that.
He is a business-oriented problem solver. I would rather have a guy in there with whom I believe on three issues, but who fixes those three issues, than a guy who shares 100% of my views but can't stand up to the media and elites to get anything done.
Jonah is right, anger is not an issue. But you know what? Neither was "hope and change" or "a chicken in every pot" but they win elections because Americans anymore don't seem to have the capacity to talk issues, only passion and personality. Heck, Reagan ran on one line: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
Goldberg us stuck in policy wonk world where this or that candidate's cute little tweaks impress him.
In other words, Trump, like Rush, is listening to the people when apparently no one else is. Imagine that from a candidate.
I remember Trump in the 1970s and what a local joke he was.
I moved out for good in 1980. Seems like the boy has made good since then.
People do grow up.
I agree with Jonah.
“What is Trump’s motivation?”
At some level it’s the same motivation as all of them have - ego. Ego is the absolute central motivator of politicians - except for those whose primary motivation is making money, and the small number who actually want to help make the world a better place. Beyond that, I think he truly believes what he is saying. Just my take.
By the way, I just read a column by Mark Steyn. He writes about Trump, per immigration, in about the way I just posted to you. And he was not negative, about Trump, the way Goldberg implied he was in his article.
“If you want to give him credit for starting a worthwhile debate about sanctuary cities and illegal immigration, fine. I think that argument is way overdone, but certainly reasonable enough.”
Way overdone? Does Joanne have ANY IDEA that there are 30,000,000 ILLEGALS in this country. Or does she just think that it’s only the handful he sees at Home Depot once in a while?
This is SCARY STUFF.
That stuff all will come out and it won't matter any more than Emmitt Smith quitting as a Miss America judge. Because TRUMP DOESN'T CARE.
This is what the old style pols and analysts don't get. With the exception of Cruz---who has yet to weather this level of attack, though I think he can---Trump is the only one with enough money and enough ego to tell yahoos like Jonah to piss off.
As long as Cruz is ok with how Trump is rolling, I have no criticism. I’ll take cues from Cruz over Goldberg any day of the week and twice on Sunday!
Great read. Thanks.
Calm down Joanne, if you gals REALLY want to silence him, you gals can start addressing Illegal immigration.
But since that isn’t happening, TRUMP OWNS THE STAGE - and it is YOUR FAULT that is the case, not our fault. We’ve been SCREAMING FOR YEARS for Republicans to address the issue, and we get laughed at and stepped on by your type of people.
You can’t do that to Trump - the only option you have is to ADDRESS THE ISSUE - or you may very well be covering his inauguration, because there are a lot of DEMOCRATS and Independents also fed up with what this country has become due to Open Borders.
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