Posted on 07/18/2015 6:54:41 AM PDT by TNMOUTH
With the understanding that I will get hammered by the Trump supporters on this page, I have some questions for you about your candidate:
First, WHY do you support Trump? Is it only because he talks tough? Do you have HISTORY to prove he means what he says on this issue?
Second: Other than screaming about illegal immigration (he is right about it), talking about bombing oil fields and that Persians are smooth negotiators, WHAT other issues does he understand? On what other issues is he Conservative?
Third: Who do all of you expect Trump to choose for the SCOTUS?
Fourth: Can you prove Trump is different from his past as a Democrat...can you prove he is Conservative? how? (please don't feed us the BS that Reagan was once a Democrat...Trump isn't Reagan)
Fifth: How do you reconcile his flip-flopping on issues like Immigration, guns, abortion and OBAMACARE and Hillary?
Sixth: Can anyone explain WHY Trump supported Obama in 2012?
Seventh: Why, suddenly, in 2012, did his donations INCREASE to Republicans when he first decided to run as a GOP candidate for POTUS? Why was he a Democrat donor before then? (don't give me the 'Oh, well, he had to do business in NY crap, either...he gave to candidates outside of NY).
Finally, how can you all be certain that Trump isn't a trojan horse? How can recent talking points outweigh his recent history of comments, etc?
If Trump really is who you think he is...prove to us WHY you think this.
Perhaps Trump has wised up. It took Ronald Reagan a few years to wise up to what the democrats were about.
Unlike stubborn men with blue pill testosterone, as long as one of the candidates that is on my “list” gets nominated, I will be voting for the candidate who is elected in the primary process. I like Trump, Cruz, Walker, Carson and in honor of my estrogen, Fiorini.
Stay home or weaponize your vote as long as it serves the union. It’s a wonder how the Founders were able to build any unity at all among men!
Certainly won't with the RINO’s running for office!
We agree on this. I hope that Donald Trump makes time to read and understand the Constitution.
Then why are you considering a Democrat reality-show celebrity?
Appreciate his border talk for what it is, but go with the Constitutional conservative for president.
He wizes up fairly often, jumps parties like a modern day Jim Jeffords, wixes up again a short time later and jumps again.
Ethically flexible.
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The Founders did not build unity. Only 30% of the population supported the Revolution mentally. About half of those actually provided material and logistical support.
Only 3% took an active role shooting the Brits and Tories.
See, even 240 years ago 70% of the population was below average.
Trump can answer for himself.
Oh, geeze “feelers?” Is that why you wanted to know what my faith was? Whether I was an atheist? First Amendment, Clyde! You fail!
I haven't heard any of the RINO’s supporting a border fence. In fact, try replacing Trump's name with one of the RINO’s name and ask your questions and list your answer here on FR!
That would be great for a big laugh!
Just remember this whenever somebody is trying to make you believe that a multi billionaire is a clown you need to be thinking WTF?
The difference in this argument was that after switchng parties, Reagan had come out for Goldwater in 1964 AND served two terms as Governor of California as a Republican. He had credibility.
In the 2008 election cycle, Trump was a registered Democrat and supported Obama. In the 2012 election cycle, Trump claimed no political party at all. Now he claims he's a great conservative.
That dog ain't gonna hunt without better proof than he's showing.
I have a Kindle and that is what I read most books on. The only actual books I buy are technical ones, for some reason I prefer having the physical book for that.
Yeah, but your small percentage won’t win you elections! LOL! It must really chaff your bum to need those that you look down upon. I loathe you more than Hillary, oh wait....you are Hillary!
Haven’t read the whole thread but you don’t get it. This is a paradigm change.
We conservatives were looking at a typical (these days) American Presidential election. A radical enemy lib on the D side, and a socialist lite eunuch on the R side. Speaking for myself, I had decided that this time I would not be playing the lesser of the evils game and would sit aside and let Hillary win in the hopes of slowly killing off the GOP.
Trump in the race saying all the right things was exciting, just to have one candidate raise the bar for the mostly losers on our side. (Ted Cruz was beginning to be Palinized by the media so as much as I love his constitutional conservatism and brilliance, I didn’t think he stood a chance.)
At first that is all it was. He made the losers jump and yap like puppies behind him, and made media personalities gasp and shriek.
As he began to double down and keep talking truths that are never said by anyone else, we started to realize that four years of someone like that in the White House could put a wooden stake through the heart of political correctness and Rule by Media. (And if we dare to dream, could he bring Cruz aboard as Veep, increasing his chances of becoming president?)
Who else tells America that the media are lying idiots??? He is not kissing butt or beholden.
Having him as president EVEN IF HE IS SOCIALLY LIBERAL, yes, EVEN IF HE SAYS STUPID THINGS, would be better than Jeb or Hillary. That is the paradigm change. We need a political revolution. And even the more normal democrats see this need. They will be on board saying no to the dual headed Statist Party we have now. We could kill the corrupt system for a few decades.
Do you get it? You and your questions are choosing which buggy whip will most motivate your horse on the road. We are looking at a motor car. (Post political correctness, actual truth in politics is the motor car, not Trump himself.)
I haven’t berated anybody except clowns like you who demand an explanation for my support. Screw you. I’ll vote for GD Mickey Mouse if I want to and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
Trump was right about Geller. It’s not morally right to mock another’s religion. It is right to fight islamofascism but the contest was really stupid and cruel. There are other, more honest ways to fight Islamic terror. The equivalent of the draw Muhammed contest would be to have a contest making Jewish statues of Gd or to have a contest proving Jesus was just a mortal normal guy.
And while Trump is saying the right things (now, at least)he has has a history of saying and DOING things that prove he's a liberal. So I ask you...aren't we as conservatives supposed to be smart enough to judge a candidate by his record?
On the other hand, Cruz has been in the trenches fighting for us since he went to Washington. And he has always been a solid Constitutional conservative.
Yes, Trump says he will build a fence and he'll make Mexico pay for it. Has he offered any details on just how he plans to make that happen? The last time I asked a Trump supporter that question, he deflected, called me a fraud, and refused to talk to me, LOL.
If this country is going to be turned around, we have a responsibility---right now---to THINK rather than react.
Perfectly said. As I have mentioned ... "You can't start a fire without a spark" .....and heaven knows we have spineless representatives, whose only purpose is to be self-serving. Let's start a fire!
And yet, no one is agreeing with you.
Your “case”, pathetic as it may be is far from rested.
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