Posted on 07/20/2015 11:28:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Donald Trump has jumped to the top of the national polls for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
It's an embarrassing moment for the GOP, the country and the planet.
But everyone knows America's richest celebrity businessman will never become the Republican candidate, much less president of the U.S.
Unfortunately for the GOP's future, however, the billionaire blowhard is not going to fade away in a week or two like Herman Cain or Michele Bachmann did in 2012.
Whether he's really worth $10 billion, as Trump claims, or just a few billion, he has more than enough money, ego and media pull to keep him in the race all the way until Election Day.
With an ego bigger than America, Trump could pull another Ross Perot and put another Clinton in the White House.
Meantime, Candidate Trump has been a running political joke for weeks.
Underneath his criticism of America's weak and stupid leaders and his boasting about his being able to make better trade deals with foreign countries than anyone else, he really has just one issue - immigration.
An issue which he blew badly.
In trying to explain his crude position on that politically complex subject, he managed to offend every Latino in the hemisphere by implying that illegal immigrants from Mexico are mostly murderers and rapists.
As for Trump's positions on other issues important to conservatives and the future of America, they remain a total mystery.
The media won't ask, and he won't tell.
Is he pro life or pro choice?
Is he for national health care or against it?
How exactly does he plan to create all those new good jobs for Americans?
Is he going to raise taxes on the rich? Flatter taxes or fairer taxes?
What would he do to fix the education problem?
If indeed immigration is his signature issue, how is he going to stop or control it? And what's he going to do about the 12 million illegals already here?
Maybe Candidate Trump filled in Ted Cruz on where he stood on these issues the other day when Cruz made a friendly visit to Trump in his Tower.
But other conservatives need to find out if Trump is really a Republican.
He sure doesn't act like one. He's already broken Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment - never speak ill of another Republican - dozens of times. (Trump's 12th Commandment is "Speak ill of everybody.")
So before any more conservatives jump on the Trump bandwagon, wouldn't it be better to find out where he stands?
We only get sound bites from Trump's events. But no one in the liberal media is in a big hurry to go deeper on him and his views.
They aren't going to dig deep into his "colorful" personal or business history in an attempt to discredit him or prove, as some people say, that he's not even as conservative as Bill Clinton.
If the media did some excavating, they might be surprised by Trump's answers.
They might find that he doesn't say the same thing to conservatives in private as he when he bloviates in front of crowds and cameras.
What, for instance, did Candidate Trump say in private when he talked to the Friends of Abe, the support and networking group actor Gary Sinise started for about 2,000 political conservatives working in Hollywood?
Were the FOA's elite members put off by him? Did they embrace him? Who knows?
No one in the mainstream news media seems too eager to expose Trump for the conservative fake he really is.
They treasure him for his celebrity and his entertainment value and don't want to spoil the show.
But the liberal media treasure Trump even more because he spends so much time helping them discredit the Republican Party and conservatism.
Why is it you can't stand a candidate that isn't of the standard "castrated" variety? Is "Nick" short for "Nichole?" Newsflash: what you call "trash talk" is the way 90% of us address each other.
Meanwhile, you want to piss and moan about Confederate flags, and what he thinks of gays, but ignore his singular voice about persecuted Christians, secure borders, and the treatment of veterans.
Every time Trump shows his ass to the press and survives it, is another lesson to the PTB that we voters are not going to play the same old game this time.
All people like you manage to do is hold out hope to the geniuses that offer us Harriet Miers to avoid the fights we elected them to fight.
Trump is sticking it to the libs and RINOs like I haven’t seen anyone do in a long time. And all he’s doing is speaking truth! I love to see the libtards and RINOs howl!!
Go, Trump, GO!!
But I’m for Cruz for the long haul.
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Go, Crus, GO!!
TDS in action :)
But I love what he’s saying all the same. Go, Trump, GO!! Kiss the RINOs and make them squeal!!
Right now, Trump is the only thing between Yeb winning FL and the nomination to eventually go on to gracious loser status. Yeah knows he can’t win and doesn’t care. Let Trump upset Yeb in FL. Otherwise, Cruz doesn’t have a chance.
Well put !
Yup. Similiar to PDS.
Wow, going back to 2011 aye?
Why don’t you post some of Jim’s recent comments concerning Trump? Jim, like the rest of us understands it’s a good thing when people like Trump (or anyone for that matter) does the right thing as Trump is currently doing.
He’s taking on the illegal immigration issue with fierce determination and balls, not apologizing or pandering to anyone, yet all you have is contempt for the man. You have no such vitriol for folks like Jeb and other candidates who support amnesty.
Tell us nick, how does it feel to be aligned with the Liberal Media, the Democrat Party, and the GOPe? You’re the best friend these groups have ever had.
Wow. Palin was a conservative and the media bashed her. They didn’t promote her like they did Trump.
Hey, Nick, JimRob just repudiated you twice in the thread regarding those 4+ year old posts you dug up.
Nick went right past JimRob’s posts without missing a beat. I called him out on his labeling William Shatner a murderer (of his wife) last month and he hasn’t made a peep.
Who in the leftist lamestream media is promoting Trump, Nick ? They’re terrified of him and are doing their level best to destroy him like they did Palin. If they thought he could lose to Hillary like the other RINO midgets, they’d be going all out to praise him, not sink him.
Someone has to be hear to stand up for conservative values. We went through this once before, we shouldn't have to again. Trump is not trustworthy.
Listen, I wasn’t responding to you so lay off me. Go back to what Jim Rob just wrote and calm down. You are really reaching now with your Trump hatred.
“Nick went right past JimRob’s posts without missing a beat. I called him out on his labeling William Shatner a murderer (of his wife) last month and he hasn’t made a peep.”
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I know right!
Just like the rest of us, JimRob understands people can change, and if they’re doing the right thing as Trump is currently doing, then they should receive support and positive reinforcement, not being castigated for not always being the perfect conservative or Republican.
I see NO inconsistency in JimRob’s (or any of our) views from 2011 and now. Trump is doing what no one else will, and that is a very good thing.
There’s a reason Donald is rising in the polls, and this has the Leftists, the GOPe and nick scared crapless
This site is for conservatism. It was founded to counter people like Trump.
Then why do you, repeatedly, support the Establishment, by attacking FReepers who support what Trump is saying? The DC Cartel/Establishment is the enemy, NOT Trump. Even the boss knows this.
Trump is merely stating what CONSERVATIVES have been craving to hear. Whether or not his heart is true, and whether he will follow through, only he and God know. NOT you.
So, why not back off of your anti-Trump tirades and go after the establishment hacks like Jeb! and Rubio!? NO ONE else is standing up for America and for conservatives right now. If you can name someone, please do so.
All I can say is I will stay with conservatism. I can't follow a liberal Manchurian candidate. I will be Reagan in 1964 and 1976. Bash me all you want.
I am trying to show you reality. I will never support the Romney/Bush/Trump axis no matter what you say. The DC Cartel/Establishment is the enemy, NOT Trump.
He is part of it! He was involved in Kelo. He is a friend of Bill and Hillary. He's a friend of Soros. He has a media show. This campaign is for his new reality TV show.
Jim, I usually agree with you, but there is no way in hell I could vote for Trump. I may agree with him on a single issue like immigration, but he hasn't been consistent on that either. If it's Cruz or Walker I'm there in lockstep, but I will go third or 4th party against Trump. He is the definition of Snake-oil salesman.
Please name one conservative who is saying ALL of the things about immigration, our Vets, the Iran deal, McCain’s terrible record....that Trump is saying.
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