Posted on 08/10/2015 4:43:51 AM PDT by rootin tootin
Most of Donald Trump’s public statements include the rote declaration that Obamacare is a disaster. This is true, of course, but it doesn’t tell us anything new. It’s only when he starts elaborating on his objections that one gets a sense of what he believes, and he doesn’t talk like a friend of the free market. During last week’s Republican debate, for example, he was asked about his past praise of single-payer health care and replied, “As far as single-payer, it works in Canada, works incredibly well in Scotland.” This answer was both antithetical to free-market thinking and profoundly ignorant.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
That’s weird, because American Spectator endorsed Mitt Romney who worked with Jonathan Gruber to create Romneycare.
Black Americans were totally convinced that Barry. Obama was the cure for all pains. For some of us who are tired and disgusted of stagnating political streams, Trump looked like a breath of hope. I´m giving it a 2nd thought. We don´t need a HOT HEAD in the White House that calls everyone a stupid, lazy, fat person because he doesn´t like them. I am afraid like the Black people realized they wanted to hear Barry Obama give them HOPE, Hope is easy to sell to people who are oppressed. I am not going to put my hope in Donald Trump.
Yes, and promoting the idea that consumers should be able to shop for health insurance across state lines is an anti-capitalist idea.
“Breath of hope” Trump has always looked and sounded like a wino coming of a 4 day bing. We already have a self absorbed narcicist in the White House.
He is saying that now out of one side of his mouth, while out of the other side he is praising government run, single payer national healthcare, which he said he wanted in America a few years ago.
What scares me is how so many conservatives choose to overlook Trump’s coziness with Hillary.
Hillary watched twice as Perot helped her husband win.
Has Trump been as tough on Hillary as he has on Megyn or Carli
Has he said one negative thing about Hillary?
One per day? No, but close enough.
I’ve noticed he goes the extra mile to say nice things about people, but when they bash him, all betsxare off.
He’s said several times she’s been the worst Secretary of State in human history.
>>“As far as single-payer, it works in Canada, works incredibly well in Scotland.” This answer was both antithetical to free-market thinking and profoundly ignorant.
Not really. He couldn’t talk about the elephant in the room, specifically the victim class mentality that takes every safety net and converts it into a hammock.
But this article, along with the hundred others like it, aren’t about that. They are about the GOPe (and let’s start calling it what it really is: the GOProgressives) driving off the boogeyman that they can’t make the donor class defund after NH and Iowa so they just go away and let the GOProgressive candidate rise to the top (of the polls and the news stories, but not to the top of the voters’ choices).
Your snarky point might have a little more impact if A: Trump blamed the government and not insurance companies for this fact and B: if Trump cited such systems instead of Scotland and Canada and C: if the writer of the article had ever said that there's zero zip nada conservatism in Trump. He didn't.
You might not want to try political sarcasm at home...
He’s said several times she’s been the worst Secretary of State in human history.
My first reaction to all of this when Trump first started to surge was ... Oh crap ... Hillary found herself another Perot.
Republicans control both houses of Congress and they like socialized medicine. The more the supposed republicans rag about Trump the more they expose the pit viper nest that is the GOP.
Now that's patently absurd, about this article and this writer. It may be true at Fox and Wall Street Journal - but it's really disappointing to see you using Obama bot reasoning to stand by your man.
Trump bots (as opposed to reasonable Trump supporters) using Obama bot pretzel twisting logic to stay on their kool aid PING.
My first reaction to all of this when Trump first started to surge was ... Oh crap ... Hillary found herself another Perot.
Yes, it is sad that history has proven that Perot was right, but we had a lot of party first people who made it possible to lose to Clinton.
American Spectator does not handle their writers and force their views....and David Catron has been one of the leading anti Obama Care authors since 2009. So you're wrong.
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Lord of American Spectator is full fledged pro Trump. So you're wrong again.
But let's say you were right....doest that still make it okay if Trump is socialist on health care??????? Does that make Scotland and Canada great systems? You know, a little word of advice, you might want to focus on Trump and not your boogeyman notions about who is saying what.
What was Perot right about? And George HW Bush and Bob Dole are not exactly, say, Ted Cruz.
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