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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“He flips (changes) and you roll over?”

Ben Franklin wrote, “...for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise...”

I’m no Ben Franklin, but I have shared with him the experience of being wrong. When I was in college, I was the smartest person who ever lived and knew everything. Since then, I discovered that everything I knew was wrong.

And neither am I a billionaire, but it seems to me that Trump should also be subject to the vicissitudes that Franklin described.

What you call “flipping” is a cynical change in public position for political reasons. It is an entirely different thing from realizing that you are and have been full of crap, and I think that is what is happening to Trump.

What you call “rolling over” is a cynical or cowardly change in public position for political reasons. A guarded willingness to extend a conditional benefit of the doubt hardly qualifies as “rolling over.”


77 posted on 09/15/2015 9:48:34 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

I thought the Club for Growth had a cure for Male pattern baldness.

Sure sounds like a hair raising Club, giving us Snake Oil remedy’s

If they were so good how come the GOPe still doesn’t put forward a fair, flat tax plan? how come the economy sucks for 8 years now and they don’t have a position on grass roots issues.

Why are they spending so much money going after the only businessman in the crowded field.

I bet they are for Carson who never ran anything, has no political, military, or foreign business or political expertise.

Carson is what Obama was supposed to be like, but has Obama’s lack of job experience, I think you need some preparation for POTUS, besides being nice.

Trump has business all over the world, signed lots of paychecks, paid for lots of healthcare, built lots of buildings for government. Trump is a manager, negotiator, going after a guy who could grow the economy doesn’t make sense.

Club for Growth is just another Cheap labor Express organization, funding the lousy status Quo.


80 posted on 09/15/2015 9:58:32 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (A)
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