Posted on 09/17/2015 7:25:13 AM PDT by IChing
For the rest it was pretty much a verbal brawl.
No one's asking him to be wonkish, but it would help if he showed ANY substance.
Duh! If it's not obvious you're not worth noticing, because you don't know it's obvious to anyone who's worth noticing that it's obvious! </sarc>
I agree with you on all points, and your post just sparked a bit of insight. For personal reasons have the deliberate border collapse on a back burner. But the deliberate, de facto open border policy shows like no other issue the utter indifference of the American elite to what happens to ALL THE REST OF US.
Both parties have sold Americans out for transnationalism. Their sedition is naked on this issue. I wonder how they would fare in a type of Nuremburg trial, addressing their emails, connections, and pay offs regarding their willful sabotage of border security? Would that we were like Iceland, and would put these people in the dock for malfeasance in office.
I like the way Trump thinks, but like all the candidates, there was a ton of talent on the stage IMO.
I’m not prepared to trust someone who can’t answer questions honestly.
Trump says, trust me. That’s not good enough for me, I want to know his philosophy of life and of government.
I wouldn’t trust someone who isn’t prepared to make a good case as to why we should hand him the keys to the most powerful office on the earth.
I’m still waiting to be convinced.
Trump needs to raise another hackle. He should ask publicly,
“Why is Obama letting in so many Muslims, and why is everybody ignoring this problem?”
One thing I’ve learned in my life is that there is no one size fits all regarding people and events. It depends :) on which people, what events.
Trump has touched on that in a couple of interviews, saying if you have 14 points, when you get to the deal, you may have to change point 2, etc. Paraphrased of course.
I can understand that clearly.
I’m not voting on debating talent...
No, it’s really not. He’s not been a pol before and he’s still working with his team to flesh out a number of his major policy positions. Sure, he leans more than he should on the strength of his personality, but he’s been better and smarter at attracting voters than any other candidate to this point—and that’s largely his doing, not his handlers’.
He’s very quick on his feet with a good sense of humor and he has, indeed, been very successful in a number of arenas. Most of the other guys up there are long-trained seals, where answering questions on just these topics have been their bread and butter for years.
If Trump doesn’t progress in details and specifics through the fall, yeah, he will fail.
Like Ross Perot, he is very good with one liners and entertaining generalities.
But getting him to provide substance on his views is an exercise in frustration.
Its an act that will eventually grow old and then the bottom will drop out of his run for the White House.
No one remembers Perot except as the funny guy who ended his campaign one day and paved the way for Clinton.
Don’t you think he’s sharp enough to appoint good cabinet positions, and listen to good advisors?
That is what running a business or country is all about, including proper goals and ethics.
Perfectly said, thanks.
Exactly. I’ve seen Trump’s type many, many times before. On used car lots. On late-night infomercials. On street corners in Times Square.
The guy’s a huckster, plain and simple. He tells people what they want to hear, shucks and jives to obscure the fact that he’s blowing smoke, and does everything he can to keep them from peeking behind the curtain before he closes the sale. He’s a salesman, and a shady one at that. No surprise, considering his roots as a NYC real estate developer.
Trump hates the whole Bush family even after endorsing GHW.
I don't know if it was “read my lips” or what but something happened during the first Bush presidency to cause him to hate the whole bunch of them.
I would like to believe it was because Bush took all of the positives of Reagan and threw them in a pile on the floor but I don't know the real reason.
I’d guess if a person follows the money they’ll get to the source.
It is not pure emotion driving Trump’s support. Many of us who do support him recognize that he is not a philosophical conservative. We have watched the GOP machine prove itself for years to be ineffectual, contemptuous and treacherous to its base. We recognize that Trump -might- be sincere on a few points where we agree, and are willing to give the man a chance to effect good policy. Policy which we know from experience the GOP machine will pervert, subvert, or simply ignore.
That is not an emotional assessment. It is the intellectual recognition that the Republican Party is treacherous, enervated and hostile towards conservatives.
Are you going to wait for the fallout of another National Socialist Democrat holocaust as well?
Whether or not Cruz is best suited for the presidency—and yeah, I’d take him first for the position among the alternatives right now—he’s not best suited to win the two races he needs to get there. Just comes across as oily and posturing, like a televangelist, in his delivery, and has no sense, such as Trump has a keen one, on how to connect with big numbers of average people. Cruz is also beholden to his top donors, for whom religious liberty is their single issue, so he’s even hampered on an issues point in executing his race.
Cruz’s best chance at this point is to sneak in as Trump’s veep and move up from there.
Now, IMO Trump will also have to learn (fast) not to mug so much for the camera in debates or to gratuitously go after small fry like Rand and all of that. But he is sharp—like Cruz or Carly or Ben or Bobby—with much more emotional intelligence in, again, connecting with people. In that way, he’s probably more like Christie than any of the other candidates.
Trump’s still got to learn, but he’s in a great position to have the luxury of a sizable lead while doing so.
Perot said he sat in a GM meeting and said lets pick one thing on this car and make it the very best there is. Even if that one thing was the cigarette lighter... I remember that :)
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