Posted on 12/10/2015 10:18:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back hisMonday call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." If so, he won't change his mind because he regrets insulting Muslim Americans -- no small number of whom, unlike Trump, have served in the military -- or because his rhetoric threatens to isolate this country when it needs allies, especially in the Middle East. He'll change his mind because he never really means anything he says.
Trump doesn't even mean it when he gives his word in writing. Remember when The Donald signed a pledge in September not to run as an independent candidate if he fails to win the Republican nomination? The pledge did not equivocate. No worries. By November, the billionaire scion was inching away from that pledge and hinting that it would apply only if the party were to treat him "fairly."
His followers think it's just ducky that he will say anything and isn't constrained by such hindrances as accuracy. It's clear that Trump never saw thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating when the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11 as he claimed last month. They revel in his cheek. There's some truth somewhere behind his lies -- and that is good enough for them.
I know that my reward for writing this column will be emails from Trump groupies who will call me a RINO -- a Republican in name only -- while extolling Trump as the real deal. They either do not know or do not care that over the past two decades, Trump has been registered as a Democrat, as a Republican and with the Independence Party. In 2009, when he was in his 60s, Trump switched his registration from the Democratic Party to the GOP.
It won't matter that unlike Trump, I never gave a dime to a Hillary Clinton campaign. I never gave a dime to the Clinton Foundation. Trump has given at least $100,000. In the 2006 election, Politico reported, Trump donated $5,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $20,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The National Republican Senatorial Committee got a modest $1,000.
Only after The Washington Post did an analysis of Trump's campaign contributions -- and found that most of his donations had gone to Democrats -- did Trump start giving more money to GOP campaigns.
In 2011, Trump gave $5,000 to the campaign of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who had been a fierce supporter of San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy. In 2013, he gave her another $1,000. In
2015, he says that he wants to build a wall across the Mexican border and that Mexico will pay for it. The Islamic State group has triggered a diaspora from Iraq and Syria and ignited Islamic radicalism within the United States. Every minute that the news media focus on Trump's latest episode of verbal diarrhea is a minute not spent reporting on Syria and the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack -- life-and-death stories.
GOP rivals have been slow to slam Trump for his scurrilous statements, lest they offend Trump's cultlike followers. Clinton, who attended Trump's 2005 wedding, will have no such qualms.
I’m getting to the point where I think Trump admirers are thinking. I have never met anybody more right-wing/traditionalist/libertarian/constitutionalist/patriotic than me. About two days ago I decided Trump wasn’t what I was looking for. I’m thinking long term. I’ve decide to support Cruz. He’s a true conservative. Trump brought some good qualities & I love his immigration stance, but Cruz has proven himself in votes, stances, proclomations, etc. Trump isnt behaving very respectfully. His followers charge anybody other than them as being “establishment”. Their wrong & doing that isn’t going to win votes. It pushes people who are conservative sympathetic completely away. Wake up. Let’s run a real conservative like Cruz :)
If so, he won't change his mind because he regrets insulting Muslim Americans -- no small number of whom, unlike Trump, have served in the military
You mean Muslim Americans like these fine fellows?
Hasan Akbar (aka Mark Fidel Kools) who turned on his fellow soldiers, killing two and wounding 15. (2003)
Hasan Nidal, who murdered 14 (including an unborn baby) and wounding 30 at a Fort Hood (yelling Allahu Akbar). (2009)
Naser Jason Abdo, near Fort Hood, arrested with an unregistered firearm and allegedly planning to attack a restaurant frequented by soldiers from the base. (2011)
Boy, I do hope I get the chance to gloat and be obnoxious, too! If Cruz starts leading every poll... you can bet your sweet bippy I am going to savor some righteous gloating!!!
Trump supporters--buckle up, oil your scroll wheel and get out your fly swatters because when Cruz is on top I'm going to savor every second of it! :p neener
Joy Bahar’s twin?
Now, now.
We must be above such things.
Don’t want to alienate anyone now would we.
“He won’t implode for a while yet,but he will.”
Yes, there is always heat death of the universe to bank on.
Phew! No shame in my game...nope.
People will want to throttle me because I will be an annoying braggart. Almost as good as Trump himself!
So you’ll be our very own Mouth That Roared?
Okay then, just don’t have so much fun you wet yourself.
Those can be nasty stains.
I’ll avoid trampolines and I should be good. :)
Don’t overdo the liquids, just in case.
Ponzi scheme?
Like Social Security?
I was in the LAST election and got vilified for it; along with many other FR folk.
The destination of a person's eternal soul is a higher value for me than whether we have a Socialist/Marxist as POTUS.
A deceived (or deceiving), un-discerning Mormon is DEFINITELY not going to get MY vote; no matter whether Mom's apple pie is selected as America's favorite after-dinner treat, and Lake Woebegone is the heartland's most likely-to-vacation-there spot and children wake up every morning and praise Ronald Reagan and obey BOTH their heterosexual parents in ALL things!
Not if they threaten to take their donation money to FR and leave.
Join the ABC’s:
The Annoying Braggart Club.
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