[TBP]

Someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have.

I do think he’d be a GREAT Mayor of New York — but then, so was Giuiani, and I didn’t support him for president either.

[Trumpinator]

Someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have. I do think he’d be a GREAT Mayor of New York — but then, so was Giuiani, and I didn’t support him for president either.

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Ideology over competence. During the Civil War the north promoted generals based on their adherence the party line over their generalship abilities. It did not work out so well.

Trump is conservative enough. These litmus tests sometimes would disqualify Reagan for the GOP ticket.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have ..

LOL.

You Purity Pansies are a caricature, now.

[nopardons]

Giuliani would have been a far better nominee than McQueeg!

[Bubba_Leroy]

I do think he'd be a GREAT Mayor of New York - but then, so was Giuiani, and I didn't support him for president either.

NYC was fast becoming one big cesspool before Giuliani. Giuliani saved NYC. He was a great mayor and I would have supported him for NY Senator. I didn't support him for president though.

[PrairieLady2]

So basically you’re saying you want the same ole-same ole dyed in the wool politician?

We have unique problems in the land these days and we need someone with vision as well as the ability to navigate the waters. There are very few visionaries on the face of this earth.

I’m GLAD to see that Trump had a few OOPS and OHMY’s along the way. Those are crucial experiences for growth and learning, essential for each and every human being for the same reason.

I remember NYC in the early 70’s before the twin towers were even completed. They were fully erected, but the skin needed to be finished on the top quarter of one of them.

The only thing I remember about Staten Island was Battery Park.

My dad lived in that city and he took us everywhere, we experienced everything including watching a bunch of punks leaping onto the fairly new vehicle of an elderly man and woman, slathering paint with brushes all over their vehicle, then pulling the elderly man from the vehicle, beating him up and leaving that old man crumpled in the middle of the intersection.

It was a dirty, filthy city full of run down old buildings with the exception of a few new ones going up and that included the twin towers.

I remember watching a woman with about 100 purses scattered all around her as she slept on the steps of Madison Square Garden...totally passed out. And I remember watching in wonder as people walked around Time’s Square at night wearing absolutely nothing more than bed sheets.

I remember the pollution being so bad, you couldn’t see the towers on the Geo. Washington bridge even when you were right under them, and when you washed your hair, the water was green from the grime in the air. Daily.

It was a scary place, for sure, but also exciting. I remember asking my dad to take us to Central Park, he refused. He just said it was a bad place.

I was just a visitor, a teenager, but teens don’t miss much. They see the good, they see the bad.

I’ve been in and out of NYC several times since, it’s cleaned up a lot, but you still have to watch yourself, pay attention to your surroundings.

And no city except perhaps Boston, can beat the food! The best in the world, and memorable.

Trump has a goofy personality, but that’s just the exterior. He’s high on the list of who’s who, and doesn’t act like that around the average person.

Thank God he’s not confined to the political box.

[Chgogal]

Yeah, and we got Obama. Well done!