These people have bastardized the word conservative... If there is a noted American that I would compare Trump’s life to would be Rush Limbaugh... Somebody tell me how Rush is conservative and Trump is not?
Do you really know nothing about Donald Trump prior to 2015? Rush Limbaugh wasn’t registered Democrat, he hasn’t contributed money to the vilest names in the Democratic Party, and he sure as hell didn’t invite the Clintons to his wedding (his third?) or cut a $100,000 check to the Clinton Foundation.
Rush has said in the past that he would run for president except he would hate the part where he would be restriced by the demands of donors. Trump is Rush L. taking the courage to run with his own money eliminating the dilemma of donor demand. This concept is so unique, that “conservatives” can’t wrap their head around it. Trump has demonstrated that “conservative” means courage and common sense, not just “ideology” that looks great on paper.
I will be happy to step up the the plate on this one but feel a little guilty because it is such a softball question. Trump has been all over the place on his “convictions” while El Rushbo has been consistently conservative all his life!
In fact, if you are interested, El Rushbo said that Cruz is the closest thing to Reagen we are going to get while Trump had no ideology. Said that this week.
“Somebody tell me how Rush is conservative and Trump is not?”
Well Rush has demonstrated and pushed for true conservative values since the beginning of his radio show in the late 80s and I believe held these values long before that. Values such as: Anti-abortion, strong military, support for troops, balanced budget through spending cuts and lower taxes, basically less government and government control in our lives. Rush was named an honorary member of congress after the 94 election republican take over. Mr. Trump during the 90s was contributing to candidates from both sides of the asile but mostly Democrats especially the Clintons. Trump was Pro-Abortion and remained silent on other conservative causes until recently. While Trump has been shown to be “registered” as a Republican continuously for many years, he certainly hasn’t supported the Republican party continuously during that time as he was a supporter of the “Reform” party and was or contemplated running as a reform candidate at one time.
Yes, Trump sounds more conservative NOW but there is no way that I compare him and his stands over time to Rush.
I think you are under a major misconception. Both Ted Cruz & I, and many at Free Republic are able to explain a complex Conservative philosophy, as well as the clear intentions of the Founding Fathers, in terms for which the word merchants on the Left have no effective answer. We have trained ourselves to that purpose, because we saw the need in our personal dealings with the Leftists in Academia. (I went to Oberlin College for my four year undergraduate degree, precisely to make certain that I could dismantle the best verbal propagandists on the Left.)
There is nothing in that, or in anyone else, which demonstrates higher intelligence than someone who did not train themselves in that direction; but, rather, applied his brain in a somewhat different direction.
That Donald Trump is highly intelligent is not just indicated by his success, thus far, in this campaign--despite a lynch mob mentality among his detractors. A better indication is in his success in building beautiful buildings--the direction that he has applied himself in, prior to this campaign.
And that leads to another point, which is not so well understood. Trump as a builder, is almost an implied metaphor--if you would try verbally to understand him--for a sound Conservative. Builders of tall buildings apply the basic Conservative approach to social values; they build things on a firm foundation--that is the good ones do--step by step. The Founding Fathers built the heritage, we seek to preserve, in the same way; step by step, on a firm foundation.
The contrast is with the Left who are always trying to tear down the foundation, and start from scratch--not on anything grounded in human experience, but on cloud-borne theories. (For a look at the American approach for building a political society: .)
Trump may not be a debater in the academic sense. Yet his thinking is inherently based on experience & reason. He has lived the basis of our best verbal arguments.
Either Trump or Cruz could be a great President. We need to get them back to working together. They really do complement each other, both talent and appeal wise.
In contrast, those faux Conservative pundits, who smear either, offer nothing but an endless demonstration of their idiotic bias & intellectual inadequacy--their inability to actually understand any approach but their own.
We’re not talking Trump’s life vs Rush Limbaughs. It’s Trump’s policies and beliefs going back decades. The man has supported amnesty, seizing people’s property, seizing guns, the Clintons/Obama, pro-choice...why do people dismiss out of hand a life time of liberal positions because he’s running for office? Has he admitted he was wrong about those past positions? Nope. His ego is to big to admit he was wrong. He just hopes people forget them because he’s counting on anger to carry him into the Whitehouse.
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I'd never thought of that, but you're absolutely right.