Evidently you fail to practice what you profess.
Posted on 02/19/2016 8:42:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
He has broken with many Republicans on taxing the rich, threatening trade wars and keeping Planned Parenthood alive. On Friday, Donald J. Trump faced criticism for an even bolder act of conservative heresy: embracing the core tenet of the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Trump has to date offered only bits and pieces of his health agenda, generally presenting a vow to repeal "Obamacare" and replace it with "something great."
In a town-hall meeting hosted by CNN on Thursday night, he shared some more expansive views on the subject, and unlike most Republicans he did not call for removing the individual mandate that requires Americans to have health insurance.
Asked how people with pre-existing medical conditions would purchase insurance if the health law and the mandate were eliminated, Mr. Trump said, "I like the mandate."
"So here's where I'm a little bit different," he continued. "I don't want people dying on the streets."
Less than 24 hours later, Mr. Trump backed away from his remarks, proclaiming himself to be the fiercest opponent of the health law. It was the latest example of a candidate who has been impervious to inconsistencies again emerging unscathed from a misstep that would probably be damaging to anyone else....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’m a crazy Christian (maybe that’s redundant) but I am more and more pained that Cruz is just not coming across anywhere nearly as good as his spiritual background might suggest is possible.
Someone ought to tell him and a lot of other churchy sour pusses that the gospel is GOOD news, not BAD.
New tagline....
Under what provision of the Constitution does it authorize Congress to compel hospitals to treat people who are not going to pay for their services?
Pelosi and the GOPe would say General Welfare...
...I am not defending their understanding !
but this was mandated by Congress before ObamaCare...
Actually he did. He was speaking off the cuff, which would be expected from a knee jerk big government liberal. When he saw the problem he created, he sent his disciples out to change the subject and make excuses.
Trump said what he said. He meant it when he said it. But he realizes now that he needs to try harder to think like a conservative. Perhaps he forgot he was running for the Republican Nomination. It is understandable. He was a lifelong democrat who is now trying to pretend to be a conservative Republican.
Give him more time. I'm sure his handlers are coaching him to do better.
Haha, the GOP Elite Congress is NOT CONSERVATIVE.
Trump is way to the right of these Class A Amnesty loving A Holes in Washington DC.
And by the way, the Washington GOP funded Obamacare and Planned Parenthood!
Well, Trump is being a free thinker and that means he is feeling very bold to flout ism’s whether they be conservatism or liberalism (the political left still isn’t wonderfully happy with him either, though he has fair support from traditional Democrat voters now).
Trump is wild and crazy. Whether like a fox, I don’t know. Maybe he is boldly and unapologetically (or, with note to your tag, apologetically) putting together what he thinks is the only compromise that can keep America humming well at all, given its wide spectrum of expectations.
Hang on to your seats. Trump may yet pull this off.
(in in a rather sarcastic mood. Please don't take offense.)
God help us.
Where have all these “Shocked Conservatives” been for the past quarter century? Besides being on the payroll.
“He was a lifelong democrat who is now trying to pretend to be a conservative Republican.”
I remember when Trump first announced, he said “I am running AS a conservative republican”. He did not say I AM a conservative republican.
And I think you guys are mostly venting right now. You still don’t have a clear picture yet, except that Trump wants something a lot different than what you were hoping for.
Agreed the border issue is of primary concern. But if the supreme court has a liberal justice replace Scalia, it is not out of the realm of possibility that a decidedly liberal court rules existing and/or new immigration law unconstitutional. You cannot enforce a law ruled unconstitutional by the courts. If border and immigration enforcement is what you seek, you must first guarantee the courts remain at least somewhat conservative in make-up. Are you sure Trump will do that. Without that certainty, all the immigration talk in the world will not amount to anything.
Evidently you fail to practice what you profess.
Maybe it IS part of how God is helping us. And there’s more coming down the pike, but in the private sphere.
What would go well with a big dose of Trump would be a big dose of Gospel... and Caesar can never ever do that for us. Not if Billy Graham were POTUS. And it’s frantically silly to imagine he could.
You got to admit, that was pretty funny nate.
“Why would Trump saying I “like the mandate” shock anybody???”
What I find shocking is that so many are so desperate to explain that he didn’t say what he said.
But he clearly did say it, very naturally and with the ease of someone who has said it many times, “I like the mandate.”
It’s out there. It can’t be taken any other way without twisting facts, and his back-tracking will only make it worse. He should simply move on and let the heat die down.
The last thing Trump supporters want is a close examination of Trump's ethics and biography that is why they so rarely engage in a "close examination" but so often vilify the messenger.
Just as they have done on this thread.
I love sarcasm. Keep it up.
Lol, awesome sarcasm. ...
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