Iowa Dave, I am making a new effort to try and keep the discussion cordial. Trump doesn’t have five positions on abortion, that is just silliness. Personally, I like that Trump doesn’t tell only his inner circle what is on his mind. He acts like we the people are his inner-circle. The one thing that I do not like are politicians who have canned answers carefully calculated to give them the most votes regardless of their true feelings. I also do not like politicians who attempt to mislead people nearly every time they open their mouth.
1) Trump maintains he is most ProLife candidate in the race.
2) Trump States women should be punished who have abortions
3) Trump says issue is unclear and be left to the States
4) Trump now reverses position and says the woman is the victim and should not be punished
5) Trump then says laws are set on abortion and need to stay that way
6) Trump then said that he would work too change the laws
So as someone who has worked for decades to support the unborn, do you see why many of us are concerned with his ever changing position?
He [Trump] acts like we the people are his inner-circle.
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I’d like my president to be a tad more circumspect, I am not comforted in any way by watching Donald arrive at a position, as it is an example of Ready, Fire, Aim behavior.
If you don’t know what your position is - and clearly that was the case here on the hypothetical abortion question that created this firestorm - say nothing. Talk to your advisors (that’s the ‘aim’ mentioned above), and then take a position and stick to it.
But Donald fired before he aimed, and now has spent the better part of the week defending himself against a pure hypothetical.
It did not have to be this way? What do they say about fault in a traffic accident - the last person who could have done something to avoid it but failed to do is the one at fault.