Who can argue with that?
Just to put it in comparison, here is Rudy's policy chart.
..and Bill Clinton's chart
From ontheissues.org He is way closer to Bill Clinton than he is someone we all agree is a RINO. Heck, on a straight right/left paradigm, he is almost identical to Bill Clinton.
Well...the flip-side is that you talk about Trump and Palin as the front runnners and you reduce the stature of the fiscal heavyweights in the Republican field. That said, I’m voting against Obama...I don’t care who he faces.
In before the “he’s not that conservative” posts. Not as much on some issues, and perhaps a recent convert on others, but I’ve been saying he’s basically the ultimate tea partier for this reason:
I’ve read his books and followed him over the years. He’s pretty consistent on a few key issues, such as foreign policy, trade, and overall fiscal viewpoint, save for his brain fart on nationalized healthcare, which he seems to have given up in favor of allowing insurance across state lines.
He hasn’t flipped as much as we think. He’s a typical non-political business type who only cares about a few issues and has relatively little ideology otherwise, but he seems to have had an awakening the last couple years, thanks to Obama. There are a lot of issues he’s probably been rather fuzzy on for a long time, because he just never really thought about them that much until now.
Forget he’s a businessman and media personality for a minute, and forget he’s filthy rich.
Doesn’t he now sound like a lot of people we all know? People who vote, swing voters in many cases, who were always somewhat conservative, but never gave it enough thought to truly know what they were, until recently, when they saw the damage Obama was doing? Isn’t that how the Tea Party movement got started?
Trump is the ultimate tea partier.
Is there any doubt that the words Trump is speaking
are resonating with the American public
and therefore feared by the MSM and the
Communist/Marxist/alQaeda in power?
That’d be just great if I believed a single thing Trump says NOWADAYS.
He’s winning me over along with my other Republican family and friends. I guess we prefer strong men with a pair.
A little bit ago I heard an ad for Oreilly tonight. He is going to explore allegations that Obama has covered up his college and other records.
Does anyone believe this would be happening sans Trump?
I’m very supportive of everything Trump’s done so far.
He seems to have fire, and if he keeps acting like he doesn’t give a damn about the media take on things, then I’m just fine with that.
He’s definitely got my attention.
Chris Christie attitude - with more business experience.
Trump is great theater, but he’s not a serious contender. He’s even more reminiscent of Ross Perot than are the female heart-throbs.
I’m still a little suspicious but Trump is making the rest of the field seem like a bunch of cowards. It’s amazing the service he’s providing. Finally, someone is saying what he’s saying...and he’s a liberal so people listen. He can go on nbc and they’ll let him talk, at least for a little while until they go whole hog and try to politically assassinate him.
"Trump is NOT the real deal. He will get Obama re-elected. This is not a game. This is not a circus. He is not a conservative. He was happy to donate to Schumer, Weiner, & Emanuel campaigns last year. He was pro-choice recently and now claims to be pro-life. He sounds more & more like Ross Perot. If he runs as an Independent, Obama wins. We should not encourage this."
The only reason that this guy is palatable at all, is that he's the anti-Obama-- and is finally raising the questions that a plurality of us have been asking since day 1.
Trump is not, and never has been, a conservative-- unless you compare him to Obama. But then again, Bill Clinton is a conservative when compared to Obama.
Trump is serving a useful purpose right now, and I applaud him for what he's doing, but I hope he doesn't become the GOP nominee for President.
For many of these the exact opposite is true. Republicans, however, spend the vast majority of their time trying to defend themselves against claims from the left that it is the Republicans who are radical.
To win back the country conservatives and Republicans have to be willing to take the fight to the left, and control the narrative. You don't win fights by backpedaling and not throwing any punches. If you let the other side load up and take shots without having to worry about getting hit back, they will, and some of those shots will land.
It is refreshing to watch someone like Trump who is willing to throw punches and mix it up. The Republicans need to ridicule the left and push them back onto their heels. It's required.
For many of these the exact opposite is true. Republicans, however, spend the vast majority of their time trying to defend themselves against claims from the left that it is the Republicans who are radical.
To win back the country conservatives and Republicans have to be willing to take the fight to the left, and control the narrative. You don't win fights by backpedaling and not throwing any punches. If you let the other side load up and take shots without having to worry about getting hit back, they will, and some of those shots will land.
It is refreshing to watch someone like Trump who is willing to throw punches and mix it up. The Republicans need to ridicule the left and push them back onto their heels. It's required.
How do you like mr. wonderful now?