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.
Last poll I saw Trump was the number one candidate among the Tea partiers and Birthers.
The Tea Party and Birthers are not happy with the liberal and winpy republicans especially Boehner right now.
It’s no wonder Trump is number one in the polls among them.