[Cincinatus' Wife]

Stating facts isn't posting a "hit piece" or "slamming" or "attacking" or whatever spin someone may put on it [like deflecting from the facts with put-downs and insults toward the poster or another candidate].

The facts are the facts. What Donald Trump says he plans to do needs to be judged and evaluated by what he has done.

Discuss Donald Trump's history. If you do, there is no way this man could be considered to be the champion of conservatives and conservative causes.

Every other candidate has been vetted - sliced, diced and had the light of truth shown on them.

[P.O.E.]

Still waiting for a 100% constitutional conservative to win. Sure I like a lot of things about Cruz, Walker, & Carlson, probably up in the 80% + range.

So Trump’s in the 60% range average if you look back over the years.

I like a lot of his populism - gives him a big electability boost over the bland country club republicans in the field.

And don’t forget many of our founding fathers were businessmen, not professional politicians.

I appreciate your making a lot of this info available. But as for now, I still like what Trump’s doing & saying now.

[xzins]

Trump contributed $170,000 to the Republican Governor’s Association, $50,000 to the ultra-conservative American Crossroads PAC, $30,400 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $10,000 to the Democratic Party of New York. However, of the nearly $420,000 Trump has donated to committees, the largest recipient has been the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee with $116,000 — or more than one fourth of his total contributions to all party and political action committees.

Those numbers don't help Trump critics:

261,000 to Republican party and pacs. If 116000 equals more than a fourth, what does 261,000 represent?

[fieldmarshaldj]

I may have been one of the first people on FR wanting to draft Walker for President in 2012. That was his time when he could’ve audaciously marched onto the floor of the GOP Convention and ripped the nomination out and away from the execrable Socialist weasel Willard, who had no intention of running a real campaign against Zero. He should’ve done it, he was a superstar that Summer.

Saying that, he’s no longer the “it” candidate. Few are questioning the fact he’s done a great job as Governor against the odds, but against Trump, he’s not the leader candidate. It’s hard when you see your candidate flame out, a lot of us have watched it happen to ours. At this point, throwing anything at Trump to see what sticks is now the M.O. of the party establishment left and the hysterical media. It’s not going to help Governor Walker’s candidacy one bit.

Stick to touting Walker’s record and posting positive articles, don’t join the weasel chorus ripping down Trump. We already have enough that everywhere else.

[Cowboy Bob]

Maybe Democrat politicians were more easily bought off.

If I was a businessman, and I needed political help, I would be bribing...ooopps! I mean contributing to...any political that would help. The system allows for that.

How can you blame Trump for playing the system? Is he the only businessman who donates to both sides?

I think this issue is that Democrats are more willing to sell their vote than the Republicans.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

watch the business class scene in the movie Back To School then maybe you’ll get it

[Lumper20]

Data from the Federal Election Commission and state elections offices provided by the two websites show that Trump has given $584,850 to Democrats and $961,140 to the GOP over the last 26 years. Since 2012 it is like 350K to 3500.

[Neverforget01]

Thanks for posting. These donations reflect a lack of principles. I do not have a horse in the race, but will never vote for Trump.

[ncalburt]

Another day,the biggest Walker astroturfer is showing her Romney campaign smear tactics with another Trimp hit piece !
So is George Wills wife ordering you to just trash Trump since Walker is such a loser ?...
yep, Walker is such a DC wimp it's time to trash the other GOP candidates since he says nothing to offend the DC elite !
Yes that's what posters like you who want to ENSLAVE us with another owned DC establishment sock puppet Scotty ‘Koch Brothers ‘Walker who will ram thru Treasonous Trade Bills, Amnesty, .......so the K street billionaires are Happy !

Walker hired the old Romney smear team and your carrying out the tradition of trashing the completion while leaving Hillary untouched ?.

Meet Mr Dayspring that Walker has in his team.
A huge anti conservative dirty tricks expert.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/02/walker-for-president-effort-hires-another-controversial-anti-conservative-in-brad-dayspring/

So please educate why we need the Sock Puppet of Reince Prebius ,George Will muse , Liz Mair recent employer ,and Brad Daysping ?

Rather than smear Trump using Romney bot spin let's here why we need another OWNED KStreet hack like Walker ?..

[randita]

Why can't any of these guys actually "walk the walk"?

The top Republican recipient of Trump’s money is Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who has collected $13,600 from the billionaire magnate, the second most of any politician.

And all the while McCain is colluding with Feingold to get the "corrupting influence of money" out of politics. Hypocrites!

[HarleyLady27]

So Trump donated to democrats...

Show me all the Republicans that donated to Republican....

[ncalburt]

Let's see here.

In 2012’ you astroturfer non stop for Billionaire bag boy Rick ‘La Raza’ Perry and NOW you AstroTurf for Scotty ‘ Koch Brother Owned ‘ Walker ??

Both these candidate had the ultimate DC establishment anti conservative hacks, the George Wills couple running the show including Georgy Will spitting out Puff pieces in the Compost without disclosing his ties to the Walker .

More sleazy Romney campaign moves.

http://impeachobamatoday.blogspot.com/2015/07/george-wills-wife-works-on-campaign-of.html

You love those DC establishment puppets and you appear to be following Mrs Will current employer ?

[Labyrinthos]

After McCain, the Republican with the largest amount of Trump’s contributions is former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who left office in disgrace in 2006 when his online solicitation of male House pages became known. Trump contributed $9,500 to Foley between the 1996 and 2006 election cycles.

Wow, Trump gave money to a congressman who represents a district where Trump has a personal residence and signifcant business interests. Shocking.

[DaveA37]

Before I accept that Trump has contributed exclusively to the demodummies, I would like to see what he has also given to the rino’s. It may be more revealing than just saying, he is a demodummie.

[JayAr36]

When is this crap about Trumps donations. It is good business to donate to the powers that be. Remember what happened to Microsoft because they didn’t contribute to any party, the were sued by the federal government. The charges were reduced when they decided to join the crowd.

[Leep]

Doesn’t take much to “influence” a elected official or wanna be elected official.
Then again, they have lots of people trying to “influence” them. All that “influencing” adds up.
Boehner and McConnel must have really been “influenced” because they are so influence they think they don’t know which party they belong,too?
The manchurian will end up very wealthy from all the “influencing” he got. As he enjoys his new home in Cuba.

[Leep]

EDIT:
Doesn’t take much to “influence” a elected official or wanna be elected official, does it?
Then again, they have lots of people trying to “influence” them. All that “influencing” adds up.
Boehner and McConnel must have really been “influenced” because they are so “influenced” they they don’t know which party they belong,too?
The manchurian will end up very wealthy from all the “influencing” he got. As he enjoys his new home in Cuba.

[Yaelle]

Did you not see his fantastic speech outside by his copter in the Iowa field yesterday? He laid out how he was a big killer donor, a puppeteer. He knows the donor game from the other side, which is why he is not accepting donations. It was excellent.

[Pikachu_Dad]

in 1992 Perot pulled close to 20 million votes to secure the election of Clinton.

All 538 electoral votes of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout 55.2%[1]
44 Bill Clinton 3x4.jpg 43 George H.W. Bush 3x4.jpg RossPerotColor.jpg
Nominee Bill Clinton George H. W. Bush Ross Perot
Party Democratic Republican Independent
Home state Arkansas Texas Texas
Running mate Al Gore Dan Quayle James Stockdale
Electoral vote 370 168 0
States carried 32 + DC 18 0
Popular vote 44,909,806 39,104,550 19,743,821
Percentage 43.0% 37.5% 18.9%

[Pikachu_Dad]

People had wished up a bit in 1996, but he still took 8 million votes. United States presidential election, 1996 United States 1992 ← November 5, 1996 → 2000 All 538 electoral votes of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Turnout 49.0%[1] 44 Bill Clinton 3x4.jpg Bob Dole, PCCWW photo portrait.JPG RossPerotColor.jpg Nominee Bill Clinton Bob Dole Ross Perot Party Democratic Republican Reform Home state Arkansas Kansas Texas Running mate Al Gore Jack Kemp Pat Choate Electoral vote 379 159 0 States carried 31 + DC 19 0 Popular vote 47,401,185 39,197,469 8,085,294 Percentage 49.2% 40.7% 8.4%

[Yaelle]

Did you not see his fantastic speech outside by his copter in the Iowa field yesterday? He laid out how he was a big killer donor, a puppeteer. He knows the donor game from the other side, which is why he is not accepting donations. It was excellent.

He has gone way over explaining his donations.

Trump is the one person who WONT be a puppet.