Posted on 09/15/2015 12:09:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
This article originated on Creators and has also been published at IBD, Townhall, and Real Clear Politics, in addition to National Review.
I know the GOPe thinks we are not smart enough to make this decision.
Proof for them is in the polling.
We must be really disappointing our masters.
Here is your 30 peices of silver Tom, surly you will be invited to all the ‘good’ partys.
There are two basic types of Trump supporters.
1. Those who naively see him as some sort of savior for Conservatives and their policy concerns, and...
Those who see him as a Destroyer. A destroyer of the status quo, not matter the outcome.
I count myself among the latter.
Because all Trump’s supporters will one day wake up and decide they want more GOP Establishment betrayals after all.
I respect Dr Sowell but the emotion in this case is anger. The anger began with the GOP-e handingbthe nomination to Bob Dole in 1996. It cooled a bit with W but he was never my ideal president. My mood soured with the twin disasters of McCain and Romney Now I’m pissed. Unlike the wife who refund to the badtard who beat her, I’m done. I think Trump is a horse’s ass but he’s just the kind of jerk to upset the “politics as usual” crap that could have delivered us Christie as a candidate in 2016.
We are fighting all those -isms and more but we are first and foremost fighting the media.
It is the distorted perception of America rendered by media, media driven polls, and the staffers and lobbyists who inject their personal agendae which would make it difficult for the Conservative minded Congressman or Senator to have a clear view of what Americans think (provided they even cared).
It is the media which have promoted Anti-American ideas since Cronkite pronounced the Vietnam War lost despite the overwhelming defeat of Viet Cong forces during the Tet Offensive.
It is the Media which sold Clinton, Obama, and to keep their own beds warm, the Gay agenda to America, --every aspect of that media from sitcoms to movies to the nightly news.
By blowing one topic out of proportion, emotionalizing another, demonizing a third, they shape the opinion and train of thought of America, and define what is trendy, acceptable, or heinous.
They truly make up down, right wrong, evil good, and burn cities in the process. There is untold blood on their hands.
“We must have universal health care I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one..The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan.”
That doesn’t sound like a man who thinks it wouldn’t work here...
And, even if he did, “it works there, but wouldn’t here” is economic balderdash. The self-defeating incentives and costs created by single-payer universal health care are inherent to the system, not the location where it is implemented. In the long run, it doesn’t work—can’t work—anywhere.
He said single payer wouldn’t work now. Allowing that when he spoke in praise of it in the past it was a good idea.
Who knows, he might decide it’s a good idea again?
He has no principle in play here. That’s the danger. He’s not guided by anything except what he thinks is right.
“He has no principle in play here. Thats the danger. Hes not guided by anything except what he thinks is right.”
I don’t think he’s even guided by that. I think he’s guided by what will get him the most attention, and now the most cheers from his adoring fans.
Good point.
What a wasted moment. To unleash all this anger before we capture the White House.
Trump fans: win first, then purge. Not blow up your own party and regret President Biden or Sanders.
The entire election is based on emotion.
It is rare but I disagree.
If there ever was, a time to vote on emotions this is it. People emotionally voted for "Hope and Change". There must be a time to emotionally vote for "A Great Plan, The Best Plan"? How much worse could it be.
This may well be that time.
Tell Erik Erickson he can relax; Trump said in the GOP debate that single payer wouldn’t work in the US.
Excellent post, spot on.
So now you admit that in the debate Trump said single payer wouldn’t work in the US. Originally all you said was that he praised single payer in the debate.
Forgive me if I am sick to death of the dishonesty deployed to attack Trump. It is shameful.
That shows that he would not piss on our religious beliefs like the current resident of the White House.
Note my new tagline ...
And he said, up until the debate, that it works elsewhere and that we should consider it here. So, he lacks the understanding of health care economics to realize that no, it doesn’t work anywhere, and/or he was just pandering to the GOP debate audience when he said that it wouldn’t work here.
Do you agree with a Trump’s statement that single payer health care works elsewhere?
Can you explain how it could possibly be the case that it works “there” but not “here”?
Do facts matter in your fantasy universe?
You argue like a fourteen yo. In the past Trump said single payer worked elsewhere. But he had not been ‘saying that up to the debate’ as you claim. It is pathetic to watch you, your fellow Trump haters, and Erik Erickson contort the truth to smear Trump. What are you hoping to prove? Dishonesty will win no one to your side: zero. The very fact that you are forced to misrepresent Trump defeats your argument.
Btw, only low IQers resort to riffing on my screen name. This is an observation/fact I have never seen to fail.
What is it about the electorate that sent Obama to the WH twice and that knows more about Miley Cyrus than Lois Lerner that makes you think we “win” anything after you have “destroyed” our system?
Be careful what you ask for
Please explain the economic principles that would allow single-payer universal health care to work elsewhere (as Trump STILL claims), but not here.
In the alternative, a simple “he’s wrong” will do.
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