Posted on 11/06/2015 4:04:41 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
The best way to counter hit pieces on a person’s candidate choice is to ignore the hit piece because that is what it is. A hit piece.
Doesn’t matter which candidate you prefer.
Sure...and so was the obummer....they all are when they want your vote....
I know he keeps talking about new this and new that.... We need a smaller federal government for everyone's sake....
The idea that the federal government's job is to tax the living hell out of the people and then give money back to the states is beyond stupid... Make the states pay for their own "Bull".... In that manner government gets closer to the people.... Maybe we could actually get our hands on those stinking, lousy politicions..!
Trump is a blowhard who plays a conservative on tv, when he does say something liberal he walks it back and says what conservatives want to hear. He’s a chameleon and has a lot of conservatives duped by his act.
As a native New Yorker, I have watched Trump be a liberal my whole life. His excuse for donating to Hillary is he wanted her at his third wedding. What pricipled conservative wants Hillary within a million miles? He was already a billionaire, he just admires the Clintons. He has flipped on every position possible, and “conservatives” are falling for his latest schtick. I will NEVER vote for the man, he is no different than Hillary.
Here is an actual Trump quote on the topic.
Cannot change Medicare or Soc.Sec. and still win elections [At CPAC, Trump said}: "As Republicans, if you think you are going to change very substantially for the worse Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in any substantial way, and at the same time you think you are going to win elections, it just really is not going to happen," Mr. Trump said, adding that polls show that tea partyers are among those who don't want their entitlements changed. "What we have to do and the way we solve our problems it to build a great economy."
Oh! So you belong to THAT idiotic group!
He isn’t a conservative and people aren’t backing Trump because of ideology.
They back him because he can get things done.
And I do wish the GOP was a conservative party because Ted Cruz is the only one running as a conservative.
That's just BS! Name the writer/writers. Who on "the staff" wrote it? There isn't a list of "the staff" on your site.
Not naming them is disingenuous as you have right, left and middle writers at your site and, I'd be willing to bet, on your "staff" as well.
Or is...ahem...staffing your readers the objective?
A Hillary-Trump debate will be ratings GOLD
Thanks for posting. That comment is especially irritating to me since I attended that event, not to taunt anyone, but to defend freedom of speech. I don’t go around insulting anyone just for the fun of it, but if that person tells me I can’t insult him or he will kill me, then I will defend my rights.
But the pro illegal alien and pro EXIM IBD is conservative?
As the demographics in this country change, so will populism. It will become more liberal.
Anyway, a populist president nominating SC judges is not a good thing.
How well has it worked out picking the most “electable” candidates? (Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney)
I agree wholeheartedly.
I've been thinking (and ROTFLMAO) remembering this little jem from 2003...
"That's our slogan," quipped his ad man, Jim Margolis. "John Kerry: He's no weenie." "He doesn't need a consultant to tell him how to dress like an alpha male," said his friend Ivan Schlager. "He is a damn alpha male."
John Kerry needs an ad man to claim that he is an alpha male.
With Trump, there is no doubt.
Imagine John Kerry walks into the room with Putin. EVERYBODY instantly knows the pecking order.
Trump and Putin??? That room will have a lot of testosterone in it. With 2 dogs trying to prove their dominance over the other.
I could see John Kerry riding up in his fancy biking clothes, on his $20,000 bike, trying to be manly. Trump would descend the stairs of his $100 MILLION plane, in his $2,000 suit, Jab a rod in the spokes of Kerry's front wheel, sending Kerry flying over his handle bars. Trump would then yell at him "YOU'RE FIRED!"
(Or "YOU'RE TIRED!")(But libs wouldn't understand the pun)
Donald Trump has what none of the other candidates do.
An alimentary canal without a hand, full of money, inside of it.
I’m afraid I have to object to the premise of your last question. The last time(s) “we” backed a real, no-shit conservative was Ronald Reagan. He wasn’t perfect by any means, but he was arguably the best president of the 20th century and, in my opinion, one of the four or five best ever. Since then, we’ve had GHWB, Bob Dole, GWB, John McCain and Mitt Romney. I would argue that we lose when we DON’T back the purest (to use your term) candidate - even when we win the election, i.e., GHWB and GWB.
RECENTLY, he also voiced support for the Kelo decision.
He also said in so many words that he supported single payer health care (”we’re going to take care of everybody”).
Re his “tough” stance on immigration, he said “We got to move ‘em out, we’re going to move ‘em back in if they’re really good people.”
What’s IBD’s historic position on defending workers from imported cheap labor?
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