Posted on 04/12/2011 9:47:14 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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.
Now he’s talking Third Party if he doesn’t get the GOP nomination and that makes him dangerous, IMO.
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?
He can't afford the pay cut.
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.
Dangerous? If Backstabber Romney hijacks the GOP,
then a Third Party and the final dissolution of the GOP
is a sine qua non, n’est pas?
He's said he'd probably run as an independent unless he wins the nomination. Now assuming his primary appeal is to conservatives, his running as an independent would split the anti-Obama vote and virtually guarantee Obama's reelection. What kind of person who truly values conservative principles promises to help re-elect Obama if he doesn't get the nomination?
Good charts. Interesting that Rudy is where he is on that scale, especially in relation to Trump. I always hated seeing him lumped in with Romney and McCain. He is conservative as heck on many issues, and very strong on those issues in terms of ability to execute and communicate the issues. There are others where he is quite poor.
Trump could be in several places on the left to right axis, depending on what his true views are. He is all over the board on issues like taxes on the rich, health care, and several others. I don’t trust him yet to be a constitutional leader, which is critical for our next candidate.
I actually like a similar chart where populist is replaced with authoritarian, and on that chart, I like to find people closer to libertarian than authoritarian. I suspect both Rudy and Trump would trend towards authoritarian on that chart, as it seems like the NE Republican view is much more government driven than the rest of the country.
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.
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