Posted on 04/23/2011 8:03:33 AM PDT by realetybytes
Tom Tancredo attacked the Trump candidacy in an article at World Net Daily,
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=290317
His main point of contention is that Trump has no record of so-called, "public service". You know, that, (selfless drive that politicians hide behind as they conspire to steal our money), "I'm better than you because I work for the government thing."
I felt it was necessary to address some of his concerns, as such:
"... "How is it that a man with so much heavy political and personal baggage and no record of public service whatsoever can be taken seriously by so many Republicans as a candidate for the highest office in the nation?"
Hi Tom, good, if wrong on so many counts, article! I love your stand on the border, and am waiting to see if Trump will speak to that issue. To answer your question, his "political baggage" is only that of a successful businessman trying to survive amongst sharks, and saying and doing anything he can to get an advantage. He has not been making decisions for others, but for his business. The "public servants" you are so keen on, are all, (mostly), corrupt liars and power hungry thieves that go to DC and amass millions of dollars in backroom deals, spend our money on corrupt dictators and the anti-American UN functions and dictates, and do their best to destroy America from within. The "public service" record you seem to feel is so necessary to lead America is a joke. Like the Kennedy's, they are all craven, power hungry elitists with a do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do attitude towards the people. Name me a politician that went to DC and did not get rich, sir. How are those insider trading deals, whose laws they are immune to, working out for them? "Public Service" is a quaint idea that has been taken over by career politicians as a smokescreen to cheat and destroy America. By "public service", do you mean Rangel cheating on his taxes? Pelosi making special laws to enrich her tuna contributors and husband? Harry Reid selling government lands so his kids get rich? Teddy Kennedy killing his brothers pregnant girlfriend? Teddy Kennedy conspiring with the Russians against our country, numerous times? obama apologizing for America existing at all, and doing his best to turn us into a third world nation by bankrupting us? Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd all arranging corrupt banking deals, and ruining the banking system with the communist ideals? This is the best you can do, sir? Complain that because he has not stolen enough, cheated enough, or harmed enough citizens through "public service", Trump won't fit in? Unlike 90% of the "public servants" we elect, who turn into steal-as-much-as-possible-between-fixing-elections-to-stay-in-power thieves, Trump is already a powerful man, with what we really need. "PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS ACCUMEN" and smarts. Unlike the Schumers and other microphone-hungry pissants blustering from DC, he won't need an election to feel important and superior to the electorate or amass power and wealth. "The Donald" may be a joke to you and other elitists, sir, but, given the choice between a politician that has never worked a day in his life yet pontificates like they know it all, and a successful, and at times, unsuccessful businessman that has made his way to the top, the politician loses, hands down. Be well, and please concentrate on the border, on that you make sense. On Trump, no, not so much.
Ron Reale realetybytes.com
I did not address the fact that he attacks "The Donald" for his past record, yet it is easy to find that record, as opposed to people paying millions of dollars to law firms to hide all past records. It would have been too easy. rr
Tom should have stayed in the House and continued his fight against illegal immigration there as he did so well for years. Since leaving the House, he just seems quirky and out-of-place most of the time.
Makes perfect sense to me Tom. Tells you what a bang up job republicans have done lately dontcha think?
As much as I distrust Trump, I’d rather have a Free-market Atheist than a Marxist Atheist in the white house... and I’m a Christian!
My problem with Trump is all the liberal stands he has taken and all the liberals he has supported over the years.
If you think Trump is conservative, you’re dumber than a brick.
I am neither pro-Trump nor anti-Trump but let's not paint him as too much of an angel.
By his own admission he has donated tens of thousands of dollars to those same greedy, corrupt politicians in order to benefit his own bottom line without a second thought as to how those polluticians would harm "others".
“He supported John Kerry in 2004 and was a vocal critic of Bush’s Iraq policy, even opposing the surge that turned the tide of war.”
Read more: Trump circus comes to town http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=290317#ixzz1KMbnfDCB
Tom Tancredo opposed the surge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ5EFVaPbug
Yes, he did pay millions probably in extortion money to dems, so he could operate in cities like NY. A smart businessman pays whatever slimbag that stands in his way. As he was not a politician at the time, his donations don’t bother me a bit.
Oh, and, where did anyone say he is an angel? Who wants an angel? I want a NYC street fighter to go to DC and the rest of the world, and put America first once again, in power and stature.
rr
Please give any examples of your slanderous statement! Where do you see “less than civil” discourse on the right?
Methinks you’ve been watching too many Wisconsin liberal riots, and it behooves me to point out your a) ignorance; b) mistake; c) purposeful lie.
You make the choice, but either way, stop projecting your liberal animosity and incivility onto the right. We discuss, not destroy!
Wise up!
rr
I don’t think you saw the word “conservative” attatched to Trump anywhere in my article, so, as far as that, “dumb as a brick”, you need to stop projecting yourself onto others.
As I stated, he is from the liberal sewer, NYC. I am also from NYC. If you wish to survive, or grease the wheels of your business, any astute businessman will pay-off whoever is in power.
Just because he was “forced”, and if you wish to survive, it is “forced”, not contributed, to pay to get by, does not mean he agreed with any of them, just that he knows they are theives, and to do business, he had to let them, “wet their beak”, Don Corleone- style.
“Do you think that Rove’s attack on Trump was civil. Some have attacked Sarah Palin. Then the RINOS have taken the republicans in the wrong direction. I am an Independent/Conservative and not a republican/democrat lite. I can’t wait for the Tea Party to become a political party. I have not seen your “discussions”. You read me wrong.”
Anything without curse words, said without violence or the threat thereof, is civil discourse, sir. In other words, everything the right is doing is civil, and everything the left, like in Wisconsin or as they beat tea party people, or when their union members threaten violence or physically take over someone else’s property, are most assuredly not.
You cannot come here and redefine terms and words, people that speak and understand English might take umbrage and call you on your misstatements.
Every bit of uncivil, threatening and violent action has come from the left, there is 0% of analogous incidents on the right.
And, to answer your question, YES, ROVE”S PALIN STATEMENTS WERE CIVIL! (as opposed to Andrew Sullivan and the wonkette fools and Letterman and all the other slime that attack her family).
Does that help?
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