Posted on 07/19/2015 12:55:46 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentNetwork
His plain-spoken, somewhat outlandish style aside, we look at Donald Trump on the issues and try to reconcile his past comments to his campaign positions today.
No!! Vetting Trump in any way is trolling! Only listen to the media about Trump!
Whatever “the media” is...
I like Trumps take on McCain.
I think he believes he can be a Democrat, an Independent, and then a Republican presidential candidate without anyone ever noticing. He believes he can give money to the Democrats, enrich himself through political contacts, like the Clintons, and still pretend to be a populists, “man of the people,” conservative. And, he may pull it off with enough low information voters.
Trump believes there is a gap in the Republican Party where none of the million candidates will speak the way most people feel about issues - plain, clear, non-nuanced anger. He’s exploiting that gap and people are falling for it. They’re suckers. Trump hasn’t changed his positions, he’s just stating them in a way that’s making him popular.
He believes correctly. Look at all the people that scream in his defense and rationalize/excuse and obfuscate every time someone mentions his actual documented record of liberalism.
Willful blindness does not make conservatives. It makes Liberals.
I’d vote for Trump over Hillary and hope he is not a big disappointment. But Trump is like John Candy who played a mog (half man half dog} named Barf in Spaceballs. He is his own best friend.
We need a serious, intelligent, principled conservative, not a clownish dork with bad hair, no knowledge of conservative values, no sense of why we're angry about the dangerous drift toward socialism under Obama, and none of the milk of human kindness that is a blessing in civil society.
We have one. Cruz. But the people that crawled over cut glass to vote for Mitt Romney are too ‘conservative’ to vote for him over one hosed vote.
Doald Trump believes above all else in Donald Trump. All of the rest of his beliefs are dependent on the possible effects on the Prime Belief and may be adjusted accordingly.
Yep, Cruz voted For TPA before he got ‘caught’, on the other hand Trump warned the Senate NOT to vote for it. Get informed...
Quoted from Breitbart, 22 June:
GOP presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump is warning the Senate against passing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) on Tuesday.
TPA would give President Obama fast track authority to finalize his trade negotiations without Congress issuing any amendments and only getting an up or down vote on the final deal.
Trump posted on Twitter: “The Senate must NOT pass TPA! Any Senator who votes for it is disqualified for being POTUS. Protect the American worker and manufacturer!”
Donald Trump believes in Donald Trump. Look at his past and present positions. It depends on who is around him as they are opposite of what he has said on different days of the week. He is enjoying the spectacle. I do hope he does not split the vote and let a democrat socialist criminal become president.
I think Trump mostly believes in Trump, for Trump, and by Trump.
Which is still a considerable improvement over the Obama administration.
As I said. If you voted for the boatload of liberalism Mitt brought to the party, you have no excuse to go all purist over one botched vote.
Check Donnie’s record on pro choice, 2A and other issues. Then get back to me about his creds.
Donald Trump supported an assault weapon ban (along with background checks and waiting periods). Any such support at any time is an immediate and permanent disqualification in my book.
Amen!
We have seen the venom and hate spewed by the Trumpers...
I am waiting for these people to say “oh, this post needs to be zotted”, etc.
You are insane if you think Romney was my choice... good grief. But, really, what other real choices were there? I mean people who could get elected? I love Herman Cain, but he couldn’t have gotten 40%, Santorum... sweater vests and moral lecturing sunk him, Huckleberry? Good man but way too nice to win, etc.. etc.. Oh, and I forgot Rick “oops” Perry. Blew his own foot off. Now we have Cruz or Trump, really the only two candidates who have the cajones to go up against the establishment.. though I worry about Cruz in the visa issue and Obama trade.. Is he deep in debt to big business and bankers too? At least no one can buy the Donald... We’ll, like with Mittens, we have what we have.. we’ll jus have to vote for what we determine is best.. or at least the worst of two evils...
There were other options on your ballot than Mitt and Barry. David Axelrod or Valerie Jarret did not put a gun to your had in the booth nor did Mitt’s staff. You CHOSE freely regardless of who you voted for.
FOR.
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