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The Words Trump Doesn’t Use [Says He’s Fine With Affirmative Action]
National Review ^ | September 10, 2015 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 09/10/2015 5:33:45 PM PDT by Steelfish

The Words Trump Doesn’t Use [Says He’s Fine With Affirmative Action] by Jim Geraghty September 10, 2015

Did you ever think you would see the day when the GOP front-runner rarely uttered the words “freedom” and “liberty”? Perhaps some Republicans can be accused of loving liberty and freedom too much — or at least using those words as rhetorical crutches. Donald Trump is not one of them. The current GOP presidential front-runner rarely uses the words “freedom” or “liberty” in his remarks at all. Trump didn’t use the words “freedom” or “liberty” in his announcement speech. He didn’t use those words in his Nashville speech on August 29, or his Nashville rally on August 21, or his appearance at the Iowa State Fair on August 15, or his rally and news conference in New Hampshire on August 14, or his news conference in Birch Run, Mich., or his press conference in Laredo, Texas, on July 23.

He didn’t use those words while discussing his signing of the Republican National Committee’s pledge last Thursday, or in his contentious interview with Hugh Hewitt the same day. The current GOP presidential front-runner rarely uses the words ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’ in his remarks at all.

Trump did use the term “free-market” once during his Meet the Press interview with Chuck Todd, in a defense of his qualified support for affirmative action:

“Well, you know, you have to also go free market. You have to go capability. You have to do a lot of things. But I’m fine with affirmative action.”

The word “liberty” didn’t even come up. This is an unusual vocabulary for a Republican front-runner. It wasn’t that long ago that grass-roots conservatives showed up at Tea Party rallies with signs reading, “Liberty: All the Stimulus We Need.” The Tea Party named itself after an event organized by the Sons of Liberty. The GOP platform declares the party was “born in opposition to the denial of liberty.”


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To: Logical me
Without freedom and liberty American isn't great.

So without an America and its greatness there is no freedom or liberty. What are you trying to really say? You are just a little bit to transparent.

Unbelievable when the above statement in bold becomes controversial.

41 posted on 09/10/2015 6:51:53 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Well that sure ain’t any more Trump’s fault than it is all of our faults.

We got too comfy and weren’t paying atteention to the machinations of the left.


42 posted on 09/10/2015 6:52:47 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Steelfish

Maybe we should be suspicious of that. (Sorry. Seriously. Lighten up, Francis)


43 posted on 09/10/2015 7:00:58 PM PDT by KGeorge (HELL no, we AIN'T forgettin')
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To: KGeorge

eek. I left out that I was teasing you. Sorry X2.


44 posted on 09/10/2015 7:03:25 PM PDT by KGeorge (HELL no, we AIN'T forgettin')
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Perhaps because the writer wants an actual Conservative instead of a RINO yet so-called conservatives are flocking to Trump?


While his lead gets larger.


45 posted on 09/10/2015 7:05:45 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: dandiegirl

I really like Trump but don’t like the way he went after Ben Carson. Carson has a lot of admirers and is a great man with a lot of supporters. For the first time, I think Trump has gone a little too far. I wish it wasn’t so.
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Don’t play if you can’t pay.


46 posted on 09/10/2015 7:07:38 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: dforest

I am done sending these blue blood country clubbers my $1.98 a month for their increasingly boring and boorish claptrap.

Canceling my subscription, Trump should buy them , fire the staff , and start a relevant publication.

Cordially

Rome2000


47 posted on 09/10/2015 7:12:22 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: Steelfish
“Well, you know, you have to also go free market. You have to go capability. You have to do a lot of things. But I’m fine with affirmative action.”

Some questions that come to mind:

Is National Review implying that affirmative action is not good law? If not why? If not, then the Republican Party who controls Congress, why have they not repealed the 'affirmative action' law(s)? You guys at the NR pushing for its repeal? Hey, has anyone else in the Republican presidential field been asked about affirmative action? If not why not? So you guys go tangentially from Trump's DC speech to Chucky Todd's interview?

48 posted on 09/10/2015 7:30:33 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: vbmoneyspender

I thought that the word America stands for freedom - or it used to. I think the way that Donald hugged the flag at one of his speeches showed his love of country and all that it stands for - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.


49 posted on 09/10/2015 7:40:29 PM PDT by Catsrus (The Great Wall of Trump - coming to a southern border near you.)
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To: skeeter

“I’m a Cruz fan who appreciates what Trump is doing to the whole rigged system.”

Me too and it sure makes for an interesting election.


50 posted on 09/10/2015 8:11:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Steelfish

He hasn’t used words like “daisy-chain”, “get a little brown-eye”, “Allahu Akbar!” or “Death to America” either.....


51 posted on 09/11/2015 3:11:06 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Steelfish

Freedom is just another word, when nothing left to lose!

...........Janis Joplin song from the 60’s...rings true today. $19,000,000,000,000.00 national debt on heads of younger generations, middle-east a complete mess after the stupid Iraq war, Foreign trade deficits year after year which means foreigners own more of America every year, 92-94 million adults without jobs, 11-30 million illegals in the country, young college graduates not finding jobs, infrastructure looking like a 3rd world country (this I can vouch first hand, was recently in Singapore whose infrastructure makes ours look worse than 3rd world), military strength as weak as during Carter, Obamacare law of the land,,,,,how worse can it get?


52 posted on 09/12/2015 11:53:44 AM PDT by entropy12 (When you vote for a candidate, you are actually voting for his rich donors!)
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