Posted on 01/15/2016 12:03:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
WAKE UP> What I'm saying is based on comon sense logic.
You have TDS and cannot see the forest for the tree.
I suggest you do your LECTURING in front of a mirror.
Do you have any reliable evidence for this (anybody can change Wikipedia). The articles I read that looked at his registrations (thesmokinggun, WaPo, and a couple others) did not have anything listed prior to 1987, which is what I based my comment about his being a Republican longer on. I went to the footnote link in the Wikipedia article that the claim was based on, but it only said that Trump had been a Democrat at the time he changed his registration to Republican in 1987. Even this claim was only based on the memories of someone who knew him, not actual records. Even if it is right, that could mean he was a Democrat for a month in early 1987, rather than that he was a Democrat from the time he could first vote until 1987, which seems to be the unproven implication on Wikipedia. I really am curious about this now. I think it is perhaps telling though that Jeb Bush only accused him of being a Democrat longer than a Republican in the last decade, rather than for his whole life. At any rate, he was clearly a Reagan supporter according to several sources, regardless of his registration in the 1980s.
I’m sure if it was incorrect that Donald Trump’s people would challenge it.
You can challenge content on Wiki.
The fact remains, he chooses his political party for self-interested reasons.
Let me help you out here you poor misguided child....I’ve no TDS....but I do recognize PTSD...Post Trumpmatic Stupid Disorder.....I’ll vote for Trump if it comes to it....I’ll never ever countenance the idiotic bot like worshipful projection and fantasy support gurls though.
2004 to Wolf Blitzer: ....”Well, you’d be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as a Democrat,” said Trump at the time. “It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans,” he added. In 2007, he said that Hillary would be a good person to negotiate with the Iranians since she’s “always surrounded herself with very good people.” He also said Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney would be good negotiators as well.
As for the Second Amendment, abortion, and health care, Mr. Trump was decidedly on the progressive side of things. Favoring a pro-choice position, a ban on assault weapons, and supportive universal health care.”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/07/22/trump-2004-i-identify-more-as-a-democrat-n2028845
[2015] “Well, if I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican,” Donald Trump told Playboy in 1990. “And that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me.”
[In his 1987 book Art of the Deal, Donald Trump put it bluntly: “I play to people’s fantasies. ... I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration - and a very effective form of promotion.”]
“..These weren’t centrist or conservative Democrats, either. The recipients of Trump’s largesse, as The Washington Post noted in 2011, made a veritable “Republican enemies list.” Besides Reid and Schumer, it included John Kerry, Charles Rangel, Edward M. Kennedy, and Hillary Clinton.
Trump gave over $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and to its Democratic counterpart over in the House. All during this time, he gave to Republicans, too-just not as much. According to F.E.C. records, Trump donated $1.3 million between 1989 and 2011, 54 percent of it going to Democrats. Since 2012, however, federal records show that Trump has given $463,450 to Republicans and only $3,500 to Democrats. Why the change in orientation? Trump himself is incoherent on this question, but a few theories spring to mind.
The first one can be called the Rachel Dolezal school of political identity: Trump is a Republican because, well, he just feels like being one for a while. This explanation is belied by how much affinity he expresses for Democrats. Trump donated $50,000 to Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral campaign, and as recently as three weeks ago he fawned over the mayor and one of his brothers, film actor-and Democratic Party fundraiser-Ari Emanuel.
“I gave him a contribution because his brother is a great friend of mine,” Trump said. “Ari, king of Hollywood. I love Ari. And Ari asked me to give him a contribution. I like Rahm very much.”...
“... [Hillary] wasn’t the only Democratic beneficiary of Trump’s wealth. Trump donated $5,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $20,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the 2006 cycle, effectively buoying the election prospects of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, respectively.
Just $1,000 of Trump’s money in the 2006 cycle went to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The last time Trump considered a White House run in 2011, reporters seized upon the fact that he has given most of his money to Democrats and Democratic causes, according to records.
Trump defended his donations to New York Democrats in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that April, proclaiming that in the state, “everyone is Democratic” and implying that to donate otherwise would be waste of his money.
“So, what am I going to do, contribute to Republicans? Am I going to contribute to, I mean, one thing I’m not stupid. Am I going to contribute to a Republican for my whole life when they get, they run against some Democrat. And the most they can get is one percent of the vote,” he said, noting his “good relationship” with and donations to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Trump last donated to Schumer directly in 2010, though he had made donations ranging from $250 to $2,000 since 1996.
“I mean, I’ve contributed to Schumer, I contribute - I’ve known Schumer for many, many years. And I have a good relationship with him. The fact is, that I think it is time maybe that we all do get along,†he told Hannity.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-donations-democrats-hillary-clinton-119071
You know who hates New York more than southerners?
Chicagoans! I lived in the Chicago area for the first 40 years or so of my life. Always felt like I really belonged down south and was fortunate enough to move to Texas 10 years ago. Wouldn’t go back for all the bagels in NYC.
Having said that, Chicagoans are generally very pleasant people. Get lost and ask for directions downtown and more likely than not you’ll get someone willing to help. Do the same in Manhattan and if you’re lucky you’ll get ignored. If not you’ll get a sneering insult...more often than not.
Not to mention that in my professional capacity I’ve worked with people from all over the world. New Yorkers are far and away the most obnoxious, abrasive people, as a group, that I’ve had to work with.
That they elect filth like Weiner and DiCommio is just the cherry on the crap sundae.
Hank
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