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Is Donald Trump A ‘Common Sense Conservative,’ Or Just Mostly Liberal?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 2/19/2016 | Staff

Posted on 02/20/2016 4:34:45 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

Ideology: Donald Trump now calls himself a “common sense conservative.” What does that mean? Based on positions he’s taken out so far, it appears that “common sense conservative” means siding with liberals like Bernie Sanders on a number of issues.

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To: 4rcane

“Imho all the other “Conservative” candidates should be ashamed of themselves. Trump sell a better Conservative message than they do in the last 8 months. I know ppl doubt Trump is a Conservative, but he does do better job at selling Conservative than the others”

I was telling these guys last fall this. They didnt care then, but now they are outraged.


41 posted on 02/20/2016 5:13:48 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: bert
It will be very interesting to watch how a president Trump and a Speaker Ryan work together to accomplish all the disparate goals

I'm afraid that's when you and I and others are going to be able to laugh at all the gullible trumpies - once he's in the Oval. It's coming. He's a knee jerk liberal, it's where he retreats to every time he's not on his guard. This leopard can't change his stripes of 65 years. Rush is too much into his mancrush to see it....so it's not just the FR bots.

And let's remember, in 2011 he called Paul Ryan's medicare plan "too extreme" - and last week he bragged about working deals with the Democrats assholes like Schumer and Reid. Yeah, this is gonna work fabulously well......./s

42 posted on 02/20/2016 5:14:22 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

A business man running for POTUS doesn’t have his hand out to me asking for monetary support to fund his campaign. He doesn’t even have his cronies hands looting the country picking my back pocket.

Prefer the hereditary lineage of Bush Clinton or some other well connected/presented/packaged/international oligarch blood?

Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One

6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt

7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents

11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.

http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm

Wake up and smell the plunder.


43 posted on 02/20/2016 5:15:23 AM PST by PGalt
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To: 4rcane

I agree, he sells it better than anyone. That’s important.

But he will still never govern that way, so the smart people are seeing through the sales schtick. Enjoy your Trump Care mandate. Enjoy the great things done by Planned Parenthood. Enjoy your deals with Schumer and Pelosi. It’ll be a damned blast!!!!!!


44 posted on 02/20/2016 5:15:41 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: IBD editorial writer
Trump is 100% opportunist.
He sounds conservative now, because that's what many people are yearning for, but I have no confidence he will remain so once in office.
I'll vote for him over Hill or Bern though.

45 posted on 02/20/2016 5:16:32 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: VanDeKoik
What about "consistent"?

'Consistent' isn't a qualifier, it provides emphasis.

46 posted on 02/20/2016 5:16:53 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: PGalt

well I smelled Trump’s pander to ethanol, the biggest most damnable crony scam in world history.

He just pandered to obama care mandate again this week.

Put the kool aid down, walk away slowly, and start paying attention with your mind and not your emotions.


47 posted on 02/20/2016 5:17:00 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: scooby321
Conservatives <9> Blown up the National Debt

People claiming to be conservatives.

So is Trump really a conservative? Or just another phony?

Past performance is the best indicator of future behavior.

Trump/Cruz. Compare their track records.

48 posted on 02/20/2016 5:18:50 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

LOL! Hoosier daddy, er pick C. Edmund?


49 posted on 02/20/2016 5:19:17 AM PST by PGalt
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To: IBD editorial writer
Ideology: Donald Trump now calls himself a “common sense conservative. What does that mean? Based on positions he has taken out so far, it appears that "common sense conservative" means siding with liberals like Bernie Sanders on a number of issues.

The leftists keep trying to discredit or label the Donald, with meaningless titles.

The people of this country want a leader who will and can make and keep promises. It is so simple. Enforce the immigration laws on the books. We either have a country or we do not have a country!

The Congress has demonstrated that it is self-serving, greedy, and corrupt. The Republicans stand for next to nothing in connection with borders, language, and culture, protecting legal immigrants, protecting the middle class, our veterans, and our military.

We believe that Donald Trump has the gravitas to accomplish all of that to make American Great Again!

50 posted on 02/20/2016 5:20:33 AM PST by olezip
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To: norwaypinesavage

In other words:

“Oops. That’s what Cruz says....better make that sound like it’s different”.


51 posted on 02/20/2016 5:21:34 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Put the kool aid down, walk away slowly, and start paying attention with your mind and not your emotions.

That's good advice but it won't work with the Trumpies.

They've made up their minds and absolutely NOTHING will convince them otherwise.

Chillingly reminds me of the the Obama zombies of 2007-2008.

52 posted on 02/20/2016 5:23:45 AM PST by PROCON
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To: VanDeKoik
What about "consistent"?

Technically, "consistent" isn't a qualifier. A qualifier "explains away" heterodoxy, making the attendant noun less powerful. A "consistent conservative" is always conservative, but a "compassionate conservative" is only conservative when s/he thinks it doesn't interfere with compassion. To put it another way, no one on the other side ever refers to him/herself being a "compassionate liberal," meaning only liberal when s/he thinks it doesn't interfere with compassion.

I don't mean to sound like a professor :-) but my work begins in three minutes...

53 posted on 02/20/2016 5:25:35 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: PGalt

He is NOT a UNIPARTY member directly plundering Americans every day.
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Well Trump is a crony capitalist, who sought government favors for his business, he supported TARP, the Auto Bailout Ethanol Subsidies, The Obama stimulus.

So yes he is a member of the uniparty class who is plundering us and has benefitted personally from government plunder.


54 posted on 02/20/2016 5:38:20 AM PST by Leto
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To: norwaypinesavage
doesn't want increased tariffs, the cause of the Great Depression

The lowering of tariffs in the teens is the actual cause. That helped create the boom and excesses of the 20's and the inevitable bust. When tariffs were restored to historical values that did exacerbate the G.D. but it was not the cause.

55 posted on 02/20/2016 5:40:11 AM PST by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: Leto

LOL! Hoosier daddy, er pick Leto?


56 posted on 02/20/2016 5:41:01 AM PST by PGalt
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To: refermech
He's what ever you want him to be.

Plus what ever he wants to call himself on a given day and anyone who contradicts him is a "liar".

57 posted on 02/20/2016 5:43:48 AM PST by Theophilus (The GOPe are dealers. The Marxist Democrats are duelists.)
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To: PGalt

LOL! Hoosier daddy, er pick Leto?

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Cool can’t refute what I say so you try a weak attempt at trolling. :D


58 posted on 02/20/2016 5:44:01 AM PST by Leto
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To: VanDeKoik

I would submit that consistent isn’t a qualifier. It’s more of an anti-qualifier, in that it inherently excludes all of those other silly qualifiers.

But you already knew that.


59 posted on 02/20/2016 5:44:15 AM PST by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: Leto

19 TRILLION is a lot to be looted of, Leto. WHO is your 1st choice for POTUS?


60 posted on 02/20/2016 5:47:15 AM PST by PGalt
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