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!
Just a typical pro-abortion, anti-gun, NYC liberal.
Trump's a POPULIST. That's what he is.
Border Security, Building a Wall? That's very much on the minds of Average Americans, independent of political ideology. No Centrist or Right Leaning Democrat OR Republican that I've met is against building a wall to protect our southern borders. That's not necessarily a Conservative position, across the board it's just COMMON SENSE.
Tax Cuts are another Common Sense position. While typically considered a Republican, Conservative or Right Wing position, the fact is Average Americans KNOW we're over-taxed! This isn't the "tax the rich" argument Democrats have made for DECADES now. This is about stopping paying people to NOT work while doing the minimum to help themselves and the sticking their hands out to demand more from others! This is about actually HELPING those who DO WORK and DO THE RIGHT THING so as not to be a burden on others so that they're actually REWARDED for working and taking care of themselves and their families!
How is that anything other than COMMON SENSE independent of political ideology? I know of absolutely NO Centrist or right leaning Democrat who's against tax cuts! Why does anyone think Donald Trump is wooing the Blue Collar / Blue Dog Democrats?! I've written about that extensively here on FR early on during Trumps candidacy! This is one of their CORE ISSUES right along with Border Security! Ask any Blue Collar / Blue Dog Democrat!
Guns. COMMON SENSE! Here again, moderate Democrats (Centrists, right leaning) actually AGREE with Republicans (moderates, right leaning, right wing) that we are increasingly facing a TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT who by itself has ZERO interest in enforcing the law! Rather, we live under an Administration that endorses BLACK LIVES MATTER and violence against non-blacks! Then there's the drugs and the violence that brings, massive unchecked immigration and the crime that brings too. It should be easy to see for ANYONE with a brain why Americans are arming up at record levels. That's because we all KNOW the Government IS NOT HERE TO PROTECT US and in fact, they're doing the EXACT OPPOSITE! We have to DEFEND ourselves from these tyrants!
How are Guns a "Conservative" issue anymore? They're just common sense!
Education. Common core is DEAD. It's been repealed. The challenge now is to ELIMINATE the Department of Education and return FULL CONTROL of education back to the states. Again, as a Social and Fiscal Conservative myself, I don't see how this is strictly a "Conservative" or "Common Sense Conservative" issue -- it's just COMMON SENSE!
I'm not going to get into what IBD identified as "Liberal" or "mixed bag" issues with Trump because there, it's true Trump's changed his position repeatedly. Sometimes dramatically, other times more nuanced. They're not worth arguing about on this forum IMO because of the bigger issue IMO which is LIFE.
I've been a Trump fan in the past (I am not any longer for reasons I've already disclosed.)
The biggest issue for me is Trump's position on LIFE and Abortion. Anyone who's had as dramatic a change of position on Abortion as Trump claims to have can describe the moment and the very argument or example of why their position changed.
Trump can't do that. Or at least hasn't so far so on his position regarding Abortion --- I just don't trust the guy. I really don't. The truth is, without a Culture that VALUES LIFE IN ALL STAGES from conception through natural death, none of the rest matters. At least IMO.
As much as I can't trust Trump at this point, I can't trust Cruz either. Cruz may be right on LIFE but on other issues (Immigration, H1B's, etc..) he's also changed his positions and I don't trust him either. I really also don't like what he did to Ben Carson in Iowa and his "Voter Alert" B.S. That to me was a new low and beneath Cruz. One cannot claim the moral high ground and then do these kinds of things. That's just inconsistent (like Trump.)
The sad reality for me at this point is this: I don't have a Candidate I can support. What a shame that is, since it may actually be the case for the first time in 30 years that our primary votes here in Illinois might actually matter.
Barring some earth-shaking event that causes one Republican candidate to say or do something that I can fully get behind, I'm likely staying home on Primary day. Again, at this point.
I’ll take Common Sense Conservative over Compassionate Conservative any day. The compassionate one started a big ass war that is still going on.
Scares the hell outta me. Anyone remember “compassionate conservatism”?
Common sense conservative / compassionate conservatism.
Sounds exactly the same to me.
Just mostly liberal
What difference does it make...his supporters are not interested in anything that shows he is being dishonest!!! We get the government we deserve!!!
Neither, he is a nationalist/populist.
I don't care if he's Hitler's first cousin; he's not Obama, he's not a Muslim and he want to build the Sovereign Nation Wall.
Mostly liberal.
I have this uneasy feeling that the biggest bait and switch in political history is about to be perpetrated by The Donald. Maybe not the party switch. However, Trump as a populist is telling the people what they want to hear and those type of politicians never stand up to resistance because they have weak core beliefs. Donald Trump earned his wealth through crony capitalism. Do people really think that he's going to bite the hand that has fed him his whole life?
..Mary Matlin used to throw “Common Sense Conservative” around when she was shilling for a pro-abortion Republican...
It’s not very hard to figure, Trump is not running on any Ideology, he is running as the Common Sense Candidate trying to offer practical political solutions rather than wedded to any philosophy or Ideology which have failed us.
People hold up Ronald Reagan as the ultimate conservative.
There is no such thing. Everyone makes compromises.
Ronald Reagan’s liberal actions:
In 1950 Reagan helped raise money
for democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas
against Richard Nixon for California senator.
In 1966, Reagan put together a campaign group
to run for California governor. They were
Phil Battaglia, Casper Weinberger and Jack Warner.
They were all from the liberal Rockefeller wing of
the Republican party, not the conservative Goldwater wing.
1970 Governor Reagan, who once said “taxes should hurt”,
disclosed he paid no state income taxes in 1970 on his
$44,000 governor’s salary and personal assets of around $1-million.
The average worker made around $5,000 per year back then.
1970 as governor, Reagan appointed Donald Wright as the
Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Wright’s
court later found the death penalty unconstitutional in California.
1972 Reagan supported the re-election of President Richard Nixon instead of giving support to conservative Republican candidate John Ashbrook, who ran an effort to dump Nixon.
As California Governor, Reagan used his own office funds to keep the Office of Economic Opportunity alive in the state and he tried to make California the first state to create its own consumer affairs dept.
1976 in his presidential run against Gerald Ford, Reagan chose the most liberal Republican Senator in the senate, Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate. In 1980, he chose another liberal running mate
George HW Bush.
1985 Reagan, as president, spent $5-billion to bail out the Continental Bank of Illinois. He also added
$9-billion to the International Monetary Fund so Mexico, Brazil and Argentina could pay the interest on
their big debts to the American banks. At the same time, he would not bail out American farmers.
Reagan’s 4th year budget was $141-billion more than Carter’s 4th year budget. Reagan’s total deficits for 4 years was 4-times the total of Carter’ 4-year total deficits.
Reagan increased the national debt in 4-years as much as all the presidents from Hoover to Carter did.
Reagan Supported the Brady Gun Bill in a speech at George Washington University in 1991.
In 1992 Reagan supported NAFTA (North American Free Trade Act) As a candidate in 1979 Reagan first talked about a North American accord. In 1992 Reagan made a plea in a Wall Street Journal editorial to, “tear down this trade wall”.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Do not read any article or so called opinion OPed article without the name of the writer.
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts
Whenever anyone feels they have to qualify the term conservative to describe themselves it means they do not really believe in conservatism.
Bush called himself a “compassionate conservative” implying that most conservatives are not compassionate.
Trump calls himself a “common sense conservative” implying that most conservatives lack common sense.
In each case it belies the contempt they have for true conservatives, yet they want to wear the label of “conservative” only to win the backing of the GOP base while assuring moderates and liberals that they don’t really believe in conservatism.
Calling oneself a “compassionate conservative” or “common sense conservative” is really a backhanded slap at true conservatives.