Posted on 02/21/2016 3:21:29 PM PST by NavVet
I'm trying to understand FR's embrace of the Donald, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this one. I too had a favorable first reaction when I heard him talking about building the wall in absolute terms, and his rejection of the concept of amnesty for illegal aliens. I also admired that he was the first politician in a long time that would fight back against the media and left-wing attacks, instead of trying to appease the left. However, that admiration quickly wore off when I researched Trump and found clip after clip of the man, in his own words embracing every liberal talking point in the book. Planned Parenthood, gay marriage, abortion, government health care, protectionist trade policies, increasing taxes on businesses and the most productive. Of course, the man has taken the opposite positions on most of these two. Sometimes he will take both sides of an issue in the same discussion. Also, his "I'm awesome at___________" is wearing a bit thin. I want to hear what you plan to do, not how great you are. Then there is his child like temper, calling anyone he doesn't agree with , Liar, Pu@@Y or worse. Just seems kind of juvenile. The personality quirks I could live with, but a man who praises Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton is another thing. And perhaps most important of all, he has said that his uber liberal sister would be a great Supreme Court Justice. Other than being a recent convert on Immigration this man has no conservative bona fides and yet have of FR acts like you would expect this board to react if Ronald Regan had returned. I just don't get it. If Bernie Sanders starts lobbying for the fair tax and runs for President on the GOP ticket would the Trumpets start feeling the Bern.
Thanks for the reply. An artist by hobby only. You?
There is a lot to like in Trump. He’s giving voice to a segment of American that has been forsaken by both parties: white middle working class. He also spits in the face of political correctness - long over due. He doesn’t stand in front of us a product of focus groups.
My complaint is he’s not a political conservative, and doesn’t have a track record of consistent conservative positions. I’m afraid we just don’t agree on many things. I ‘m not sure where he stands, and this bothers me.
But I will end up voting for him in the general, as any Dem is unacceptable.
Nice smackdown of the just recently back from a ‘semi-ZOT’ techjock there ‘27! Maybe he will not go running his mouth off again in the style that gave him his introduction to the Mighty Kittehs and their Easy Bake ZOT Oven and be allowed to stay a bit this time!
I’d forgotten he had to spend some time in The Box.
I was on the thread when he got slapped. Well deserved.
I know you were that is why I pinged you.
Here's the history of that phrase: It started back in the 70s with his marriage to Ivana; it's a European thing. She called him that when speaking about him to news interviewers, and the media picked it up without really understanding it as a cultural difference and ran with it almost mockingly. I don't speak Czech, her native language, but I know that in Italian this is a polite way to refer to a person with whom you are familiar, but the person you are talking about them to is not (or should not be) on a first-name basis with them.
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I think that you are correct.
No no
Was talking about Jethro
Oh, I see. That’s done in Spanish sometimes, too.
I don’t support any of them. It’s another pathetic crop of grand standers and idiots running for president and I’ve grown weary of trying to figure out which candidate offends me the least.
And no Trumps positions are NOT written in concrete and HAVE changed.
Focus groups are worthless. Hollywood uses them constantly, and look how many movies flop.
The money went to advertising. Running a national campaign, even one doomed to failure, isn’t cheap.
Without Trump, Bush would be the conservative candidate. Ready to name Lindsay Graham as his conservative running mate and lose to Hilly and god only knows who.
I’ve noticed it in books, but not really caught on to the details of the usage. I haven’t noticed it in conversation. Among our church people, when a person refers to another it’s usually as “la hermana Lourdes” or “el Senor Pablo” or “ese cristiano, Luis.” I think the latter is particularly charming.
Lovely!
I agree. Our deacon, a 70-ish gentleman from Puerto Rica, will often greet other men simply as “Cristiano!” I think it’s a custom of Charismatics more than others ... also, he’s getting a bit dotty and doesn’t always remember people’s names, even if he knows them well.
Yesterday he was thanking our group for the music and obviously drew a blank when he searched for my name, so he said, “Esta hermana ... y ... su esposo, el con la guitarra!” And almost everyone just calls all our sons “hermanito,” because they can’t tell them apart.
That’s so sweet!
My congregation is full of nice people. It keeps me going when (what with the four teenagers) I’d like to give up.
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