Posted on 04/08/2011 8:13:43 AM PDT by julieee
Donald Trump Explains Conversion to Pro-Life Side on Abortion
New York, NY -- Business mogul Donald Trump shocked attendees at the conservative CPC conference in February when he declared himself pro-life after years of supporting the pro-abortion position.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/04/08/donald-trump-explains-conversion-to-pro-life-side-on-abortion/
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I am speaking of Catholic educated people in their 50’s and up. They should be ashamed.
I meant to say: you don’t get to be successful in his line of work (basically making deals based on reputation) being dishonest.
I had an overnight chage myself. When I really took at the issue I saw the brutality and murder. Happened when I was in my 40’s.
GO TRUMP!
Because they aren’t really Catholics.
Agreed.
Precisely.
When people wan a change, they tend to swing to the other extreme - I think that explains the draw of The Donald - the opposite of Obama
I was pro-abortion in my early 20's.
Listening to a nurse's testimony during the Fla.Senate abortion hearings changed my mind.
I will take him at his word.
YES
DITTO!!
>>I wish his so called conversion was based on the right premise though and not simply on emotion as he explained it.<<
Me too. It also makes me very suspicious of his conversion. Most men start out “pro-abortion” for obvious reasons. We then turn due to, usually, becoming Christian.
Maybe women change their stance due to emotions. Men don’t. And if Trump is not a social conservative, his story would only support him not wanting his wife to have one, but would still allow others their own “choice”, if you get my drift.
The more I think about it, the less I believe his sincerity. It doesn’t hold water.
Not so, they are all very involved, teaching, giving communion, deacons, on and on. I think most Catholics are hypocrites, and being raised so (12 years of Catholic schooling) I have seen enough to not have much respect for them in general.
So disagree if you will, but if I recall Obama carried most minorities (Mexicans) and many Catholics in his election bid.
My parents were Irish Catholic and always voted Dem.
My personal opinion -- which admittedly is based on limited exposure to the guy or his public conversations or writings -- is that his attention to detail (which is almost pathological, from what I understand) has probably been the biggest factor in his success.
I read an article about him a few years ago that included an anecdote from a contractor who was constructing a building in Manhattan for Trump. He described having Trump call him on the phone one day when the building was half-done, complaining about the quality of the work.
This is a paraphrase of Trump's complaint: "I stopped by the building this morning, and from the sidewalk across the street I can see that the balcony on the 12th floor is not aligned correctly!"
The contractor went out to the site and looked at it himself from ground level, and it looked perfectly fine. He went up and had it measured, and the thing was off from a perfectly horizontal alignment by something like a tenth of an inch.
I’ve been around it a long time
i don't buy that women abort babies because of men very often
quite the opposite actually...women abort babies because they don't want the responsibility or encumbrance which speaks as poorly about those women as one could
I have seen far more times where they man wanted the baby and the woman did not than vice versa since Roe which occurred in my 17th year
sometime in the mid 60s after the pill, something got in women's drinking water I guess and they lost a grand perspective on sex and pregnancy they once had
2 million babies a year...dwarfs all our holocausts
the bright side is that middle and upper class white girls who can afford babies seem to be having less abortions than in my day and now we just have to work on black and latino women are now having more than historically
most young women I know are against abortion now..in my peer group
upper middle class southern white
They may do Catholic things, they may say they are Catholics, but if they support abortion, they aren’t really Catholics. My ex-wife and her family are the same way. They lie to themselves, because it’s the only way to deal with the internal guilt.
His last minute political conversion at CPAC in February 2011 and his pandering to conservatives means NOTHING. Trump is another Romney.
Screw Romney, screw Trump!
That’s where the true test will be re: Trump’s pro-life conversion. If I’m not mistaken, we have some on the bench appointed by GOP presidents who have been a big disappointment.
Believe it or not, we know a woman who is now retired. She was the principal of a Catholic elementary school and is a democrat. I'll never figure it out.
I dont think we can overlook it but on that count what would concern me is a pattern of flip-flops that all go in the direction of what the base looks for. One issue does not concern me that much, after all, you dont want a president who is incapable of changing his mind.
I have no faith in Romney's supposed changes in thinking; the pattern says rank opportunism to me.
No thanks. My money can be better spent on conservative causes then on some flip-flopping, unprincipled liberal egoist scumbag. But I have read some of Trump's quotes from his book, "The America We Deserve" at Google Books.
On pages 206-208 & 218 Trump writes:
"... the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal health care. Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan..."
On page102:
"The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions. I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun".
Not only is Trump pro-abortion, he supports universal health care and strict gun control. FUDT!
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