Guess I am still a Red Book carrying communist pro-abortionist. People do change once they realize they were wrong.
One thing I notice is that Trump isn’t jumping down the throat of conservatives with opposition to conservative causes. Trump’s energy is going into things on which he and conservatives agree. Something sure seems poised to morph. Caution, yes. Despair, no.
Yes, I'm fully aware of that having once been a liberal. And it's quite possible that Trump has had some reverses in his core beliefs. Or it's quite possible (perhaps probable) that he's an opportunist telling his swooning public the words their ears are so itchy to hear. As he's reminded us over and over, he wrote "The Art of the Deal." He's very adept at negotiating (manipulating?) to get what he wants. And who knows when that's subject to change? IMO, Trump's convictions are a mile wide and an inch deep, and always subject to change depending on whose ears are itching.
Here's how you know if someone's truly conservative. It's a metaphor, but I'm sure you'll pick up on the meaning. When I came over from the dark side, it was completely. So much so that, if I'm cut, I bleed conservatism. It's what I do; it's who I am. Do you really think that's true of Trump?
And yet another thing that keeps nagging at me about Trump: his response to Luntz about asking God for forgiveness. Luntz gave him a couple of opportunities to rethink his answer. That was two too many for Trump. Anyone could observe that that was a foreign concept to him. You see, he's got god in his life. He's that god. He's doing fine without having to bend a knee to ask for forgiveness, thankyouverymuch. But in a desperate attempt to change the focus of the question that day, he shared that he goes to church sometimes and that he has sat under the teachings of the great Norman Vincent Peale! Wowee! I'm sure God was impressed! No doubt that when he needs God, he'll be sure to let Him know. But that won't be until he comes to the end of himself. That could be a long, long time.
Pardon me if I don't want another self-absorbed, immature individual in my White House. As conservatives, we've legitimately griped for 6 1/2 years that we need an adult in the White House. To be backing Donald Trump whose as thin-skinned as the current resident would render our last 6 1/2 years of griping pointless. The presidency is a busy job. When would he have time to monitor Twitter and respond with his childish insults -- although perhaps he could create a new cabinet position and appoint a 10-year-old boy as Secretary of Twitter Communications.