Please ... please tell me that this makes you LOL and warms your heart just a little for the Donald.
SOTC, I love you, man.
But I’ve been doing some more reading about Trump today.
Over the weekend-—he stated support for affirmative action.
He told Chuck Todd he’d “always hated abortion”, but I’m reading about a Howard Stern interview in which he said he’s pro-life “if people ask”, but otherwise it wasn’t his issue.
Also told Stern that he was against gay marriage, but that didn’t mean he might not change.
My heart is stone cold toward the Donald...as cold as the flagpole the kid stuck his tongue on in “A Christmas Story.”
That ain’t going to change. ;)
My heart is a bit warm for the Donald, just ice cold towards his off the rail type supporters....which are not all of them to be sure. I still have an intellectual intuition that he is not a limited government guy and I am sure he still has some liberal reflexes. Those reflexes are what will bite us in the ass for all the unknown unforseen issues that come up, as he applies his liberal reflexes to them. That's my only worry.
Catherine, I can't remember conversing with you but I see you've been for Cruz (like SOC and CEW and myself) for a while. I like and appreciate that. I've been a Reagan conservative, full throated into what RR called the three legged stool, and I have to say the immigration issue at this moment trumps (couldn't help myself) the others for me right now.
What he recently wrote down as policy is almost as perfect as we will get. It got me cheering, because without that kind of change, there will be no more country that we have been used to. It wipes out the rats hope of a permanent majority of aggregate victims. It wipes out the stupidity of the GOP big money donors. It has more than warmed me to his candidacy, it has me shocked in the finest of ways.
SOC and CEW, you know my concerns that he is not reflexively conservative and has been very liberal at times. You share them. He has issues that I do not like, but if he is serious about half of what he is saying, and he can out bankroll any democrat in the general, stare down the media and all the pc nonsense, then I'm beginning to look hard and soften my stance on him.
I understand not trusting him, but it is possible we have a personally flawed man as our candidate that is like a Churchill, equally flawed, but in his unique way perfect for that time.
All I know is with the new immigration policy proposal, he blew open the race for a third time since he entered, and I can no longer discard his personna, his brilliance, his influence, his courage, nor his executive capacity as a business man as he stakes out the issues he highlights. What he has done is stand up against the evil of the democrats, the evil of the media, the stupidity, timidity and greed of the GOP and done it without apologizing.
I still may not vote for him come the time of our primary, there is a long way to go, but I can no longer ignore and throw away how he has transformed the timidity of the candidates (even Cruz), nor ignore that he is sounding most of the right notes.
I've never seen anything like this. And no, I no longer believe it's bamster2 hero worship, the bamster never said how he would transform America, Trump is saying what he wants to do up front.
Tis a conundrum.