Posted on 09/11/2015 5:27:02 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
So you think Donald Trump’s demagoguery on immigration has created problems for the other GOP candidates? Well, another very ripe opportunity for Trump to make his GOP rivals even more miserable may be lurking right around the corner, and it could expose the same sort of schism between GOP elites and GOP voters that Trump’s forays into immigration policy have. I’m talking about the massive global trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Some time in the next six months — in late 2015 or in early 2016 — the participating nations may finally reach a deal on the TPP. That may well come just when the GOP primaries are heating up. Virtually all of the major GOP presidential candidates, including Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), all support the TPP, as do Republican Congressional leaders. But, in a little noticed move a few days ago, Trump signaled that he might be headed in a very different direction on the TPP soon enough. After his terrific and wonderful rally outside the Capitol the other day, Trump met with Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and both men enthusiastically recounted that they had had a good conversation about immigration and …. trade. Said Trump: “The meeting was great!” Sessions is a leading opponent of the TPP. He has warned that the TPP could harm American workers and allow China to join the deal later without the approval of the U.S. Congress; he has also said that it won’t do anything to counter Chinese currency manipulation and could facilitate the flow of “foreign workers” into the United States.
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The less representation by elected officials one needs, the better.
Cruz’ vote was not needed. Any dealing he did was to get his “ticket” punched.
Donors don’t give 30 million just because they like you.
How convenient!
Yes!! Shockingly bad judgment on Cruz’ vote, which was according to his reasoning, really a vote of trust for McConnell and a very foolish rejection of the senate’s real wizard, Jeff Sessions.
I mean, duh, big time.
It does make you want to take a look at Cruz contributors link, up thread @ #21. A very strange vote, indeed.
It’s a head scratcher.
Really interesting article.
You and me both.
First his immigration paper, now he's reiterating his TPP position?
Sure has me wondering if he's conservative.
“He essentially said he was fooled (lied to), but at the time I think he was tacking back to get closer to the fleet.”
In an interview with Mark Levin, he claimed that “leadership” lied to him by saying they would include a prohibition clause on immigration in the bill. That doesn’t actually add up, because he obviously knew it was not in the bill the first time he voted for it (TPA). He didn’t vote for it the second time because his vote was not needed for it to pass.
Cruz has a real problem in trying to finesse his (not-so-LI) supporters. Plus Elephants can carry a grudge for a long while....
My hope is that he can get inside the GOPee and pull the trigger on the vest.
Figuratively of course.
“If only Trump would stake out some conservative positions.”
Most of what he has staked out are conservative positions — immigration, trade, building up military, make America great again, end of political correctness, pro-life, etc.
Great post!
Via linked article:
Trump himself railed against the TPP last June, also warning that Obama would later let China get onto the deal through the back door (because he’s weak) and more generally arguing that the TPP would make it easier for China to continue feasting out of American workers’ lunch buckets.
In other words, the coming debate over the TPP gives Trump the perfect opportunity to do what he’s already been doing to great effect: test the true nature of opinion among rank-and-file Republican voters, by forcing real debates out into the open on issues that had previously remained deliberately vague or walled off from real discussion by GOP orthodoxy.
I’m not liking it. I need to read up a bit more.
Trump is essentially a Nelson Rockefeller clone. At best. I’d still vote for him in the General.
Eventually we’re going to have to kill a couple of chickens and check the entrails......
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FRiend, I know that.
The rest of my post still stands though.
I used the opportunity of my reply to you to clarify my position, yet again.
That may very well be true, and I most likely will be very disappointed more than once by what he does.
However, it's pretty hard not to consider his immigration and TPP stances conservative.
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