I don’t know. Trump doesn’t have a lot of conservative positions (unless his gurus told him to pretend to adopt them based on opinion polls). He’s in favor of single payer health care, did not “support” Kim Davis, and has already said many times that he’s willing to modify his stance on Muslim illegals and immigrants.
He seems to hate Mexicans, but I actually don’t think most conservatives do. I’d much rather see legal immigration dealt with differently (that is, more Mexican gardeners and fewer Muslim welfare recipients) than have him indulging in his fantasy of deporting all Mexicans...who are, in any case, not the largest number of illegals. (The Chinese hold that title.)
So unless the press will start paying attention to some of the more genuinely conservative candidates, letting them fight it out, I’d say we’re probably going to get the usual moderate GOP loser, although it probably won’t be Bush.
RE: He’s in favor of single payer health care
All he did was speak well of the Canadian and Scottish single payer system as “working very well” ( his words in the debate ).
However, in speech after speech after speech ( including the Dallas rally yesterday ), he did mention several things:
1) Scrapping Obamacare
2) Opening insurance up for interstate competition
3) Healthcare savings accounts
I’ll give him some leeway on that.
RE: Kim Davis
Trump clearly has not brushed up on the constitution, especially the limits to the powers of the Judiciary and the first and tenth amendments.
This is what really concerns me because he has a past record of openly supporting Judicial activism ( see his support of the SCOTUS on the Kelo vs City of New London case ). This has a direct bearing on the kind of Supreme Court Justice or Federal judges he will appoint.
We are going to have a spate of retirements in our courts in the next 4 years and we can ill afford to have another Ginsberg, Kagan or Sotomayor, much less a Kennedy on the bench.
RE: He seems to hate Mexicans, but I actually don’t think most conservatives do.
That is what the MSM’s would like you to believe but in his speeches, he continuously emphasizes the fact that he loves Hispanics of all stripes and in fact employs hundreds of them in his business.
In fact, despite his talk of deportation, he is opening up a pathway for those deported to come back LEGALLY.
This does not sound like a man who hates Mexicans at all.
The problem in this immigration debate is people tend to conflate legal vs illegal immigrants and do not bother to explain which kind of immigrant they are referring to when they argue. Folks like Linda Chavez, Michael Medved and the Editors of the Wall Street Journal do this all the time.