so lets all play Conservative Review Checkers,
the Cruz vs Trump classic.
Posted on 01/09/2016 9:01:03 PM PST by arista
Barack Obama enraged many Americans when he began his presidency on an “apology tour.” Famously, Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah.
Donald Trump hasn’t signaled he would act similarly. In fact, Trump doesn’t apologize for anything—even to God.
But Trump has gone out of his way to praise some bad foreign leaders.
First, he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin:
One day after Putin called Trump a “bright and talented”and the “absolute leader of the presidential race,” the Republican presidential front-runner returned the compliments, hailing Putin as a “leader” and pointing to his high favorability numbers in Russia.
“He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country,” Trump said when asked by “Morning Joe” Republican host Joe Scarborough about Putin’s alleged killing of journalists and political opponents.
“I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe, so you know. There’s a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, a lot of killing, a lot of stupidity,” he said.
Now--and this is much more alarming--he is praising North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un:
“If you look at North Korea, this guy, he’s like a maniac, OK?” Trump said at a rally in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Saturday.
“And you’ve got to give him credit: How many young guys--he was like 26 or 25 when his father died--take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?” he added.
“Even though it is a culture, and it’s a culture thing, he goes in, he takes over, he’s the boss. It’s incredible.”
After North Korea’s government said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this week, Trump called the authoritarian leader a “madman playing around with nukes” and a “total nut job.”
But he also insinuated that Kim had some admirable qualities.
“I mean, it’s amazing that a young guy would go over and take over,” Trump said Thursday on Fox News’ “On the Record.” “You know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died.
“So he’s gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do,” he added.
This is all bizarre--certainly unpresidential--but nothing Trump does can surprise people any longer.
What we call this my friends is a “red flag.” They are growing in number.
They have balls. We don’t.
They play to win.
We play to lose.
They expand and conquer. We apologize and whimper.
Trump is the anti-Obama and exactly the guy we need in the White House.
He will undo the damage Obama has done.
Will bring the jobs back home. Rebuild the military. Gut the government. Get us on track as a nation again.
What’s wrong with that?
Everything he said was true but not necessarily a compliment. Yes, Putin is a strong leader, no doubt about that even if we disagree about his policies. And Lil Kim is a madman, he is also ruthless, that is not a compliment but it is true.
Kim Jong Un and Putin are masterminds.
What I call it is someone who is pretty sharp.
Say - you're pretty sharp. Why don't you use your personal fortune to take out Trump?
I mean - he is only about 1000 times below you in intellect. He's just winging it.
Easy meat for a canny operator like yourself...
He’s just being honest. He isn’t happy about these guys at least not North Korea but who should you be more wary about a guy that respects the enemy as the tough SOBS they are and knows they are out to screw us or the unswift bunch in Congress including the Republican enablers who helped craft the conditions to push through a sucker ‘deal’ with Iran? Don’t confuse Trump’s respect for his opponents for desire to submit or lose to them. His compliments are often followed closely by the edge of a sword.
“Conservative Review,” a wing of the Ted Cruz campaign, doesn’t even pretend now to be objective.
I detect some bitterness in that post. LOL!
Trump.
LOL. I guess they would have to find Trump on live TV in bed with a little boy to change their minds. Maybe that wouldn’t do it. Have you ever?
There are going to magnificent anti Trump ads made all featuring him.
No, it’s what YOU call a “red flag”.
Already are. They run them about 100 times a day on Fox News. Haven't helped Jeb or Marco much.
Once a country has obtained nuclear weapons, and then thermonuclear weapons, what are you going to do?
If you want to deal with your enemies, you have to be able to honestly assess the strengths and weaknesses. Anyone without an agenda to push could see that that’s what Trump was engaging in, especially with regards to he remarks about Kim Jong Un. He hasn’t minced words that he’s a dangerous nut job.
With Putin, same thing, except in his case, Trump has tried to make the case that it might be wrong to assume that Russia is our enemy, at least in every situation, and that it might be worth pursuing some common ground.
Reasonable statements to any reasonable person, but scandalous if you’re someone desperately trying to score some cheap political points.
“...They run them about 100 times a day on Fox News...”
Get used to it -— FOX management is OWNED by the Repub establishment. The chorus line has their orders from Ailes, et al, to attack Trump.
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