Posted on 01/13/2016 12:42:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I applauded when Donald Trump jumped into the Republican presidential nominating fray. Here was someone with overwhelming national recognition due to his celebrity status, as well as someone who was politically independent due to his wealth. Someone of that stature could potentially drive a stake through the heart of the Republican establishment and forcefully blunt the folly of political correctness that has inundated American society. During the early stages of his campaign Trump exceeded all expectations in both of these arenas. However,as the novelty has begun to wear thin and his speeches and talking points have become annoyingly repetitive the question must be asked:who is Donald Trump?
.....he has dramatically changed positions on taxes,health care,gun control,labor unions,immigration and abortion over the past 20 years....there is no thinking person,much less a politician,that has not evolved in their approach and positions on various political issues over the years particularly as they get older and circumstances change.
While Trump's vacillations on issues over the years are not overly troubling on the surface,these dramatic evolutions do require a thought provoking examination of his character and who he truly is...
..In a deposition,conducted on December 19-20,2007,the following exchange between Trump and the attorney for the Defendant took place [Trump:I'm worth whatever I feel]:...
Over the years Trump has contributed enormous sums of money to individual Democrats and party campaign committees including the most unethical and partisan Senate Majority Leader in recent history-Harry Reid...[justifying]these contributions as being necessary to essentially buy influence in order to get his real estate projects etc. approved...
..but that does not explain when asked in February of 2014 who were his favorite journalists,he listed such liberal luminaries as: Maureen Dowd,Diane Sawyer,Andrea Peyser,George Stephanopoulis,Bob Scheiffer and Mika Brezinski...in 1999 when he quit the Republican Party saying, "I just believe the Republicans are just too crazy right."?......
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I can see The Donald with the hectic pace of the business world. He has not had much time to focus on political ideology. Yet even though it is a slow political transformation, that has not been a straight path, his pragmatic mind has achieved conservative values and we are fortunate that he will fight for these values.
Two Decades of Trump Policy: The Donald Was For Almost Anything Before He Was Against Most Everything.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/who_is_donald_trump.html#ixzz3x7TYpyhU
Yes, Trump has certainly massaged the landscape and his “ideology” over his (almost) 70 years, as he continues his ascension to greatness.
How many times has the Trumpster changed his views on almost everything? Equally important, how long before he reverts back to his normal far left liberal views on everything?
No Trump supporter is willing to answer this, do you see any flaws in/with Trump?
True dat. He's changed his positions on the issues more times than any politician in history.
Of course I see flaws. He’s vastly different from me. FOr one thing he’s a New Yorker, and in New York, his swagger is not rude or blunt or does it make anyone wince. I’m from Chicago, and that kind of brashness, makes me uncomfortable, and I’ve considered people like that rude, but maybe I’m the one that needs to be a little more assertive.
You see, I’m learning something from this man. I find myself a little more honest and frank with my opinions. I also, at my age, find some confidence and courage to take on projects and goals, that maybe I shouldn’t be, in my case it’s in my music and writing.
Mike Ditka came to Chicago around 1982 and said we’d win the super bowl. He criticized us fans and the press for not being confident. He said GReen Bay Packers were a bunch of thugs. We all winced, and laughed at him, until he beat them again and again and again and again and again.
Yeah, you do get tired of winning eventually, but for now, I want America to win, and having a guy who has some character flaws, which are benign compared to the pathological liars the democrats have, suits me fine.
LOL.....oh my goodness!!!!!!......
This made me laugh!!!!!!!!!
Glad I hadn’t had coffee yet, or I would have spewed it!
Too funny, Salamander
“What is particularly disturbing is when dishonest people use these technologies to impugn someones character by altering images to depict actions that did not occur. “
Well, imagine that.
I’ve considered that Trump may be the disappointment that Bush was, that Ryan was, the abysmal flop that McCain was, that Romney was and that every other GOPe candidate since the Reagan years was.
My hope is that Trump is detached enough from the GOPe socialists that he may actually be able to break the machine of corruption that has churned out failure for our nation for decades.
Can he do it? I believe he’s in a better position since he is a proven execute (requirement for the position) and has proven successes in business. That is what we need right now.
Heck, I’ve changed my positions over the years with experience and many politicians change on positions as time passes. Even Cruz advocated an increase in H1B visas, anathema to working Americans and I donate to Cruz regularly.
So yeah, I will support Trump. I believe he can win this and hopefully position Ted Cruz for far more powerful influence on our policies and the future of our nation.
General comment to all: Let’s just try not to shred each other up In the process.
Well, nikos1121, above is an even worse example of this sort of dishonesty. By now there are surely thousands of posts on FR from Trump supporters who have expressed some doubts, or who started off supporting someone else and have only grudgingly accepted the idea that Trump might be the best person to blow up the status quo, and so on.
True, some of the attacks by Trump supporters (and on occasion even by Trump himself) have been pretty whacky too, but the above takes the cake.
I ask here a yes or no answer periodically. She won’t answer. She’s the problem we have here. She’s the type who will stay home rather than vote for Trump. Who knows, she probably didn’t vote for Romney either. I seem to recall that she, and I, were for Newt, but I might be wrong. Alas, the machine pushed everyone out, and we picked Romney as our man, but he ended up being a powder puff, and Paul Ryan too, who had Biden’s game card at the debates, but sat there like a big dodo bird.
No, that’s the problem here on this forum. You have people that talk the big talk...
We need someone conservative enough to win, and win big. We have probably three SC picks this time around, maybe more. Each time we’ve had the chance we barely get our guy. Bush wanted to put in some gal, remember? Sununu got the other Bush to put in who, Poulter....? Another liberal...
Yeah, Yes or No. She won’t answer.
Well, yesterday I asked a hugely vocal FReeper - one very prolific in their postings (on a couple of threads he/she was active on), to see if he/she’d be honest and I got only crickets (which wasn’t this posters style).
So as an experiment, I’ve asked a few others since then the same (or similarly worded question: “Do you see any flaws in Trump”) thing and have been ignored.
Which tells me a lot.
You don’t know what I’m going to do but you like to tell the forum all about me.
I plan to vote for Cruz in the Texas primary.
You can ask me again after that.
Pal, Donald Trump said just a few days ago, and I quote:
"Now Ted just switched his views on ethanol. He was totally against ethanol, now all the sudden he's for it, you know, it's Iowa and he's for it."
Don't look now, Nikos, but that is an OUTRIGHT BLATANT LIE.
It is not my opinion that it is a lie, it is a FACT that it is a lie, a documentable fact. It is easy to do a bit of due diligence and discover that Ted Cruz has exactly the same stance on ethanol that he has had for years. But Trump LIED about it blatantly.
What do you have to say about it? It was no hoax or photo shop, but a LIE straight out of Donald Trump's mouth, a LIE bigger than Hillary's butt in a pink pantsuit.
Don't believe it? Fast-forward to 5:52 seconds into the video accompanying The Right Scoop story "Trump Says He's Surprised with How Well Ted Cruz is Doing," (can't link it, you can search it). TRUMP LIED loud and clear.
YOU should be asking yourself, why did Trump lie?
Why did he, nikos?
This so-called "winner" apparently thinks winning by lying is okay. That's his and his supporters' problem -- when somebody has to lie to win, it means he is a loser. A loser who has to lie in order to win is a loser even if he wins. Some of us know that about life in general.
Why in the hell don't you and your fellow Trump supporters know it, nikos?
OWN IT -- your candidate himself personally -- not his ardent supporters, but Donald Trump's own mouth -- TELLS LIES to people in order to convince them to support him.
And you whine about a photoshopped pic put up by a Cruz supporter, not Cruz himself.
WAKE THE HELL UP, dude. Trump is a bad risk.
Ah. So you voted for the Republican party to turn hard left in 2012. Own it, dammit.
“Who is Donald Trump?”
A thin skinned big mouth narcissistic blow hard?
Sounds like a lot of you Trump haters are right in line with the DNC, GOPe and Nikki Haley. Guess it is good to have establishment friends.
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