Posted on 01/19/2016 7:41:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Today's Morning Jolt looks at the rumors surrounding Trump's "major announcement and special guest."
If you consider Ted Cruz the conservative ideal or near-ideal in terms of philosophical grounding, legal perspective, and ideological rigor - and the case for that seems pretty self-evident - then watching Tea Party leaders flock to Trump over him is pretty damn disappointing.
April 15, 2009 is largely seen as the birth date of the Tea Party movement. Here's what Trump was saying that day about President Obama:
TRUMP: Well, I think he's sort of a guy that just has a wonderful personality, a good speaker, somebody that people trust. And I also think that the comparison with his predecessor is so different - it's so huge that it really has made a great impact on people.
I think that he's really doing a nice job in terms of representation of this country. And he represents such a large part of the country.
I mean, to think that a black man was going to be elected president - I watched television for years where the great political analysts were saying maybe in 50, maybe in 100 years.
Here's a man that not only got elected, I think he's doing a really good job.
Now, the sad part is that he can't just do a good job. He's got to do a great job. Because if he does a good job, that's not good enough for this country. That's how bad the country has become.
KING: Do you assess him as a champion?
TRUMP: Oh, yes, he's a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. If you would have looked - when he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he's just done something that's amazing.
KING: More on Donald Trump...
TRUMP: He's totally a champion.
Later in that interview:
KING: You're not going to march with the tea party?
TRUMP: I don't march with the tea party. But I'll tell you what, they have a good point, because when you see the kind of money that this country is - to use a horrible expression, Larry, I know you've never heard this - but that this country is pissing away, I can understand where they're coming from.
Trump went on to defend the TARP bailouts: "If they didn't stuff the banks with money, we'd be in depression number two right now, Larry. I mean, we would be strongly in depression number two. So they did the right thing in putting money into the banks."
Trump, the guy who hosted two fundraisers for Charlie Crist in 2009. He donated to Harry Reid over Sharron Angle in 2010.
Trump, the guy who donated $50,000 to make Rahm Emanuel the mayor of Chicago.
In the founding days of the Tea Party, Donald Trump was exactly what they were fighting agains... and now some of those adherents have embraced him fully.
I speak for many on FR who encourage you to spend your time searching out and posting POSITIVE stories about YOUR candidate rather than NEGATIVE stories about OTHER candidates. Negative posts are poisoning the air around here, especially since much of the dirt on any of the candidates only helps the Democrats.
Kindly stop helping the Democrats.
Re:”“â€As an old Freeper I recall Trump getting hammered on this forum for the King interview. I wonder if the same bashers in 2009 are the Trumpsters in 2016?
One of the obnoxious Trump harpies has a posting history of demolishing Trump in 2012 then getting on her knees for him in 2016.
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Wasn’t it Churchill who said of the Hun... “he is either at your throat or at your feet”?
Cruz/TRump 2016 Woo Hoo !
He readily admits he marched to the beat of any and every drummer as long as he could squeeze a contract out of them, i.e., he was "for sale" to the highest bidder, and more than willing to talk out of both sides of his mouth in order to get an extra million bucks.
But now we are told that, at age 69, the man (who never had to ask God for forgiveness) says he's a changed man.
Just 5 years ago Trump gave very big bucks to Harry Reid, for crying out loud, and NOTHING to Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle in a CLOSE race, Obama had Reid protecting his wing BECAUSE TRUMP put him there. Beyond self-serving big talk, where is the evidence he's changed? Please itemize for us:
Evidence List:
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Correct, there ain't no steenkin' evidence.
No, it’s true.
Trump now claims he was lying when he claimed to support abortion, gay rights, Obamacare, and all those other liberal causes he championed for 30 years. Similarly, he claims the millions he gave to the Clintons, Obama, and hundreds of other Democrats was just part of his cover.
Trump has either been lying for 30 years or is lying now.
Either way, he’s untrustworthy.
I don’t think they’re liberals, they’re just paid ops .....
Yep, I guess a true conservative can give money to Hillary and Sharpton and be OK on this site...
That's what people are looking for. Someone who marches to his OWN drum.
It's referred to as LEADERSHIP!
Bloomberg 2.0
“Trump marches to no one, for better or worse.”
Depends on what “march” means. How many steps makes a march?
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