I appreciate your nice response, and admit mine wasn’t so nice.
Honestly, after eight months of this, I’m a little gun-shy when folks express the idea we don’t have any questions.
Of course we do. I have them every time I support someone. Will they follow through? Does this conform to their past?
Trump is different than any other person I have voted for. He wasn’t a politician nine months ago.
How do I judge him. One way to do it is to evaluate his past comments and actions. And with Trump those are very colorful, not complimentary by a Conservative’s standards, to say the least.
Was he an established politician doing those things? No. Was he lying to his constituents when he did those things? No. Had he established a public policy on the record that others would evaluate and stand behind? No.
He was a businessman and public figure that had snap opinions and he expressed them. He ever included those opinions in books, so it’s not entirely fair to say he never sat down and gave consideration to these issues. He did. Then he decided to run for president and for the first time he had to sit down and look at the issues and determine what ideology he wanted to support. He had to come up with a core that everything would tie back to. Can’t stand for this on this issue, if I’m going to take that for the other issue. Things had to mesh.
As a businessman, I don’t think he views obtrusive government to the path to a good deal. On issue after issue, it seems Trump has moved right over time.
I’m glad of that. He didn’t do it in a few weeks. We can look at abortion, gun rights, health care, over time he moved right.
I trust him as much as I trust any politician. If he does 25% of what he says he wants to, I’ll be 25% farther ahead than I was under Bush.
Bush was a big fat waste of time. Eight years and the man left so much on the table, it collapsed.
We need a CEO type to get things under control, and that spells Trump to me.
As for character, I have my good days and my bad days.
We all do.
Once again, thanks for the nice note.