I don’t. I think there have been three moments which have made me shade away from Donald Trump.
- When he couldn’t define conservative in the debate.
- When Jimmy Carter said he knew Donald Trump was malleable
- When he waffled on funding for Planned Parenthood
The first told me he didn’t understand conservatism aside from the financial aspect.
The second confirmed that someone outside the conservative movement didn’t “trust” Trump’s principles.
The third told me that he makes comments and decisions without considering the implications.
Granted, he has gotten much better on messaging since the Planned Parenthood waffle, but it stuck with me and fed some doubts I had.
But expressing any doubts about Donald Trump has turned more than a few Freepers into human pinatas, knocked about and attacked for their opinions, views and questions by a dedicated group of posters who don’t defend Trump so much as go after anyone not of the “faith.”
It smacks of a cult-of-personality and it is very scary. This could be the seeds of the end of Freerepublic, and that would be a tragedy.
With respect to the first, Trump is an Outback kind of guy. No rules, just right!
Your other two items are superficial items, neither having any impact on anything except image, utter image.
Levin once said, “Conservatism is not definable.”
I disagreed, but do have to admit that most folks have some overlapping issues that others don’t use to define Conservatism. Do in a sense Levin was right.
So asking Trump this question, is asking him a trick question. And why even bother answering it? Trump says good things every day, and folks look for the one thing they think provides a gotcha moment.
As for Jimmy Carter, he has displayed over decades that he has no common sense when it comes to personalities. The Ayatollah he helped bring to power, to Fidel Castro, te Chavez, to the leaders of North Korea, Carter is bosom buddies with the lot of them. So you rest your case on his support or non support for Trump, knowing full well he will never vote for him. Really?
He did not waffle on defunding the abortion side of PP. When he finds out that’s all they do, guess what...
You know, go ahead and think the forum has gone of the deep end. That’s what you need to believe.