Posted on 02/15/2016 10:09:20 AM PST by Kaslin
When the legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum was challenged about the veracity of one of his past statements, he famously replied, "Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth."
This leads to the obvious question, "But Mr. Arum, what will you tell us tomorrow?"
There is something about Arum's line that reminds me of Donald Trump, except that: 1) Arum was not running for the office of the President of the United States; and 2) Trump could say the same thing that Arum did but it appears that many of his followers would say, "You see! He's not a politician. He tells the truth."
Have you ever seen the like with a political candidate? And who but Trump could boast that he could shoot someone in broad daylight in New York City and his followers would still follow him? Who but Trump would want to boast of such a thing?
By all fair accounts, Trump did not perform well in the South Carolina debate on Saturday night, but this didn't matter much to his followers, as evidenced by the Drudge Report poll which, as always, declared him the overwhelming winner.
So, when the crowd boos him for his vile behavior, that's just proof that the crowd has been stacked against him.
When competing candidates rightly confront his vacillating positions, they're branded liars, corrupt politicians, and worse, all to the delight of his followers.
"We need an Alpha male," they exclaim. "Trump will get things done."
As to how, exactly, he will do it, no one seems to know.
But be assured that, despite four Trump bankruptcies (which surely affected many people, even if Trump was not personally affected) and the failures of Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump: The Game, The China Connection, Trump Casinos, Trump Steaks, Trump Magazine, and GoTrump.com, Donald Trump will get the job done.
He always does.
He only wins - as in wins, wins, wins.
And when he doesn't win (as in Iowa)? Actually, second was really first, since, we're told, the winner cheated. And his followers cheer him on.
But this is nothing to laugh about. The future of our country is at stake, especially with the sudden death of Antonin Scalia, which makes the question of the appointing of new Supreme Court justices all the more urgent.
Last August 26th - so, barely six months ago - Trump stated that his sister would make a "phenomenal" Supreme Court justice, despite her strong support for partial-birth abortion.
Now, after being challenged about what kind of justices he would appoint if president, Trump says that he was only joking about his past comments about his sister: "Just so you understand, I said it jokingly. My sister is a brilliant person, known as a brilliant person, but it's obviously a conflict."
Shades of Bob Arum.
"I was joking yesterday, but today I'm being serious."
Dear followers of Donald Trump, are you sure this is your man?
But it gets worse.
During the Saturday night debate in patriotic, pro-G. W. Bush South Carolina, Trump said that Bush lied about Iraq and claimed that he, Trump, was the only one to oppose the war in Iraq. In fact, at a debate last September he said, "You can check it out, check out — I'll give you 25 different stories."
When asked for proof of this on Sunday, he responded, "I wasn't a politician so people didn't write everything I said."
Really? No proof of 25 different stories you told us to check out? No documentation of your very outspoken opposition to the war? You spoke loudly and clearly back then but no one noticed it because you weren't a politician?
Unfortunately for Trump loyalists, Andrew Kaczynski has documented that "in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve Trump noted Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction and targeted Iraq strikes had little impact on their overall capabilities. The Donald said the best course might be against Iraq to 'carry the mission to its conclusion.'" (Kaczynski provides the exact quote.)
It wasn't until August of 2004 that Trump expressed clear opposition to the war, long after it had started and long after the problems with our engagement there had emerged.
This revelation led to the clever tweet from New York Post columnist Robert A. George, "Trump knew Iraq had WMDs before Bush lied abt Iraq having WMDs and followed Trump's advice to finish job in Iraq!"
In response to all this, I posted on Facebook and Twitter, "Trump could say tomorrow 'I've been lying about everything!' And his followers would say 'That's our man! He tells it like it is.'"
And how did some of his followers respond to my comment?
"So explain to me who is better than Trump?"
And, "No he wouldn't. Nobody is ideal, but you have it in for Trump. He is better than all of the socialists and other deceptive liars running."
And, "[people would] much rather give Trump the benefit of the doubt because he does not answer to any special interest groups and because he proves that you can fight the leftwing media and their strongest weapon 'political correctness'."
What makes this all the more disturbing, not to mention downright scary, is that a substantial percentage of his supporters profess to be evangelical Christians, and it still appears that there is almost nothing he could say or do that would dampen their support for him.
"After all," they lamely repeat, "we're not electing a pastor, we're electing a president."
And, if I might borrow a quote, "Yesterday he was lying, today he's telling the truth."
Let the voter beware.
AS the end nears the anti Trump vitriol grows louder. Desperation is loud. LOL!
Well, you see that’s the whole thing in a nutshell.
Every time Trump opens his mouth, it might be a lie.
Every time a professional politician opens his mouth, it IS a lie.
Do you even read the news? Trump has either supported, or been endorsed by, every one of the people I named: McConnell, Brown, Schummer, the Clintons.
Who is Trump against: Cruz and Scalia.
Maybe it’s the Michael Brown from “You’re doin’ a great job, Brownie.”
Trump is a reliable conservative like a Saturday Night Special is a reliable firearm.
Were surrounded by frauds who want nothing more than to keep things business as usual with the same lawyers/politicians who brought us this decades long disaster.
America is not buying it this time.
I’m a moron magnet.
Why not compare Trump and is supporters to Nazis like ya did a couple weeks ago slick?
You parrot the the MSM/lawyer/politician lines really good.
That is what you think
patq
“Who is (a conservative)?” “Cruz”?
Precisely. We gave the “conservatives” both houses of Congress.
They voted not too long ago to continue funding PP in their ongoing conspiracy to murder and dismember unborn children and offer their body parts for sale.
Not one of these Cruz-like conservatives would stand up to Bohner for the speaker job, then again, Ryan.
They bend over for `rat federal district court judges, and SCOTUS appointments. It’s so bad we’re concerned here they might not fight to exclude someone like Eric Holder—who tried to frame American gun owners by walking guns to narco-terrorists—from the big court giving the `rats a majority.
The conservatives stood by while Obama, “moderate” McCain and she-male Clinton completely wrapped Syria around the axle.
While Obama degraded and humiliated our armed forces services and its brave soldiers, airmen, Marines and sailors, and other than “tut tutting” the shame, our GOP congress does nothing.
They stand by while Obama spends our tax dollars with a `USA’ credit card like a sorority girl on spring break buying drinks for the house.
What American jobs are left from being sent out-of-country are being taken by “undocumented immigrants” (conservative Rubio, “!Si se puede!”) or are being sent to Mexico even as we deplore the practice.
Cruz conservatives seem sincerely puzzled at our frustration when all we hear from these staunch “conservatives” is that Trump isn’t a conservative.
If Cruz and the his fellow incumbent Beltway insiders are “conservatives,’ let’s hope and pray for something different from the neo-cons, the `crunchy’ cons and the flaccid, `hairy-chested’ conservatives who just .. can’t .. seem .. to pull the trigger. That’s why we’re re-defining the word `conservative’; the RNC, Reince Preibus which claim to be conservative, can’t get the job done. Fire them all.
Trump doesn’t have any such problems, he wants the job, he fights and isn’t shy about telling the Democrats or his fellow “conservatives” the way things will be. Go Trump.
ALERT!!!!!
Trump to make announcement in few minutes in S.C.....Bet he’s going third party!!!! Fox carrying it.....
Btw, I haven't seen any conservatism coming out of D.C. for decades. Zip, none. But please continue running around telling all we must hire on yet another lawyer/politician because they're somehow different and they savior of America. Gak!
What we do have in D.C. is a private country club full of corrupt deceitful frauds. Learn it.
Trump has to deal with that all the time.
Better to be pissed off than pissed on!
I’m tired of GOPe telling me it’s raining!
GOPe should be told that white stuff on top of chicken 5h-t is just more chicken 5h-t!
You can say what you want......you always do regardless. So I’ll just scroll on by....
Hillary is busy writing her next speech about how even "Republican Trump" realizes that all Republicans are too "evil" to be allowed in the White House again.
The piece starts off with this wonderful bit of question-begging: by all fair accounts, Trump did not perform well in the South Carolina debate on Saturday night.
Those who think Trump performed well are not providing a "fair account" apparently? But how is this scored? As debating points in high-school, or according to which candidate project the ability to get things done that the voters want done for them? And who is this author to judge that on behalf of the audience, or declare that they are suffering from cognitive dissonance.
Or this doozy: "After all," they [evangelicals] lamely repeat, "we're not electing a pastor, we're electing a president."
Apparently they should be electing a pastor, or the most pastorly appearing candidate running - and we all know who that is. Who preaches the most to us? Why none other than Cruz.
Those who support Trump are not fair and they are lame. Nice.
The clintons the bushes and the a##clown have been lying for 24 years
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