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To: Albion Wilde
That is a perfectly horrible and baseless thing to say about hundreds and hundreds of your fellow freepers who support Trump after objectively evaluating his life's work.

Objectively evaluating his life's work as a liberal Democrat? Yes, I objectively evaluated that. Which is exactly why I do not support him. You see, I happen to be a Conservative. And Trump's positions - on raising taxes, touchback amnesty, using federal tax dollars to directly pay healthcare costs of 25% of Americans, and his praise of using eminent domain to take property from one person and give it to a person with more influence - all of these run contrary to my Conservative leanings.

And these aren't old positions either. These are all positions he has stated since announcing his run for President last June. So yes, I have objectively evaluated his work as well as his positions on how he would lead this nation. And through that evaluation, I have concluded that there is no way in hell I could support someone who is to the left of Mitt Romney on every single issue.

So how can you?

291 posted on 02/17/2016 5:09:34 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Hoodat
Out of hundreds and hundreds of buildings built over a 50-year period, Trump has had only two significant challenges to eminent domain lodged by two individuals whose objections were sentimental attachment to their small properties, not objections to the generous financial offers they turned down. If you could see the one location as I have, the lady who held out absolutely did it for crank reasons and ended up forfeiting for her heirs what would have been three times the value of her property, which recently sold for $4.5 MILLION LESS than the asking price -- that's how greedy and unrealistic her asperations to soak a wealthy developer were.

As for "touchback amnesty", that is another meaningless talking point foisted by the media during a contentious campaign season that you seem overly eager to take at face value -- because it is true? No, because it fits your prejudiced assumptions about a candidate you don't like on emotional grounds.

When he has said that illegals can come back legally, at no time did he offer an immediate "touchback". His plan is that no criminals would be allowed back, and that anyone who had worked and stayed out of trouble here would have to get in line and reapply, something that normally takes a minimum of five years -- knowing full well that only a small minority of those here illegally could or would qualify. As you may be aware, some are here illegally due to being brought here by their parents when they were small children, and are not legally guilty of intent to commit the crime of illegal entry.

But beyond that, my scolding towards you was that your post was harshly (and without facts) condemnatory of his supporters, and I called you out on that. Unable to rationalize your uncivil slander of your fellow freepers, you tried to change the subject with this post; but I'm not buying it. This post reveals just how superficial is your understanding is of these issues, and how willing you are to sling mud without really grasping the facts of the situation.

Vote for whomever you want; no one is stopping you. But when you slander the judgment of other freepers for supporting Trump, try learning more about the truth of your accusations if yiou want to avoid being called out and flamed for it.

295 posted on 02/17/2016 10:37:04 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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