Steve Forbes: Trump Will Lure Votes From Democrats

thehill.com ^ | February 28

[Helicondelta]

Publishing magnate Steve Forbes weighed in on the Republican presidential race Saturday and said that Trump would do well with unions, even if union leaders pull for a Democratic candidate.

“[Union leaders] may endorse a Democrat like Hillary Clinton, but the rank and file, a big chunk of them are going to go their own way," Forbes said on a radio interview with John Catsimatidis. He also said a big part of Trump's appeal is his attitude in speeches.

"Trump, even as he criticizes and throws out charges and all that kind of thing, he always ends up on an upbeat note about the USA," Forbes said.

[Lagmeister]

More folks who claim to see an imaginary future and then criticize it. It’s all in their mind, but they want us to believe that God speaks to them and they speak to the world.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I can see this. Hillary sure as he’ll isn’t going to talk shit about China or Mexico.

[Smokin' Joe]

If you are referring to the Keystone XL Pipeline, it's sitting in segments waiting on the okay to build it.

It wasn't going to carry gas (neither natural gas nor gasoline), but Tar Sands 'crude', a very heavy crude oil called 'bitumen', which likely would have been dilutes with Bakken oil to make it easier to pump.

[Persephone Kore]

The Santayana quote comes to mind: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Do you think you are immune to the lessons of history?

If Trump repeats Hoover’s mistake of instituting tariffs in response to economic doldrums, the consequences will be the same. People don’t change.

[Yosemitest]

What so-called"lies" about Trump ?
Everything I've seen has been backed up with FACTS, and links to those FACTS .

[ObamahatesPACoal]

If the public can’t use the stuff how is it for public use?

[okie01]

Keystone is private. The ‘good for the economy’ has been accepted for eminent domain for quite some time. Used often for shopping centers and other commercial development.

Keystone is private, true. But, like railroads, airlines, canals, electric transmission lines, etc., pipelines are "common carriers" -- meaning they are available for use by anybody and to the benefit of all. Thereby, they are akin to a public utility (or a state highway).

This has been the recognized practice since the signing of the constitution. It's nothing new.

And it bears no relationship to a shopping mall or Kelo and its corporate campus.

[Smokin' Joe]

Who says the pipeline will use eminent domain? That's pretty rare that happens to use right-of way, because armies of lease folks go out and pay generously to lease rights of way so the pipeline can cross property (which remains the owner's unless they sell it. The only restrictions are that there is a setback distance for permanent structures and occupied buildings. That only affects new construction, the pipeline has to be that distance from existing buildings.

For security and other reasons, the pipeline is almost always buried, deep enough that the fields above it are still available for agricultural use.

Like I said, Keystone XL is for bulk transfer of crude oil. Unless you have a refinery, you can't use that.

Moving most of a million barrels of crude oil a day is important to national security, even if obama doesn't think so. Now, it goes mostly by rail.

[Yosemitest]

I haven;t seen or heard any of it.
What are you taking about?
The only thing I seen is an OUTSTANDING ad hammering Donald "EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PRIVATE USE" Trump for trying to TAKE Vera Coking's home to build a LIMO Parking Lot.
Just HOW DISGUSTING CAN TRUMP GET ?

TV Ad: System ( 0:30 )
Published on Jan 22, 2016

I personally believe that kind of ABUSE of "Eminent Domain FOR PRIVATE USE" IS what's wrong with the system.

Donald Trump's view of "EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PRIVATE USE" IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL !
Read the history of "Eminent Domain" for yourself.
Donald Trump didn't have the power to take it, as a private citizen.

BUT ...the Government taking someone's property and giving to Donald Trump's company, DID GO AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION, pure and simple !
If the government take someone property, just to give it to another private company, because they think they can get a larger tax income from the deal,
then it IS WRONG AND ILLEGAL as the LAW was ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO BE !

It's UNCONSTITUTIONAL !
So ... the guilty SHOULD BE BLAMED !

Once again, this is Donald Trump's vision of private property rights when he was just another private citizen.
So, AGAIN I SAY ....
Imagine how much more damage he could do as the leader of the Federal executive branch.

[moonhawk]

You don’t know? seriously?

[Yosemitest]

If you can/t back you accusations up with LINKS to FACTS showing it, then it's not happening.
It's just Trump feeding LIES to his DUPED followers.

[uncitizen]

That’s ridiculous.

[Yosemitest]

Oh, really ?

TRUMP THE SOCIALIST

... When Trump says he will “make America great again,” he harks back to a time when families were more stable and U.S. culture generally valued cohesion over rebellion.
Yet these cultural values of faith, family and community are intangible.
They are not things — despite what Sanders and Trump claim — that a government check, a border wall or socialized healthcare can fulfill.
They also require greater self-sacrifice, diligence and discipline to maintain than the simplistic solution of trade protectionism
(which hurts working families by jacking up the price of goods)
and xenophobic pronouncements against China, the largest foreign creditor to the United States.

Trump and Sanders are both symptoms of the dark side of democratic capitalism described by conservative heavyweight Irving Kristol in his book, Two Cheers For Capitalism.
Kristol offers two cheers for capitalism’s ability to provide material comfort and fulfillment of self-interest through free, mutual exchange of goods and services.
But he withholds that third cheer because capitalism is inherently amoral.
It is simply an economic machine or engine that operates based on the programmatic inputs of societal values.
American culture dictates those inputs and history has shown
that too often the populist demagogue or the carnival barker peddling quick fixes and coarseness is what sells.
What is popular is not always right — and vice versa.

Thus American culture has unraveled in many ways since the 1960s era of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,
and both Trump and Sanders offer Big Government responses to problems that are better solved through reviving of older notions self-discipline, family, thrift and hard work.
Those are private solutions, not government solutions, and they offer a sustainable future.

[MCF]

“THAT’S BECAUSE HE IS A DEMOCRAT”
So was Ronald Reagan at one time.

[r_barton]

Even as president and later he did some really liberal things.

1986-granted amnesty to 3-million illegal aliens and still didn’t secure the border.

1991-came out in support of the Brady gun control bill, prior to its passage.

1992-joined Clinton, Carter, Ford, Nixon and Bush in support of NAFTA, prior to its passage.

After those actions, even Reagan was no Ronald Reagan.

So, there is no perfect conservative. They all make compromises.

[LongsforReagan]

Or Richard Nixon. Gave us the EPA.

[1Old Pro]

I suspect there will be a YUGE Dem crossover vote for Trump.

That is his secret weapon.

[Lazamataz]

Members of both parties see that anti-American globalist elites have taken over.

[moonhawk]

An “Accusation” that Eisenhower was elected by Republicans? Or TR?

Or maybe you think Dewey won? Sorry wrong election.

Geez....

[uncitizen]

Are you claiming that that is proof? There’s no proof in there....

Gosh I’m almost embarrassed for you Trump haters....