Posted on 04/24/2011 8:49:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He has touched on it, mostly when asked...but if he’s serious, he has to truly address this.
That point in the article is where I began to smell the stench of insider Washington beltwayitis.
A little realpolitik goes a long way...but Trump does have a “realpolitik” air about him.
Did you read about Trump’s past support for single-payer health care and massive tax hikes on the rich.
I can hardly believe some freepers are still taking him seriously.
LOL.
I don’t know you but I bet more people would want to get rid of Trump.
Yeah, I was gonna freepmail you and ask if a Trump kool-aid bridgage had sprung on FR since I've been gone. From what I've seen, there are a number of tea party conservatives falling for his dog and pony show. Some polls actually showed Trump is polling in #1 among likely GOP voters! Barf. Good thing this is early in the campaign season. It just shows how many ignorant voters there are in America, including on our side, who don't bother to research candidates but believe whatever a politician tells them on TV.
I remember when Field predicted the Romney surge (who bizarrely took over FR after McCain won the primary and demanded he get a slot on the ticket!), but Trump is so bad he makes Romney look principled! Not only did Trump publicly endorse a "Canadian style" (in his own words) universal health care plan, he also favored abortion, gay rights, gun control, etc. As recently as 2008, Trump was saying Bush should be impeached over Iraq. In 2010, he donated $50,000 to Rahm Emanuel for Mayor! This guy is Mark Kirk in tea party drag.
Trump's newly created image of a tea party patriot is 180o degrees from his past positions. As Tancredo noted, I believe in political conversions, but I accept those conversions when they happen on the road to Damacus and not on the road to Des Moines. There is zero evidence Trump had a sincere "change of heart" and realized the dangers of liberal social policy. This guy never volunteered as private citizen to supports conservatives or the tea party from 2009-2010. Instead, he showed up one day in 2011 and announced out of the blue that he was mulling a run for President as a Republican and suddenly agrees with the GOP base on everything.
It's amazing how many of the Trump kool-aid drinkers continue to live in self-denial even after you bring attention to his past. I know one Trump fan who kept claiming back in 2010 that Bill Brady "once supported universal health care". I asked him to cite a source and he never produced one shred of evidence in months. Now he's on the Trump backwagon and I provided a link for him to Trump's OWN book where Trump admits he's a liberal who wants socialized medicine, and the guy blows it off and says that was 10 years ago. Then I provide numerous links showing Trump cheerleading for Pelosi, Obama, and every other socialist quack as recently as a year ago, and this guy says Trump was just being a "good businessman". Ugh! You just can't reason with his fan club. I can't stand "conservatives" who would jump in line to campaign for Obama tomorrow if the guy announced he was running as a Republican joining the tea party.
No doubt some of the conservatives who crucified Trey Greyson for voting Democrat 18 years ago have no problem welcoming Trump with open arms even though he's been promoting leftist causes for decades. Hmmm.
Now we have 1) a walking parody, 2) a man with a 30 year track record of supporting liberals and liberal causes, and 3) A guy with ZERO political experience (other than coming in a distant third behind Pat Buchanan and John "transenetial meditation" Hagelin for the 2000 Reform Party nomination), as a 'leading candidate' for the GOP presidential nomination. I sure hope this trend dies a quick death because Trump is a distraction from serious candidates (although admittedly we have a weak field now so bozos like Trump are filling the void). The question is whether Trump has a "Ron Paul" type following or a "Sarah Palin" type following on FR. If it's the latter, we're really screwed with that many conservatives being fooled by this guy.
Actually I think your memory is faulty. The media were undermining McCain this far out in 2007. Then when he was almost down for the count, they help a wounded McCain revive his campaign to win the GOP nomination.
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