I never said he pioneered a thing. But he did support the Kelo decision "100%" and we know why. He did so because he himself tried to use eminent domain to oust an elderly widow from her property.
ATLANTIC CITY – A former boarding house that Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to grab to expand one of his Atlantic City casinos is going up for auction years after the David and Goliath battle.
Trump was thwarted by widow Vera Coking, who is now 91. She fought the state Casino Reinvestment Development Authority from condemning the property through eminent domain in the 1990s. Trump wanted to convert the land next to Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino into a parking lot. source
He has addressed abortion & guns.
Yes, he said what you and others wanted or needed to hear. But he cannot erase his record, a record that includes his support for abortion and banning guns. As recently as 2013 he praised former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg for "Putting his money where his mouth is." Bloomberg wants to take guns from law-abiding citizens and liberal Donald Trump praised him for it.
I think it is a reach to say that he’s talking about single payer.
Given that he used those exact words I don't think it's a stretch at all.
"The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than America. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing. While we work out details of a new single-payer plan, there are a number of ways to make the health care system now in place work more efficiently." ~Donald Trump source
He said “private” & “across state lines”. That doesn’t sound like government healthcare or sociaiized medicine to me.
Then you believe what he says while trying to get your vote while completely ignoring his liberal past. Given that he has no political record, all we have is his past, and it should not be ignored.
He may be agnostic on gays. I don’t think he’s addressed it. It is not a deal breaker for me or for many other people.
Call it what you will. But he said we should "Tolerate diversity; prosecute hate crimes against gays." I'm not for bashing them, but I'll be damned if I will "tolerate" the queer lifestyle that I see deteriorating the very fabric of our society. That is a liberal position, but then, Trump is a liberal.
America will not be a “moral utopia” if our country is destroyed economically; with mass unemployment & impoverished. That hurts society. It hurts families. And it hurts children.
You talk about hurting children but you're ok with liberals pushing the queer lifestyle that pulls them in? OK.
Trump isn’t billing himself as a “conservative”. He is running as a republican.
You are wrong again.
‘I’m actually a conservative with a heart’~Donald Trump source
You can back Trump, you can even defend his liberal past. But you should be informed when you do.
Matthew 15:8, South40. How many people have been driven away from their very faith by cherry picking & hypocrisy? (I mean doing *the exact opposite* of what the Lord specifically tells us to do & not do. What else- what entity, does that?) Please look it up. It’s really disturbing.
Does your pastor/ minister really never talk about the fact that evil exists in this world, always has & always will, until the Lord Returns? We aren’t admonished to eradicate it, but to resist it, as individuals. Don’t you know that?
The democrats’ cheating aside, “social conservatives” put 0bama in the WH in 2012. Santorum was the anointed then. Would Newt Gingrich have pushed for gays & transvestites in the military? Would he have had his AG sue private business owners for refusing to support a lifestyle their conscience forbade them? Would he have bought or blackmailed John Roberts into “gay marriage”?
You know the answer to that. Romney would have been just about as bad as 0bama. Santorum gave us Romney, just as Cruz would give us Jeb. Ultimately, a plurality of Americans won’t support him.
Social concerns are not Trump’s priority. They are not America’s priority, either. He is focused on America’s SURVIVAL. So are his supporters.
Your candidate has shown, currently, that he cannot be trusted to steward America’s- & the American people’s, economic well being. The same is true of the other candidates. His job is our national security.
Our president was never meant to be the Christian equivalent of the ayatollah.
You guys are pulling out every trick you can think of to try & dissuade people from Donald Trump- believing that they might change to your candidate. It’s dishonest. It’s disingenuous, & it makes you- & him, look really really bad.