I like Ted Cruz and he was my first choice. Then he began to engage in some odd behavior, like trusting Mitch McConnell, voting for the Corker bill, the TPP/TPA/TPWTF debacle, wanting to vastly increase H1B’s without addressing the displacement of American workers in favor of cheaper foreign imports.
I probably would have overlooked all that were it not for another viable choice.
In my lifetime, we’ve never had a man like Trump step up and put himself on the line like he is doing. We’ve never had a candidate who wasn’t beholden to big donors, many of whom have agendas contrary to the will of the American people.
I’m tired of this country losing. I’m tired of everything that’s real whithering on the vine while we dither about who is or isn’t ‘conservative enough’ to be the the guy who blows smoke up our collective rears while actually accomplishing nothing for our agenda at best or at worst actually enabling the agenda of the left. The GOPe had the whole primary system rigged to stop Cruz anyway. There is only one reason we’re not gnashing our teeth as we watch Yeb Boosh win every primary with like 16%: Donald J. Trump.
Enough is enough. I don’t pretend that I’m going to be in favor of every idea Donald Trump has, but I know he’s seen incredible success in the real world. I can’t see any reason why he would be lying to us about what he wants to accomplish just to get a job that amounts to a step down in just about every way from his current one.
I also cannot see why I should settle for a politician (Even a good one) when I am presented with the choice of a private citizen making such a tremendous sacrifice and putting his reputation at stake. I remember something about lives, fortune, and sacred honor being sacrificed. That’s how I see what Trump is doing right now.
I do wish he were a better communicator, but he makes up for it with his deft command of the media narrative and a serious pair of brass ones.
Even though I am a New Yorker by birth and lived in NYC for the first 28 years of my life, I really never thought much of or about Donald Trump prior to his running for president. I always just thought of him as the asshat who blocked the tiny sliver of view of the river from my parents’ apartment years ago.
Since he’s entered the race, I’ve been reading his books and I am finding him more and more compelling. He is a fascinating guy with a lot more depth than many give him credit for.
This wouldn’t be a Trump/Anti-Trump discussion without some insults, so I hereby thumb my nose at you in disdain, Finny! :p
Scott Pelley: Universal health care.
Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.
Tell me again how you know what you're voting for when you vote for him? That makes him such a "viable" choice?
I was just like you guys when I voted for Arnold the first go-around -- enthusiastic, hopeful, filled with blind faith and wishful thinking.
You know who came after Schwarzenegger's two terms?
JERRY BROWN. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.
If you are willing to risk all on the crap shoot that is "The Donald," then you had better be willing to ponder the Democrat that will follow him. Whoever it is will make Obama look like Rush Limbaugh, because Trump will have relocated the "center" so much farther to the left.
Please put your emotions aside when analyzing Trump.