Donald Trump Once Blogged That Hillary Clinton Would Make A Great President

BuzzFeed ^ | December 29, 2015 | Andrew Kaczynski

[TBP]

Less than a decade ago, Donald Trump could be spotted on TV or in print gushing over Hillary Clinton. He publicly praised her health care plan (it had an individual mandate). He said he liked Clinton and her husband “very much.” He said she would do a good job negotiating with Iran.

During the heat of the 2008 campaign, Trump took to his own blog to praise Clinton, writing that she’d make a great president.

“Hillary Clinton said she’d consider naming Barack Obama as her vice-president when she gets the nomination, but she’s nowhere near a shoo-in,” wrote The Donald about the heated Democratic primary in 2008. “For his part, Obama said he’s just focused on winning the nomination, although at least one member of his team said Clinton would make a good vice-president. (I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president or vice-president.)”

BuzzFeed News previously uncovered past Hillary Clinton praise on his Trump University blog, calling her a “great trouper.”

[LowOiL]

Character matters*

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*except to certain vocal populists on FR. What difference does it make?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Is this like the 20th time this has been posted today?

[TBP]

He called for “giv[ing] them a path”. He said they’d work something out.

[free_life]

Get a life!

[SoConPubbie]

That was then.

People change.

Especially Campaign Conservatives!

[kik5150]

"At that time there was no past behavior in leadership to prove future performance."

Are you kidding? Were you in a coma from 1992 to 2008?

[Kickass Conservative]

Yet he backed McCain in 2008, interesting...

[LowOiL]

That was then. People change.

So you are ok with Trump changing back positions if he receives the nomination?

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Character Matters !

[Vision Thing]

So a 2008 blog post makes it into Breaking News in December 2015.

It’s like back to the future, or some such.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

It doesn’t disqualify him from being President.

It DOES, however, disqualify him from being considered a conservative by anyone with functioning synapses,

Hank

[SubMareener]

My I remind you all that RUSH LIMBAUGH supported Hillary during the 2008 campaign?

[boycott]

Welcome to 2915.

He doesn’t seem to think she would be so great now.

[LucyT]

No, I'm not okay w Trump changing back. You know that would be a great betrayal.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

There’s “changing a vote or two” and there’s a complete turnabout from decades of expressed views.

Cruz has fought for conservative principles time and time again. That earns credibility. When, in the first sixty years or so if his life, did Trump EVER fight for - or even advocate - conservative policies? We’re not just talking about a couple of changes in position here. We’re supposed to believe that Trump has gone from being anti-gun, pro-abortion, pro-faggot, pro-socialized medicine, and pro-Hillary/Shumer to a faithful conservative....all in his seventh decade on the planet.

While Cruz was defending our constitutional rights over and over again before the Supreme Court, Trump was contributing to leftists’ campaigns and scouting the bothels of Hungary and The Czech Republic for his next wife.

I think Ted has earned the benefit of a few doubts that Trust Fund Donnie hasn’t.

To put it mildly.

Hank

[HarborSentry]

That was at the same time Ann Coulter said she was a Hillary supporter, too.

If you recall, she was seriously opposed to McCain. She changed her mind only because McCain picked Sarah Palin for VP.

As Coulter says, immigration is everything now. If we fail on immigration, then every other vital conservative issue becomes toast.

[elhombrelibre]

He once was an apologist for Bill Clinton, too, saying that Bill's sexual harassment didn't matter. It only matters now because he Trump needs a tool to bash the Clintons whom he once praised, funded, donated huge amounts of money to, and brought to his third (or second wedding?). A vote for Trump is a vote for a serial situational politician, whose only concern is his own profit and vanity, with situational ethics.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/in-2008-trump-dismissed-clinton-sex-scandal-as-totally-unimportant/

[conservative98]

I take that Hillary would be great more as a shot at the Bushes.

Trump's actual endorsement in the 2008 campaign was for McCain. Trump said McCain is going to be a great president...and he said the Sarah Palin pick was an AMAZING choice.

[nathanbedford]

When supporting Hillary Clinton advanced Trump's ambitions, he supported Hillary Clinton, endorsed Hillary Clinton, financed Hillary Clinton.

When opposing Hillary Clinton advances Trump's political ambitions, he criticizes Hillary Clinton.

When the Clintons' support advanced Trump's financial ambitions, Trump trivialized the facts of Bill Clinton's notorious abuse of women, serial lying, blatant felonies.

When demeaning the character of Bill Clinton advances Trump's political ambitions he criticizes Bill Clinton.

When supporting single-payer healthcare advanced Donald Trump's interests in his financial empire, he supported single-payer healthcare and Hillary Clinton's healthcare initiative.

When opposing Obama Care advances Donald Trump's political ambitions, he opposes Obama Care.

When opposing Obama Care advanced Donald Trump's political ambitions, he opposed it.

When supporting vague notions of single-payer healthcare advances Donald Trump's political ambitions, he voices vague support.

When affiliation to the Democrat party advanced Donald Trump's ambitions, he was a registered Democrat.

When political affiliation as an independent advanced Donald Trump's interests, he was an Independent.

When political affiliation with the Republican Party advances Donald Trumps political ambitions, he becomes a Republican.

When Donald Trump was not the preeminent leading candidates in the race for the nomination, he declined to promise to refrain from a third-party candidacy

Today well in the lead, Donald Trump seems to indicate that he will refrain from a third-party candidacy.

In post after post we read supporters of Donald Trump tell us how they will bet in the polling booth that the Donald Trump will maintain his newly acquired conservative veneer once he gains ultimate political power. They even go so far as to compare him favorably with the man who actually stood up for conservative values when and where it counted, Ted Cruz. This is the ultimate elevation not of hope over reason but of Messiah/man on horseback over reason. Logic is not an ingredient of Kool-Aid.

The consistent motivating factor in everything in Donald Trump's biography shouts at us: ambition.

[familyop]

That’s already common knowledge. Trump’s cheerleaders campaigned and voted in the recent past to nominate Hillary in Democrat primaries, too.

[A CA Guy]

Hillary a decade ago or so was only a Senator of NY not known for doing much.
I think her stint as SOS is where her bad judgement an bad leadership really shined.