Posted on 04/22/2011 6:59:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Bret Baier FOX News show yesterday Charles Krauthammer revealed that Donald Trump had called him personally and as a result of their conversation Krauthammer is convinced Trump is "absolutely" running for president.
It was a surprise, and when my secretary told me, I put on a helmet and a flak jacket as I answered the phone. I expected a tirade, which he had every right to do given what I have been saying about him. In fact, he was courteous but very calm, and he made his case, rather than sort of attacking everything I said about him. Simply, he made his case: “I’m a serious businessman, I’m a serious candidate"...I give him credit for the way he conducted himself [on the phone call].
Krauthammer has been a very vocal critic of Trump's intentions. But more importantly Krauthammer is generally unafraid to be a vocal skeptic and critic of many members of his party (he's had not nice things to say about Sarah Palin in the past) and isn't afraid to give Obama credit for very unpopular moves. So his validation of Trump's intentions were immediately carried far and wide in the blogosphere yesterday as some sort of proof it was okay to take Trump intentions seriously.
That's not to say Krauthammer takes Trump seriously. In his column today calls him a "spectacle" and says the "Lions have a better chance at winning the Super Bowl."
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Have fun with Romney and the GOP.The GOP does not have it in them to get behind Palin or Bachmann-sadly!
Trump has the money to force Romney’s out.
"Looks like" does not mean "is". Do you actually believe a capitalist like Trump would remove the healthcare industry from the private sector? Not a chance. Clearly the industry needs reform and *gasp* fed regulation to reign in costs.
I'll say a couple things about Trump. He's a MF'r of an administrator, and he knows how to delegate. You'd never see a Holder or a Napolitano.
Trump is not a knight in white armor coming to save America from the evil Obama. Trump is evil himself.
I wouldn’t call Trump “evil”!
Like you though, I will not fall for his con.
I will never vote for anybody that gave $50,000.00 to the DNC.
Well, I hear Krauthammer nailing it every time I see him on Bret’s show. I don’t always agree with everything he says and he is “inside the beltway”, but don’t discount his analysis. Many people even here think Trump is phony. I think he’s a wildcard at this point. I would vote for Trump over Obama in a second.
So as America is within a week of raising the debt ceiling because of Obama and the democrats spending who does the GOP have to save us all?
Even in today’s media’ polls they are showing Trump or Bachmann. Yet people in this forum cat fight that Palin was USED by the tea party she was THERE first. Palin is an excellent potential POTUS but has not thrown her hat in because she is watching carefully and sadly knows the GOP won’t support her. Bachmann MAY be supported by the GOP but I doubt it.
Trump has said if it meant Obama could win he would NOT go third party.
So this is ALL WE GOT, sadly. Pick between the devil OBAMA the devil Romney and the devil Trump and a hard place. I am tired of the Rove GOP and they’re political correctness games of the same ole same ole democrats in a GOP disguise.
Unless you can make your screen name REAGAN come alive we are doomed until you answer who the biggest antichrist is Obama or Trump?
It is fascinating to watch many conservative who fought so hard against Obamacare suddenly support a candidate who believes in even MORE government control of healthcare. Obama’s healthcare reform was kids stuff compared to the socialist system Trump envisions:
The goal of health care reform, wrote Trump, should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. “Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork,” he writes.
The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
Thanks for posting that. This quote of his needs to be “trumpeted” out to as many sites as possible, and often. Trump is a disaster.
It was completely obvious what Trump was saying about this issue and he even said he was a liberal on health care. Canada has a government run, single payer universal health care system. Please don't try to pretend Trump was talking about anything other than establishing such a system here. He wasn't talking about reforming insurance, tort reform or anything else - he was pointing to Canada's socialist system as one we should mimic in the US. Trump advocates for vastly more government control of health care than Obama ever has - and yet some conservatives support this?
I'll say a couple things about Trump. He's a MF'r of an administrator, and he knows how to delegate. You'd never see a Holder or a Napolitano.
There are lots of business savvy rich liberals who also know how to be administrators. So what? What matters is their ideology, and Trump has zero track record of conservative thought, writings, speeches or anything else. He's a chameleon who will say what he has to say and be what he has to be to get what he wants - and that is NOT the kind of person conservatives should want in the White House.
Trump Explains Shifts on Taxes, Healthcare, Abortion-April 19, 2011 6:46 AM
Oh, Trump may well be a phony or this year's Ross Perot. I am glad he is in the race insofar as he is. He is really hammering Obama as being a colossal un-American failure and he is not playing nice about it. At the very least, I hope Trump sets the tone for the campaign by holding the other candidates' feet to the fire.
Dittos. Trump/West for victory and freedom.
that is an exceptional WINNING ticket. You should contact DT and pass it along.
While there is not one FReeper who backs Obama, jumping on the Trump bandwagon is not the answer. If Trump somehow wins the nomination, he'll lose to Obama. Maybe at the level that Johnson beat Goldwater in 1964. Not only is Trump a liberal, he's an extreemely polarizing figure to conservatives and Independents alike.
Conservatives haven't been given a good choice since Reagan and so far, there is no evidence this time around will be any different.
Trump ~ Palin would be the nightmare for Obama as he would have no choice but to abandon talking points and deal in reality..... Trump ~ Palin would be in your face facts Americans can not ignore..... not saying this will be the choice but the more I listen to Donald the more i say this guy has it correct.... When Trump explains situations in this country on why Maytag left Iowa for Mexico THAT HITS HOME!
LOL
Trump is running against a bunch of empty suits. To me that means he is the only non-phony in the race. You know where he stands. The other GOP candidates are running on empty.
Lol, we don't have to worry about a Rove secret control room. We just have to listen to what he says on Fox: who he trashes and who he builds up. It's no secret.
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