You Trumpsters are really embarrassing yourselves. Either that, or many people here singing the praises of Trump weren't really conservative in the first place.
Trump is NOT a conservative. He just isn't. His policy positions are much more progressive/left. Trump has advocated a complete government take over of health care in the form of a Canadian single payer socialist system, Trump has advocated for a 5.7 trillion dollar wealth surtax, Trump doesn't support Paul Ryan's plan - not because it doesn't go far enough, but because Trump thinks we shouldn't touch medicare and medicaid. The list goes on and on. Trump is NOT a conservative.
Why is anyone on a conservative forum supporting a candidate that is not in any way a conservative? Trump has zero track record of supporting ideologically conservative positions, he gives huge amounts of money to Democrats, he is best friends with folks like Chuckie Schumer, his crowd is northeastern liberals. Trump is not in any way, shape or form a conservative.
I am beginning to think that if uber-progressive Ed Schultz latched onto the birther stuff and wanted to run for President that he'd actually get support here. Nevermind that he isn't in any way conservative, just so long as spends oodles of time on an issue that will have absolutely no impact on the 2012 election.
To eliminate the national debt, though.
Going back a decade, he also support strict border security, school choice, citizens opting out of social security, the death penalty, increasing military spending.
He does have a liberal streak, though, and there is no way I would support him over Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann or whatever purely conservative candidate is running.
But, I much prefer Trump to dishonest liberals like Mitt Romney. He is far better candidate than John McCain.
I never called him a conservative.I called him experienced and successful. I say he is a tried and true fighter, who knows his way around.
I am ready to listen to anyone who will come into the picture with a successful view of Americas future. Trump has changed tactics when necessary to be successful in the private sector, including greasing the corrupt wheels of both parties wen it suited his long-term needs.
He is intelligent enought to look an see what we need to succeed, and I believe he can drive that home. His past non-political business dealings bother me not, it is what he contracts with us to do in the future. Reagan was a democrat.I’m not comparing the two other than that, but if Trump has to put on what for him would be a conservative act, but pushes the policies we need to be successful, than more power to him.
At least he hasn’t spent his life lying to constituents for power. He hasn’t longed to control us. I would hire him as a “contract politician”. I don’t care what he really believes, if he will follow our direction and push our points today.