This Luntz guy is not a Conservative or anything near it.
He asks gotcha questions of Republican candidates, and if you watch his focus group performances on election nights, he freaking clueless. He misrepresents across the board.
One of his first questions to Trump, “Have you ever asked God for forgiveness?”
Some folks will be shocked by Trumps answer. Folks, you should be shocked by the question itself.
Who asks this question of a political candidate? I’m only 64 now, but in my lifetime I have never seen a candidate asked this question before.
In Luntz’s position, he knows what pushes people’s buttons. And it’s my take this was geared to put a stake through the heart of any Christian supporter. It was a hack-job attempt to destroy support for Trump among this group.
Luntz, what you are supposed to ask a candidate about are their policies, what they will do for the nation. You’re not supposed to ask them what their prayers sound like.
Trump answered truthfully. Latter on he mentioned that he prays often.
I am so sick of Luntz. He’s no friend of Conservatism. He’s a hatchet job hack. And his election night focus groups are geared to diminish Conservative views.
He belittles the views of Conservatives, and if a focus group clearly disagrees with him, he’ll break off for a commercial rather than let that fact become even more clear by staying on the topic and letting it play out.
I remember recoiling when at a WH press conference someone asked GW Bush "What do you think you've done wrong, and should apologize to the American people for?" or words to that effect. Bush very sincerely told him that he has done the best he knew how, that he loves this country, and history would be the judge.
I'm not saying everything Bush did was best, but I don't think it's possible to have a perfect presidency. The "politics of personal destruction" practiced by our so-called media have indeed destroyed so much. Trump and Ben Carson are somewhat insulated by their unarguable past successes, plus the fact that Carson is a very clean-living person for real, and Donald at least marries the women he's been with.
I am glad Trump addressed the topic of his multiple marriages in this interview, and honored his past wives by taking responsibility for the first two failures by having been more focused on work than on his marriages.