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Posted on 07/21/2015 10:13:29 AM PDT by TNMOUTH
Although Donald Trump is trying to re-invent himself as a conservative for a possible bid for president in 2012, reminders of his prior support for Democrats and big government polices keep adding up. The latest: The Donald supported the auto bailout in 2008.
“I think the government should stand behind them 100 percent,” Trump told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto nearly three years ago. “You cannot lose the auto companies. They’re great. They make wonderful products.”
Faced with crushing debts caused by poor management and high labor costs, GM and Chrysler requested federal assistance to keep the firms afloat, and were granted a $25 billion loan in the fall of 2008. President George Bush then secured more than $17 billion for the companies.
This occurred months before the birth of the Tea Party, but conservatives were outraged.
Not Trump. A longtime advocate of sweetheart deals between corporation and state, the real-estate developer went all in for the deal.
“[Y]ou have to try and save the companies,” Trump said in a separate 2008 Fox News interview. “And I think you can easily save the companies.”
The Club for Growth, a free-market advocacy group that opposed the bailouts, blasted out a statement Wednesday knocking Trump for his support for bailouts over bankruptcy, and cited that the real-estate mogul had succesfully filed for bankruptcy himself four times in the past 20 years.
“If there’s anyone who should know the value of filing for bankruptcy, it’s Donald Trump. He should have known that the $13.4 billion government bailout of the auto industry just put off the inevitable while putting taxpayers at risk,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “Bailouts and nationalizing whole industries can cripple free markets and has hampered our economic recovery. We need our next President to understand that economic freedom leads to growth and prosperity for all, and that the government should never be in the business of picking winners and losers.”
And Americans have had it with the useless, feckless, worthless, pointless, lying GOP, and from what I can see, none of its standard candidates have a snow ball’s chance in Hell of becoming president, and it wouldn’t matter if they did become president anyway.
Trump is not ahead because he is a conservative, he is ahead because he is showing balls. I hope in the long run, Trump’s excitement will land on Ted Cruz.
The article could just as easily be :
“Liberal? Trump supports tougher immigration enforcement.”
The search for ideological purity is a trip down a rabbit hole.
I’m aware that he’s not going to be completely conservative. I’m not delusional... but he’s saying what I think and what I want to hear...
Now...here’s the rub.
I voted for Jesse Ventura for the same thing (and suffer[ed] the indignity of it)... let’s be careful here.
That pretty much sums it up Mr. Will
Incorrect. You will be deemed a troll only if you have the behaviors and demeanor of a troll.
Nick and Geron differ with me (perhaps) about Trump. Yet I do not identify either of them as trolls, nor do I petition for their removal as harmful to the forum.
Why is that, I wonder? Is it because their demeanor is better than yours?
It is because they do not post with an aggressively combative and vitriolic nature, nor do they employ excessive mockery.
and people give me sh-t when I mention he’s pro union thug.....that’s what the entire auto bail out was about.
“I can’t tell you if Trump is lying or not, but I can tell you that the GOP and its candidates are lying, because that is all they ever do.”
Yo noticed, eh ?
I DON”T CARE, Only he has the guts to tell the truth like this:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Twitter 6, Nov 2012:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
Those darn chi-coms invent everything these days, even global warming, er its global cooling now, er (what is it like outside now??), I know, climate change,
This is just one of many issues, though...not just one issue.
And purity WAS, at one time, what most FREEPERS demanded of their candidates.
He is fast to reply to posts complimenting Trump but has not answered your post. We’ll see how long it takes. lol
What is irrelevant? That his kool aid drinkers have not yet figured out how many liberal impulses he has? I don’t think so. What’s irrelevant are polls at this time of a four year cycle. TOTALLY
I know, we have established that you are hyper sensitive. I guess I won’t ask you to think on this thread anymore...
Trump is an egotistical self serving egotist who would sell his soul for a buck. In that regard, he has supported many Democrat candidates and causes over the years as long as it fits his profit objectives. he is nothing more than a Carnival showman out for publicity.
false choice, the first admission one has a very weak intellectual case...
[BUT almost none of the politicians are smart enough]
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
True, but he’s still only been a conservative for 20 minutes.
C. Edmund...
Many Freepers have given up their soul because this guy is a tough talker. You will face the back lash of these people because you challenge them. Be careful.
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