"Making excuses for your candidate gets you nowhere in defending his liberal ideology. It just makes you look desperate and weak. But considering you are attempting to defend a liberal in a conservative forum I can understand your desperation."
I keep trying to explain to you folks in flyover country that Trump is not an ideologue. Here in New York he is better characterized as agnostic. He is NOT of the two prevailing political machines. Cuomo and Koch were from the (D) machine, Rockefeller and Pataki from (R). He, like many of us who hate them both, are in turn hated by both.
It's an example of that very old adage, 1/3 are (D)ummies, 1/3 are (R)ats, and 1/3 are small "i" independent. And this is because of the nature of those two political containers, their litmus tests, their track record, their failings.
Believe what you want, but Trump is not a member of either species. And I really do believe that this is his strength. It is a feature, and not a bug, particularly in this election.
I would disagree that San Diego is "flyover country", but you're free to your opinion. As for your insistence that liberal Trump is not an ideologue, that is your opinion also. He certainly has along liberal past that proves otherwise.
Here in New York he is better characterized as agnostic. He is NOT of the two prevailing political machines. Cuomo and Koch were from the (D) machine, Rockefeller and Pataki from (R). He, like many of us who hate them both, are in turn hated by both. It's an example of that very old adage, 1/3 are (D)ummies, 1/3 are (R)ats, and 1/3 are small "i" independent. And this is because of the nature of those two political containers, their litmus tests, their track record, their failings.
You're apparently confusing party with ideology. It matters not if he is a democRAT, Republican or independent. He has a long liberal past that proves he is a liberal. Deny that all you want, but your denials can't change history.
Believe what you want, but Trump is not a member of either species. And I really do believe that this is his strength. It is a feature, and not a bug, particularly in this election.
The conservative positions Trump has espoused while on the campaign trail, while appealing to many, are antithetical to almost all he has stood for for decades. You may call that a strength, I call it flip-flopping. Mitt Romney was a flip-flopper, did you support him also?