Trump: The Art of the Bluff

National Review ^ | September 11, 2015 | John Fund

[itsahoot]

What are you referring to here?

Trump has only stated one policy position and that is immigration and I have no way of knowing if he will do what he has said or if he even knows what he has said.

[itsahoot]

Tell me what isn't true?

It is not that what you say is untrue it is that it doesn't matter.

Charge: Trump is not Conservative enough.

First, when Trump’s Republican critics claim that he’s not a “conservative,” they mean to imply both that they are conservatives and that Trump is really a “liberal” Democrat.

Their rhetoric notwithstanding, the first implication is patently false: Trump’s GOP rivals and detractors are most decidedly not conservative. The Republican Party is every bit as much a champion of Big Government and the Politically Correct ideology that it’s been used to promote as is its counterpart (To anyone who takes issue with this judgment, I pose one simple challenge: I defy you to identify a single government program, let alone an agency or department, that Republicans have cut. I’ll even be generous and allow you to go all the way back to the Reagan years. I guarantee that you can’t do it).
From Townhall 8-5-15

[trebb]

I did the same and still ain’t perfect.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

No one is.

[CaptainK]

I listened to Trump in 2011 on Michael Savage’s show and that’s when he first caught my attention. I truly thought he was going to run then. That’s why this “conversion” doesn’t ring hollow to me.

[SamAdams76]

From time to time I will post here about how refreshing it would be to have a president who was not surrounded by handlers all day, having every word of every speech carefully parsed and put on a teleprompter screen so that "no mistakes were ever made" and so that "nobody was ever offended." I expressed how tired we all were of "wooden candidates" who go through the campaign season like robots, spouting the same old tired cliches like "good jobs at good wages" and "I'm going to take care of the middle class."

Then when in office, they become the puppets of the small circle of people who got them into office, the power brokers who funneled millions of dollars through PACs and such to get them elected. Then useless people are installed in important posts in exchange for political favors. For example, Shrillary Clinton was installed as Sec. of State as a reward for graciously stepping aside during the 2008 nomination process.

But I also expressed how getting a real candidate was likely not going to happen because anybody going "off teleprompter" was going to eventually make gaffes that would put them out of contention, and none of the power brokers would funnel the millions of dollars into the campaign that the candidate would need to keep going.

So a gaffe or two, funding dries up, and the candidate disappears into obscurity. Leaving us with somebody slick and polished and silky smooth but a very uninspiring candidate.

So now we have Trump who is a "gaffe a minute" because he refuses to read off a teleprompter, doesn't read scripted speeches like a robot and doesn't have handlers telling him what he can and can't say. He also puts out his own Twitter messages.

So then, we have the real Donald Trump as opposed to the sanitized saccharine sweet empty suits we usually suffer with this time of year.

I do think America is ready for a president who is his own man, warts and all, as opposed to a phony.

I was asked here the other day, what is the difference between an egotistic businessman like Trump and a politician?

Well the difference is that an egotistic business man gets things done using his own money. On the other hand, a politician uses other people's money and gets nothing done.