Posted on 09/23/2015 5:29:00 AM PDT by demshateGod
This one too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuj7VMB48o
And the problem is Trump's backers manage to come up with a plethora of the most creative excuses to justify his past statements to this effect.
Thank you for posting this. Outstanding comment.
Enjoy your delusion of the day. Aside from the banking comment, there’s nothing here beyond a general ‘Let’s give the new guy a chance’, type of optimism that a lot of people were spouting at the time. What does this interview show me? A man who was making casual off hand comments about a number of issues for the day, who had an interest in politics, but was more focused on other things at the moment. We’ve seen over the last few years, that as he began to focus more seriously on the Presidency, and politics in general, his positions on the issues have moved in the right direction.
Let’s cut to the chase then: By all means keep electing the same ol’ rhetoric. I’m not going to.
“You know, you should support whomever your heart desires.”
Obviously.
“This string of comments is off track.”
I merely responded to your responses.
“For the record, I only support strong proven conservatives.”
There are not any running. Trump has a conservative agenda.
“I am not a supporter of any political party.”
Not mentioned by me, but there is only one that claims to have conservative candidates.
No, its not the worst that can be offered against Trump. The Kelo case is much more compelling. But it too has been dismissed as irrelevant. Wrongly so. It took years of concentrated effort being wrong on this matter of private property to get Trump his victory over those homeowners. It was not an accident, but a clear revelation of Trump’s “ambiguous” moral core. But a dedicated Trumpster will not care. It’s almost always relegated to “he’s evolving on this, just like Reagan.” Which is a poor argument. Reagan spent years refining his conservative political philosophy, which was solid to begin with, but inconsistent on some issues, until he got around to fixing those too. That’s an entirely different plotline than being mostly liberal until the presidential election cycle starts up. But hey, if that’s the electorate we’ve got, we get what we deserve.
I talked with some Trumpsters here in town the other day. Pathetically uninformed. Their sole apparent reason for supporting him was his reputation for not taking any guff. I get that. But they didn’t know anything about him. They thought he only had one bankruptcy, and they thought it was personal, not a routine business practice. They went quiet when I told them. Sometimes I think we here at FR do not get how well informed we are, and we project our comprehension onto those who seem to agree with us. But sometimes those folks just don’t have the facts we do, and would support someone else if they knew who their current favorite really was.
Peace,
SR
Now you’ve come full circle, you are entitled, I do not agree.
If we cannot work with people who once were wrong, we cannot simply put together the numbers to ever win.
Wake up. We are in a desperate fight to save the American heritage. Trump recognized that Bush had damaged it, by a bull in a china-closet foreign policy. A great many of us share Trump's attitude on that.
No, we recognized long before his election that Obama was an enemy to our heritage. Trump did not wake up as early on that. You need to wake up, now, to the fact that his attack on being "politically correct," has immensely helped the ongoing cause of trying to retain an American future.
FrankLuntzHead jokes aside, this Trump Phenomenon is truly unprecedented. No POTUS candidate has EVER been given a pass on EVERYTHING like The Donald has. Crazy. Insane. But very REAL.
It is suicidal for us to try to exclude people who woke up more slowly than some of us.
Most people want to be supportive of the President when he first comes into office, especially when the nation is in peril. Obama’s approval rating at that point was at 65%. Bush had a 90% approval rating in September 2011.
Trump was right
Obama restored our national reputation after that evil GW Bush destroyed it
And Tump was so smart he knew how stupid and evil Bush was....
I can’t wait for him to be president
BTW
right now Trump is saying the things that primary voters want to hear ( and boy is he tough)
I don’t think he will have a bit of trouble when he goes for the general election.
He says whatever anyone wants to hear at the moment so when he is talking to all go America he can probably think of some good liberal stuff to say ....maybe “Hope and Change”
Trump has a whole body of work proving what a liberal he is that you’re ignoring.
Trump, you may have forgotten, contested the Reform Party nomination in 2000 with Pat Buchanan. Pat won, as the clearer voice at the time. But dismissing Trump as a former Liberal, because he was not a conservative purist, borders on silliness. Rejecting him now, because he once had some "liberal" ideas, is whole hog madness.
Even I, who claim to be the most Conservative writer on the Internet, had some "liberal" ideas in Junior High.
I have found out, in what are now over sixty-five years in which I have been speaking out for American traditional Conservatism, that often the woken up, former "Liberals," are the hardest fighters for Conservative principles. The examples are legion.
You equate a loan to taking over ownership of the business?
Can I give you a loan? We will work out the details later...
I’d like to think that Obama has opened up a lot of peoples’ eyes.
They think if they shout loudly enough, we’ll back down.
Up yours....
Cruz is my candidate, who just happens to be a hell of a lot more conservative than your trojan horse of a candidate.
So without Trump, how does Cruz beat Jethro?
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