I’ve been in Milwaukee for the last 3 days and I live in the Madison area -
WIBA and WISN - which have very conservative local commentators are totally hammering Trump as a RINO - I find it very odd..
Maybe butt hurt over Walker - but they are running the line that Trump is a RINO interloper... not to be trusted..
Mainly because of his donation history and his changes in stances.. i.e. abortion and health care.. and that we are blindly supporting Trump because he has fire...
The rest of he line up are chumps outside of Cruz.. no offense to the other guys, which are good in there own rights.. except Bush.. but I’m worried about the local press to kill Trump.. am I blind to this guy and being played?
No, you are not blind.
Trump has since the 1980s been strongly Pro-Vet and has for decades helped our troops behind the scenes in a quiet, unselfish manner.
He has always been pro-2A.
He was shocked to see his companies employee health premiums go through the roof and he saw (correctly) the enemy as the health insurance companies setting RVUs by Medicare cost, meaning the federal government was goosing the payments demanded by doctors. It was all political. HIS FIRST IMPRESSION led to a counterattack on the health insurers by stating the Scottish Universal Healthcare System did better (but not now), but that was more than 15 years ago. It was an off-the-cuff opinion. When he got fully briefed, he realized the culprit was in the state monopolies that the largest health insurers had created.
Yes, as a businessman Trump had to donate to democrats. Put it this way, if Bill Gates III as CEO Microsoft had bother to donate to democrats in 1996, he would not have had his company nearly broken up in 1999-2000 by the Clinton DOJ on anti-monopoly charges. Trump was smart enough to donate to head off trouble. That’s the sick reality.
Trump also made off-the-cuff remarks about abortion many years ago. He is now pro-life since meeting an adult who survived an abortion attempt.
The thing to understand about Trump is he hears some shocking news and he blurts out an off-the-cuff FIRST IMPRESSION without full information. That appears as a personal weakness in him but then he gets people to brief him completely on the story so that he can be rational in his final response.
The reason we hear about his FIRST IMPRESSIONS is because he is so watched and documented by the media in everything he says and does. He’s not given enough time to digest all the facts and understand the consequences.
To get the picture out to folks, I explain it like this:
Babe Ruth at the bat.
Swing and a miss, boos from the crowd.
Swing and a miss, more boos from the crowd.
Boom! Over the fence!
Trump eventually gets it right and powerfully so.