Posted on 12/10/2015 10:18:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back hisMonday call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." If so, he won't change his mind because he regrets insulting Muslim Americans -- no small number of whom, unlike Trump, have served in the military -- or because his rhetoric threatens to isolate this country when it needs allies, especially in the Middle East. He'll change his mind because he never really means anything he says.
Trump doesn't even mean it when he gives his word in writing. Remember when The Donald signed a pledge in September not to run as an independent candidate if he fails to win the Republican nomination? The pledge did not equivocate. No worries. By November, the billionaire scion was inching away from that pledge and hinting that it would apply only if the party were to treat him "fairly."
His followers think it's just ducky that he will say anything and isn't constrained by such hindrances as accuracy. It's clear that Trump never saw thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating when the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11 as he claimed last month. They revel in his cheek. There's some truth somewhere behind his lies -- and that is good enough for them.
I know that my reward for writing this column will be emails from Trump groupies who will call me a RINO -- a Republican in name only -- while extolling Trump as the real deal. They either do not know or do not care that over the past two decades, Trump has been registered as a Democrat, as a Republican and with the Independence Party. In 2009, when he was in his 60s, Trump switched his registration from the Democratic Party to the GOP.
It won't matter that unlike Trump, I never gave a dime to a Hillary Clinton campaign. I never gave a dime to the Clinton Foundation. Trump has given at least $100,000. In the 2006 election, Politico reported, Trump donated $5,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $20,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The National Republican Senatorial Committee got a modest $1,000.
Only after The Washington Post did an analysis of Trump's campaign contributions -- and found that most of his donations had gone to Democrats -- did Trump start giving more money to GOP campaigns.
In 2011, Trump gave $5,000 to the campaign of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who had been a fierce supporter of San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy. In 2013, he gave her another $1,000. In
2015, he says that he wants to build a wall across the Mexican border and that Mexico will pay for it. The Islamic State group has triggered a diaspora from Iraq and Syria and ignited Islamic radicalism within the United States. Every minute that the news media focus on Trump's latest episode of verbal diarrhea is a minute not spent reporting on Syria and the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack -- life-and-death stories.
GOP rivals have been slow to slam Trump for his scurrilous statements, lest they offend Trump's cultlike followers. Clinton, who attended Trump's 2005 wedding, will have no such qualms.
Notice, her opening is based on a hypothetical, and then proceeds to draw conclusions and base her piece as if it were fact.
This same-sex marriage proponent is no conservative.
Same old material. I hope this RINO-ette isn’t getting paid for this.
Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, her thrice weekly column is also carried by newspapers throughout the country and on townhall.com
Once more in English please?
And, if you like what’s going on in Chicago ...
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Trump-Gave-Rahm-50K-120568104.html
$50,000 from the Donald to Rahm Emanuel. In 2010.
To paraphrase the old saying, you can tell a Trump supporter, but you can’t tell him much.
Brother, the establishment sort really do get nasty with the labeling and such when voters don't march to their drum.
I'm a Cruz supporter but slamming Trump isn't what I want from Cruz, I want him to slam status quo, bloated government, crony capitalism, democrats. I want him to tell me what he intends to do to get this country back on track. I want solutions.
Why do I want to hear Cruz saying and doing the same things that Obama and the democrats are doing? That's not his job and it does nothing for us.
Guilty!
“Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back his Monday call for “a total and complete shutdown of...”
Lost me right there.
Rupert Murdoch: “ The man in charge, is the one who writes the checks”
Do you mean ‘conservative’ as in the bastards we have controlling Congress now?
Just another “friend of Rupert” a WSJ slut.
Paid to play with the Clintons.
Switched parties when Obama elected.
Who in his right mind gives a shi!? It is what he purposes that will save America. He speaks like a real American and that is what is missing in America both from politicians and the MSM.
Do ya’ mean like Jeb Boooosh or Juan McCain?
NO!
He’s hawking the Reagan platform, so either he’s a conservative or Reagan was a great big statist.
As one who worked for Ronnie, I agree with you.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
Trump is what he is which is like most people who are not "pure" conservatives. I don't think he is pretending to be anything else which is why, although I hold strong conservative positions in most every respect -- I could vote for him. This is not the same as "the lesser of two evils" decision we have in most elections -- that is, voting for a communist/leftist (which is not an option) versus voting for a lying, dishonorable, duplicitous RINO who pretends to be something they're not in order to get elected.
So, although Trump is not the ideal candidate for conservatives, he's not a RINO by my reckoning.
(2009) ... kind of like the Civil War, where brothers fought each other across the Mason-Dixon line,†Mr. Akgun, 28, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., who returned from Iraq without ever pulling the trigger. “I don’t want to stain my faith, I don’t want to stain my fellow Muslims, and I also don’t want to stain my country’s flag... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us/09muslim.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&th&emc=th
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