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.
LOL I decline to stat!
I don’t want to be on a no fly list.
You are right on the money with this. Thanks also for the Overton Window explanation in post 44 - I’d not heard that before, but it perfectly explains what is going on.
B T T T
We are electing a person who will do conservative things that can win, not an ideologue like Obama.
That is what is going on. America and Americans first, not strict ideology that will alienate the people we need to win.
We have to put a stop to what is happening.
You canntell a Cruz supporter because they think winning is a nominee who can’t win and will get blamed for a conservative loss. Therefore condemning conservatism forever.
Nice catch. I already had her figured for a lib even before reading the description.
If I believed in Trump as so many do I would probably be for him ...but I do not believe....call me a murderer of Tinkerbell ...but I do not believe
As a businessman with business in Chicago Trump’s donation was both appropriate and smart.
Trump understands business and you very clearly do not.
It would be nice if he understood Conservatism and not just business
That’s a man baby!
And pigs may fly; too.
Ain’t specklatin’ FUN!
Not I !
he’s not a RINO by my reckoning.
The problem is that by the time we find out what Trump is it will be too late
If he is a good businessman, why did he invest in multi level marketing? ...In my book that means he is a shyster and I don’t care how many AMWAY adherents tell me its not so.
A successful businessman is apolitical and anyone who runs a large business knows that.
Trump needs the job of president like I need another a##hole.it is not about power and not aboutmoney, he has plenty of both. For Trump the presidency would be a step down from is current position of absolute master of his domain.
Trump is a leader in the truest sense and a man unafraid of responsibility and making decisions. He has proven his ability already.
And you know what’s funny?
I get a private FReepmail from poster ‘GONDRING’ who hasn’t even showed their face since September 2011 to tell me that I’m ‘predictable’ because I called Debra J. Saunders exactly what she KNOWS she is, a no-account, scum sucking RINO.
What a crazy week, ALL the fruitcakes are coming out of the woodwork!
Check this out:
From: Gondring
To: mkjessup
Youâre so precictable...
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I know that my reward for writing this column will be emails from Trump groupies who will call me a RINO [...]
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I guess you donât have to face facts if you donât read âem, eh?
Some Trump haters just have to pop up with their ugly head.
The one thing he has done is shine a light on the ugliness of political correctness.
What an idiotic article!
Does the writer have the foggiest idea that Trump has multi-million dollar businesses in California? Does this idiot realize that when Trump donated a measly $6000 to Kamala Harris, he was a full time businessman, and not a part hack?
Who pays these writers to write such inane gibberish?
*part=party
I hope you are right but Im afraid you are wrong
Well said!
I too support Cruz.
I refuse to slam Trump but I disparage Bush whenever possible.
Trump has some good points. One of which is his unfiltered speech.
He is a business man who rose to the top, crashed to near bottom and rose again.
I do have a problem with Trump supporters who jump on every thread screaming about polls, polls and polls.
The only poll that counts is when we the people divvy up the delegates.
I hope Cruz wins the primaries and is the candidate.
If Trump is the candidate I have no problem voting for him.
I wonder if the average Trump supporter would do the same for Cruz?
Somehow I doubt it.
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