Posted on 12/24/2015 7:07:28 AM PST by dangus
Donald Trump has an excuse for funding Hillary Clinton's election to the U.S. Senate from New York: That's how crony socialism is done. You pay off elected officials to become their crony, then you get special consideration for your real estate deals. Please FReepers, explain to me how this isn't precisely what we are trying to STOP in Washington? Do you know what I don't hear coming from Trump? "I'm going to put an end to such games." Rather, it seems like he is proud of how he has played the game, considers it is how he rose to the top, and in his generous self-appraisal, figures that anything that helped him make more of his billions must be good.
He also favors socialized medicine. Not just a mandated level of services (Obamacare), but the government paying for universal, single-payer health care. This isn't an opinion from 2000. This is from his current campaign:
Scott Pelley: How do you fix it?
Donald Trump: There’s many different ways, by the way. Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, “No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private. But–â€
Scott Pelley: Universal health care.
Donald Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.
Scott Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?
Donald Trump: They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably–
Scott Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?
Donald Trump: –the government’s gonna pay for it.
Trump isn't a conservative. He's a narcissist who can't help telling the crowds what he thinks they want to hear. And so what we get in the Republican debates is an unelectable charicature of conservatism. One moment he's for keeping all Muslims out; the next he's only for keeping Islamofascists out. Well, duh. One moment, he's against the invasion of America by millions of communist Chinese and socialist Mexicans, the next, he's endorsing touchback amnesty.
Wait... you didn't know Trump favors granting citizenship to just about any red Chinese or Mexican who asks for it? "We have a lot of good people, they’ve been here and they've done a good job. It’s a tough situation and in some cases they haven’t been good people, and there have been some problems. The good ones we’ll expedite."
That's right... he's going to expedite illegal aliens already in the United States so that they can come right back into the United States.
Building a wall and then expediting illegal aliens in a touchback amnesty might help solve the security risks of uncontrolled illegal aliens, but how exactly are we going to simultaneously "expedite" them and screen them for terrorist connections? More than that, the fear that there might be terrorists among illegal aliens is one of the relatively minor issues I have with illegal aliens. I don't want my country invaded by Red Chinese and Mexican Reconquistadoras, driving down wages and consuming far more government services that they pay for.
But then we come to the issue that will make Donald Trump utterly, totally, completely unelectable. Unlike most socialists, Trump believes that American middle-class wages are too high. He has said this at almost every debate, and no rival or moderator has called him out on it. But with the Republicans already having a tough sell with Romney's legendary 47% who live off the government, can Republicans tell the vast majority of the remainder of Americans, "Oh, by the way, we'd be happy if you had way less money?"
Please, people, don't be like that Democrat socialite who couldn't believe Nixon won because she didn't know anyone who voted Republican. Trump is getting 96% of the coverage of Republican candidates, so he is who everyone is talking about. But don't confuse the volume of attention with electability. In a head-to-head poll matchup, Trump loses to Bernie Sanders in a landslide.
I've always thought the mainstream Republicans were fools to refuse to stand up for conservative values in the hope of winning an election. It's not just about watering down your beliefs to win over the middle; it's about giving people in the middle reason to think you'll do something about the conservative concerns they do have, and giving the base a reason to come out to vote. But is nominating someone who makes 58% of Americans think he is just an obnoxious blowhard the solution?
Please, if you think I'm an idiot, don't just tell me I'm an idiot. Tell me where you think I'm wrong. Tell me why you don't believe Trump won't pass a touchback amnesty into law, or won't institute socialized medicine. Show me data to say how he has a prayer of winning. I really do want a reason to believe that we're not about piss away our best chance at electing a conservative president since Ronald Reagan.
He’s the one running for president. He’s done plenty including fighting the establishment gop.
Merry Christmas to you too.
There is only one race, the human race. Therefore “racism” has no meaning, right?
You know what I was talking about — looking down on a group of people because of their ethnic heritage, the geographical location with which they’re affiliated. Someone is “less” because they trace their ancestry to Cuba, and not to New York ... right?
+2.
Paul?/s
Great post. And furthermore, it’s more than just the Presidency, it’s how he’ll administer the cabinet. Just reflect on the incompetents hired by the current admin and how they “work” together.
Ron Paul or Rand? Neither has a chance and are more big govt then Cruz.
I think Jr is the only one actually in the race. I agree that’s why the /s tag. Both are nuttier than a rat turd in a pistachio factory.
They call that bigotry, validity notwithstanding.
OK, so Mollypitcher1 is a bigot for attempting to demean Cruz for having Cuban ancestry.
I understand that religion (e.g., “Muslim”) is not a race. But heritage and ancestry *are* related to race, as that term is commonly used. It really is a difficult term to nail down. Some identify only 3 major “races” ( http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/ ). But further into that article, the author acknowledges that “race” can be more broadly defined:
“I define a “race†as a vast group of people loosely bound together by historically contingent, socially significant elements of their morphology and/or ancestry.”
I suspect that you don’t really want to have a conversation about “race,” though, but are simply an ass trying to “catch” me.
If you want to have a discussion about race, go ahead. There’s nothing yet for me to respond to, because you really haven’t said anything...yet.
“Plenty” of what? He’s made some noise, but What has Cruz Accomplished? The establishment GOP has given Obama everything he wants. Cruz has not been effective at all.
So....Trump is an American Indian?
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Don’t even try to go there!
Trump was born in America of TWO American parents and was raised under an American heritage environment in an America that USED TO BE PROUD to be AMERICAN. He was not indoctrinated to believe America is made up of criminals and losers who can’t make it in life without the Government telling them wha to do and feeding and housing them to make them dependent on the government from cradle to grave. Trump is the living proof of American INDEPENDENCE and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY , factors that Made America Great in the past.
We’ve had for the last 7 years an example of foreign influence in his youth forming whatever you want to call our president. I don’t think it is at all outlandish, nor bigotry to want an unquestionable AMERICAN as president. An American born and raised on American values.
Furthermore, you and others can throw around your false accusations to your heart’s content. You’ll have no effect on me. I have several reasons why I left Cruz’s camp for Donald Trump’s. I’ve stated them often and they are VALID!
Well then you can vote for mclame again.
So you’re a Hitlery supporter, eh? Cuz Thats exactly what you’re advocating. In 2016 the GOP can put forward Trump, or get ready to lose again.
Well then you can vote for mclame again.
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Not a chance! I voted for Palin.McLame was just along for the ride.
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So you are a sick Trumpophant, huh?
Cruz is our only hope.
Trump would redouble Obama’s failures by adding his own big government socialism to the anchor dragging us down.
Fortunately he has no chance of election.
Cruz vs. Hitlery or Bernie will be like Joe Louis schooling Donald Duck. (IOW just like Cruz vs. Trump is going to be)
I will cut you some slack.
I don't like the establishment either, but I'm voting for someone who has earned his stripes and that is Ted Cruz.
The only one mentioning “universal health care” in the interview is the interviewer.
Your posted segment of the interview stops at and misses including the following....
“for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.”
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