Posted on 01/01/2016 6:13:12 PM PST by Red Steel
Edited on 01/01/2016 6:39:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Washington (CNN)After repeatedly boasting that he has spent very little on his campaign so far, Donald Trump is set to begin spending $2 million a week on ads in early primary and caucus states.
Trump told reporters Tuesday that he will begin his first major paid media campaign, which he has refused to do despite large advertising buys from his Republican rivals and the super PACs supporting them, next month. Trump, who has no authorized outside group independently backing him, appears to be finally paying heed to polls that show the GOP race tightening in Iowa.
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Yeah and they want to see the receipts before they will believe he actually spent his own money.
Tired of it. I get far more crap than I dish.
I think he should use part of it to go after Hillary and Obama and their incompetence.
Yes it is.
Well it can’t hurt to try it. Of course it’s up to you.
You have convinced me. What we really need is a good queen, oh wait we already have one.
Is that what you want for the last best hope on earth?
"He may not be a conservative, but he can win!" is winning the day, again. We got Bush that way. We got McCain and Romney that way. Trump is even worse.
So, I don't care if they like me anymore. If you can't recall my posting history here, the books I've written, and the articles I've posted here first that still get hundreds of thousands of reads every year, then that's not on me. The situation is desperate and FReepers still don't get it: THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL TAKE THE LEAD IS THE ONE CONSERVATIVES SAY WE WANT. FReepers are that influential in the scuttlebutt of conservative public discourse. Arnold Shwarzenegger won at FreeRepublic.com. "He can win!" is up to us. If we act out of fear and desperation, we will get what we deserve, good and hard. If it takes a slap upside the head, so be it. Time is short. I pass judgment on their policies according to their published content. I criticize or praise them all for what they deserve, Cruz included.
There are none reliable, no not one. That includes Cruz and even Reagan he compromised a lot. We still have PBS and foundation of the arts, Planned Parenthood and Department of Education all of which he ran against.
Oh please.
If you can't recall my posting history here, the books I've written, and the articles I've posted here first that still get hundreds of thousands of reads every year, then that's not on me.
I recall your nastiness and condescending attitude, and it overshadows your good works. You're your own enemy. It's sad, it doesn't have to be that way.
Maybe but you kind of deserve it Carry.
I was in California at the time and what happened to McClintock is exactly what you are fomenting against Trump now.
Care to list the Cruz complaints that have?
I’ll be looking for you on TeeeVeee. I heard the crowd is going to be yuuge in Mississippi. :-)
Although he has softened his stance on H-1B visas, admitting that the program was rife with fraud, he hasn't admitted the prior stance was wrong. That leaves him unreliable there.
The vote for the Corker Bill is still indefensible.
Although the vote on the TPA was tactically defensible, it was politically brain dead.
On any of these three, he has shown no sign of repentance, which is the first requirement to call himself a Christian, to my mind a major character flaw. Cruz is very clever, but he shows signs of a potentially catastrophic lack of judgment. Should I see any sing of repentance, I would support him.
As much as I want Trump to be President, I would love it if Cruz wins in Iowa or at least comes in as a strong second.
It would be great!
Why?
Because Cruz is against Big Ethanol.
“Although he has softened his stance on H-1B visas, admitting that the program was rife with fraud, he hasn’t admitted the prior stance was wrong. That leaves him unreliable there.”
Cruz was foolish to expect Obama to uphold his oath to the Constitution. He was a little naive back then, while everyone here knew that BO would exploit and pervert any power or leeway given.
He’s done it many times. He even listed two on this thread to me. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3378860/posts?page=117#117
I know Trump is for Big Ethanol [trying to win Iowa] and prior to Pier 14 he was a little soft on immigration ...
San Francisco Pier 14 Fatal Shooting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3307576/posts
[He took that one to heart and immediately hardened on immigration.]
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But other than those two things, what has he said during this primary that makes him a non-conservative?
I supported Tom McClintock wholeheartedly because he was the conservative in the race. I am not fomenting anything against Cruz, who is the most conservative in this race. Trump is a fake conservative creation of the mass media, exactly like Schwarzenegger. Hence, your analogy fails.
A ton, but the worst is more a matter of HOW he plans to accomplish his goals than it is what those goals are. He rarely if ever mentions working through Congress, but posits the promises of a despot. But as to policy, he has expressed support for the type of eminent domain that was the issue in Kelo v. New London, while his plan for "deporting" illegals includes an "expedited" return for the bulk of them as legal immigrants and therefore future Democrats. The latter is exactly analogous to the "touchback" measures advocated by Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2007, which was then (properly) rejected as equivalent to an amnesty. So there are two biggies off the top of my head. Then there are his vacillating and poorly informed foreign policy positions, such as confiscating the property of countries we "liberate." I'm sure I can find more.
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