Posted on 01/02/2016 7:04:44 AM PST by justlittleoleme
1. Barack Obama
Trump said in 2009 that Obama was “a strong guy who knows what he wants,” a person with “the mark of a strong leader,” and “totally a champion.” He even bestowed the greatest Trumpian honor upon Obama, saying, “I would hire him.”
In 2011, while considering making a run for president, he placed himself at the vanguard of the “birther” movement, demanding that Obama show his birth certificate and fueling suspicions that the president was not born in the United States.
2. Hillary Clinton
As has been widely reported, Hillary Clinton attended Trump’s wedding in 2005. Trump also donated to her campaigns in 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 2007, he called her “very talented,” a “great appointment” for secretary of state, and, in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, called her “a wonderful woman who has handled pressure incredibly well.”
This year, he called her “desperate” and “sad.”
3. The Republican Party
From His Book "The America We Deserve"
The Republicans, especially those in Congress, are captives of their right wing. The Democrats are captives of their left wing. I don’t hear anyone speaking for the working men and women in the center. There is very little contact between the concerns and interests of ordinary people and the agendas of politicians. It was my observation of this gap between Americans and their “leaders” that led me to leave the Republican Party and join the Reform Party. The Reform Party carries a lot less baggage than the major parties. It has the opportunity to truly overhaul our political system in service of the American Dream
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Trump is not a conservative like the majority of us. Let’s be honest about that. However, even though he is more liberal than many of us, the reason the GOPe hates him is that they cannot control him. That is the bottom line.
Personally, I believe he will follow through on some of the things he’s talked about with great gusto, but I think that the social conservative issues, such as SC picks will go badly for Conservatives because of some of the names he’s already put out there. One more liberal on the court will overturn the US Constitution forever. That means the 1st amendment (the little that is left of it), and the 2nd amendment will be gone forever. They will do away with the Article V claus that would allow the states to call a convention to bring government back into the control of the people. Mark my words on this.
I’m not saying I would not vote for Trump if he wins the nomination, but I am saying that while we can, we need to choose the MOST conservative of all the candidates to be our nominee, and pray that if Trump does win, he chooses Cruz as his running mate, probably the only chance that we’d get a real conservative SC candidate or two.
All the super-PACS are gunning to take out Cruz and Trump. We know that they will use innuendo, or a tiny bit of truth packed into a huge lie. No candidate is totally perfect, and let’s be honest...even here on FR there’d be some who would not vote for Jesus if He were running. I’ve come to realize that the social conservative side of FR is waning significantly towards “let’s not talk about these issues, let’s not make them campaign issues, let’s just roll over pretend we don’t care about them so the left will leave us alone.”
Well, for your information, the left intends to make them front and center to portray the right as intolerant, fringe, freaks, idiots, weak. We finally have a couple candidates who are taking them on frontally, not as a reaction to their jabs. Instead of cheering them on, some are now saying that they should tone down and beginning to see Rubio as the new savior? Give me a break. The sell-out kid? He is the pretty poster boy candidate that will be a democrat in the WH. Yes, he’ll have an R behind his name, but he’ll be a democrat. I’m not so sure that he hasn’t already made such a deal with his pal Schumer. Anybody who trusts Rubio will be sorry.
Now Carson is saying that he will make a comeback that will win the nomination? Whose money has be found to help him with that? I’d say that we need to see who his “sponsors”are. He was already beginning to sound fringe before he fell in the polls, quite rightly so. He was no real conservative and I don’t see that his conservative credentials hold up to scrutiny.
America beware! Let’s not be duped again. We want a real change, but we need to do our homework. Do it well!
The day they stop posting stuff like this is the day we need to worry. It will mean Trump is no longer a threat.
‘Trump is not perfect but I doubt he is fake in what he is saying now. I doubt he is fake because why would anyone set themselves up for the wrath of both the left and the GOPe as he has done?’
Trump states in the Art of the Deal that you have to deliver what you promise. It’s how you build your brand, stay viable, and cement sufficient trust to go onto future deals.
There is NOTHING more conservative than stopping a permanent democrat/marxist voting majority and doing whats best for the people and the country. By virtue of Mr. Trumps position on illegal immigration he Trumps all others conservatism.
Well reasoned post of the day.
“Hillary Clinton attended Trump’s wedding in 2005”.....
As a Green Bay Packer fan, I watched a Minnesota Viking game once, does that make me a Viking fan?
Well said!
The Ol’ Switcheroo
Ronald Reagan, 1962
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Diana Walker
He may be the patron saint of limited government, but Ronald Reagan started out as a registered Democrat and New Deal supporter. An F.D.R. fan, the Gipper campaigned for Helen Gahagan Douglas in her fruitless 1950 Senate race against Richard Nixon and encouraged Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President as a Democrat in 1952. While he was working as a spokesman for General Electric, however, his views shifted right. “Under the tousled boyish haircut,” he wrote Vice President Nixon of John F. Kennedy in 1960, “is still old Karl Marx.” By the time it actually happened in 1962, Reagan’s decision to cross over to the GOP didn’t come as much of a surprise. “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party,” he famously said. “The party left me.”
All of his life, including now for his campaign, Trump is spending his own money that he has earned.
All of the other politicians in the race have made a living out of spending OUR money.
Very well said, Shery!
How could a truly conservative person “that will make America great again†be fooled by Obama.
The same could be asked about Cruz campaigning for Obama’s TPA, voting for the Obama enabling Iran Deal framework, etc., etc.
>>The Republicans, especially those in Congress, are captives of their right wing. The Democrats are captives of their left wing. I don’t hear anyone speaking for the working men and women in the center. There is very little contact between the concerns and interests of ordinary people and the agendas of politicians.
That’s for posting. It’s amazing how Trump saw this 15 years ago and it is just recently becoming obvious to most Americans.
This was long before the TEA party, but our concerns are not really that of a “wing”. Our concerns are that of a BODY. If the Leftist media hadn’t demonized the TEA party so well, we might have become a wave of working people from both parties who would have demanded that our respective parties stop serving the few and start serving us.
If the masses had understood this in 2000 as Trump did and unified against the elites, maybe we could have stopped the rise of the UniParty.
I’m not saying I would not vote for Trump if he wins the nomination, but I am saying that while we can, we need to choose the MOST conservative of all the candidates to be our nominee, and pray that if Trump does win, he chooses Cruz as his running mate, probably the only chance that we’d get a real conservative SC candidate or two.
The problem with Cruz is it is impossible to discern what is no hoper beltway theater strutting and what is genuine conservatism. Parking his better half in “wealth management” at Goldman Sachs when her career and training is in international trade is quite telling. I gave Cruz a pass for that until he campaigned with Amnesty Ryan for Obama’s TPA. After that it was easy to connect the dots. Cruz is not all he seems, IMO.
The same way a number of people on this very forum have repeatedly told me concerning democrat programs that "they mean well" or "they didn't think it through" never gloaming on to the fact that democrats never mean well and the evil results are not the side effects of naivete but planned results.
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