1999 is not a short while back.
Wow... what WAS my life like before joining Freerepublic? I was definitely thinner, LOL
Travel back to 1999, when Trump was running for the seat at the head of the Reform Party as an Independent candidate. This was in the years after Ross Perot and it pitted Trump against the equally loud and politically difficult Pat Buchanan. You probably remember Buchanan as the candidate who garnered some meaningful votes in Florida because confused voters couldn’t read the ballots properly. That also means this story has a poor ending for Trump, but it might explain why we’re at this point in 2015 with a louder, more aggressive Trump.
Back during his 1999 bid, Trump is quoted as saying the following about the GOP and his opponent at the time, Pat Buchanan. Take this excerpt from the New York Times for example:
I really believe the Republicans are just too crazy right,†he said when he disclosed that he would register this week with the Independence Party, the New York version of the Reform Party. He said he would begin meeting with Reform Party officials in the next few months and make a final decision by March about whether to run.
Mr. Trump, who has never been a political candidate, clearly timed his announcement to target Mr. Buchanan, acidly denouncing him on the NBC News program â€Meet the Press†as the candidate of the â€really staunch right wacko vote.â€
â€Look, he’s a Hitler lover,†Mr. Trump said, alluding to the recent debate over Mr. Buchanan’s view that in World War II Hitler initially presented no serious threat to the United States.
â€I guess he’s an anti-Semite,†Mr. Trump said, raising an accusation Mr. Buchanan has repeatedly denied in his career as White House strategist and talk show polemicist. â€He doesn’t like the blacks, he doesn’t like the gays,†Mr. Trump continued. â€It’s just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy.â€
It was the year my daughter was born, and I had been against abortion since forever, because I have *conservative values.* I'd fought the fight, attended the rallies where REAGAN spoke to us pro-lifers, and I support local crisis pregnancy centers.
Fine - I get that you'll make any excuse for a 60-year-old-man thinking partial-birth abortion is fine.
He should be running as a Democrat, period.