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To: zeestephen
NR's recent attack on Trump is based on the fact that there is very little evidence that Trump was a Conservative on any major issue before 2015.

It only stands to reason that a captialist who owns many copyrights, contracts, and extensive real property all over the U.S. and in other countries would necessarily have conservative views financially, economically and in terms of stable financial markets and consumer markets, as well as pro-American employment regulations. It isn't logical that a billionaire, much of whose wealth and that of his children is still invested in real property, would want to go communist or socialist once he were elected president.

The concerns about conservatism you may be indicating probably have more to do with social conservatism. In this area, Trump's past positions are mixed at best; but they are also those of a businessman who was operating out of a blue state in a very blue city and needed to get along. Now, since he is taking this stand, he can refine his conservative leanings that have been "in the closet" for years, but have peeked out in a number of ways, such as his testimony before Congress in 1991 about repairing the economy as regards housing for all levels including low-income housing, his having clinched the fight against the Ground Zero mosque proposal, his fight 10 years ago with the city of Palm Beach that tried to stop him from flying a large American flag, and many other hints from before he was any kind of politician.

His main attraction as a candidate for me is his financial and economic skill. If we do not get our huge U.S. debt, bad financial relationships with other nations and domestic economic woes related to immigration straightened out, we will not longer have a society for conservatives to conserve. I see him as a flawed human with the best set of skills for the severe crisis we are now facing, which is primarily out economic vulnerability and eroded national borders.

221 posted on 01/23/2016 3:54:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: Albion Wilde
Trump is an interesting and smart guy.

But I do not want him to manage my money.

And I do not want him to manage my country.

Four of his companies have filed for bankruptcy protection. In spite of being a billionaire, Trump has made no attempt to pay back the investors and vendors who lost money in those companies.

Trump has been sued at least three times for fraud, and he has been the subject of a criminal fraud investigation at least twice.

Between 2000-2012, he quit, joined, or re-joined three different political parties six times.

Sorry - I don't believe a word the man says.

232 posted on 01/23/2016 10:42:57 PM PST by zeestephen
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