The problem with Trump is not what he is saying, but what he will do. He is an utter pragmatist, hence his positions are all over the board and his financial contributions go to every corner of the political spectrum. It is fitting for a CEO to be a pragmatist, and to adapt his managerial decisions to a changing landscape always seeking to enhance shareholder value. That is what he has done, while always publicly overreacting to many populist causes be it rapists in the park, assault weapons or the “cunning” Chinese. Good management is not a negative, and it is safe to say that it is a skill that he has demonstrated. However, demagoguery doesn’t help anything except his own political skin.
Yet conservatives want a political leader who is willing to march into hell and to die for their convictions. They are not getting that, and in the words of Bill Buckley, ‘I want the most conservative candidate who can get elected.’
If these promises are hollow, or he reverses positions, or the worst of all worlds, replaces a conservative with a Sotomayor on the Supreme Court - it would be a catastrophe and his Manchurian liberal candidacy would lead to an American descent. One more liberal judge and the Second Amendment is gone from the United States. Can we trust Trump? His own Federal Judge sister was for partial birth abortion - meaning there was no conservative religious strain running through his family. Some of the sacred beliefs we conservatives all share were absent in his formidable years. To be a slave of the popular demand, so long as it doesn’t hurt his bottom line is not a particularly appealing place for those who have true convictions and demand that the great engine that is America find her way back onto her traditional ideological tracks. Trump wants to make America great again, but can he praise his sister as a judge he would put on the Supreme Court, who is a rabid partial birth abortion defender? That is scary. Judges are critical. We need more Samuel Alitos, not fewer.
There could be some IED’s in a Trump presidency. He was against assault weapons - which is just a stupid, idiotic, demagogic position that has nothing to do with murders by guns. It is a screeching, emotional, grandstanding issue and Trump dove into it. That told me he never even thought about it, probably because he never had to or his family did not raise him in a gun culture. He had no clue. They made money, and that’s fine, but we are not electing him portfolio manager. He has had some real flaws in his background that he is papering over with rhetoric, and our sacred Constitution lies in the balance. What is popular in 18 months maybe far different than now, and does he change every tune he has been singing?
Good argument but it doesn’t change my mind and here’s why. It’s Trump or establishment. People can rave about Cruz’s creds (which I doubt) til the end of time but it’s irrelevant. Cruz will never win the nomination and anyone who’s followed these races knows that. He’s 20 pts behind in nearly all races.
So who’s next, no one. It’s Trump or letting the establishment take us down the same road to hell we’ve been on. It’s not a hard decision for me because I believe Trump. I think he’s only going to do what he thinks is best for the country. I believe he’s pro-life for whatever reason, I know he’s pro 2nd Amendment (carry permit), and he’s the only one running who understands the financial world enough to fix it.
He’s also self-funded which even Cruz can’t say. I know Cruz has this big rep that he’s an outsider but he’s not. He’s got big-money donors, some pro-amnesty, some big banks and wall street.
It’s time to take a chance on someone who’s never been in the system. Could he disappoint us, yes there’s that risk. But there’s no risk with status quo, we know exactly what they’re going to do.