Posted on 01/29/2016 5:54:20 AM PST by Kaslin
"As far as single payer, it works in Canada, it works incredibly well in Scotland." "I would press for universal healthcare. ... I would put forward a comprehensive health care program and fund it with an increase in corporate taxes." "We must have universal healthcare."
"I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to [take in Syrian refugees]"
"I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun." "I hate the concept of guns." "The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions." "I probably identify more as a Democrat."
"Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing to say. I'm going to take care of everybody.... The government is going to pay for it." "I believe the Republicans are just too crazy right."
"I've very impressed by [Nancy Pelosi]. I like her a lot." "Hillary is a great friend of mine. Her husband is a great friend of mine."
"I'm a liberal on healthcare." "As far as single payer, it works incredibly well in Canada." "I am pro-choice in every respect."
Those are Donald Trump's words over the last number of years. Trump's position supporting a socialist healthcare scheme is about the only consistent position he has maintained.
In 2010, Donald Trump funded Democrat efforts to stop Republicans from taking back Congress. In 2014, he switched teams and supported the Republican Establishment against conservatives. Now he has tilted all the way to the right to support the anti-establishment conservatives he so recently hated as "crazy right."
Conservatives, particularly evangelicals, have lost their ability to discern wolves in sheep's clothing. Donald Trump calls himself a Christian, but has never asked God for forgiveness and sees no need to repent. Point that out to many an evangelical Christian and they will be quick to accuse you of judging Donald Trump. And if you point out that 1 Corinthians 5 makes clear that Christians are to judge anyone who calls himself a Christian, Trump defenders will proclaim they are not electing a pastor. Paul wrote, "[do not] associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler". The Bible also implores the faithful to seek out godly men for their leaders.
Pastors in the United States -- including Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, an evangelical megachurch -- have hitched their wagons to Trump. Jeffress and other evangelical ministers seem convinced that the flawed vessel of Donald Trump can make America great again when they, as pastors, are supposed to be saving souls, not nations. Jeffress and his cohorts are seeking earthly powers to fight spiritual battles.
That men who spend their time wrapped in scripture and preaching in pulpits are quick to embrace a man who is on his third wife gets me thinking. This man is on his third wife -- after having cheated on his first wife with his second -- and says he has never asked God for forgiveness, cannot name a favorite book of the Bible and has no favorite passage of scripture. This suggests to me that many Christian preachers in this country have unsure moorings and let their homesickness for this country as they think they once knew it supersede their homesickness for the land to which they have not yet been, but to which they supposedly long.
As Screwtape wrote to Wormwood, "we want a man hag-ridden by the Future -- haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth -- ready to break the Enemy's commands in the present if by so doing we make him think he can attain the one or avert the other -- dependent for his faith on the success or failure of schemes whose end he will not live to see. We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present." Many a pastor and Christian for Trump seems hag-ridden by the Future and ready to pursue a rainbow.
Here’s some advice, Erick. You are digging yourself a hole from which your fame, notoriety and reputation will be as that of what’s in the bottom of a latrine trench. Keep it up you name dropping, carping opportunist. We got your number.
The cultists will ignore it.
The ‘cultists’ are the ones, especially the OPs who post this stuff like a driveby shooting and then cut and run and don’t even offer up their own opinions and thoughts about the validity of the article which they thought was so doggone important for all us to know.... famous for it.
The Trump chumps don’t care what he said in the past. They only care about what he says today.
Another stinkn’ liberal trying to embarrass Trump by quoting him. Well, it won’t work. Trump means what he says today, not what he said yesterday. We have to be big enough to realize the leader is always right even when what he says was wrong.
Are you denying these quotes or just in denial?
I never denied them. I’d like some dates, places and context. My biggest beef is this OP hit and run crap where they just throw up links to Townhall or somewhere else they can find some fool that agrees with them.
If you’re going to post a thread to discuss, then start out some kind of opinion about what you’re pointing. To do otherwise (which if OFTEN done) is pure cowardly manipulation that benefits some ingrained bias. Like it or not it happens.
Denial has nothing to do with it.
The Trump Doctrine of Abrogation.
{...and don’t even offer up their own opinions and thoughts about the validity of the article...}
kinda like you did in your reply 2?
They have eyes, but do not see. Ears, but do not hear.
Once your only comeback is ad-hominem, you’ve lost the argument. I make this point all the time on liberal sites. I shouldn’t have to be pointing it out here.
The article makes some very good points, yet you intentionally ignore them and just go ad-hominem.
Similar quotes can be found for Reagan.
Similar quotes can be found for Winston Churchill.
The quotes prove, beyond a doubt, that if you diligently comb through the records of a public persona over many decades, you can finds some instances in which they said some dumb things off the cuff, and changed their mind later.
Cognitive dissonance. Trump is like the husband who is cheated on his wife (a mean this not literally as I understand his fans say he is very gallant, didn’t run around with Marla when he was married to Ivana or cheat on Marla in turn, and his third wife wasn’t a nude model), is cheating, and will cheat again. We’re the friends trying to tell the wife he’s not faithful. The wife, however, doesn’t believe her eyes or her experiences. She believes her dreams.
Yeah, youthful indiscretion for Trump. He was only 64 then.
Yeah, real game changer; he’s the Jim Jones of the right.
They are pathetic.
No surpise, Eric, “where arrogance meets incompetence” Erickson is still beating his dead horse today.
How many times is he going to re-cylce this column before he wakes up to the fact NO ONE IS LISTENING. Voters have moved pass these sort of “gotcha” games. They aren’t interested in supposed “brilliance” of the bloviating class they want ANSWERS and SOLUTIONS not more “politics as usual.
Eric, you can be exactly 100% right about Trump and NO one is going to listen to you blowhard Establishment types. As far as most voters are concerned you DC Political/Media/Business media water boys are part of the problem.
The truth sometimes hurts.
Time was, folks around here would consider the words out of a man’s mouth when forming an opinion.
Today, a sizable number here not only don’t care...They despise the very idea of having those stark words laid out for all to see.
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