Posted on 02/18/2016 9:54:35 PM PST by kik5150
From tonight's town hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIozz7lgUz0
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Thanks for posting. He spent time trashing Obamacare and Obama. He said Obamacare will be repealed, that he will increase competition and lower costs, and that it’s not single payer.
He also said people shouldn’t be left to die if they can’t afford care. He’ll gain more votes than lose with that position.
Ah, Trump is responding to “pre-conditions” and uses the word mandate.
This 13 second clip is not honest when it throws out the word “mandate”, implying the mandate/tax, as you did.
Very dishonest.
trumpbots embrace the individual mandate in order to continue their genuflection before The Donald in 3 . . 2 . . 1 . .
See post #22.
Post #10 puts the 13 second clip in context and debunks it.
F-the mandate and if this isn’t out of context :F-Trump! I’ll never support him and actively work against him if this is true!
That was really bizarre.
I watches it on CNN.
most liberals even avoided the “dying in the streets” bullsh*t. they had to be a howard dean or barbara lee level whackjob before they tried that crap.
he must have seen that “on the shows”
Accusing Cruz of supporting Obamacare via his recommendation of Roberts to the USSC is dishonest. It's a half-truth, a misrepresentation of history at best. Why would you say this?
The facts: John Roberts had a conservative track record, and had argued 39 cases before the USSC. He had excellent conservative credentials. He clerked for USSC Chief Justice William Rehnquist. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan as a special Assistant to the AG. He was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeals by GHW Bush. The Senate held at 55 GOP 45 Democrats, but Democrats had the filibuster available to block any G.W. Bush nominee.
Roberts was the best, most conservative Jurist that Bush could get past the Senate. NOBODY IN THE GOP-c or GOP-e DISAGREED WITH THAT ASSESSMENT IN 2005. So, why the new standard now, for Cruz?
So, Roberts fooled us all, when he all activist on Obamacare. He's considered a reliable conservative otherwise. He infuriated the four conservative dissenters, and just about everyone else in the GOP.
Of course, you DO know this history, correct? Marco Rubio knows this history, too. So, why are you and he trying to hold Cruz responsible for Robert's Obamacare decision? Reagan nominated Sarah Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, widely considered court "moderates", and with a far greater history of progressive jurisprudence than Roberts. Does that mean Reagan should never have been elected President? And if you're recall, Bush, not Cruz made the nomination.
If conservatives beat other conservatives in the primary by distorting and/or rewriting history, plus a generous allotment of foul mouth, grade school, guttersnipe insults, who benefits?
Do you really think conservatives will support the eventual nominee if they perceive him to be an illegitimate candidate due to his conduct (or his supporters, representing him) during the campaign?
As conservatives, "relative moral values" people, we ain't. Alinsky doesn't define our tactics. You're better than this. Marco is better than this. Cut this stuff out.
FReegards.
Trump is going to sue himself.
Trump did not say “individual mandate”. He responded to a question about pre-conditions, and used the word mandate in regard to pre-conditions.
Stooping to a 13 second clip, where Trump speaks for literally 2 seconds is very dishonest.
What Trump plainly meant, in context, was- I like a mandate for pre-conditions.
You imagined he said individual mandate.
Maybe Trump's brought this up, too, but I haven't seen any other candidate use this line of argument.
Trump vis-a-vis Healthcare, he's all but said "single payer" in his body of speeches. If you think THE DONALD is going to dismantle Obamacare and leave a private insurance solution, then show me anywhere in his history prior to 2015 where he HASN'T supported Obamacare or a single payer plan.
At best, Trump may try to "make the system work better" by beating on private companies, which will stifle innovation and restrict investment. He says he'll cut regulation (i.e. remove state to state limits), which is good, but he's thinner on those details than he is on his prior support of Romneycare, Obamacare, and single payer.
If he's actually "for" the mandate, and didn't misspeak, then, nuff said.
an individual mandate for preexisting conditions is nonsensical word salad. someone jumbling their buzzwords.
it literally makes no sense.
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Why can’t you just admit that your god has feet of clay.
Cooper was talking about the “mandate that everyone have insurance” to which Trump clearly said “I like the mandate.”
Deal with it. Trump is a universal health care big government liberal.
If you want a guy who “likes the mandate” then vote for him, but quit trying to twist his words to make them fit you idea of who he is. He isn’t who you think he is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDi2wlgZN4
“Not very republican, but unbelievable, everybody likes it..”
Rambling, incoherent, all over taking every side.. Big nothingburger.
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