[kjam22]

He means he’s a con man and has been running a con. He’s a liberal and always has been a liberal..... and half of FreeRepublic voted for him.

[livius]

He obviously feels he’s secure enough to admit that he’s always been a liberal and kick conservatives in the teeth.

That’s because he’s a showman, does what the audience wants, but now there’s a different audience that he needs to capture. He started off with the desperate suckers at the bottom and now he’s moving up to GOP-e, dumping the social principles he had supposedly (if improbably) adopted and trying to get the Kasich vote.

[Dr. Sivana]

He means he’s a con man and has been running a con.

He may continue to play the con, and con both sides to varying degrees. If he's the nominee, we have to play it out. If he is president, we have to constantly apply pressure to him, ESPECIALLY ON COURT PICKS. Keep Melania busy (good advice for ALL of the candidates' wives). Regardless of what he is, this is an opportunity to make a more nationalistic, less-nation-building,less cronyist version of the Republican Party. I don't think the social conservatism at the party level or the gun owners' rights advocacy are particularly in danger, though some snakes may make themselves visible.

If Trump lives up to 80% of some freeper's expectations, and also beats Hillary, we will be blessed (depending on which 20% he disappoints us on). If not, we must make sure we are never in a position to feel obliged to take a chance on a wild card to blow things up, because of the perception that that is the best of the remaining political options available.

[JPJones]

Sigh.

You do understand that trump is the only person who can keep Hillary out of the White House , right?

And please spare us all the msm polls showing Cruz and kasich beating her.

[bubman]

Free Republic is now part of the Trump superpac. Unreal isn’t it but there you are. Freepers have sold their souls to this cultish carnival barker.

[rdcbn]

Being a successful real estate developer in New York , especially one associated with developing and operating casinos, is a virtual public admission of being guilty of being a con artist and grey area, fringe felon

[rdcbn]

Being a successful real estate developer in New York , especially one associated with developing and operating casinos, is a virtual public admission of being guilty of being a con artist and grey area, fringe felon

[X-spurt]

Watch the FR mood to begin to change.

[Reaper19]

I read a blog entry once about Trump as a con man this election that was interesting.

In the Art of the Deal he has a section about con men. In it he pionts to Reagan as a successful con man - as someone with nothing of substance behind his empty smile and nice suit. He looked to Reagan as a success in politics because of it.

I think that’s what he’s doing here. In his mind Reagan was just a performer playing to a crowd who knew nothing about governing or the issues and Trump wants to emulate him. All this time I thought his commentary on Reagan being a con man was an insult, when in Trump’s mind I think it was a compliment. Trump wants to be able to con people as good as Reagan did in his eyes.