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Donald Trump brings some interesting aspects to the table but as a conservative, I simply don't trust him or believe he's serious about running for president. I think he loves the attention he's receiving and wants to keep it going. Trump stated (Wednesday night, on the 'O'Reilly Factor') that he was pro-life and anti-gay marriage but when asked why he was against gay marriage he said that "it just didn't feel right' to him. I can certainly understand that, many Americans have the same feeling, but that isn't a well-thought-out position and if your 'feelings' are all you have to support that position, the gay rights groups will be all over you with ridicule, scorn and blather about giving them their 'right' to marry each other and a pro-gay marriage political opponent will make you look like a fool in a debate. Being pro-life is attractive to social conservatives (like me) but why is Trump pro-life? Without some explanation, which O'Reilly didn't seem interested in pursuing, the statement is rather hollow.

I recall candidate Barack Obama claiming he was 'against gay marriage' but his actions as president starkly belie that assertion. It's just too easy for a candidate (or potential candidate, in Trump's case) to say they're pro-life, anti-gay marriage, fiscally conservative, etc and then turn 180 degrees if elected, as many politicians have done. Donald Trump is an interesting character and he may yet be a force in the 2012 Republican primaries, but for now, I'm cautiously cynical about his seriousness and his alleged conservative political/social views. I can recall Trump on TV, just a few years ago (2007) bashing George W. Bush as "the worst president, ever". Now Trump is a 'conservative'? Odd, that. Donald Trump is a lifelong New Yorker and he likes to be liked - by everyone, especially the powerful, of whom he considers himself an equal - or better. That is usually fatal for a politician because they try to please both the (political) right and the (political) left - and end up pleasing no one. We don't need any more RINO's, panderers or wind-testers as the GOP presidential candidate. Been there, done that, regretted it.

I can recall Trump on TV, just a few years ago (2007) bashing George W. Bush as "the worst president, ever"

TARP. Amnesty. Open borders. 1 million new *legal* Muslim immigrants under his watch *after* 9/11. Port security to a middle eastern country. Expanding the federal government's financing of planned parenthood beyond any of his predecessors. Expanding the federal government's financing of the national endowment for the arts beyond any of his predecessors. An unecessary war and nation building project in Iraq while Iran burned. I know that many people around here reflexively defended Bush while he was in office, but given the clarity of time perhaps we should realize that while "worst ever" was an exaggeration, Trump's criticism of the man has much validity to it.