Posted on 11/30/2015 6:25:28 PM PST by parksstp
Certainly, anyone who is running can be questioned about how they will actually make policy once in office. How any one person feels about a candidate is really the only thing you’ve got when you vote.
Trump’s ego doesn’t bother me as much as, say, Charles Schumer or Hillary Clinton. The big question is whether Trump’s ego clouds his judgement. I see little evidence of this. I do see that he naturally engages in hyperbole when giving public speeches. I forgive it, because I mostly find it entertaining.
Regarding Congress, I would submit you underestimate the power of POTUS in the bargaining process. The President carries an enormous amount of influence and can reward and punish Congressional districts like no one else. And, with Trump you get a guy who isn’t going to let you slide in the media.
If Trump wins and starts implementing the gay agenda and his own version of ObamaCare spun as "free market," an oxymoron in that it involves the Federal government requiring private citizens to have specific relationships with doctors/health care -- will you be accountable because you voted for it?
If Trump, who describes himself as "evolving" on the issue of Gay Marriage, swings moderate and jumps on board with forcing Americans to accommodate open homosexuality everywhere from their kids' schools to adoption agencies, will you be here owning it, taking responsibility for voting for it?
Trump signed a loyalty pledge, and reneged on it before two months was out -- signing it at all was a sham publicity stunt, quite clearly.
I refuse to sign any such loyalty pledge.
Here are two places where there seems to be at least some evidence, one from a conservative blog back in 2011, before it became politically incorrect to question Trump's much-vaunted (and MSM-created) reputation as a great businessman, and a more recent piece from Fortune Magazine. Of course both are spun, but we are all intelligent enough to decipher spin; in any case, one takes the above sources with eyes open.
But for first-hand observation, I see ample evidence of ego clouding Trump's judgment in this six-minute raw video, particularly at 3.30 into the interview, when Trump is asked a wildly stupid and insulting question, "Have you ever asked God for forgiveness?"
A righteous candidate, IMO, would have looked at the interviewer in disbelief, said, "Of course!" and then requested that the interviewer ask a question that was actually intelligent and useful.
When Donald Trump is asked, "Have you ever asked God for forgiveness?" he hums and haws a bit, then answers (to audience laughter, because "confident" arrogance is Trump's schtick) --
"That's a tough question." Then he spends the next several minutes in long-winded fashion to basically answer the question with "Not me!"
That in itself is an example of ego clouding judgment. I'm supposed to be impressed with Trump's honesty by not saying "yes, next question, please?" That's like being expected to be impressed with a guy who admits that he still thinks he was justified in beating up a woman, he's just being honest!
.....”How any one person ‘feels’ about a candidate is really the only thing you’ve got when you vote”......
Not really...there are those who ‘choose’ to do their homework and use their head regarding their vote as emotions come and go like water over a dam. But if they vote with their emotions as was done for Obama we are really in a bad way in this country.
Education on the issues and trust is good no matter who does it.
Consider this: we live in a different America than during Reagan’s time.
Over half of Americans have been significantly dumbed down by the system.
I believe Trump is addressing those people with his method of speech.
He knows he has to grab the attention of those people to make it to 1600.
He is educating the LIV who are watching his speeches out of idle curiosity. Maybe they poke around on the internet trying to find out the truth instead of listening to the lying media.
He may be loud, insulting, or whatever you want to call him.
But if his words slap the dumbed down LIV out of their stupor, that’s a good thing.
The people who compare him to obama are ridiculous. Sure, Trump has the biggest crowds ever seen just like obama.
Sure, he’s “politically inexperienced”. Look where all those career politicians got us.
Unlike obama, Trump is shrewd and intelligent. What he doesn’t know, he is learning about.
Obama never built a damned thing. He’s very good at leaving blood, suffering and destruction of every sort in his wake.
Obama never ran anything except America into the ground.
Trump is a builder. To build all over the world you have to know something about diplomacy. I’m sure he knows, personally, far more world leaders than most of the other candidates. He knows how to deal with them.
His plain talk might be offensive to many. But I bet there are a lot of world leaders who hope to deal with him, warts and all after dealing with the lying scumbags that have been in power for the last seven years.
If it comes down to:
Cruz vs clinton......
Who you gonna vote for???..or are you gonna stay home?
What do you believe????
What does Trump believe???
See how simple this is....We dont have to trash candidates...we can have this discussion in your basement
Gee, the old lesser of evils argument again?
I’ve escaped Mexifornia so amnesty is something I won’t vote for. it ruins the country faster than all the other evils.
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