We'll see how long that lasts. His answer regarding what the principle role of the Federal Government is and his answer was that it was defense, education and healthcare was pretty scary. His recent comments on men using women's restrooms was pretty politically correct. His statement that Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things (besides murdering unborn children and selling their organs) was pretty troubling.
Cruz lost me when he voted for TPA. I was a donor before that. I have not given him a dime since.
I was on board the Trump bandwagon for a short season, but his undiplomatic style and his vague answers caused me to take a second look. To me he is just too self absorbed and egotistical to make a good president. His tendency to insult his opponents and to react unseemly to criticism is just not something I want in a president. We already have one of those.
So if and when Trump gets the magic number, I suspect he is going to go full GOPe and even go further left than the GOPe. He strikes me as a knee jerk Rockefeller Republican which is the epitome of elite GOP.
We shall see. Frankly I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I am right.
I really can’t argue with your words. My wife and I share the reticence for the same reasons.
It is a gamble on Trump, but he holds potential almost no other candidate has. There’s a cloud, but there’s also sun.
There are ways to read Trump in which he stays consistent but sounds like he’s changing his mind. For instance, his tax plan greatly reduces taxes on “the rich,” but he said this past week he wants the rich to pay more. Is this inherently inconsistent? Not at all.
Reagan and Clinton both had great tax windfalls when a Republican congress reduced taxes “on the rich.” What happened is that the velocity of money greatly sped up and this further encouraged people to invest money left on the sidelines. This made tax receipts shoot up, making “the rich” pay a ton more in taxes (and everyone else), but everyone was also keeping more in their pockets. Hundreds of billions of dollars extra came into the government that had not been expected under standard static modeling.
So, understand Trump has a number of things in which he plays it to appeal to liberals, but in reality, his real plans are very different in how the “liberal” thing will actually be accomplished.
Unfortunately, there are also those things in which Donald is truly out to lunch, but, well, you get some bad with the good, right?
Hang in there. You are fighting a good fight. Just know that we can sometimes make lemonade from our lemon situations.
It might just be the best beverage you didn’t expect to be drinking. And that’s okay.