[no dems]

This part particularly got my attention: "In addition to his ironclad promise not to raise taxes, Trump also declared himself to be pro-life, and vowed to repeal ObamaCare."

Sorry I can't stay around and "take my licks" from the Trump haters but I've gotta go to work. Have a great day everyone.

[K-Stater]

...Trump also declared himself to be pro-life...

And he has been for at least a couple of weeks now.

[mnehring]

Where have I heard this political transformation before? Oh yea:
Mitt Romney promises to repeal Obamacare with executive order
Mitt Romney says he opposes abortion

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Trump also declared himself to be pro-life

Maybe he is, or maybe it's an eddiehaskellism.

[cartervt2k]

He’s basically a Mitt Romney with an enormous set of stones. We could do better, we could do worse.

[bmwcyle]

I don’t hate Trump. I just have no belief in his truth. Over ego does not make a honest man.

[expatguy]

Trump is on the offensive alright

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The most remarkable thing about watching Trump handle a crowd is his combination of confidence and happiness. He loves being up there, and he didn’t love it any less when the Ron Paul contingent tried to shout him down. He looked them in the eye (all of them at once – I’m not sure exactly how he does that) and told them “Ron Paul can’t get elected, I’m sorry.” They settled down a lot faster than I thought they would.”

Ron Paul cant get elected, that is true. But Trump is the other extreme: a liberal corporatist who played up to Obama in early 2009 then got mad when Obama kept on demonizing him as ‘the rich’. He doesnt want Obama raising his taxes.

[Riodacat]

Look, Trump is a shameless self-promoter who will say anything to get his puss and name on TV.
That is his schtick.
That's how he promotes and expands the "Trump brand".
Don't be fooled by this shister..

[NavyCanDo]

Right in the first sentence, “he doesn’t think he can do it without the CPAC crowd on his side” tells this reader that he may be playing to his audience. He may have come in there talking like Reagan, but talk doesn’t make you Reagan.
I’ll withhold my final judgment on him until after the Iowa debate. That is where he will need to convince me that he is the most conservative and electable of the 8 or 9 people on that stage. With his record, that is going to be a tough job.

[edpc]

In addition to his ironclad promise not to raise taxes, Trump also declared himself to be pro-life, and vowed to repeal ObamaCare. He believes his job as President would be to “support people in business and not bankrupt the country.”

I’m instinctively leery of outsider populists who want to run as the sane version of Ross Perot......

That's my problem with the situation. I don't believe he's serious. There's no iron clad promise he's going to actually run. I expect he'll do the same thing Perot did in 1992....talk a big game, pull out during the summer of 2012, and possibly jump back in during the fall.

[Notary Sojac]

fairly and intelligently making billions of dollars

Most of those "billions of dollars" have been made via inflating the private and public debt, and some of them using eminent domain to confiscate the property of others.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Nothing in Trump's past record suggests that anything is he sayting now is true.

No sale.

[leprechaun9]

Government is a marathon race. It is amazing to see and read the reactions of many voters to "KNIGHTS IN SHINING ARMOUR" who come charging over the hill with intuitive solutions to long standing and stupid public policies.

My preference for a candidate is one who has been in the arena fighting for the principles of government that I support. It is easy to identify those candidates because they are the ones who are attacked and criticized because they are in the arena fighting.

Candidates who never get opposed or criticized in the media and by the pimps of the election industry (both Rs and Ds)are usually not in the arena fighting, but probably nursing at the public treasury!

[roamer_1]

Holding aside his possible (to be kind) attractiveness for fiscal conservatives, What does he offer the Social Conservatives, Defense/Foreign Policy Conservatives, and the Civil Libertarians?

Answer: Nothing but lip service.

Trump cannot be elected. He does not uphold the basic principles of any faction of Conservatism, not to mention upholding them all.

NEXT.

[radioone]

Whether “The Donald” is serious or not, it’s great theater watching the White House having to respond to the “birther” issue.

[rockinqsranch]

“...Sorry I can’t stay around and “take my licks” from the Trump haters....”

Right there you tell us all just how gullible you are. “Haters”, “Hate” is another of many words that mean things, and the Left has abused the word for their own purposes.

Obviously it is working as I see many at FR using the word “Hate”, or “Haters” as the Left has proclaimed that word to be used.

All too many at FR have become gullible Sheeple followers of Leftism’s sleight of hand.

Donald Trump is like another Rudy Giuliani. A RINO. He’s smart, and says just what people want to hear, and he does it with showmanlike quality, and the likes of yourself, and way too many others at FR swoon.

The Leftist Machine denigrates Sarah Palin, and you nix her, yet she speaks the language you do out the other side of your mouth, but the leftist sleight of hand is working on your psyche, and you are falling right in line.

I’ll be back to answer any response later this evening. I have Spring to contend with here at the ranch.

[mnehring]

Trump on the issues.

Just to put it in comparison, here is Rudy's policy chart.

..and Bill Clinton's chart

From ontheissues.org He is way closer to Bill Clinton than he is someone we all agree is a RINO. Heck, on a straight right/left paradigm, he is almost identical to Bill Clinton.

[roamer_1]

OnTheIssues.org: Donald Trump

[TennesseeGirl]

Just for a moment, I'd like for Freepers (especially those sour on Trump) to lay their opinion of him, personally, aside. Concentrate, instead, on the way he is currently being portrayed by the MSM, talk shows, and pundits of all stripes. I find it curious that their lack of objectivity (again) is so obvious.

The media doesn't like what he has to say so they are giving him the old "tea-bagger" treatment. He's being treated the same way SP was -- ridiculed and pooh-poohed. Meredith Viera rolled her eyes so much in that interview, I thought she was having a seizure, lol. Although, he has an advantage that the Palins don't have -- wealth -- true wealth -- not just a little wealthy. The MSM has reduced his stance on foreign policy (no bowing and scaping for him as President), the US economy (take the shackles off business so they can grow and hire employees to buy more products which will require businesses to hire more employees), and his patriotic streak (this is the greatest country in the world) to a sound bite on Obama's birth certificate. Is the media succeeding in ridiculing Trump into a caricature?

Do we really care that he may be an opportunist if his goals are the same as ours (pro-capitalist and a limited government)? We better be looking for someone with deep pockets to go up against Soro's dollars in the next elections.

[Maverick68]

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