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To: Reagan Man

I have. I’ve also read “Think Big and Kick Ass.”

He shows admiration for both sides of the aisle, but he looks at it from a more business perspective than straight politics - which is part of his appeal.

I do think, however, that he’s like a lot of people, not all that ideological, but has been “awoken” politically by Obama.

He hasn’t flipped as much as we think. He’s a typical non-political business type who only cares about a few issues and has relatively little ideology otherwise, but he seems to have had an awakening the last couple years, thanks to Obama. There are a lot of issues he’s probably been rather fuzzy on for a long time, because he just never really thought about them that much until now.

Forget he’s a businessman and media personality for a minute, and forget he’s filthy rich.

Doesn’t he now sound like a lot of people we all know? People who vote, swing voters in many cases, who were always somewhat conservative, but never gave it enough thought to truly know what they were, until recently, when they saw the damage Obama was doing? Isn’t that how the Tea Party movement got started?

Trump is the ultimate tea partier.

Not to mention, while not entirely conservative, the America he describes in the book you mention would be (aside from maybe the healthcare part, which he has changed his view on), would be far better than anything going on now.

He also stated, even back then, that he is not going to run to help someone else win.


15 posted on 04/12/2011 11:09:35 AM PDT by RockinRight (Trump doesn't play stalking horse for anybody.)
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To: RockinRight
I will say this. Capitalism is one aspect of freedom carried to its logical end product and in that regard, Trump has made the most out of his free market enterprises and business endeavors. That makes Trump an egotist and NOT a hero to conservatives.

Neither Trump or Soros are the paradigm of virtue or ethical giants in the history of the human race.

>>>>>>He shows admiration for both sides of the aisle...

You've been listening to the crap that Trump has been spewing and are now infatuated with this creepy lout. Anyone who takes Trump seriously is no conservative. But like Trump, they are FOS!

18 posted on 04/12/2011 11:26:41 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: RockinRight

You’re responding to a confirmed grump, and, as another long time freeper pointed out the other day, a possible troll.


19 posted on 04/12/2011 1:07:21 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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