Posted on 07/16/2015 11:48:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Me too.
We didn’t give him the boot, he was the longest serving governor in Texas history. He retired.
Wasn’t he a Mondale supporter in 1984?
good point!!
:)
Trump's GOP rivals are going to have to attack him on substance, because they will not gain any traction with these sort of broad brushed insults.
Trump is far from an ideal candidate, but at least he's willing to candidly engage on sensitive issues, issues which most of the other candidates, being members of the purely political class, refuse to speak frankly about.
They better watch out, he’s displayed the willingness to come at critics with all guns blazing; I don’t think Rick Perry would like it very much if Trump announced exactly what he thought of him as a man.
Send 7th SFG into Mexico to seize the Mexican treasury to build the wall? What?
I still think he's a Hillary plant
It doesn't necessarily apply to to recent possibly opportunistic converts. By the way, when is Trump going to tell us his story about when how and why he left liberalism? Reagan did it.
“Retired” after learning he wouldn’t be re-elected.
From your post:
“He admits this himself with his excuse for giving so much money to Democrats and talking up Hillary and Obama - “well, I’m a businessman I have to do those kinds of things, it’s smart business”. How is that any different than when he completely contradicts his current policy stances down the road with “well, I was running for PresidentI have to do say those kinds of things, it’s good politics”?
Because they are different. A better analogy would be to compare the way “Businessman” Trump treated his customers with how a “President” Trump might treat his customers (the people).
As a businessman, Trump became wealthy by creating things of value that people wanted. That’s the ultimate source of his wealth. If you judge Trump as a businessman, which he was at the time, his donations to various politicians, falls more under the category of ‘how he did it’, rather than ‘what he did’ - the main objective of a businessman being to create value that people want. His political donations were a means to facilitate that. For all the criticisms of businessman Trump, I haven’t heard too many criticisms of Trump providing a bad product, or ripping off his customers. As far as I can tell, he has a good reputation of treating his customers with respect.
With that analogy in mind, one might reasonably make the argument that businessman Trump’s donations to politicians demonstrates his ability to succeed in his pursuits, which at the time was, for the most part, to build buildings. In that context it might be reasonable to argue that it shows that he would deliver to the voters what he promised, in the same way he delivered products of value to his customers.
Perry should be attacking Hillary instead of whining about Trump.
Well that cooks Perry’s goose.
One of the problems he had was he didn’t even want to run - he had to be convinced by his wife. It was pretty obvious his head and heart were not in it.
You have got to be kidding me, how about 60 years of real world experience in getting stuff done. How about knowing just about every power player in the entire world. How about 10 billion dollars in personal wealth. And how about being born in the USA with US citizen parents.
Trump can not be bought, he does the buying. Cruz's time will come but 2016 is not his time.
Or to put it another way, what does Trump have that Cruz doesn’t? Why do we need Trump when Cruz is running?
I think DT has brought something to this race that was really needed. I voted for Cruz, and still really like Cruz. As a matter of fact, we may have voted for him at the same place. From past comments you have made, I think we might be from the same town. Here is an article that can explain better than I can why I like Trump in this race.
Yeah well, Slick Rick kept getting opponents where we knew he wasn’t very good but he was better than the other guy.
When you’re willing to lose money, business, and to become villified by huge swathes of the political electorate without backtracking, it is not an ‘act.’
You make a great point. Romney targeted Republicans instead of focusing on Obama and was actually much nastier to Conservatives than Obama. Not that candidates should not respond to internal attacks, but haven’t they learned who the enemy is - or maybe they are not the enemy as far as RINOs are concerned.
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