Posted on 07/25/2015 4:52:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Smart is as smart does. Trump does smart better than almost everyone. He is not an intellectual. He is a street fighter.
The only serious concern is his ethics. He is in a high profile, legally nuanced business where traps are set and sprung on the unwary every day. He survives (legal) attacks and achieves stupendous results.
Trump’s occasional holdings bankruptcy is SOP for business, any business. It merely reorganizes debt.
I get that he is firmly committed to the free enterprise system. That, alone, is good enough to be taken seriously.
He now claims to be pro-life. I accept that. Lots of people have become pro-life who were pro-abortion. It shows character and an ability to question one’s values.
His views on drugs, pornography, education, marriage, and all of the other cultural icons we are fighting about are, perhaps, less relevant. Certainly I do not want another Obama/Clinton in the WH with their jaundiced, unethical, tear society down chicanery.
We have time. The winnowing has not yet begun. So far Trump satisfies the visceral needs of a society that has been spurned and eviscerated by opportunistic media and politicians. I love that he puts the media in its place. So does Cruz. I love that he calls politicians liars. So does Cruz.
I pray we get what we need in leadership this time around, not what we deserve.
“Even for those who believe he is a jackass, he is inarguably authentic. Trump is supported by several million “McCrazies””
How can you have any pride as a journalist when you write this kind of screed
I believe that Cruz is Trump’s fall back position when he eventually bows out. Their rhetoric is very similar.
When they write this kind of screed, we know they are really scared…..
The thing I like about Trump is he isn’t a pandering apologizing pu$$y politician who seems more concerned with kowtowing to our enemies than with protecting and standing up for US!
And he banned the Des Moines Register...lol
Trump is authentic? Like P. T. Barnum was authentic? Gimme a break!
It wasn’t screed it was satire, the author was poking holes in McCain and Graham. That is his style.
Hm—guess I didn’t pick up on that…….
By far the most authentic person running, Cruz is the only other authentic candidate. Career politicians live by political scripts saying what they are told to say. They are party puppets controlled by those who pay lobbyists to dictate those scripts. Trump just cuts right through all that and gets to the truth. That is why leftists hate him as do the cinos.
Trump has always done things his way and still succeeded, that is because he is smart, very smart and knows how to get what he wants. Most people settle for less than best, Trump doesn’t he does what has to do be done to get the best results. He excels at success.
An imperfect man when the measuring stick is the status quo political puppet, but he will be a great President because he is exactly what America needs right now.
Why would the leading candidate bow out?
This is what I do not get.
At age 69, he's "authentic," but was he so authentic when he was supporting Hillary at age 62, saying how wonderful she was, or when boosting Clinton crony crook Terry McAuliffe and extreme leftist Rahm Emanuel less than 4 years ago?
How did that metamorphosis happen? Was he a BSer then? ...Or now? How does an inauthentic man suddenly become authentic? If he's "authentic" then I would like to hear more of his Damascus Road story.
Excellent points, all of them
Have you never changed your mind about something?
Well, I don't like guys that love getting big money deals more than they love America.
“How did that metamorphosis happen?”
He probably was dropped on his head by a huge shirtless man the last time he was on WWE Monday Night Raw.
Freegards
Is that Reggie Love after signing his huge deal with Vice Media?
Something, yes. Everything, suddenly, after 62 years of life? With no explanation, while saying "I've never asked God for forgiveness for anything"?
No, I've never done that.
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