Posted on 08/26/2015 8:39:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I'll defer to Ann Coulter on that one.
Ann Coulter has no credibility, as far as I’m concerned.
Actually, I was just being factual.
“There is NOTHING more conservative than stopping a permanent democrat/marxist voting majority and doing whats best for the people and the country. By virtue of Mr.Trump’s position on illegal immigration he “Trumps” all others conservatism.”
Actually, I was just being factual.
You think they're mutually exclusive?
Remember the Marx/Engels bit? You're doing it again....
Well, whatever my faults, I didn’t take sides with Marx and Engels like you did back up the thread.
(shaking head)
Which of his 17 positions on immigration do you like? He’s completely untrustworthy on immigration. His campaign manager is a major amnesty activist.
“The big, existential question for Republicans right now is: who are Donald Trump’s supporters?”
Easy answer, just under half of the Republican VOTERS...soon to be a majority of REPUBLICAN VOTERS. We haven’t changed a bit.
The bigger question, FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, is why are almost half of Republican VOTERS willing to jettison every other candidate for someone untested, with Trump’s background.
Answer that question and you’ll have your answer.
Trump supporters are real Americans who appreciate a successful man who stands up to to corrupt media and politicians.
Some would say Trump is a corrupt politician.
I believe that these are the voters that made up the winning margin for Reagan in 1980 and for Obama in 2008.
People like me who are fed up with politicians ALWAYS lying.
In NV he leads among Hispanics.
BTW, if I recall, just two months ago TWO THIRDS of the GOP said they "wouldn't vote for him" so he has chopped that number in half in just two months.
If that was my bag, I’d become a journalist. That is a perfect description, all talk and no responsibility for results. Trump could have bought a TV station or a newspaper if that was his thing. I’m hesitant about Trump for one reason: he’s taken a lot of “liberal” positions in the past. That doesn’t have to be a show stopper. . . but where is the enthusiasm of the convert?
- Sam Donaldson :
- "Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes in the past and you have blamed the Congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?”
- Ronald Reagan :
- "Yes because for many years I was a Democrat."
OTOH, things have gotten so bad that the operative rationale may have to be,
”I can’t spare the man; he fights!”
I am in the group who will never compromise. I will never again vote for the ‘best’ of two. When I think of all the years I voted for Phil Graham for Senator from Texas...it makes me sick. Now we have Cornyn...still going downhill...no more Doles, Bushes or McCains. It is the real deal or no deal for me.
Reagan was a Dem9crat, but not a liberal. He had 25 years of consistent conservative activism before becoming president. It’s nothing like Trump.
Liberal-tarian.
They are against closed borders, globally. They mostly are “citizens of the world” ideologically. They have no attachment to the constitution unless it serves their agenda (like the ACLU). They control GOPe on open borders and call themselves conservatives or Tea Party when convenient and trying to re-define what the Tea Party or “conservative” stands for.
They are the influential and wealthy of the GOP’s donors. They are socially liberal in a radical way. Like Rand, they have no respect for religious freedom. They are vampires of the conservative movement and their political party - the GOP. They are the Liberal-tarian leaders.
Reagan speaks in favor of Truman and HumphreyYou can hardly believe your ears if you listen to that, Endorsing Truman, yeah - but Hubert Humphrey! And inveighing against the Taft-Hartley Act. You listen to it, you know that the speaker is Ronald Reagan (albeit a young Ronald Reagan). And you know that the speaker is liberal. Reagan really changed between 1948 and when he started supporting Republicans.And that is only to be expected of a conversion from “liberal” to “conservative” (each label is in its own way deceptive) - you expect such a person to have a lot to say about what is wrong about his prior position. And I don’t see that in Trump.
The issue, tho, is whether we can spare the man - given that he fights, and is to some extent more able to fight than any other candidate. Ted Cruz or Scott Walker apparently are better - tho none is as staunch on immigration law enforcement as Trump - but to the extent that is so, does it matter if in the end they look like Romney in his last debate?
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