After nearly a decade of lurking you haven’t learned a thing about politics on FR? Actions, not words. Politicians have to say things, but it’s what they do that matters.
You’d get it right away if Hillary! said she was going to make her WH the most transparent in history. If she said she was going to get tough with Islamists. But Trump pushes your buttons and you jump into bed with him.
Why are so many alleged conservatives political tramps?
He’s not used a piece of his wealth to further a real conservative cause. Not borders, not abortion, not marriage, nothing.
Yet, you’ll criticize the guys in the ring, the real doers, the guys who make things happen under extreme pressure, pressure you don’t even imagine, because they ‘said’ something. Politics is all about feinting in speech. It’s the action that counts.
Walker and Cruz have taken actions that really count despite great political and personal risk. Trump’s done NOTHING.
You cannot be taken seriously with that kind of weak, inconsistent reasoning.
My first choice is actually Cruz, and I suspect Trump may fade. But I’ll take him over the rest of the career political hacks/GOPe stooges running. Living your life on the public service teat doesn’t meet my definition of a “doer”.
Trump has created jobs and experienced the real effects of ridiculous over-taxation and over-regulation, which the other guys haven’t done. Trump has also stepped in with philanthropy, both public and private, as an augmentation to the free enterprise system and the severe limits of government capabilities and its proper role.
Usually, yeah, I go with someone with a political record rather than someone waltzing in to say what they’ll do. But other than Cruz, the political records we have running are proven, pure GOPe puppets.