Posted on 08/25/2015 11:08:45 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Well I think that he's sort of a guy that has just a wonderful personality, a good speaker, somebody that people trust."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump praised president Obama in 2009 in his book Think Like A Champion and on CNN's Larry King Live.
Trump...wrote of Obama in his book, "What he has done is amazing." ...
Trump also wrote he thought Obama "has the mark of a strong leader" and said Obama's comments on the economy "have led me to believe that he understands how the economy works on a comprehensive level." ...
He has also surrounded himself with very competent people...
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
Obama got stuff done.
Just saying.
Ronald Reagan left the democrat party in 1962. He was elected president for the first time in 1980.
Donald Trump left the democrats behind about a year ago. If he is sincere in his conversion then he should be ready to be president in about 2032.
Trumpettes.
No doubt about it.
OTOH, would you rather vote for a constitutional conservative like Ted Cruz, or an outspoken guy who until a few years ago was praising the Commie-in-Chief?
Why would anyone who is not a marxist or other form of hard-core leftist want Barack Obama to succeed? Anyone who was paying attention had (and has) no doubts as to what his definition of "success" was and is.
If for no other reason back Trump because he’s the ‘anti-consultant’ candidate...
‘Quoting from the past’ is a liberal trick... people change their minds with new information. Trump was a business man who invited Hilary to his wedding too... You want to bring that up?
Most people change their minds with new information - well, except brain dead liberals who haven’t had a new idea in 40 years... You know that - right Lasisse faire?
Why does being the ‘anti-consultant’ candidate matter?
Here’s why we’re getting “milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants” (C.Danials quote) in congress - - the type of men and women who would have a hard time selling shoes at JC Penney or Target...
Perverse incentives...
Political consultants are picking the people who will represent us - and they’re picking them based traits that benefit consultants - not traits that benefit the country.
Consultants are running a business...they want people easy to manipulate - - easy to make money off of...
How?
When a person wants to run for office they hire ‘help’ in the form of a consultant...
The consultant firm... someone like a Karl Rove or James Carville group - looks over the person and DECIDES if they will allow that person to hire them.
Why?
Because consultants MAKE THEIR MONEY as a percentage of ad buys.
If the man or woman in front of them doesn’t have the charisma to raise lots of cold hard cash to spend on TV ads, mailouts, newspaper buys etc... the consultant doesn’t make money. OR if the person is unwilling to spend the millions they raise the consultant doesn’t make money.
Consultants CHOOSE who he’s willing to ALLOW to hire him. What the consultant wants is a shallow narcissist gladhander ...
The consultant knows he can get a ham sandwich elected... IF he’s pliable... follows orders... so to speak. The type chosen (like many of our current congressmen) will be focus tested, trained to say the right buzz words, and use their natural ‘charm’ to do the rest.
What do ‘the American people’ get? We get empty suits who say PC words and phrases to get elected, then go to Washington - - learn how to buy expensive suits, find cool restaurants, learn ‘to apologize’ (an art form among the shallow) and then they DO NOTHING.
If we don’t switch incentives these are the types who will continue being elected - the “milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants”...
That’s funny, when Obama first came on the scene, Rush Limbaugh said he didn’t want him to succeed, because Rush knew he was a communist from the very beginning.
Is Trump a moron who was hopeful a communist would not govern like a communist? Or was he a fellow traveler disappointed Obama didn’t go far enough?
“You knew I was a snake when you put me in your pocket.” — B’rer Obama
What if the “stuff” he gets done is the WRONG “stuff”. How good would that be?
Trump has financially supported: Chuck Schumer, Weiner, Hillary for President, Democrat Senatorial Committee, Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel, Daschle, Kennedy, Dodd, Biden…
http://www.campaignmoney.com/biography/donald_trump.asp
Thank you. I respect your opinion so that is a compliment indeed.
If I truly thought all or most of Trump’s support would go to Cruz, then I want Cruz.
I just dont think that is the case. Some would go for Bush, Paul, Carson, and then we are left with Bush.
Cruz seems to know which way the winds are blowing and thus is making fast friends with Trump.
I admit it was a fast evolution :)
And we have to overlook a lot of past comments.
Unless, like I said in another post, if he is saying these things to get elected and Actually does these things to get elected again, I am fine with that.
It’s better than Bush.
If he picks Cruz for VP, more the better.
Cruz is a sharp guy, and sees the writing on the wall. I have to trust his acumen in backing Trump these past months.
OF course I would want Cruz first. But you dont always get what you want and almost ANYTHING is better than the mexican, Bush.
My post number 46 explains my reasoning a little better.
Your concerns are valid.
Would appreciate your feedback on 46.
“Letterman, recounting how cheap it is to treat injuries abroad: “In one case, I had my arm reattached and at the end of the procedure ... it was like $12 dollars!”
Trump: “A friend of mine was in Scotland recently. He got very, very sick. They took him by ambulance and he was there for four days. He was really in troubl,e and they released him and he said, ‘Where do I pay?’ And they said, ‘There’s no charge.’ Not only that, he said it was like great doctors, great care. I mean we could have a great system in this country.”
Letterman: “Are people afraid of socialism?”
Trump: “Well, people are afraid of a lot of things. But it’s mostly incompetence. … How do you spend $5 billion on a website, just the creation of the site itself, and it doesn’t work? … There are things you could do to give unbelievable healthcare and a much better healthcare system. It’s a complicated topic, unfortunately.” - Trump January 2015
So when can I stop? I can go to Jun where he was saying ‘deport’ and ‘don’t deport’.
Or his claim that he’s the reason anything to do with immigration has come up?
All I see with Trump is some guy who’s currently quoting every possible conservative blog out there, repeating many candidates previous words they haven’t said lately, and getting to call it all his own.
Also, really, look at the forum lately? It’s all just Trump this .. Trump that! This Trump guy has only been conservative for maybe 3 years if he’s even conservative at all.
Yeesh!
Trump announced on July 16th anything negative he said or done prior to that date does not matter, all points are mute, he has evolved, and that is just the way it is, those who think any thing derogatory in his history before July 2015 might be significant, well they will just have to get over it.
In other words “what difference at this point does it make”.
Interesting analysis. I can partially buy into it. Partially because I understand the need for the consultants to make money and to be as efficient as possible doing it. On the other hand, not all businesses run just to make the bottom line. Hollyweird movies are an example. They make a lot of movies to push an agenda. So do the TV shows. I would think that these type of consultants are looking to push an agenda more so than making the buck. I could be wrong though.... And have been, and will be again...
Hollywood movies make a mint on overseas sales, even if they are considered crap here.
But, but he talks tough and takes on the establishment! It doesn’t matter if he’s done liberal things or continues to slightly refer to liberal policies such as, wanting Warren Buffet in his cabinet or thinking single payer health care is a good idea because he takes to Twitter to tear people apart - what other candidate does that?!? He’s already in the lead too by a big margin in a 16 candidate field and we all know how reliable early primary polls are! </s>
Wrong! He supported republican candidates for ten years before finally switching parties in 1962, and then it was another 18 years after that before he was elected president.
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