Specifics? From Trump? Keep in mind that this is coming from the same man who 16 months ago said that Senator McConnell may be the next Speaker and who would deliver $$$ for Kentucky.
Donald Trump couldn't pass a middle school civics test.
Posted on 01/20/2016 7:43:50 AM PST by Biggirl
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that “the problem with Washington, they don’t make deals, it’s all gridlock†and “I’ll get everybody together. We’ll make great deals for the country†on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends†on the Fox News Channel.
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“he will get things accomplished that are substantive and important”
But whose definition of Substantive and Important?
McConnell’s?
Reid’s?
Cruz’s?
Rubio’s?
This is the great unknown, but when you oppose gridlock......
“Cruz seems to be the one who would most likely honor the separation of powers.”
Yes, Cruz appears to be the one who knows, understands and respects the Constitution.
Norm, I agree with your whole post, but I pulled that out to say "hell, yes."
Can someone give me an instance in which conservatism benefited from compromise? I really can't come up with a single one.
It's interesting to see what's happening right now. We spent I don't know how many years condemning and reviling the liberal Republicans in Washington. Now, after all of that, we're ready to make deals with the very people we detest. Because TRUMP!
Liberals gotta’ Lib. Bottom line. I see people now disavowing ‘conservative’. Because Trump is not a conservative. So they aren’t either. Because it’s cool now.
Actually they never were.
Good riddance. Conservative exists regardless of the name or the place. But the sooner people figure out what they really are and admit it the better. We can go our separate ways and conservatism will thrive. The important thing is when their liberalism blows up in their faces, we don’t take them back. They can stay with the moderates and libs where they belong because they were too smart to stay with us evil purists, stand on principle and fix anything.
What gets me, is I have gone back a little bit to 2011. I mean, not a lot. I didn’t give him much consideration when he “almost ran” back then, even though he was drawing a lot of attention and even support. I thought, “Okay, big mouth celebrity wants to make himself the center of attention.” Which, since he decided not to run then, maybe he did. I really don’t know.
But it is the SAME GUY essentially running the same campaign that he started to run back then that drew Republican’s interest for a while and then we kind of forgot about him.
The one difference is in 2011 he came out all birther on Obama. That never really was a sale with ALL Republicans, and not even all conservatives.
So this year, he came out with something that pretty much is, in illegal immigration, then shortly thereafter found his way over to political correctness.
But he’s still the same guy, style over substance, sizzle over steak, throwing out platitudes and one liners against the wall to run with what sticks and basically just “winging it” throughout the whole thing.
I’d imagine in his private moments even he laughs at how it’s all turned out and how many people are buying in.
Gridlock in DC is usually a good thing. We only want deals when the dealing is undoing things.
Well,and they’ll deserve what they get. The problem is, they’ll bring the crap down on the rest of us, just as Obama voters did.
Look at Cruz. A year ago-—a couple of MONTHS ago-—he was known here as a solid Christian conservative. A good thing.
Now he’s a NWO financial crook, he’s Canadian, he’s the Christian Taliban, his wife is mocked for her bout with depression,....all because some liberal sleazebag says so and his puppets take up the marching orders.
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And then we found out that he isn't that at all.
A actually think Ted is a solid Christian Conservative. I also think those guys never win and sell us out every time they do.
You have a point, and I of course absolutely DO NOT want Trump in the White House.
To me he’s a big government lib at heart who will modify his message and his beliefs based on whomever he’s talking to.
But you do have a point, and yes, as someone else mentioned, Kenny I think, I would at least support any “deals” that backs us away from Iran, that stops busting the budget, that strengthens our military and our nation.
I think anyone here would be okay with such “deals’.
Where this looks bad, quite honestly, and call it nitpicking if you will, but who has been in power the last 7-8 years, even really the last 9-10 years when Congress flipped.
It’s been almost completely the Democrat Party in charge. You had a Democratic Congress the last 2 years of Bush’s presidency. You had total Democrat control the first 2 years of Obama’s presidency. You had a Democratically controlled Senate up until 2 years ago, or really one year ago in terms of when they took office.
So from a conservative standpoint any gridlock that has happened in Washington since 2006 has arguably been more good than bad. Most conservatives would agree one of the LAST things we actually need is Congress passing a bunch more laws and regulations, as a general rule.
And yet here Trump is, taking the opposite side- saying no, gridlock is bad.
I don’t dispute that Cruz believes that he is a Christian.
Uh, no. The problem with Washington is that they do make deals. I would actually prefer gridlock over the deals I have seen go down for the last nine years.
Sure they will. But we can’t stop it. Thats why some of us fought all these years about lesser evil and compromise and all the rest. But we were idiots that hated America and loved Obama and belonged on DU and all the rest because we stood on and for something. And they didn’t have enough balls between them all to make a pair.
Can’t make horses drink if they don’t want to. Or teach pigs to sing. And judging by the comments we got, pigs is what they are. Greedy and eat anything some lib feeds them. The ones that just sat back and didn’t want to get their hands dirty for whatever reason are even worse. They could have stood up and done their duty and ran and hid from confrontation. And we all know a few of those cowards.
Every election we are told we’re full of it and every election’s aftermath we are proven correct. They want liberalism? Let them choke on it. Small satisfaction but we are simply outnumbered by Kidults that can’t be shown anything because they know it all. Regardless of how many times reality decks them, bloodies them up and does it again.
No, people in love with the idea of Trump fantasize that.
Specifics? From Trump? Keep in mind that this is coming from the same man who 16 months ago said that Senator McConnell may be the next Speaker and who would deliver $$$ for Kentucky.
Donald Trump couldn't pass a middle school civics test.
No, those of us that believe that Cruz is a zealot believe that. I am not looking for a candidate who belongs to a cult.
Heh...Half of FR still screams that a vote for one person is really a vote for someone else. Civics is the form of education LOTS of people need more of.
We did?
One man’s zealot is another man’s Christ. Ask the ancient Jews how that works. They experienced it first hand. Not that I imply or believe Cruz is Christ because I don’t. But if zealotry is your thing to avoid, you might want to have a look at the cult that formed around Donald Trump. He’d likely be as ashamed of it as conservatives are.
Well, I’m not playing the game anymore. I played last time around, but I learned a hard lesson. And I made up my mind then that people who don’t like it can yell all they want. I don’t give a damn. I have to answer to God—no one else.
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