Pro eminent domain
pro Planned Parenthood funding (you might as well ask blacks to fund the KKK because they make such pretty white sheets)
Bush lied us into war
Neutral on Israel/Palestinian conflict
Sister would be a good supreme court justice
Pro Obamacare mandate one day and against it the next
pro tariffs
Christians (Kim Davis) should lose job or violate religious convictions
Gay marriage settled law/ must bow to courts
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Yeah, I’d draw the line differently for eminent domain—but it’s understandable why a major RE developer would see benefits for troubled cities, especially. Likewise gas pipeline developers see benefits for using it on hundreds more properties for a new gas line.
Priorities: we’re really not going to stop abortion by stopping funding to PP, which apparently wasn’t technically breaking any laws.
IMO Bush did as well as lie us into war. I can’t fault Trump for seeing Bush more clearly than many here do. It will also help him in the general election. And he did soften his initial comments.
He’s not neutral on Israel and Palestine and I don’t expect him to give anything away on that count.
No, he wasn’t for “the” Obamacare mandate (which BTW Rubio keeps in his Obamacare “replacement”). He was for the mandate for insurers to cover those with pre-existing positions. Yes, that is problematic for insurance without some sort of separate pools, such as some states do with high-risk drivers, but Trump didn’t give that level of specifics, he simply answered the question about the pre-existing condition mandate.
He’s not going to nominate his 80yo sister, that was simply a nice word on his family member.
He is right that if China continues to cheat on our deals that we should reciprocate in some way, though as he has repeatedly said he’s in general pro-free trade. I much favor that than Cruz’s pushing the TPA leading to TPP and then trying to pretend he wasn’t for TPP.
I don’t really think he was wrong on the Kim Davis thing—just like I don’t think we should change the functioning of government to accommodate Muslim government employee sensibilities.
Gay marriage is settled law that is indeed inevitable at this point—we must bow to the courts insofar is that is how our government is structured. But if he follows through on naming Scalia/Alito-type judges as he claims, we’ll be in good shape.
And yeah, I do believe Trump broadens the GOP tent with some of the social-issue impurities that you don’t like. That IMO is part of what makes him electable in 2016, whereas I doubt Cruz is.
Cruz should have played nice and been #2 for 4 or 8 years before stepping up to the presidency.