This is why the GOP establishment is so out of touch and will continue to lose presidential elections. They actually THINK Americans want another Bush in the White House.
Trump today: "We will have so much winning if I get elected, that you may get bored with winning"
Obama, before: "If I get elected the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and our planet will begin to heal"
Indistinguishable. They are the same person.
Good idea, send the profits to veterans groups. . . Did he send a letter like this to FOX for the first debate?
Whatever Trump's appeal is to the Right's populist elements, it isn't policy. He is a tax-happy crony capitalist who is hostile to free trade but very enthusiastic about using state violence to homejack private citizen
From that Reason article:
But that is exactly what the modern right wants in its politicians. Use government power against those they don't like, no matter the cost to pockets or liberty. Reagan is their hero, how could they not support a guy like Trump?
So, what do actual conservatives think of Trump? Not much.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/09/09/the-conservative-anti-trump-club
yeah, because the conservatives who support trump aren't like, actual conservatives, they're like, fake ones.
yeah, because the conservatives who support trump aren't like, actual conservatives, they're like, fake ones.
yeah, because the conservatives who support trump aren't like, actual conservatives, they're like, fake ones.
They're populist know nothings on their best day. They're impressed by an empty suit. Are you positing that the people quoted in the article aren't actual conservatives? I'd say you're wrong, again.
They're populist know nothings on their best day. They're impressed by an empty suit. Are you positing that the people quoted in the article aren't actual conservatives? I'd say you're wrong, again.
Come on. You're brighter than this. While Trump may be new to politics in the sense of being a candidate, he is far from an empty suit, unlike a certain Kenyan who suddenly popped up out of the cracks in the concrete about whom no one knew anything other than what he chose to tell us. I will grant you that Trump may not meet admission standards for the John Birch society, but I will measure him taking a cue from Ayn Rand. His self-interest as he perceives it rests on the strength of the United States, not on weakening it or sabotaging it. In that, his self-interest and mine are very much parallel. Had he not entered the race, the RNC would have shoved Jeb down our throats so that we could continue over the cliff only under different management doing more of the same. While there are a couple of candidates I would prefer over Trump, there is no question that they never would have made past the primary. Even if Trump represents the worst qualities some people assign to him, he is still better than the alternative. That is an unfortunate truth, but nevertheless the truth.
When one considers the possibility of a lasting alliance with Cruz, the door is opened to significant possibilities. In any event, I would rather wait and see where there is at least a possibility of improvement than jump on the bandwagon which guarantees me more of the SSDD.