I'm neither endorsing nor condemning this. I'm just passing along an e-mail that I got. Don't attack me if you don't like it. I did find it interesting.
Oprah &Trump - 25 years ago!! This is very interesting. Short video! In case you have forgotten the U.S. is almost $20 Trillion in debt. And most of it has happened under the present administration. Do not forget that this interview was 25 years ago!
But telling people that "I'm socially liberal" is to say that you support all those horrendous liberal social policies. You're not "socially liberal", you're "socially libertarian."
BIG difference!
The social liberals are the ones telling everyone how to live and what to believe, taking people to court and suing them; see the bakers, photographers, and florists being persecuted for not wanting to violate their faith. Look at people being forced to hand over their income to help fund industrial scale for-profit corporate abortion. Look at the redistribution of wealth forced at the point of a gun. That's social liberalism.
You'll have to explain where the dividing line between forcing your will upon others and ur criminal and civil law falls. You actually do want to force your will upon others. Surely you know this. Are you for speed limits? Child protection laws? Movie ratings restrictions? Building codes? Etc, etc...
It's not that we don't want to force our will or morality upon others, it's where we draw the line and what we define as immoral.
Conflating doctor-patient medical confidentiality with the killing of another human life was one of the lies upon which Roe was sold. The others were those that grossly and falsely dehumanized and mis characterized the baby in the womb. The justices themselves later conceded that had they been aware of more modern and accurate information, they would have decided differently. They were misled plain and simple.
Donald Trump leads the polls nationally and in most states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner. But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.
Trump’s political opinions have wobbled all over the lot. The real-estate mogul and reality-TV star has supported abortion, gun control, single-payer health care à la Canada, and punitive taxes on the wealthy. (He and Bernie Sanders have shared more than funky outer-borough accents.) Since declaring his candidacy he has taken a more conservative line, yet there are great gaping holes in it.
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 06:57 pm:
I thought Trump showed his true liberal colors during that last debate. I lost what little respect/trust I had for the man. (was enough to vote for him in primary if he was nominee) Now, I could care less if jumped off his tallest building and was smashed into smithereens. Doesn't matter what he says, he knows how to flip a switch and change his point of view on the fly. Right now, I can't trust him.
How do you square your new position on life with your statements in 2015 supporting continued taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion seller?
The next president is expected to nominate two to four U.S. Supreme Court justices, beginning immediately with the vacancy caused by the passing of Justice Scalia. These nominations will likely decide critical issues such as abortion. You’ve recommended your sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, for the High Court. Yet, as a federal judge, she overturned the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, writing that it “burdened a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion.” How can we trust you to nominate judges who will respect the constitutional limits on judicial power and uphold the sanctity of human life?
You claim to support religious freedom, yet a leading gay-activist organization calls you “one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican candidates to ever run for the presidency” – particularly because of your “standout position” when it comes to legislation that forces Christian business owners – and others of faith – to either betray their conscience or lose their business. How do you reconcile these contradictory positions?
You have built your campaign on lifting the economic outlook of lower-income Americans, yet you built your fortune in part on gambling, which preys on those very people. How will you make America great when you’ve run businesses associated with increased crime, bankruptcies, broken marriages and suicides?
As someone who claims to be a fiscal conservative, how do you justify your statements in support of a huge tax increase and government bailouts. Regarding the bank bailouts, you even stated: “I do agree with what they're doing with the banks. Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn't matter, but you have to keep the banks going.” Perhaps most concerning of all is your continued admiration for single-payer, government-run healthcare systems. Please explain how this is consistent with the party of limited government?
One of your favorite campaign themes is that you are going to “run America” if elected. Considering our system of checks and balances, and especially in light of the last seven years of government by fiat, how will you demonstrate your respect for the U.S. Constitution and the limited power the Founding Fathers intended for the federal government in general, and the executive branch in particular?
So if she (he?) has been praised for having courage for coming out as a transgender, then anyone who is willing to come out as conservative these days must be incredibly brave!
"Trump really needs to go away. The faster the better. I hope people wake up."
I think the people like the bravado. The seemingly honest approach. Not afraid to say something that might not be agreeable. The brash, speak your thoughts, non scripted spit it out tact.
I honestly feel that the actual message is second this approach because a lot of people are sick and tired of the politically correct crap being pushed down everyone's throat in all aspects of their lives. I think people are sick of voting for a party (mostly the main 2) that have become as confusing as Pat on SNL.
That's what I think of the Trumpnomenon. Some part of me just begs for him to get the nomination. It would be a 4 year (possibly less) bitch slap to the entire political process. It's hard to say which party it would hurt the most though.
I've been watching the Town Halls tonight and based on one answer, Kasich has my vote. His favorite concert was "The Wall".
It is important to realize that today Trump is not being seriously attacked by the D majority Press.
They want sound bites. For that they Love Donald.
They want the R primaries to distract from the D "fix is in" demonstration of raw power over the public's votes. For that they Love Donald.
They want a R candidate who they think will lose. For that they Love Donald.
The instant they think Donald has the nomination keys will be pressed across America that dump a massive attack on Donald, every person he screwed will be interviewed in prime time, every point brought up against him( by this board and other social media ) by other R's will be repeated in heavy rotation & outright lies will be created by the boat load and smeared on every website & tv show.
The View will burn him in effigy.
Not one kind or positive word will be spoken about him...... until he loses and runs as a D next election cycle.
Then he'll be mother Theresa & Albert Einstein's love child. Again.