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Beware of Donald Trump: He’s no conservative!

By: heartlander (Diary)  |  April 20th, 2011 at 08:08 PM  | 

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I am very distressed by Allen West’s giving even the slightest bit of consideration to Donald Trump as a serious candidate, much less a serious Republican candidate. West recently said that he’d consider being Donald Trump’s running mate if it were offered, and Trump and West shared the stage at a South Florida Tax Day Tea Party rally. This is both puzzling and disturbing.

The Conservative Diva sums up my own feelings about Trump pretty well:

[Editor's Note: Go to the Conservative Diva for her thoughts. I've removed the blockquote that was her entire post. -- Erick]

I would only add to Conservative Diva’s comments my own fears that Trump is doing and is likely to do three things:

1. Expose Republicans to ridicule by pounding away on the birth certificate issue.
2. Distract attention from serious, legitimate Republican candidates; and maybe fracture the party.
3. Lose the GOP nomination, run as an Independent, and draw away enough GOP votes to hand the election to Obama. (Which may be the real agenda all along.)

Maybe Allen West knows something we don’t know — but at this point in time, it looks to me like poor judgment on West’s part. I’ve been beating the “West for President” drum since last November, but I’m having doubts about that now. After all, the number one quality a chief executive needs — other than the obvious ones such as integrity, intelligence and a good work ethic — is the ability to pick good people. No executive can do his or her job without advisers and department heads, so good judgment of character is absolutely crucial.

Rather than President, I’m leaning toward West as VP, Secretary of Defense or National Security Adviser. I think he’d be magnificent in any of these positions — for someone other than Trump!

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  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    someone treat Obama like the scum he is. I hope West doesn’t get tainted by Trump.

  • congressworksforus

    If he was asked the same about being the VP for anyone else he’d most likely say the same thing.

    I don’t think Trump will run, but I would absolutely love to see him in the debates. Just seeing the other establishment weasels, aka worthless candidates, squirm on stage as Trump goes on the assault, all guns-a-blazing, would be worth the price of admission.

  • rightwingmom52

    Hopefully, a few good conservatives (e.g., DeMint) will have a heart to heart with West and point out just what you’ve outlined above.

  • runner12

    it won’t let me. While I appreciate Trump’s boldness, he is not a Conservative and he is confusing people on what conservatism really is.

    • Joe Cor

      That is why he is rising in the polls. There is a boldness gap among declared Republican candidates and the Congressional GOP. If we want to see Trump fall in the polls, a Republican candidate must take up the mantle of going after Obama — on legitimate issues of course. But Obama is a ridiculously target-rich source of criticism, and Republicans won’t go after him. That is terrible politics, and worse statesmanship. Someone, most likely Palin or Bachmann, I’m thinking, must declare who actually thinks its okay to roundly criticize Obama. Then Trump I think will surely fall.

  • renny

    candidate in any field anywhere at the moment.

    Independents like him. Even lib. Dems. like him. Reps. are sending him to the tops of polls.

    Sometimes when you can’t get what you want, you can get what you need.

    • powertothepeople

      what a slice of baloney you just tried to pass off. He is not interesting to most republicans, which by the way are the ones who count, independents are simply intrigued, and if lib dems like him let ‘em know to come get him.

      He is nothing more than a circus attraction right now and that is the only reason anyone is paying attention. If you think poll numbers matter one little bit right now, especially when it comes to that idiot, you are deluded and deluded badly.

      And we need him for what? Making birther idiots a focus again?

      • renny

        ran in 1992 and 1996 and 2008.

        And as I am 69 years old and have workeed in politics since I as in high school, I have a very good idea of what people like in politics and what they do not like.

        You do not have to favor Trump of any one else, but such a complete dismissal is a self-defeating elitist position that ignores that most people who vote probably watch Dancing with the Stars and heaven forefend The Jersey Shore and care very little about wonky subjects.

        They want someone they really perceive as having a position and able to speak his/her mind, which is why Palin also attracts mucho attention, despiite the snobbish look-down-our-noses-at-her that even Rep. blogs take.

        Nothing matters except keeping Obama from being re-elected, getting his leftist cabal out of DC, and addressing the budget. Whoever can do those three things is worth supporting, I do not care if he has hair plugs or she comes from a small town or no one on Redstate likes his/her position on fruit flies. If you cannot see that picture, you have ideological astigmatism.

        • powertothepeople

          as stupid enough to vote for someone because they watched Dancing with stars and New Jersey Shores, the rest of us will dismiss Trump with a laugh.

          I am not going to get into the rest of your comment, simply going to move on towards other people who are not willing to start a love fest with what has to be the biggest buffoons the party has ever mustered second only to Ron Paul. And the difference in rank is not much by the way.

          By the way, what kind of politics have you worked in that made you come to the conclusion about Trump you did? Because the title and first line of your comment is a joke, the second line is flat out wrong, and the last line is a defeatist line. Just wondering………

          • powertothepeople

            By the way, what kind of politics have you worked in that made you come to the conclusion about Trump you did?

            Should have been

            By the way, what kind of politics have you worked in that made you come to the that conclusion about Trump and the voters?

    • http://westforwestwing2012.com heartlander

      Didn’t you read Conservative Diva’s article that I linked to?

      You will find in that piece comprehensive documentation (and links to even more) of direct, unequivocal statements by Trump of his positions on many issues.

      Once you read through that, I think you’ll agree: Trump is no conservative! (Although he may be playing one right now on TV….)

  • Ausonius

    An excerpt from her essay yesterday, April 22, 2011

    “America, it

    • Return to Revolution

      at what Trump really is: a fascist.

      No principles, no regard for freedom, just let me control. Even if that weren’t the case, one could assume he would run the country the same way he runs a business. Taking stupid risks is fine when it is with your own money. But that model doesn’t apply when you’re the president and you are spending tax dollars.

      Once upon a time I would have thought a businessman would make a good president – not because of his success or how he runs a business but because he would have the sense to know that the government’s role is to get out of the way.

      • Ausonius

        We have too many examples of businessmen, hats in hand and bowing down before MAObama, among other politicians, and buying influence to give their businesses an edge.

        Around 80 years ago,cranky philosopher Albert Jay Nock wrote:

        • acat

          Even with a bad business model, if it’s illegal to compete, it’s easy to make a buck…

          There’s no competition for AMTRAK, for example, because it’s illegal for anyone to operate a passenger rail service.

          At one point, it was illegal for passenger jets, other than the little regional models, to land at the old Houston airport in order to push traffic over to the new airport.

          This is not “business”, it’s oligarchy.

          Mew

        • http://westforwestwing2012.com heartlander

          This is what the lefties who persist in associating “Big Business” with the Big Bad Republicans never seem to understand: Big corporations game the system no matter who is in power — although it’s reached new levels of corruption under the Mussolini-like Obama — they get the government to pass regulations that are so burdensome that ONLY the very largest enterprises, with their “economies of scale,” can afford to comply with them, thus driving their smaller competitors out of business.

  • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

    It is no accident that the Presidential candidates are keeping their powder dry and announcing late even though they are building their ground organizations right now. Having Trump suck up the media oxygen now is good for the other candidates because he becomes a target for investigations, media smears and other scrutiny. The media is getting frustrated because there is no body else to beat up on other than Trump and Palin.

  • olsmithie
  • http://www.saywhatyoureallymean.blogspot.com Bruce A.

    Donald Trump cares about one person only and that is Donald Trump. How so many conservatives can brush aside his very troubling record of donating just this last midterm campaign and throughout his business career to so many lefists like Rahm Emanuel, Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Anthony Weiner just to name a few is unbelievable. Then you have his voting record it has been many years since he has even voted in a midterm election and his abortion record.

    Yet so many are just more than willing to brush all of this aside and vote for him. It leads me to ask what the hell is going on? Then you have Mitt Romney who there are basically just a couple of issues with and on everything else he has really been rock solid and proves over and over he is about putting the country first. For example in the last election he donated all kinds of money and time to get rock solid conservatives elected but he didn’t go out and sound a horn but done much of the work behind the scenes. He writes a book to let people have a better understanding of where he stands and donates 100% of its proceeds to charity. Yet people expect him to be 100% perfect. If ever their was a candidate that the American people are giving a complete raw deal it is Mitt Romney. He is bending over backwards to serve this country and do all he can to save it and its like the attitude is I will vote for a flaming liberal before I will vote for him. It doesn’t matter that he is an expert at solving complex and problems and has real answers as laid out in his book to fix the economy and may be the most qualified to ever hold the office if elected. Damn what more do you want from him?

  • rightwingmom52

    that David Brooks called Trump a semi-crackpot. CK commented that Brooks was half right.