Whether delierate or not-and news of his chat with Bill Clinton even makes you wonder if it was deliberate-
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/is-bill-clinton-also-trump-democrat.html
Trump is a brilliant GOP parodist. He apes the language and mannerisms of conservatism-even though it seems pretty obvious that he's just acting and doesn't really agree on half of it. Certainly not on healthcare which even now he praises Canada's single payer. Probably not even on abortion where he was prochoice in the past.
In 2004 he stated that Democratic economic policies lead to better outcomes than Republican outcomes which was also dead on correct. Yet the base likes him better than the real Republicans.
I don't know if Clinton talked him into this or not but he might have well have.
And, even now, when you look at all the crazy things Trump has said, he sounds better than the Republicans. Think about it:
"Mike Huckabee suggested he would defy the Supreme Court in order to ban abortion, because it’s “not the Supreme Being,” while Marco Rubio denied that he supports abortion rights for rape and incest victims, and Scott Walker defended his opposition to abortion when the mother’s life is at risk. Ben Carson came out for a tithe-like 10 percent across-the-board flat tax, because “God’s a pretty fair guy,” while Huckabee suggested he would tax “pimps, prostitutes and illegals” to raise money for Social Security. In the earlier debate among also-rans, Bobby Jindal said he would direct his Internal Revenue Service to investigate Planned Parenthood on Day One, which sounded like a potentially impeachable way to start a presidency."
"None of those policy statements seemed particularly newsworthy last night, because Donald Trump didn’t make them, but they gave a fairly consistent sense of the Republican primary. Moderation does not appear to be a popular strategy. And while nobody would mistake Trump for a policy wonk, his dominance of the media is clearly casting a policy shadow, shoving his rivals not only towards Trump-like policies but towards Trump-style brashness in a Trump-driven conversation. “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration,” he blustered last night."
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/08/a-debate-without-moderation-000191?hp=c4_3
Trump is the most extreme stylistically but on substance he doesn't sound the worst, far from it. On abortion it's amazing. In 2012 the Todd Akin moment was an awful one that the GOP vowed to never repeat. Yet Akin's views on abortion dominated. The only one he felt the need to apologize was Rubio for previously supporting legislation that allowed for the exceptiosn that almost everyone agrees on: life of the mother, rape, and incest.
This is partly because the GOP is just always getting more conservative all of the time as Tom Brown suggests.
"If we extrapolate the GOP position out 8 or 12 years, perhaps the moderator will be asking "Raise your hand if you DON'T support a constitutional amendment banning contraception and sex education."
... and in 28 to 32 years, "Raise your hand if you DON'T support replacing the constitution with the Leviticus, INCLUDING the parts about stoning as an appropriate punishment for blasphemy."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/is-bill-clinton-also-trump-democrat.html
Trump is a brilliant GOP parodist. He apes the language and mannerisms of conservatism-even though it seems pretty obvious that he's just acting and doesn't really agree on half of it. Certainly not on healthcare which even now he praises Canada's single payer. Probably not even on abortion where he was prochoice in the past.
In 2004 he stated that Democratic economic policies lead to better outcomes than Republican outcomes which was also dead on correct. Yet the base likes him better than the real Republicans.
I don't know if Clinton talked him into this or not but he might have well have.
And, even now, when you look at all the crazy things Trump has said, he sounds better than the Republicans. Think about it:
"Mike Huckabee suggested he would defy the Supreme Court in order to ban abortion, because it’s “not the Supreme Being,” while Marco Rubio denied that he supports abortion rights for rape and incest victims, and Scott Walker defended his opposition to abortion when the mother’s life is at risk. Ben Carson came out for a tithe-like 10 percent across-the-board flat tax, because “God’s a pretty fair guy,” while Huckabee suggested he would tax “pimps, prostitutes and illegals” to raise money for Social Security. In the earlier debate among also-rans, Bobby Jindal said he would direct his Internal Revenue Service to investigate Planned Parenthood on Day One, which sounded like a potentially impeachable way to start a presidency."
"None of those policy statements seemed particularly newsworthy last night, because Donald Trump didn’t make them, but they gave a fairly consistent sense of the Republican primary. Moderation does not appear to be a popular strategy. And while nobody would mistake Trump for a policy wonk, his dominance of the media is clearly casting a policy shadow, shoving his rivals not only towards Trump-like policies but towards Trump-style brashness in a Trump-driven conversation. “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration,” he blustered last night."
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/08/a-debate-without-moderation-000191?hp=c4_3
Trump is the most extreme stylistically but on substance he doesn't sound the worst, far from it. On abortion it's amazing. In 2012 the Todd Akin moment was an awful one that the GOP vowed to never repeat. Yet Akin's views on abortion dominated. The only one he felt the need to apologize was Rubio for previously supporting legislation that allowed for the exceptiosn that almost everyone agrees on: life of the mother, rape, and incest.
This is partly because the GOP is just always getting more conservative all of the time as Tom Brown suggests.
"If we extrapolate the GOP position out 8 or 12 years, perhaps the moderator will be asking "Raise your hand if you DON'T support a constitutional amendment banning contraception and sex education."
... and in 28 to 32 years, "Raise your hand if you DON'T support replacing the constitution with the Leviticus, INCLUDING the parts about stoning as an appropriate punishment for blasphemy."
- See more at: http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/trump-was-not-most-misogynistic-man-on.html?showComment=1438970143418#c7146758397390421910
But I think it's partly driven by Trump whose extreme sounding rhetoric makes everyone get more extreme. Which is exactly why I love what Trump's doing. To say that he's a clown misses the point that the entire field is a clown car. I mean I agree that the way Trump has talked about women he's had issues with is totally abhorent.
But I think it's such hypocrisy to try to show you respect women by criticizing him and ignoring that the GOP is the Todd Akin party on abortion and this may be more relevant to women then Trump's wild arguments with Rosie O'Donnell.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/attacking-donald-trump-insulting-rosie.html
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