From a post by me on February 28, 2016:
Trump on abortion on, appropriately, April Fools’ Day:
“Do you think abortion is murder?” Dickerson asked.
“I have my opinions on it, but I’d rather not comment on it,” Trump replied.
“You said you were very pro-life,” Dickerson followed up. “Pro-life means that…abortion is murder.”
“I mean, I do have my opinions on it. I just don’t think it’s an appropriate forum,” said Trump.
“But you don’t disagree with that proposition, that it’s murder?” Dickerson asked.
“No, I don’t disagree with it,” Trump eventually replied.
As the above debacle demonstrates, Trump is neither conservative or pro-life. He has been pretending to be conservative and pro-life in order to get the Republican nomination. His first answer about punishing women who have abortions is because he thought that was how a conservative or pro-lifer would answer. Under fire he changed his answer to not wanting to change abortion being legal. As this demonstrates, throughout this campaign Trump has merely been posing as a conservative and a pro-lifer. He is lying to be quite blunt. He is what he has always been, a fairly conventional New York liberal crony capitalist. Any conservative or pro-lifer who votes for this transparent fraud should be quite clear on what they are getting.
I am not a fan of Donald trump. I think it would be a huge mistake to elect him but let’s keep it real. http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/
Thanks for catching that Henry. I have removed the meme picture.
From Lancelot Andrewes (d.1626), sermon; “And he hath the art of cleaving. He showed it in the beginning, when he made the Serpent, lingnam bisulcam, a forked tongue, to speake that, which was contrary to his knowledge and meaning, they should not die, and as hee did the Serpents, so hee can doe others.”
That garden snake sure gets around.
Trump who?
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place: the no-good (untrustworthy) GOP and Hillary. Here is a more appropriate: “The Liar GOP.” They had opportunities to fight Obama and every time quailed (funded anti-constitutional executive orders, funded Obamacare, funded PP, etc.).
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The rule of law is extinct. Else HRH Hillary would be in prison.
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The GOP bosses also hate Ted Cruz. He is an outsider that doesn’t play the game. Their brokering will make certain he will not go forward, no matter how many GOP primary votes he earned.
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The loser, GOP establishment spawned Trump. He is, for all his faults, preferable to Hillary, Bernie, John Kasich, and all the other GOP no-different-than-liberals. Trump is not beholden to, or owned by, K Street and Wall Street. He must be stopped!
Good morning T.Shaw.
Your last sentence is throwing me a curve.
You mentioned that Trump isn’t bought.
Agreed.
The last sentence you state that he must be stopped. (?)
Do you mean the GOP establishment is saying he must be stopped? That makes perfect sense. Do you feel that Trump must be stopped as well?
The FBI indictment looming over Madame Serversweepers head is a hopeful element in this mess called American politics.
Hillary for Prison in ’16 is a catch phrase I can believe in.
Philip,
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The sad fact is we have no decent candidate on either side. George Washington must be turning in his grave.
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The GOP and professional conservatives have nothing to offer except “Why I hate Trump!”
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Yes, I was saying the establishment GOP needs to stop him. I will vote for Trump if he is the nominee.
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I am a Ted Cruz (flawed but lesser of, say, five or six evils) man. This time I will not vote for a Romney or a McCain clone.
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The GOP is in great need of creative destruction.
I cannot bring myself to vote for Donald Trump. And I am certainly not going to vote for any godless liberal progressive Democrat.
“Trump on abortion on, appropriately, April Fools’ Day”
There may be only one April Fool’s Day on the calendar, but every day can be April Fool’s Day if you carry the spirit of complete idiocy in your heart.
Thank you for the clarification T. Shaw.
All I can think of is this one truth…. this too shall pass….concerning our grand old party and the impotence of its best offerings.
Scepticism is not a trait I wish to nurture, however these pass few years of obamacide and our hope to secure a strong conservative presence in the oval office seems unlikely this cycle. So. This too shall pass. The silver lining is Christ’s promises and hope that never fails. The State will change. The heart of believers will never change. The history of empires rising and falling is the backdrop to the truly important decision facing Americans.
Will they remain faithful to the gospel messages and Christ the King?
I will never give up on our system even though the majority of the players are bought and paid for by their special interests. Even though lack of trust in politicians will not lead to a lack of trust in democracy. I will stand up for the republic and not settle for lesser systems that promise equality while striping our freedoms away. My great great grandparents fled Czechoslovakia in 1862 to escape Habsburg persecution aka the “The Forty Eighters.” Fourteen years after the beginning of the exodus in 1848.
Will we have a Christian persecution in our land?
Some might say it’s already started, and I would agree with them. A dominantly liberal Supreme Court will advance a Christian persecution. I’m certain of it.
I fear, yes fear, that the Democratic Party — through the candidacy of the faux-conservative, faux-Republican, clown Donald Trump — is poised to become the dominant party at the national level in the United States for many years to come. Not at the state and local level necessarily, but at the national level. Judicial nominations, which are critical today, when so many controversial issues are being illegitimately decided by judges, is now within the long-term control of the left, with the only check being a Republican-controlled Senate.
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Currently, the Real Clear Politics average poll has Clinton up by 10.6% over Donald Trump.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
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While Hillary Clinton’s negative ratings are high, Donald Trump’s are even higher. If Trump is the nominee, he will lose, most likely decisively. Those who, whether explicitly or not, wish to, out of frustration and anger, “blow up” the Republican Party, may very well get their wish, certainly at the national level. With this, the Democratic Party, and their activist allies on the left, more firmly establishes their national dominance. What will ultimately come from this for the future of the Republican Party at the national level is anyone’s guess, but it is not likely to be positive, especially in the near-term.
Trump isn’t bought? Sorry, he bought himself a long time ago. His corruption is self-referential.
TomD.
Hummm.
Good point.
True purchase.
Soul du jour.
It’s going to be a long day.
I see that Jonah Goldberg has voiced something I’ve long suspected about Trump: “I’d bet he’s paid more abortion bills than he will ever sign”
Of all the things he has said, allowing for some form of punishment for those who procure an abortion does not strike me as the worst. If abortion is murder, and held to be such by the law, shouldn’t all involved or culpable be punished to some degree (circumstances can mitigate punishment of course)? Obviously the harsher punishment would be for the abortionist, and then for any one complicit in forcing or pressuring the decision (the father, other family members bringing pressure to bear), but also the woman. Is she not a moral agent? Drug dealers and users are both punished, the thief and those who knowingly purchase stolen goods are both punished, the hit man and the person who hires are both punished.
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Your line of reasoning is fair in my opinion, however it seems so far away.
Below is the Nation’s spearhead regarding restrictions on legalized abortion. I like the “heartbeat” provision. Six weeks is roughly the time it takes to detect the heartbeat. This too will probably never make it to law, however the pressure must never stop. Never if babies are to have a chance at life.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/us/north-dakota-governor-signs-strict-abortion-limits.html?referer=
“make it to law.”
I meant make it to the federal level.
North Dakota is a slice of hope.
If Trump had thought more deeply on the subject, he might have said, No law is complete without a penalty. There is at present no law of man but there is the law of God. “Thou shalt not murder”, and its penalty is everlasting.
WPW, that seems to be his biggest problem – thinking deeply.