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OK,Trump could NOT have been the most conservative candidate BEFORE the election because he had never held public office before.
Uh, no. Once does not have to hold public office in order to be Conservative. That dog won't hunt.
Nor was he the most leftist (PLEASE note I did NOT write "liberal") candidate.
Since you brought it up, he was indeed to the left of Bernie Sanders on the Kelo decision. But then no one here said anything about superlatives. It's a strawman, and a rather weak one at that.
He was an UNKNOWN potential politician.
Unknown? Are you serious? He is perhaps the most well-known candidate to run for President since Ike. Even people who don't follow politics at all knew who Donald Trump was. His name has been his brand in everything he does his entire working career.
And most of us here were around when he bashed Reaganomics, or when he called for an assault weapons ban, or when he championed Kelo and the government's right to take property from one person and give it to another. And everyone here was definitely around during the campaign when Mr. Unknown said that he would expedite the return of illegals, or that Planned Parenthood did wonderful things, or that his abortion-loving sister would make a great Supreme Court judge, or that taxes should be raised on the top 1%.
Which in itself put him ahead of all the "Usual Suspects" because he owed no one in office any favors. Which is the biggest reason all the professional polls and their whores hate him. He can't be handled.
Neither can George Soros. Does that make George Soros a Conservative? I think not.
And it turned out that once in office he has turned into the most EFFECTIVE conservative President of our lifetimes BECAUSE he has never held elective office before,owes no one any favors,and will never hold public office again once he leaves this one.
Your causation reasoning needs a lot of work here. Never holding office before does not translate into effective Conservative executive leadership. Dwight Eisenhower never held elective office before becoming President. Yet he stayed on the golf course almost as much as Trump while the top tax rate remained at 91% during both his terms. Woodrow Wilson had but two years of elected office under his belt before becoming President. Yet he was perhaps the biggest fascist to ever hold that office.
And what exactly do you consider "EFFECTIVE"? The wall being built? Baseline budgeting coming to an end? Unfunding Planned Parenthood? A decrease in the federal deficit? ObamaCare being tossed out? It is hard to take you seriously about Conservatism when you don't even know what it means.
Cruz has surprised me almost as much as Lady Lindsey by stepping up to the conservative plate,but if he can do this now,WHY did he never do it before?
Do you mean the same Ted Cruz who was on the front line fighting for Heller before the Supreme Court while Donald Trump was calling for an assault weapons ban? The same Ted Cruz who telling Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor to go to hell while Donald Trump was saving his RINO ass by funding his runoff campaing against Matt Bevin? The same Ted Cruz who was willing to shut the government down in order to get the federal government the hell out of the insurance business while Donald Trump urges that we replace Obamacare with Trumpcare?
When it comes to stepping up to the Conservative plate, Ted Cruz is batting leadoff while Trump comes in as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning.
