Trump: Wake me when he makes up his mind....

[Craig]

2 per month....clearly he did nothing for the whole 8 years...

Some really like to sweat the small stuff...


...According to reports by both The New York Times and the Associated Press, Obama voted "present" 129 times as a state senator. The AP reported that Obama said the votes represented a small portion — a little more than 3 percent — of the "roughly 4,000" votes he cast as a member of the state Senate...

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/obamas-legislative-record/

 

[Arkady]

So it seems that in the short period of this campaign Trump has changed his mind 119 times on 19 different policies....that has to be some kind of record.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...lip-flops-on-big-issues/ar-BBuVbFh?li=BBnb7Kz

The "conventional wisdom" on Trump is so far removed from the reality that it's really amazing. The conventional wisdom is that, love him or hate him, Trump speaks honestly and from the heart -- he's a bluff, straight-forward guy who takes strong stances and doesn't care what anyone thinks about them. The truth, of course, is very different. He lies constantly and he flip-flops almost as often as he lies, often as a result of his obsession with opinion polls. This was a guy who, during a Hannity special, essentially took a real-time poll of the crowd to calibrate his latest position on immigration. He is utterly unprincipled -- the only thing he really stands for is his own ego, and whatever will further that.

I think the gap between the myth of Trump and the reality comes down to his bigotry. Among people with strongly bigoted opinions, Trump's willingness to say outright the things that other Republicans have only hinted at with dog whistle messaging is cathartic. They interpret that as a form of honesty. They see Trump as a guy who isn't afraid to say what everyone else is thinking..... because they assume everyone else is thinking the same bigoted crap they're thinking.

Oddly, this complete formlessness is actually helping him. Since he can't be nailed down with regard to any actual policy positions (he's for boosting military spending and cutting it, mass deportations and allowing most undocumented people to stay, raising taxes on the rich and slashing them radically) everybody can look into his policies the way you could regard a Rorschach test or a cloud formation, seeing what you want to see. So, with no actual content, all he's really selling is an attitude. He's selling resentment of out-groups, free-form Clinton hatred, and the joy of being transgressive. For the kind of low-IQ voter who votes his emotions rather than his intellect, that's enough.

 

[Arkady]

Its funny you mention this because Hillary the stupid does not have a solid stand on anything. For every issue, I can dig up her being on both sides of the issue.

OK, the gauntlet is thrown. She's in favor of hiking income taxes on the wealthy. Can you dig up an example of her being in favor of cutting income taxes for the wealthy?

 

[Arkady]

Like Hillary on that gay thingy...one day is "between a man and a woman"...the next...wait I need their vote!...That's Shillary.

Clinton changed on gay marriage, no question. But, who didn't? Just a few years back I practically felt like a pariah, even relative to the Democratic Party, for supporting gay marriage. Before about 2004, only about a third of Americans supported gay marriage. But the society came around on it, and these days only the most bigoted dead-enders still support discriminating against gay couples. Clinton earns no points for evolving at the same speed as the country as a whole, but she doesn't lose them, either. There are only a handful of major politicians with real bragging rights on this issue. I give Biden credit, since he had the guts to force the administration's hand on it. Others, like Al Sharpton were even farther ahead of the curve.