Here's the funny thing about Donald Trump - he really is a liberal

[LynneSin]

The guy is pro-choice (says government should not have any business with Abortion)

He's touted universal healthcare including praising Canada's health system

He's pro-gay rights.

I mean let's just say he gets the nomination and god forbid he wins. The republicans will shit themselves.

Of course he won't get nominated

[cleanhippie]

1. Sometimes I think his antics are purposeful to destroy the Republican Party.

This birther stuff makes me think he is intentionally trying to get the wingnuts, including Palin and Bachman, et al, to jump on that bandwagon simply so he can fully expose them.

[woodsprite]

4. Maybe he's sick of them too.

That would be a kick in their pants, wouldn't it?

[cleanhippie]

6. It certainly would.

[pacalo]

29. I'm with you. What better way to put a spotlight on the teabagger madness than to

pretend you're one of them, highlighting the most ridiculous of the baggers' half-baked claims?

I've seen every season of "The Apprentice" & from what I've seen, Trump has a keen sense about people, he's astute & very smart, he knows marketing, he's not a racist, & he's a big philanthropist.

He's not running for president, but using the public's (& media's) assumption that he is running to demonstrate how nutty the baggers' are. I can imagine hearing him talk about the baggers in private: "Those people are nutcases. And no one is calling them out -- of course, the media can't since they're in the same corporate fraternity as the baggers, so what if someone ran for president in the guise of being on their side, but taking the most outrageous of their nutty ideas & making it such a spectacle that the people will eventually catch on to how really stupid it is.". And Trump has the balls to do just that.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Here he is playing golf with Bill Clinton in '08:

http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/2008+Joe+Torre+Safe+Home+Foundation+Golf+Classic+pSW8NPYFFSRl.jpg

[cbdo2007]

3. I agree - there is definitely more to the story here.

I have to admit that I like that the Repubes fall for it "hook line and sinker" but I also am worried about Trump's true motivation here. Just publicity for his reality show? To prove the Repubes are hypocrites? I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I'm with you - I've always thought of him to be a liberal.

[monmouth]

23. Maybe he lost a bet and now is paying up. Ya never know...LOL..n/t

[dionysus]

5. he's suddenly "pro life" now.

[phleshdef]

7. He has also advocated paying for the deficit by taxing the wealthy.

I really don't understand his angle at all.

I don't know if he is (likely) a fraud, opportunist who has no real principles and doesn't mean anything hes ever said or if he is really pulling the greatest scam in all of history (wink wink) just to make a point about the kind of base this "modern" Republican party has.

[sharp_stick]

8. He's a perennial "candidate"

that tends to pull this shit every time he has some more idiotic shit to shill to people. My bet is that this time around it's going to be a new contract of Celebrity Apprentice.

The thing about this circus that pisses me off more than the asshole himself are the assholes giving him unlimited air-time to hock his shit for free.

I'm willing to put money down that says that he reluctantly decides that he will not run for President because his "loyal fans" aka "moronic suckers" really need to see another season of Celebrity Apprentice.

When do they have to stop calling it Celebrity Apprentice? I hardly know most of the losers he has on there now.

[liberalpragmatist]

9. He's a dumbass blowhard

Whose political views have no actually bearing. So he just flops around to get attention.

Anyway, this is all a big publicity stunt.

[LynneSin]

25. You've summed it up best but I see all these republican nutjobs having wet dreams bout Trump

and what they fail to realize is outside the birther issue they would be supporting a liberal

[walldude]

10. No he isn't. He is whatever he thinks will garner him the most

support at the time.

I have met the man on a few occasions and have had to endure "speaking engagements" by him. The man is worse than anyone thinks. He's soulless. There is nothing there. Every thought, every move, everything this man does revolves around money. It is literally his god.

This is a man who used his influence try to get the government to have a woman's house condemned under the Eminent Domain laws so he could build a parking lot where her house stood.

There is nothing there. Nothing.

[WinkyDink]

11. He's a roue' bored with his current enterprises.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. The man has the most inflated ego and would do ANYTHING to make headlines....and if that

means badmouthing the Pres and touting rw bullshit, he will do it.

[polichick]

13. I'd love to think he's a Dem plant, but I suspect he's just a media whore...

...like so many other Republican "hopefuls."

[mainer]

14. I'm sure I heard him say he was anti-gay marriage

on a TV interview not that long ago.

[RZM]

22. He did say that

Although he basically dodged the question. He more or less said 'we have more important things to worry about.' From what I can tell, his public position on gay marriage is similar to that of many Democrats.

[LynneSin]

26. I remember him saying he was against the word 'marriage'

but had no problems with the civil union stuff.

Like Trump has given a good name to the term marriage

:eyes:

[JVS]

15. Does he help the poor?

[housewolf]

16. I saw a bit of an interview this morning where he said he was anti-abortion

Actually I think he said pro-life, but it's his spin against mine

It might have been an interview with MANBC's Samantha. Whoever it was countered back to him "so you don't believe in a woman's right to privacy?" and he went of on "what's privacy got to do with it.... Guess he didn't know that's what the Roe vs Wade case was based on

[Rex]

17. I can't stand the man, but I must admit he does have the capabilities

of pulling a Souter and fucking up the GOP...fliphair style!!

[Dokkie]

18. he is winding them up

and I like it.

[cali]

19. oh please. he is not a liberal. he's a self-serving liitle fuckwad

[Zorra]

20. I don't trust him. No one makes that much money through being honest and

kind.

[Zen Democrat]

21. He's now pro-life, completely against abortion -- but believes in the right to privacy.

In other words ... he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

[lumpy]

27. And we thought Dubya was an idiot.

I believe the Trump believes in only the Buck. He claims to be a Christian, goes to church...sure. I don't think he is wrapped tight at all.

[closeupready]

24. He is liberal on some issues, but Republicon on gay marriage; that's 3 strikes

in my book, right there.

[Freddie Stubbs]

28. I think that he is more like a Charlie Crist

He has no deeply held political beliefs and is willing to say and do anything to get elected.

[RegieRocker]

30. Shhh!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

31. We don't want him too.