I'm Getting A Good Trump Feeling

Do you stick to your own standard talking points, or is there something new you should be paying attention to as regards the candidates?  When you consider Trump, this becomes a real challenge.

Before he started his run for the presidency, it seemed easy to write him off as a buffoon, a TV impresario.  Who talks like that?  Who sticks his name on every building he can get his hands on?  And, what's with that ridiculous hair style?  Who can take a guy like that seriously?

But slowly I'm beginning to get the feeling that maybe I should take him more seriously.  Trump's remarks on Mexico, and Mexicans, I thought, would finish him off.  They didn't.  When he cast aspersions on McCain heroism, I thought that surely was the end.  Now, he's really finished. That's what I thought.   But, he wasn't.

It seems that the man in the street understood that, of course, McCain was a hero, but if McCain was going to go to fight in dark, political alleyways, he's got to expect to get kicked in the nuts.  Past heroic behavior doesn't change that reality.  And, the public got it.

And, then there was the Megan Kelly thing.  The media screamed that Trump had suggested that Megan was on the rag.  But, actually, that's not what he said.  What he did say might be stretched to imply that that was what he meant.  But, in reality, the press stretched it too far.  The public didn't go along.

Now Trump is beginning to flesh out his message.  Take a cut from the mideastern oil we fought to protect.  Negotiate more realistically with our competitors.  Do health care in a way that won't break the American economy and yet reach more of our citizens.  The impulse that prompted the Affordable Health Care Act wasn't bad.  It was simply implemented atrociously.  I'm beginning to like Trump more and more.

Planned Parenthood:  Here Trump really deviated from the party line.  While saying that abortions were bad, he acknowledged the Planned Parenthood did a great deal of good for women.

Voters will have to make two choices.  Is the Donald better than all the others who are competing for the nomination as the Republican standard bearer in the general elections?  And, who do you prefer:  Trump or Hillary?  Are these questions really so difficult?