He did not qualify it in his comment to illegals who are criminals.

And every single pundit and opinion writer reacted as though he was saying all illegals. Nor did he correct their supposition. So I think we can assume it was correct.

You’re welcome!

And we as viewers are capable of judging the relative sincerity of candidates. We also judge whether their proposals are at all realistic.

I judge Trump more wanting than most of the candidates on those. The issue of sincerity—the one you’re discussing here—I judge by demeanor and previous statements. Now, it’s certainly possible to change one’s mind and be sincere. But Trump has changed his mind too quickly on way too many things, and also done some of it without explanation. He also admits a present-day very close friendship with the Clintons. He also is a narcissist, self-admitted really, and a blowhard. Blowhards and narcissists tend by their very nature to be untrustworthy.

He is not even that fabulous a businessman, by the way (the four bankruptcies). He is a good self-promoter, and a fairly good businessman who is not a self-made man except as a celebrity, and of course in growing his inherited wealth.

By the way—calling George Bush evil is pretty evil itself, and calling him a liar is simply following the liberal/leftist handbook. Trump might have disagreed with Bush’s policy and the Iraq War without doing it in that particular way. I think those things reveal what Trump’s about.

With regard to sincerity, Trump is as capable or incapable as ANY other politician ……remember we are talking POLITICiANS…..as for Trump, you are aware I’m sure, that we are dealing with 2 personas here …..Donald Trump and “The Donald “….Right?

Thank you both for taking the time to respond, especially on Sunday. It was useful to me. And prompted me to look more thoroughly. The thread is now passed but I will continue to read and respond.

One thing that appears to be true — in reacting to Trump, national conversation about issues (once we get beyond pro-anti Trump) seems to have been stimulated.

Anyway thanks for a terrific blog neo .

Steyn in his “Trumping the party” column had disdainful words about those who were concerned about or saw significance in Trump’s incoherence.

But he cites as significant the coherence and undeniability of the three guiding principles enunciated in Trumps’ written immigration proposal. And truly, they are wonderful principles.

Trump did not write those. Like BO’s authorship, there is zero evidence Trump has the capacity to write those. And it is at best charitable speculation whether Trump ever thought those things or even believes those things.

Cruz, Fiorina and Jindal could have actually written those principles themselves (I don’t know about Walker).

As far as any human can trust another human under the circumstances, the ability of the three to be capable of actually writing those principles presumably is strongly related to having thought about those principles and believing in those principles. In other words, coherence and integrity.

There are no firewalls in this type of thing.

But when it comes to doing the right thing, I trust the coherent “alleged non-buffoons” to the actual, undisputed buffoon.

Half way down, Steyn confirms that his support of Trump exists despite whether or not Trump is a “phony and a liar”.

Steyn concedes that Trump might be a phony and a liar. But, he argues, look at the phonies and liars who are Republican office holders! Phonies and liars like Cruz, Walker and Jindal.

I wish I could come up with a Steyn-like witticism about non-sequitors.

http://www.steynonline.com/7116/the-big-finnish

See what Trump hath wrought? I sit here, now, more deeply disgusted at Rush and Steyn et. al, than anyone else.

Now, I go to sleep. May we all (including children and grandchildren) sleep well… even bho.

“All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.”

One could argue that they are all criminals merely by coming here illegally, but that does not appear to be the intent. The preceding sentence tells you who he is talking about.

“The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. ”

These are are the people he wants to deport en masses and who could disagree? Thousands of of American citizens and legal immigrants are raped, murdered, molested and robbed by illegal immigrants every year. Just the number of Americans killed by illegal immigrants driving drunk is staggering. 9/11 pales by comparison. You can find a sample here.

You did not comment on his H-1B proposal. If you are a young computer science graduate looking for your first job, you’ll have trouble finding one at one of America’s largest healthcare providers, where I worked for 10 years. They contract to Tata Consulting Services (India) to support many applications. There is no entry point for an American College graduate to join the team that manages the application.

I lived through the transition from American employees to H-1B and off-shore employees. I helped make this strategy work for them. I got on well with the Tata people and we worked well together. Good for Tata; bad for America.

So, raising the prevailing wage for H-1B workers makes a lot of sense. We would still have H-1B workers coming in but they would be the cream of the crop, not the mediocre ones. I could tell stories.

as for Bush being evil…well ok if he said that then yeah, stupid…but it’s not blasphemy to me….an old lifelong dyed-in-the-wool Con, BTW…..not a Neo-Con….(not that theres anyting wrong with that) and as for the “high praise” for the Clinton’s…well I could bring up the little love fest between none other than Bush himself and Bill….but I won’t .

I don’t want to excuse Trump.. I’m just calling them as I see them based on personal experience….I never said I BELIEVED in him other than the REAL PERSON in the flesh seemed fine to me and I’m far from discarding him based on the weight of media BS…..he’s an IMPORTANT catalyst right now and I think it naive and just plain stupid to want to remove him until we see where this takes us….is he electable ? Doubtful…can I see him in the delicate roll of Leader of the Free World….Probably not….But as I said its so early, why in Gods name would you want to see this over at this juncture ? Everyone has a chance to see where everyone REALLY stands.

You’ve jumped to a lot of conclusions about me.