A few weeks ago, we waited with baited breath for Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly to ask her first signature question at the Republican debate. Then she broadsided Donald Trump with the question everyone wanted to hear. Was he antiwomen’s rights?
Jim FolknerYeah, we’ve lost face with every nation, Iran’s getting nukes, untold millions are “coming to America to a job near you” in a most illegal fashion, and her best shot at him is questioning his record on women’s rights? Trump answered it clearly. He does not like Rosie O’Donnell, and she doesn’t like him. Good move, Donald. Trade Rosie’s vote for untold millions of others.
Then Fox anchors tried a question about immigration. Trump wants to build a fence. Some compare it to the Great Wall of China. That only worked for those hundreds of years it was maintained. Israel calls its current successful wall a security fence. European countries are expanding border security barriers. Trump’s opponents argue: Give immigrants welfare and jobs and legal status, and the problem will get better. No, it won’t. It doesn’t take a farmer to know good fences make good neighbors. Laws matter. What do you tell the millions who waited in line, then studied and passed a citizenship test?
Trump, a New York billionaire developer, doesn’t sound so out of touch after all. Maybe that’s why people like him. People are tired of politically correct politicians. Consider that all three GOP primary candidates leading in Iowa polls are nonpoliticians – Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina. Trump is not a politician. He is a plain-spoken businessman who wants our country saved and restored, a safe place like it used to be.
It’s nice to see someone running for office making a real sacrifice. It is costing Trump to run. NBC canceled his reality TV show and all ties; billionaire Carlos Slim canceled his projects with Trump; Macys, ESPN, NASCAR, and the PGA all ceased their relationship with him. Mexican groups and even the Mexican government have declared boycotts of his hotels. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he will review all existing contracts with Trump. Just these measures will cost him tens and possibly hundreds of millions of dollars.