Donald Trump

     So I am currently drawn between Donald Trump and the view that he will be a repeat of Barry Goldwater and the idea that he might win. I at first had thought that he was absolutely a guaranteed loss for the GOP, but now I am not quite sure. Should he win the nomination, it really will be interesting to watch, I have no doubt about that. I do not think that Trump has the requisite policy knowledge needed to be president, but he does have a lot of what my dad termed "combat executive experience," i.e. in making decisions on the fly and negotiating and having to basically "shoot from the hip," so-to-speak, and do so accurately. He could be a very good foreign policy president in that the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians would be a lot less inclined to mess with him I think. On the domestic front, I fear that he would try to fix Obamacare by suggesting we replace it with single-payer. I also do not know how much of a conservative he really is. If he just says whatever is needed to get elected (which he seems to do on certain issues while stating his own opinions on others), he may change his stances on things once elected.

     I do hope we get someone decent elected for the next presidency that is not Hillary. I do not think Hillary morally is proper for the presidency and the political positions that she supports I think will only further do damage to the country and infringe on people's rights.