Donald Trump is a Liberal
The property-magnate-turned-reality-star is just another big-government lefty.
The latest indication that some Republicans are becoming uneasy about the prospect of a Donald Trump presidential candidacy: Conservative powerhouse Club for Growth took aim at the real-estate tycoon-turned-reality-TV-star on Monday, labeling him “just another liberal.”
Despite considerable skepticism about whether Trump’s presidential ambitions are any more than “a publicity stunt,” as Club for Growth President Chris Chocola contends, party leaders appear to be growing more concerned about the prospect of a run by a man who has promised to dump $600 million of his own money into the race.
“I think it’s a problem for the Republican Party,” GOP pollster Linda DiVall says. “Many view Donald Trump as a not very serious candidate — you hear the word ‘circus’ thrown around where he’s involved — and that’s going to detract from the other candidates in the field.”
The Club for Growth was derisive about the possibility of a Trump candidacy but is taking the prospect seriously enough to go on the attack.
“Trump has advocated for massive tax increases that display a stunning lack of knowledge of how to create jobs. His love for a socialist-style universal health care system and his alarming obsession with protectionist policies are automatic disqualifiers among free-market conservatives,” Chocola declares in the statement. “This publicity stunt will sputter and disappear just as quickly as the ‘The Apprentice’ is losing viewers.”
