TRUMP THE MODERATE GOP CANDIDATE

DECEMBER 27,2015 It's All Relative In The GOP Race.

In the GOP race for the Presidential nomination, Mr. Trump his brash bombast, language difficulty and bluster aside, is the moderate on policy. Mike Grunwald of "Politico" reviews all the past debate transcripts in his piece entitled: "The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking" appearing on Dec 26, 2015. His research indicates that part of the Donald's popularity is that his policy pronouncements are middle of the road. (but his independence from the control of MEGADONORS is more important in this author's mind)

Grunwald notes that we may have overlooked many wild eyed statements of the GOP field, such as that of Carly Fiorina who concluded that the minimum wage is unconstitutional, or that Huckabeee vowed to ignore the Supreme Court rulings he decided were incompatible with the Bible, or that Santorum claimed that Islam was not protected by the First Amendment, and that Christie, the most ferocious on foreign policy, vowed to shoot down Russian planes and start WWIII, while conducting cyberattacks on Chinese leaders. Grunwald also reprises the statement of Rubio in which he vowed to repeal all Wall Street reforms and oppose abortion in its entirety with no exceptions. Or that Kasich trying out the role of "tough guy", vowed to "punch" Russian in the nose.

On the other hand Trump seemed the perfect moderate when he denounced the Iraq War as a waste of thousands of lives (American) and trillions of dollars. He alone observed that those funds unwisely spent in Iraq could have been used to shore up American infrastructure instead. He alone defended progressive taxation. His proposals to clean up the immigration mess by first building a wall along the Mexican border...are rational, practical and within the Constitution. He does speak in hyperbole too frequently, but in relative terms his actual proposals are more in line with moderate Republicans and Independents than the Wild Bunch with whom he is surrounded. That is perhaps the reason why he still leads in the national polls by double digits. He leads in all state polls, except religious-leaning Iowa where he continues in a tight, neck and neck race with bible verse spouting darling Senator Cruz. His popularity in Iowa as elsewhere is noting less than astounding.

Oh yes, and he is decidedly not a "puppet" candidate like Rubio and Cruz...who mouth the script provided by the special interest mega donor class.