I don't expect it to change anyone's vote. Every candidate is going to have baggage. His attitude about it is more important to me. His assumption ("I don't think it was explained to conservative") that conservatives don't understand it is condescending. People can understand an issue and come to completely different decisions with the same facts. Some of these properties have sat empty for ages. Why the hell should someone get kicked out of their house when the land it sits on is still there?
It sets a dangerous precident. The "greater good" can be anything the government/developers want it to be. What's to stop them from deciding building a wind or solar farm where someone's ranch is? Or an over exuberant liberal government decided that a home owner has a wetlands on their property and it should be protected for "the greater good". And it's not always about the money as he presumes.
However, there are other candidates who are excellent when it comes to the border & refugee situation. It's still too early for me to pick a candidate. I have no problem voting for Trump if he's the nominee but most of the people paying attention right now are political junkies. It's too soon for regular folk to pay attention. There are also other important issues. Russia is running rings around us. The Middle East is on fire. Iran will probably have a nuke sooner rather than later. Israel is in serious danger and has no allies anymore. QE has pumped so much useless paper into the market, the dollar is severely weakened. Our health care system is in shambles and on and on. This isn't to say Trump wouldn't/couldn't address all of these but I'm still listening to other candidates as well.
Cindie
As am I, believe it or not. LOL, I know I push Trump all the time because I actually don't mind his attitude. He kind of reminds me of my dear departed father, who was truly an asshole you either loved or hated. I've been told by more than one person that I am like that too. He doesn't operate with a filter very often and nor does Ben Carson, so he's also widely loved and reviled. I like the idea of the two of them from a checks and balances viewpoint.
It may well be that because I live in a border county of a border state AND was raised to respect law and order, not to mention the ideal of fair play, but the notion of being overrun by a bunch of "economic" refugees is NOT an act of love; it's deeply offensive on so many levels I need not articulate here as most, if not all of you share them, and Lord knows I've shared my opinion on the issue more than once.
Almost more, maybe MORE, than our enemies snapping at our heels sensing our self-inflicted weaknesses courtesy of Obama and all the suppliant media and stuporous electorate, is the absolute bane of political correctness. It's become a vile stain on our national consciousness, akin to navel gazing but so much more dangerous because it stifles dissenting opinions and encourages the worst of our population, the Sharptons and Wrights and damn near every mealy mouthed son of a bitch MSM asshole who led a bunch of idiots to the polling booths twice for a total loser nation wrecker, to proclaim themselves the arbiters of what is, and what is not, acceptable behavior for the rest of us. With the rise of the rebel outsiders I think we are at the non-violent beginning of a revolution in national politics and it's been too long in coming. That is why for me anyway this time it's not going to be about voting along party lines; I need more than an initial after the nominee's name on the ballot to vote Republican. So I continue to listen, but it's not really what they say because we've got an entire Congress full of elected officials who said all the right things, but didn't DO anything once they "made it". That's why Cruz is impressive and some of the others, not so much.
And then the outsiders have enormous private successes in their resumes, and considering we were supposed to be a nation of volunteer political office holders for whom service was a privilege and a duty, not some pre-ordained right, well it just makes Donald and Ben more attractive to me. I have wondered about Carly, but the same things that bother people about Trump and his shooting his mouth off kind of make me leery of her, for the opposite reason, she always seems TOO controlled. It's nothing I can explain better at this point, and I know that we are supposed to listen to their words and promises on positions, but it's so damn easy to SAY something, but what have they actually accomplished.
Sorry, this kind of veered way off the topic of eminent domain. And, it's time for me to make dinner so I'd better get into the kitchen.
