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Hillary has changed her principles and policies plenty over the last 30 years. There is a very interesting YouTube video that shows interviews with Trump beginning in 1980 and ending around the time he officially declared he was running for president in 2016 and he is so consistent about what he says through the years. The video made me rethink my decision to stay home in November. I showed my Trump-hating husband the video (could not believe he watched it because he HATED Trump!) and he said something along the lines of Trump being very consistent over a 35 year period. My husband is very cynical and doesn't change his mind very easily, so the fact that he watched the video and didn't say anything negative about Trump is a very big deal. Not sure if he will vote in 2016, but if he does, it's not going to be for Hillary. He thinks she is very corrupt and dishonest. He is also a minority and recently became a registered voter. This will be his first presidential election he can vote in. I hope he votes.[/quote]

The US and the world have changed a lot since 1980.  Even the finest, most upstanding person has changed since then.  Whether Clinton is corrupt and dishonest or not, it's not an indictment of her to say that her policies and principles have changed.  I won't say it's an indictment of Trump that his principles haven't changed, although I think it does him no credit (he was a Democrat in 1980).  His principles are of a businessman, a salesman.  His desire to abandon our trade treaties, our allies, and our principles (the Geneva Convention) are very US-centric -- he's not a politician so he's welcome to his principles, but they are very unusual on the national stage.  Are we to hope that he doesn't actually mean them?[/quote]

[quote]Even the finest, most upstanding person has changed since then. [/quote] I agree, and there's nothing wrong with that. Even I have changed my voter registration a few times since I first registered to vote in 1999.

[quote]I won't say it's an indictment of Trump that his principles haven't changed, although I think it does him no credit (he was a Democrat in 1980)[/quote] Can you provide a link to Trump declaring that he's a Democrat in 1980? Because I saw an interview in the 1980's of him stating that he leaned more Republican.

And as you mentioned, the US and world have changed a lot since 1980. I read that as a justification for why Hillary Clinton's principles and policies have changed. She's always been a democrat, so maybe it's a democratic thing, to change policies and principles as things change in the US and world. Republicans view the Constitution and Bill of Rights as the governing documents of the USA and those aren't supposed to change, they are supposed to be the law of the land.

And I agree that Donald Trump is very US-centric, and he articulates why in interviews throughout the last 35+ years. I agree with him on most of what he says. [/quote]

From Trump's wiki page:

Political party:

Republican (1987–99; 2009–11; 2012–present)[2]
Independent (2011–12)
Democratic (until 1987; 2001–09)
Reform (1999–2001)[/quote]

Thanks for the posting that! And you know what, I think it's great that he has identified with different political parties throughout the years! I have too, so I find it very encouraging that he has. I'd vote for him if he were democrat or republican in 2016. [/quote]

Even with a super conservative VP? [/quote]

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