…In an interview this past week with Laura Ingraham from Fox News, Trump characterized himself as “pro-life.” In his 2000 book The America We Deserve, Trump wrote, “I support a woman’s right to choose but I am uncomfortable with the procedures.” But, in an apparant reversal, he told the audience at CPAC, “I am pro-life” and pledged to fight for the reversal of Obamacare, which contains abortion funding loopholes…
Political posturing, or just following the general American trend towards the pro-life position? We’d only know for certain if he got in to office and we could see what sort of policies he advanced. But by announcing a pro-life position, Trump would remove a big roadblock to getting social conservative support. This doesn’t mean we’ll be lining up to back him, but it does get him on the playing field.
We’ll see how this plays out – but my view, for now, is that this is a giant head-fake to the GOP; that, in the end, if Trump decides to run, he’ll run as an Independent…but, meanwhile, will have built up some good feelings about his candidacy on the right.
