[WideRight05]

I don't mind Trump, or really, any politician, not having scripted answers. It's not the occasional gaffe that I'm after here. I actually defended Trump when he said "2 Corinthians" instead of Second Corinthians, for example. Some of it is just the media being the media and just looking for some little window to where they can pick at him or Cruz. As mentioned in the above post, we're talking about a nearly 70 year old man running on 3-4 hours of sleep per night. There is some room for flexibility when it comes to understanding gaffes.

Trump doesn't have these issues answering questions when it comes to immigration or the economy, regardless of if he gaffes on it or not. The issue I am after is that he always stutters and stumbles around when asked about abortion, often just repeatedly stating that he's pro-life with exceptions and holds the same position as Ronald Reagan. He rarely provides any argument or comeback to the reporter. Considering this happens consistently, it makes me thing either (1) he is holding the pro-life position so that he doesn't lose the votes of social conservatives, or (2) he may hold this position, but it's hardly an issue to him.

This will be big because wouldn't just nominate SCOTUS judges, he also names appeals and lower court judges. We always talk about the SCOTUS judges, but we don't talk about the appeals and district court judges that get get nominated. Out of the many judges Barack Obama has nominated, many of them have been placed on votes either sweeping the senate or only having less than a handful of negative votes. It's a big deal, and if Trump doesn't pay as much attention to this issue as he claims to then it will cost us in the district and appeals courts.