for the love of all that is good in this universe, just spell the word out... you thought the word, you all-but-wrote the word, everyone knows what you meant, and we're all adults here.

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SCR*W*D

The Donald might not be the best, but he's a damned sight better than this...

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for the love of all that is good in this universe, just spell the word out... you thought the word, you all-but-wrote the word, everyone knows what you meant, and we're all adults here.

LOL ! It was done for emphasis

Relax. It's been a long, tough day.

SCREWED ! ! ! happy ?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
The Donald might not be the best, but he's a damned sight better than this...

Hope you don't mind if I make a copy of that to share ?

The sad part of this, that we all know, is that a whole lot of idiots will vote for this monster.

Heck, there's one in the office across from mine and she will do it solely based on plumbing.

Panic City

Another day, another GOP panic.

The media underestimated Donald Trump from day one. The Republican power brokers underestimated Donald Trump from day one. And now journalists are quoting GOP hotshots as suddenly scared about what has been obvious for months: that Trump is in a strong position to seize their nomination.

After various stages of grief and denial, the noise from the “establishment”—or what remains of it, in this Super PAC era—is growing louder.

The New York Times is the latest to sound the alarm:

“Irritation is giving way to panic as it becomes increasingly plausible that Mr. Trump could be the party’s standard-bearer and imperil the careers of other Republicans.”

Which is pretty much the same P-word that the Washington Post used on Nov. 12:

“Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.”

Is there something stronger than panic? Because we seem to be careening there.

And remember the pundits who said that Trump’s insistence that thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated on 9/11, and his mocking of a reporter, would hurt him? Instead, he’s going up in the polls. Trump leads with 27 percent in the new Quinnipiac survey, trailed by Marco Rubio (17), Ted Cruz (16), and the sliding Ben Carson (16).

The GOP-in-revolt stories lead to endless speculation about a brokered convention or money men financing a stop-Trump venture, which is fun but ultimately pointless. One such anti-Trump outfit has gained little traction after being touted in the Wall Street Journal.

The notion that some aerial assault is going to badly wound Trump looks like a fantasy. According to NBC’s estimates, including Super PACs, Jeb Bush has spent $28.9 million on advertising—and his numbers have not budged at all. Marco Rubio has spent $10.6 million. John Kasich has spent $6.4 million, some of it on spots attacking Trump.

And The Donald has spent a grand total of $217,000, all on radio. Trump hasn’t aired a single TV ad. He gets all the free media he needs.

I’ve critiqued presidential ads in five campaigns, and I’ve never seen a cycle where they mattered less. With so many candidates and so many PACs and so many online videos, it just all seems like noise. That could change when the field winnows, but I don’t think you stop Donald Trump by airing bad things about him. The media say plenty of bad things about him, and it invariably ends up helping him.

Some are adjusting to the new era. In a Robert Costa scoop, the Post obtained a memo from the director of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign urging candidates to embrace the best parts of Trump’s “anti-Washington populist agenda,” but avoid saying “wacky things about women.” The memo suggests Trumpism without Trump, calling him “a misguided missile” who “is subject to farcical fits.”

The Times’ Jonathan Martin is savvy enough to recognize that the purported revolt lacks any real firepower: “In a party that lacks a true leader or anything in the way of consensus — and with the combative Mr. Trump certain to scorch anyone who takes him on — a fierce dispute has arisen about what can be done to stop his candidacy and whether anyone should even try.

“That has led to a standoff of sorts: Almost everyone in the party’s upper echelons agrees something must be done, and almost no one is willing to do it.”

The story quotes some party bigwigs on the record as saying a Trump nomination could endanger some GOP members of Congress. Ohio Republican Chairman Matt Borges says: “If he carries this message into the general election in Ohio, we’ll hand this election to Hillary Clinton — and then try to salvage the rest of the ticket.” So that’s what is really fueling the panic.

Trump’s detractors point to his high negatives, especially among minorities. But in such a crazy year, and with Trump taking moderate positions on Medicare, Social Security and taxing hedge-fund guys, who knows what would happen in a fall election? The Q poll gives Hillary a 6-point lead over The Donald, hardly a blowout.

But first he’s got to win the nomination. And that may well turn on his own performance and his ability to get his supporters to the polls, not on a party revolt that no one wants to lead or has the clout to pull off.

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and you’re going to do irreparable damage to the party… If they [the GOP] don’t push back, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.”

So gramnesty reveals his major concern! He is more worried about the PARTY, (I say again) THE PARTY, than he is about America.

I am forced to wonder just who keeps sending this asshole back to DC. Are the people in his state that fucking stupid?

Or are they being bought by the tax money that the asshole steals errr appropriates. . and sends to them?

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Ohio Republican Chairman Matt Borges says: “If he carries this message into the general election in Ohio, we’ll hand this election to Hillary Clinton — and then try to salvage the rest of the ticket.”

As a strategy, that sucks. There is no guarantee that "the rest of the ticket" could be
"salvaged" either.

Yep. They're finally in the Clue field and Clue-mating season is just around the corner.

GOP memo suggests Trump reality check for establishment

‘If you can’t beat him, join him’ appears to be the new directive coming from the Republican establishment, as Donald Trump maintains his lead for the 2016 the GOP nomination, months after political prognosticators had predicted his flame-out and demise.

A recently leaked memo by the National Republican Senatorial Committee calls Trump a “misguided missile,” but argues, ultimately, that he is worthy of emulation rather than condemnation.

The success of Republicans running for senate next year could count on it.

“Conventional wisdom has counted Trump out on several occasions.

But, Trump continues to rise and the criticisms seem to make him stronger, writes NRSC Executive Director Ward Bake in the seven-page missive, which was not supposed to be made public but was leaked to The Washington Post.

Several news organizations have reported on it since. Fox News has verified its authenticity.

“Trump has been gaining Democrat adherents and he’s solidifying
GOP cohorts who feel they’ve been totally ignored by the Washington Ruling Class. If the environment aligns properly, Trump could win,” Ward writes. “It’s not a bet most would place now, but it could happen. That’s why it’s important for our candidates to run their own races, limit the Trump criticisms (other than obvious free kicks), and grab onto the best elements of the anti-Washington populist agenda.”

The memo also offers several “lessons” on how candidates can deal with the “Trump phenomenon” without getting tarred when Trump indulges in more explosive policy positions, off-color jokes, or seemingly radioactive political rhetoric.

“Trump is subject to farcical fits,” writes Ward. While trying to keep out of the fray, continue to take “Trump to task on outrageous statements where the media won’t let you off the hook. Choose opportunities to take the moral high ground while exerting your independence.”

This would include what appeared to be his mocking of a disabled reporter and a host of comments about women’s looks, like openly asking if Hillary Clinton is wearing a wig.

“Donald Trump has said some wacky things about women. Candidates shouldn’t go near this ground other than to say that your wife or daughter is offended by what Trump said,” writes Ward. “We do not want to reengage the “war on women” fight so isolate Trump on this issue by offering a quick condemnation of it.”

That said, he memo not only suggests the establishment has accepted that Trump may be the presidential nominee in 2016, but is also willing to walk the fine line between keeping a check on the self-funding billionaire candidate, while taking advantage of the things that make him popular with Republican voters today.

“Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm --- and believe he can’t be bought. These are the same character traits our candidates should be advancing in 2016. That’s Trump lesson #1."

"Trump is saying that the Emperor has no clothes and he challenges our politically correct times. Our candidates shouldn’t miss this point,” continues Ward. “Don’t insult key voter cohorts by ignoring that America has significant problems and that Trump is offering some basic solutions. Understand the populist points Trump makes and ride that wave.”

Contacted by Foxnews.com on Thursday, the NRSC said it was merely engaging in pragmatic political planning. “It would be malpractice for the Senatorial committee not to prepare our candidates for every possible Republican and Democrat nominee and election scenario,” NRSC spokeswoman Andrea Bozek said.

Aside from telling candidates to “run your own race,” and “show
your independence,” the memo suggests tapping into Trump’s ability to resonate with working people who have long decided Washington could not be trusted. It makes suggestions on using constituents to tell the story and “to bring the campaign back to real people and their daily struggle,” and not be afraid to take on China and immigration through the same Trump lens.

“You don’t have to go along with his more extreme positioning,” the memo reads. “Instead you should stake out turf in the same issue zone and offer your own ideas.” Just don’t spend “full time attacking our own nominee,” reads the memo, which Ward said was “written with the assumption that Donald Trump wins the nomination.”

“That will only serve to topple GOP candidates at every level.”

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Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm

Trump and Cruz should both get bumps after the last 24 hours based on what happened and how the media covered it.

Trump said this today about the Cali terrorist attack.

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“When I heard about it, I figured probably not,” he said. "But it turns out, probably related."

"Radical Islamic terrorism,” he added. “We have a president who refuses to use the term. Refuses to say it. There is something going on with him that we don’t know about.”

Trump is still a birther at heart and believes Obama is a practicing Muslim.
I'm not arguing with him.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Trump said this today about the Cali terrorist attack.

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“When I heard about it, I figured probably not,” he said. "But it turns out, probably related."

"Radical Islamic terrorism,” he added. “We have a president who refuses to use the term. Refuses to say it. There is something going on with him that we don’t know about.”

Trump is still a birther at heart and believes Obama is a practicing Muslim.
I'm not arguing with him.

Well, you can't argue with the truth.

There's ample evidence he's muslim he has said so himself more than once. Given his policies the last 7 years he is certainly a radical.

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Are the people in his state that fucking stupid?

Barack Hussein Obama is in the White House. I wish it were just SC.

Link from a good friend: Trump County, USA


Trump County, USA

America’s most reliable bellwether county has fallen for the wild man from New York.

By Adam Wren

December 04, 2015

The most accurate pundits in the history of American presidential politics reside far from the Beltway, on a 403-square mile patch of land along the western border of Indiana. At the intersections of U.S. Highways 40 and 41, and off Interstate 70, you find yourself in Vigo County, with its 108,000 residents and its ho-hum county seat, Terre Haute, situated along the Wabash River. Terre Haute is the land of Clabber Girl Baking Powder—and its citizens call it the “Crossroads of America.” It’s the place where both Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh and labor leader and Social Democratic Party founder Eugene Debs were born, and home to the U.S. penitentiary where the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh died.

And, in nearly every presidential election since 1888, voters here in this blue-collar county have selected the winning candidate, missing only twice: Once, in 1908, when they opted for Williams Jennings Bryan instead of William Howard Taft, and again in 1952, when they chose Adlai Stevenson rather than Dwight D. Eisenhower.


“It’s obviously because of our extraordinary intelligence and good sense,” said Bayh, whose father built the family’s political dynasty here. “It’s classic middle America. Small businesses. Family farms. Community schools. We care more about common sense results than we do about party labels and ideology. … You don’t get the excesses of New York or California. We keep it between the 40-yard-lines.”

So, when it comes to 2016, you might expect these “between-the 40-yard-lines” voters to be soberly weighing the merits of Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio, with maybe an occasional flirtation with Bernie Sanders or Mike Huckabee. And yet, when I spent two days traveling around its gathering places and watering holes, I discovered that, while the county’s Democrats have, for their part, coalesced around Clinton, its Republicans mostly wanted to talk about just one candidate: Donald Trump.

In America’s most prophetic county seat, Trump enjoys a diverse coalition of support, from the 17-year-old punk high school student on the eve of his first election to the 81-year-old Kennedy voter to the kind of folks who will reshuffle their Thursday night plans to attend a county GOP “Politics and Pies” event. Coastal pundits might lament Trump’s appeal to the “low information voter”—but I can tell you one thing: Terre Haute citizens are anything but poorly informed.

And if Trump can make it here—in this hollowed-out county of swing voters, union halls, three universities and a knot of CSX railroad lines, where voters seem to have a knack for predicting unpredictable elections—he can make it anywhere.


Vigo County’s status as a presidential bellwether is as much of a mystery to the people here as it is to you. It’s a local curiosity as inexplicable as that time a few years ago when Will Ferrell showed up here unannounced to make a series of commercials for Old Milwaukee beer, clogging the intersection of Wabash and 7th and walking aimlessly around its railroad tracks.

According to an analysis of bellwether states and counties by Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, “Vigo County, Indiana is the most prominent bellwether of presidential elections in the country—voting for the winning candidate in every election from 1956 through 2012.” Perhaps even more telling, noted Leip, is that the margin between how candidates fair in Vigo County and how they fair nationwide has been an average of just 4 percent over the past 124 years.


Bellwethers are bunk, as far as political scientists are concerned. In his 1975 paper “Are There Bellwether Electoral Districts?” the statistician Edward Tufte and one of his students, Richard A. Sun, analyzed returns from 14 presidential elections from 1916 to 1968 across all U.S. counties. They concluded that, despite apparent hot streaks, bellwether electoral districts didn’t exist.”

But Vigo County’s had quite a hot streak, and this mystery compelled documentarian Don Campbell to move from his Brooklyn home this past summer to Terre Haute, where he is living and investigating the bellwether phenomenon until next November as part of Bellwether 2016.

“It’s a pretty phenomenal record to go back to 1888 and only miss twice,” Campbell said. “I was also taken with this idea that they label themselves the ‘Crossroads of America.’ It’s not just that you have the intersection of old highways—but that you have an urban sector and a vital agricultural sector in one voting municipality. That’s rare in America today.”

In some ways, Vigo County is a lot like America: It has three universities, a mix of corporations and small businesses, a mall with a T.G.I Friday's. In other ways, it is not: It’s mostly white (88 percent of its residents, according to Census data), rural and poor (median income is $40,692, compared with $53,046, nationally).

Another thing that makes Vigo County unique is its apparent number of swing voters. Of its 76,981 registered voters, according to data from the Vigo County Voter Registration Office, 30,290 are Democrats, and 10,280 are Republican. And an eyebrow-raising 40,570 are unaffiliated or have never voted or only vote in generals. Consider how the county voted in the past two presidential elections. In 2012, for example, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by 339 votes, or about .85 percent of the vote. (The vote count was 19,707 to 19,368.) Four years earlier, Obama beat John McCain by 6,919 votes. That’s a roughly 15 percent shift in the vote.

“We pay attention, I guess,” said Karrum Nasser, 40, a restaurant owner and Democrat running for City Council, of his county’s winning streak.

As dusk fell on Election Day, the last of 8,000 voters—just 20 percent of the county’s 40,000 active voters—trickled into a polling place at a National Guard armory to vote in a tightly contested mayoral contest. Meanwhile, Nasser shilled for last-minute votes. He’s the kind of fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrat who boosted Obama over McCain in 2008, and again in 2012. He’s volunteered over the years for candidates such as Bayh. And he’s a Clinton voter. “Bernie is a little bit closer to the left than what I’d like to see,” he said, “but anyone of the Democrats would be better than the alternative on the Republican side.”

Nasser would be among the very few reliably straight-ticket voters I could find in Terre Haute. “Here, there isn’t a big wide range of thinking when it comes to politics,” said Republican Mayor Duke Bennett. In other words, forget political polarization. In Vigo County, most voters, Republican or Democrat, tend to stick to the center.

Steps away from Nasser stood 81-year-old Parker Eaton, a Republican who said he’s not afraid to split tickets. (He’s voted for presidents such as Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.) “It’s a mystery to me,” said the retired high school principal of Vigo’s bellwether status. The last time Vigo broke its streak, voting for neighboring Illinois’ Gov. Adlai Stevenson over Eisenhower in 1952, then-18-year-old Eaton got it right, voting for Eisenhower.


This year, Eaton’s already made up his mind about which 2016 candidate he will support.

“There’s only one: Trump,” he said. “The reason why, in my opinion: He spends his own money. He’s not going to have any lobbyist or any high zillionaires that he has to do favors for, and I understand Clinton has already got millions of dollars from China and Japan and all them. So who in the hell does she owe favors to? If Trump got in, he doesn’t owe anybody. I haven’t heard him say one word that I don’t agree with. I don’t think he can do a lot of the things he said, but by God, he’s saying it.”

Later that night, the mayoral election was called for Bennett, who would go on to beat his Democratic opponent, Mark Bird, by 313 votes to become the first Republican mayor in Terre Haute to win three terms in the city’s history. It was a race he won, Terre Haute Democrats would later complain, by running as a “Democrat-Republican.”

“We’ve seen a change here where the people are voting more for the person than the party,” Bennett said while pacing outside of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 85, awaiting his fate. “Just because there’s more Democrats doesn’t mean that we always vote Democratic.” It’s a trend that he believes could tip the county Republican in 2016.

Who does the Republican mayor like for president in 2016? “Obviously, Trump is kind of an outlier, and Ben Carson is, too. I think it’s wide open on the Republican side. I like Ted Cruz. He said a lot of things that make sense. I like Ben Carson, what he has to say.”


A Republican county chair walked into a union hall.

That’s not the beginning of a groaner, but a scene that actually played out at the Terre Haute Labor Council Candidate Night a week before Election Day. Randy Gentry, the Republican County Chair, received his first-ever written invitation to speak at the event. Gentry didn’t receive the warmest of receptions, but he chalked it up as progress toward turning this blue-leaning county a bit redder. “I got to break communication barriers,” he said. “You can’t lob grenades at each other and get anywhere. Could it sway somebody? It could open people’s eyes.”

Two weeks later, after the Fox Business Republican Debate in Milwaukee, Gentry and more than 60 Republicans gathered at the Grand Traverse Pie Company, situated off Bayh Way, a local thoroughfare named after the county’s first family. The optics, along with Bennett’s historic mayoral victory, pointed to the inroads Republicans are making into the traditionally Democrat stronghold.

They were there for an event called Politics and Pies, where they celebrated Bennett’s win, heard from U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Young, and talked about which 2016 presidential candidates they favored.

Over grilled cheese sandwiches, chili and chicken noodle soup and their choice of several kinds of pie, ranging from apple to cherry, the county’s Republicans were quick to mention Carson as a well-liked candidate, and a few talked fondly of Cruz and Rubio. By far, though, the candidate they liked most was Trump.

Only one Republican interviewed spoke negatively of Trump (“I think he’s a Democrat mole!” said Vernon Wester, 51, a technician, who said he liked Rubio.) No Carson supporters present were bothered by recent questions about the veracity of his biographical claims (“Not a bit,” said Phil Padgett, a facilities manager. “Let’s face it I’m 71. I tried to think back 50 years ago, and I can’t remember every detail”). No other Republican candidates were mentioned on this night. No Bush. No Chris Christie. No Mike Huckabee.

The people gathered at Grand Traverse weren’t the political neophytes and gadflies often chalked up as Trump voters. They were the kind of people who scuttled their Thursday night plans to come to a two-hour event organized by a low-key Republican county chairman. And if the Republican primary were held on this evening, and limited to Politics and Pies attendees, Trump would win, and handily.

Take Dick and Jane Ames, both 72, for example. The retired air traffic controller and insurance agent who met when they were in high school here are sold on Trump. “He said what I want to hear, and I believe him,” Jane said. “He’s such a good business person, and we need that.” (She did admit, though, that Rubio has a “a cute smile.”)

Dick said he’s not afraid to vote for a Democrat. He voted for Kennedy, after all.

“He voted for Jackie,” Jane said.

“I did,” Dick said.

But for Dick, 2016 is different. “Democrats don’t have anybody. One’s a communist, and Clinton should be in jail.”

And then there was 17-year-old Jared Potts, who wore gray contacts that turned his pupils into pinholes, who will turn 18 next September, and plans to vote for Trump in his first election in November. “He speaks his mind, and I think that might be what the country needs,” he said. “A lot of the presidents don’t really enforce what needs to happen, they just do whatever the country feels like. Other countries just say, ‘do this, do that.’ Trump is just like, ‘no, I want this.’ He doesn’t owe anybody anything. Marco Rubio is paid for. Donald Trump is a self-made person.”


Gentry, the county chair, said it’s far too early to say which candidate will win his county in Indiana’s Republican primary next May—let alone who will win the general election next fall.

But there’s one image Gentry can’t get out of his head. Sitting at the Republican booth at the Vigo County Fair this summer, he fielded endless requests for Trump campaign swag.

“All I ever heard about was Trump,” Gentry said. “The people who came into the fairgrounds said, ‘Can I have a Trump button? Can I have a Trump sign?’ At that point, he was just kind of starting this whole thing out. If you poll people on the street here, Trump would be a very strong candidate here right now. Carson’s doing really well, too. I don’t hear Rubio’s name very much here. … The top two names I hear are Trump and Carson ... but it’s so early in the process.”

Still, for a county famous for its large share of undecided voters, there is little indecision in Vigo County a year before the election.

In fact, the biggest conundrum in Vigo County Thursday among voters at Politics and Pie wasn’t about who they wanted to be the next leader of the free world. That matter was settled. It should be Trump—maybe Carson.

No, the more vexing question seemed to be about pie.

Did they want apple or cherry?

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:
But for Dick, 2016 is different. “Democrats don’t have anybody. One’s a communist, and Clinton should be in jail.”

Well, there ya go, Hil. All you need is dick to set you straight.

if true, this one will strike Rubio off the list of competitors...



As the 2016 primary continues, more leaders of the political establishment are lining up behind Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). His campaign isn’t close to Donald Trump’s in the polls, but Rubio has benefitted from former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s failures.

But now, a new investigation by a South Carolina insider lets us know that a “mistress bombshell” is about to explode! Multiple sources are confirming Marco Rubio allegedly had an affair, and it’s a Washington, D.C. lobbyist.

Supposedly, will soon see her picture everywhere! If true, this changes the landscape of the 2016 GOP primary:

Details of the forthcoming scandal are not yet clear, although the allegation involving Rubio and the female lobbyist is reportedly being leaked to “multiple mainstream media outlets” this week.

FITS showed the webpage we were provided to a presidential operative in early-voting South Carolina. This operative – who has worked on more than one presidential campaign during the current election cycle – confirmed that the woman on the webpage was “a focus” of opposition research against Rubio, however they declined to elaborate on what was uncovered.

All the operative would say was that the woman was identified by researchers during a deep dive into Rubio’s disastrous personal finances.

Trump doesn’t have to attack his competitors – they do themselves in nicely. If this proves to be true, you can write Rubio off the list of potential nominees. He’s cooked. Rubio has been vying for third place with Ted Cruz. In fact, in a number of polls now, Cruz is in second. I don’t know who is digging this up on Rubio… naturally, I would suspect Jeb Bush, but they claim to know nothing of it. According to the Daily Mail, Marco Rubio’s PAC spent more than $40,000 trying to debunk the whispers that had long haunted the Florida Republican: that he had a ‘zipper problem,’ mistresses and a love child. Two prominent Bush allies were fingered by Buzzfeed as the voices behind the anti-Rubio whisper campaign. The first was Ann Herberger, a Miami-based political fundraiser who switched teams from Rubio to Bush. The second was a more prominent face in national political circles: CNN commentator Ana Navarro. ‘They were circulating the rumors anew among donors and politicos and cautioning them to exercise due diligence before signing on with his campaign,’ wrote Coppins. Rumors are swirling… we’ll see if there is any fire where this smoke is, but Rubio looks to be in big doodoo.

Read more: http://theminorityreportblog.c...rward/#ixzz3tNCqeFt6

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Trump said this today about the Cali terrorist attack.

quote:

“When I heard about it, I figured probably not,” he said. "But it turns out, probably related."

"Radical Islamic terrorism,” he added. “We have a president who refuses to use the term. Refuses to say it. There is something going on with him that we don’t know about.”

Trump is still a birther at heart and believes Obama is a practicing Muslim.
I'm not arguing with him.

(CNN)Donald Trump is once again alone at the top of the Republican field, according to the latest CNN/ORC Poll, with 36% of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents behind him, while his nearest competitor trails by 20 points.

Three candidates cluster behind Trump in the mid-teens, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 16%, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 14% and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 12%. All other candidates have the support of less than 5% of GOP voters in the race for the Republican Party's nomination for president.

Carson (down 8 points since October), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (down 5 points to 3%) and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (down 4 points to 1%) have lost the most ground since the last CNN/ORC poll, conducted in mid-October.

Cruz (up 12 points) and Trump (up 9 points) are the greatest beneficiaries of those declines. Rubio is also up slightly, gaining 4 points -- an increase within the poll's margin of sampling error -- since the last CNN/ORC poll.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/...ll-cnn-orc-national/

I'm not sure he'd make a good President but he's sure saying things that the American people seem to want to, and need to hear.