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No more Mr. Nice Guy |
I don't know if he will or not, but with him I certainly wouldn't rule it out. It's obvious he's still got very liberal leanings, but should he win the nomination I still have to vote for him in the general and just hope that he really has changed his opinion on some things. It's still very scary what he would use his pen to impose. He'll likely be a huge disaster, but Hillary would definitely be a disaster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem with our Liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan | |||
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A Grateful American |
I heard on the internet that Mark Kelly has Gabby Giffords coaching her speeches. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Never underestimate the importance of Senate, House and state-level races. Good results there are either gravy or a failsafe, but cannot possibly hurt. | |||
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  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Trump Is Going To Break Your Heart Kurt Schlichter As a young man, I learned that sometimes that hot chick you're dating is also completely crazy and, as much fun as it is to go out with her, it's going to end badly. That's Donald Trump, the super hottie of the "I Hate the GOP Establishment with a Burning Passion That Has Rendered Me Insusceptible to Reason" crew. He's sexy, he likes to party, and he certainly puts out – in the sense that he fulfills your fantasies about giving it to the RINOs good and hard. That intensely troubling metaphor aside, the point is still valid. Donald Trump is not a keeper, not the one you want to marry. He’s never going to make you happy. For now, he's going to say what makes you happy, and for now he's going to make a lot of the right people go nuts, but if you get hitched he’ll cheat on you with the liberals. At the end of the day, you’ll walk out of the courtroom wearing a barrel while Trump and the pool boy jet off to Tahiti on your dime. Figuratively. I get the attraction. He ticks off Barack Obama, he outrages Hillary Clinton, and he gives Jeb Bush conniptions. This is all fine and good. He often says the stuff you’re not supposed to say but that most normal people think. Sometimes he says stuff no sane person thinks. He’s fun at parties, except that after he has a few and puts the lampshade on his head he stops being amusing and starts picking fights with your friends. Look, on the Playboy centerfold list of turn-ons of every true conservative, making mainstream media dorks spasm like roaches after a spritz of Raid is right up there with long walks and sincere people. And it’s even better since they have to have to cover him because they need his ratings, and so they must talk about him endlessly even though it makes them want to die. And anybody who makes mainstream media people want to die can't be all bad. Pretend I’m your buddy and we’re at a bar and I’m the guy who, among your friends, drew the short straw and has to tell you that your girlfriend is the antichrist. And, Trump people, I am your friend. You, by and large, aren’t traditional conservatives like I am, but you’re hard-working, loyal patriots, veterans and cops, the people who defended this country and who built it regardless of what that fool in the White House says. We agree on much more than we disagree on, and if I was back in a foxhole I’d choose one of you as a battle buddy any day over those simpering GOPe femboys or, heaven forbid, some safe space-dwelling liberal. But I gotta be straight with you – Trump’s bad news, and everyone else sees it. He’s using you, and he’s going to toss you away when he’s done and never look back. Break it off before it’s too late – this is just a fling, and if it keeps up one day you're going to find your wallet missing and probably your car too. And you’ll wake up with a political rash. Donald Trump is out for one thing, Donald Trump's personal aggrandizement. He cares nothing about you. He cares nothing about your aspirations and dreams. Don't misunderstand him when he pays attention to you. He's just trying to get what he wants from you, an earthshattering ego stroke. Trump believes in nothing, which is why he will say anything. That’s why he's all over the map, varying his positions not only year-to-year, month-to-month, week-to-week, but even hour-to-hour. First he wants to send all Mexicans home, then maybe not all Mexicans, then yes, all Mexicans, then no, not the great ones. The same with Muslims. One minute it's every Muslim gets excluded, then the next minute no, we're going to let some of them back. Who knows what will be tomorrow. I do – whatever gets him the most attention. When he dumps you, when he goes back to the New York liberal roots that are at the core of his being and starts talking about how he’s decided to switch back to his old positions, that it’s reasonable to take your guns, to liberalize immigration, and to keep Obamacare, you're going to feel like fools. You're going to be humiliated. And the GOP establishment, which is terrible, is going to be looking at you saying, “I told you so.” You can do better. The failures of the Republican donor and consultant class created Donald Trump. They made you furious, and you have every right to be furious. They have treated you like dirt and it’s no surprise you picked up The Donald on the rebound. But the answer to being treated like a doormat by a bunch of buttoned-down twits is not to embrace somebody who believes in exactly nothing of what you believe in. You can totally do better. There are plenty of fish in the sea, and they aren’t all named Jeb. Trump doesn't want to make America great. He doesn’t want to make you great. He wants to make you tell him that he's great. He doesn't love you, any more than the stripper in the Champagne Room loves you when you’ve still got money in your wallet. Sure, that's another deeply disturbing image, but not as deeply disturbing as the image of Donald Trump taking his ego trip on the road in a third-party or otherwise ensuring the election of Hillary Clinton. Just like a gold-digging tramp might leave you with a little something that all the antibiotics in the world can't cure, Donald Trump may leave you with Hillary Clinton, and that means the end of everything you say you stand for. Don't give Donald Trump your heart. He's only going to break it. http://townhall.com/columnists...t-n2092525/page/full "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Ridiculous. Somebody had a deadline to meet and turned in their article. Beyond that, what I see in the previous post is worthless. We can do better? We can always do better, but if you think people are going to suddenly say "Oh, now I don't like Trump and let's get someone else", you're crazy. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Kurt Schlichter's column is kind of funny.... but I don't think the nomination of Trump would mean the election of Hillary. A Trump/Cruz ticket would likely win, IMO. I still think that the biggest value of Trump in the race has been shaking things up so much that Jeb's cakewalk didn't happen. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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I read that article the other day. I thought it was cleverly written and I don't necessarily disagree with the author. But he doesn't know anything more than anyone on this board knows about Trumps real motivations. I've said before I think he's a roll of the dice. He could be the right person at the right time to turn this country back from where it's going to the greatness it has been. Or once in he could pull the mask off to find he's Donald Clinton. I will feel much better if Cruz is on the ticket with him or him on the ticket with Cruz. I think the former is much more likely as I don't think Trump is in this to be VP no more than he wants to build 12 unit motels. I think Cruz as Trump's VP would be the most involved and most important VP this country has ever had. I think a combination of the two would get every republican, conservative and independent and maybe a few democrats off their asses and out to pull the lever for them. I think that ticket would crush Hillary regardless of who is on the ticket with her. And that is what this is all about. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Or, given Trump's personality, Cruz could be the loneliest man in DC. Supreme egomaniacs suck all the oxygen out of the room for everyone else. Think Jerry Jones here, or in Religious terms, submission to the will of The Donald. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Like I said. A roll of the dice. Or once he's in he could realize the gravity of the office and the responsibility of it and rely heavily on Cruz's counsel. We simply won't know until we get there. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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The rise of Donald Trump, in one easy to understand image.  “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| would not care to elaborate  |
The debate the other night illustrates what has already been seen many times over, Trump doesn't play by the politicians' rules...he's making his own. In the process he's embarrassing them and suggesting they just quit. Rough paraphrase, 'Jeb's campaign is a disaster, no-one cares'. Hillary will need to be very creative to beat Trump. She has some time to work on it, but I predict a landslide win for Trump in the general election. | |||
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Seriously unhinged. | |||
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Twitter had a field day with ol MM today Small sample:      “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Edge seeking Sharp blade! |
He thinks he's as brave as the POW US officer who told the germans "we are all jews" when he shielded them from likely execution. | |||
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BamaJeepster, those are great, especially the Purple Crayons one. | |||
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The Joy Maker |
Latest episode of the Adam Carolla Show Trump called in, I'll be listening to that tonight. Yesterday he had Ted Cruz on. Go ahead and get it at AdamCarolla.com or find it on the iTunes under Carolla Digital. 
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
And scrabbling desperately for relevance. Do you get the feeling that someone has a big property tax bill coming up? | |||
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