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Originally posted by bigdeal:
You guys that fret about ole Hillary winning the White House fascinate me. Without Benghazi, without her email/server fiasco, without Bill's long history of womanizing and her attacking the woman he dallied with, she's an absolutely horrible candidate who is very beatable by even a mediocre opponent. Add all that into the equation, especially how she's polling on 'trust' by the American voter, and you have a potential landslide win for someone.

And for the record, if Hillary's email debacle spirals much farther into the realm of gross negligence and a cover up with secret information, not to mention a potential pay for play environment we aren't even talking about right now, my bet is when the FBI recommends an indictment, the DOJ will have no choice but to indict. If they don't, they risk an even bigger loss for the DEM's in the coming general if they opt to try and sweep something this huge under the rug. Ultimately, IMO the DEM's are in a no win situation with Hillary right now. If the FBI recommends an indictment and DOJ refuses, the blow back will kill her in the general election regardless who her opponent is (and that assumes she even survives the primary). If the DOJ does indict her, and Biden enters the race as has been predicted, all of Bernie's supporters revolt and boycott voting, while many independents watch turmoil in the DEM camp, and Republican super PAC video ads of Biden fondling children, groping other people's wives, and being the old, white, even less capable, reincarnation of Barry Obama.

Come on guys, let's celebrate the pain and suffering the DEM's are feeling now and that will likely grow as the general election creeps closer.

see: Obama in 2012, and countless examples in the last 20yrs.

you're a bright guy, and though we've disagreed plenty I've no doubt you're an honorable America loving person too, blunt and snarky for sure (aren't we all sometimes), but you're a fairly reasonable guy, and I simply think you're projecting yourself (the good parts) onto the average voter, which is asking for it, IMO...

the well reasoned sorts here, those who are even remotely as well informed, are a minority, and people (the plural / universal) are fucking stupid, reactionary, ill informed, and worse, often enough that I don't think it ever works out like that. sadly.

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George Will was all gloom and doom on the Hugh Hewitt radio show this week: "If the election is Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, this will be the first election since God knows when, there was no real conservative candidate.

Establishment fool. We haven't had a real conservative candidate in decades. George Will is a pussy.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Depending on how ugly this gets, I wonder if he'd even run for another term in the Senate? At some point he may just say screw it and want to be with his family in Texas. It has to wear him out being one of the few people trying to swim against the current.

if he leaves politics as a result of this election it will be a motherfucking shame, and an unnecessary shame as well.

His arrogance may be his downfall.

Sioux Center, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.

"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally here.

After the event, Trump declined to answer when asked by CNN to clarify his comments.

The GOP front-runner has repeatedly pointed to the loyalty of his supporters, many of whom tell reporters and pollsters that almost nothing could make them change their mind about voting for Trump in the presidential race.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/...y-support/index.html

Conservatives, in toto, neither the individuals nor the GOP nor the elected ones, have most assuredly *NOT* consistently opposed the Corn mafia. Sure, some have, but that article is making a bullshit argument in order to give Trump extra grief. He's on the hook for supporting it, no doubt, but it's not like "Conservatives" or the GOP or the Establishment have actually, consistently, fought against them. that author needs to be pimp slapped.

What Trump meant to say was: "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy".

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
His arrogance may be his downfall.

Sioux Center, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.

"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally here.

After the event, Trump declined to answer when asked by CNN to clarify his comments.

The GOP front-runner has repeatedly pointed to the loyalty of his supporters, many of whom tell reporters and pollsters that almost nothing could make them change their mind about voting for Trump in the presidential race.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/...y-support/index.html

He has graduated from ass clown to complete fucking idiot if he said this. He's giving ass clowns a bad name.
I can't blindly follow this jack ass.
The only viable presidential candidate? Yeah, good luck with that.
If this pretender gets in the White House the joke will be on us.

Oh, look- whining about Donald Trump and promises/predictions about yadda yadda yadda.

Gee, that's new.

The joke HAS BEEN on us since 2008. Or really longer, maybe since '88.

I love what Trump says, & how it offends some people. I'm offended daily by the socialist bullshit that I have to hear about & pay for for (forcibly), yet nobody gives a shit about that.

Depending on who he were to shoot on 5th Ave, he may GAIN votes.

I hope he continues to piss off people (wouldn't vote for a Republican anyway) all the way to the White House. I've had enough of the pussy-ass Republicans apologizing for successful people, & selling us out to the Socialist/Democrats.

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Depending on who he were to shoot on 5th Ave, he may GAIN votes.

So now trump is considering suing Cruz for fun?


Trump floats lawsuit over Cruz’s birthplace

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he may file a lawsuit over rival Ted Cruz’s eligibility for the White House.

Trump hammered Cruz to a crowd of supporters in the Iowa town of Sioux Center, just nine days before the Hawkeye State’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.

“I’ve said Ted has a lot of problems — number one, Canada. He could run for the Prime Minister of Canada and I wouldn’t even complain because he was born in Canada,” Trump joked.
“The Democrats are going to sue if he ever got the nomination within two days. There have already been two lawsuits filed, but they don’t have standing. I have standing to sue. Can you imagine if I did it? Should I do it just for fun?”

Trump added that he believes that he will defeat Cruz without the need of a legal challenge to his candidacy, which is why he probably will not sue.

"It’s probably why I want to save the legal fees," he said of his confidence in winning the GOP nomination.

"If I thought it was going to matter, maybe I would do it, maybe I wouldn’t.”

Trump also took on Cruz’s criticisms of his use of eminent domain — a line of attack the Texas senator brought up in a campaign ad Friday.

And he bashed “failing” conservative commentator Glenn Beck, who is stumping with Cruz on Saturday, making fun of his predilection for crying.

"I would much rather have Sarah Palin than Glenn Beck," he said.

"Glenn's a loser, just so you understand, this guy is a serious loser."

Trump and Cruz, once cordial on the trail, have launched frequent attacks at each other as they barrel towards a showdown at the polls. The two are battling for the lead in Iowa.

Those frustrations boiled over in a rowdy back-and-forth during the GOP debate earlier this month, where Cruz noted that under some theories, Trump wouldn’t be eligible to run for president because of his mother’s birth in Scotland.

Trump has repeatedly brought up the controversy of whether Cruz is eligible because he was born in Canada to an American mother.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...er-cruzs-birthplace#

^ Maybe one day he will figure out who his enemies are. Cruz isn't one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfO5shgwFLY

Trump begins speaking at around 46 minute mark. The Donald starts bringing the heat at about the 1:38 mark, including the remark about shooting someone in the middle of fifth avenue and getting away with it. It was in reference to how the National Review's gang of 22 writers described the loyalty of his voters.

The fact of the matter is this:
These attacks on Cruz, though unseemly, have been effective. Cruz has been damaged this week.
If Donald Trump wins in Iowa, where Cruz has a good chance, he will take New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina... and then he will probably have too much momentum to stop.

So he's a first-rate ass clown, but... he's probably right about this:
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump said at a campaign rally here.

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Originally posted by MRBTX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfO5shgwFLY

Trump begins speaking at around 46 minute mark. The Donald starts bringing the heat at about the 1:38 mark, including the remark about shooting someone in the middle of fifth avenue and getting away with it. It was in reference to how the National Review's gang of 22 writers described the loyalty of his voters.

Thanks- Call me surprised- Taken out of context.

He resonates with America and Will be the next President.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
These attacks on Cruz, though unseemly, have been effective.

I remember the report on a study published during the last Presidential campaign about “negative” political ads. It said that although most people claimed to dislike negative ads, they were actually the most effective in influencing attitudes.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Taken out of context.

Shocking!

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He has graduated from ass clown to complete fucking idiot if he said this. He's giving ass clowns a bad name.
I can't blindly follow this jack ass.
The only viable presidential candidate? Yeah, good luck with that.
If this pretender gets in the White House the joke will be on us.

Back in 1804 a Secretary of the Treasury, and a Vice President shot at each other, with one ending up dead. Talk about ass clowns.....

Unfortunately for the survivor, his policitcal career was indeed over.

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Taken out of context.

Isn't is amazing how many people see a quote and make a snap judgement? I'm guilty of it myself on occasion. But the nice thing about the internet is that you can do a quick search on the topic, and spend a few minutes verifying what you have read prior to making that judgement.

A 2011 RedState article by John Caile, entitled, "Goldilocks Republicans". Caile writes for US Carry Association.

An excellent write-up, IMHO

To be kind, I'll post the first few paragraphs with a link to the remainder.

You need only listen to the internal squabbles of conservatives over the possible candidacy of Donald Trump to see why defeating Barak Obama in 2012 will be much more difficult than we’d like to believe. Because no matter what happens on the Democrat side, including a challenge by the likes of Hillary Clinton, when election day rolls around, the Democrat lemmings will line up and punch the button for Obama – and every other candidate with a (D) after their name.

Republicans, on the other hand, will still be fretting over every little imperfection of their chosen standard bearer, right up to election day. Because, like Goldilocks, Republicans seem to be locked in a battle to find the “perfect” candidate, “not too hot, not too cold, but juuuust right” – but this is precisely the kind of thinking that yields mushy moderates like John McCain.

The Trump-bashing by Republicans is merely the latest example of conservatives “eating our young.”...

Link to article here

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Originally posted by GunFire:

The Trump-bashing by Republicans is merely the latest example of conservatives “eating our young.”... [/i]

Yes, but the latest bickering with Cruz was launched by Trump, not the other way around. It shows Trump is just as much a divider of the Republican base as any other candidate.