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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:

Trump will make all the media entities spend money on attorneys when they tread this path.

Trouble is that now, as a public figure running for office , Trump has almost no protection for libel and slander, and similar actions that the rest of us enjoy.

Legal protection, no. But Trump has a razor sharp tongue. He will slice and dice anyone who comes for him. There are so many corrupt elites that they'd be easy pickins if he set his sights on them...and they know he will. That is as effective as Mutually Assured Destruction.

As has been noted earlier in this thread, Trump is serving a valuable and entertaining purpose right now. We are far enough out that he is becoming a third rail that no one wants to touch. Those who do are fried.

All that may be true, but his lawsuits are not likely to get very far, and he should know by now to avoid making threats he isn't prepared to execute.

The media can slice and dice him almost as they please. He can hit back, through the media maybe, but eventually impotently.

The press is only free if you own one.

- July 29, 2015 - "LINK"

Shock poll: Donald Trump leads Jeb Bush 26-20% … in Florida

Read more at Saint Peters Blog

A St. Pete Polls survey released on Wednesday shows the New York businessman with 26 percent support, with Jeb Bush in second place with 20 percent.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is in third place with 12 percent, and Marco Rubio is in fourth place with 10 percent. He’s followed by Dr. Ben Carson at 5 percent, Ted Cruz and John Kasich at 4 percent, and Rand Paul at 3 percent. 16 percent are unsure or are supporting another candidate not named in the survey.

When it comes to the GOP Senate race, however, there is no clear front-runner at all, some 13 months before the primary election.

Among those who actually have an opinion, Pinellas County congressman David Jolly gets 10 percent support, with Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Jacksonville area Congressman Ron DeSantis right behind him, essentially tied at 9 percent. Lopez-Cantera gets 9.2 percent support, DeSantis 8.9 percent.

Former combat veteran and businessman Todd Wilcox gets 5 percent support (5.2%), tying him with North Florida congressman Jeff Miller (4.9%), who is not officially in the race.

But an overwhelming 61 percent say they are undecided.

That’s a change from a similar poll taken two weeks ago, where Jolly garnered 22 percent support, 10 percent more than Miller.

In terms of the reliability of this survey, Matt Florell of St. Pete Polls said his firm has had an impressive run the past three years, with several of its polls coming with the margin of error with final election results. The polling “almost always predicted the eventual winner of the election,” Florell said, citing the recent Jacksonville mayoral election and many of the general election races in 2014.

“But related to this specific poll,” he added, “I would refer back to our 2014 Democratic Primary poll and how close we were to the final results for both governor and attorney general.”

The poll of 1,902 Florida likely Republican primary voters was conducted from Saturday, July 18, 2015 to Tuesday, July 28, 2015. It was made up of a sampling of registered Republican party voters from the state of Florida, and has a 2.2% margin of error at a 95% confidence level.

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The press is only free if you own one.

That's damn right, cowboy!

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Trump on Breast milk pumping in public, Deportation of Illegals,Health care,Biden,Hillary,Sanders,Abortion And probably a few more subjects. Way to long to post. "CLICK FOR LINK"

Donald Trump surges, Jeb Bush third in new national poll
By Steven Shepard
7/30/15 6:04 AM EDT

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Donald Trump leads the GOP presidential field by a significant margin, according to a new Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday.

Fully 20 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said they would vote for Trump if the primary were held today — the largest share any single candidate has received in Quinnipiac’s seven surveys over the past two years. That puts the brash real-estate magnate ahead of the two other candidates who earn double-digit support: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 13 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10 percent.
It’s a four-way tie for fourth place — with pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio all at 6 percent. Kasich, at 5 percent, is tied for eighth place with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
That’s enough to vault Kasich into the top 10 in POLITICO’s analysis of the most recent live-caller polling of the GOP primary — and potentially onto the dais at the Fox News debate on Aug. 6. Kasich replaces former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who earned just 2 percent of the vote in the Quinnipiac poll and slipped to 11th in the POLITICO average.
DES MOINES, IA - JANUARY 24: Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore speaks to guests at the Iowa Freedom Summit on January 24, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. The summit is hosting a group of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates to discuss core conservative principles ahead of the January 2016 Iowa Caucuses.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stays at ninth in the average thanks to his 3 percent haul in Thursday’s Quinnipiac poll. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who earned 2 percent in the Quinnipiac poll, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, at 1 percent, are tied for 12th place in the POLITICO average — a full percentage point behind Kasich for the 10th-place spot.
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Gov. George Pataki also earned just 1 percent of the vote — and are all well behind in the average.
Trump’s strength in the poll comes primarily from male voters: He earns 24 percent of the vote among men. But he also leads among female voters, with 15 percent of the vote to Bush’s 12 percent and Walker’s 9 percent. (The poll was conducted July 23-28 — mostly before controversial statements by Trump’s attorney about an incident in which Trump’s ex-wife accused Trump of assaulting her, and entirely before The New York Times reported Trump had called a female attorney deposing him “disgusting” for asking to take a break so that she could use a breast pump.)
There was little ideological difference between Trump’s supporters and those of the rest of the field. He earned 23 percent of the vote among tea party supporters and 20 percent among both white evangelicals and voters who said they were “very conservative.”
OSKALOOSA, IA - JULY 25: A security team stands guard as Republican presidential hopeful businessman Donald Trump speaks heads to a press conference following a rally on July 25, 2015 in Oskaloosa, Iowa. During his last visit to the state Trump sparked controversy when he said Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a former POW, was not a war hero.
Some Republican political consultants have suggested Trump’s lead in the polls is inflated because the surveys don’t screen out Republicans or independents who are less likely to vote — or barred from participating in their particular states.
In the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton maintains her wide advantage over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 55 percent to 17 percent — with Vice President Joe Biden, who was included in the survey, at 13 percent. That is statistically unchanged from two months ago, when Clinton led Sanders, 57 percent to 15 percent. (Biden has not indicated he is running, though he has not ruled it out.)
But there are warning signs for Clinton beyond the primary. Her favorability rating reached an all-time low in the new survey: 41 percent. Fully half of voters now view her unfavorably. Among male voters, only one in three views her favorably — and female voters are split on Clinton: 47 percent favorable, 43 percent unfavorable.
Two months ago, similar percentages of all voters viewed her favorably (45 percent) and unfavorably (47 percent).
Clinton now runs neck-and-neck with the top GOP contenders other than Trump, whom she would defeat, the poll shows. Bush leads Clinton by 1 percentage point, while she edges Walker by 1 point. But she would beat Trump by 12 points.
Biden runs virtually even with Clinton against the Republicans, while Sanders would trail Bush and Walker each by 5 points.
MYRTLE BEACH, SC - JANUARY 16: Workers prepare the stage for the Fox News/Wall Street Journal/South Carolina GOP debate at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center on January 16, 2012 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The presidential candidates continue to campaign for votes as the January 21, 2012 primary day approaches. (P
As for Trump, a 59 percent majority of voters views him unfavorably, with 27 percent who have a favorable opinion. But his image ratings have actually improved over the past two months: In Quinnipiac’s late May poll — taken before he announced his candidacy — just 20 percent viewed him favorably, and 69 percent viewed him unfavorably.
The poll of 1,644 self-identified registered voters carries an overall margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. Subsamples of 681 Democrats and 710 Republicans have margins of error of plus or minus 3.8 and 3.7 percentage points, respectively.

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Fully 20 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said they would vote for Trump if the primary were held today — the largest share any single candidate has received in Quinnipiac’s seven surveys over the past two years. That puts the brash real-estate magnate ahead of the two other candidates who earn double-digit support: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 13 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10 percent.

This is good news for Scott Walker.

Some things I like about Trump. First and foremost, he doesn't have his hand out begging me for money. I can "support" him just by saying I like what he's saying. And I don't need to send a check to the other idiots. The ones with their hands out become very vulnerable because we all think they're on the take. And we'd be right. If Trump does nothing else, he'll shift the debates to honesty.

And what else do I have to do between now and November of next year? Saying I support the the guy tossing hand grenades doesn't cost me a thing. Besides, I'm out of "tossing" range. But I can enjoy the suffering of the other candidates who are probably terrified.

None of the bastards on the Democratic side are worthy of any consideration at all. If they were all to die, we'd be better off. I can't say that about all the Republicans. But its true of most of them.

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Fully 20 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said they would vote for Trump if the primary were held today — the largest share any single candidate has received in Quinnipiac’s seven surveys over the past two years. That puts the brash real-estate magnate ahead of the two other candidates who earn double-digit support: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 13 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 10 percent.

This is good news for Scott Walker.

And yet he has done essentially no campaigning nationwide. I suspect that when he really begins he's going to run away from the pack. Or at least I hope so.

Donald Trump Just Announced His Pick for Attorney General.....Trey Gowdy !!

Me thinks Ol' Donald has both parties scrambling.


http://www.thepoliticalinsider...rys-worst-nightmare/

A President who is unafraid to surround himself with people smarter than he and willing to listen to them is the exact right recipe for success in the position. We have seen the opposite for 8 years.....

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Donald Trump Just Announced His Pick for Attorney General.....Trey Gowdy !!

Me thinks Ol' Donald has both parties scrambling.


http://www.thepoliticalinsider...rys-worst-nightmare/

I wonder if he talked to Gowdy about that.

I'll bet he would put together a hell of a cabinet

Trump is exceeding my expectations as a pot-stirrer. This is all very good for us.

And what happened with all the controversy and outrage over his remarks about McCain and illegals? The Donald is looking damn near bullet proof right about now.

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Donald Trump Just Announced His Pick for Attorney General.....Trey Gowdy !!

Me thinks Ol' Donald has both parties scrambling.


http://www.thepoliticalinsider...rys-worst-nightmare/

Now that is a great pick!

The media is shitting all over themselves trying to sling mud and none is sticking. I have seen headlines in the last few days ranging from marital rape to linking his sons to big game hunting in Africa in the wake of the Cecil firestorm. This is fun to watch on so many fronts

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Donald Trump Just Announced His Pick for Attorney General.....Trey Gowdy !!

Me thinks Ol' Donald has both parties scrambling.


http://www.thepoliticalinsider...rys-worst-nightmare/

Who's going to tell Gowdy?

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Obama will after he reads about it in the paper.

Sharpton throwing the race card now, what are they going to do when this old stand by doesn't work?


http://www.businessinsider.com...acebook-posts-2015-7


A Trump advisor text masked the word nigger, in a Facebook post back in 2007, in a reference to a 3rd party's intention to use the word about Sharpton's daughter. So clearly this somehow proves that Trump is a racist

It occurs to me that the media seems to still take the business of selecting a President very seriously, while modern American culture may be treating it as another reality tv show, a la "American Idol."

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It occurs to me that the media seems to still take the business of selecting a President very seriously, while modern American culture may be treating it as another reality tv show, a la "American Idol."

Perhaps thats got something to do with the king of reality shows being a candidate.