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Seeker of Clarity |
Am I the only one who doesn't believe any of them for having belief or conviction in any of their positions? If pressure and popular opinion and/or circumstances put them in a tough enough spot, I believe they'll flip, or at least bend. I think maybe Sanders truly believes. But that's a bad thing so, I don't necessarily want the most honest man in this race.  So this leads to the question, how do you pick? Well there you have to go with their current default path. And for that, Trump is exhibiting some pretty "right" stuff. Do I think he believes it? No. But I don't think he truly believed anything he said on taped and papers dug up from the past either. This presidential race is a circus, but guess it's wrong to believe it hasn't been the same in the past. I do wish we had better choices. I can't say I like the candidate.  | |||
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Happily Retired |
Yup, today is the day. Hot damn. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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| Avoiding slam fires  |
I started voting way back in the sixties,that said ,I am excited this time. That excitement I have never felt till Trump. This time it is not the ho hum bullshit the rnc has pushed down my throat like so many elections in the past. I have never voted early till this time. Looking forward to him tearing rnc a new asshole. | |||
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| Banned |
I too, have been voting since 1967, never missed an election. This year I am going to the Minnesota Republican Caucus to support and speak for Cruz. To me, he is in no way the perfect candidate but the least of the three evils. I will let it be known that I will support the hell out of whoever is nominated and would vote for toe fungus before I vote for Clinton. BTW, why do most refer to the male candidates by their last name and the lone female by her first? (Except for Sanders, of course) | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Although I believe many of the voters feel this way, it is increasingly apparent that the powers that be in Washington don't. Whether it be Trump or Cruz as the nominee they will try to derail either in hopes of a Hilary win. This will allow them to say "see, you NEED to keep voting for us to stay in Congress so we can keep her in check the next four years!". If their guy Rubio is not on the ballot come November, their support will be non-existent. | |||
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| I'll try to be brief |
But it is not Trump's turn, dammit. He has to wait his turn. | |||
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| Member |
I hear that the Washington Post is coming out with an article that reveals that Trump dyes his hair. Desperate times for desperate measures. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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| wishing we were congress |
now Paul Ryan is attacking Trump about the fabricated KKK horseshit We have fallen a long long way in this country. I don't know how much we can take back, but I am ready for the fight. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I've been seeing articles and posts on FB and elsewhere that a panicked, desperate GOP Establishment may try an end-run around Trump with some brokered convention chicanery? They better not play around with some dirty, Democrat-style, backroom deal bullshit or they are going to piss off millions of people here! | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
What are we talking about? The David Duke endorsement? | |||
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Now in Florida |
Good read from Ben Domenech at The Federalist: Thunderdome: Gone Savage For Trump On Face the Nation this Sunday, I attempted to explain the 2016 cycle in 40 seconds. Pull back from the close ups on Donald J. Trump’s tweets, and the political realignment we are experiencing becomes obvious and impossible to ignore. The post-Cold War left-right politics of the nation have been breaking down in slow motion for two decades. They are now being replaced by a different type of inside-outside politics. The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out. It won’t work. But this is where our politics are going: working and middle class Americans are reasserting themselves against a political and cultural establishment that has become completely discredited over time and due to their own actions. Of course, as one more sign of how weak the establishment is, elected Republicans are the last people in the world to understand what’s going on. “While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. “Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches. He has reminded colleagues of his own 1996 re-election campaign, when he won comfortably amid President Bill Clinton’s easy re-election. Of Mr. Trump, Mr. McConnell has said, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock,” according to his colleagues.” This is madness, of course. Assuming he is the nominee, attacking Trump and embracing Hillary Clinton by extension will hurt you both with Trump supporters and with conventional conservatives. Instead, Republican Senators should run as principled conservatives who will keep President Trump honest. If you had said a year ago that the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president was endorsed in the same weekend by Jeff Sessions and Chris Christie, it would sound like a big tent kind of candidate, wouldn’t it? Well, the Republican Party is a big tent party, and it is adapting to be a bigger tent – encompassing supporters of Paul Ryan and of Donald Trump. This is not a temporary adjustment. It is a new reality, as Angelo Codevilla writes today. “America is now ruled by a uniformly educated class of persons that occupies the commanding heights of bureaucracy, of the judiciary, education, the media, and of large corporations, and that wields political power through the Democratic Party. Its control of access to prestige, power, privilege, and wealth exerts a gravitational pull that has made the Republican Party’s elites into its satellites. “This class’s fatal feature is its belief that ordinary Americans are a lesser intellectual and social breed. Its increasing self-absorption, its growing contempt for whoever won’t bow to it, its dependence for votes on sectors of society whose grievances it stokes, have led it to break the most basic rule of republican life: deeming its opposition illegitimate.” Democrats and Republicans who still think that this is a phase – a fever they just need to wait out before a return to normalcy – are utterly delusional. They keep talking about voters “waking up” to realize that Trump is a bad choice – but the whole reason Trump is the choice is because voters believe they have woken up to the truth about the American leadership class. The old order is breaking down, thanks to Iraq. Katrina. The financial crisis. The failed stimulus. Obamacare’s launch. The Tea Party. Occupy Wall Street. Sanders. Trump. The American people are trying to find a new way, and they are looking for outsiders to lead them through the wasteland. To the establishment, this breakdown looks like chaos. It looks like savagery. It looks like a man with a flamethrowing guitar playing death metal going a hundred miles an hour down Fury Road. But to the American people, it looks like democracy. Something new will replace the old order, and there are a host of smart, young leaders on all sides who must prove they have the capability to figure out how to create or retrofit institutions that can represent and channel this new energy. In ten years, the Republican and Democratic parties may still exist – but they could look as different from what they were in 2012 as the difference between Tower Records and iTunes. | |||
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| wishing we were congress |
yes http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/...trump-kkk/index.html House Speaker Paul Ryan called out Donald Trump on Tuesday for failing to denounce white supremacist groups over the weekend. "If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices," Ryan told reporters on Capitol Hill. Congressional Democrats also began to seize on the issue Tuesday to argue that Trump's views represented his party as a whole. "The leading Republican presidential candidate's refusal to disavow the KKK was a breathtaking low-point for our country," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. "Yet while Donald Trump's radical agenda does not reflect the values of the American people, it is a perfect reflection of many in the House Republican Conference." In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday, Trump declined to disavow support from David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, claiming he didn't know anything about the group. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Then, it's a non-issue. | |||
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Bald Headed Squirrel Hunter |
Paul Ryan has no right to criticize anyone after he gave away the store. bastard. Paul Ryan is one of the reasons republicans are voting for Trump. We are tired of republicans like Paul Ryan.  "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" | |||
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| wishing we were congress |
I posted an article and then saw that ChicagoSigMan had already posted it above. That is a very good article. I didn't understand the sentence "It won't work". That seemed out of place or maybe I am missing something. But other than that it reflects my view of "a new reality". | |||
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| Ammoholic |
"The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out. It won’t work." What he is saying is that Trump is the beta-test of a cure that we are trying out and that the cure won't work. I hope he is wrong about that, but only time will tell. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Jesus H Christmas.
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| Bald Headed Squirrel Hunter |
^^^ I'll tell everyone how I voted today....I voted for Cruz, but if this underhanded shit plays out and Trump is denied the nomination, I will vote for Hillary....and every other Democratic candidate after that. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
If the Party pulls some monkey business, regarding any candidate, I will spend the rest of my days trying to (peacefully, legally) destroy them at every single turn. I will not, under any circumstances, tolerate some fuckfaces usurping the will of the people by some backroom machinations intended to maintain the status quo. From my perspective, all eyes are on the RNC and those currently in power. They will either let the election happen or they will reveal themselves as traitors, in my opinion. | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Did not Mitch Mc Stupid say he would rather let a democraP be put in the white house than Trump? I think that says it all. If Trump gets elected, I wonder what the GOPe in the house and senate will do. Side with the democraPs on every issue, just to make Trump's job as hard as possible? Would not put it past him, or the rest of the GOPe either. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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