I put my money where my mouth goes, and donated to Trump today. This is my first ever political donation. well below the $2700 max, but it is a start. Happy with Trump- below is commentary on the system not on the candidate
I am part of a very unhappy electorate, and heading to another unhappy electorate tonight. Go Brexit Go is what I'll be chanting tomorrow.
There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the helpless. - Mark Twain The Gilded Age
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June 22, 2016, 09:44 AM
egregore
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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan: Politico reporting that his VP short list is topped by Chris Christie and Newt Gringrich,with Sessions a distant third.
Well, that makes one of us who cares what Politico has to say about anything.
June 22, 2016, 10:06 AM
jimmy123x
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Originally posted by dewhorse: He is not stupid enough to pick another OWG (Old white guy)
He needs a young and hungry female, one that will take great pleasure in tearing the hildabeast up and appeals to 30-45yo females.
Mccain tried that with Sarah Palin and it didn't work too well. I think Trump is unique enough that he needs someone that both appeals to a different demographic and also ties more into the party.
June 22, 2016, 10:18 AM
sdy
Rubio announced he will run for reelection as Florida senator.
June 22, 2016, 10:27 AM
parabellum
Here's a crazy idea- how 'bout choosing a VP candidate based upon their qualifications, and not on their sex or their skin color? If it turns out to a white male, that should be the choice.
June 22, 2016, 10:30 AM
ChicagoSigMan
I wonder if he is looking at Tom Cotton?
Haven't heard any reporting about it, but I hope the Senator is on his list.
June 22, 2016, 10:31 AM
parabellum
"Trump picks Cotton" would make for a great headline, and lots of jokes.
But some on the right see a double-standard at play. The conservative news site Hot Air posed a hypothetical on Tuesday:
Can you imagine the coverage we'd be seeing if someone had attempted to shoot Hillary Clinton? The same could be said if it had happened with Barack Obama in the summer of 2008. Questions would be debated on air for weeks on end about the evil lurking in the hearts of men and why someone would be so desperate to prevent the election of the first black or female president. But when someone plots for more than a year to kill Trump, travels across the country to find an opportunity and then launches his attempt, it creates barely a ripple in the media pond.
June 22, 2016, 11:04 AM
Leemur
Since Hillary wants Trump's tax records so badly he should email them to her.
June 22, 2016, 11:18 AM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by parabellum: "Trump picks Cotton" would make for a great headline, and lots of jokes.
Hehe, that reminded me of this meme:
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
June 22, 2016, 01:06 PM
JALLEN
Those who have wanted a candidate who would attack the God Damned Commie are sure getting their money's worth.
"I'm with You!" Bazinga!
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
June 22, 2016, 02:54 PM
feersum dreadnaught
NPR: ‘Trump Just Gave the Speech Republicans Have Been Waiting 20 Years to Hear’
National Public Radio political correspondent Mara Liasson praised Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday for its effective attacks on Hillary Clinton, calling it “the speech Republicans have been waiting 20 years to hear.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee delivered a 41-minute address from his skyscraper in New York, attacking his Democratic rival for corrupt deals while at the State Department, and responding to her own sharp attack on his economic policies the day before.
Liasson writes that while the Clinton campaign was already disputing the particulars of Trump’s argument, he had made the case against Clinton in a way Republicans have been unable to do, and which the media have refused to allow. In so doing, she says, he may have helped unify the Republican Party behind his candidacy, while setting aside two weeks of missteps:
The speech will be fact-checked, and before it was even delivered, the Clinton campaign and its allies were pushing back with a detailed rebuttal. Nevertheless, the political significance of the speech is undeniable. After wasting the first six weeks of his time as the presumptive nominee of the GOP — getting sidetracked almost daily by petty personal feuds and provocative statements — Trump finally laid out a case against Clinton on foreign and domestic policy.
This speech should quiet some of the angst inside Republican circles about the quality of the campaign Trump is running (or not running). Opposition to the Clintons is one of the strongest strands in the GOP’s DNA — and now that decades-long animus seems to have found a focused champion in Donald Trump.
It’s the speech Republicans have been itching to hear, in a crystallized way, since the 1990s. Trump gave them exactly what they wanted and likely quelled some fears about his candidacy. They might not be totally behind him, but Republicans are virulently opposed to her.
She added that Trump had returned to his successful theme from the primaries: offering himself as the candidate of change.
There's the messenger and there's the message. When Trump's campaign becomes about the messenger-- himself-- and his latest squabble-- he stalls or even sinks. When he gets back to message, he is dynamite.
He should be hitting crooked Hillary every day in every way. The woman trails behind her a swamp of scandal and corruption.
"You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."
June 22, 2016, 03:39 PM
MNSIG
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Originally posted by justjoe:When he gets back to message, he is dynamite.
True. He delivers a prepared speech very well, but really wanders and gets himself into trouble off the cuff.
June 22, 2016, 04:00 PM
parabellum
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Liasson writes that while the Clinton campaign was already disputing the particulars of Trump’s argument, he had made the case against Clinton in a way Republicans have been unable to do...
Excuse me?????
"unable"? The word 'unable' implies that these pussies had actually made some sort of effort to make the case. GMAFB
Now the Twitterverse is going nuts over the picture of Trump with Jerry Falwell Jr in his office, standing in front of picture frames with all the magazine covers Trump has been on, one of which is Playboy!
Hardly pornographic, it's from 25+ years ago, and the woman is wearing more than many TV anchor babes wear now.
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
June 22, 2016, 05:45 PM
James in Denver
Don't know if this has been posted yet (and I hope I don't break Para's rules about finances), but I just donated.
---------------------------- "Voldemorte himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!" Book 6 - Ch 23
June 22, 2016, 05:46 PM
rusbro
^^^^That's quite a vigorous game of pocket pool going on there.This message has been edited. Last edited by: parabellum,
