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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
For me it's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
For me it's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Five-time Ultimate Smackdown Champion!

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Bashing Trump:
Jeb Bush bastardizes conservatism to justify his agenda

George H.W. Bush promoted "kinder and gentler conservatism," which implied that conservatism is neither kind nor gentle. Mitt Romney said he was "severely" conservative, as if liberty and free markets can be "severe." Now it is Jeb Bush's turn to philosophically vandalize conservatism with his "Conservative Immigration Reform Agenda."

Donald Trump has introduced the idea of an immigration system which comes down to the mass deportation of 11 million people at a cost of as much as $600 billion, massive new federal powers to step on the civil liberties of ordinary Americans, and a border plan that could be best described as a fantasy.

That plan is not something a small-government conservative would put forward. It requires the federal government to manage the exorbitantly expensive mass deportation of millions of people. It also requires a massive public works project unlike anything we’ve seen since the construction of the Hoover Dam – and the federal government, as you may have noticed, hasn’t been capable of running such a project judiciously of late.

Bush provides no evidence of where his $600 billion figure comes from. In actuality, once illegals are cut off from housing, schools, medical care, and jobs, many will self-deport. He has no problem supporting the $700-billion TARP bailout for big banks, but not a small fraction of that for a border fence.

Bush also shows a total lack of understanding of what a small-government conservative is. A small-government conservative spends on only the essentials – national defense and security being the primary focus. Not hundreds of billions to bail out banks. It is precisely the security of the nation that a conservative would focus the government on. Bush seems to think that spending money to build a wall is liberal, while spending hundreds of billions for corporate welfare is conservative.

A great nation must secure its borders for national security and public health reasons. We don’t have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on fencing when we can use new technology

This is what liberals say who don't want to secure the border – that they will have video cameras and drones that will watch the illegals streaming across, and that will substitute for a border fence.

We must find a practical solution to the status of the 11 million people here illegally today. We need a vigorous path to earned legal status where people are required to learn English, pay a fine and taxes, pass a criminal background check, work and not receive federal government benefits.

And what if they don't do any of these things? Will Bush push to deport them then? Certainly not. In any event, conservatives believe in the rule of law, and these people are here illegally. Rewarding their illegality is not conservative; it's flagrant disgard for the law.

As a deeply committed conservative who has spent my adult life fighting to strengthen the Republican Party and to advance the causes of limited government and individual freedom, I am confident we will choose the path that best meets those missions.

It's offensive to hear Jeb Bush call himself, and by extension his amnesty policies, "conservative." Legalizing illegal aliens has nothing to do with limited government and individual freedom. We lose our individual freedoms when illegals rape and kill our citizens, when they take our tax dollars for "social" services, and when Spanish becomes the primary language in our kindergartens. Limited government is about attending to the security of the nation, but Jeb Bush twists it like a punch line in a joke.

His redefining of conservatism is just like what the liberals do when they redefine a man as a woman or a nuclear proliferation deal as an arms control treaty. If he's nominated, he will further dispirit voters who want a clear contrast, and we will lose again, just like with Romney and McCain.

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All of them do.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
No, there may only be a handful left, but don't lump them in with the establishment hacks like Bush. I don't care what happens that guy isn't getting my vote.

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Where are the Coolidgeans? What about dropping all those TLAs? How about hiring the bureaucrats to rebuild infrastructure instead of sitting in their asses all day rebuilding e-mail files?

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
I can't imagine how anything about "Reality TV" could be anything but disparaging.

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I’ve written before about an acquaintance—late 60s, northern Georgia, lives on Social Security, voted Obama in ’08, not partisan, watches Fox News, hates Wall Street and “the GOP establishment.” She continues to be so ardent for Mr. Trump that she not only watched his speech in Mobile, Ala., on live TV, she watched while excitedly texting with family members—middle-class, white, independent-minded—who were in the audience cheering. Is that “the Republican base”? I guess maybe it is, because she texted me Wednesday, saying: “I registered to vote today! I am a Republican now!!!” I asked if she’d ever been one before. Reply: “No, never!!!”

Something is going on, some tectonic plates are moving in interesting ways. My friend Cesar works the deli counter at my neighborhood grocery store. He is Dominican, an immigrant, early 50s, and listens most mornings to a local Hispanic radio station, La Mega, on 97.9 FM. Their morning show is the popular “El Vacilón de la Mañana,” and after the first GOP debate, Cesar told me, they opened the lines to call-ins, asking listeners (mostly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican) for their impressions. More than half called in to say they were for Mr. Trump. Their praise, Cesar told me a few weeks ago, dumbfounded the hosts. I later spoke to one of them, who identified himself as D.J. New Era. He backed Cesar’s story. “We were very surprised,” at the Trump support, he said. Why? “It’s a Latin-based market!”

“He’s the man,” Cesar said of Mr. Trump. This week I went by and Cesar told me that after Mr. Trump threw Univision’s well-known anchor and immigration activist, Jorge Ramos, out of an Iowa news conference on Tuesday evening, the “El Vacilón” hosts again threw open the phone lines the following morning and were again surprised that the majority of callers backed not Mr. Ramos but Mr. Trump. Cesar, who I should probably note sees me, I sense, as a very nice establishment person who needs to get with the new reality, was delighted.

I said: Cesar, you’re supposed to be offended by Trump, he said Mexico is sending over criminals, he has been unfriendly, you’re an immigrant. Cesar shook his head: No, you have it wrong. Immigrants, he said, don’t like illegal immigration, and they’re with Mr. Trump on anchor babies. “They are coming in from other countries to give birth to take advantage of the system. We are saying that! When you come to this country, you pledge loyalty to the country that opened the doors to help you.”

He added, “We don’t bloc vote anymore.” The idea of a “Latin vote” is “disparate,” which he said generally translates as nonsense, but which he means as “bull----.”

He finished, on the subject of Jorge Ramos: “The elite have different notions from the grass-roots working people.”

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Originally posted by oddball:
. Trump could very well be the first Reality TV President, and I don't mean that in a disparaging way.

I can't imagine how anything about "Reality TV" could be anything but disparaging.

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Originally posted by Ackks:

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All of them do.

No, there may only be a handful left, but don't lump them in with the establishment hacks like Bush. I don't care what happens that guy isn't getting my vote.

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Originally posted by EmpireState:
Looks like Megyn Kelly thought she was going to take a big swing on Donald Trump and put him down and be a hero. Looks like a swing and a miss to me!

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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Originally posted by EmpireState:
Looks like Megyn Kelly thought she was going to take a big swing on Donald Trump and put him down and be a hero. Looks like a swing and a miss to me!

No, she's married.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

Hillary's only appeal seems to be the idea of the first woman President.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Enough of that.