Trump supporters and Republicans in general should ask themselves.
"Do you think a billionaire is going to change how things are done in the party of billionaires?"
I get that people like him because he does not sound like a typical politician (EG Hillary, Bush and Cruz).
He was born into a wealthy eat coast family. Has long rubbed elbows with east coast liberal elites. His sister is a federal judge. He is the status quo. It is not in his interest to upset the apple cart.
At this point in time the GOP base really ought to abandon the GOP and actually start another party. Not a Koch funded Tea Party charade.
"Do you think a billionaire is going to change how things are done in the party of billionaires?"
I get that people like him because he does not sound like a typical politician (EG Hillary, Bush and Cruz).
He was born into a wealthy eat coast family. Has long rubbed elbows with east coast liberal elites. His sister is a federal judge. He is the status quo. It is not in his interest to upset the apple cart.
At this point in time the GOP base really ought to abandon the GOP and actually start another party. Not a Koch funded Tea Party charade.
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If we reflect on the Republican plan to take back the White House, which was to cripple government and blame it on Obama, solicit candidates from every fringe group in the Republican Party, focus on a common goal that focused on Obama's lack of action, which they facilitated, and incriminate Hillary as being untrustworthy; then coalless around one candidate like Jeb Bush and win. What happened is Trump entered the race. Now the Republicans are stuck with an embarrassment they will be forced to support. My fear is, what will happen to America if he is President? He may be successful in conning a greedy uneducated electorate, but he doesn't fool the rest of the world. Hopefully, there are enough sensible people out there that can see a Trump America is no better than a Trump tie, steak, or expensive building called Trump Towers.
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The only answer to Trump or Clinton....is a Third Party candidate..
and I suggest Michael Bloomberg...former Mayor of New York City.
and I suggest Michael Bloomberg...former Mayor of New York City.
I'm no fan of Donald Trump, but I find it really annoying how the mainstream media decides to push narratives based on the wishes of wealthy funders instead of just doing its job and reporting the facts. First we had to endure endless praise for Jeb Bush, whose candidacy went nowhere. Then it was Carly Fiorina. And of course, locally, it was Chris Christie. None of this had to do with real poll numbers, but there was money behind these candidates so they got media play. Now it's Rubio. Except that voters DO NOT WANT HIM. Yes, we get that the establishment and the billionaires do. But clearly a majority of Republican voters do not. So stop pushing him, media. Just report the facts. Please. There's more than enough to cover if you do that. Like: you could have called out Donald Trump's racist, nativist campaign launch last year and tied it to his birther comments about President Obama. Instead, the media acted as if none of this were too serious, and now they're shocked, shocked that he's leading the GOP race. If we had a real media we might actually be a lot better off as a country.
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"With strong support from low-income white voters, especially those without college degrees, he dominated in moderate, secular-leaning..." This exactly what Obama did except his were blacks and hispanics.
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Americans want Camelot all over again. Instead of Hyannisport, they'll have Palm Beach, where the Kennedy's liked to recreate, esp. William Kennedy Smith and Teddy in his boxer shorts, drink in hand, warming up for Au Bar. Mar-A-Lago, the Florida White House. Step up to elegance, Democrats. Lose the hair shirts and wet blankets. Make America swank again.
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I've seen Trump supporters assault, spit, and yell at those who oppose him at rallies. To see one or two persons standing up for what they believe in or simply just standing by while being black or brown provoke such hatred and rage is frightening. It's a scary thing to watch. There seems to be no line that cannot be crossed.
What makes the GOP think that they can steal an election and anoint their rightful heir? I'm progressive through and through, but not at the cost of democracy and what remains of our political process. If Trump wins popular support, but loses at the convention because a blockade of Republican super delegates...it's not too extreme for me to say that we may well see fire and chaos in our cities.
What makes the GOP think that they can steal an election and anoint their rightful heir? I'm progressive through and through, but not at the cost of democracy and what remains of our political process. If Trump wins popular support, but loses at the convention because a blockade of Republican super delegates...it's not too extreme for me to say that we may well see fire and chaos in our cities.
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Has Debbie Wasserman Schultz ended her period of mourning yet? We all grieve differently, right? Especially in Boca Raton, just down Federal Highway a bit from Mar-a-Lago.
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I grew up in York County, PA about two hours west of Philadelphia. Two things about the place: my grandmother always said it was a southern county that just happened to be north of the Mason-Dixon Line and that residents would vote for the devil if he had an "R" behind his name. I am glad I had the sense to move away; it may actually happen this year.
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I just love York choco mints, and Harley Davidson's built in York, too. I also miss my grandmom.
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Peppermint Patties YES.
Looking ahead, I hope the Trump campaign is paying attention to the selection of actual Republican presidential electors, because there is yet another (though somewhat wacky) way for Rubio to prevail. According to the National Archives, electors are chosen by the state party central committee (i.e., the establishment) or the state convention and "are often chosen to recognize service and dedication to their political party" (again, the establishment). Now, assume a close election in which Trump has a slender electoral college majority. A number of "faithless electors" who are disgusted with Trump defect and vote for Rubio, denying Trump his majority. (The Archives notes that many states do not mandate how their electors vote.) So now the names of the top three electoral-college vote-getters (assume Trump, Clinton, and Rubio) are submitted to the House of Representatives, in which for this purpose each state has one vote. Republicans would typically control a large majority of state delegations, and possibly enough establishment Republican congressmen would rather deal with Rubio than Trump and would put Rubio over the top. "It can't happen here?" In 1836, faithless Virginia electors refused to vote for Richard Johnson as vice president, denying him an electoral college majority and throwing the choice to the U.S. Senate, which elected him anyway.
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Donald Trump is a liberal and some of us know that. He just has the skills to make as he says "I love the under educated," want to vote for him. I bet he and his team have had some good laughs at his followers along the way. Just what we need, another "uniter." That last uniter worked out so well.
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I do not understand why people are voting for Trump, he has not knowledge of anything he can do more damage to our country than good.
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To Adriana Mullen,
I'm not a pundit/analyst, etc., so my understanding of Trump's appeal is anecdotal, based on what others I know have been willing to express.
Sadly, some of the appeal is racist. Trump represents "us". Other politicians, Obama in particular, represent "them" i.e. Mexican, Muslim, foreign etc. Thus, his references to "little Marco" (Rubio) who sweats a lot and repeats himself when he speaks.
Most middle class people are struggling, and actually doing worse than just 10 - 20 or so years ago. The wealthy, and near wealthy, are prospering. That breeds anger, and anger seeks quick fixes - walls, deportation (though that's not so quick a process), bans on immigrants, tear up trade deals etc. - basically "elect me and I'll fix ..." fill in the blank with almost any pressing problem.
Whether latently or overtly, some of his supporters want an authoritarian figure, even if he can't fulfill his promises. China, Mexico, Iran won't push us around anymore, we'll start pushing them around, and they'll have to like it or lump it.
Finally, he promises to make America "great again" - a take off on "morning in America" - an America free of political correctness, an America of armed citizens fending off the enemy, an America where crude and vulgar behavior is acceptable, because those at whom it is directed deserved it all along, and only he has the courage to dish it out.
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I'm not a pundit/analyst, etc., so my understanding of Trump's appeal is anecdotal, based on what others I know have been willing to express.
Sadly, some of the appeal is racist. Trump represents "us". Other politicians, Obama in particular, represent "them" i.e. Mexican, Muslim, foreign etc. Thus, his references to "little Marco" (Rubio) who sweats a lot and repeats himself when he speaks.
Most middle class people are struggling, and actually doing worse than just 10 - 20 or so years ago. The wealthy, and near wealthy, are prospering. That breeds anger, and anger seeks quick fixes - walls, deportation (though that's not so quick a process), bans on immigrants, tear up trade deals etc. - basically "elect me and I'll fix ..." fill in the blank with almost any pressing problem.
Whether latently or overtly, some of his supporters want an authoritarian figure, even if he can't fulfill his promises. China, Mexico, Iran won't push us around anymore, we'll start pushing them around, and they'll have to like it or lump it.
Finally, he promises to make America "great again" - a take off on "morning in America" - an America free of political correctness, an America of armed citizens fending off the enemy, an America where crude and vulgar behavior is acceptable, because those at whom it is directed deserved it all along, and only he has the courage to dish it out.
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He has a greater understanding of how to negotiate a trade deal beneficial to American workers than all the members of both parties combined. Who of the following would you rather have sit down with the Chinese:
Sanders who won't even say something negative about Hillary to her face; Clinton who will be dealing based on her own personal interests after she leaves office; or Trump who knows how to actually cut a deal that isn't harmful to his (soon to be his country's) interests?
Sanders who won't even say something negative about Hillary to her face; Clinton who will be dealing based on her own personal interests after she leaves office; or Trump who knows how to actually cut a deal that isn't harmful to his (soon to be his country's) interests?
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This was and is his purpose in running in the first place. Suppress any and all
legitimate Conservative GOP candidate and split the party. Thereby giving the
Presidency to Hillary. The controllers of this nation and it's ,"elections," cannot
allow all their work done so far to go to wrack and ruin. Dirty tricks for sure and we saw these in the last two "elections."
legitimate Conservative GOP candidate and split the party. Thereby giving the
Presidency to Hillary. The controllers of this nation and it's ,"elections," cannot
allow all their work done so far to go to wrack and ruin. Dirty tricks for sure and we saw these in the last two "elections."
I just noticed this a few minutes ago, but it looks like the delegate numbers don't really bear out the narrative. By all accounts, Trump is now the overwhelming GOP front-runner and the odds of any Republican stopping him are exceedingly slim. Yet he got only 28 more delegates than Cruz yesterday, and his overall lead is only 90 delegates. He still has more than 900 delegates to go and is only 1/4 of the way to the nomination. I think the real source of the GOP panic is that Rubio has failed to catch fire (at least so far) and that the one with the most plausible case to be the Trump-stopper is Cruz, whom the GOP elite detest at least as much as Trump.
Cruz's coalition comes from the South and Midwest. The most populous and delegate-rich states in those contests voted a preference for Trump. Tuesday was Cruz's big day and it wasn't nearly enough. The rest of the map favors Trump, including Rubio's home state of Florida and Kasich's home state of Ohio. If Trump wins those two, Michigan, and Illinois (he leads in all 4), it will turn into a blowout quickly.
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The male voters without college degrees who support Trump most may be using the only means available to them, i.e., voting, to protest the wholesale dismantling of America's manufacturing economy. This dismantling was catalyzed by the financial industry, and big multi-national corporations, who use lobbyists and tax evasion schemes to manipulate laws and markets. The economy has become unbalanced with too many service jobs, software and Internet marketing schemes like Facebook and Google (whose only revenue comes from ads), and Uber (who uses apps to bypass labor laws and insurance liability laws). The economy is twisted and tilted toward fast-talking schemers who can manipulate numbers on a computer or can make an "eloquent" speech -- the lawyers and the hedge fund managers, the belletristic class-- and who all simply say everyone needs to go to college and into debt, for some fantasy soft job that does not exist, but with no representation for the capable, mechanical, hard-working problem-solvers who make things, build things and fix things.
This may be why our white male voter without a college degree is so receptive to the Trump message.
This may be why our white male voter without a college degree is so receptive to the Trump message.
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Your math is faulty on the delegate side. Trump is only 60-90 delegates ahead of Cruz in the race, depending on how the final vote turns out.
So long, Dr. Carson. Next: Little Marco.
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Why do so many of the media keep calling Rubio a mainstream Republican?
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When will the public demand and the press do a thorough job asking Mr. Trump important questions and frame this primary season in such a way that a thoughtful voter can understand the important issues at stake here?? I think the press has an obligation now to shift the conversation away from Trump's antics to policy questions.
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Thing is, the "thoughtful voter" is a very rare bird. Relatively few are interested in policy questions (or know anything about them). Most just want to "win" and "crush" those on the other side.
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My goodness!
Lindsey Graham can say:
"35% of our party believes that Barack Obama is a Muslim from Kenya" and then go on to say that's why we may have to support Ted Cruz?
The mind reels at this sort of logic from 1 of 100 sitting Senators of these United States.
Has Lindsey Graham no shame about what he has just said?
Apparently not.
And that, Lindsey, is why you now have Donald Trump as your party's standard bearer. Because you, Lindsey, and Mitch McConnell, and pretty much every other Republican at the national level -- except for John McCain in the 2008 campaign -- have not been willing to tell your base, emphatically: "This is absolutely nuts!"
Reap the whirlwind, Lindsey, reap the whirlwind.
Lindsey Graham can say:
"35% of our party believes that Barack Obama is a Muslim from Kenya" and then go on to say that's why we may have to support Ted Cruz?
The mind reels at this sort of logic from 1 of 100 sitting Senators of these United States.
Has Lindsey Graham no shame about what he has just said?
Apparently not.
And that, Lindsey, is why you now have Donald Trump as your party's standard bearer. Because you, Lindsey, and Mitch McConnell, and pretty much every other Republican at the national level -- except for John McCain in the 2008 campaign -- have not been willing to tell your base, emphatically: "This is absolutely nuts!"
Reap the whirlwind, Lindsey, reap the whirlwind.
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That the majority of Republican primary voters are stubbornly in favor of Donald Trump became clear last night. By words and action also Donald is appearing to be changing. His strategist did the right thing by arranging a press conference rather than a victory speech. That offered Americans a chance to know Donald more closely on issues. His disavowal on KKK, relations with countries like Mexico, China, his stand on continuous flow of drugs in states like New Hampshire, admission of Muslims in the country, his views on unemployment and trade deficit are some of the issues Americans like about him. As he indicated he's bringing many Democrats also behind him. He has certainly created a flutter in the Republican party establishment. We have to watch if his victory caravan can be stopped or not.
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It's hard to see how the republican party can deny Trump the nomination if he remains a party member; it seems he's won it fair and square. However, perhaps they can tell him to go found another party because his platform doesn't gel with theirs. At his press conference last night he promised to lower taxes on the middle class and force the likes of Apple to bring their manufacturing back to the US. I cut out after that(don't like Trump's voice) but just these two things make him sound more like a democrat than a republican. I realize he's only saying what he thinks people want to hear but it's hard not to see him appealing to a disaffected democratic voter.
If things go on like this and he wins first the nomination and then the presidency, politicians who hate him will have to knuckle under or risk him blaming them for blocking his programmes. He'll say 'throw the bums out at the next election because they are preventing me from doing what I was elected to do'. People will listen to Trump and vote them out at the next mid terms. I just think the GOP has to expel him and take its lumps. It's a mess.
Why don't you just set up a parliamentary system; it's so much simpler.
If things go on like this and he wins first the nomination and then the presidency, politicians who hate him will have to knuckle under or risk him blaming them for blocking his programmes. He'll say 'throw the bums out at the next election because they are preventing me from doing what I was elected to do'. People will listen to Trump and vote them out at the next mid terms. I just think the GOP has to expel him and take its lumps. It's a mess.
Why don't you just set up a parliamentary system; it's so much simpler.
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Republicans with their conservative/extremist talk show hosts, over a decade, trained and conditioned their electorate for Trump. The first telling sign was the emergence of tea-party within the GOP.
Republican establishment has no one but themselves to blame. They have to know that playing with fire has consequence. What do they expect from an uneducated, young or old, listening to Hannity or Limbaugh? American core has always been about change and progress, yet GOP, for too long, has sat on the fence to put it mildly.
For GOP it is too late to stop Trump and stopping him is not a better option.
Republican establishment has no one but themselves to blame. They have to know that playing with fire has consequence. What do they expect from an uneducated, young or old, listening to Hannity or Limbaugh? American core has always been about change and progress, yet GOP, for too long, has sat on the fence to put it mildly.
For GOP it is too late to stop Trump and stopping him is not a better option.
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Hillary Clinton 2016 and time will tell who is right
Trumps performance is amazing considering the daily anger and hate written about him by liberal opinion makers who dominate the media. Maybe the voters will see through the liberal propaganda dominance and there is some hope for America yet.
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What are you talking about? The people angriest at Trump aren't liberal commentators and columnists. It's the self-styled "conservatives" who are panicking at the sight of Trump's candidacy and feel the most anger towards him, precisely because Trump has revealed "conservatism" to be a morally bankrupt, illogical, inconsistent, and wholly destructive ideology.
If that weren't the case, Trump never would have had a chance and Bush, Kasich, or Rubio would have cruised to the nomination with ease.
If that weren't the case, Trump never would have had a chance and Bush, Kasich, or Rubio would have cruised to the nomination with ease.
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Donald Trump has rattled the GOP to its very core. All the divisive politics which they used for decades are now coming back to haunt them. They are scrambling to stop Trump. Wealthy tax evaders will be unleashing huge sums of money to fund negative campaign ads to try to stop
him. This is really entertaining.
him. This is really entertaining.
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And as America well knows, the Democrats never ever do anything divisive. I won't mention late-term abortion, or 2 men "marrying" and purchasing a baby somewhere.... and other great Democrat attempts at...... Unity.
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Charles who are you to run with a party who legislates who can love who, and have a family to love? And decide for women to manage their family planning and health issues? Really, the gall of some self righteous people.
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You mean, "Who can love whom"?
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Say goodnight, Marco. Now you'll have to go back to work, for a change.
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The GOP has not governed for years. Hating Obama is not governing, GOP.
Your message to America was to obstruct governance, be a closet racist, pick on women's health as a cynical wedge issue, and then backstab the fools that supported you.
You deserve what you get.
Now the GOP sits there like a frog in a hail storm, completely befuddled that the people they trained to be a gang acts like a gang. Good Going, GOP.
Your message to America was to obstruct governance, be a closet racist, pick on women's health as a cynical wedge issue, and then backstab the fools that supported you.
You deserve what you get.
Now the GOP sits there like a frog in a hail storm, completely befuddled that the people they trained to be a gang acts like a gang. Good Going, GOP.
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america is now officially th capital of th lowest common denominator
congrats, yanks
youve come a long way
all of it downhill
congrats, yanks
youve come a long way
all of it downhill
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Meg Whitman is not a former executive of Hewlett Packard - that's the other "lady republican".
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Watching The Republican party during this election campaign is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You want to look away and hope that it doesn’t happen but your fascination compels you to watch even though you know the outcome. Another thought that sums up the train wreck is “be careful what you wish for, because you might actually get it.” Well, disillusioned Republicans wanted a candidate that was not the usual suspect that emerges from within the party at election time; what they got was potentially an uncontrolled train called Donald J Trump. Republicans now need to look beyond Trumps vacuous mantras and ask what it is he will do to make that come true and if his plan includes all of those that he has been critical of: women, black people, Hispanics, Muslims, Asians and the poorly educated. Trump must explain himself as he has consistently dodged every policy question put to him by defaulting to his canned response of “we will win a lot.” Those who vote for him need to be very careful because they are supporting a candidate that is both a bully and with hidden agendas. He should be seen as dangerous to the welfare and security of the nation, like calling a rattlesnake a pet and allowing it to roam freely around your house; sooner or later you are going to bitten. Republicans should ask themselves whether or not Trump represents their morals and values and what it is they really want in a president and are they really prepared for the chaos.
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It is soooo interesting, the Republican party wants Trump out. Yet, the people who vote want Trump. So the party doesn't care about it's base, you and me, it JUST cares about themselves. Period.
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BWAHAAHAHAAHAAA. Hey Republicans, did you really think that you could keep your deal with the Devil and NOT eventually have to pay up? You spent the last 16 years pandering to a base that put the "base" in "base." Base hatred of women, especially those that DARED inch out of the kitchen and nursery, had an education, and had a sex life not defined by what a grumpy old white guy wants. Hatred of anyone one shade darker than an albino baby's behind in January. Hatred of anyone who didn't have English as a first language, or conversely, speaks proper or better English than The Base.
All this Base Hatred stirred up while the 1% pandered on to hide the crimes of destroying the middle class, shipping jobs overseas, and gutting basic Government oversights of minor things like, oh, food and water safety. And, we can't leave out making sure that the Black man in the White House never, ever got to do anything without a huge fight.
Frost this nasty excrement cake with a good dollop of false "both sides do it" (no they don't, David Brooks) petroleum byproduct, and serve steaming hot. Don't forget to reserve some of that icing for Trump's "hair."
Republicans, you're getting exactly what you planned for. Enjoy.
All this Base Hatred stirred up while the 1% pandered on to hide the crimes of destroying the middle class, shipping jobs overseas, and gutting basic Government oversights of minor things like, oh, food and water safety. And, we can't leave out making sure that the Black man in the White House never, ever got to do anything without a huge fight.
Frost this nasty excrement cake with a good dollop of false "both sides do it" (no they don't, David Brooks) petroleum byproduct, and serve steaming hot. Don't forget to reserve some of that icing for Trump's "hair."
Republicans, you're getting exactly what you planned for. Enjoy.
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The part of this election cycle that Washington Republicans still don't seem to get is that we the people are sick and tired of a DO NOTHING congress. Yesterday Mitch McConnell and his cronies were all over television proudly announcing that they would not vote on a Supreme Court nominee if Obama puts one forward. Don't they not understand that Boehner and McConnell and their vitriol have crowned Trump???? They are dense and hateful.
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If the race is now Trump versus anti-Trump, and about delegates:
Trump lost 6 states (TX, VA, MN, OK, AR, AK) tied in 2 states (MA, VT), and only won in 3 (AL, GA, TN). For the day, the anti-Trump forces took about 57% of the delegates and 65% of the popular vote.
Trump lost 6 states (TX, VA, MN, OK, AR, AK) tied in 2 states (MA, VT), and only won in 3 (AL, GA, TN). For the day, the anti-Trump forces took about 57% of the delegates and 65% of the popular vote.
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Donald Trump won Virginia.
Donald Trump won Arkansas.
Donald Trump won Massachusetts.
Donald Trump won Vermont.
For the day Donald Trump has a commanding lead in delegates over distant 2nd and 3rd place establishment GOP hacks.
Mark, how's the weather on your planet?
Donald Trump won Arkansas.
Donald Trump won Massachusetts.
Donald Trump won Vermont.
For the day Donald Trump has a commanding lead in delegates over distant 2nd and 3rd place establishment GOP hacks.
Mark, how's the weather on your planet?
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The Trump phenom defies numerical interpretation. He's tripled the turnout among voters, and for that alone deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor, if a president can award himself such things. In time, perhaps, Democrats will start to vote again, inspired by the GOP......
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Much of who we are can be found in our family heritage. Most people, without even knowing it, go about life acting out our family history...good...and bad. Since Donald Drumpf is attempting to become the President of the United States, we as a people need to know what makes Donald Drumpf who he is, what makes him tick, what is his history and how will that history be acted out...hopefully while not in charge of this country.
Donald Drumpf...his true family name. His family came to be in the US because his grandfather skipped out of Germany to avoid the draft. When the grandfather went back, Germany expelled him and deported him. I wonder where Drumpf gets his notion about deporting all of the Hispanics?
Donald Drumpf...a successful man...I don't think so!
Google:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump (HBO)
Donald Drumpf...his true family name. His family came to be in the US because his grandfather skipped out of Germany to avoid the draft. When the grandfather went back, Germany expelled him and deported him. I wonder where Drumpf gets his notion about deporting all of the Hispanics?
Donald Drumpf...a successful man...I don't think so!
Google:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump (HBO)
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Sad to see that the NYT has succumbed today to what the TV shows - especially MSNBC did last night: focus on Trump first and everywhere, minimizng the equally amazing results of Clinton and the equally compelling tension in the Democratic race. MSNBC - over 6 hours of live broadcasting yesterday had a constant "Breaking News" banner that for more than 5 of those 6 hours said "Trump....." did something. The most common banner was "Trump Wins 7 States, Cruz 2, Rubio 1" hours after that was a snore. What free advertising real estate this was for Trump and the GOP! I suspect this is attributable to the dubious and boring return of Brian Williams, but even if not, it is shameful. Today's NYT headline also treats Clinton as a footnote, and buries the reporting on her and Sanders way down the rundown. Has anyone noticed, headlines almost always say "Trump, Clinton....." This is a Trump-biased drumbeat that is pernicious and misleading. I hope the NYT re-balances this editorial practice.
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Something's fishy here. The top "Readers' Picks" posts are wildly pro-Trump and anti-Hillary? With the Times's largely left-of-center readership?
My guess is The Donald's PR flaks have gotten very clever at recruiting shills to vote up pro-Trump posts.
My guess is The Donald's PR flaks have gotten very clever at recruiting shills to vote up pro-Trump posts.
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Mr. Trump’s boast that he’s a unifier is perplexing: George W. said the same thing and look what he did to the U.S.
A president must have principles, win-at-any-cost is not a principle.
Trump’s behaviour brings to mind the title of a famous German novel by Robert Musil ”Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften” (I think in English ”The Man Without Qualities”).
The president has the launch codes for American nukes…
A president must have principles, win-at-any-cost is not a principle.
Trump’s behaviour brings to mind the title of a famous German novel by Robert Musil ”Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften” (I think in English ”The Man Without Qualities”).
The president has the launch codes for American nukes…
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Ted Cruz' "victory" speech was downright frightening... Joe McCarthy resurrected.
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Donald Trump is a racist and hate monger who will only incite violence in this country...
(notice only the Black protestors seem to be the ones he would like to punch in the face as he could in the good old days),
He is also disingenuous and a liar.
Who here remembers how he treated the disabled vets on 5th Avenue?
Ted Cruz brings up an important point, shouldn't the voters KNOW NOW....
before we vote how a candidate feels about his own policy positions, and granted Trump's ideas are only a very broad outline of big government ideas with no details, but voters do have rights.
DID THE NYT FORGET THAT THEIR JOB WAS TO VET THE CANDIDATES?
(notice only the Black protestors seem to be the ones he would like to punch in the face as he could in the good old days),
He is also disingenuous and a liar.
Who here remembers how he treated the disabled vets on 5th Avenue?
Ted Cruz brings up an important point, shouldn't the voters KNOW NOW....
before we vote how a candidate feels about his own policy positions, and granted Trump's ideas are only a very broad outline of big government ideas with no details, but voters do have rights.
DID THE NYT FORGET THAT THEIR JOB WAS TO VET THE CANDIDATES?
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Cathy NYC
Donald Trump is a racist and hate monger who will only incite violence in this country...
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Define "racist". And provide some concrete examples, please.
Donald Trump is a racist and hate monger who will only incite violence in this country...
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Define "racist". And provide some concrete examples, please.
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Paul Begala, last January, on TV: "We'd like nothing better than to run against Trump. It will be a godsend for Hillary." When asked about that last Sunday morning, the panel laughed loudly, Paul blanched, and ate a big helping of crow. Donald is Hillary's worst nightmare, Paul knows.
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The turnout disparity keeps him up at night, he says. That's an acknowledgement without actually acknowledging Hillary's trust and likability problems.
Begala knows that Hillary Clinton is like a one-woman "War on Voters" when it comes to voter suppression. She's doing more to depress turnout than any voter ID laws could ever do.
People liken watching the republican primary to watching a slo-mo train wreck. On the contrary, watching liberals and democrats in denial is like watching one.
Begala knows that Hillary Clinton is like a one-woman "War on Voters" when it comes to voter suppression. She's doing more to depress turnout than any voter ID laws could ever do.
People liken watching the republican primary to watching a slo-mo train wreck. On the contrary, watching liberals and democrats in denial is like watching one.
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America is truly lost when the top 3 people you hear about CONSTANTLY in the news as front-runners/newsmakers are a profane, lying liberal with a spray tan, a pathological liar and known felon wearing lady's mao suits, and a 70yr old communist whose first meaningful employment was at 40yrs old. In the meantime, while he may not be the best person to lead our country, an intelligent, accomplished, soft-spoken, polite black American brain surgeon is ridiculed out of the race. There are none better in America than the 3 evil clowns? You all want a jerry springer "reality" show instead of a serious political process for the good of ALL Americans, and it makes me sick.
A sad fact.
The hyenas feeding on yet another fake scandal against Donald Trump miss this simple fact.
I am a Black attorney in Washington DC, a registered Republican and a Trump supporter. Since Barack Obama took office in 2009, and even before that...the worst and most offensive racism I have ever experienced as a Black man in America came from two groups:
1. Black Obama liberals.
2. Latinos.
I've attended Trump rallies and will be attending his victory party here in Washington at the Trump HQ. I have never heard racial slurs, or insults. Yet when other Black people find out that I am a Conservative, you can guess what I get from them. Even funnier things happen when I go jogging wearing my Trump 2016 hat. Latinos who think Black people are too stupid to learn Spanish, say things about Black people in Spanish not realizing I understand enough Spanish to know the Spanish version of the N word.
Yet it's Trump who is supposed to be the racist.
Yeah right. Sorry liberals, the race card expired and went over the limit to get Obama elected. You're going to need another form of payment in 2016.
The hyenas feeding on yet another fake scandal against Donald Trump miss this simple fact.
I am a Black attorney in Washington DC, a registered Republican and a Trump supporter. Since Barack Obama took office in 2009, and even before that...the worst and most offensive racism I have ever experienced as a Black man in America came from two groups:
1. Black Obama liberals.
2. Latinos.
I've attended Trump rallies and will be attending his victory party here in Washington at the Trump HQ. I have never heard racial slurs, or insults. Yet when other Black people find out that I am a Conservative, you can guess what I get from them. Even funnier things happen when I go jogging wearing my Trump 2016 hat. Latinos who think Black people are too stupid to learn Spanish, say things about Black people in Spanish not realizing I understand enough Spanish to know the Spanish version of the N word.
Yet it's Trump who is supposed to be the racist.
Yeah right. Sorry liberals, the race card expired and went over the limit to get Obama elected. You're going to need another form of payment in 2016.
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The Take-away: generalizations about Latinos who you think are secretly thinking Black people are too dumb to learn Spanish.
And that Trump is supposed to be the racist in this scenario, not people who hate your Trump hat. And that all that is somehow the fault of liberals. Uh, OK.
Maybe go to a Trump rally in a BLM tee and see how it goes.
And that Trump is supposed to be the racist in this scenario, not people who hate your Trump hat. And that all that is somehow the fault of liberals. Uh, OK.
Maybe go to a Trump rally in a BLM tee and see how it goes.
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This the kind of comment that needs to be recognized by the Times so that people AND journalists will stop perpetuating the lazy narrative that Trump supporters are only "poorly educated" or "low income" whites. His support spans all over the spectrum.
I personally am not one, but am enjoying the delusional Washington Elites shake in their boots. It's about time the government worked for the people rather than vice-versa
I personally am not one, but am enjoying the delusional Washington Elites shake in their boots. It's about time the government worked for the people rather than vice-versa
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Trump continues to win in part because the opposition vote is fractured. I also note that Cruz couldn't get over 50% of the Republican vote in his own home state - which also says something about him. The graphic shows that most people are voting for Trump because "he Tells it Like It Is" and he is an "outsider". I think Ronald McDonald could be winning if he put himself across like Trump. It's more than obvious that a large number of people voting for Mr. Trump at this point could care less that he is trashing minorities, women, cozzying up to the KKK, using vulgar language, etc. Their main goal is to stick it to the Washington and political elite, who they see (and rightly so) as telling them for years that they are "working for you", when in reality they are not. They also don't care that he isn't providing any specific policy proposals, and may not even care if they know deep down that he can't deliver on many of the things he is saying (ie-a huge wall along the entire southern border of the U.S.). They are just making a statement - and the statement is one that the GOP has fostered for years (bigotry, immigrants are gad, Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, Government is your Enemy, etc.) - and now there is hysteria that the elite cannot control the flames they ignited. We could be seeing history in the making - will the Republican Party self destruct? I don't know - but it's like watching a real time disaster unfold - you can't take your eyes off of it.
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The issue here is solidarity of American Christians. You can call them evangelicals, conservatives, liberals, democrats or republicans....but they will remain American Christians. Deal with that.
First, the word is American Christians...and not evangelicals.
Second, most Americans of Hispanic extraction are not in favor of killing, butchering illegal Mexicans, they are Catholics and will vote for a president who will defend the American Christian churches. Blacks have had no relief with bozo (barack hussein obama) warming his buns in the oval office for eight years and are still looking for someone to help them with their plight of injustice, bigotry and racism. Someone who will change their existence as second class American citizens.
Third, the population of the U.S. is a little over 300 million, population of humans on earth is over 7.4 billion of which 1.2 billion are Catholics opposed to homosexuality. There are also 1.3 billion Chinese which do not recognize same-sex marriage nor homosexual civil unions, Islam religion has 1.62 billion members comprised primarily of Muslim believers who do not condone homosexuality, communist countries also do not condone homosexuality. Power and control over 7.4 billion humans on earth is impossible. Deal with that.
First, the word is American Christians...and not evangelicals.
Second, most Americans of Hispanic extraction are not in favor of killing, butchering illegal Mexicans, they are Catholics and will vote for a president who will defend the American Christian churches. Blacks have had no relief with bozo (barack hussein obama) warming his buns in the oval office for eight years and are still looking for someone to help them with their plight of injustice, bigotry and racism. Someone who will change their existence as second class American citizens.
Third, the population of the U.S. is a little over 300 million, population of humans on earth is over 7.4 billion of which 1.2 billion are Catholics opposed to homosexuality. There are also 1.3 billion Chinese which do not recognize same-sex marriage nor homosexual civil unions, Islam religion has 1.62 billion members comprised primarily of Muslim believers who do not condone homosexuality, communist countries also do not condone homosexuality. Power and control over 7.4 billion humans on earth is impossible. Deal with that.
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I was just reading the other Times piece: "Donald Trump’s Backers Express Deep and Diverse Support" and it occurred to me that the reason people seem to like Trump - is that he does not seem to be driven by polling Data. He says what is one his mind - for better or worse - and people see this as someone being their authentic self. How often have we seen candidates who wear plaid flannel when they are out west - or have advisors who dress them in the appropriate relaxed casual/have authority look? "Polling data suggests you should wear something Red". I would guess voters are tired of being manipulated this way and recognize that Rubio and Cruz are just more of the same. I would also add - that this is probably part of the appeal of Bernie Sanders - I have no doubt that we are seeing the authentic Bernie Sanders - and people are loving that.
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Rubio, please grow up and go away.
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loud mouth carny barker gets all th attention while bernie sanders is ignored
thats america for ya
thats america for ya
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I would really like to know how the two top Reader's Picks on this article got there. This is not the first time it happens with pro Trump verbiage. Someone is gaming the NYTimes comments section.
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What do you expect from a Party united in denying science? Ask any one of them what they are going to do about Climate Change.
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The Congressional Republicans have a very small window to save their skins by demonstrating that they can actually govern. A highly visible example would be holding hearings and allowing a vote on the President's nominee to the Supreme Court.
School recess is over, Republicans!
School recess is over, Republicans!
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Rubio is a weak candidate which is why he is not gaining traction. He doesn't seem to have any beliefs, preferring instead to be for sale to the highest billionaire bidder. He reminds me of the line Kevin Spacey utters in American Beauty when he attends a real estate event with his wife and replies, "okay honey, I'll be whatever you want me to be." Perhaps that would have sold in prior election cycles but not in this one. That is why both Sanders and Trump have risen. They are both appealing to disaffected Americans, with Trump supporters blaming it on immigrants, while Sanders supporters blame it on the wealthy. Sanders supporters are correct, but if and when the the disaffected Trump supporters realize the true villain, real revolution could very possibly ensue, as it has throughout history, to restore economic balance.
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Few things this year so far have given me greater joy than to see the pseudo-intellectual "conservative" hack columnists at Forbes, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, and the Wall Street Journal revealed by Trump's campaign to be advocates of a bankrupt ideology.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, conservative about wishing to see the military industrial complex of the USA--already every bit as bloated as the steroids-inflated head of Barry Bonds circa 2002--pumped up even further with American taxpayer money. Nothing really conservative either about adopting the Vatican's stances on abortion, same-sex marriage, and birth control and wishing to see them applied nationwide. And finally, please tell me what is conservative about "free" trade.
Do you know that later this year, Australia will become the first major developed country to have no automobile industry at all? Cars have been made in Australia for 100+ plus years, but soon *poof* it will all be gone. It was support of "free" trade that decimated automobile manufacturing down under. This is the kind of vision that conservatism offers to America--that of a de-industrialized wasteland picked at like a carcass by vulture fund types such as Mitt Romney swooping down from above.
"Conservatives" have nobody but themselves to blame for Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, conservative about wishing to see the military industrial complex of the USA--already every bit as bloated as the steroids-inflated head of Barry Bonds circa 2002--pumped up even further with American taxpayer money. Nothing really conservative either about adopting the Vatican's stances on abortion, same-sex marriage, and birth control and wishing to see them applied nationwide. And finally, please tell me what is conservative about "free" trade.
Do you know that later this year, Australia will become the first major developed country to have no automobile industry at all? Cars have been made in Australia for 100+ plus years, but soon *poof* it will all be gone. It was support of "free" trade that decimated automobile manufacturing down under. This is the kind of vision that conservatism offers to America--that of a de-industrialized wasteland picked at like a carcass by vulture fund types such as Mitt Romney swooping down from above.
"Conservatives" have nobody but themselves to blame for Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party.
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i'm happy to read that more rational republicans are going to pour money into more ads attacking trump. but, i hope they realize, the only kind of ad that will "work"--that will impact trump voters--is HUMOR.
trump needs to be portrayed with as much humor as possible--so that viewers will be allowed to understand how pathetic their support for trump would be.
trump needs to be portrayed with as much humor as possible--so that viewers will be allowed to understand how pathetic their support for trump would be.
I see a little Huey Long in Trump. Don't know if that's good or bad but it should concern the political establishment on both sides.
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This all goes to show that the Republican leaders don't care about democracy. We already know they don't care about non-republicans by the way they engineer their wins in state governments and use that to Gerrymander everywhere. It doesn't matter that more 1 million more people voted for Democrats for the House, because they've made sure those people's votes don't matter. Now they show they don't even care about how their own party members vote! Scheming to disenfranchise 40+% of the voters...sound familiar???
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You can't beat something with nothing.
And Cruz and Rubio are nothing.
If the Republican "leadership" wants to beat Trump, they need to come up with another candidate to take him on. Probably at the convention.
If they don't, it's about over!
And Cruz and Rubio are nothing.
If the Republican "leadership" wants to beat Trump, they need to come up with another candidate to take him on. Probably at the convention.
If they don't, it's about over!
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It's over, finito, terminus ad quem, one and done, as most pundits last night conceded. When Trump wins Florida it will be the icing on the cake. Soon we'll be able to cheerily say "Merry Christmas" again without it being labelled "hate speech" by atheist Democrats.
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Trump just put the GOP on it's knees.
Save some nuclear option, there's no way he won't be the Republican candidate.
Save some nuclear option, there's no way he won't be the Republican candidate.
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Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, is the new major shareholder of the NYT. He basically owns it now. They should change the name to The New York Slimes (two meanings implied) for short. That explains why they will never write a non-prejudice article about Trump, considering his attitude towards illegals from Mexico. Also explains why they will not support Bernie's anti-billionaire corruption agenda. They are the personification of the problem.
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Sen. Rubio trumpets his GOP win in Minnesota - a state that reliably votes for the Democrat nominee for president.
Abraham Lincoln once responded to a duel by choosing as his weapon, "shotguns at 3 feet, our left arms strapped together." Here we are, Abe.
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Looks like Republicans are stuck with The Donald. And it couldn't happen to a more deserving group of miscreants. But that's not all. Republican Senators have decided to obstruct, nothing new there, President Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court. It doesn't get any better for a Democratic windfall come November. Happy days are here again indeed.
DD
Manhattan
DD
Manhattan
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You know this country is in trouble when it's a choice between Trump and Hillary. One is a lying billionaire businessman that fears someone different than him. The other is a criminal that shills for big banks while saying she's going to take them down. America in 2016. Pick your poison. I give this country about 50 more years of existence.
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Instead of just telling us who won, inform us what are the actual vote totals for each candidate.
I just picked myself up off the floor, where I rolled w/ laughter, at the irony, (bordering on absurdity), of Mr. Rubio's comment, "Do not give in to the fear, do not give in to anger, do not give in to sham artists and con artists who try to take advantage of your suffering."
Amen! By all means, just say no to Republicans!
Amen! By all means, just say no to Republicans!
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Not much else you can do, eh? Watch Hillary lose, again. It's almost too cruel.
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Facts are had the field been down to two earlier In would not be Chump winning.
He's benefited from soo many people running for the GOP nominee.
He's benefited from soo many people running for the GOP nominee.
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Just like Hillary has benefitted from an arm-waving elderly socialist from a lily-white backwater called Vermont.
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Cruz received only 44% support in his home state, far from a mandate.
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It's so interesting to read the "advice" given to Republicans by the reactionary, liberal, progressive Democratic readers of the NY Times. Do they honestly mean to help the Republicans in their race for the White house or do they realize that as an anti-establishment candidate Trump is looking better to the American voter?
Think about what the establishment, on both sides, has given us; richer rich, poorer poor, a shrinking middle class and a ravaged planet. Maybe it really is time for change that we can all believe in.
Think about what the establishment, on both sides, has given us; richer rich, poorer poor, a shrinking middle class and a ravaged planet. Maybe it really is time for change that we can all believe in.
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You do know that "reactionary" is the exact opposite of liberal and progressive?
Clever irony. And revealing of the true nature of Obama liberals as reactionaries.
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People who think a vote for Trump and Sanders is interchangeable should take a look at the viral video of the young African American woman who waded into a Trump rally.
Seeing old men shove a young person around is sickening. And Trump encourages these morons- they are going to get their rear ends handed to them by the very people they are pushing around.
Seeing old men shove a young person around is sickening. And Trump encourages these morons- they are going to get their rear ends handed to them by the very people they are pushing around.
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Meaningless for Donald. Indeed, it shows him to be the man that Obama never was, personally ejecting Democrat plants from the audience, laughingly.
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Charles, Obama is a grown up. The old coots at the Trump rallies are just mean.
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Difficult to decide which one is the worst, Hillary or Trump. In any case we are doomed.
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Ted Cruz will be the next to follow Rubio into the twilight. It's Trump all the way, and an easy victory over the Corrupt Clinton Couple.
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Wow! One has to wonder how many of the votes cast for Donald Trump were actually votes cast against the Republican establishment. The Republicans still can't see that voters look at the likes of Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and see the dysfunctional United States Congress that they despise. The millionaire senators do not appeal to voters who are living paycheck to paycheck while Cruz's wife works for Wall Street slime Goldman Sachs where Ted borrows huge amounts of money at interest rates well below any the average American can ever hope to get. And as for Rubio if he wants to get into the gutter with the Donald he had better learn how to fight. Right now he comes off as a sniveling, whiny, five year old who just got beat up on the school playground. His name calling, mud slinging tactics make him appear childish and petty not presidential.
The voters are sending a clear message to both the Republicans and the Democrats that they are fed up with the Washington establishment. We the voters who pay their salaries with our hard earned taxes are sick of watching congress do nothing. We are sick of a congress that allows the American public to be raped by Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry. We are sick of paying for the Rolls Royce health care coverage accorded to members of congress while we struggle to afford the most basic care. Donald Trump gets it. He knows why we are angry and he acknowledges that anger. Voters are saying Thank You for listening to us.
The voters are sending a clear message to both the Republicans and the Democrats that they are fed up with the Washington establishment. We the voters who pay their salaries with our hard earned taxes are sick of watching congress do nothing. We are sick of a congress that allows the American public to be raped by Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry. We are sick of paying for the Rolls Royce health care coverage accorded to members of congress while we struggle to afford the most basic care. Donald Trump gets it. He knows why we are angry and he acknowledges that anger. Voters are saying Thank You for listening to us.
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Rubio not really carrying any weight. No surprise, he's no different from Cruz, so attempting to paper over his positions is not fooling anyone.
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Dear Republican Party Leaders: Republican voters support Trump. You will not win by demeaning them further, or by demeaning him further - nor will you win by trying to steal our votes at a brokered convention to give to someone else. That is not the American way and if tried I predict a mass migration of the Republican vote to Donald Trump's independent ticket. To the anti-Trumpers you may call me ignorant, low information, blue collar, racist, etc. But I am none of these. And there are certainly more like me supporting him as well. ISigned, educated and informed Trump voter.
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No one really expects Rubio to win the nomination. His best shot is to get a VP slot that'd help deliver Florida; a flawed strategy, since he is polling behind Trump there.
The Trump monster now frankensteining on the GOP is their making and they can't stop him. They'd probably push for a brokered convention and nominate Romney. Trump will go ballistic and boycott it and a bunch of his supporters will not vote come November.
This is actually a good thing GOP; you need to get sick to purge the demons you yourself created. This country cannot continue to afford a party of anti-science, anti-environment and cognitive-dissonant supposedly-libertarians who support Christian social engineering and who can only say 'No'.
The Trump monster now frankensteining on the GOP is their making and they can't stop him. They'd probably push for a brokered convention and nominate Romney. Trump will go ballistic and boycott it and a bunch of his supporters will not vote come November.
This is actually a good thing GOP; you need to get sick to purge the demons you yourself created. This country cannot continue to afford a party of anti-science, anti-environment and cognitive-dissonant supposedly-libertarians who support Christian social engineering and who can only say 'No'.
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Perhaps the message is that the GOP voters are sick of big money. Perhaps we can thank the Citizens United decision and Scalia for the rise of Trump. It must feel refreshing to step out from under the hand of the wealthy donor class.
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Trump is a magnet for "hate" groups becsuse he has the same intellect and immature emotional tone as the do - extreme, rageful and uninformed.
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And who is a magnet for America's 2 biggest hate groups: Occupy, and Black Lives Matter? There ya go.
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For the past 50 years, the donor class (aided by their lackeys in congress) have steadily and systematically robbed the American people and our treasury with an endless web of warped policies: wildly unfair tax laws, enforced stagnant wages, outsourced jobs, endless war/MIC, etc. And then like a mother jangling keys to distract a fussy baby, they used their bully pulpit and media mouthpieces to point fingers, stir up hate and derision, and demonize the poor, minorities and immigrants so that no one would notice who was actually picking their pockets. Trump is the monster the GOP created and much like Dr Frankenstein's, he cannot be contained.
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I am voting for Trump as I figure any guy who can get married three times and divorced twice and still come out with his financial empire intact is a pretty pretty smart guy.
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tjh founders were skeptics and knew america, self rule, democracy, all that , was an experiment
well, th experiment is over
its become clear that th plain and simple masses cannot govern themselves
they are ignorant and too easily taken in by any flimflam man who happens to be passing by
trump is a 3 card Monty dealer playing for big stakes, and apparently will win
well, th experiment is over
its become clear that th plain and simple masses cannot govern themselves
they are ignorant and too easily taken in by any flimflam man who happens to be passing by
trump is a 3 card Monty dealer playing for big stakes, and apparently will win
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From Canadian PM Stephen Harper’s concession speech last year:
“While tonight’s result is certainly not the one we had hoped for, the people are never wrong.”
“While tonight’s result is certainly not the one we had hoped for, the people are never wrong.”
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The voters are sending the following message, apparently more so to the the Republicans than to the democrats: be who you are. Trump does what Trump is. You got to give him credit, whether instinctively, or by design or by luck, for being first to tap that underlying feeling among the Republican voters. Rubio faltered when he started trumpeting like Trump.
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Rubio is perfectly positioned to run for alderman in some small Minnesota city. I wish him well in his future career.
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Welcome to Fargo. Marco Rubio, Mayor.
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The Republican Party reminds me of Despicable Me. Minions are being kidnapped en masse, and a really big pink ugly bunny is the deserved incarnation of years of minion mayhem. Some ex-con turned nice person seems to have to come to the rescue, but has yet to show his/her face.
I am applauding Trump. Hopefully it will splinter
Republican party and consign it to irrelevance.
That will be a good result for 7 years of obstructionism.
Republican party and consign it to irrelevance.
That will be a good result for 7 years of obstructionism.
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Matched by 7 years of Obama's fecklessness. Clinton and Reagan got lots down with strong opposition, but not our boy of tears, Obama. He's too busy sulking.
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Maybe your headline writers should do some simple math before declaring "Overwhelming" results. OK, Hillary won most states and now leads in delegate counts by 557 to 386 (your numbers), or 59.1% overall. That is a solid lead, but not a lock.
Now, about Trump. He has won 10 states to his opponents' 5, but his delegate lead of 316 of 681 overall is only 46.4%. That is called a plurality, not on overwhelming lead, like his wins in most of the states he has won.
A plurality may win lots of delegates in winner-take-all states, but that applies in TX, FL, OH, the mid-west, PA, MD, and CA just like it applies in some states he has won by a plurality.
Mr. T. may win out, but even if most of his opponents do not drop out in favor of one 'anti-Trump, they may stand a better chance of creating a brokered convention by staying in if they can win enough delegates based on individual regional strengths to deny him a majority. He did well yesterday, but his loss to TX and its 155 delegates was, well, 'HUGE'.
Now, about Trump. He has won 10 states to his opponents' 5, but his delegate lead of 316 of 681 overall is only 46.4%. That is called a plurality, not on overwhelming lead, like his wins in most of the states he has won.
A plurality may win lots of delegates in winner-take-all states, but that applies in TX, FL, OH, the mid-west, PA, MD, and CA just like it applies in some states he has won by a plurality.
Mr. T. may win out, but even if most of his opponents do not drop out in favor of one 'anti-Trump, they may stand a better chance of creating a brokered convention by staying in if they can win enough delegates based on individual regional strengths to deny him a majority. He did well yesterday, but his loss to TX and its 155 delegates was, well, 'HUGE'.
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I am dumbfounded at people who say Trump resonates because he taps into real discontent. Yes, I understand that there is legitimate discontent. But don't people hear the stupid things this man says? "The Hispanics and the blacks are going to love me, because we're going to create tons of jobs. We're going to make Apple build its devices here in the United States, not in China."
Does he think that the government can coerce a major company like Apple to move its operations? Exactly how is he going to do that? And what the heck does "tons of jobs" mean? It sounds like something a middle-school student would write in an essay about things that politicians should do. Is the median intellectual level of my fellow adult countrymen really this low?
He doesn't understand a thing about how deficits work, because he thinks the deficit with Mexico can be leveraged into "making them pay for the wall." It is so utterly dumb that I am left befuddled. Same with his comments on the Iran deal, which he grossly misrepresents.
How can our great nation produce nothing better? We are the Apollo missions, the Mars rover, and NASA/JPL. We are Ivy League research, Silicon Valley, and most of the world's great medical breakthroughs. We are Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Walker, a few on a long list of breathtaking artists. We are the Cleveland Philharmonics and the Mayo Clinic.
Why is it that in politics, the Right can't come up with anyone even remotely impressive?
Does he think that the government can coerce a major company like Apple to move its operations? Exactly how is he going to do that? And what the heck does "tons of jobs" mean? It sounds like something a middle-school student would write in an essay about things that politicians should do. Is the median intellectual level of my fellow adult countrymen really this low?
He doesn't understand a thing about how deficits work, because he thinks the deficit with Mexico can be leveraged into "making them pay for the wall." It is so utterly dumb that I am left befuddled. Same with his comments on the Iran deal, which he grossly misrepresents.
How can our great nation produce nothing better? We are the Apollo missions, the Mars rover, and NASA/JPL. We are Ivy League research, Silicon Valley, and most of the world's great medical breakthroughs. We are Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Walker, a few on a long list of breathtaking artists. We are the Cleveland Philharmonics and the Mayo Clinic.
Why is it that in politics, the Right can't come up with anyone even remotely impressive?
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I actually think Ted Cruz is not too bad a choice. I like his idea of flat tax. Like millions of Americans, I am getting taxed too much by our Federal government. I might vote for Ted if the other choice is Bernie Sanders.
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You might vote for Bernie, yet you loathe more taxes? Too funny.
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Blaming Obama for the misguided path our country has taken the past few decades is a cop-out. His hope and change enthusiasm was waylaid early and quietly when he went to Washington by people we don't elect or often see in public. He's done well to be where he is 7 years later. He's still an adult if his administration is not the most transparent we've had?
All of those enamored by the idea of erecting walls around our country and banning certain religions and ethnicities from entering our land should remember the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall of recent European history, walls can also be used to forcibly keep people in a country, just as well as they keep people out?
What's happening now with the rise of Trump and Hillary are the chickens of deceit of our back-room ruling authoritarian class coming home to roost. Next you'll see people talking about abolishing presidential term limits and weaponized drones as eyes and ears in our skies keeping tabs over all of our rights and freedoms. We'll be living our lives as oxymorons in a reportedly free country that's constantly surveilled by an armed big brother.
Really, Massachusetts and Alabama both voted for Trump? What's happened to the free, fair and healthy American character? Paraphrasing Yogi Berra and John Milton we're seeing Camelot Lost all over again?
So only Bernie Sanders remembers the "Question Authority" bumper stickers of the late 60s and early 70s? He's right- be skeptical about the rich and powerful.
All of those enamored by the idea of erecting walls around our country and banning certain religions and ethnicities from entering our land should remember the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall of recent European history, walls can also be used to forcibly keep people in a country, just as well as they keep people out?
What's happening now with the rise of Trump and Hillary are the chickens of deceit of our back-room ruling authoritarian class coming home to roost. Next you'll see people talking about abolishing presidential term limits and weaponized drones as eyes and ears in our skies keeping tabs over all of our rights and freedoms. We'll be living our lives as oxymorons in a reportedly free country that's constantly surveilled by an armed big brother.
Really, Massachusetts and Alabama both voted for Trump? What's happened to the free, fair and healthy American character? Paraphrasing Yogi Berra and John Milton we're seeing Camelot Lost all over again?
So only Bernie Sanders remembers the "Question Authority" bumper stickers of the late 60s and early 70s? He's right- be skeptical about the rich and powerful.
No one being more rich, or more powerful politically, than The Clintons. Oh, the irony.
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Nonsense.
I am a Black attorney in Washington DC, with a degree in American History who moved here after law school in 2008. You simply can't rewrite history this soon, the facts betray the ground you're standing on.
1. Obama took office with Democrats in control of Congress (House and Senate). Nothing got done except the Affordable Care Act, which is a disaster. Obama's sharp elbows, lies and sleazy politics as usual backroom dealing to create a get rich scheme for insurance companies and healthcare providers squandered his political capital and betrayed his 2008 promises.
2. Obama boasts frequently about his "pen and phone" yet used neither to take decisive action in spite of Congress to reverse the economic plight of ordinary Americans, particularly in Black communities ravaged during the Obama presidency by unemployment, mass incarceration, drugs and violence.
3. The biggest chicken coming home to roost is the fact that the FAILED Obama presidency is paving the way for Donald Trump to be elected in November--Americans are not just angry, they're voting in record numbers for Trump because the two bit con artist, Barack Obama didn't deliver on ANY of the core promises that got him into the White House.
I am a Black attorney in Washington DC, with a degree in American History who moved here after law school in 2008. You simply can't rewrite history this soon, the facts betray the ground you're standing on.
1. Obama took office with Democrats in control of Congress (House and Senate). Nothing got done except the Affordable Care Act, which is a disaster. Obama's sharp elbows, lies and sleazy politics as usual backroom dealing to create a get rich scheme for insurance companies and healthcare providers squandered his political capital and betrayed his 2008 promises.
2. Obama boasts frequently about his "pen and phone" yet used neither to take decisive action in spite of Congress to reverse the economic plight of ordinary Americans, particularly in Black communities ravaged during the Obama presidency by unemployment, mass incarceration, drugs and violence.
3. The biggest chicken coming home to roost is the fact that the FAILED Obama presidency is paving the way for Donald Trump to be elected in November--Americans are not just angry, they're voting in record numbers for Trump because the two bit con artist, Barack Obama didn't deliver on ANY of the core promises that got him into the White House.
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banning certain religions and ethnicities
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Wrong. Muslims is who he's talking about, as every sentient American knows. When Apple decrypts the San Bernardino terror cell's phone per the Court's order, you'll see what Trump means.
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Wrong. Muslims is who he's talking about, as every sentient American knows. When Apple decrypts the San Bernardino terror cell's phone per the Court's order, you'll see what Trump means.
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As hard as the framers of the Constitution worked to prevent the possibility of demagogues to access the White House, even they couldn't imagine a reality TV show personality with billions of dollars being able to so easily appeal to the passion of the masses. Whatever may become of the Trump candidacy, it is frightening to think about how vulnerable our political system and our future as a nation is to the role that money and the cult of celebrity plays. Perhaps we need to some gatekeepers to protect us from ourselves.
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Barack Obama has appeared on more late night comedy shows since taking office in 2009 than Jerry Seinfeld, who is actually a comedian. The video of Barack Obama running around inside the White House taking selfies has been viewed over 8 million times, and Barack Obama has granted interviews to more celebrity magazines than news magazines.
When it comes to having a celebrity president, that train left the station in 2009 when Obama showed up.
When it comes to having a celebrity president, that train left the station in 2009 when Obama showed up.
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Instead of "wise old heads," we have primaries. The old system gave us lots of clunkers, Harding, Buchanan, Ford, Fillmore, Hayes, etc., but managed to avoid the demagogues and fire-eaters.
I liked the old system, even with its failings.
I liked the old system, even with its failings.
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Good morning from Washington DC!
Last night you may have felt the Earth move.
That is because it did.
The Super Tuesday victory in Virginia by Donald Trump is absolutely, positively a game changer. Virginia is home to the Washington DC middle class, the folks who don't make enough money to live in the overpriced rowhouses on the waterfront, or the VIP exclusive digs of Congressmen, famous cable news personalities and lobbyists in Georgetown.
Virginia is ground zero for American politics given the fact that over 70% of the people in the most populated areas of Virginia work for the federal government in some capacity.
When you work for the federal government, everything is political.
For the actual Washington establishment voters (i.e. Northern Virginia) to vote for Trump out of disgust and anger at the Washington insiders sends a message that is playing out all over the nation.
If the people living next door to the waste, fraud, abuse and nonsense of the Obama Era and political status quo are throwing the politicians over the side of the boat, so goes the nation.
It's going to be a fun ride America.
Trump 2016.
Last night you may have felt the Earth move.
That is because it did.
The Super Tuesday victory in Virginia by Donald Trump is absolutely, positively a game changer. Virginia is home to the Washington DC middle class, the folks who don't make enough money to live in the overpriced rowhouses on the waterfront, or the VIP exclusive digs of Congressmen, famous cable news personalities and lobbyists in Georgetown.
Virginia is ground zero for American politics given the fact that over 70% of the people in the most populated areas of Virginia work for the federal government in some capacity.
When you work for the federal government, everything is political.
For the actual Washington establishment voters (i.e. Northern Virginia) to vote for Trump out of disgust and anger at the Washington insiders sends a message that is playing out all over the nation.
If the people living next door to the waste, fraud, abuse and nonsense of the Obama Era and political status quo are throwing the politicians over the side of the boat, so goes the nation.
It's going to be a fun ride America.
Trump 2016.
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Behind all the talk of Trump's "uneducated white" voters is a highly diverse group of supporters.
Obama's "first" is about to be followed (outdone?) by another "first" -- the first citizen candidate to win a presidential election. Poor Hillary's "first" doesn't stand a chance.
Obama's "first" is about to be followed (outdone?) by another "first" -- the first citizen candidate to win a presidential election. Poor Hillary's "first" doesn't stand a chance.
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In the last nearly eight years, first the Republican leadership did everything in its power to throw a monkey wrench into the gears of effective government, at times grinding it to an absolute halt. Then it resolutely refused to function as a legislative body, becoming the party of "NO!" even to the point of disavowing it's own ideas if the Democrats embraced them. Moreover, they allowed their hyper-rich benefactors to become dictators to Congress.
To cap it all off, they came to the people and said, "See? The federal government doesn't work, and it's all Obama's fault."
All of these machinations gave rise to the Tea Party types, who are basically nihilists—and which the GOP embraced with open arms. Now the party is beginning to shred, a victim of its own ambition to power alone, at any cost, and *not* good government.
Where is Ike, Javits, Case, Rockefeller, Kuchel, Percy, and all the other true conservatives when their country needs them? Six feet under, that's where.
The GOP is dead. Long live the GOP.
To cap it all off, they came to the people and said, "See? The federal government doesn't work, and it's all Obama's fault."
All of these machinations gave rise to the Tea Party types, who are basically nihilists—and which the GOP embraced with open arms. Now the party is beginning to shred, a victim of its own ambition to power alone, at any cost, and *not* good government.
Where is Ike, Javits, Case, Rockefeller, Kuchel, Percy, and all the other true conservatives when their country needs them? Six feet under, that's where.
The GOP is dead. Long live the GOP.
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The good news about Cruz? He could not win 50% of Texas voters. When he left us for the Senate, he made it clear that he would not be a Senator, but a scold, a blowhard, a showoff, a preacher who would not coexist with other politicians. Now that we know what it is like to be the only State with one Senator, howbeit a good one, more of us have turned against him. There was great pressure to vote for the "native son," great pressure applied to some people who could not resist, but I hope the world ponders his inability to get to 50% (unless we see some 1948 skulduggery).
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The country is "Mad as hell and it's not going to take in any more." The federal government (all four branches including the bureaucracy) is dysfunctional. The federals are ignoring "We the people. . ."
The love for a authoritarian leader has been brought about from this view of D.C. held by people outside of the Beltway and the love of TV Reality shows, violence and coarseness has brought this sandbox fight to the fore. Totally, the great American philosopher of the last century said it succinctly: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
The love for a authoritarian leader has been brought about from this view of D.C. held by people outside of the Beltway and the love of TV Reality shows, violence and coarseness has brought this sandbox fight to the fore. Totally, the great American philosopher of the last century said it succinctly: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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The real deal, from a two-time Obama voter:
I'm all for feeling the Bern but it's looking unlikely at this point. So if it's Trump vs Clinton I'll probably go cross-party and cast a vote for Trump. I would be a fool to think either Clinton or Trump would actually help the middle class. It will be more of the same regardless of who's in office. So I might as well be entertained.
The GOP would be crazy to put forward someone else in a brokered convention, effectively disenfranchising all the people who've voted for Trump in primaries.
Trump has been pro-choice and a registered Dem for the majority of his life. I'm not worried like I would be with Rubio, who makes no exceptions for abortion, including for rape, incest of the life of the mother. And Trump's taxes? Let me guess - he's rich and hides everything in the Caymans and pays a lower tax rate than I do. Big surprise. Not.
Let's see what happens. Pass the popcorn.
I'm all for feeling the Bern but it's looking unlikely at this point. So if it's Trump vs Clinton I'll probably go cross-party and cast a vote for Trump. I would be a fool to think either Clinton or Trump would actually help the middle class. It will be more of the same regardless of who's in office. So I might as well be entertained.
The GOP would be crazy to put forward someone else in a brokered convention, effectively disenfranchising all the people who've voted for Trump in primaries.
Trump has been pro-choice and a registered Dem for the majority of his life. I'm not worried like I would be with Rubio, who makes no exceptions for abortion, including for rape, incest of the life of the mother. And Trump's taxes? Let me guess - he's rich and hides everything in the Caymans and pays a lower tax rate than I do. Big surprise. Not.
Let's see what happens. Pass the popcorn.
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It's not entertaining when storm troopers come knocking at your door and haul away your loved ones. And if you think it can't happen here, then you're mistaken. Your life can change in the blink of an eye, and you never saw it coming.
If GOP refuses to align with Trump they will have zero voice, regardless of the Presidential election. No other Republican candidate past or present represents their masses. Seems as though Bush, Kasich and Carson court Hillary leaning voters. Rubio-Cruz seem only to offer non-confrontational zero solution to immigration issues and neither has any global leadership skills. At least Trump seems ready to fight for country as opposed to fighting for selfie.
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The more the media lashes out, the more the two parties trash him, the more fervor over the dangers of Donald, the more steam the Trump train garners. Is it so hard for the media and politicians to see this? The American voter is disenfranchised with plastic politicians and biased media. This man, as rash as he is, is not fake. He is not pretending. He has no plastic smile. He isn't politically correct and he doesn't want to be. He feels comfortable saying in front of the whole world that he'd like to haul off and punch someone in the face. And guess what - that resonates with a whole lot of people. And the overwhelming amount of people that are voting for him want to punch someone in the face too because they are fed up with the system as a whole. And in a sense, they will get that opportunity to haul off and punch someone - they'll get to punch the franchise right in the nose, vote by vote.
And for the Trump supporters, the best of all is that he is playing both of these groups, the political franchise and the media, like the fiddles they don't yet realize they are. The stronger the anti-trump sentiment coming from both the Elephants and the Donkey's and the newspapers and television channels that openly support party rhetoric, the more attractive the no-nonsense billionaire businessman appears.
Strum on, big man.
And for the Trump supporters, the best of all is that he is playing both of these groups, the political franchise and the media, like the fiddles they don't yet realize they are. The stronger the anti-trump sentiment coming from both the Elephants and the Donkey's and the newspapers and television channels that openly support party rhetoric, the more attractive the no-nonsense billionaire businessman appears.
Strum on, big man.
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What a creepy photo. Christie looks like Herman Goering.
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Yes thought exactly the same thing, Christie and his puppy dog eyes of adoration standing behind his great leader, his meal ticket. There's an old photo somewhere of Goering standing behind his bombastic Chancellor during a speech, was it at Nuremburg, talking about the Wehrmacht and making Germany strong again? No one was going to mess with his future Germany? How'd that play out for the German people?
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Looks like a 3rd term for Obama(AKA Hillary) is our future.Not a bright future for freedom loving Americans,as govt continues to grow and Americans continue to suffer.
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Last I looked, we're still all free. You're engaging in perpetual victimization. It's a political tactic that Trump exploits. The facts are that under Obama, we've experienced job growth, a stock market rise, and a lower deficit or would you prefer to go back to 2006?
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You meant that corporations continue to grow while people suffer.
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Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. The FBI must first give Hillary a clean bill of health, followed by Judge Sullivan. Hillary's October Surprise awaits. Good luck!
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To me, this all stems from the utter lack of leadership and a coherent positive voice from the GOP, ever since Barack Obama was elected. The party of no, obstructionism, letting the Tea Party dominate the airwaves, coddling Fox News and its propaganda. Nothing (NOTHING) of note was achieved by this GOP congress. The American people don't know what the GOP stands for anymore. The only thing they "know" is that Barack Obama is not an American and that Obamacare "kills" millions of jobs. Really? That is today's GOP. And now they are surprised that the void can be filled by a populist. Regardless of where this ends up, the total lameness with which the likes of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are responding to this says it all. Even in crisis, the party has no leadership.
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The GOP is the party of no. No government mainly. If you don't want any government, then a government that does nothing is the next best thing. It doesn't seem difficult to understand.
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"Nothing (NOTHING) of note was achieved by this GOP congress."
The US has 2 major parties & 3 branches of government.
Do you understand what 'Checks & Balances' means?
The US has 2 major parties & 3 branches of government.
Do you understand what 'Checks & Balances' means?
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No to AIDS, no to legal pot, no to 1000000 illegal aliens, no to higher taxes, no too pacifist treatment of ISIS, and so on. USA is no longer tolerant of Democrat party animals, I should add.
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Just so you know, in my heavily Republican precinct Democrats were giggling to cross the lines to vote for Trump. I don't think this is a coincidence. They know that the brewing scandals from Trump will essentially clinch a Clinton presidency. On the other hand, Clinton doesn't want to go head to head with someone who is probably more knowledgable on how the constitution works than she is such as Ted Cruz. I don't think this is an accident and I hope that somewhere Ted Cruz is making Lindsey Graham eat his chicken fried crow.
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Really, I didn't see any such thing in my heavily republican district. I don't think the numbers bear that out either. All of my of my democrat friends were eager to vote in their primary, either for Clinton or Sanders. Because for the most part think, Democrats like their candidates.
As an aside, Ted Cruz is toxic and has accomplished nothing in The Senate. He is a complete fraud. This 4th generation Texan would like nothing more than to see him fail. Anyone but Cruz.
As an aside, Ted Cruz is toxic and has accomplished nothing in The Senate. He is a complete fraud. This 4th generation Texan would like nothing more than to see him fail. Anyone but Cruz.
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Ted Cruz isn't "knowledgeable" about the Constitution; he spins it.
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You're kidding right?
I want to give you one fact.
From July 2015 - March 2016 the NYT has published more articles attacking and demonizing Donald Trump than the NYT published from Jan 1939 - March 2016 about Mussolini, Hirohito and Hitler (Axis leaders in WWII) combined. Let me repeat that. The NYT has demonized and insulted Trump over the last 7 months more than they insulted the Axis powers in the last 77 years.
Care to explain what "scandals" are lurking after a 24 hour media assault of Donald Trump for nearly 8 months?
Oh you Obama liberals...
I want to give you one fact.
From July 2015 - March 2016 the NYT has published more articles attacking and demonizing Donald Trump than the NYT published from Jan 1939 - March 2016 about Mussolini, Hirohito and Hitler (Axis leaders in WWII) combined. Let me repeat that. The NYT has demonized and insulted Trump over the last 7 months more than they insulted the Axis powers in the last 77 years.
Care to explain what "scandals" are lurking after a 24 hour media assault of Donald Trump for nearly 8 months?
Oh you Obama liberals...
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The GOP's undoing is it's own fault. They were not honest with their electorate in breaking it to them that you get things done in congress by working together. They lied to them, led them to believe that obstruction was a good plan. Now people are counting on an "outsider" to fill their wallets. Recall that there was a jobs plan that Obama physically carried in his hand for a lengthy period of time, making a case for it across the country, but it was blocked. Part of that plan was raising wages and creating construction and manufacturing jobs. So when you go to the polls, remember that Obama was working for you, the GOP was working against you.
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Trump's base is plenty enough to win the nomination through delegate count - provided Cruz, Rubio and Kasich stay in the race - and they will. They want to win their own states. If the GOP tries to overthrow their electorate with something as regressive as Romney-Rubio they will destroy the party once and for all. Either the coup won't work (there will be unprecedented even violent protests) or Trump will take his people - a full third of the GOP electorate at least and form something called the American Party which best describes Trump's political cant and ethos. You don't have to be a Trump supporter to respect the will of the people of a particular party.
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"a third of the GOP electorate" is so not the majority of the American people
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We're only 2 months into the 2016 voting.
Give it time. If you refuse to see Trump's wins spread across entirely different regions of the USA as a sign of a changing electorate, that's your delusion to ride.
Give it time. If you refuse to see Trump's wins spread across entirely different regions of the USA as a sign of a changing electorate, that's your delusion to ride.
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Miriam, I wrote, "Trump will take his people - a full third of the GOP electorate...respect the will of the people of a particular party." I do not say it is "the majority of the American people."
To DCBarrister's correct point about a changing electorate: Trump won Massachusetts and Virginia. A Massachusetts and Virginia GOP constituency has never mirrored the extreme ethos and style of a Trump. The political landscape - and its electorate - has indeed changed. The Democratic Party is now more sober and circumspect about Trump as a presidential challenger.
To DCBarrister's correct point about a changing electorate: Trump won Massachusetts and Virginia. A Massachusetts and Virginia GOP constituency has never mirrored the extreme ethos and style of a Trump. The political landscape - and its electorate - has indeed changed. The Democratic Party is now more sober and circumspect about Trump as a presidential challenger.
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The people have spoken and they are not wise. In Trump and Clinton we will have two polarizing candidates who are unacceptable to a quarter to a third of the country. Clinton will easily win an ugly campaign and will serve for an acrimonious, miserable four years. Hope for better in 2020.
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Hillary will win? Oh, sure. Donald's going to filet her, while the world watches. Low-hanging fruit there.
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From Canadian PM Stephen Harper's concession speech last year: "While tonight’s result is certainly not the one we had hoped for, the people are never wrong."
This campaign has me searching for an idiom beyond "the lesser of evils". Any suggestions?
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Words come to my mind, but they are too vulgar for publication!
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How about "a new broom sweeps clean"? Hillary has not been new since Little Rock, a few lifetimes ago..... Out with the old, in with the new Donald.
Firstly, I am a Democrat and will rally behind whoever the Party's nominee is. What is strange to me is the Republican's disavowal of their frontrunner. Ordinarily there would be much joy in Mudville. Not so last night. Why? Trump is delivering the same message the other Republican front runners are espousing, with a only few twists depending on what day it is, and which way the wind is blowing. Their feigned reaction to Trump as regards his blatant racism is unconvincing. For many years the Republicans have exhibited thinly veiled racism in their rants against President Obama. They have shown him nothing but disrespect for him from his first day in office. They have obstructed and continue to obstruct in Congress rather than govern, and as a result we have all been the worse for it, frustrated by it, and it has led to the rise of the two populist candidates Trump and Sanders.
Trump would be a disaster for this country, but so would the more than dangerous Cruz or the hapless Rubio.
Trump would be a disaster for this country, but so would the more than dangerous Cruz or the hapless Rubio.
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First they have to make appropriate noises of faux despair, then the mainstream GOP will be free to climb aboard, as they are increasingly doing. Same with the Sanderites: first, the politesse, knowing it can only be Hillary, since they are otherwise bereft of "choice," ironically.
Does anyone find it ironic that several republicans call their party--the party of Lincoln, when his support was among the Northern Yankees not the Rebel Southerners.
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Trump will win in my opinion because a majority of Americans are fed up with politicians and for good reason. They want an outsider and Trump fits the bill. Also a majority do not like Hillary. I don't see her igniting voters to get her vote. I think lots of Democrats and Independents will elect to give a Trump a try rather than someone they don't trust and don't like. They will choose Trump because he is not really a Republican or Democrat. He is just Trump and they want to see what he can do: a businessman and outsider who dispenses of political correctness. People want to try something new who is not owned by Wall Street or political interests. The Establishment is going crazy pulling their hair! How can this be? A simple answer: People are fed up! And he will be Hillary because she sounds like a phony worn-out record.
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It seems that Marco Rubio's tiny hands are indicative of an even smaller heart and brain. Challenged by the real world political arithmetic that there is only winning first or losing in any other place.
Rafael Edward Cruz an effete natural born citizen of Calgary, Alberta, Canada managed to fool a few Texans into believing that he is a macho cowboy named Texas Ted. But none of his fellow Republican U.S. Senators have been mesmerized by his diabolical viper's forked tongue, slit eyes and venomous fanged words.
Who will wake Ben Carson from his delusional medicated stupor?
What is a Kasich?
Trump is a white primary winning diabolical combination of Long, McCarthy, Wallace, Perot and Buchanan
Rafael Edward Cruz an effete natural born citizen of Calgary, Alberta, Canada managed to fool a few Texans into believing that he is a macho cowboy named Texas Ted. But none of his fellow Republican U.S. Senators have been mesmerized by his diabolical viper's forked tongue, slit eyes and venomous fanged words.
Who will wake Ben Carson from his delusional medicated stupor?
What is a Kasich?
Trump is a white primary winning diabolical combination of Long, McCarthy, Wallace, Perot and Buchanan
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I had to laugh when Boy Rubio, like a broken record, repeated the "con man" slur against Trump almost 10 times (!) in his speech a few days ago. For that, little Marco got all of Minnesota, ha ha, the first state he's actually WON.
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Is the establishment GOP really afraid to take on Mr Donald Trump? If so, why would I believe they can take on President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Bashar al-Assad or anyone from ISIS?
The convention is that Mr Trump is a bully. But isn't the establishment GOP also a bully? They only pick on people weaker than them with no means of retaliating, like women and minorities. But they cower before people, like Mr Trump, who have the means to fight back.
The convention is that Mr Trump is a bully. But isn't the establishment GOP also a bully? They only pick on people weaker than them with no means of retaliating, like women and minorities. But they cower before people, like Mr Trump, who have the means to fight back.
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Why is Chris Christie at Trump's side? He spent only 2 weeks in New Jersey following his failed Presidential run (not even 1 delegate). Christie needs to resign or we need to recall him. In the words of Chris Christie - "New Jersey is broke". We cannot afford to fund the Governor's political aspirations and travel. Even Sarah Palin had the good sense to resign when she was no longer effective.
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He stays in touch with his secretary in Trenton.
First prize: 2 weeks in New Jersey.
Second prize: 3 weeks in New Jersey.
Second prize: 3 weeks in New Jersey.
Shaun, I was wondering the same thing. Why is Christie standing there like a footman to Trump? Not getting it. Did you notice that he calls Trump "Sir" and "Mr. Trump"? Trump calls him Chris. Do you think maybe your governor has Veep aspirations?
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The GOP has spent thirty five years redefining the meaning of certain words and stigmatizing the meaning of others. Examples include:
1-Democratic party to Democrat party( I guess the GOP thinks that somehow this shows the superior nature of themselves- who cares?)
2-"liberal" has become an expletive to the GOP
3-"exceptional" means the GOP electorate because the Dems never use that term
4-"taxes" the holy grail of the GOP because most people would prefer not to pay their fair share yet recognize that our country needs to be rebuilt
5-"socialism"-see Social security, Medicare, Medicaid and a host of other important programs that the GOP electorate believe was sent here by God
You get the picture! The scary part is that our country is no longer divided by the "haves" and the "have nots" because the overwhelming percentage of us are in the latter category.
We are in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and the bases are empty. Stranger things have happened and I believe the pitcher for the GOP is about to lose his stuff and the bullpen is empty.
1-Democratic party to Democrat party( I guess the GOP thinks that somehow this shows the superior nature of themselves- who cares?)
2-"liberal" has become an expletive to the GOP
3-"exceptional" means the GOP electorate because the Dems never use that term
4-"taxes" the holy grail of the GOP because most people would prefer not to pay their fair share yet recognize that our country needs to be rebuilt
5-"socialism"-see Social security, Medicare, Medicaid and a host of other important programs that the GOP electorate believe was sent here by God
You get the picture! The scary part is that our country is no longer divided by the "haves" and the "have nots" because the overwhelming percentage of us are in the latter category.
We are in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and the bases are empty. Stranger things have happened and I believe the pitcher for the GOP is about to lose his stuff and the bullpen is empty.
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Just how bad are Cruz and Rubio that Trump could eat their lunch on Super Tuesday? Neither Senator has accomplished a thing and stink of the establishment. It looks like we're on our way to president Trump een if only for one term.
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You got it. He's unstoppable, esp. by someone as baggage-laden as Hillary, the professional politician's wife.
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Donald Trump is proof that the dumbing down of America is nearly complete. I am waiting to hear he hates children and to point us to the eggress. The Republican candidates look like the clown car.
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Obama was warned of the consequences on America's collective I.Q. 7 years ago when he began to eviscerate No Child Left Behind on behalf of the Demcorat Teachers Unions. Now Trump thanks the "low educated" voters that Obama delivered.
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When it comes to dumbing down America, that is something Barack Obama can take credit for doing as President.
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"Republicans have been increasingly outspoken in recent days, warning that if Mr. Trump is the nominee, it will consign the party to a general election catastrophe."
If the above quote refers to the likes of Lindsey Graham - Mitch McConnell - Rick Santorum, these are precisely the born again, K-Street-beholding, establishment hacks responsible for the last two general election catastrophes, Mr. 47% in 2012 and the Senator from Arizona by way of Pluto in 2008 who gave us an obscure very right of center running mate, and then sat back and watched his staff undercut her at every opportunity.
The leaders of the Republican Party I joined in 1968 understood the need for the separation of church and state and would be appalled by the viciousness and greed exhibited by the extremists both parties.
Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton?
Trump got a start up boost of $4-million from Daddy and says what’s on his mind.
Hillary Clinton left the White House in 2001 with almost nothing, but over the next 14 years she and hubby Bill took in $153 - million in speech fees to Wall Street elites like Goldman Sachs and never met a spontaneous moment that cried out for scripting and focus group analysis.
If the above quote refers to the likes of Lindsey Graham - Mitch McConnell - Rick Santorum, these are precisely the born again, K-Street-beholding, establishment hacks responsible for the last two general election catastrophes, Mr. 47% in 2012 and the Senator from Arizona by way of Pluto in 2008 who gave us an obscure very right of center running mate, and then sat back and watched his staff undercut her at every opportunity.
The leaders of the Republican Party I joined in 1968 understood the need for the separation of church and state and would be appalled by the viciousness and greed exhibited by the extremists both parties.
Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton?
Trump got a start up boost of $4-million from Daddy and says what’s on his mind.
Hillary Clinton left the White House in 2001 with almost nothing, but over the next 14 years she and hubby Bill took in $153 - million in speech fees to Wall Street elites like Goldman Sachs and never met a spontaneous moment that cried out for scripting and focus group analysis.
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How ironic that Republicans have found someone they have more disdain for than President Obama and in their own party. I guess it's true, what comes around, goes around.
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Obama craved his martyrdom, and worked hard to sustain it. He did not fool Maureen Dowd, as readers here well know.
Why do some Republicans of a certain background with distinctive attributes prefer to support Trump rather than giving consideration to taking the logical course of action of defecting from the GOP and becoming Democrats or Independents.
For some reason they relate to the persona of Trump and his characteristic behavioral tendencies.
Trump is a mixed bag of uncertainties and inconsistencies - and his usual method of delivery is to bellow them relentlessly.
In my mind the immigration issue with all its ramifications is the very large problem currently driving a considerable portion of the electorate.
Trump initiated his campaign with this issue from day one and this issue has very long legs.
The next question is:
Will the white, moderate, educated, white-collared Republican electorate continue to support the GOP ........ saddled with Trump.
I think not and defection from the GOP will be a much easier and wiser course of action for this group.
The ranks of Independents will grow and so will the ranks of Democrats, but to a smaller degree.
In any case the GOP may well be toast, and their moneyed entities know it.
How they solve this situation will be very interesting to observe.
For some reason they relate to the persona of Trump and his characteristic behavioral tendencies.
Trump is a mixed bag of uncertainties and inconsistencies - and his usual method of delivery is to bellow them relentlessly.
In my mind the immigration issue with all its ramifications is the very large problem currently driving a considerable portion of the electorate.
Trump initiated his campaign with this issue from day one and this issue has very long legs.
The next question is:
Will the white, moderate, educated, white-collared Republican electorate continue to support the GOP ........ saddled with Trump.
I think not and defection from the GOP will be a much easier and wiser course of action for this group.
The ranks of Independents will grow and so will the ranks of Democrats, but to a smaller degree.
In any case the GOP may well be toast, and their moneyed entities know it.
How they solve this situation will be very interesting to observe.
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We are witnessing the emergence of a new politics in America. A politics rooted in honest and deliberate debate rather than pandering diversity and coercive political correctness. Americans are tired of diversity and especially political correctness which has reached an absurd level of silencing open debate throughout the nation, especially in learning. Trump has reignited the silent majority that has been marginalized by the thought police. The majority is letting their desires known by voting for Trump. His rise to the top of politics is unprecedented and will never be matched. It is truly historic. Yes, we are witnessing history unfold, the emergence of a new nation. A renaissance. America will be great again!
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I believe that message neatly illustrates and explains Trump's massage and to whom it is aimed: "tired of diversity", "new nation" "truly historic" to translate: intenment camps for all those diverse people and non-believers and a new American Riech that will last 1000 years.
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Your post is laughable. America IS synonymous with diversity. It is an immigrant nation. Everyone is from somewhere else aside from the natives. Also, the majority has never been silent, they speak with policies and votes and quite frankly through oppression of minorities. Playing the victim like you never had a voice is absurd.
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Please explain to me how you've come to see "political correctness" and especially diversity as bad things.
As you do so, please try to identify how your position can be distinguished from the rampant racism that I grew up with and that is alive and well all around me.
Thank you.
As you do so, please try to identify how your position can be distinguished from the rampant racism that I grew up with and that is alive and well all around me.
Thank you.
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What overwhelms me is not Trump but the electorate which in a GOP exit poll two thirds of Virginians favor banning Muslims from entering this country. Just pause to let that sink in: The United States of America is not going to grant visas based on religion or faith. That's an astounding idea that would have the Founding Father's reeling in their graves it's so mean-spirited and un-American. But this will make individuals feel "safer" though with a population of over 300 million being tragically involved in even a 911-scale attack borders on Powerball winning odds.
The same poll has people putting immigration over the economy in importance though it's clear that immigration is a subset of the economy, almost by definition. Not to mention, as Rubio repeated, that over 40% of undocumented workers overstay their visas so the utility of a massively expensive border wall is negated severely.
So what not overwhelms but shocks me is the myriad of logical fallacies that Trump's supporters entertain with his coaxing. What saddens me is that I'm an educator and this election cycle is a clear indictment of my profession.
The same poll has people putting immigration over the economy in importance though it's clear that immigration is a subset of the economy, almost by definition. Not to mention, as Rubio repeated, that over 40% of undocumented workers overstay their visas so the utility of a massively expensive border wall is negated severely.
So what not overwhelms but shocks me is the myriad of logical fallacies that Trump's supporters entertain with his coaxing. What saddens me is that I'm an educator and this election cycle is a clear indictment of my profession.
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Republican voters are the majority of tax payers in this country, yet for the last 8 years they have had little to no representation in the federal government. We are tired of pulling the wagon while those majority democrat sit in the wagon complaining. We are just trying to root out who will best represent us, but make no mistake either Trump, Cruz, or Rubio will be the next president. The complainers are just not that motivated.
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How would you know if it's GOP that contributes majority in taxes? That's hogwash. They're just more greedy and pay only a subset of what they probably should.
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The wealthiest earners pay way over 90% of the subsidies for the permanent Democrat underclass through the high-earners' taxes. Look it up, Utah.
....ummmm....do you know that the GOPTP has had a majority in both the House and Senate. They are both part of the "Federal" government and golly Cruz and Rubio were part of it.
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Lasting impressions of Mr. Christie's moment behind his "mon Fuhrer", err, "mon Donald":
a) A toad awaiting a fly from his handler;
b) A puppy hoping for a pat on the head or a bone;
c) A flunkie holding the door of the limo;
d) A diner at a buffet, distressed he'll miss the chocolate fondue.
e) All of the above.
a) A toad awaiting a fly from his handler;
b) A puppy hoping for a pat on the head or a bone;
c) A flunkie holding the door of the limo;
d) A diner at a buffet, distressed he'll miss the chocolate fondue.
e) All of the above.
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What a smarmy and pathetic comment, when in doubt resort to taunts, that'll show 'em just how smart (you think) you are. Sad.
f0 a rather odd "proof of life" video for one being held hostage. Of course it could be a Stockholm syndrome kind of thing too.
Going back to 1988, presidential races have consistently been between extraordinary and accomplished people. This race is nothing more than an ugly squirmish of small minds. Yuck.
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Trump's been called lots of things, but never small-minded. More like the Taj Mahal, or his other projects: Not small at all.
When Ted Cruz says the other Trump rivals should “prayerfully consider coming together”, what he really means is prayerfully consider coming together behind Ted Cruz.
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Might as well face it: It will be Trump vs. Clinton. Curious to know if Bloomberg will be encouraged to run or even Biden when there is still the possibility that Clinton could be indicted and someone would have to step in.
I'm still wondering why Obama has not endorsed Clinton. Could it be all these pending legal matters?
Also, it looks like Christie would be very happy to run for the VP spot with Trump and of course NJ Democrats are calling for his resignation already . . . got to love the politics of our nation. Yet, I think Christie would be a good choice for VP.
I'm still wondering why Obama has not endorsed Clinton. Could it be all these pending legal matters?
Also, it looks like Christie would be very happy to run for the VP spot with Trump and of course NJ Democrats are calling for his resignation already . . . got to love the politics of our nation. Yet, I think Christie would be a good choice for VP.
Where is this idea coming from that Clinton could be indicted? I understand why Rush me Mitch continue to say it, but I don't understand why so many believe it. It won't happen!
Especially since he has abandoned his actual job as governor to run around carrying Trump's suitcase.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say any governor, anywhere, can leave his state and still manage it from afar. Otherwise, how could Obama have spent more time away from the WH fund-raising than Clinton AND Bush combined?? There ya go.
Just how bad are Cruz and Rubio that Trump could eat their lunch on Super Tuesday? Neither Senator has accomplished a thing and stink of the establishment. It looks like we're on our way to president Trump een if only for one term.
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This is not mature, but I enjoy seeing how much Cruz drives liberals insane with fear and hatered. I would vote for him just for that -- perhaps liberals can imagine how we feel having Obama (an opportunistic, smiley faced hypocrite senator just like Cruz).
I'm laughing all the way to the voting booth!
I'm laughing all the way to the voting booth!
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Ted Cruz can't drive his supporters insane. It's such a short trip that Cruz just walks with them.
Donald Trump s the only candidate who both appeals to democrats and republicans. He is the one who will change our political landscape for the better, away from the polarization that has plagued the country during Obama's term. Trumps is the one chance we have to oust the Republican leadership and replace it by people who can work for the American people. We should not miss that chance.
My favorite lime of the Trump campaign is "I love the poorly educated !!!". It explains so much about his ethics and viewpoint.
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It was sarcasm . . because the elite liberals think that anyone who does not vote for Hillary is poorly educated. They think they know best and everyone else is dumb. They think that Government is there to run their life, feed and pay for the "poor and poorly educated" people who can't succeed on their own and only the government can sustain them. They hate wealthy and successful people, unless are they themselves "who truly deserve it" and imagine all kinds of plots designed to keep people poor. They forget that it is precisely big government that keep the poor, poor and dependent on handouts. They want to forget that is business, small and large, that provides jobs and makes this nation wealthy and strong. It is not the government. They want to castigate success and reward failure. They want the government to redistribute wealth as the number one priority.
That was his way of putting the Democrats-For-Trump at ease, Montville. Just look at their test scores....
Mine is from Ben Carson in the last debate. "Will somebody please attack me."
There's still a lot 'ifs' in this election journey but there is one sure fire way to defeat Mr. Trump IF he become the GOP nominee. Democrats must turn out in droves to support their chosen candidate (I hope Mrs. Clinton), and the sane GOP folks must either stay home or hold their noses and vote Democrat. A vote is our strongest weapon. We need to remember that and use it well.
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Republicans are in a panic over Trump's success. Why aren't we talking more about how Mitch McConnell and his Republican sheep, who focused only on voting no, created the opening for Trump's victories?
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The Republican Party appears bound to harm the standing of the US in world regardless of who wins the nomination. Whether it is Trump or Cruz, the image of the ugly American will be raised on a pedestal for the entire world to see.
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Yet America's standing in the world (from a Black attorney who has traveled to 11 countries) is lower during the Obama Era than it was during Bush/Cheney.
How odd.
How odd.
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It is hard to imagine that the party of the "Willie Horton" ad aired in support for Bush I would ever turn to a Cuban-Canadian who does not seem to realize his name is really Rafael Eduardo Cruz, or to a Cuban-American anchor baby who seems to believe that becoming a 'mini-me' can somehow increase his stature in voters' eyes. Donald Trump Overwhelms this Republican field all to easily.
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Party leaders should not put their hands on the scales. This is must be about what the people want and vote for, not some anemic weak Senator who can only win one State. There are more states ahead - the voters must decide this one - the party establishment has so far given us candidates who lose. They need to stay out of this.
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I was just glad to see know-nothing establishment shill Marco Rubio go down in flames...
He was the billionaire's choice, which made him by far the most dangerous candidate to average Americans....
He was the billionaire's choice, which made him by far the most dangerous candidate to average Americans....
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How sad it is that the American people will wind up having to choose between two inveterate liars- Clinton and Trump- neither of whom has the spine to deal with unfunded entitlements and the culture of imagined grievances. But,as the Romans knew when its greatness ebbed, the people are relegated to longing for two things- panem et circenses-bread and circuses.
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But Trump never lied as an elected official, or as a governor's spouse, and is not under court order from Judge Sullivan on various matters. Hillary is corrupt.
The people are sheep, they vote for the face and name they know. Period. People here may think and suppose they are making informed decisions, but the majority don't.
The NYT and the media in general have not covered Bernie, and they have not covered Bernie for any reason other than they thought it best to tell us who they think we should elect, or they limit the electability of a candidate by covering or not covering him/her. The media is dishonest in this respect and are deserving of our scorn.
Trump rebukes the media, Trump rebukes politicians, Trump seems to have his finger on the pulse, more so than Bernie with his minimal coverage. The people want change, real change, and Trump is only one candidate which represents that change, thanks to the NYT he is only one candidate the people believe will make that change happen.
Do you get it yet? We are finished with the establishment, we are finished with the same old business as usual, we are wise to the games of saying one thing during elections and doing another when elected. We are also wise to the media and their corruptive influence.
Bernie is probably the best president we will never have, thank you very much NYT(sarcasm). So now... Trump is the Man.
The NYT and the media in general have not covered Bernie, and they have not covered Bernie for any reason other than they thought it best to tell us who they think we should elect, or they limit the electability of a candidate by covering or not covering him/her. The media is dishonest in this respect and are deserving of our scorn.
Trump rebukes the media, Trump rebukes politicians, Trump seems to have his finger on the pulse, more so than Bernie with his minimal coverage. The people want change, real change, and Trump is only one candidate which represents that change, thanks to the NYT he is only one candidate the people believe will make that change happen.
Do you get it yet? We are finished with the establishment, we are finished with the same old business as usual, we are wise to the games of saying one thing during elections and doing another when elected. We are also wise to the media and their corruptive influence.
Bernie is probably the best president we will never have, thank you very much NYT(sarcasm). So now... Trump is the Man.
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"Bernie is probably the best president we will never have,"..... Absent a political revolution he is selling fairy dust. If he were to win the nomination, in the general election in November, the Republican candidate would destroy him as a Jewish Socialist. And if by some miracle he were to be elected President the country would be so divided (You did note that Cruz won in three states?) it would be impossible for him to govern. So yes Bernie is probably the best president we will never have. With the emphasis on never.
It is farce to think we live in a rational world. Who believes our leaders are chosen based on integrity and competence?
Trump is a demagogue. He promises he can swim with the sharks. He will give everyone their dream. Cynical Christie supports him since it may be his opportunity to be Trump's vice-presidential candidate. Bernie holds onto the naïve belief that he can win because he is decent and caring. Yes, he seeks equity and a place at the table on behalf of All Americans but can he actually do it? Clinton is a shrewd realist. She knows the calculations necessary to win. Trump is a cynical bully. His arrogance and bravado might fool enough people into thinking he will actually deliver on his bold assertion that he will make America great again.
The truth is that his Republican Party squandered that chance. Instead, they engaged in ritual hanging. They bullied and hatefully attacked Obama. Led by Mitch McConnell they destroyed what might have been a transcendent moment in American history to overcome the legacy of slavery and racist bigotry. Obama proved to be the only sane adult in this morass. Trump attacked and degraded our President. He continues to cynically appeal to those who cling to the racist South and the savage hateful racism of the KKK and David Duke. It is the Republican leadership that must be condemned.
We could have been great again by overcoming the legacy of racism and slavery. The enemy is not over there. It is here, Trump and McConnell.
Trump is a demagogue. He promises he can swim with the sharks. He will give everyone their dream. Cynical Christie supports him since it may be his opportunity to be Trump's vice-presidential candidate. Bernie holds onto the naïve belief that he can win because he is decent and caring. Yes, he seeks equity and a place at the table on behalf of All Americans but can he actually do it? Clinton is a shrewd realist. She knows the calculations necessary to win. Trump is a cynical bully. His arrogance and bravado might fool enough people into thinking he will actually deliver on his bold assertion that he will make America great again.
The truth is that his Republican Party squandered that chance. Instead, they engaged in ritual hanging. They bullied and hatefully attacked Obama. Led by Mitch McConnell they destroyed what might have been a transcendent moment in American history to overcome the legacy of slavery and racist bigotry. Obama proved to be the only sane adult in this morass. Trump attacked and degraded our President. He continues to cynically appeal to those who cling to the racist South and the savage hateful racism of the KKK and David Duke. It is the Republican leadership that must be condemned.
We could have been great again by overcoming the legacy of racism and slavery. The enemy is not over there. It is here, Trump and McConnell.
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Bravo Sid, way to bring some sanity to this conversation.
Republicans need to stand for something other than "No." Their obstructionism created a leadership void. In as much as nature abhors a void, Trump has stepped in and filled that void. He's not going away. They simply can't answer the question, "If not Trump, then who?"
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There's something about Trump's style I just got to admire - some would call it arrogance, others might call it mocksy or chutzpah - like last night when a reporter asked him a question about Syrian immigrants and he gave an answer that was not apparently to "their" full satisfaction and pressed him further, he simply stated: I gave you an answer and it was a good one . . . next question.
Isn't that what a leader is supposed to do? I heard what he said and can decide for myself what I want to think about it. I don't really appreciate it when reporters keep pressing their agendas in an attempt to antagonize who they're asking questions of in an attempt to bait some further comment that they can later boast as a "gotcha" quote. It's not very objective, and I was glad to see how Trump handled it so matter-of-factually.
Isn't that what a leader is supposed to do? I heard what he said and can decide for myself what I want to think about it. I don't really appreciate it when reporters keep pressing their agendas in an attempt to antagonize who they're asking questions of in an attempt to bait some further comment that they can later boast as a "gotcha" quote. It's not very objective, and I was glad to see how Trump handled it so matter-of-factually.
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Yea, see I'm not really worried about how he deals with the press. And candidly, half the time his answers make no sense hence the clarifying questions. I'm kind of a bit more concerned about how he deals with world leaders. You can't say to a world leader, "shut the %^&* up, let's move on to the next issue."
Hillary is running up delegates in Red States... And if she wins the nomination, that does not bode will for Democrats in November, as the delegates she's winning will be moot in a general election.
And how will she answer Donald Trump as he constantly reminds us that she hasn't released the transcripts from her tens of millions of dollars worth of "speeches" to Wall Street crooks? Believe me, Trump will not be nearly as polite as the gentleman Mr Bernie Sanders has been.
What the heck is she hiding, anyway? I'm a Democrat, and I don't trust Hillary as far as I can throw her. And neither does anyone else I know. She will serve to motivate Republican more than Democratic voters.
I believe Bernie Sanders, a lifelong pillar of integrity, will have the opposite effect in motivating the electorate.
And how will she answer Donald Trump as he constantly reminds us that she hasn't released the transcripts from her tens of millions of dollars worth of "speeches" to Wall Street crooks? Believe me, Trump will not be nearly as polite as the gentleman Mr Bernie Sanders has been.
What the heck is she hiding, anyway? I'm a Democrat, and I don't trust Hillary as far as I can throw her. And neither does anyone else I know. She will serve to motivate Republican more than Democratic voters.
I believe Bernie Sanders, a lifelong pillar of integrity, will have the opposite effect in motivating the electorate.
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People keep talking about Berne Sanders and integrity. How can you claim to have integrity running on a platform that promises free college tuition for everyone and single payer universal medical care. In the present environment, if elected, these are things he could never deliver. The goals are noble, but how can you call it integrity if you make impossible promises?
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Welcome to the press profit party. It's not a primary election with serious reporting on issues. No, we get pictures of politicians praying in direct violation of SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE but hey - it sells. DT sells. Snake oil sells. Even pet rocks sold. Wake Up America. This is SERIOUS business regardless of how sophomoric the press behaves.
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I daydream a nightmare where I see the NYT's headline read:
Donald Trump Wins Presidency!
Donald Trump Wins Presidency!
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I find it interesting that folks are saying Cruz shows strength and Rubio is in dire straits despite the fact that Rubio had about 125,000 more votes than Cruz if you don't include Texas.
I too have the same recurring nightmare only it's a headline proclaiming Hillary Clinton wins the election. Both are scary thoughts.
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Here is how I see Trump's presidency:
All government offices will be decorated with his portraits.
Mass media outlets and individual journalists who criticize the government will be prosecuted for libel. Some may be beaten or disappear.
The country will be covered by concentration camps used for detaining undocumented aliens.
Trump's active supporters will volunteer to hunt and guard suspicious individuals.
Go Trump!
All government offices will be decorated with his portraits.
Mass media outlets and individual journalists who criticize the government will be prosecuted for libel. Some may be beaten or disappear.
The country will be covered by concentration camps used for detaining undocumented aliens.
Trump's active supporters will volunteer to hunt and guard suspicious individuals.
Go Trump!
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Good morning from Capitol Hill!
Would this be a bad time to mention that "all government offices" here in Washington DC and around the country are "decorated" with portraits of Barack Obama?
I say this as a Black attorney in Washington DC with a degree in American History, are there any Obama supporters in America who aren't just like alec?
You scare me. A lot.
Would this be a bad time to mention that "all government offices" here in Washington DC and around the country are "decorated" with portraits of Barack Obama?
I say this as a Black attorney in Washington DC with a degree in American History, are there any Obama supporters in America who aren't just like alec?
You scare me. A lot.
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"Two weeks to take down Trump".. Sorry, that dog won't hunt. What the Republican Establishment as well as the main stream media don't seem to grasp is that this is major revolution and repudiation of establishment politics and over two decades of DC political dysfunction. Don't underestimate Trump and his WWE style of campaigning. He is a brilliant strategist and has proven in spades that telling it like it is has a massive following among all classes of society nationwide. If his candidacy and subsequent election as President of the United States of America ends the disconnected joke that is Washington DC Politics I welcome it......
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To me, the biggest takeaway was that there's no obvious candidate to bow out at this point, because:
- Cruz has no appeal outside pockets of South, and caucuses
- Rubio is a candidate of choice of the counties on top of the food chain in the local economy, but he cannot break anywhere else
- Kasich is the only candidate with a realistic shot at Ohio
- Cruz has no appeal outside pockets of South, and caucuses
- Rubio is a candidate of choice of the counties on top of the food chain in the local economy, but he cannot break anywhere else
- Kasich is the only candidate with a realistic shot at Ohio
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Starting when Regan said "Government is the problem", the Republican party has delivered a divisive message predicated fear and selfishness and a refusal to compromise. They have become the legislative party of 'no', even though they represent at best only 50% of the country. They are the bullies in the school yard and compromise is a dirty word. They have dragged politics into the mud, going so far as to scream 'LIAR' in the middle of a State of the Union Address. The Republican leadership has only themselves to blame for the tattered state of their party and for the creation of Trump. Anger, bigotry, mistrust, and selfishness just breeds more of the same. Donald Trump is speaking in no uncertain terms about the exact same issues that the Republican Party has long promoted: fear of immigrants, disdain for the policies of other countries, fear that the Government will take your guns, fear that poor people are taking what they haven't earned, fear that basic environmental laws are bad for business, the mind numbing mantra that Government is the problem, and all the while they refuse to legislate. Well guys, you reap what you sow. The chickens have finally come home to roost. Surprise...
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I played around with the NYTime's delegate tool... basically for Trump to lose the nomination, ALL three of the following must happen:
1) Rubio, Kasich and Carson all need to drop out relatively soon (this month),
2) A vast majority (if not all) of their support must coalesce around Cruz,
3) AND Trump needs to stumble a bit (i.e., not really win any states convincingly going forward).
I can see one or two of these happening, but all three?
1) Rubio, Kasich and Carson all need to drop out relatively soon (this month),
2) A vast majority (if not all) of their support must coalesce around Cruz,
3) AND Trump needs to stumble a bit (i.e., not really win any states convincingly going forward).
I can see one or two of these happening, but all three?
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As a very liberal Democrat- all I have to say to fellow Dems is; President Trump....and it will be our fault. Corporate Democrats are far too busy trying to position themselves "into" [another] Clinton administration to really look at the reality of what will likely be come November. Perhaps Donald will "surprise" and present as a Liberal; in any event, Crowning Hillary Clinton has been the wrong political strategy and we will surely pay the price come November.
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Thank you for your concern.
Trump as a unifier?
That's the biggest pile of male cow droppings I've ever heard.
Trump is a crude, loud mouthed, arrogant schoolyard bully who
thinks politics is just like being a lunch room monitor in junior high.
And the nomination is far from wrapped up. If Rubio
dropped out and pledged all his candidates to Cruz Trump would lose.
Remember the primaries are only the first stage of the nominating process.
The convention is where the real nomination happens. Of course if Trump
is far ahead at that time his nomination will be assured. But there seems
to be more than enough opposition to Trump in established circles
to ensure that nobody wins the nomination on the first ballot.
I still think Kasich is the best choice but he's not "newsworthy" enough.
That's the biggest pile of male cow droppings I've ever heard.
Trump is a crude, loud mouthed, arrogant schoolyard bully who
thinks politics is just like being a lunch room monitor in junior high.
And the nomination is far from wrapped up. If Rubio
dropped out and pledged all his candidates to Cruz Trump would lose.
Remember the primaries are only the first stage of the nominating process.
The convention is where the real nomination happens. Of course if Trump
is far ahead at that time his nomination will be assured. But there seems
to be more than enough opposition to Trump in established circles
to ensure that nobody wins the nomination on the first ballot.
I still think Kasich is the best choice but he's not "newsworthy" enough.
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Cruz is scarier than Trump! Good grief, please no.
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What's wrong with Kasich?
He's not "exciting" enough?
The problem is that the middle, the moderates
have disappeared and been overtaken by the radical fringes.
A case of the tail incorrectly wagging the dog.
Trump is a demagogue and a buffoon.
A crude, loud mouthed, obnoxious schoolyard bully.
Is that what you want America to become?
Trump has no clue and no plan.
Electing him President would be a disaster.
But maybe that is what Republican extremists want---
sort of an anarchistic political zombie apocalypse.
Forward into the future and the zombie apocalypse with Donald Trump!!!
He's not "exciting" enough?
The problem is that the middle, the moderates
have disappeared and been overtaken by the radical fringes.
A case of the tail incorrectly wagging the dog.
Trump is a demagogue and a buffoon.
A crude, loud mouthed, obnoxious schoolyard bully.
Is that what you want America to become?
Trump has no clue and no plan.
Electing him President would be a disaster.
But maybe that is what Republican extremists want---
sort of an anarchistic political zombie apocalypse.
Forward into the future and the zombie apocalypse with Donald Trump!!!
This is a nightmare of their own making. For years Republican's have allowed the Koch brothers, the tea party, the ultra-conservatives, to hold sway and have not rallied - as a party - to return to a moderate stance. It's happening now in the Senate - Mitch McConnell and his band of thugs are attempting to stop a process which is clear as glass - the nomination of a Supreme Court justice by a sitting president. They wonder why Trump vaults to the top when their own rhetoric is full of blaming, not-so veiled racism, violence and narcissism? Trump is, truly, the embodiment of what the party has espoused for years - partisan politics, disregard for another point of view, zero capability to negotiate (or desire to) and arrogance. As the party led, so too went the members until now they see the light at the end of the tunnel the Republicans have been digging all these years. The Donald. Be terrified, and get your passport renewed.
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Trump you are good, you have your people writing in every comment article. making everyone believe these comments are from average people. Yes people in America are gullible, blind, and the majority racist.
You are truly in revelations. yes America needs a big change over, and hopefully this will change politicians of all sides who held greed in their hearts for years, that people are tired. Tired of laws protecting wall street, bankers, corporations, the rich. With tax payers money, our hard earned money.
This Trump win lets them know to truly take a good look at themselves. If Trump wins, blame the GOP's, Lobbyist, state and city law makers who have bled their people in their city and state dry. lawmakers who walked around with chips on their shoulders, the untouchables.
God works in mysterious ways, and this is WWIII at its making. The beast will be let loose, and people will fall.
I will not vote for Trump, but have a feeling he will win anyway, because GOD is disgusted with this world. People who held power far too long could have made this world a Utopia, but instead a living hell.
Presidents and Kings of every country on this planet have abused their powers to their cause, not the true cause.
Trump will win, WWIII will come, countries will fall. The ones who held the most power will be the beast biggest pet.
You are truly in revelations. yes America needs a big change over, and hopefully this will change politicians of all sides who held greed in their hearts for years, that people are tired. Tired of laws protecting wall street, bankers, corporations, the rich. With tax payers money, our hard earned money.
This Trump win lets them know to truly take a good look at themselves. If Trump wins, blame the GOP's, Lobbyist, state and city law makers who have bled their people in their city and state dry. lawmakers who walked around with chips on their shoulders, the untouchables.
God works in mysterious ways, and this is WWIII at its making. The beast will be let loose, and people will fall.
I will not vote for Trump, but have a feeling he will win anyway, because GOD is disgusted with this world. People who held power far too long could have made this world a Utopia, but instead a living hell.
Presidents and Kings of every country on this planet have abused their powers to their cause, not the true cause.
Trump will win, WWIII will come, countries will fall. The ones who held the most power will be the beast biggest pet.
Hey now, did you just call DCBarrister "average"?
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The state of the Republcan primary season in two movie references:
Ted Cruz calls for Thunderdome, "Two men enter, one man leaves."
Marco Rubio as The Highlander, "There can be only one."
Gratuitous sports reference -- Donald Trump as Vince Lombardi, "Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing."
Ted Cruz calls for Thunderdome, "Two men enter, one man leaves."
Marco Rubio as The Highlander, "There can be only one."
Gratuitous sports reference -- Donald Trump as Vince Lombardi, "Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing."
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Trump's many offensive statements disqualify him from public office in my opinion, but I can still imagine why other people find him compelling. I strongly disagree with Trump's supporters, but I don't find them incomprehensible.
What stumps me is Cruz. He has a horizontal rictus of a smile. I can't look at or hear him without the word "creepy" coming to my mind. Isn't he patently oleaginous and reptilian? I'm not trying to be superficial -- I really just don't get it.
What stumps me is Cruz. He has a horizontal rictus of a smile. I can't look at or hear him without the word "creepy" coming to my mind. Isn't he patently oleaginous and reptilian? I'm not trying to be superficial -- I really just don't get it.
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The GOP lineup of candidates is third tier and an embarrassment for the US. Out of 350 plus million people there must be somebody who is conservative and not a kook.
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This is what happens when the wealthy Republican establishment 1% continues to alienate and exploit the poor Republican schmos who make up the 99%. Democracy. Got to love it!
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This is what happens when the wealthy Democratic establishment 1% continues to alienate and exploit the poor Democratic schmos who make up the 99%. Democracy. Got to love it!
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
His win has been overblown. He won 3 states by less than 3 points, and only racked up 25 more delegates than Cruz.
In terms of delegates, he literally did twice as good in South Carolina than he did last night.
Sure he won, but getting 234 delegates to Cruz's 209 is not "overwhelming" by any stretch. It's the political equivalent of winning by a field goal.
In terms of delegates, he literally did twice as good in South Carolina than he did last night.
Sure he won, but getting 234 delegates to Cruz's 209 is not "overwhelming" by any stretch. It's the political equivalent of winning by a field goal.
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A brokered GOP convention is not an "if" but "when" and "how" at this point, with all sides going nuclear. Ultimately, the GOP subverts the will of its constituents and raises the ire of rank and file Republicans, then The Donald goes all-in on an independent bid for the White House.
I am looking into buying stock in popcorn manufacturers today...
I am looking into buying stock in popcorn manufacturers today...
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The Tea Party movement proclaiming “government” is the problem convinced enough low-income white people to believe that it is good to mistrust the usual type of civic leader we get and to instead trust their instincts about believing that only a force from outside can bring real change. This is a dishonest belief that a grifter like Trump easily takes advantage because his base of supporters have for many years been marinated by special Tea Party sauce that creates delusional voters that are angry and bitter. Trump, like most con men, might fail to win big, but they quickly reinvent themselves and go on to the next trick.
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The Republican leadership had better face facts! Otherwise, Hillary will take the White House in the fall.
Hillary is the uptimate insider running as an outsider change agent. She has the black vote and the immigrant vote is spite of 90% of the public saying they don't trust her.
Rubio is pro immigrant, but a lightweight and an insider.
Kruz is a tea party far right candidate who is presenting himself as moderate and a unifier.
Trump is a liberal to moderate depending on the issue, a conservattive on finance and immigration and an outsider.
Just look at what 80% or more of the public thinks about Congress! Just look at what the majority think about the economy.
Just look at who is drawing people to their rallies. The Republican winner and loosers are obvious.
If the Republican leadership blocks Trump rather than lets the people decide, their loss in November will be greater than when Clinton beat Bush
Wise up Republicans,
Hillary is the uptimate insider running as an outsider change agent. She has the black vote and the immigrant vote is spite of 90% of the public saying they don't trust her.
Rubio is pro immigrant, but a lightweight and an insider.
Kruz is a tea party far right candidate who is presenting himself as moderate and a unifier.
Trump is a liberal to moderate depending on the issue, a conservattive on finance and immigration and an outsider.
Just look at what 80% or more of the public thinks about Congress! Just look at what the majority think about the economy.
Just look at who is drawing people to their rallies. The Republican winner and loosers are obvious.
If the Republican leadership blocks Trump rather than lets the people decide, their loss in November will be greater than when Clinton beat Bush
Wise up Republicans,
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"Trump is a liberal to moderate depending on the issue, a conservattive on finance and immigration and an outsider."
That sounds pretty good to me.
That sounds pretty good to me.
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I am a Republican and I voted for Trump in Georgia's primary.
My comment was intended to direct Republican leaders to consider why Bush #1 lost to a political unknown due to Perot who had no Republican primary votes!
I think half of Trump's vote is anti establishment and half of Sander's vote is anti Hillary.
Republican leaders need to decide if they what to be in the ovel office next year or not. Postering by Republican Congressional leaders against any nominee when 80% of the public has a negative opinion of them is the height of arrogance and stupidity.
My comment was intended to direct Republican leaders to consider why Bush #1 lost to a political unknown due to Perot who had no Republican primary votes!
I think half of Trump's vote is anti establishment and half of Sander's vote is anti Hillary.
Republican leaders need to decide if they what to be in the ovel office next year or not. Postering by Republican Congressional leaders against any nominee when 80% of the public has a negative opinion of them is the height of arrogance and stupidity.
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0bama won his victories more decisively than Bill Clinton. Why did you not mention him?
Drumpf successes wipe the smirks off the faces of oh-so-smug M. McConnell and friends. Grassley among them.
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Priceless, isn't it?
"Mr. Rubio’s backers fault Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio for the Florida senator’s narrow loss to Mr. Trump in Virginia, calling it evidence of Mr. Kasich’s negative impact on the race. (Mr. Rubio lost by three percentage points to Mr. Trump, and Mr. Kasich, who appeals to many of the same voters, took 9 percent of the vote.)"
This just in from the Rubio campaign:
"Bwaaaaaa! If Ralph Nader Kasich hadn't let his ego drive him, we wudda won Virginia, and then you'd see we cudda been a contendah!"
Maybe get David Boies to represent you, Marco, and head to the Supreme Court?
The second time as real farce!
This just in from the Rubio campaign:
"Bwaaaaaa! If Ralph Nader Kasich hadn't let his ego drive him, we wudda won Virginia, and then you'd see we cudda been a contendah!"
Maybe get David Boies to represent you, Marco, and head to the Supreme Court?
The second time as real farce!
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Arbitrot: Memo to Republican Insiders - Stop cramming Rubio down voters' throats, swallow your false pride and start backing John Kasich. He is capable and has great cross-appeal to moderate Repubs, Independents and some disaffected Dems.
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I'm still confused to why anyone would support Drumpf? His foreign policy? Drumpf doesn't have a foreign policy...Maybe it's Drumpf's business acumen? No wait, he's filled for bankruptcy numerous times asking the tax payer to foot the bill...Oh wait, it must be Drumpf's handling of socio-economic issues? Nope nada...Or maybe his years of experience butting heads with politicians?...nope can't even check that box. It's clear Drumpf's the face of change, but it's ugly...
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Personally, I feel John Oliver may have done Donald Trump a real service making fun of his name at such great length the other night. The name Trump to me sounded phony, now I see why. My family's original name was a mouthful too, now the name Drumpf makes him sound a little more relatable, as in less Las Vegasy.
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Guess you missed J.O's point and how on earth can you relate to DD? His policies are unethical, illegal and immoral. DD is a pro panderer and American's are lining up to drink his skunked kool-aid.
The picture of the Alabama victory party for Trump was telling - four old white men praying over pizza with two cardboard cut-outs of Trump. Trump himself certainly was not eating pizza. I don't need an aging, arrogant and biased white oligarch, who got where he is by exploiting the working class, as a cardboard cut-out president.
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Trump at the lunch of Southerners Rubio and Cruz in their home turf. They both desperately needed to win there, but fell well short of doing so. With prospects very bleak for Cruz elsewhere, and Rubio out of contention to win his home state of Florida, it's time for both candidates to suspend their campaigns (along with Carson who has no chance) and allow the most qualified and accomplished candidate in the field to go head-to-head with Trump the rest of the way. Only then can Trump be thwarted in his quest for the nomination, and the GOP and country spared the embarrassment and strife that would accompany Trump's nomination.
Kasich is not only the most qualified candidate in terms of both relevant experience and accomplishments, style and temperament, he is also the most formidable candidate in a general election against Hillary Clinton. He would easily win the key swing state of Ohio- his home state- but also carry other Midwest swing states along with Virginia and likely Penbsylvania too. Combined with traditional Republican strongholds in the South and West, that would give Kasich an impressive electoral college victory in November, and go a long way toward healing the wounds in both his party, and the country.
Kasich is not only the most qualified candidate in terms of both relevant experience and accomplishments, style and temperament, he is also the most formidable candidate in a general election against Hillary Clinton. He would easily win the key swing state of Ohio- his home state- but also carry other Midwest swing states along with Virginia and likely Penbsylvania too. Combined with traditional Republican strongholds in the South and West, that would give Kasich an impressive electoral college victory in November, and go a long way toward healing the wounds in both his party, and the country.
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And now the remaining question:
But where shalt thou go now, USA? -- Sed quo nunc vadetes Civitates Foederatae Americae?
Probably into the abyss.
But where shalt thou go now, USA? -- Sed quo nunc vadetes Civitates Foederatae Americae?
Probably into the abyss.
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With all this talk about 'mainstream' Republicanism resistant, if not down-right hostile, to a Donald Trump candidacy, it can't be helped to wonder, how many normally moderate to right-leaning Independents will eschew him and how many of the GOP's (few remaining die-hard) moderates will flat-out abandon him by simply not voting or voting for the Democrat.
One can only hope together they will be more than sufficient to deliver Der Donald a definitive defeat in the general election.
One can only hope together they will be more than sufficient to deliver Der Donald a definitive defeat in the general election.
I'm a Democrat from Massachusetts, will never vote for the GOP as they hate the middle and working class, they just don't come out and say it, they just hit you in the wallet as hard as they can.
Am I surprised Trump won by such a large margin? No.
Remember, this is the state that fell for the Scott Brown "He's One of Us" campaigns.
Every election cycle he'd dust off his barn jacket, roll out his "Joe Sixpack" SUV as he called it, spend a few days working on his farm to show how he's "one of us".
I didn't fall for it.
He owns two five million dollar homes and one of his first acts as Senator was to vote to continue tax breaks for companies that outsource their jobs overseas at a time with skyrocketing unemployment because of the Bush recession.
When he left the Senate for a do nothing, high paying job on a board on a technology company.
Yet, he's "one of us"?
Am I surprised Trump won by such a large margin? No.
Remember, this is the state that fell for the Scott Brown "He's One of Us" campaigns.
Every election cycle he'd dust off his barn jacket, roll out his "Joe Sixpack" SUV as he called it, spend a few days working on his farm to show how he's "one of us".
I didn't fall for it.
He owns two five million dollar homes and one of his first acts as Senator was to vote to continue tax breaks for companies that outsource their jobs overseas at a time with skyrocketing unemployment because of the Bush recession.
When he left the Senate for a do nothing, high paying job on a board on a technology company.
Yet, he's "one of us"?
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I cannot begin to imagine how damaging a Trump presidency would be to this nation. The thought of Trump representing the US at meetings with foreign leaders who share our values makes me ill.
We desperately need leaders from all sectors of the society and the economy and from both parties to denounce Trump on the national stage before it is too late. We need a national "have you no shame" moment right now.
We desperately need leaders from all sectors of the society and the economy and from both parties to denounce Trump on the national stage before it is too late. We need a national "have you no shame" moment right now.
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In 1969 the world looked at the United States with admiration as the first human set foot on the Moon. My God, look at us now.
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This time next year, if Mr. Trump is in residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, this newspaper may well not be publishing any more. I hope the RNC leadership is correct in predicting a GOP catastrophe with Trump as the nominee, but I am so fearful that might not be the case. For now all I know to do is continue my support for the Sanders/Clinton movements and hope for the best. If the worst happens, I fear many of us will be asking, "What on earth do we do now" but without a constitutionally-protected venue such as this one to share.
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Lawmakers do so badly that more and more believe that dictatorship would be a solution.
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And those "people," whoever they may be, are wrong. Ask Venezuela.
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As much as I hate to say it, Trump will become the Republican nominee and may win the general election. He will either transform the Republican Party to his way of thinking or split it into two parties. Either way, America looses as a world leader. Trump has no respect on the world stage.
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They are all useless Trump,Bubio,and Cruz. Perish the thought that any would be president. There are not that many stupid people in the country.
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The shock of the Republican race shows how unstable the standings remain. You cannot straight line assume past performance will play out from here on in. If you did Trump would have been crowned after South Carolina. Fact is he was not as strong in every state, has yet to win a majority, and faces completely different constituencies on and after March 15. If this goes as far as California how will Trump do there? Add in that he is always one comment away from sinking his own ship you come up with a wide open race. Nobody should drop out at this point, and those that have may well regret they did.
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After months of sactimniously claiming that he would never get into the mud with Trump, Rubio has squandered whatever dignity he may have had and in doing so he purchased nothing of value. All he will have accomplished in this election cycle is to raise questions about his inner metal, and confirm without a doubt his inner craveness. Some thought he might have some Reagan in him when what he has inside him is mostly Quayle.
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Mini Rubio cannot out Trump Trump.
It is interesting that both the Republican and Democratic party leadership seems to ignore the fact that there is a significant amount of anger among the voters at the career politicians who only promise more of the same. Both Trump and Sanders are scary, but not nearly as scary as the lackluster performance of politicians over many years. We may be well on our way to some long overdue shakeup.
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Trump is representative of the hate a large part of this country harbors against anyone not male, Christian and white.
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Trump is winning and moving forward despite his crass behavior. Rubio will not win despite all the money backing him. On the Dem side Bernie is not winning much but running strong on enthusiasm. Clinton is getting large sums from the moneyed interests. In all this the American worker, the left behind common people, are getting worse as they are stuck in a huge economic rut, see cheap foreign labor overseas and in their home town driving down their wages, watch the chattering class get richer, their religion debased in the media and the schools,racial rancor increasing abetted by the press, wars overseas that go on and on, and for states like NH, drugs destroying the youth.
Beware! There is a huge disconnect in the bubble land of the elite. After hundreds of article by the elite in both parties about the demise of Trump, he appears to be on the ascent. The masses are not going to be told to "just eat cake." Even if Trump and Bernie lose, there will arise other politicians who represent them, the disenfranchised.
A paradigm shift has is occurring. The well heeled and well published have yet to come to grips with that basic fact.
Beware! There is a huge disconnect in the bubble land of the elite. After hundreds of article by the elite in both parties about the demise of Trump, he appears to be on the ascent. The masses are not going to be told to "just eat cake." Even if Trump and Bernie lose, there will arise other politicians who represent them, the disenfranchised.
A paradigm shift has is occurring. The well heeled and well published have yet to come to grips with that basic fact.
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The level of bias in the Super Tuesday coverage is insane and makes me incredibly angry. In the daily breeding it's specifically addresses how the establishment republicans stand a chance still, but Bernie is diminished. Bernie won as many states as all of the establishment republicans combined!
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Trump won his Super Tuesday! And at his victorious side, who but Governor Chris Christie - his New Jersey Smee to his Captain Hook! The Republican establishment, whether they like it or not, are hanging onto the reins of a galloping runaway Donald Trump beyond control - winner extraordinaire in a contest no one imagined would ever take place! As soon as Chris Christie bowed out of the Republican Hobson's Choice horses running for the Presidency, he appeared at The Donald's side and looks to be glued to his side like a remora to a shark for the duration. Meanwhile, Capt. Hook, aka Donald Trump, is aware that the crocodile who swallowed a clock, is nearing him; he listens for the ticking clock and knows his time will be up sooner or later. The Donald and The Hillary made their glorious victory speeches in Florida, the former in Palm Beach, the latter in Miami. Florida has always been an interesting battleground for deciding Presidential Elections.
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Trump's supporters have become, by design or by default, a human shield for Trump. Attacks on Trump's character and style are attacks on the integrity of those whom he reflects in his campaign themes: they have not felt "great" in many years, and think Trump will make them "great again."
Only a strategy that focused on how Trump has betrayed, even preyed on them - Trump University, hiring foreign workers, manufacturing his goods overseas, etc. - will give them pause.
As for the Republican party: they are proving in the most profound way that the Constitution, and especially the ideal of government of, by, and for the people, can be cherry-picked as it suits them. Eight years of denying President Obama's legitimacy, most recently exemplified by the Republicans' call to "let the American people decide" who will nominate the next Supreme Court Justice, and now their plans to gerrymander the Republican nomination to suit them. Talk about a nanny state!
The Republican party us in serious need of an intervention, all right, but not by the Republican leadership.
Only a strategy that focused on how Trump has betrayed, even preyed on them - Trump University, hiring foreign workers, manufacturing his goods overseas, etc. - will give them pause.
As for the Republican party: they are proving in the most profound way that the Constitution, and especially the ideal of government of, by, and for the people, can be cherry-picked as it suits them. Eight years of denying President Obama's legitimacy, most recently exemplified by the Republicans' call to "let the American people decide" who will nominate the next Supreme Court Justice, and now their plans to gerrymander the Republican nomination to suit them. Talk about a nanny state!
The Republican party us in serious need of an intervention, all right, but not by the Republican leadership.
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It is time for Republicans to look inside themselves and ask this question. Do I vote for Donald, who does not represent my best interests, just to get a Republican win? Or do I pinch my fingers over my nose, consider what is best for the country, and vote for Hillary?
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Why is Hillary best for the country?
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And you think Hillary has your best interest at heart? Please you can't be that gullible, she is part of the machinery that is broken. Wake up.
It is incorrect to think of Trump as a one person phenomenon, an "outlier" or maybe even not American, not "us". Talking of Trump, we should more properly think of the millions of Americans who support Trump. There are a large number of us, the Americans, who like Trump, are loud mouth, vulgar , racist, xenophobic. These are our fellow Americans-- neighbors, co-workers, friends, family... it is a very scary realization for me that what brought us slavery in this country is still here, very real, existing. Even if Trump does not get the nomination or presidency, these Americans are still among us.
In these past months, I have come to see the Republicans and the conservative in general as being equivalent to racists and xenophobes, rather than people with a different political ideology. Why do we ever think of ourselves as 'exceptional'?
In these past months, I have come to see the Republicans and the conservative in general as being equivalent to racists and xenophobes, rather than people with a different political ideology. Why do we ever think of ourselves as 'exceptional'?
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When we are going to learn that being a celebrity and rich (inherited) guy are not sufficient qualifications to lead this great country. Soon we will perhaps see a race horse as a candidate for presidency!
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Voters who are suffering do want another debate on the merits of small verses big government, the merits of conservatism verses liberalism, or the merits of free market capitalism verses regulations on trade. These debates ring hollow to those who are hurting and suffering economically. Creating jobs to employ them, building walls to protect them, killing terrorist who threaten them, lowering taxes to put more money in their pockets, and protecting their right to practice their faith are the words and ideas that resonate with those voting for Trump.
His policies are non-gender and non-racial. Good paying jobs, immigration control, educational improvements, lower taxes, cutting government waste and fraud, and lessening the control of special interests and lobbyists will benefit all Americans except for the rich and powerful. If his support is fueled by voter anger, it is anger at the GOP, not racial anger, or gender anger. The GOP elites, the mass media will do their best to sink him since they have much to lose. Maybe his wealth and fearlessness will trump their self-invested interests to keep a choke hold on the lives of the American people to satisfy their greed.
His policies are non-gender and non-racial. Good paying jobs, immigration control, educational improvements, lower taxes, cutting government waste and fraud, and lessening the control of special interests and lobbyists will benefit all Americans except for the rich and powerful. If his support is fueled by voter anger, it is anger at the GOP, not racial anger, or gender anger. The GOP elites, the mass media will do their best to sink him since they have much to lose. Maybe his wealth and fearlessness will trump their self-invested interests to keep a choke hold on the lives of the American people to satisfy their greed.
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They have hooked their wagon to Trump, understand he has no reason to run other than to gain the satisfaction and glory associated with bringing the GOP into the current century, and battling Congress to let go of their special interest donors to begrudgingly improve the lot of the middle and lower classes. Voters who are suffering do want another debate on the merits of small verses big government, the merits of conservatism verses liberalism, or the merits of free market capitalism verses regulations on trade. These debates ring hollow to those who are hurting and suffering economically. Creating jobs to employ them, building walls to protect them, killing terrorist who threaten them, lowering taxes to put more money in their pockets, and protecting their right to practice their faith are the words and ideas that resonate with those voting for Trump.
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The GOP never envisioned such a situation, since they never dreamed anyone would have the money to challenge them. Trump's billionaire status is basis for his ability to play in this rigged game and the people understand and accept that. Better a non-career politician billionaire than a career politician want-to-be millionaire controlled by party interests and disinterested in the peoples' problems and needs.
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If we ever thought the Republican Party was clueless - it is being reaffirmed in their disavowal of Trump. TN had record breaking turnout - and Trump won here by a wide Margin - and this is a state in the BIBLE belt -where ideologically speaking - folks should have voted for Cruz or Rubio. Trump is not the same old........and voters are in need of something fresh. Rubio keeps calling Trump " a Con Man" -even in the two minutes when he was interviewed on TV last night. This can only serve to allienate the masses of people who actually got out to vote for Trump. If Hillary has already figured out he will probably be the oppostion - I am not sure why the GOP hasn't figured out the same. This does not bode well for the GOP.
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Prior to Trump, the voters had no choice but to hold their noses and vote for a bought-and-paid-for career politician. Many did not bother to vote understanding that the rhethoric and ideologies were only window dressing to get votes then enrich the party and its members. Both parties have abused the middle and lower class voters they lied to and patronized. Enter Trump, the only non-career politician choice who has endured the media abuse and still stand toe-to-toe with the grand wizards of the GOP, and offer the disenfranchised GOP voter an opportunity to vote for someone other than a party managed candidate. His broad support underscorces the hunger to do so in the general electorate.
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Trump can be a 3rd party candidate if the Republicans reject him despite 'winning' in terms of delegates. So the Republican party can be 'saved' in that way , especially if their candidate is a 'saved' evangelical :) . In a 3-way election, Trump can make his way to the presidency. And he will then be able to start his own new party based on America's newest minority, While male blue-collar workers.
How is it possible for a billionaire to connect with the downtrodden working class? Simple. His two main competitors share an entrenched Republican philosophy of catering to big business and disenfranchising its workers. While the GOP establishment will muster all its resources to fight Trump, they at best will only delay the inevitable nomination of a man whom they despise.
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I love this country. Just when the establishment Republican Party thinks it's created the magic formula to rule forever, the people have a different idea. And even the Democrats are considering passing over their own anointed for a socialist revolutionary. What a great time in our history. I have new hope that we're not a complacent, uninvolved electorate? Sturm und drang baby!
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The painful hangover from Super Tuesday left Marco Rubio in a Stupor Wednesday.
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If the republican party is the party of Lincoln; why have they done nothing for black people?
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The main question to ask about Cruz is this: Is he more like Mike Huckabee with a Harvard Law degree, or is he more like George W. Bush with a Harvard Law degree? I go with the former. Read about Ted's father and some of the things he has said and written over the years.
George W. Bush was an exception among Texas Republican politicians in that he was able to present himself as electable at the national level despite being an evangelical Christian. All other Texas Republican politicians are now completely off the rails and leave me with the impression that Houston and Dallas are the Christian extremist equivalents of Riyadh and Jeddah.
George W. Bush was an exception among Texas Republican politicians in that he was able to present himself as electable at the national level despite being an evangelical Christian. All other Texas Republican politicians are now completely off the rails and leave me with the impression that Houston and Dallas are the Christian extremist equivalents of Riyadh and Jeddah.
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The Obama victory in 2008 spelled doom for the GOP in many newspaper columns, but the GOP emerged stronger than ever in Congress and at the state level. So let the pundits write away. We can't predict the outcome of this very strange election season, although it would be nice if the Democrats could exploit the chaos to pick up some Senate seats and take back the Senate. The long game of taking back state legislatures and governorships will be a slog and requires being in power for the 2020 gerrymandering fest.
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Don't worry about Christie.
Go watch Ellen
Go watch Ellen
Wouldn't be at all surprised if the Republican Party tries to somehow blame this on President Obama, but you reap what you sow, and their divisive brand of politics have brought them here.
And what is Christie doing in Florida now? Isn't he out? Shouldn't he be doing the job the people of NJ elected, and are paying him to do?
And what is Christie doing in Florida now? Isn't he out? Shouldn't he be doing the job the people of NJ elected, and are paying him to do?
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Now that the Republican voters have spoken, the "Establishment" need to coalesce behind Mr. Trump to face the General Election in November if it wants a Republican President who is passionate about making America Great Again!
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Trump is passionate about Trump and no one else. Get a clue.
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Despite the utter failure of Mister Bush's Discretionary War, America has never stopped being great.
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What a choice in the GOP -- Trump a bombastic buffoon with no solutions or plans for anything, Cruz - a religionist, sociopath whose idea of being a Senator is to shut down its operation and Rubio -- a lightweight rightwinger who is anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-government, anti-healthcare for everyone who is such a lightweight that he needs kinky boots to keep him anchored to the ground.
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It makes perfect sense that Donald Trump is smashing his republican rivals. He is the best republican candidate. It like me telling people that the best car I ever owned was a 1971 Ford Pinto. It is a true statement because I simply have owned only horrible cars. The republican party has become so fringe that their best candidate turns out to not even be a Republican. That is how bad the party’s platform has become. There is no surprise here.
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I am very worried about voter turnout. The republicans have large and enthusiastic crowds which have increased voter turnout for the primaries. Democrats cannot seem to get people to the polls. Maybe they are not crazy enough or it could be the incompetent DNC. Bernie has large and enthusiastic crowds, but they don't translate into large enough voter results. Hillary has smaller crowds, but broader name recognition, enough to win more primaries but with far fewer votes than Trump. Trump may win on celebrity status, bombast and enthusiastic, energized support. Issues don't really seem to matter.
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“... if Donald Trump ends up as the nominee, conservatives will need to find a third option.” - Ben Sasse, GOP Senator.
I find it beyond amazing that the same tea-party groups that derided President Obama as "inexperienced" and "little more than a community organizer" are backing a man who is neither conservative (in any form) and lacks ANY experience what so ever in Governing.
I find it beyond amazing that the same tea-party groups that derided President Obama as "inexperienced" and "little more than a community organizer" are backing a man who is neither conservative (in any form) and lacks ANY experience what so ever in Governing.
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If the media had ignored the Republican Trump the way the media ignored
the Democrat Bernie Sanders, Trump would not be the presumptive nominee
of the Republican Party. This attempt to destroy Bernie may backfire on the media by exposing the vicious underbelly of the Republican Party... the old
give the GOP enough rope and they will hang themselves. UNfortunately
the media did not calculate the support of the angry GOP voters and the rope
could swing Trump into victory.
the Democrat Bernie Sanders, Trump would not be the presumptive nominee
of the Republican Party. This attempt to destroy Bernie may backfire on the media by exposing the vicious underbelly of the Republican Party... the old
give the GOP enough rope and they will hang themselves. UNfortunately
the media did not calculate the support of the angry GOP voters and the rope
could swing Trump into victory.
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Can there be any better indication of the need for education reform in this country than this? Ignorance may be bliss but it is also Trump. If we aren't yet the laughing stock of the world we may soon be. Throw in a generous portion of fear and, ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Trump.
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The GOP leaders followed up on their early mistakes, in their approach towards Trump, in this past week by backing Rubio as their candidate and suggesting others should quit the race to improve his chances.
The last time the GOP leadership hand picked a malleable, neophyte, hack for their nominee we ended up with George W. Bush and the most disastrous presidency since the end of the Civil War.
We won't be fooled again!
The last time the GOP leadership hand picked a malleable, neophyte, hack for their nominee we ended up with George W. Bush and the most disastrous presidency since the end of the Civil War.
We won't be fooled again!
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The Republican campaigning, other than John Kasich, has sunk to such an all time level that none of the top 3 candidates would be considered acceptable by the general mainstream population. The party has supported divisive politics for the past 20 yrs while hoping for government shutdowns. They have succeeded, in a way, but unfortunately for them their own party reaped the spoils of this strategy.
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Here's this mega-rich guy, Trump, who could be sitting back in the lap-of-luxury in any of his many mansions, with beautiful wife, kids & grandkids, laughing at the idiotic, pathetic GOP estab-run campaigns, YET he said, ENOUGH.
Trump stepped forward NOT to enrich himself at the expense of the American taxpayer, unlike 'ol Hilly & Billy's past 25 years of extortion, but to STAND UP FOR the Middle Class that's getting the SHAFT from both the Marxist dem's and the hoity-toity repub's.
Say what you want about the guy, but he see the incredible DANGER ahead for the country because of the devastating affects of the putrid PC-ness inundated us, as well as the lawlessness that is corrupting the entire federal gov'ment, from BO to the 535 dim-wits in Congress.
NO ONE else has SAID a word about the ugly donkey & elephant in the middle of the room, and people are LISTENING & AGREEING.
It's about TIME . . . either we start the 180° turn to save the USA, or we're done with the great, grand American Experiment, and just turn into another withering European inbred mess of a country.
The choice is finally OURS, this time around.
Trump stepped forward NOT to enrich himself at the expense of the American taxpayer, unlike 'ol Hilly & Billy's past 25 years of extortion, but to STAND UP FOR the Middle Class that's getting the SHAFT from both the Marxist dem's and the hoity-toity repub's.
Say what you want about the guy, but he see the incredible DANGER ahead for the country because of the devastating affects of the putrid PC-ness inundated us, as well as the lawlessness that is corrupting the entire federal gov'ment, from BO to the 535 dim-wits in Congress.
NO ONE else has SAID a word about the ugly donkey & elephant in the middle of the room, and people are LISTENING & AGREEING.
It's about TIME . . . either we start the 180° turn to save the USA, or we're done with the great, grand American Experiment, and just turn into another withering European inbred mess of a country.
The choice is finally OURS, this time around.
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Right, like he stood up for the middle class people that he fleeced with his phony university.
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Fleecing the American middle class is a job requirement for President. Barack Obama perfected it with Obamacare, the ultimate Ponzi scheme.
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Super Tuesday results should become a real game changer on the Republican side. With Trump as its clear front runner and Cruz having won Texas by a big margin and also won Oklahoma and Alaska is clearly in the second place and a strong contender with some chance at the nomination. Rubio running a distant third having won just 1 state so far needs to seriously consider whether to continue on or do the right thing to bring clarity to the Republican race and allow the Rubicons (Rubio supporters) to choose between Trump and Cruz. Carson could suspend his campaign and resurface as surgeon general or secretary of health and Human services. Kasich could also suspend his campaign and be a potential VP or hold a cabinet position. The momentum of Trump is very powerful. Yesterday evening, I had an opportunity to observe and feel the intense passion and the strength of the Trump supporters and Trump's own level of high energy as well as a courage of conviction at a well attended rally at Louisville, KY convention center. The fact that he is running his campaign with his own personal funds (putting his money where his big mouth is) and managing a tight ship in the process is a major plus that makes him a formidable candidate against a more seasoned campaigner in Hillary Clinton. As a registered independent, I don't have to make a decision on who to vote for until the general election. I would seriously consider a more refined Trump in if he can unite the nation as he claims he will.
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A more refined Trump? Surely you jest...
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Just one clarification. Drumpf is funding his campaign by loaning money to that campaign. That money will get re-paid from the campaign coffers. He has not actually spent much of his own money that will not be repaid to him. Just another slight of hand that he spins and people believe. Much like his great construction projects that he claims for himself where in reality he just sells his name and has nothing to do with the actual construction. Wake up people, look behind the curtain to see that the Powerful wizard is just a con artist with great props.
A "more refined" Trump doesn't exist. He is who he is. He is not refined, diplomatic or well spoken. He is brash and insulting (not to mention misogynistic, racist and xenophobic) but that's what his supporters like. They may not like him much if he doesn't trash Hillary Clinton's looks, make fun of a disabled person or vow to lynch any illegal immigrant who steps foot on American soil. Last, his personal funds come at the expense of those who he purports to support including people who invested thousands of dollars in his Trump University "get rich quick" scheme. I understand the anger that drives people to support "anyone but a politician" but anyone who thinks he will unite this country is dreaming ... he unites haters, that's about it.
This is an interesting strategic moment for the Republican party. Do they clear the decks to one remaining competitor to try to win? If other candidates drop out, they run the risk of those supporters going to Trump. The other option would be to keep everyone campaigning in an effort to try to deny the nomination to Trump. This option would acknowledge that the remaining candidates are unlikely to win, but they want to do everything to deny the delegates to Trump.
The future of the Republican party hangs in the balance. If both
The future of the Republican party hangs in the balance. If both
Worse than the fools who lead are the fools that follow them.
As bad as Trump is, he's far better than Cruz or Rubio. They are the worst of a bad bunch. Jeb thought America would develop a case of collective amnesia with regard to his father's mediocre presidency, and his brother's failed one. Very poor judgment on his part. Carson is the first brain surgeon to remove his own brain. Hence the GOP is stuck with Trump as nominee.
All hail Donito Trumpolini. He'll build a wall at no cost, make the trains run on time, and make America great again.
As bad as Trump is, he's far better than Cruz or Rubio. They are the worst of a bad bunch. Jeb thought America would develop a case of collective amnesia with regard to his father's mediocre presidency, and his brother's failed one. Very poor judgment on his part. Carson is the first brain surgeon to remove his own brain. Hence the GOP is stuck with Trump as nominee.
All hail Donito Trumpolini. He'll build a wall at no cost, make the trains run on time, and make America great again.
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Time to send Rubio back to Central Casting.
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Just think: any of these clowns living in the White House for an extended period of time.
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We've had a clown living in the White House since Jan 20, 2009.
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No more politics as usual. Time for a party that doesn't pander, doesn't care who you marry, leaves your reproductive choices up to you and stops invoking God at every turn. Both sides have forgotten Americans are sensible and smarter than either side ( and frankly, the news media) gives us credit for...
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I just don't get it to be honest.
The NY Times and the news media, along with Barack Obama continue to look down their noses at the American people, insisting that we are dumb, misinformed and gullible because we are voting for Trump.
Apparently Obama liberals are perfectly fine with insulting the American people, but go absolutely catatonic when Donald Trump insults them.
The NY Times and the news media, along with Barack Obama continue to look down their noses at the American people, insisting that we are dumb, misinformed and gullible because we are voting for Trump.
Apparently Obama liberals are perfectly fine with insulting the American people, but go absolutely catatonic when Donald Trump insults them.
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The establishment GOP now has a new play to stop Donald Rrump, I have heard three times this morning, from three different GOP pundits that 1) Trump has only won 40% of the vote so 60% of Republicans are against him, 2) the GOP "must come together" around Rubio in Florida & Kasich in Ohio to stop Trump (although who will broker those deals), and that 3) if all else fails they can use the "rules" at the GOP convention to wrest the nomination from Trump.
This is typical of the GOP establishment. When they can't win in a straight forward way, they resort to deviousness & obstruction. Here's hoping they destroy their party in the process.
This is typical of the GOP establishment. When they can't win in a straight forward way, they resort to deviousness & obstruction. Here's hoping they destroy their party in the process.
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The Comments say the Trump understands the working people. Wonderful. But what exactly is he going to do to help? What are his concrete plans? How can he overcome the strength of wealth and Wall Street to make working better? I'm still waiting to hear!
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What has Barack Obama done to help the "working people?"
100 million Americans gave up on finding work during the Obama presidency.
Have you heard Obama's "concrete plans?"
Trump has repeatedly detailed his plans to create jobs, you're just not listening.
100 million Americans gave up on finding work during the Obama presidency.
Have you heard Obama's "concrete plans?"
Trump has repeatedly detailed his plans to create jobs, you're just not listening.
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What did Barack Obama do to make "DCBarrister" fall for him?
Simple. Enact legislation that requires US companies to hire 100 US citizens for every "green card" holder. Stop minority favoritism for jobs and higher education. Build and produce vehicles that 100% ethanol capable and the infrastructure to support this.......just for starters.
It is sort of hilarious to hear the GOP Establishment express horror and say that they cannot support a 'profane and vulgar' nominee. And that Trump will drive people away from the voting booth. The US has a profane and vulgar popular culture in may respects; millions of its citizens are poorly educated; voter turnout is shamefully low. Trump appeals to people's emotions in just the same way as happened at Nuremburg in the 1930s; he brings people who are disgusted with politicians or apathetic to the polls not because they agree with his (non-existent) "policies" but because he makes them feel good. With the other thuggish frat boy, Christie, at his side, Trump has awoken the real masses.
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Awakening the electorate is EXACTLY what a superior candidate does. And Trump is an leader...and will make an exceptional President.
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Yes, just like Mussolini.
Hedge fund and Wall Street give large speaking fees to Clinton before her candidacy for presidency. She refuses to disclose the transcripts. The DNC all but coronates her for presidency, & the establishment, including the Times, follows suit.
The establishment hysterically tears into Trump. Hedge funds attack him. Huge donors previously working for ultra-establishment Bush scramble to figure out new ways to stop him. Some establishment Republicans even say that they will ignore the will of the people & support the opposing party.
Stop allowing the propagandists to manipulate you. Look instead at actions. Look at who is behind Clinton, who attacked Sanders, who attacks Trump. Ask yourself why. Do you honestly believe it's because Trump says rude, impolitic things? When they never cared before. When Rubio even now mocks Trump because of the size of his 'hands' & that's ok.
*All* the Oligarchy cares about is preserving itself. That is ALL. The costume is off. They are terrified of Trump destroying their sweet kick back deals, quid pro quo, insider revolving doors between Wall Street, Ivies & Congress & back again.
That is why they are attacking him. There is no other reason. Everything else is noise. To those who want to fight the rising Oligarchy, there are only two choices: Trump and Sanders.
The establishment hysterically tears into Trump. Hedge funds attack him. Huge donors previously working for ultra-establishment Bush scramble to figure out new ways to stop him. Some establishment Republicans even say that they will ignore the will of the people & support the opposing party.
Stop allowing the propagandists to manipulate you. Look instead at actions. Look at who is behind Clinton, who attacked Sanders, who attacks Trump. Ask yourself why. Do you honestly believe it's because Trump says rude, impolitic things? When they never cared before. When Rubio even now mocks Trump because of the size of his 'hands' & that's ok.
*All* the Oligarchy cares about is preserving itself. That is ALL. The costume is off. They are terrified of Trump destroying their sweet kick back deals, quid pro quo, insider revolving doors between Wall Street, Ivies & Congress & back again.
That is why they are attacking him. There is no other reason. Everything else is noise. To those who want to fight the rising Oligarchy, there are only two choices: Trump and Sanders.
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I accept the political bias of the NYT because it exposes me to a range of stories focused on solving human problems that I can't easily find elsewhere. I really notice and worry about the political bias of the NYT in your coverage of national politics, particularly presidential campaigns, because I think you increasingly lose perspective on the actual events transpiring in favor of the outcomes you would prefer. I am not criticizing NYT for having a bias -- I think uniform neutrality is a myth.
I am saying your coverage increasingly views the Trump phenomenon as a civil war contained within the GOP and redounding to the benefit of the Clinton campaign when, in fact, it might also be a growing non-partisan rejection of the existing political class that seriously threatens to engulf Hillary Clinton's campaign once she secures thee nomination.
The Sanders candidacy has been remarkably successful for what is plainly an unelectable presidential candidate. Surely this highlights the lack of confidence in Clinton that a stronger challenger would have exposed further, perhaps to the same level Trump exposed the weaknesses of the traditional Republican candidates he's already dispatched.
I can't stand Trump. I don't take Bernie seriously. But I fear you are missing a broader movement here in your focus, perhaps reflecting the broad hopes of your readers, on how Hillary might prevail.
I am saying your coverage increasingly views the Trump phenomenon as a civil war contained within the GOP and redounding to the benefit of the Clinton campaign when, in fact, it might also be a growing non-partisan rejection of the existing political class that seriously threatens to engulf Hillary Clinton's campaign once she secures thee nomination.
The Sanders candidacy has been remarkably successful for what is plainly an unelectable presidential candidate. Surely this highlights the lack of confidence in Clinton that a stronger challenger would have exposed further, perhaps to the same level Trump exposed the weaknesses of the traditional Republican candidates he's already dispatched.
I can't stand Trump. I don't take Bernie seriously. But I fear you are missing a broader movement here in your focus, perhaps reflecting the broad hopes of your readers, on how Hillary might prevail.
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Many people are angry at the government for many reasons and they spoke yesterday through their voting. Its still America so one can vote for the candidate of their choice.
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The person who most enjoyed watching the Republican circus on Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton. That's why she was really smiling so much last night.
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Well I guess those Republican establishment types - whoever they are - are kicking themselves over all the tortured rule changes they made to ensure their boy Jeb locked up the nomination early, so they could spend months lying and slandering and defaming the Democrats. Well har har hardee har har and be careful what you wish for, you now have the bigot and xenophobe you have encouraged all these years, and I for one, to paraphrase John Lennon, hope the Republicans kick themselves to death. Their racist, seditious, often treasonous opposition to Obama and all things progressive, or even reasonable, and their one percent above all else policies have trashed this country over the last 40 years, and even the chumps they have suckered into voting for them are coming to realize that no progress is possible until the GOP is consigned to the ash heap of history, or better yet, to a large prison, which is where most of these criminals in business suits belong.
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I wish Marco would stop referring to GOP of today as "the party of Lincoln and Reagan." Lincoln would now be seen as a progressive politician who believes in active central government, and even Reagan would be a problematic political proposition in this extremely conservative environment. Rubio's party has changed dramatically since 1860, and considerably since 1980.
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If the carnival barker is crowned by the GOP's masses yearning to hate, will ringmasters Rove and Ailes acknowledge their handiwork. Will the ghost of Lee Atwater continue to polarize our Union?
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name. But what's confusing you Is just the nature of my game...Just call me Lucifer, cause I'm in need of some restraint. (Jagger/Richards).
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name. But what's confusing you Is just the nature of my game...Just call me Lucifer, cause I'm in need of some restraint. (Jagger/Richards).
Accepting that it is a leap into the unknown to nominate Trump the reality is he will be nominated and the Party has little choice but to unify around him. To deny him the nomination in a brokered convention (read: rigged convention) will fracture the party, lose the Senate for sure and hand victory to Hillary Clinton. That might not turn out so bad for the nation but this whole scenario of denying him the nomination will be catastrophic to the Republican Party. Have we forgotten that gaining the nomination in these polarized times requires taking extreme positions in the primaries and moving to the middle in the general? The "Establishment" has not become so enamored of immigrant rights and clean language so much as fearful of loss of access to and control of a President Trump. Their hands have been tied by the voters.
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Awesome, simply awesome! Trump rocks!
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Why? What has he ever done for anyone but himself?
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DR:
Get over it. What have you ever done for anybody else?
Get over it. What have you ever done for anybody else?
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I agree 100%.....best candidate for the White House I've seen in my adult lifetime.
As a spectator of the fascinating events now unfolding, I wonder if anyone knows what Donald Trump's attitude is towards the EU-US Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Plan?
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Only way to take down Trump at this point is a contested convention and if the party chooses at that point to disregard the votes of the people they may wind up in even worse shape.
I am beginning to worry. The Clinton v Trump game is all but certain at this point & from what we have seen it is NOT going to be the ridiculously easy path to the White House for Hillary so many predict. Yes, it is true that even with new states in play in the rust best, etc. it is impossible to win the presidency overall without a far larger chunk of the black, hispanic, Asian-American and female vote than Trump has any hope of getting. From the overwhelming numbers Hillary has garnered in the south she may even put some of those states in play (SC, GA, AS???) if the turnout is high among minorities and more traditional GOP voters stay home (or even cross over).
My fear is not so much Hillary losing to Trump ... she is a far tougher cookie than Cruz, Rubio, etc. and I believe she'll prevail. But AT WHAT COST? Trumps attacks are ruthless and the "careful, she's a woman" factor will be non-existent. Even if Clinton prevails in November, how damaged will she be as President?
My hope is that Clinton is finally the one adept enough to stand tall against the monster of schlock and come out looking better than she did going in. Can it be possible that the contrast will be so stark to the majority of Americans that running against someone as uncouth as Trump will finally humanize Hillary Clinton???
I am beginning to worry. The Clinton v Trump game is all but certain at this point & from what we have seen it is NOT going to be the ridiculously easy path to the White House for Hillary so many predict. Yes, it is true that even with new states in play in the rust best, etc. it is impossible to win the presidency overall without a far larger chunk of the black, hispanic, Asian-American and female vote than Trump has any hope of getting. From the overwhelming numbers Hillary has garnered in the south she may even put some of those states in play (SC, GA, AS???) if the turnout is high among minorities and more traditional GOP voters stay home (or even cross over).
My fear is not so much Hillary losing to Trump ... she is a far tougher cookie than Cruz, Rubio, etc. and I believe she'll prevail. But AT WHAT COST? Trumps attacks are ruthless and the "careful, she's a woman" factor will be non-existent. Even if Clinton prevails in November, how damaged will she be as President?
My hope is that Clinton is finally the one adept enough to stand tall against the monster of schlock and come out looking better than she did going in. Can it be possible that the contrast will be so stark to the majority of Americans that running against someone as uncouth as Trump will finally humanize Hillary Clinton???
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As a legal immigrant Liz Warren supporter I would like to explain why I support Trump & you should as well. Trump won't let people die in the streets like the other republican candidates salivate over, because the thought of taking care of our poorest & most vulnerable is a lingering nightmare in their minds..Disgusting. They are for unfettered free trade which has decimated our manufacturing base & thus has destroyed countless communities who relied on these industries...All because their corporate donors only care about their next quarterly profit. He will appoint the best & brightest to his cabinet, not political hacks. Let's also ponder the thought which so many hold for some reason - that Donald Trump is just saying whatever people want to hear. I entirely disagree, he has been consistent on trade since the 80s when he took out a full page ad in the NYTimes bashing our suicidal trade policies. Yet, let's just assume that is true for a moment, that he is lying, he then gets elected & doesn't follow through on his promises. BOOM, guaranteed 1 term president, his supporters won't allow it. He knows this, does anyone believe he wants to be a one term president? Trump is the only candidate who we can know for a fact will work day & night, rain or snow fighting for the American people whether liberal, independent or conservative.
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How do you know what Trump will or won't do? Trump has a habit of leaving other people holding the bag when things get tough for him, his clothing line is made in China and he's in legal trouble for a fraud that conned hard working people out of their money. You really need to wake up and pay attention.
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You must work for trump. When you have the KKK throw his support for a presidential candidate. What makes you believe you will be safe under his reign. The beast has no friends, only followers. And you are just one of them.
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BOOM, guaranteed at least one SCOTUS nom.
Boom.
Boom.
Congratulations GOP - the inmates are officially running the asylum! The fact that the party's two frontrunners are Trump and Cruz should be enough to preclude anyone who cares about this country from voting Republican in November.
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Well, that's both of us.
Outside the Beltway, people feel a whole lot different. And for good reason.
My kind of party.....
Time for Rubio, Carson and Kasich to drop out. This will allow Cruz to overtake Trump and go on to beat Clinton. not that Trump won't beat her, but Cruz is the one who will be able to erase Obama's eight years.
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Ted Cruz?
Okay Patrick, does Comedy Central know you're available?
Okay Patrick, does Comedy Central know you're available?
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Cruz is a maybe until the Canadian marriage certificate is produced. Attorneys in Texas are challenging Cruz's citizenship. If his mother was not married, Ted falls under a residency rule for unwed mothers. Cruz's mother does not qualify because she did not reside in the US for one year prior to Ted's birth.
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Cruz' inability to even win his own state by a majority suggests he is vulnerable to losing even his Senate seat. Only 44% of primary voters chose him.
We also know that Rubio is vulnerable in the Florida primary.
And Trump, while winning followers and primaries has such high negatives that he looks vulnerable in November.
Some Shakespearian quote is called for here. "Who will save me from this..." comes to mind.
But the attraction of Trump to so many, tempered by the utter horror and shame his candidacy brings to mind for the rest of us, and the delusional claim of Trump that he is a "uniter" - begs for a Democratic united front ASAP!
Something tells me that 10 more months of Trump overplaying his hand, ranting and raving, gloating, intimidating and humiliating, is not going to play to his advantage. And if he tries to pivot? Would his angry mobs pivot with him?
We are at a fateful moment in this nation. The GOP is hamstrung. It is too riven right now with factions, contradictions and its History of Hypocrisy.
Hillary has found the right message: Love and kindness. Yes, let's focus on values which we can all endorse and do not involve civic religion. Just our common humanity.
We need to pull together, draw back from this cliff the GOP is teetering on, especially with its Senate refusal to follow its constitutional mandate. Otherwise they are in the same boat as Trump! We need to make that clear!
Demand good government. NOW,
We also know that Rubio is vulnerable in the Florida primary.
And Trump, while winning followers and primaries has such high negatives that he looks vulnerable in November.
Some Shakespearian quote is called for here. "Who will save me from this..." comes to mind.
But the attraction of Trump to so many, tempered by the utter horror and shame his candidacy brings to mind for the rest of us, and the delusional claim of Trump that he is a "uniter" - begs for a Democratic united front ASAP!
Something tells me that 10 more months of Trump overplaying his hand, ranting and raving, gloating, intimidating and humiliating, is not going to play to his advantage. And if he tries to pivot? Would his angry mobs pivot with him?
We are at a fateful moment in this nation. The GOP is hamstrung. It is too riven right now with factions, contradictions and its History of Hypocrisy.
Hillary has found the right message: Love and kindness. Yes, let's focus on values which we can all endorse and do not involve civic religion. Just our common humanity.
We need to pull together, draw back from this cliff the GOP is teetering on, especially with its Senate refusal to follow its constitutional mandate. Otherwise they are in the same boat as Trump! We need to make that clear!
Demand good government. NOW,
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Hillary found "love and kindness" after Sanders said "Love trumps hate". She admires Sanders so much, she parrots his words.
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No one has ever gotten elected on love and kindness and it is not believable or attractive as a message. The first woman president will need to seem to eat nails and spit rust, look tougher than any man; frankly that scares me, since the last thing we need is more war.
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It may be enjoyable to watch the Republican black hole implode from within, but the remaining party that still functions, we Democrats, better stop dancing in the end zone and begin some serious and nimble thinking about what happens next; and by next I don't mean this coming November.
What's left of the Republican party will likely morph into a far-right but well-funded assortment of religious whackos, white supremacists, free-market true believers, gun nuts, and anti-abortion crazies.
The remainder of Republicans will perhaps coalesce into a more thoughtful nuance-oriented, and possibly more diverse collection of well-educated and less ideology-bound people who will rebuild a brand of conservatism that will be more based on reason and data than its predecessor. The (T)rump faction will eventually rot and wither as the demographics of our country prevail, but the thinking and reasoning faction will grow and present Democrats with challenges yet unknown, but if we don't start thinking about them now, we will watch some version of history repeating itself, only it will be us instead of them.
What's left of the Republican party will likely morph into a far-right but well-funded assortment of religious whackos, white supremacists, free-market true believers, gun nuts, and anti-abortion crazies.
The remainder of Republicans will perhaps coalesce into a more thoughtful nuance-oriented, and possibly more diverse collection of well-educated and less ideology-bound people who will rebuild a brand of conservatism that will be more based on reason and data than its predecessor. The (T)rump faction will eventually rot and wither as the demographics of our country prevail, but the thinking and reasoning faction will grow and present Democrats with challenges yet unknown, but if we don't start thinking about them now, we will watch some version of history repeating itself, only it will be us instead of them.
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The people at the South Florida resort where I am staying, near Trump's place, all tell me I should vote for him cuz he will make the country great and build a wall just like the one surrounding his property.
I wanna be well off just like Trump. Living on Social Security Disability, that my lawyer promised was legitimate, is not enough. Driving last year's model pickup truck also sucks. Going to the YMCA to work out, where they let anyone in, is not my idea of the good ole USA!
If a vote for Donald will make my life better, i'm gonna do it! Just one question. I've never registered to vote before. Where do you go to sign up?
I wanna be well off just like Trump. Living on Social Security Disability, that my lawyer promised was legitimate, is not enough. Driving last year's model pickup truck also sucks. Going to the YMCA to work out, where they let anyone in, is not my idea of the good ole USA!
If a vote for Donald will make my life better, i'm gonna do it! Just one question. I've never registered to vote before. Where do you go to sign up?
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The Party of Lincoln? Our dear Abraham should have let the South secede, It was monstrous before the Civil War and has grown exponentially in its moral filth. The rest of the country is being pulled down by its insidious depravity. I don't want to be "whole " with them!!
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Trump is the real deal for the republicans. He is not a bad candidate and will fare fairly well in a general election. No his election will not lead to a democratic landslide, especially facing Hillary. The most likely scenario is a close Trump victory. Ted Cruz is a much worse candidate as he will have less appeal than Trump in must win states. I can understand certain elements in the republican party endorsing him, as he is expanding the coalition and will put more states at play than a pure rightwing candidate such as the mentioned Cruz or Rubio..
However electorally he is going to be the Jimmy Carter of the republican party and no second coming of Ronald Reagan.
He will be a transition character, that will face a strong challenger from the right in 4 years time and if he survives he will go into the next election very wounded, paving the way for a democratic landslide in 2020.
Econimically the next candidate will more probably than not have to face the mother of all recessions, which means that any candidate being elected this time will more likely than not be a 4 year candidate.
However electorally he is going to be the Jimmy Carter of the republican party and no second coming of Ronald Reagan.
He will be a transition character, that will face a strong challenger from the right in 4 years time and if he survives he will go into the next election very wounded, paving the way for a democratic landslide in 2020.
Econimically the next candidate will more probably than not have to face the mother of all recessions, which means that any candidate being elected this time will more likely than not be a 4 year candidate.
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Republican strategists have expressed fear that in the general election, Mr. Trump would struggle to win the support of suburban women and white-collar voters who might otherwise lean Republican but might recoil from his caustic and racially charged approach to politics. Are these the same "experts" that said he wouldn't last past the summer?
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Neither of these three candidates should represent the office of President of the US.
Cruz has intellect, but he is a hater. He hates everything and if nobody likes him, which I believe, its not the people-- its Cruz.
Rubio hasn't learned enough, doesn't know enough. He'd be reliant on everyone else form Day One.
Trump is just a farce and so far has been an embarrassment to the political process, that was. He intimidated the press so they took it easy on him in the early days-- thus we are where we are today. I can't see any other world leader sitting in a room with him. America is not a business; its a nation with rules, laws and a constitution. Does he care? No!
New Yorkers know Trump's history. Better that the rest of the country take his hustler history seriously. If it walks like a hustler, talks like a hustler-- so what if he has hustled his way into being a billionaire? We do not need a man whose values and moral foundation is based on his own needs all of the time. Emotionally, he is bankrupt. He sees nothing but himself and what he wants to see. That so many others want to follow his hollow meanderings is very threatening to the nation. His behavior is disqualifying.
Cruz has intellect, but he is a hater. He hates everything and if nobody likes him, which I believe, its not the people-- its Cruz.
Rubio hasn't learned enough, doesn't know enough. He'd be reliant on everyone else form Day One.
Trump is just a farce and so far has been an embarrassment to the political process, that was. He intimidated the press so they took it easy on him in the early days-- thus we are where we are today. I can't see any other world leader sitting in a room with him. America is not a business; its a nation with rules, laws and a constitution. Does he care? No!
New Yorkers know Trump's history. Better that the rest of the country take his hustler history seriously. If it walks like a hustler, talks like a hustler-- so what if he has hustled his way into being a billionaire? We do not need a man whose values and moral foundation is based on his own needs all of the time. Emotionally, he is bankrupt. He sees nothing but himself and what he wants to see. That so many others want to follow his hollow meanderings is very threatening to the nation. His behavior is disqualifying.
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Mr. Trump has continued to make hay out of all of us who vastly underestimated the depth of despair and disaffection that has settled deep into the body politic. Put he and Mr. Sanders together, and even with their profound ideological differences, that is one substantial portion of the voting public indicating they're mad as hell, and they don't feel like taking it anymore. And it would only compound our error at this point to dismiss all of Mr. Trump's support as coming from the great unwashed masses. There's something going on here, and we refuse to see what it is at our continuing peril.
http://andrewhidas.com/five-things-ive-come-to-understand-about-the-trum...
http://andrewhidas.com/five-things-ive-come-to-understand-about-the-trum...
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The GOP should know the more they rebuff Trump the more people think Trump is what is needed to shake up things. If the GOP was thought of highly Trump would be a passing thought. For Sen. Graham to come out and say the only way to stop Trump is to support Cruz just made Trump the truly only real outsider. Cruz as the answer to Trump is like picking your poison.
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First thing he'll do when he is elected is decide as commander in chief that there is a reason to individually check each cargo carrier and truck entering the US which will stop all trade from China, Mexico, and Japan. Watch how quick the trade deals get updated and the wall built then!
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A note about Trump's Massachusetts win. Please Google 'Boston, busing riots', and you'll get your answer.
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Yes, of course. That must be it: Trump won in MA because it is a racist state, as evidenced by the Boston busing riots. Forty years ago.
But riddle me this: If the people of MA are nothing but racists, didn't racists then also evenly split between Hillary and Bernie last night? Didn't those same racists also elect Deval Patrick, a black man, to two terms as governor?
But riddle me this: If the people of MA are nothing but racists, didn't racists then also evenly split between Hillary and Bernie last night? Didn't those same racists also elect Deval Patrick, a black man, to two terms as governor?
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@GMooG,
Never confront them with logic it only confuses them. See it's always different when a democrat does it....always. They are always given a free pass.
Never confront them with logic it only confuses them. See it's always different when a democrat does it....always. They are always given a free pass.
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I find it fascinating that the "establishment" Republicans are getting conniptions that the Drumpf may be their party's nominee. They all rush to condemn him for his non disavowal of David Duke, which is a pretty safe thing to do. However, none of them has the guts to call him to task for the birther nonsense that he spouted re President Obama. That is a sustained activity on his part which he will not be able to lie or weasel his way out of by blaming it on a faulty earphone. Could it be that even saying that President Obama is an American citizen is the third rail for a Republican?
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WHAT am I missing here? Is this really the best we can do?
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What are you expecting? Someone who walks on water? If so, it's maybe not too late to go back to Sunday school, they talk a lot about that there. Remember the old saying: whatever comes out is what went in. Considering that, what you see before you should hardly be any surprise.
I'm an independent who has never voted for a Democrat President. If Cruz were to get the GOP nomination I will vote for Clinton. If Trump gets it I still don't know what I will do. The Republican Party has only itself to blame for this free for all. It's been going on for several years in the legislature led by people like Cruz. The party leadership has proven unable to get itself moving in one direction. I think it completely misreads a big, and perhaps biggest, part of the U.S. that has voted for it in the past. Cruz'a demonizing Rubio for working with 8 senators on a bipartisan immigration is the kind of thing that angers me. It is a clear example of a complete inability to think about compromise as part of governing. It is like the fight over defunding planned parenthood. I'm so disappointed in the Republican "base" that thinks it owns the moral high ground. And am equally disappointed there is the Bernie Sanders left that sees our economy as "rigged" and promotes the notion you can't win in America unless our government grows to twice it's size to protect us all.
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I still don't understand why anyone would vote Republican. Our country's values are demeaned and diminished by almost every thing that their party advocates: anti-immigrant, anti-choice, anti-gay and marriage, favoring the haves over the have-nots. They are, on the whole, IMO, mean-spirited and anathema to everything that I believe our country stands for.
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You don't know what you will do if a lying, uninformed, billionaire with no social graces, a huge dose of pathological narcissism and arrogance, disrespected by our allies in Europe, who insults anyone he can and is unabashedly racists and sexist gets the nomination? Truly?
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I cringe every time I hear Cruz belittle Trump for "making deals". The man obviously has no idea how government is supposed to work. He states he will never compromise his conservative "values" and seems disconnected from the fact that only 47% of the population voted for Romney in 2012, and now at least 30% of the 47% is voting for "deal making Donald". Americans want their government to function and most of us know that compromise is necessary on pretty much every issue. None of us gets to have it all our own way. I'm a Dem, seems your are not, but we agree on this MAJOR issue.
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Thank God , the people of the developed world have also started to analyse the ground realities on their own rather than relying on print and electronic media experts. This is why their forecasts of winners and losers in national elections are now no where near the reality. Americans deserve to be congratulated for their overwhelming support to Mr. Trump despite desperate efforts by media to showcase him as not worthy nor capable of rising to the top most job of the country. We in India had a similar case but we have made the media opposed Mr. Modi as PM.
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There's something afoot here in the comments section. It has been hijacked by the Trump-eters; no way that a majority of NYTimes commenters are for Trump, that's the complete opposite of what has been going on in the comments section for months. This is very serious; now the "social media" types have figured out how to sneak into the commentariat of the NYTimes. For shame!
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In case you weren't paying attention, a good portion of the pro-Bernie commenters are also just Trump people pretending to be for Bernie.
Of course Donald's team has people working these comment boards to give the appearance of a groundswell of grass roots support.
Of course Donald's team has people working these comment boards to give the appearance of a groundswell of grass roots support.
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This is a true victory for America
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Trump says he is a unifier, and he wants to get going after Mrs. Clinton. The Republican Party seems to be in denial now, but, when party officials are ready to face the reality of the situation, they will have to realize that Trump is right. There are no other candidates in their party who can give Mrs. Clinton any serious challenge. Thus, unless the Republican Party is willing to concede the White House to Mrs. Clinton, the party needs to embrace Trump, help him be the unifier he says he wants to be, and go after Mrs. Clinton with all the fire power the Republican Party can muster.
The NYT had a good article yesterday about the concerns of the Democrat Party if Trump were the Republican Party nominee. The article quoted former president Clinton as saying that his party leaders were in denial if they thought his wife would have an easy time with Trump. The former president thought it could be a close contest with a not necessarily certain outcome. Republican Party leadership should pay attention to what former president Clinton said and work together with Trump to make the former president's concerns a reality.
Trump will be much more palatable to the Republican Party leadership when he is going after Mrs. Clinton, particularly if they are willing to help Trump do that, than when Trump is forced to go after two light weight gadfly junior senators who are not going to be able to go anywhere as Super Tuesday has clearly shown.
The NYT had a good article yesterday about the concerns of the Democrat Party if Trump were the Republican Party nominee. The article quoted former president Clinton as saying that his party leaders were in denial if they thought his wife would have an easy time with Trump. The former president thought it could be a close contest with a not necessarily certain outcome. Republican Party leadership should pay attention to what former president Clinton said and work together with Trump to make the former president's concerns a reality.
Trump will be much more palatable to the Republican Party leadership when he is going after Mrs. Clinton, particularly if they are willing to help Trump do that, than when Trump is forced to go after two light weight gadfly junior senators who are not going to be able to go anywhere as Super Tuesday has clearly shown.
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Maybe I have been living in an alternate universe, but how does anyone actually support an egotistical, narcissistic bully like Donald Trump. Has Fox News and right wing talk radio distorted the American brain so as to think that Donald Trump should represent our country on the world stage. It boggles the mind that we are accepting this scenario.
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So, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin endorses Trump and Cruz wins Alaska....hmmmmmm.
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If Trump is the Republican presidential nominee and wins the presidency, the White House will be renamed the Trump House. Seriously, as President how will Trump change the fortunes of white working class Americans? These voters are going to be disappointed and turn on the Donald. He is a salesman who can't deliver. The Republicans have no one to blame but themselves as they did nothing to help the plight of the working class.
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They've already shrouded the capital dome in scaffolding in anticipation of putting up the TRUMP sign in big red blinking neon.
Time for Rubio to bow out along with Kaisch and Carson.
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Unless Sanders goes independent, i'll pull the lever for Trump. would happily pull for Sanders, but he's too nice a guy to do that to the Democrat party.
I have my duty to vote, and Hillary is just the least appealing candidate, imo.
I have my duty to vote, and Hillary is just the least appealing candidate, imo.
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If you believe that having a Republican congress and president is good for our country, then vote for Trump, but we will all suffer the consequences.
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5:54 AM Wednesday March 2, 2016
A tally of voting for the top candidates in ten states excluding Alaska;
Republicans...........7,892,612 total votes
Democrats.............5,673,868 total votes.
That's a rough tally of the popular votes with almost all Super Tuesday votes counted.
It doesn't look good for Democrats in November, with a snapshot of voter turnout yesterday. Of course the big states of New York and California will tighten the race in November, but this is how it panned out yesterday.
Texas and Georgia went 2 to 1 for Republicans.
A tally of voting for the top candidates in ten states excluding Alaska;
Republicans...........7,892,612 total votes
Democrats.............5,673,868 total votes.
That's a rough tally of the popular votes with almost all Super Tuesday votes counted.
It doesn't look good for Democrats in November, with a snapshot of voter turnout yesterday. Of course the big states of New York and California will tighten the race in November, but this is how it panned out yesterday.
Texas and Georgia went 2 to 1 for Republicans.
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the primaries are always lower turnout. people will come out of the woodwork to vote against Drumpf.
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Wow - the red states went red, and the side with more candidates and closer contests outdrew the side with fewer candidates and more lopsided contests.
You are reading too much into that, I promise you.
You are reading too much into that, I promise you.
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I wouldn't put much stock in primary totals. Clinton is going to win the nomination, so Democrats are not yet energized to vote.
But put Clinton up against Trump or Cruz, WOW, the nightmare becomes more real, and the energy to vote more substantial.
The Republican establishment is worried that with Trump they will lose not only the presidency, but also the Senate and many governorships. They're panicked. And while most of us can see how a Trump win will harm us, we don't think about it every minute.
The Republican establishment thinks of nothing else but their power and their incomes, and they see a bleak future.
Let's hope it comes to pass.
But put Clinton up against Trump or Cruz, WOW, the nightmare becomes more real, and the energy to vote more substantial.
The Republican establishment is worried that with Trump they will lose not only the presidency, but also the Senate and many governorships. They're panicked. And while most of us can see how a Trump win will harm us, we don't think about it every minute.
The Republican establishment thinks of nothing else but their power and their incomes, and they see a bleak future.
Let's hope it comes to pass.
Wow! So the 2016 presidentials are going to be white red-neck racist blue- and white-collar men (plus a few similarly white women) led by Mr Drumpf against everybody else?
Good luck with that!
Good luck with that!
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Income inequality, skewed tax and trade policy towards Wall Street has affected Democrats and working class Republicans alike. Finally, working class Republicans are starting to wake up to the fact that their leadership taken advantage of their feelings on religion, guns, and abortion to screw them economically. Is Hillary their choice in response? Absolutely not. But Trump is. He's hitting the hot button economic issues over and over again with trade and manufacturing issues, taking on Wall Street and the hedge fund guys, and the sell-out politicians who say one thing to get elected, but do nothing to help the lives of working Americans. I'm both encouraged and horrified by their response.
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Had the GOP spent its majority advancing reasonable legislation rather
than wasting time trying to undo legislation such as the Affordable Act, the primaries may be reflecting the wishes of its more saner adherents. The obstructionist approach has appealed to the baser instincts which now presents it with this quandary.
It has dug its grave, now it must lie it it.
than wasting time trying to undo legislation such as the Affordable Act, the primaries may be reflecting the wishes of its more saner adherents. The obstructionist approach has appealed to the baser instincts which now presents it with this quandary.
It has dug its grave, now it must lie it it.
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Bravo, tell it like it is. If only the so-called liberal media would tell it that way.
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From the nanosecond that I heard Trump was running all I could think of was the NY City crisis, and Wollman Memorial Skating Rink when it was in such total disrepair that there was a chance it may close. He took the job on, and completed it before schedule. Then I was further heartened by his interview with Oprah about 20 some-odd years ago. It was as if he was doing the interview today, with just a few changes like substituting the trade deficit with Mexico instead of Japan. He does not speak from both sides of his mouth. And he can get a job done, and done quickly. He sure has my vote. Go Trump. I never prayed for a candidate before, but I'm sure praying now. You are our only salvation.
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Wow. This kind of ignorance is terrifying.
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So you're willing to put up with all of the lies and the violence and the racism because he put up an ice skating rink 25 years ago ?
Why don't you ask yourself what he put up to house the people displaced by 9/11 ? The answer is NOTHING.
For all the crocodile tears he sheds about 9/11, the alleged world's greatest builder didn't lift a finger to help clean up the WTC, house anyone displaced after the attack, or build anything in the area. NOTHING.
An Ice Skating Rink ? Please ...
Why don't you ask yourself what he put up to house the people displaced by 9/11 ? The answer is NOTHING.
For all the crocodile tears he sheds about 9/11, the alleged world's greatest builder didn't lift a finger to help clean up the WTC, house anyone displaced after the attack, or build anything in the area. NOTHING.
An Ice Skating Rink ? Please ...
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Interesting. I have always seen him as an egotistical narcissist. His tv show is unwatchable and demeaning as is his campaign rhetoric... in the eyes of the beholder, I guess.
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Unlike a lot of people, I do not see why anyone should drop out in what may be a contested convention. Obviously though, the impregnable armor is off Trump. Rubio joined him in the gutter and his own Duke/KKK blunder has obviously had a large effect. It may not matter in the end, but it might. I'm holding out a tiny hope for Kasich and hope he stays in. Anything can happen at a convention and I don't think the uncertainty, which will keep them in the news, is necessarily a bad thing for the party, though it will be torture for them. Do we really want to listen to just two people unfairly assail each other and say the same things over and over and over for the next six months? I can wait.
It takes a lot of money to keep campaigning; few people want to throw theirs down the drain on a losing proposition.
Your survey of Super-Tuesday voters was very revealing. It explains the Trump phenomenon better than anything I've seen recently. Trump supporters listed at the top of their reasons for voting for him as "He tells it like it is."
Of course, he doesn't. But his supporters have difficulty telling the difference from what they want believe from reality. Trump has been so successful this campaign season because either HE, himself, fervently believes what he wants to believe, are is just a great liar. Doesn't matter. His ability to tap into that mind set is better than anyone else's.
I may also be guilty this mind set. Maybe the only reason I believe that Trump will never be President is because I don't want to believe it.
Of course, he doesn't. But his supporters have difficulty telling the difference from what they want believe from reality. Trump has been so successful this campaign season because either HE, himself, fervently believes what he wants to believe, are is just a great liar. Doesn't matter. His ability to tap into that mind set is better than anyone else's.
I may also be guilty this mind set. Maybe the only reason I believe that Trump will never be President is because I don't want to believe it.
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not true, HOW IT IS is the mob runs the political process and the economy and public opinion. that is HOW IT IS. and that is toxic and needs to be fixed. HOW IT IS is that these evil people will continue to blame their victims for the obvious calamity they've put on us. that is HOW IT IS. and you want to keep lying to protect the wealthy CHAMPIONS. HOW IT IS is that those CHAMPIONS are just evil but misunderstood.
Don't be surprised if the NJ gov standing beside Trump becomes VP candidate. He does come with his own baggage but 2 bullies are better than one, no?
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When I read some of the comments posted by Trump supporters, I feel like this is something from Alice in Wonderland. They are in complete denial over the fact that there is zero explanations on how he will get anything done; just mindless rhetoric about how great he is and how everyone else is a loser. This guy could not get elected dog catcher anywhere but the good old U.S.A.; and then Americans wonder why their leadership is so lame?! You get what you vote for; and God help Americans if Bozo gets elected.
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"I tell everybody who goes to a Donald Trump event, if you get to ask a question, just ask him 'how?'" Christie said. "I don’t care which of the things he talks about just ask him, 'How? How?'"
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Read Trumps or Bernie's plans on their websites and feel free to disagree with any of the proposals. Insulting their supporters will not get you anywhere.
If the RNC denies Trump at a contested convention, it will really demonstrate the contempt that the Republican party has for the people and it will be their death knell in November and for years to come. "Off with his head",the fat cat blowhard Republican donors bellow. "How dare the people say they want a voice in the Government that we own?"
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Meg Whitman et al - wake up!! Trump is forming a new much improved Republican party that the PEOPLE want. Either get on the Trump Express or get run over by it. Putting out anti- Trump ads is not the way for Republicans to win in November and forward.
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Americans want all kinds of stupid and unhealthy things, junk food, lethal weapons, reality TV. That doesn't make it right.
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I'd pay good money to see Trump come out wearing Elvis's white jumpsuit.
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I submit you are guilty of manipulating the public when you accuse Trump of failing to intially disavow the KKK and David Duke without also noting he claimed it was a miscue due to the headset he was wearing, that he asked for a list of groups stating he would get back to the questioner, which he did disavowing the KKK and Duke, and that he had both in 2000 and a day or so before disavowed Duke. Now it may be that Trump is lying but that is for your readers to decide not you anymore than it is Fox's right to ignore HIllary's changing explanations of Benghazi as based on changes in the information given her. You want to know why the public despises the press both liberal and right, this is why.
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Well here we go again the GOP is in chaos all those who are still out there and can't even win one or two states ought to get out of the race so that the GOP can concentrate on destructing itself. Thank goodness Rubio is losing who needs another war monger. All these guys who claim limited government work for the "establishment" Ted Cruz Marco "Polo" Rubio. They ought to get out of the race now. Ben Carson should go back to practicing surgery and saving lives. It was a pathetic show of Chris Christie standing behind the "trumpet" who'd trust him as a VP . The GOP will eventually elect mr Trump who knows nothing about foreign policy. He failed as a businessman with his junk bonds and now he wants to run for president? Give me a break he should go back to selling junk bonds. I totally give up on the GOP they left a middle of the road republican like me to run the other way.
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Just watch: Once Trump wins the nomination, he will pivot and start sounding like a somewhat reasonable, if off-the-cuff, moderate who is fluent in the American vernacular. He started doing that in his victory speech last night. He just wants to "win" by any means necessary. He figured out how to get the Republican nomination, against great odds, by throwing out red meat to the disaffected. In the general election, he'll figure out other tactics to try to peel away votes depending on the opposition's vulnerabilities.
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Attention Democrats who are convinced November is an easy win: Prepare to be stunned.
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If you think women and minorities are going to sit around and be defined by the followers of Trump, you will be the one who is stunned.
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I completely expect the GOP to rig the election. I wouldn't be stunned for a minute. They rigged 2000 and 2004. They haven't won an election fairly since 1988.
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One stat that keeps reminding of the odds against Trump beating Hillary: In 88 George the first got 59% of the white vote, and got something like 400 electoral votes. In 2012 Romney got 59% of the white vote, and got something close to 200 electoral votes.
Without a Rove like ingenious effort keep minority voters away on election day, what about the seemingly magical Trump charisma can sway Black, Latino, and Asian voters to join in the foggy delusion of low income and low education level whites?
Without a Rove like ingenious effort keep minority voters away on election day, what about the seemingly magical Trump charisma can sway Black, Latino, and Asian voters to join in the foggy delusion of low income and low education level whites?
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The fact that working class African Americans and others are losing jobs that used to be available to working class Americans, for one., like construction and general contracting.
Well, it's clear to me now. I didn't want to believe it, but we're a nation of louts and morons, and have just proved it.
The "populism", the sheer numbers of persons getting behind the raw unthinking bombast of this repulsive narcissist says that reason, balanced and considered thought, civility, humanity itself no longer exist to any meaningful degree in our culture.
Goodbye, America, and all that you hoped to be.
The "populism", the sheer numbers of persons getting behind the raw unthinking bombast of this repulsive narcissist says that reason, balanced and considered thought, civility, humanity itself no longer exist to any meaningful degree in our culture.
Goodbye, America, and all that you hoped to be.
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How did we get so desperate---or so stupid---that it has come to this???
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When one looks at Hillary Clinton's achievements there is not much to see. She was once married to a Governor, then to a President. As a NY state rep in Washington, she had no major legislation other than passing a bill that would name a road after Tim Russert. As Secretary of State, long term friendships with Israel, Libya and others fell apart. She is the one (Thank you Sid Blumenthal) who convinced Mr, Obama to oust Kadaffi causing a vacuum in Libya that ISIS filled. Iraq went to hell in hand basket. What are her accomplishments other than she thinks it's her turn?
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Interesting to see the top-voted comments overwhelmingly support Trump.
Amusingly, not only is Trump supported by a former Bernie supporter, but also an African American who believes Trump, a while billionaire, is the one who truly understands black struggle in America.
Right. A fine example of unsubtle online astroturfing.
Amusingly, not only is Trump supported by a former Bernie supporter, but also an African American who believes Trump, a while billionaire, is the one who truly understands black struggle in America.
Right. A fine example of unsubtle online astroturfing.
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With Trump at the helm, we'll have the ugliest presidential campaign in history.
The country will be torn apart on immigrant and minority hatred, while all real issues will be ignored.
Expect the GOP to fall in lockstep with Trump, as it pretends to be appalled by him.
The country will be torn apart on immigrant and minority hatred, while all real issues will be ignored.
Expect the GOP to fall in lockstep with Trump, as it pretends to be appalled by him.
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Everyone better get used to hearing and saying "President Trump." Love him or hate him, his campaign has real legs and his message resonates throughout a nation tired of class warfare where only the 1% winds. Ironically Trump claims to be the un-GOP un-plutocrat candidate and therein lies his appeal. His populism and unfeigned prejudices would spell disaster for certain demographics who enjoy a certain entitled status, one that may change.
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OK, folks, now imagine, real hard, The Don up against HRC. Imagine what he'll do with her scandals, both real &, yes, imagined. Now imagine what she'll do to him as she wilts under his onslaught. Release those Wall St tapes/transcripts now, Mrs. Clinton, because if you don't, The Don will, right after Labor Day, and your goose will be cooked but good.
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One thing I gleaned from the election numbers posted in the NYTimes is that Sec. Clinton is beating Trump in total votes in swing states. For instance Virginia; 504k for Clinton, 356k for Trump and Georgia; 536k for Clinton to 500k for Trump.
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Christie was auditioning (literally) for the role of vice president: stand at your mark, don't fidget, look approvingly at the main actor, don't speak (you have no lines).
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The Nancy Reagan role. Ugh.
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Koch network donors must be seething... all the hundreds of millions they poured into their "OAD" network over last decade to buy the white house and yet they cant stop the trump train!
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So much for the theory that the Citizens United case means public office is for sale to those who spend the most money on an election.
Anyone who truly cannot fathom the appeal of Donald Trump to voters at this point automatically outs themselves as both more educated and less impacted by the downturn that deeply affected so many people. The majority of his supporters are people who are so deeply demoralized and frustrated that they have abandoned all ideology and conviction simply in favor of someone who is willing to call people in power morons and threaten them as their surrogate while feeding his constituency's darkest fears of "the other". Honestly, in what dimension of reality does a businessman from New York sweep the South?
Mr. Trump’s eventual contribution to the electoral process will be twofold:
1) He will significantly increase the participation rate in the general election because staying home and letting the chips fall where they may is not an option. His 35% will vote rabidly, and while whatever is left of the Republican Party may sit it out, the majority of us will be voting to insure the country doesn't implode by electing a thin-skinned demagogue who makes Nixon look like a balanced personality by comparison.
2) He will blow up and usher in the reconstruction of the Republican Party. It is solely responsible for creating this franken-candidate after years of cynical self-fulfilling, anti-government, class warfare policies that produced a dysfunctional system serving no one -- and eventually undermined the very people they cultivated with fear to vote for them all these years.
Mr. Trump’s eventual contribution to the electoral process will be twofold:
1) He will significantly increase the participation rate in the general election because staying home and letting the chips fall where they may is not an option. His 35% will vote rabidly, and while whatever is left of the Republican Party may sit it out, the majority of us will be voting to insure the country doesn't implode by electing a thin-skinned demagogue who makes Nixon look like a balanced personality by comparison.
2) He will blow up and usher in the reconstruction of the Republican Party. It is solely responsible for creating this franken-candidate after years of cynical self-fulfilling, anti-government, class warfare policies that produced a dysfunctional system serving no one -- and eventually undermined the very people they cultivated with fear to vote for them all these years.
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"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." Paul Ryan
The problem with his recent quote is it is the base of the GOP. Are people so blind that they don't recognize the Republican mantra. The whole party is built on bigotry. Rubio, Cruz, Carson, Kasich and Trump have all said they will stop Muslims from coming into the U.S.. They have also said they will deport 11 million Hispanics that are here illegally. They want to set women's issues back 100 years, outlaw LGBT people, believe climate change is made up by sorcerers, want to carpet bomb the middle east and are trying to move this country into a christian caliphate. They have lied about everything they talk about, but this is where they draw the line, the KKK? Makes me want to run right out and sign up for the party that will trample on our constitution at the drop of hat. GOP (Government Oppressing People)
The problem with his recent quote is it is the base of the GOP. Are people so blind that they don't recognize the Republican mantra. The whole party is built on bigotry. Rubio, Cruz, Carson, Kasich and Trump have all said they will stop Muslims from coming into the U.S.. They have also said they will deport 11 million Hispanics that are here illegally. They want to set women's issues back 100 years, outlaw LGBT people, believe climate change is made up by sorcerers, want to carpet bomb the middle east and are trying to move this country into a christian caliphate. They have lied about everything they talk about, but this is where they draw the line, the KKK? Makes me want to run right out and sign up for the party that will trample on our constitution at the drop of hat. GOP (Government Oppressing People)
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Something blindly PC Democrats forget is that keeping misogynists and rabid homophobes out of the United States is protecting women and LGBT rights.
It was Reagan (aka St. Reagan) who first started the mantra that government is the problem. It is very fitting that so many people absolutely hate Jeb! and now "the Reagan of the next generation", Marco Rubio. And Marco sees no irony when he talks about Trump being a liar. (Republican appear to be incapable of seeing irony).
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The speeches of the candidates are clear even without a word: all but Trump will use the people as a wallpaper.
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"Democrats Turn to Hillary Clinton After Flirting With Bernie Sanders"
And then those very same Democrats will be puking with self-hatred for having backed a charlatan on the disorder of Lady Macbeth herself. The NY Times' endless trumpeting of the worthless Hillary Clinton and its endless bashing of Senator Sanders isn't only disgraceful, it's a sleaze move the Times will probably ultimately regret. As a lifelong Democrat, I wouldn't vote for Hillary, no matter how awful the GOP nominee is. The Times' ill-considered crusading for lecher Bill's wife could serve as a textbook example of how Republicans get elected to the White House.
And then those very same Democrats will be puking with self-hatred for having backed a charlatan on the disorder of Lady Macbeth herself. The NY Times' endless trumpeting of the worthless Hillary Clinton and its endless bashing of Senator Sanders isn't only disgraceful, it's a sleaze move the Times will probably ultimately regret. As a lifelong Democrat, I wouldn't vote for Hillary, no matter how awful the GOP nominee is. The Times' ill-considered crusading for lecher Bill's wife could serve as a textbook example of how Republicans get elected to the White House.
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I can't stand Hillary but I'll hold my nose and vote for her if she's the nominee. We need to keep SCOTUS in mind.
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This is what happens when you get a Republican Congress that absolutely does nothing for the American people. They get in there and do nothing but work on getting re-elected and getting contacts to get richer. Then to top it off they are so racist that they obstruct the president for 8 years even though he brought the country back from sure default and gave us a universal health plan. The Republican Congress' rating is at the lowest in history, so now the people are mad and want change, Trump
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The 500 pound gorilla in the living room is alive and well. Today's politicians and political experts are so totally amazed that Trump is having such wide spread appeal that they're unable to fathom America is fed up with "Business as Usual." This in itself, is proof positive that America's political corruption is totally inbred. All the manure in Washington needs to be flushed out and Trump is the man to start the movement.
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I'd have never thought my state, Vermont, could go for Trump. but driving down the road yesterday I spied a large sign tacked to a house that proclaimed "Moslem Free Zone". Guess I shouldn't have been too surprised by the election results. What a sad commentary on a once great country.
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Yeats’s Rough Beast is an Elephant
Spinning and spinning in a tightening web
Republicans watch their high hopes ebb.
Plans fall apart; the sure things fold;
Nihilistic explosions take their hold.
Blame-filled rantings fill the air.
Wimps are told to grow a pair.
The best wait humbly to take their turn
As the worst throw others off the stern.
Surely some revolution is at hand.
The one-percent by angry hordes are damned.
They saw it coming, the turning tide.
The angry Tiger they tried to ride
is about to throw them off their stride.
The Chickens guarded by the Fox
Drink Kool-aid from the vilest crocks.
While Donkeys jockey for first place,
The Elephant trumps loudly in proud disgrace.
Spinning and spinning in a tightening web
Republicans watch their high hopes ebb.
Plans fall apart; the sure things fold;
Nihilistic explosions take their hold.
Blame-filled rantings fill the air.
Wimps are told to grow a pair.
The best wait humbly to take their turn
As the worst throw others off the stern.
Surely some revolution is at hand.
The one-percent by angry hordes are damned.
They saw it coming, the turning tide.
The angry Tiger they tried to ride
is about to throw them off their stride.
The Chickens guarded by the Fox
Drink Kool-aid from the vilest crocks.
While Donkeys jockey for first place,
The Elephant trumps loudly in proud disgrace.
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Very nicely done.
Now there is talk of a contested convention. Is this democracy? We all know the corporations are terrified of Trump, and the voters are sick and tired of the corrupt lying lobbyist owned politicians in Washington who never keep their promises. To contest Trump is to disregard the votes. So a handful of RNC constituents can discount the voters rights and stop someone the voters want as president? If that happens, there should be nothing short of a revolution because then it becomes nothing short of dictatorship!
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Personally, I can't stand Republicans. I'm sure there are some nice ones, but the ones running are all vile. They refer to themselves as inclusive but only if others agree with them. It's hypocrisy in its finest example.
That disclaimer aside, for both parties, a convention becomes "contested" if one candidate doesn't have enough delegates to win the nomination outright. So, I would presume that the strategy now would be to win sufficient delegates to keep Trump from winning normally. That would push the convention into being contested and would allow them to make the argument that he wasn't electable, of course inserting themselves each into the equation as the "electable" one.
That disclaimer aside, for both parties, a convention becomes "contested" if one candidate doesn't have enough delegates to win the nomination outright. So, I would presume that the strategy now would be to win sufficient delegates to keep Trump from winning normally. That would push the convention into being contested and would allow them to make the argument that he wasn't electable, of course inserting themselves each into the equation as the "electable" one.
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I want to know why the Times headline right now is "TRUMP OVERWHELMS GOP RIVALS" (as if he is the almighty conqueror) while the sub-heading is "MINORITIES PUSH CLINTON TO VICTORY" (as if she were a broken-down car that had to be pushed to the finish line).
Those two headlines are just pure editorializing by the Times. The Times has gone out of its way to fawn over Trump and cover his vile campaign as if he were the second coming of God.
Those two headlines are just pure editorializing by the Times. The Times has gone out of its way to fawn over Trump and cover his vile campaign as if he were the second coming of God.
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There is plenty of fawning over Hillary Clinton in the NYT. They barely covered Bernie Sanders. Makes me sick.
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Primaries are fine for hashing things out, but saying you won't support the candidate of your party hands the White House to Hillary and the Supreme Court to the Democrats. 2020 may be too late to undo the damage from that.
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Ah yes, no damage from a president Trump or Cruz.
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Many of my friends are Sanders supporters that are committed to flipping to Trump in the general. Clinton's team has to know this. I guarantee the democrat machine is behind the laughably absurd KKK hit piece the media won't leave alone. I've never seen a non-story get so much play on every outlet, while viewers on both side of the aisle are rolling their eyes. Trump has exposed the media for being in the pocket of the elites. Fox News's reputation has never been lower.
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I am not sure I can go as far as voting for Trump, but I will never vote for Hillary Clinton. Never.
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Cruz had a good night here in Texas last night but that doesn't change his ineligibility. Most likely he saw his last win last night. Now the race moves north and west where Cruz has little following. The LAST thing the GOP needs iis for Cruz to win. His candidacy will be declared invalid.
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I teach a course in local government at Westchester Community College. One of the students in my class was thinking of voting for Donald Trump. He said he didn't care if Trump lied about his views on issues...didn't care about Donald Trumps 4 bankruptcies...his treatment of others.
There was one issue that moved him away from Trump: Would Trump get us into another war for no reason (because he was provoked by a world leader) and would Donald Trump reinstate the draft? I think that the Presidential candidates should be asked about the draft--whether they will do away with the all volunteer military. My guess: when Donald Trump supporters start worrying that their child or family member will be forced into another war that is not needed because of the personality defects of Trump- that they will choose another Presidential candidate as their choice.
PAUL FEINER
Greenburgh Town Supervisor
There was one issue that moved him away from Trump: Would Trump get us into another war for no reason (because he was provoked by a world leader) and would Donald Trump reinstate the draft? I think that the Presidential candidates should be asked about the draft--whether they will do away with the all volunteer military. My guess: when Donald Trump supporters start worrying that their child or family member will be forced into another war that is not needed because of the personality defects of Trump- that they will choose another Presidential candidate as their choice.
PAUL FEINER
Greenburgh Town Supervisor
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Dear Greenburgh Town Supervisor:
You should not be imposing your liberal views on impressionable students. Please stop wasting our tax dollars by using your community college classroom as a forum for your views.
-- A Greenburgh Taxpayer
You should not be imposing your liberal views on impressionable students. Please stop wasting our tax dollars by using your community college classroom as a forum for your views.
-- A Greenburgh Taxpayer
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The top commenters acting like Bernie Sanders is anything like Donald Trump is insulting. Here's how you can tell : a person WITH a working set of principles is NOT the same as a person WITHOUT a working set of principles. Trump is an opportunist.
Saying Clinton is "grossly incompetent for the presidency" while shilling for Trump with no experience, a bundle of bankruptcies, and PT Barnum-style yelling about some fantasy wall that fantasy Mexicans will be forced to build and pay for is just another day on Delusion Street. Get Real Jared Li.
Saying Clinton is "grossly incompetent for the presidency" while shilling for Trump with no experience, a bundle of bankruptcies, and PT Barnum-style yelling about some fantasy wall that fantasy Mexicans will be forced to build and pay for is just another day on Delusion Street. Get Real Jared Li.
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It's not a horse race when there are only 3 broken-down nags on the course. Broken-down nags are to racehorses what Trump, Cruz and Rubio are to qualified leaders. Stepping on the track doesn't turn you into a thoroughbred.
Please, let's include Carson in the discussion. Then, as a convenient short-hand, we can refer to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This is what you get, when you feed the Tea Party and let it breed.
Please, let's include Carson in the discussion. Then, as a convenient short-hand, we can refer to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This is what you get, when you feed the Tea Party and let it breed.
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The risk of having the white-trash Trump in the White House where this populist would be within an arm’s reach of the nuclear button should be enough to scare the crap out of any sane American.
Trump comment “I am a unifier” is a contradiction. The rancorous and widening schisms of deep ideological fissures that prevail in the GOP with the perils of chaos among its leaders and members will cause the Republican Party to implode if Trump wins the nomination of the GOP.
If Trump wins the nomination of the GOP, this will be a guarantee for a flipping in control of both the Senate and the House as American voters will reject the Republican Party which has descended to new depths of repugnance, revulsion and vulgarity.
The party of Lincoln does not exist anymore. The Republican Party has been on a downward skid since Regan when the focus shifted from paying attention to Americans and evolved to guiding national policies to the demands of its wealthy patrons, lobbyists and interest groups.
President Eisenhower warned Americans of the military industrial complex guiding national policies in his parting speech. He could have also warned Americans to beware of moneyed interests guiding national policies.
Americans have always loved populist leaders like Regan and Dubya. And what are the results? The American middle class and poor have suffered greatly while the moneyed interests have grown wealthier. And now we have the populist Trump
Vote for sanity over insanity.
Feel the Bern
Trump comment “I am a unifier” is a contradiction. The rancorous and widening schisms of deep ideological fissures that prevail in the GOP with the perils of chaos among its leaders and members will cause the Republican Party to implode if Trump wins the nomination of the GOP.
If Trump wins the nomination of the GOP, this will be a guarantee for a flipping in control of both the Senate and the House as American voters will reject the Republican Party which has descended to new depths of repugnance, revulsion and vulgarity.
The party of Lincoln does not exist anymore. The Republican Party has been on a downward skid since Regan when the focus shifted from paying attention to Americans and evolved to guiding national policies to the demands of its wealthy patrons, lobbyists and interest groups.
President Eisenhower warned Americans of the military industrial complex guiding national policies in his parting speech. He could have also warned Americans to beware of moneyed interests guiding national policies.
Americans have always loved populist leaders like Regan and Dubya. And what are the results? The American middle class and poor have suffered greatly while the moneyed interests have grown wealthier. And now we have the populist Trump
Vote for sanity over insanity.
Feel the Bern
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Trump should build housing in Canada for all the liberals fleeing the US.
Liberals flee when things don't go their way. The right stays and fights. Is there any wonder no one is picking a liberal to make the US competitive again (ex., fight the long overdue economic fight)?
Liberals flee when things don't go their way. The right stays and fights. Is there any wonder no one is picking a liberal to make the US competitive again (ex., fight the long overdue economic fight)?
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Lol- I guess you are calling what "the right" just did to the GOP "staying and fighting". A guy who makes his clothing line is China "will make the US competitive again". Right.
More like the right is now in some tin trailer in a hurricane. Maybe they will end up as you say, in Canada.
More like the right is now in some tin trailer in a hurricane. Maybe they will end up as you say, in Canada.
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Amen..... Times 2.
A guy who makes his clothing line in China because the incompetent Obama WH allows China to make it economically impossible to manufacture things in America at a cost low enough to make a profit.
How competitive has Barack Obama made the USA over the last 7 years as companies are fleeing the USA?
How competitive has Barack Obama made the USA over the last 7 years as companies are fleeing the USA?
In this picture, a republican debate is going on in Palm beach Florida. Donald Trump was probably asked to speak about a certain topic. IN this picture it looks like hes speaking on something everyone agrees with or it is something funny. I can tell because of the looks on Chris Christie's face and somebody else in the background. He is trying to get as many votes as he can.
This is the scariest election in my lifetime. If Trump had run four years ago, lied through his teeth countless times and made any of the same racist, bigoted, misogynistic, womanizing, antisemitic, crass, gauche, insulting, fascistic (not to mention know-nothing, anti-science, anti-intellectual) remarks, he would have been run out of town on a rail. Now, suddenly, those comments are applauded by an ever-growing segment of voters. Scarier still is that while Republican leaders denounce him for, e.g., not immediately rejecting the likes of David Duke, they insist that they will vote for him in the general election, rather than any Democrat. (Indeed, so far only one congressional Republican has vowed, on moral grounds, not to vote for Trump).
The truest test of the fundamental absence of any morality whatsoever on the part of the Republican leadership is that they would ultimately stand behind a man who himself is entirely amoral. Where, where, where is their shame?
The truest test of the fundamental absence of any morality whatsoever on the part of the Republican leadership is that they would ultimately stand behind a man who himself is entirely amoral. Where, where, where is their shame?
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Actually, if the true truth be told, Mr. Trump is just saying clearly what the Republican Party has been saying since they took over the South after the passing of the Civil Rights Act. But, the people of the United States have been in denial of the terminal demise of civility and meaningful purpose in the Republican Party. Nothing could have been more explicit than the "Willie Horton Ad" in 1988. Explicit it was and, otherwise, the ongoing use of the "dog whistle" method of training the unaware populace has been used by the Republican Party quite effectively. The people who support Trump (and Cruz and Rubio who are still using silent whistle techniques largely) are simply reacting as they have been trained to do over a few generations now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle In addition to the racism exhibited in use of the "dog whistle", the pandering to the religious right has not helped to build a strong political foundation in which the United States of America can grow and govern. That the TV and radio airwaves no longer support critical, fact driven journalism adds to this pathetic demise of civility. If we ask the question: "What do the Republicans really want?" WE NEVER GET AN ANSWER. But it appears that they want the demise of the Federal Government and a return to the Confederacy of the 19th Century, under control of 19th Century Southern Democrats. The complete destruction of the Union as we know it.
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Scary? Because we have a candidate that is NOT politically correct and says what most of us believe. Not a political insider, and not afraid to tell it like it is.
The only people afraid of Trump are Liberal Communists. Maybe he'll deport all the undesirables. Be a great thing.
The only people afraid of Trump are Liberal Communists. Maybe he'll deport all the undesirables. Be a great thing.
"The only people afraid of Trump are Liberal Communists."
Word salad. Try again.
Word salad. Try again.
I am a moderate Dem, and I support Hillary. However I would have voted for Trump over Sanders because Sanders does not represent my concerns. I believe in giving someone a fishing pole, but I also know this country is not Sweden. I would have supported Sanders when I was in college 50 years ago.
I prefer Trump over any of the other Republican clowns. Trump is bombastic, but people like him because he says what many of us think. We are sick of canned crap. He is himself. Cruz and Rubio are both jokes. In office, Trump would back down on a lot of his bluster and at least women would not have to live in fear of a Roe overturn. It's the conservative moralistic hoilier than thou far right that truly frightens me.
I prefer Trump over any of the other Republican clowns. Trump is bombastic, but people like him because he says what many of us think. We are sick of canned crap. He is himself. Cruz and Rubio are both jokes. In office, Trump would back down on a lot of his bluster and at least women would not have to live in fear of a Roe overturn. It's the conservative moralistic hoilier than thou far right that truly frightens me.
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"In office, Trump would back down on a lot of his bluster and at least women would not have to live in fear of a Roe overturn."
I'd like to think you're right, Leonora, but what makes you think that a man who will do or say anything to get power would not kowtow to the party that controls Congress? He has no qualms about lying, insinuating, and insulting; no doubt he'd have no qualms about doing what the Republicans tell him to do. The White House is an awfully nice pad, and I'm sure he'd want to live in it for an additional four years.
I'd like to think you're right, Leonora, but what makes you think that a man who will do or say anything to get power would not kowtow to the party that controls Congress? He has no qualms about lying, insinuating, and insulting; no doubt he'd have no qualms about doing what the Republicans tell him to do. The White House is an awfully nice pad, and I'm sure he'd want to live in it for an additional four years.
A compelling argument can be made that Trump will benefit from the fact that Rubio and Cruz did well enough (albeit, barely) on Super Tuesday to remain in the race for the time being. This is due to the fact that it prevents Republican voters in remaining primary states opposed to Trump from rallying behind a single candidate. Instead, it allows to Trump to continue to win primary races in individual states by picking up 30%-35% of the Republican vote while Cruz and Rubio each take 20%-25% of the vote.
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Just look at the voter turnout for the Republican primaries. It is off the charts. Trump has invigorated the people.
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And expanded the voter base to include crossover democrats and independents.
It's painful to watch how wrong people continue to get it. Trump continues to disprove long held assumptions, belief systems, conventional wisdom, even ideological "gospel."
He's smarter than them all. They just haven't realized it.
It's painful to watch how wrong people continue to get it. Trump continues to disprove long held assumptions, belief systems, conventional wisdom, even ideological "gospel."
He's smarter than them all. They just haven't realized it.
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The Reagan coalition was a combination of the traditional Main Street business-oriented Republicans (like Walter Annenberg and others in the kitchen cabinet who sponsored Reagan), western Goldwater anti-government Republicans (to which Reagan himself actually belonged), and George Wallace Democrats (who were motivated by resentment against minorities). The interesting thing about this race is that these three wings are running against each other. Cruz is running for the Goldwater wing, Trump for the Wallace wing, and the establishment is left searching for someone, and so they're going with Rubio now. Trump will continue to run strong where Wallace ran strong; Wallace won every county in Florida in 1972, and he was strong in the rust belt. Goldwater suffered an historic beat-down in 1964. And there's not enough traditional Republicans in the party. Looks like Trump.
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BeeRock, like the Times, you seem to think the Donald's salient appeal is the xenophobic strains in his rhetoric (if one can even use such a lofty term to describe his carnival barker style of presentation). I think this is a misread. Whether they can identify it directly or not, my feeling is that Trump's supporters know they live in a plutocracy, where once a candidate is in office, the opinions of average Americans matter not a whit. Trump really is the Sanders of the inchoate, and his supporters want to send him to Washington for much the same reasons as the Berners: to utterly upend the established order. So don't get too hung up on "the Wall", or that business about keeping out Muslims, at its root, this has way more to do with flushing out the Augean stables that is Washington DC. And I can't say I blame people. When a putative crusader for social justice like Obama names Eric Holder, a corporate defense attorney to go after the people responsible for the financial crisis, or orders Treasury to pay Goldman 100 cents on the dollar for worthless AIG swaps, smells an awful lot like the fix is in, doesn't it?
Not to disagree with your well-thought angle, but I think most political consultants would say what I did. Wallace was not just race-based; he was also anti-elitist, anti-Washington, etc. And bringing in the Wallace wing was essential to the Reagan revolution; I took classes under Lee Atwater, and I think he'd say the same thing.
The establishment/big money GOP - Whitman, Ricketts, Singer et al. - appear to be in full-throated panic at the prospect of a Trump nomination. They should "do the right thing" and rally around a candidate in keeping with their views and interests - Hillary Clinton.
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The Republican plan to take back the White House was to cripple government and blame it on Obama, solicit a candidate for every fringe group in the Republican Party with a common goal that focused on destroying Hillary's reputation, concentrate on one candidate like Jeb Bush and win. What happened is Trump entered the race. Now they are stuck with an embarrassment they will be forced to support. My fear is what will happen to America if he is President? He may be successful in coning a greedy uneducated electorate, but he doesn't fool the rest of the world that we are now dependent upon for business.
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We have already blown it with our hateful, do nothing Congress.
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If Mr. Trump wins the Presidency, best thing to do is buy stock in Home Depot, Lowes, General Foods, DelMonte and Poland Spring. Americans will need to build fall-out shelters and stock them with supplies.
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Hillary has been in favor of more wars than Trump ever was.
I'm more afraid of Cruz and Rubio.
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This is an "Italy" moment for the USA and Trump is our Berlusconi. Politicians -- the GOP mainly -- have angered enough Americans by making the government dysfunctional, that we are on the verge of nominating a dysfunctional bully for President. The GOP gets what they deserve, but Trump does speak -- albeit incoherently -- for millions shut out of the reality of the middle class.
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"This is an "Italy" moment for the USA and Trump is our Berlusconi."
Italy is, of course, a nonentity politically, albeit a lovely place to visit and no doubt, if you can get past the bureaucracy, to live. But the United States is, like it or not, the world's economic and military powerhouse.
An amoral, mendacious bundle of ambition is a scary leader for such a country.
Italy is, of course, a nonentity politically, albeit a lovely place to visit and no doubt, if you can get past the bureaucracy, to live. But the United States is, like it or not, the world's economic and military powerhouse.
An amoral, mendacious bundle of ambition is a scary leader for such a country.
From sea to shining sea, "We the People" are speaking....do you hear us?
The "Don" is listening. Nobody else is or has been the past 8 years.
Politics as usual just ain't gonna cut it anymore.
The "Don" is listening. Nobody else is or has been the past 8 years.
Politics as usual just ain't gonna cut it anymore.
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The GOP will go to a brokered convention to stop Trump, and Romney, Bush or Kasich will emerge. But the base will know it has been snookered. The GOP is irrevocably fractured. Look for a third neo-facist party to come out of all this.
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You nailed it, but check the spelling of "fascist."
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the republican party create their Frankenstein and now they cannot kill it. The horror of it all.
I am enjoying watching the republican party drown in their own stink.
I am enjoying watching the republican party drown in their own stink.
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This warm bath of GOP establishment tears would be so much more pleasant if I weren't completely terrified of what they hath wrought. Ah well. Pass the loofah.
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Why do we call them "minority" voters when we mean blacks? And, it appears to be true that blacks (the majority, anyway) vote in a block, as instructed by their leaders. As do evangelicals. And, certainly, we're told that Hispanics (particularly the poor and illegal) vote for anyone who promises amnesty for illegals and unbridled immigration for their families. And feminists seem to have one issue - abortion.
Is there something wrong with our electoral system?
Can't anyone think for themselves and the broad set of issues facing the country? Is this what democracy was meant to be?
And people wonder why Donald Trump is successful? He appeals to the nationalist American - those who think about America, not particular groups and the "politically incorrect" - regardless of their race, gender or educational level.
Is there something wrong with our electoral system?
Can't anyone think for themselves and the broad set of issues facing the country? Is this what democracy was meant to be?
And people wonder why Donald Trump is successful? He appeals to the nationalist American - those who think about America, not particular groups and the "politically incorrect" - regardless of their race, gender or educational level.
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The media uses these terms because it continues to promote the "us versus them" mentality. Technically, a minority is anyone that is not part of the majority. So Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, etc are minorities. If the minorities were to unite, they would become the majority. Especially with the genetic fact that brown-skinned people (a combination of many races, not just Black) will be the majority in a couple of decades based on shear numbers, it is important for those who control the wealth and the media to keep people divided. Also, don't the majority vote according to what their "leaders" tell them?
Trump, the American Mussolini, is the candidate of the angry and ignorant, but after decades of Republicans hoodwinking the middle and working class there are many, many of them.
Whether it's Hillary or Bernie, the Democrats must stay unified to stop the most dangerous candidate in a half century from obtaining the most powerful office in the land. This is not the time for Dems to eat our own.
Whether it's Hillary or Bernie, the Democrats must stay unified to stop the most dangerous candidate in a half century from obtaining the most powerful office in the land. This is not the time for Dems to eat our own.
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Nonsense. Bush was far worse.
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1992. Republican National Convention, Dallas, George H.W. Bush the nominee. I remember watching Pat Buchanon's opening Culture War speech and being appalled. And RNC chairman Bonds declaring that 'we are America; they [Democrats] are not America.' It was the first time I'd ever heard anything like this--declaring war on Americans who might think/believe/act differently than him/his cohorts. It was mean; it was bigoted; it appealed to the basest instinct in human beings, instead of the best instincts. It turned my stomach it did. It was the last nominating convention I ever watched, but the beginning of turning some voters not towards governing best, together, but hating more. The seeds planted almost a quarter-century ago were cultivated and took root over the years, with Tea Party offshoots along the way, and appear to be in full and glorious bloom today To paraphrase the Bible (Galatians): You reap what you sow.
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This should have been the headline on page 1, as opposed to the one that added "Cruz Shows New Strength." One doesn't have to be Nate Cohen to understand that Cruz's campaign was over if he couldn't win his own state. And while he won with a decent 10 point margin, it wasn't a wipe-out. To do so, he had to spend four full days in Texas, days better spent trying to add other states. His pickup of Oklahoma, a neighboring state that is extremely conservative a loss there would have been inexplicable is hardly an indication of "renewed strength." Yes, right now in a one-on-one context Cruz and Rubio beat Trump in most polls. But polls will shift markedly as we move out of the South, which should have rewarded Cruz much more richly, and we move into the Rust Belt and the Northeast. Here Trump can be expected to clobber Cruz, and it will be Rubio who is likely to run second. Unless Trump does even worse in Thursday's debate than in the last debacle -- not likely -- he will sweep the Rust Belt and the Northeast. His salvation at this point comes from a field divided between egotists and fantasists who will never drop out. Kasich had the effrontery to tell Rubio to drop out! But polls will follow perceptions, and as Trump romps on March 15 and takes Florida from Rubio it will be just possible to hear the Fat Lady Sing and the GOP Establishment scream.
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Yes, the "newsmouthpiece" rhetoric is everything. Everyone who thinks about it knows that the more times a name is said the more name recognition there is and the more name recognition the more people will vote for that person. NO Question. That is why it is extremely upsetting when news outlets like The New York Times and PBS News Hour gratuitously mouth the name Cruz. Indeed, once TV abandoned Carson and started screeching Cruz, Cruz's numbers went up and Carson's went down. Question is: who is paying them to toot the Cruz horn??? God help us if he or someone of his ilk would become president. A true Mussolini in the making. A power control freak to the max.
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This is nothing if not historic.
While I did not see the dark clouds of the Trumpest gathering (nobody did - it is just hard to see the clown taking over and running the circus), I did see the implosion of the GOP.
The party is out of ideas and just saying no and shutting down the government, while it may please talk radio fools, becomes a bit tiresome for average Americans. It just does not inspire people.
The GOP has watched as income disparity has become a gaping chasm and yet they offer the same discredited, failed idea of trickle down economics to the Reagen demecorats and other hard working Americans. Is it really that strange that they should turn to a loud mouth, blustering, fearmongering populist to save them?
While I do think the general election will be closer than many people believe, it is hard to imagine that Trump can defeat Hillary given his attacks on minorities embrace of nazis, ingornace on all policy issues etc.
On a positve note, we have all but eliminated the possibility that the other clowns in the clown car will win. Goodbye: Carli, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Marcobot, Cruz, Scott Walker, Jeb!, Christie, Huckster, Rand Paul, Pataki and the good Doctor.
While I did not see the dark clouds of the Trumpest gathering (nobody did - it is just hard to see the clown taking over and running the circus), I did see the implosion of the GOP.
The party is out of ideas and just saying no and shutting down the government, while it may please talk radio fools, becomes a bit tiresome for average Americans. It just does not inspire people.
The GOP has watched as income disparity has become a gaping chasm and yet they offer the same discredited, failed idea of trickle down economics to the Reagen demecorats and other hard working Americans. Is it really that strange that they should turn to a loud mouth, blustering, fearmongering populist to save them?
While I do think the general election will be closer than many people believe, it is hard to imagine that Trump can defeat Hillary given his attacks on minorities embrace of nazis, ingornace on all policy issues etc.
On a positve note, we have all but eliminated the possibility that the other clowns in the clown car will win. Goodbye: Carli, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Marcobot, Cruz, Scott Walker, Jeb!, Christie, Huckster, Rand Paul, Pataki and the good Doctor.
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Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States! Hillary is being rolled under the bus for what Bill did to the party during his administration. The Democrats nominated her so that when she lost the Clinton's would go away forever! Proof positive she will not win the General election Minnesota! They just proved NOBODY wants the Clinton's back in office and I mean nobody!
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Must be the cold weather in Minnesota
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Trump's speech after the Presidential election will start as follows:
I would like to thank Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Black, Bill O'Reilly, The Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, David Duke, Fox News, NRA and the Republican Congress and Senate for destroying the Republican party and allowing me to become your President. I would also like to thank the spineless Democrats who never fought back. My first act will be to rename the White House - Trump House and nominate Chris Christie for the Supreme Court.
I would like to thank Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Black, Bill O'Reilly, The Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, David Duke, Fox News, NRA and the Republican Congress and Senate for destroying the Republican party and allowing me to become your President. I would also like to thank the spineless Democrats who never fought back. My first act will be to rename the White House - Trump House and nominate Chris Christie for the Supreme Court.
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What the main stream media always fails to recognize, is that America is 20% Liberal, 40% conservative and the remainder is "other". Most folks want the borders secured. Most Americans don't want to be flooded with refugees from the middle east. Most Americans want jobs brought back to America. Most Americans love America. If elected, Mr. Trump a man with decades of successful business and negotiating experience will replace a President that hates America with had absolutely no experience at anything when he was elected. A cub scout den mother on her first night had more managerial experience that Mr. Obama when he was elected.
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Nonetheless, President Barack Obama has had a very successful presidency. So say this cub scout den mother!
I guess it has to do with the fact that prior to his presidential aspirations, he was a successful Senator for Illinois!
When you sweep through and clear away the right wing propaganda and obstructionist bigotry, you see the truth!
I guess it has to do with the fact that prior to his presidential aspirations, he was a successful Senator for Illinois!
When you sweep through and clear away the right wing propaganda and obstructionist bigotry, you see the truth!
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Sounds good to me...very good. The rest of the country is very tired of Liberal Pacifists.
Wow cruz won 3 states interesting. Rubio 1
Trump only broke 40% in 2 states.
a lot of close ones.
Not a clear win at all.
Trump only broke 40% in 2 states.
a lot of close ones.
Not a clear win at all.
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Gee, this fall it looks as if we will get to select as president either the right-wing laissez-faire Democrat Ms. Clinton or the nativist neo-fascist Mr .Trump. I am going to take up reading fantasy literature.
All the currently leading behind Mr. Trump mainline Republicans are not historically mainline but all are in some way infected with the pathologies of neoliberalism (laissez faire ideology) which also infects Ms. Clinton’s right of center Democratic ideology. She harms those who seem most devoted to electing her. The ugly ghosts of Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayrack, or worst haunt this campaign even more that the one 36 years ago.
We revel in the private; only there do we find any reason to rejoice in life. We deplore the public and denigrate the public weal. God pity us.
Republicans have obeyed petulant Koch brothers and fulfilled the putrid legacy of Justice Lewis Powell and Mr. Newton Gingrich. Democrats have played all sides and have brought his poverty, less democracy, and permanent war. History will not pity them.
The New York Times have favoured Ms. Clinton in the same way you guys favoured our disastrous second invasion of Iraq. You pour shame on yourself.
All the currently leading behind Mr. Trump mainline Republicans are not historically mainline but all are in some way infected with the pathologies of neoliberalism (laissez faire ideology) which also infects Ms. Clinton’s right of center Democratic ideology. She harms those who seem most devoted to electing her. The ugly ghosts of Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayrack, or worst haunt this campaign even more that the one 36 years ago.
We revel in the private; only there do we find any reason to rejoice in life. We deplore the public and denigrate the public weal. God pity us.
Republicans have obeyed petulant Koch brothers and fulfilled the putrid legacy of Justice Lewis Powell and Mr. Newton Gingrich. Democrats have played all sides and have brought his poverty, less democracy, and permanent war. History will not pity them.
The New York Times have favoured Ms. Clinton in the same way you guys favoured our disastrous second invasion of Iraq. You pour shame on yourself.
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Interesting night for sure. Changes are definitely afoot. If Trump wants to sew it up, he'll have to work harder and not only survive the barrage but give out more than insults. As for Clinton, she has the black vote but I won't be surprised if she throws those voters under the bus in the election like they always do (Bill and Hill) in her quest to get white working class voters. Still can't stand Rubio or Cruz and they will dismantle this country and this government and undermine our rights as citizens.
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Christie is now a sniveling sycophant, a timid demon cowering behind the Satanic image of his (and American racists') Great White Hope. For all their flailing about, the so-called 'mainstream' Republicans have come across as little more than nebbishes, gradually and confusedly falling into orbit around the force who is sucking them into the nether regions of American politics.
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I guess it is telling for our future that both sides have begun to wake up to the rigged system that is campaign financing. I don't particularly think that Trump is doing it for the right reasons, but rather pandering to the sector of the Republican Party and on-the-fencers who understand that the system is rigged.
I'm a Sanders supporter, and if Clinton wins, I'm not sure who I'll be voting for. Sure, out loud Clinton is the best candidate, because she's changed her positions to follow Bernie's. On paper, she's no better than any republican. A vote for Hillary is a vote for the DNC which has propped Clinton up and has allowed for her vast media advantage over Bernie (but if you're paying attention, you'll notice that most of the left's independent media endorses Bernie).
At the same time, I am a transgender man and have spent my life fighting for the rights of immigrants to live in this country legally and peacefully. Marginalized groups, under President Trump, do not fare well. He plays upon people's distrust of the establishment, yes, but he also plays on the post 9/11 racial hatred and xenophobia that has been bubbling to the surface lately after staying almost dormant for so long. To me, he is a fascist. And his rise to the top is troubling.
Hillary is the lesser of two evils. But why should we continue to be forced into picking the lesser of two evils? Why can't we pick someone who is good for our country?
I'm a Sanders supporter, and if Clinton wins, I'm not sure who I'll be voting for. Sure, out loud Clinton is the best candidate, because she's changed her positions to follow Bernie's. On paper, she's no better than any republican. A vote for Hillary is a vote for the DNC which has propped Clinton up and has allowed for her vast media advantage over Bernie (but if you're paying attention, you'll notice that most of the left's independent media endorses Bernie).
At the same time, I am a transgender man and have spent my life fighting for the rights of immigrants to live in this country legally and peacefully. Marginalized groups, under President Trump, do not fare well. He plays upon people's distrust of the establishment, yes, but he also plays on the post 9/11 racial hatred and xenophobia that has been bubbling to the surface lately after staying almost dormant for so long. To me, he is a fascist. And his rise to the top is troubling.
Hillary is the lesser of two evils. But why should we continue to be forced into picking the lesser of two evils? Why can't we pick someone who is good for our country?
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This time around, Jude, we pick the lesser of true evils because of Supreme Court appointees. That is arguable the single most important and long-lasting consequence of the next election. We have got to return to a court that applies the laws justly, not for the benefit of corporations and the rich.
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It is sad that people have not learned from the mistakes of 2000 election. Then people said there was no difference between Bush and Gore and only Nadar could save the US. History has shown us there was a BIG Difference between Gore and Bush. If Sander voters sit out the 2016 election, Trump wins and think of his Supreme court appointment!!!! Hilliary Clinton may not be perfect but she is much much better than any of the Republicans. Dont make the 2000 mistake again!!!!
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"Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite" - stop wringing your hands and perhaps look in the mirror!
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Game of Thrones fans will know what I mean when I say that seeing Trump standing on the stage last night with Christie as his minion brought to mind Ramsay and Reek.
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Thank you for the Game of Thrones reference, it has finally helped me to understand what is going on, but I think you have it wrong: Trump is a champion. You don't care about your champion's morals or ethics, only whether he can defeat your enemies (the bloodier his methods the better) in a trial by combat and protect you. Apparently a sizable portion of the American populace consider Trump to be their champion. More's the pity in my opinion, but there you have it. I was rarely pleased with the outcome of GOT contests either.
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Kudos to Trump for winning and taking some states from Cruz. What surprised me is Mass., about 50%. I am all in anticipation for the fight b/w the GOP establishment v. Trump. They are in for an awakening they'll never forget. As for the Dems, from the onset, HRC was granted the coronation to become the nominee, it's been obvious- and yes NYT, your favoritism for her knows no bounds.
Let Trump fight for his nomination against the elite. HRC has already been bought by Wall Street. I CANNOT wait to see what Trump does to her- yes, I'm a black woman supporting Trump. After dismantling the GOP elite, HRC will be a piece of cake! First the Bushes, then the Clintons. This election cannot get any better!
Let Trump fight for his nomination against the elite. HRC has already been bought by Wall Street. I CANNOT wait to see what Trump does to her- yes, I'm a black woman supporting Trump. After dismantling the GOP elite, HRC will be a piece of cake! First the Bushes, then the Clintons. This election cannot get any better!
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How sad.
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"This election cannot get any better!"
Too True! For theater, you are so absolutely correct...it's just that...well...it's such a pity that the fate of our country as well as the perceived character of our populace is riding on the outcome, at least the next four or eight years anyway.
Too True! For theater, you are so absolutely correct...it's just that...well...it's such a pity that the fate of our country as well as the perceived character of our populace is riding on the outcome, at least the next four or eight years anyway.
Trump is like a third party. He's obviously not religious, he makes deals instead of saying in advance he won't deal, he apparently thinks it's ok for women to receive healthcare and he probably knows Obamacare won't be repealed. He acknowledges that the war in Iraq was a shameful disaster...I could go on, but these types of reality checks are not part of Republican orthodoxy. Next thing you know, he'll be saying scientists know a lot about science, Rush is a hate monger and Reagan wasn't that great.
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Yes, you are on the right track here. In my view, a very cogent comment.
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A vote to Trump is a vote for clear-headed COMMON SENSE!
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Why are white people so evil, and people of color so full of dignity?
Philosophy and theology also tell me that white men and women have something to say.
And that people of color come to the table with the same stories of sin, envy, greed and laziness.
So let's dispense now with racial superiority.
And make this a conversation about ability.
Philosophy and theology also tell me that white men and women have something to say.
And that people of color come to the table with the same stories of sin, envy, greed and laziness.
So let's dispense now with racial superiority.
And make this a conversation about ability.
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You don't seem to realize that it's ALL about the mighty dollar. The politicians and 3% don't care about the ability of others, just their own ability to control everyone else. If you are not in their circle, it doesn't matter what color you are. The uber rich and the media are hand in hand. The uber rich are in both parties. They control what is said and how it is said. They use whatever means is required to keep poor people poor, keep ignorant people ignorant, and keep angry people angry. Touting racism is just one of the tools to do that. The media reports these stories in the way that pits one group against another, be it race, economics, religion, you name it. This way, they can count on your vote because you now have something to be mad about and your "Savior" politician is on your side (until you cast your vote, then it's business as usual). The uber rich and the media do a fantastic job of distracting us from the real issue: Why do we keep electing the same folks and then complain? Why do we not hold these politicians accountable? Why is it acceptable for the politicians (who represent the USA, by the way) to talk to one another in disrespectful ways about others? Do we really think that the rich pump millions of dollars into these politicians' campaigns and expect nothing in return? We just don't get it, and that's just the way they like it.
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Median Super Tuesday vote totals (as of 02:22 EST):
Trump: 35
Cruz: 25
Rubio: 21
Kasich: 6
Carson: 6
Rubio, who has decided to campain as Trump-lite, and the GOP establishment should drop out of the race by their own logic. Honestly, he's only making the aftermath worse for himself, but whatever, it's not like we are losing a statesman. It's like Marco is the kid who is complaining because he didn't know there was going to be a test. Well there was Marco, and you got another C-.
Trump: 35
Cruz: 25
Rubio: 21
Kasich: 6
Carson: 6
Rubio, who has decided to campain as Trump-lite, and the GOP establishment should drop out of the race by their own logic. Honestly, he's only making the aftermath worse for himself, but whatever, it's not like we are losing a statesman. It's like Marco is the kid who is complaining because he didn't know there was going to be a test. Well there was Marco, and you got another C-.
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Trump has managed something unheard-of in over 30 years. He has won in the South and the Northeast - two very different constituencies. He has won the votes of a broad swath of the Republican spectrum: evangelicals, blue-collar workers and the college-educated white men. The enthusiasm for his candidacy is palpable. Turnout for the Republican primaries is at historic highs, more than double the turnout of the Democrats. The only group Trump he has not won over is the Republican establishment.
In contrast, the main constituency Clinton has won is the apparatchiks of the Democratic establishment. She is anathema to Republicans, untrusted by independents and deeply unloved by the Sandernista fringe of her own party.
When Clinton goes up again Trump in the general election, Trump will be in his element, attacking and flinging poo. Clinton, attempting to be the voice of reason, will be at a disadvantage. She is going to discover the true meaning of the old adage: never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
In contrast, the main constituency Clinton has won is the apparatchiks of the Democratic establishment. She is anathema to Republicans, untrusted by independents and deeply unloved by the Sandernista fringe of her own party.
When Clinton goes up again Trump in the general election, Trump will be in his element, attacking and flinging poo. Clinton, attempting to be the voice of reason, will be at a disadvantage. She is going to discover the true meaning of the old adage: never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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I hope the Democrats will not flinch from comparing Trump to the European dictators whose regimes Americans fought and died to end in the last century.
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I don't believe many "college-educated white men" are voting for Trump. I like the pig wrestling adage and it is a bit scary in this context but Secretary Clinton has wrestled pigs before, perhaps not as savvy a pig as Trump, but I think she'll clean up well and leave him wallowing.
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Yeah, right, the only thing is Trump ain't no pig. We had better start taking him seriously and when next I have the chance to speak to him, I will ask him to think long and hard before he makes any big decisions as President. It's the best I can hope for.
I love to see the Republican Party in its death throes as the Donald Party reduces them to irrelevance. The Republicans continue to pledge not to meet or vote on Obama's choice for SCOTUS, thinking that a future Republican POTUS will nominate someone more to their liking. But Trump might nominate Judge Judy, who would certainly be a popular choice with his supporters.
I hope that we can take advantage of Trump's position at the head of the Republican ticket to vote against every Republican candidate for Senate, the House, Governor, and down to dogcatcher. The only way to "make America great again" is to vote against every Republican obstructionist, and send them the way of the Know-Nothing Party.
I hope that we can take advantage of Trump's position at the head of the Republican ticket to vote against every Republican candidate for Senate, the House, Governor, and down to dogcatcher. The only way to "make America great again" is to vote against every Republican obstructionist, and send them the way of the Know-Nothing Party.
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Actually, Judge Judy wouldn't be a bad choice compared to some of the right wing ideologues he and the others in the Neo-Know Nothing party might choose.
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Am I dreaming? Is this a practical joke? Has the New York Times been hacked? Are the top comments REALLY SAYING THEY WANT TO VOTE FOR TRUMP? I....I need to lie down.
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I still say we are being punked.
Suchitha,
You're right. Something's wrong here.
You're right. Something's wrong here.
From Trump U to Trump USA.
The Republic Party has created a pre-Weimar conditions,
with McConnell emasculating the Executive Branch, passing precious little legislation (no Democratic policy or proposal will surface out of committee),
and
deadlocking the Supreme Court,
he and his party have proven that government doesn't work.
Then there is a bigoted narcissist psychopath with a unique hairdo
and a racial enemy or two (moslems and mexicans). And a pathological liar as well.
Tail Gunner Eduardo is the mini-psycho liar,
Marc O'Rubio has a small mind. You know what they say about men with small minds......
Ziko
The Republic Party has created a pre-Weimar conditions,
with McConnell emasculating the Executive Branch, passing precious little legislation (no Democratic policy or proposal will surface out of committee),
and
deadlocking the Supreme Court,
he and his party have proven that government doesn't work.
Then there is a bigoted narcissist psychopath with a unique hairdo
and a racial enemy or two (moslems and mexicans). And a pathological liar as well.
Tail Gunner Eduardo is the mini-psycho liar,
Marc O'Rubio has a small mind. You know what they say about men with small minds......
Ziko
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Very interesting analogy. If we were interviewing someone for a CEO position and that person began spewing about the evils of business and pronounced that he/she intended to grind business to a halt, it would seem safe to say we wouldn't hire that candidate. And yet career politicians like McConnell who promise to dismantle government are elected with regularity.
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"Tail Gunner Eduardo". I wonder how many people got that reference. But you're right - substitute Non-Cuban Hispanics/Muslims for communists and you have a new Joe McCarthy.
To label Trump's support as coming from "especially those without college degrees " in MA belies the reports from NPR that he also won a majority of college-educated Republicans in that state. Both assertions can be true, but one is spinning with a little more slant than the other.
I'm with Bill Maher on this one--I can't stand the politicians, but I hate the media more. I'd like to read more articles that could at least meet the standards of Wikipedia.
I'm with Bill Maher on this one--I can't stand the politicians, but I hate the media more. I'd like to read more articles that could at least meet the standards of Wikipedia.
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So, what title shall we award The Great Deceiver? Nominations are open, and will be for some time.
"Citizen Trump, American Duce"?
"Citizen Trump, American Duce"?
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I'm just curious--these "mainstream" (really right-wing) Republicans in elected office, like Jindal et al--when Trump is the Republican nominee for President, who will they vote for? They speak out against Trump now, but when they enter the voting booth, for whom do they cast their vote? Paul Ryan, for example. Does he have the moral principle to publicly state that he will not vote for Trump? That's what he seems to be saying, but does he have the guts--the moral guts--to come out and just say so? And if these powerful elected Republicans declaim against Trump, then get in the voting booth and vote for him, what does that make them?
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"...then get in the voting booth and vote for him, what does that make them?"
Politicians.
Politicians.
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The Republican Party has only itself to blame for the loss of its low information voter base. When you spend decades using racism, nationalism, and religiosity to persuade people to vote against their own economic interests you're incubating a monster that will one day wake up to realize it's been conned.
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Absolutely. Fifty-plus years of Repubs making deals with the Devil and now the Devil demands his due.
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I am Ivy League educated, so sorry. As are many of the other Trump supporters.
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Les Moonves boasted that Trump may be bad for America, but he's great for CBS. Trump is the media candidate. He gets free media with every outlandish comment, drowning out sane, qualified candidates. The GOP has been fighting against him from the start. The media made Trump for its own corporate gain.
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Only unctuous robot boy Rubio could have the lack of self awareness to claim a great victory on Super Tuesday with just one state. When is he going to be asked by the press when he drops out? He should hearing that question every day from now on. The Rubio puppet needs to be pulled by the corporate and media puppetmasters as the people have wised up and aren't buying it anymore.
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Poor little Marco , he can't out Trump Donald Trump.
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Everything you need to know about Donald Trump from A through Z:
Autocratic
Bankruptcy
Crude
Demagogue
Egotist
Foul mouthed
Grandstander
Hostility
Impulsive
Know nothing
Loudmouth
Malevolent
Narcissist
Obnoxious
Pugnacious
Quarrelsome
Rabble rouser
Simplistic
Temperamental
Untruthful
Vindictive
Wearisome
Xenophobic
Yapper
Zilch substance
Autocratic
Bankruptcy
Crude
Demagogue
Egotist
Foul mouthed
Grandstander
Hostility
Impulsive
Know nothing
Loudmouth
Malevolent
Narcissist
Obnoxious
Pugnacious
Quarrelsome
Rabble rouser
Simplistic
Temperamental
Untruthful
Vindictive
Wearisome
Xenophobic
Yapper
Zilch substance
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Yikes, a list of adjectives describing the whole U.S. in 2016. No wonder Trump is doing so well.
Very sad indeed.
Very sad indeed.
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Thanks for explaining the Democrat party!
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Ralph sorry your comment can be expanded to everyone currently employed in the Capitol Dome, that or Hillary give or take a few adjectives.
As much as he detests the thought, Kasich may have to run as an Independent candidate, ensuring that the educated Republican vote has a place to go to, even at the expense of electing Hillary.
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Why does the educated Republican vote have to have some place to go? Can't she just stay home?
Well that might be the ultimate self-sacrifice, but an excellent idea. However, unless he actually won, he would be forever hated by Republicans and probably have to switch parties to ever be viable in politics. Perhaps you should e-mail his campaign and suggest it though. It is one of the more rational strategies I've heard thus far!
Educated Republicans do have a place to go - to Hillary Clinton. And many will.
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Lots of books to be written about this. The Republican Party confronting the challenge of deciding whether to line up behind a fake populist candidate who embraces policy goals of the Party's financial backers while distancing himself from the establishment politicians. The Democratic Party probably lining up behind an establishment politician mobilizing a coalition of Wall Street, defense hawks, and client groups at the cost of political reformers. Too much is being made of the noisy brawl in the Republican Party; the primary issue there is the unhappiness of the establishment that it could not install its preferred candidates, Jeb or Mario, dependable mouthpieces minimizing discordant messages. But for the most part Trump and Republican moneybags share a compatible vision. And Trump is a master of orchestrating misdirection so the money side of the Republicans will get what they want while the others are gazing at the last version of the culture wars that have been a sop to much of the Republican Party for a generation. Meanwhile the Clinton\Schumer\Wasserman Schultz side of the Democratic Party will pursue its accommodationist arrangements with Republican elites. The Republicans will decide whether tolerating a Democratic victory with its interests protected is preferable to the potential missteps of a Trump Presidency, while the Democrats will plan their surrender to the Republican establishment with all the usual crumbs and assurances. Business as usual, America.
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Exactly. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!
"The Republicans will decide whether tolerating a Democratic victory with its interests protected is preferable to the potential missteps of a Trump Presidency, while the Democrats will plan their surrender to the Republican establishment with all the usual crumbs and assurances."
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
I totally agree. Hillary could switch parties right now and run as an establishment Republican...and it would seem entirely logical based on her record.
I think the GOP is finally getting getting what they want and deserve, certainly what they have been advocating for years via the various "news" sources that are so popular. The last decent GOP Presidential candidate was Huntsman in my opinion. If you rolled all of the best qualities of the remaining GOP candidates into one person, I still don't see someone who would do justice for the majority of Americans.
I only feel slightly better about the Democratic candidates, even rolled together.
My hopes are that there are a plethora of decent candidates for the House and Senate. Yes, I'm a dreamer.
I only feel slightly better about the Democratic candidates, even rolled together.
My hopes are that there are a plethora of decent candidates for the House and Senate. Yes, I'm a dreamer.
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Huntsman was slicker than Trump. The last honest Republican was Ike.
Karma is a dish best served at the worst moment in time. Now the GOP is reaping the bitter harvest; but alas, it may take the whole country with it
It starts with President George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton. Then comes the Lee Atwater's protege Karl Rove's unholy alliance. In between, the GOP tries everything to damage the presidency. First, it goes after President Clinton with White Water. Then, it allows birthers like Trump to run amok. It thought Trump was its tool. And now the tool becomes its master.
Why should the GOP be surprised anyway? By stressing its purity credentials, the best and the brightest choose to stay away. Competent technocrats are marginalized. Only extremists are left.
It is rather sad but it is very dangerous.
The GOP has only itself to blame but it may hurt the whole country
There is no sympathy for the GOP.
It starts with President George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton. Then comes the Lee Atwater's protege Karl Rove's unholy alliance. In between, the GOP tries everything to damage the presidency. First, it goes after President Clinton with White Water. Then, it allows birthers like Trump to run amok. It thought Trump was its tool. And now the tool becomes its master.
Why should the GOP be surprised anyway? By stressing its purity credentials, the best and the brightest choose to stay away. Competent technocrats are marginalized. Only extremists are left.
It is rather sad but it is very dangerous.
The GOP has only itself to blame but it may hurt the whole country
There is no sympathy for the GOP.
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I am surprised Trump had such a great margin in Massachusetts though. It is said that many voters have crossed the party affiliation. So I wonder if there is a Sen Claire McCaskill's scenario here. Trump is now the Todd Akin of the presidential race.
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OK, I will fess up. I am a Democrat that changed my party affiliation to unenrolled. I chose to take a Republican ballot yesterday and voted for Trump. In my humble opinion, no one can do more to destroy the Republican Party than the Donald. Obviously I never would vote for him in the general election, but the damage will be priceless. Any one else want to admit that they did it too?
So, the Dems are the last, best great hope by offering a novice a liar luke Clinton, a novice like Obama and a non achiever like Hillary. The Clinton machine of Carville and his klan destroyed women who came out against Slick Willy, and the Dems voter let it happen.
I say to every Democrat, first look into your own party before trying to explain the other guys.
The anger on the streets has more to do with how strong a voice Trump has against the toxic atmosphere generated from the admitted left leaning media than how strong a candidate he is.
The middle class is fed up, on both sides, and Trump gives a voice to that anger.
I say to every Democrat, first look into your own party before trying to explain the other guys.
The anger on the streets has more to do with how strong a voice Trump has against the toxic atmosphere generated from the admitted left leaning media than how strong a candidate he is.
The middle class is fed up, on both sides, and Trump gives a voice to that anger.
We are known by our enemies. Hedge fund super donors lining up to defeat Trump. That says a lot.
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RM,
Also 'lining up to defeat Trump' are
White Women
Black Men
Black Women
Latino Men
Latino Women
Asian Men
Asian Women
And what, really does that tell you? That Trump is not fit to be President.
Also 'lining up to defeat Trump' are
White Women
Black Men
Black Women
Latino Men
Latino Women
Asian Men
Asian Women
And what, really does that tell you? That Trump is not fit to be President.
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There is some poetic justice in all this.
For decades Republicans have denigrated government and when they won a majority in the Senate and increased their standing in the House 2 years ago, they vowed to make things happen and make government work. Sort of ironic when they were the ones shutting down the government? So they continued to move to repeal the ACA, again and again, and again. In fact they've done it over 50 times now.
So now these very "leaders" are telling people to vote for Rubio.
The establishment just don't get it. The public doesn't like them.
Goodbye Rubio. Hello Trump.
For decades Republicans have denigrated government and when they won a majority in the Senate and increased their standing in the House 2 years ago, they vowed to make things happen and make government work. Sort of ironic when they were the ones shutting down the government? So they continued to move to repeal the ACA, again and again, and again. In fact they've done it over 50 times now.
So now these very "leaders" are telling people to vote for Rubio.
The establishment just don't get it. The public doesn't like them.
Goodbye Rubio. Hello Trump.
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I think the Establishment has known for a long time that the public doesn't like them. Up to now, they simply didn't think it mattered.
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I hope the public votes the GOP obstructionists out in November for the reasons you state, but I'm not optimistic.
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You reap what you sow and they still don't get it.
If we want to pretend we are a great country, our choices are pretty clear:
1. Elect Bernie Sanders and turn the Senate and House strongly Democratic, thus assuring confirmations of Supreme Court Justices, other federal judges, and well, everyone. And much great legislation on social and economic issues.
2. 1, without the House. The Repugs, with their gerrymandering and voter denying tactics on the state level, pretty much assure this as the best outcome for we progressives.
3. Elect Hillary. Think a feminist Margaret Thatcher with a Wall Street itch. She is a stereotypical woman wronged, because of her husband's wandering appendage. But she is also a neocon. She wants to bomb the Middle East, which makes no sense. She is a FINO, feminist in name only. She MIGHT appoint good judges, or maybe those who owe her and her hubby some favors. She looks in the mirror and sees a goddess. I look at her and gag, because I have a goddess at home with a brain to match.
We are at the end times. Not for humanity. For the idea that was in the Federalist Papers. And that we were once, and young.
1. Elect Bernie Sanders and turn the Senate and House strongly Democratic, thus assuring confirmations of Supreme Court Justices, other federal judges, and well, everyone. And much great legislation on social and economic issues.
2. 1, without the House. The Repugs, with their gerrymandering and voter denying tactics on the state level, pretty much assure this as the best outcome for we progressives.
3. Elect Hillary. Think a feminist Margaret Thatcher with a Wall Street itch. She is a stereotypical woman wronged, because of her husband's wandering appendage. But she is also a neocon. She wants to bomb the Middle East, which makes no sense. She is a FINO, feminist in name only. She MIGHT appoint good judges, or maybe those who owe her and her hubby some favors. She looks in the mirror and sees a goddess. I look at her and gag, because I have a goddess at home with a brain to match.
We are at the end times. Not for humanity. For the idea that was in the Federalist Papers. And that we were once, and young.
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We have an opportunity to take back the Senate, but I think the House is out of reach. At least four more years of gridlock. And yes, I don't think we have had a true Democrat in the Whitehouse since Jimmy Carter. I see Obama as more of a passionate conservative a la Ike.
Your characterization of Clinton is all wrong: "she looks in the mirror and sees a goddess?"
Are you a Republican?
Are you a Republican?
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Sanders is the most sincere person running for President. His legislative accomplishments, however, show that he has no clue on how to turn talk into results.
Where are we going?
And what are we doing in this handbasket?
And what are we doing in this handbasket?
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The easily deflatable balloon of Jeb Bush will haunt the GOP elites indefinitely. They had no Plan B in case Bush flopped. They still have no workable plan, only stabs in desperation, and in contradiction, with a view to defeating their winning candidate. Thus, the GOP elites sow division among themselves and some of the party. Ironically, meanwhile, Trump unites, by winning.
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I can understand the efforts, described in this article, to block Donald Trump from having enough delegates to win the first ballot of the Convention. His candidacy is the natural outgrowth of the Republican habit of rewarding people who can lie least obviously (Atwater, Meese, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Scooter Libby, Paul Ryan, McConnell, Palin); but when Republicans see those people's traits at full strength in a candidate who cannot be controlled by the money-men, it doesn't look pretty.
What I cannot understand is why there is no concerted effort to stop Marco Rubio? It's not just that he would be a disaster as a national candidate and would have painfully short coattails for congressional elections (due to his short tenure in national office and his attendance record at his place of business); but much worse -- try to envision Rubio pressing a point at the G-8 Conference, or in a meeting with the Joint Chiefs. He has nothing going for him.
If Rubio came in out of a rainstorm, then 10 minutes later was asked whether it was raining outside, he would ponder the thunderclaps and the lighning flashes and say, "I'm not a scientist, man!" So he can't comprehend missile defense or uranium enrichment or agriculture or the Zika virus. He also seems to have trouble with math; he doesn't realize how far ahead of him in the popular vote Ted Cruz is. Can he do anything? Does the man have anything to offer his party or his country?
Trump or no Trump, why would anyone endorse Rubio?
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I can understand the efforts, described in this article, to block Donald Trump from having enough delegates to win the first ballot of the Convention. His candidacy is the natural outgrowth of the Republican habit of rewarding people who can lie least obviously (Atwater, Meese, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Scooter Libby, Paul Ryan, McConnell, Palin); but when Republicans see those people's traits at full strength in a candidate who cannot be controlled by the money-men, it doesn't look pretty.
What I cannot understand is why there is no concerted effort to stop Marco Rubio? It's not just that he would be a disaster as a national candidate and would have painfully short coattails for congressional elections (due to his short tenure in national office and his attendance record at his place of business); but much worse -- try to envision Rubio pressing a point at the G-8 Conference, or in a meeting with the Joint Chiefs. He has nothing going for him.
If Rubio came in out of a rainstorm, then 10 minutes later was asked whether it was raining outside, he would ponder the thunderclaps and the lighning flashes and say, "I'm not a scientist, man!" So he can't comprehend missile defense or uranium enrichment or agriculture or the Zika virus. He also seems to have trouble with math; he doesn't realize how far ahead of him in the popular vote Ted Cruz is. Can he do anything? Does the man have anything to offer his party or his country?
Trump or no Trump, why would anyone endorse Rubio?
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Leaving aside Texas as the home state of Ted Cruz, across the other 10 states Marco Rubio bested Cruz by nearly 100,000 votes. Of course this does not help him in the delegate count but it gives him an argument to carry forward with his donors and the Republican Party establishment.
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Rubio is mainstream though per NYT.... what's that say about rainstorms and understanding?
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Perhaps we should ship Rubio to Devil's Island?
Rubio is clearly superior to Cruz and Trump. As for being in a JCS meeting, you could have said the same thing about Obama. Rubio understands foreign affairs better than he did. Obama's sunny optimism, his certainty that things will, at some point, turn out for the best, evinced by his continual employment of the phrase "the right side of History," is a dangerous worldview for a commander in chief. Rubio understands the global need for an assertive U.S. foreign policy and would be ready to act unilaterally when the international community fails, as it so often does.
Rubio is unlikely to live in eternal friction with his generals (e.g., Obama's splitting the difference re troop numbers). And beyond military policy, Rubio acknowledges that climate change is factual; neither Cruz nor Trump agree that it is. He also sees that, in terms of the economic situation, this is not 1980; neither Cruz nor Trump sees that. The Left seems to think that what's in someone's "interest" is dictated by whoever is offering the plumpest handouts.
Rubio probably scapegoats less than Clinton -- and surely less than Sanders. That said, Clinton should be our next president. I would, however, vote for Rubio before I'd vote for Sanders. I'm not one of these "I'm glad he ran, though" liberals; I wish he would just go away, frankly. He's right about money in politics, but his worldview is jejune. And he damages centrism. Go back to the '60s, Bernard.
Rubio is clearly superior to Cruz and Trump. As for being in a JCS meeting, you could have said the same thing about Obama. Rubio understands foreign affairs better than he did. Obama's sunny optimism, his certainty that things will, at some point, turn out for the best, evinced by his continual employment of the phrase "the right side of History," is a dangerous worldview for a commander in chief. Rubio understands the global need for an assertive U.S. foreign policy and would be ready to act unilaterally when the international community fails, as it so often does.
Rubio is unlikely to live in eternal friction with his generals (e.g., Obama's splitting the difference re troop numbers). And beyond military policy, Rubio acknowledges that climate change is factual; neither Cruz nor Trump agree that it is. He also sees that, in terms of the economic situation, this is not 1980; neither Cruz nor Trump sees that. The Left seems to think that what's in someone's "interest" is dictated by whoever is offering the plumpest handouts.
Rubio probably scapegoats less than Clinton -- and surely less than Sanders. That said, Clinton should be our next president. I would, however, vote for Rubio before I'd vote for Sanders. I'm not one of these "I'm glad he ran, though" liberals; I wish he would just go away, frankly. He's right about money in politics, but his worldview is jejune. And he damages centrism. Go back to the '60s, Bernard.
The only person in the Republican Party who still thinks Little Marco has any chance is Little Marco. With every reiteration of his "chicken every Sunday and two cars in every garage" mantra, the Rubio rubric grows increasingly tiresome and pointless. Like so many others, he vastly underestimated the extent of voter disgust with the status quo. Trump recognized this early on and brilliantly exploited the opening. In the coming battle with Hillary Clinton, it will come down to whether people want things the way they are or the way they aren't. Smart money may very well be on the latter.
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Marco is a joke. He isn't a great speaker and not bright either. His toilet humor attacks on Trump only made people hate him.
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yeah thanks NYT for making him so mainstream, now what to do since his numbers don't show?
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Right, people want to go back to the last Republican Great Recession. Or maybe the Great Depression.
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Mr. Kasich and Dr. Carson - give it up already. Please.
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'Dr. Carson' hasn't sold enough of his books yet. As for Mr. Kacish, I would believe he sees and will resign. Dr. Carson is an ID 10 T and looks in the mirror as the evil witch, believes in the beauty he sees and not reality...
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But what about the Fruit Salad of their lives?
The media and establishment have severely underestimated the extent of how many people Republican, Democrat, and Independent alike,) suffer from acute A.B.C. - Anything But Clinton - syndrome.
The gag reflex is just too strong after so many years of Clintonian conditioning. The corruption, the slyness, the naked pursuit of power perpetuation at all costs, the arrogant sense of entitlement, etc. etc. It's just too much.
That is Trump's trump card. He knows that he has demonstrated that he will fight her with a ferocity and unpredictability that none of the other Republican candidates can match. Conventional candidates, like Rubio, who fight her on her own terms will fail. Trump is the political equivalent of asymmetric warfare. Unconventional, unpredictable, and fearless relentless attack from all directions at once. Hillary's carefully constructed army will be running in circles. Many are beginning to sense this dynamic as Trump struts his stuff. Behind the showmanship and outsize personality there is a powerful, unusual skill set. They have a sense that Trump has tools the others don't have. Even if it has not been articulated fully, that sense is already strong enough for many to give him a shot at the ballot. Obama beat Hillary at her own game. Trump will beat her by changing the game entirely.
The gag reflex is just too strong after so many years of Clintonian conditioning. The corruption, the slyness, the naked pursuit of power perpetuation at all costs, the arrogant sense of entitlement, etc. etc. It's just too much.
That is Trump's trump card. He knows that he has demonstrated that he will fight her with a ferocity and unpredictability that none of the other Republican candidates can match. Conventional candidates, like Rubio, who fight her on her own terms will fail. Trump is the political equivalent of asymmetric warfare. Unconventional, unpredictable, and fearless relentless attack from all directions at once. Hillary's carefully constructed army will be running in circles. Many are beginning to sense this dynamic as Trump struts his stuff. Behind the showmanship and outsize personality there is a powerful, unusual skill set. They have a sense that Trump has tools the others don't have. Even if it has not been articulated fully, that sense is already strong enough for many to give him a shot at the ballot. Obama beat Hillary at her own game. Trump will beat her by changing the game entirely.
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Or you think that everyone is like you but are wrong.
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The numbers don't lie. Trump is clearly causing a massive uptick in Republican voter turnout and has demonstrated strength in all types of states, from New Hampshire to Alabama. He also receives a surprising amount of support from independents who want someone independent of the political establishment. True, you won't find too many Trump supporters in these parts, but don't mistake the NYT commentator section as representative of anything other than the far left - as is evidenced by the growing cognitive-dissonant hallucinatory detachment from the clear reality of Bernie's campaign's demise.
The numbers don't lie. Trump is clearly causing a massive uptick in Republican voter turnout and has demonstrated strength in all types of states, from New Hampshire to Alabama. He also receives a surprising amount of support from independents who want someone independent of the political establishment. True, you won't find too many Trump supporters in these parts, but don't mistake the NYT commentator section as representative of anything other than the far left - as is evidenced by the growing cognitive-dissonant hallucinatory detachment from the clear reality of Bernie's campaign's demise.
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Except that this hackneyed description of Hillary Clinton could be applied to most politicians. This is nothing more than propaganda or the result of being into it. For Republicans to accuse anyone of Corruption, slyness, naked pursuit of power at all costs and an arrogant sense of entitlement is not just ironic but sickeningly so. Please to cast Trump and any other Republican as holding the moral high ground. You will be responsible fore people losing their breakfast.
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Both Donald and Cruz are peas in a pot. Donald took the play out of Cruz's playbook and out cruise him by splitting the religious conservative votes. To replace Donald with Cruz- the little Donald is preposterous and laughable.
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To assert Cruz & Donald are the same is laughable. Cruz is an opportunistic phony with biog donor money up the wazoo & has no chance of getting elected.
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The biggest mistake the Republican Party is making is that they continue to treat Trump like he's a joke candidate. Yes, Donald Trump is often loud and obnoxious and may say some tasteless things, but he also represents a brand of populism that resonates with a large number of Americans across the country. By continuing to attack Trump's character the party is ignoring serious issues facing its own voters and ultimately serving only to ignite Trump's base, who see this smear campaign as reflective of the party's rotting establishment.
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DT's attackers are just starting. Rough week at his rally's and non supporters showing and baiting. More baiting to come. Let's hope he is fed not to take the bait and let cruz and rubio go belly up. Trump is definitely the least of the evils on that side of the fence.
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The New York Times' editors should take a bow, too. It dismissed Trump's campaign as little more than cynical self-promotion -- if not PT Barnum-style exploitation -- and treated it as contemptible farce during its opening phases.
The Times misread the electorate's mood as badly as the Beltway Republican establishment did.
The Times misread the electorate's mood as badly as the Beltway Republican establishment did.
BOTH Parties are failing to underestimate the disgust it's the the same old politicians. Obama beating Clinton in 2008 may have been s much anti-'same old stuff' as it was anti-Clinton.
Trump and Sanders this time are both drawing anti-'same old stuff' and different ends of the spectrum. Hillary had better be panicking. The old girl is gonna lose those voters to Trump. No matter how far left she APPEARS to move.
Trump and Sanders this time are both drawing anti-'same old stuff' and different ends of the spectrum. Hillary had better be panicking. The old girl is gonna lose those voters to Trump. No matter how far left she APPEARS to move.
OK, things are clarifying for the presidential contest: a person under investigation by the FBI; a blowhard, xenophobic con man; a geriatric socialist; and a vampire who may not meet the constitutional requirements for office. Do we live in a great country or what???
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So you lean towards vampires, constitution notwithstanding. It's a big tent, phlebotomists are welcome.
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Kathy, I almost spit my coffee out this morning. Thank you.
It is telling that wealthy white Republicans favor Rubio and low-income whites like Trump. It stands to reason; the Republican party been kicking low-income workers in the ditch for years, such as by refusing to raise the minimum wage. Trump voters may be dim on the particulars of the Trump platform but finally seem to have a firm grasp on one fact -- the Republican party doesn't represent them.
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Agreed - "the Republican party doesn't represent them".
The question then becomes:
Why do they, low-income whites, prefer supporting Trump rather than giving consideration to taking the logical course of action of defecting from the GOP and becoming Democrats or Independents.
For some reason they relate to the persona of Trump and his characteristic behavioral tendencies.
In my mind the immigration issue with all its ramifications is the very large problem currently driving a considerable portion of the electorate.
Trump initiated his campaign with this issue from day one and this issue has very long legs.
The next question is:
Will the white, moderate, educated, white-collared Republican electorate continue to support the GOP ........ saddled with Trump.
I think not and defection from the GOP will be a much easier and wiser course of action for this group.
The ranks of Independents will grow and so will the ranks of Democrats, but to a smaller degree.
In any case the GOP may well be toast, and their moneyed entities know it.
How they solve this situation will be very interesting to observe.
The question then becomes:
Why do they, low-income whites, prefer supporting Trump rather than giving consideration to taking the logical course of action of defecting from the GOP and becoming Democrats or Independents.
For some reason they relate to the persona of Trump and his characteristic behavioral tendencies.
In my mind the immigration issue with all its ramifications is the very large problem currently driving a considerable portion of the electorate.
Trump initiated his campaign with this issue from day one and this issue has very long legs.
The next question is:
Will the white, moderate, educated, white-collared Republican electorate continue to support the GOP ........ saddled with Trump.
I think not and defection from the GOP will be a much easier and wiser course of action for this group.
The ranks of Independents will grow and so will the ranks of Democrats, but to a smaller degree.
In any case the GOP may well be toast, and their moneyed entities know it.
How they solve this situation will be very interesting to observe.
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To Sherry----Yes, "the Republican party has been kicking low-income workers in the ditch for years" and "doesn't represent them".......so why would these voters EVER vote Republican??
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To Sherry Jones,
Your's is a better, and more succinct, analysis than that of the pundits and other professional analyzers.
Your's is a better, and more succinct, analysis than that of the pundits and other professional analyzers.
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So many of us are bewildered by Trump's ascent. Perhaps the answer to defeating radicals in the republican party and the monster that has been accidentally created by them is education.
It is the uneducated who are out in force voting for Trump. Let's invest in the future of democracy by investing in our people from the beginning.
It is the uneducated who are out in force voting for Trump. Let's invest in the future of democracy by investing in our people from the beginning.
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Narration of unnatural democrat ideas can only flourish in the agarophytic confines of compulsory education.
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Before you get too smug, it is the uneducated on the dem side who are voting for Hil, just a different demographic. Amazing how both offer the same pie in the sky to their respective audiences.
Well said!
The biggest loser tonite.........the GOP Establishment. You add up the Trump & Cruz votes & throw in a few for Carson on the side and you have a complete rejection of the status quo. Plus the turnout was enormous....an ominous sign for the Democrats as well.
The GOP Elites had better think twice before they launch Plan C..........a brokered convention. The people have spoken.
The GOP Elites had better think twice before they launch Plan C..........a brokered convention. The people have spoken.
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Lots of votes were cast in Republican primaries in 2012. And lots of tickets are sold for the Powerball Lottery. You get the ticket to share in the fun of the game.
That has no implication for who will win a different game in 8 months. The Obamas and Bidens will be on the campaign trail after Labor Day. How many Electoral Votes did Rogue Palin get?
Lots of votes were cast in Republican primaries in 2012. And lots of tickets are sold for the Powerball Lottery. You get the ticket to share in the fun of the game.
That has no implication for who will win a different game in 8 months. The Obamas and Bidens will be on the campaign trail after Labor Day. How many Electoral Votes did Rogue Palin get?
No. The biggest loser tonight is the American Nation, witnessing a political crackup.
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Steve:
Didn't realize things were going so well in the Nation. Perhaps the Country could use a little shakeup.
What could be better than a clear cut choice in November between a Hard Left Candidate and a Hard Right Candidate.
The voters will then have their say. Nothing to fear .....that's what elections are supposed to be all about.
Didn't realize things were going so well in the Nation. Perhaps the Country could use a little shakeup.
What could be better than a clear cut choice in November between a Hard Left Candidate and a Hard Right Candidate.
The voters will then have their say. Nothing to fear .....that's what elections are supposed to be all about.
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I'll tell you where Cruz is getting his new strength. The GOP want Trump to go away. So, Cruz thinks he's got it made in the shade. Wrong!!!!
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Does mass support for an authoritarian populist like Trump suggest that America is becoming a failed state?
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It's not mass support - it is a marginal preponderance among GOP primary voters. Huge difference. That fact that he has no chance of achieving majority support in a national election is what has the GOP establishment in a tizzy. We ARE a state whose political institutions are under attack (watch Sam Bee's segment on the 2010 elections) and have lost ground. Would be nice if we adopted some of your Aussie election policies (mandatory voting, e.g.), but that's a long way off.
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Rafael Cruz will need to be convinced that the "Christian" thing to do is to "take a hit for the team" and withdraw from the election. If he can be convinced that God has "bigger" plans for him he might do it. And, praise the Lord if he does!
As for Reince and your pals at the RNC: We trust your resignation letters are prepared. Ditto that for Karl, Rush, Sean, Mark, Michael and all the other
media "darlings" of Talk Radio and FOX. You created this mess. Own it!
As for Reince and your pals at the RNC: We trust your resignation letters are prepared. Ditto that for Karl, Rush, Sean, Mark, Michael and all the other
media "darlings" of Talk Radio and FOX. You created this mess. Own it!
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Amen.
It was alooting the country from the beginning, but it has backfired in a major way.
It was alooting the country from the beginning, but it has backfired in a major way.
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Cruz is Princeton, Harvard and Goldman Sachs. He's no more Evangelical than my Aunt Fanny. He should shut his trap, prayerfully. He plays the Christian rubes like a violin.
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Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Black, Bill O'Reilly, The Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, David Duke, Fox News, NRA and the Republican Congress and Senate have done what the Democratic party could never have done, destroyed the Republican party.
Donald will be the Republican nominee for President.
Be ashamed
Donald will be the Republican nominee for President.
Be ashamed
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You are so on the money.
We were just saying today the best thing for the Republican Party would be to split in two. Let the ultra right form their own separate party ie The Tea Party and let the rest of the Republican Party move closer to the centre.
We were just saying today the best thing for the Republican Party would be to split in two. Let the ultra right form their own separate party ie The Tea Party and let the rest of the Republican Party move closer to the centre.
Wouldn't it be funny, in a completely horrifying way, if Trump chose Palin as his VP? Then he could court low-information female voters while having a hot-looking chick in the adjoining office. Poor Chris Christie. I have never seen a more pathetic, desperate man desperately nodding and grinning and hoping for the VP spot. I have the feeling he will have to be satisfied with Attorney General. Or there is always the possibility of a Supreme Court spot.
As a legal immigrant Liz Warren supporter I couldn't disagree with you more. Trump won't let people die in the streets like the other republican candidates salivate over, because the thought of taking care of our poorest & most vulnerable is a lingering nightmare in their minds..Disgusting. They are for unfettered free trade which has decimated our manufacturing base & thus has destroyed countless communities who relied on these industries...All because their corporate donors only care about their next quarterly profit. He will appoint the best & brightest to his cabinet, not political hacks. Let's also ponder the thought which so many hold for some reason - that Donald Trump is just saying whatever people want to hear. I entirely disagree, he has been consistent on trade since the 80s when he took out a full page ad in the NYTimes bashing our suicidal trade policies. Yet, let's just assume that is true for a moment, that he is lying, he then gets elected & doesn't follow through on his promises. BOOM, guaranteed 1 term president, his supporters won't allow it. He knows this, does anyone believe he wants to be a one term president? Trump is the only candidate who we can know for a fact will work day & night, rain or snow fighting for the American people whether liberal, independant or conservative.
Reality is that our divisiveness was intentionally cultivated by a well funded Republican media apparatus that has now been turned on itself. The fictions of excessive government, immigration and minority ascendence have been beaten into truths swallowed by a following of the religiously fervent, racially bigoted, and intellectually deficient...whipped into a frothing anger. And the beast is now turning on it's masters for not fulfilling the promise.
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Republican Media?
The 'NBCs are Comcast with huge ties to this administration, and CNN is a 'Turner' product also with huge ties to the administration via Hollywood corporations...
Both have given Trump more coverage than 'Republican Media's.
The 'Rep media is no full force covering the leader in the race, Trump.
Like Obama, the 'Left media' helped create Trump.. and Trump basically got it for free.
The 'NBCs are Comcast with huge ties to this administration, and CNN is a 'Turner' product also with huge ties to the administration via Hollywood corporations...
Both have given Trump more coverage than 'Republican Media's.
The 'Rep media is no full force covering the leader in the race, Trump.
Like Obama, the 'Left media' helped create Trump.. and Trump basically got it for free.
Years, ago, I called Hannity's show and told him that I get why he supports Republicans: to not pay taxes on his then $18 million in income that year. But I asked his listeners why would they want Repulblians, who do nothing for anyone who isn't rich.
It took them 10 years, but it seems they figured that out.
It took them 10 years, but it seems they figured that out.
I've seen nothing but identity and divisive politics from the Democrats for the last 30 years. Add the leftist media that incites, divides and flat out lies and you've got this culture. Then you have the current president of the US openly alienated more than half of the country with leftist rhetoric and condescending comments about race and religion.
This is the reaction of far left activism. We've gotten it wrong...economically and socially. And once the backlash settles perhaps the country can move forward.
This is the reaction of far left activism. We've gotten it wrong...economically and socially. And once the backlash settles perhaps the country can move forward.
If only there were an immigration party but then there isn't.
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Democrats.
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Great - just what the world needs: another Berlusconi figure, and one that could be the leader of the most powerful country on Earth. These are few of the challenges facing Europe and North America in the next four years: Putin's authoritarian expansionism, climate change, the Syria crisis and ISIS, other authoritarian countries in the Middle East, in Asia, in Africa posing threats. To understate my concerns: a big mouthed guy who is all words and no substance is not what the world need right now. And then I even haven't begin to take up some of Mr Trumps various dubious statements on minorities, white supremacy etcetera. America, please save us from this guy, Putin is already a big problem over here, we don't need Putins friend in the White House.
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Are you serious?
Sweden is run over by muslim immigration until the point where the swedish left establishment had to shamefully back down on their immigration policy and close the borders. A severe part of your muslim immigrants is responsible for raising the numbers in crime and rape statistics, with such new culutural enrichement to Sweden as group rapes.
Putin is not at all a problem here. Sweden will have enough internal problems by immigrants with values not suitable with democratic and humanist values. The problem for Europe and also the USA are the radical muslims and the political islam. To fight that you need an US president who is not funded by Saudi Arabia who is the biggest terrorist supporter in the middle east. The ties and financial benefits of the Clintons to Saudi Arabia are well known. And the Republican establishment has also always been friends with Saudi Arabia, who applies beheadings for critizism of their Wahabi Islam. Their justice system and laws are quite similar to those of IS. How do you want to fight terrorists and extremists, if your supporters back those terroists and are those extremists?
Enough about the foreign policy: Trumb seems also very reasonable on the internal questions and might bring back economic strength to the USA. As far as I don't want to tell US-Americans who to vote, Trumb seems to be a good choice.
Sweden is run over by muslim immigration until the point where the swedish left establishment had to shamefully back down on their immigration policy and close the borders. A severe part of your muslim immigrants is responsible for raising the numbers in crime and rape statistics, with such new culutural enrichement to Sweden as group rapes.
Putin is not at all a problem here. Sweden will have enough internal problems by immigrants with values not suitable with democratic and humanist values. The problem for Europe and also the USA are the radical muslims and the political islam. To fight that you need an US president who is not funded by Saudi Arabia who is the biggest terrorist supporter in the middle east. The ties and financial benefits of the Clintons to Saudi Arabia are well known. And the Republican establishment has also always been friends with Saudi Arabia, who applies beheadings for critizism of their Wahabi Islam. Their justice system and laws are quite similar to those of IS. How do you want to fight terrorists and extremists, if your supporters back those terroists and are those extremists?
Enough about the foreign policy: Trumb seems also very reasonable on the internal questions and might bring back economic strength to the USA. As far as I don't want to tell US-Americans who to vote, Trumb seems to be a good choice.
Trump is the frisky dog that never imagined there was any downside to chasing the car. Should he become the Republican nominee and therefore responsible for the fortunes and wellbeing of others he'll quickly become bored with their unreasonable expectations of him and rue the day he ever decided to play a game about which he knows nothing and for which he has zero natural inclination.
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Name one conservative cause the GOPe has successfully supported the past 10 years.
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campaign finance reform (Citizens United)
right to bear arms
re-apportionment
abortion restrictions
medicare expansion
tort reform
right to bear arms
re-apportionment
abortion restrictions
medicare expansion
tort reform
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Wow - Right to Bear Arms
Thats working really well for you , there seems to be a mass shooting every other week.
Go America!!! Woo Hoo,
Thats working really well for you , there seems to be a mass shooting every other week.
Go America!!! Woo Hoo,
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After observing the GOP campaign over the last month and the drumbeat of "establishment" opposition to Donald J. Trump and Cruz and Rubio's incessant wimpering, I can now declare...... Hillary Rodham Clinton: ELECTED !!
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I am so happy to see Trump win Super Tuesday!
As an African-American woman no one understands the struggles of working Americans better than Trump. He understands that illegal immigration has devastated the African-American community with unemployment. He recognizes the importance of rebuilding our infrastructure, rather than overextending our military presence overseas. I am very proud to be voting for Mr. Trump and I hope to see him beat Hillary in November!
GO TRUMP!!
As an African-American woman no one understands the struggles of working Americans better than Trump. He understands that illegal immigration has devastated the African-American community with unemployment. He recognizes the importance of rebuilding our infrastructure, rather than overextending our military presence overseas. I am very proud to be voting for Mr. Trump and I hope to see him beat Hillary in November!
GO TRUMP!!
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very well said! smart lady!
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Well the guy is manufacturing in China, so I guess that is a kinda/sorta "understanding the struggles of working Americans" if you are part of creating that "struggle" by sending jobs overseas for cheap labor. He probably would appreciate your cognitive dissonance.
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He does understand working people - mostly how to exploit them.
Educate yourself. Read his tax plan. He wants your money. . . For Donald Trump.
Educate yourself. Read his tax plan. He wants your money. . . For Donald Trump.
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To me the results tonight were quite delightful. Cruz and Rubio were blown out of the water by Trump, buy both won JUST enough to give them a reason to stay in the race, so the anti-Trump vote remains split and soon it will be too late to stop him.
My hope has been that Trump will win the nomination because I believe he is the easiest candidate to beat in November. However, I heard his victory speech tonight and he sounded disturbingly similar to a normal human being. I hope he goes back to the usual Trump-speak before too long.
My hope has been that Trump will win the nomination because I believe he is the easiest candidate to beat in November. However, I heard his victory speech tonight and he sounded disturbingly similar to a normal human being. I hope he goes back to the usual Trump-speak before too long.
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ABC - anyone but Clinton
Time to take Wall St down.
Time to take Wall St down.
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"With strong support from low-income white voters"
Yeah, NYT, keep repeating that and clicking your heels together over and over again and maybe, just maybe, you'll magically wind up back in Kansas.
The internals of poll after poll show that Trump has attracted the "big tent" coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all GOP demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west.
And the REALLY scary part for the Democrats is that Trump's appeal transcends the GOP, and includes pretty much all groups except die-hard "Progressives", illegal aliens and groups that want to keep all the free stuff rolling in,which INCLUDES all of the crony capitalists!
Yeah, NYT, keep repeating that and clicking your heels together over and over again and maybe, just maybe, you'll magically wind up back in Kansas.
The internals of poll after poll show that Trump has attracted the "big tent" coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all GOP demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west.
And the REALLY scary part for the Democrats is that Trump's appeal transcends the GOP, and includes pretty much all groups except die-hard "Progressives", illegal aliens and groups that want to keep all the free stuff rolling in,which INCLUDES all of the crony capitalists!
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Reality Check Time: This man is appealing to the Aryan Nation types- the only "big tent" those guys are around are the ones they are wearing.
That is not "transcending". That is sinking to lows no GOP candidate has been to since George Wallace. Sorry, but Trump pie in the sky is also "free stuff". Try eating one of his ties made in China.
That is not "transcending". That is sinking to lows no GOP candidate has been to since George Wallace. Sorry, but Trump pie in the sky is also "free stuff". Try eating one of his ties made in China.
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"sinking to lows no GOP candidate has been to since George Wallace"
You do realize that Wallace was a Democrat, right?
You do realize that Wallace was a Democrat, right?
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Trump appeals because he calls things by their right name. He uses the power of words to advance his candidacy. Didn't we learn in grade school that the pen is mightier than the sword?
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As each apparent option to stop Mr. Trump evaporates the Republican Party begins to search for its options to deal with his nomination. There is a possibility that it could change its convention rules to deny him victory, create a third party to attract the more moderate and traditional Republicans away from his candidacy or distance itself from the national elections. None of these strategies will overcome, or even address, the problem the party actually faces.
The Republican Party has spent decades belittling the role of government, diminishing its authority, casting aspersions at its honesty and castigating its leaders. During the past seven years they have intentionally thwarted proposed programs, used the budget and the full faith and credit of the United States as a weapon, shut down the government, denied Presidential appointments and denigrated the character of many people in the Administration. They have re-made "politics" and "politicians" into pejoratives, and in so doing not only have swayed the opinions of their long-term base, but also have attracted people of every ilk who oppose our government.
When the Democratic Party offended its Southern members through its stand on civil rights and social welfare millions of them defected and gave the South to the Republicans. The Republicans now must decide whether they will make a similar sacrifice to recover the purity of their message or yield their party to this new extremism. There is no easy out.
The Republican Party has spent decades belittling the role of government, diminishing its authority, casting aspersions at its honesty and castigating its leaders. During the past seven years they have intentionally thwarted proposed programs, used the budget and the full faith and credit of the United States as a weapon, shut down the government, denied Presidential appointments and denigrated the character of many people in the Administration. They have re-made "politics" and "politicians" into pejoratives, and in so doing not only have swayed the opinions of their long-term base, but also have attracted people of every ilk who oppose our government.
When the Democratic Party offended its Southern members through its stand on civil rights and social welfare millions of them defected and gave the South to the Republicans. The Republicans now must decide whether they will make a similar sacrifice to recover the purity of their message or yield their party to this new extremism. There is no easy out.
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I agree with Ken. Trump is the onerous bill now coming due for the GOPs Southern Strategy, which emerged fully developed with Goldwater's campaign. (The Southern Strategy predates Nixon, a common misconception.)
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It's as if Ryan and other establishment types just peeked under the covers and were shocked, shocked, to find out who was in bed with them. One would think they didn't witness the rallies in 2009, with the Gasden flags and nooses, the pictures of Michele Obama with a gorilla superimposed, the racial epithets hurled at John Lewis. The establishment has been winking at racists and misogyny for years, Trump has brought them right out into the open.
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Or they can go back to being a rational co-governing party that compromises, stops the coded race baiting, cuts out the religion stuff and remembers separation of church and state, gets out of our bedrooms and off of women's bodies, and gets out of the 1950s because it happens to be 2016
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Things are getting interesting. I think Donald Trump wins. But it's not a sure thing.
A couple of tidbits about people outside the candidates that were tasty for me.
First, Chris Christie looked like he was on some sort of drug when he came out to introduce Donald Trump. He looked like a zombie -- lifeless, reading from a script, slack-faced. What was that all about?
Second, this whole thing about the Ku Klux Klan is ridiculous. What is Mitt Romney doing saying Donald Trump is disqualified for not denouncing the KKK? That's just vicious politics, almost lying, that is not worthy of Mitt Romney. Shame on him.
Ron Paul was interviewed on CNN, and he got it right. Nobody takes the KKK seriously any more. Not even Donald Trump. Why are the media and elements in both parties treating it like a real issue? Sadly, it's laughable.
A couple of tidbits about people outside the candidates that were tasty for me.
First, Chris Christie looked like he was on some sort of drug when he came out to introduce Donald Trump. He looked like a zombie -- lifeless, reading from a script, slack-faced. What was that all about?
Second, this whole thing about the Ku Klux Klan is ridiculous. What is Mitt Romney doing saying Donald Trump is disqualified for not denouncing the KKK? That's just vicious politics, almost lying, that is not worthy of Mitt Romney. Shame on him.
Ron Paul was interviewed on CNN, and he got it right. Nobody takes the KKK seriously any more. Not even Donald Trump. Why are the media and elements in both parties treating it like a real issue? Sadly, it's laughable.
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The KKK thing just makes Trump's accusers look, well, really dumb, like they haven't quite grasped the facts. He has a knack for making the typical antics of politics look ridiculous. All it took was one person to not bite. Who knew?
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The KKK thing -- on Friday Mr. Trump says, on television, that he disavows support from David Duke. On Sunday, two days later, on television, Mr. Trump says he doesn't know who David Duke is. It's not about a KKK figure supporting Mr. Trump, as many white supremacists have done, it's about Mr, Trump being an inveterate, unabashed liar. But that's not a point that Mr. Romney, or Mr, Ryan, felt they could make.
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The Republicans can only blame themselves for Trump. He is a product of their design. Running on fear, war and division. He just says it loudest.
Clinton to Bush. Bush to Obama. Obama to Trump.
He we go, another eight years of insanity.
Clinton to Bush. Bush to Obama. Obama to Trump.
He we go, another eight years of insanity.
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The otherwise considerable pleasure afforded me by the GOP's present discomfiture at the rise of Trump is clouded by the memory of something like the same mingled incredulity and amusement I felt toward the Reagan candidacy thirty-six years ago.
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The thing that strikes me is this: with 90% of the vote or more counted in most states, Trump won with percentages ranging from 33%-49%, with most of his state-winning percentages in the high 30s. I'm surprised by that. I thought many of his his percentages would be higher, which indicates to me that Trump support is more precarious than it seems.
Contrast that to Clinton. Sanders, of course, dominated Vermont, but she won every other state other than Massachusetts (50%) with dominating numbers: 66%-78%. I'm starting to think Clinton could beat Trump head-to-head in the end. I'm sure Trump will throw everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at her in the next few months, but ultimately, she could win the general election by a decent margin.
Contrast that to Clinton. Sanders, of course, dominated Vermont, but she won every other state other than Massachusetts (50%) with dominating numbers: 66%-78%. I'm starting to think Clinton could beat Trump head-to-head in the end. I'm sure Trump will throw everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at her in the next few months, but ultimately, she could win the general election by a decent margin.
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Walter, you are correct. Those three states hasn't been called when I wrote my first post. I will note, however, that Sanders' winning margins in those three states are much lower than the domination Clinton showed in winning her states. Sanders was 59-41 in Colo., 60-40 in Minn, and 52-42 in Okla. Clinton's close-to-final numbers has her winning from 64-78 % in six states (again, Mass. is 50-49). Winning two-thirds of the vote in six of the 11 states (one of which is the opposing candidate's representative state) and half of the vote in the seventh is impressive IMO.
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But the Democratic voter turnout was much lower than the Republican.
Your analysis is flawd, you did not consider the populations who either left the democrat party, or those independent and GOP voters. These people will never vote for her!
The Republican establishment is now reaping what it has sowed. For the past 7 years, they have refused to work with a very moderate, albeit Black, Democratic President. He wasted his Presidency trying to be rational with these folks. It never worked. Somehow, he appears to be unworthy of their recognition or respect, although he has been elected......twice, "by the American people."
Now, the Republican Senate continues its pillage of the American political system by refusing to even consider a new Supreme Court nominee by the above rational, and maybe much too moderate, Democratic President.
So I am understandably truly enjoying myself as the Republican Party self-destructs. It is no longer a coherent, rational conservative oriented party. It is a party of "no's" and nothingness, working only for the wealthy, the well-connected, and those tending toward religious and social bigotry. Their "undereducated" base,, which the Republican establishment have counted on for years, have finally figured that out too, and have gone over to Trump.
It is amusing to consider, but I believe Bill Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Ronald Reagan would be appalled.
Now, the Republican Senate continues its pillage of the American political system by refusing to even consider a new Supreme Court nominee by the above rational, and maybe much too moderate, Democratic President.
So I am understandably truly enjoying myself as the Republican Party self-destructs. It is no longer a coherent, rational conservative oriented party. It is a party of "no's" and nothingness, working only for the wealthy, the well-connected, and those tending toward religious and social bigotry. Their "undereducated" base,, which the Republican establishment have counted on for years, have finally figured that out too, and have gone over to Trump.
It is amusing to consider, but I believe Bill Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Ronald Reagan would be appalled.
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I think the problem people have with Barack Obama is that he campaigned for hope and change yet he brought neither. He campaigned for healthcare without an individual mandate (as Hillary Clinton insisted on) yet that mandate is the keystone of Obamacare. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace yet he has brought no peace to anywhere in the world.
Worst of all, Barack Obama promised to be bipartisan yet he refused to negotiate because "I won" and "elections matter". Bill Clinton was at his most effective in working with a Republican House yet Barack Obama has been equally ineffective with Democratic and Republican Congresses.
After George W. Bush as a disastrous Republican president, Barack Obama as an ineffective Democrat president, and Hillary Clinton bringing back pay-to-play politics, is it any wonder that those on the right choose Donald Trump?
Worst of all, Barack Obama promised to be bipartisan yet he refused to negotiate because "I won" and "elections matter". Bill Clinton was at his most effective in working with a Republican House yet Barack Obama has been equally ineffective with Democratic and Republican Congresses.
After George W. Bush as a disastrous Republican president, Barack Obama as an ineffective Democrat president, and Hillary Clinton bringing back pay-to-play politics, is it any wonder that those on the right choose Donald Trump?
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Bill Buckley and Rockefeller would be appalled. But, it is anyone's guess what Reagan's reaction would be. After hearing JFK's Convention acceptance speech in 1960, Reagan wrote to Nixon stating that JFK's program was that of "Karl Marx". Reagan was a mean spirited nut and a corporate tool.
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Obama is not moderate. He's an entrenched ideological leftist and doesn't even seek bipartisan policy goals. His divisiveness and failure to lead is his own issue. He embodies the left's inability and unwillingness to see any other perspective other than their own as rational and well-intentioned. And now the best the Democrats can come up with for leader of the country is the utterly corrupt and cynical versus the pie in the sky.
Both Democrats and Republicans must own the country's disillusionment and fracture.
Both Democrats and Republicans must own the country's disillusionment and fracture.
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Cruz's idea that he is the only one who can beat Trump - as if that is a common or worthy goal - is profoundly disrespectful to the Republican citizens who voted for Trump. Cruz is speaking to the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, and Mitch McConnell, not the men and women of America who are only trying to put a meal on the table.
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I'm glad he's profoundly disrespectful of those who vote for Trump. It certainly represents my point of view. If Trump is the nominee, I'll be sitting this election out.
I think that if you carefully evaluate the policies and platforms of the Republicans versus those of the Democrats, you will find that it is the Democrat position that most favors the middle- and working class, and seeks to help them to help themselves to a meal on the table, as opposed to assisting the wealthy to keep their gold cutlery.
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And your candidate is going to help get that meal to the table exactly how? For a supposed front-runner, he has been remarkably vague about any actual plans, aside from building a wall and kicking a bunch of folks out. If he actually cares about your concerns, don't you think it's time he put a little meat on those bones?
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The Fall of Blabdad.
Can the GOP finally quit the high school graduate/hate radio types that have led it over a cliff? From Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter, throw these unelected demagogues away and start over. They are toxic.
This is a completely dysfunctional and delusional party that has bragged about creating its own reality and abused its sworn duties to govern. Pathetic is all one can say.
Can the GOP finally quit the high school graduate/hate radio types that have led it over a cliff? From Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter, throw these unelected demagogues away and start over. They are toxic.
This is a completely dysfunctional and delusional party that has bragged about creating its own reality and abused its sworn duties to govern. Pathetic is all one can say.
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Amen...!!!
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All this unifying against Trump talk. That's what makes Trump more likeable, and if there is a unification against him, it only helps him. Game over here. He cannot be bought just like Sanders cannot. The similarities they possess in being uninfluenced by donor money are their biggest strengths. This isn't a race against Trump or Sanders. It's a race against the political order. With social media the main outlets cannot do much about it either.
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Trump can be bought. And he will be, eventually.
Trump, once again, dared to talk about stuff that most Republicans won't touch. He noted that airports, railway stations, and other infrastructure in China, Qatar, and other Asian countries are often far superior to what you see in the United States. Anybody who has traveled much at all outside of the United States since the 21st century began will readily agree with Trump.
We are in bizarro world. It's customary for Republicans to argue that, outside of the bloated military industrial complex that they insist on feeding further no matter what, government can't do anything right. But now here's the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination promising to use government to rebuilt America's infrastructure, i.e. the kind of stimulus work that Obama has championed but which McConnell, Ryan, & Co. have bitterly opposed from day one of Obama's presidency.
The mainstream Republican brand is utter, complete junk. Turns out supporters of the current GOP front-runner want infrastructural and other spending to repair potholes, expand and upgrade airports and railways, etc. Leaving it all to the private sector is a nonsensical, fantasyland idea that needs to be jettisoned pronto.
Eisenhower was a Republican president. He championed the government-funded interstate highway system to improve upon the shoddy, inadequate highway network he had seen as a young man while traveling cross-country in the 1910s.
We are in bizarro world. It's customary for Republicans to argue that, outside of the bloated military industrial complex that they insist on feeding further no matter what, government can't do anything right. But now here's the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination promising to use government to rebuilt America's infrastructure, i.e. the kind of stimulus work that Obama has championed but which McConnell, Ryan, & Co. have bitterly opposed from day one of Obama's presidency.
The mainstream Republican brand is utter, complete junk. Turns out supporters of the current GOP front-runner want infrastructural and other spending to repair potholes, expand and upgrade airports and railways, etc. Leaving it all to the private sector is a nonsensical, fantasyland idea that needs to be jettisoned pronto.
Eisenhower was a Republican president. He championed the government-funded interstate highway system to improve upon the shoddy, inadequate highway network he had seen as a young man while traveling cross-country in the 1910s.
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Ike and Trump? You must be kidding.
Ike was a soldier - Dem or Repub, he gave his entire adult life to his country. Trump never gave five minutes to anything that wasn't about Donald Trump.
ALL Trump's business projects failed - check the facts - from the Trump buildings in NY to his casinos. He squandered fortunes, plural. He has virtually nothing left and no one will lend him money. Why do you think he wound up on reality TV?
And like the golf course he wanted to build in Ireland, where he forced people off their property and drained a wetland, then quit? In the end, he couldn't see any of his big ideas all the way through. Great deal maker? Bull. He couldn't take any opposition, he could never manage his way to stability. He overpaid for every asset he ever owned.
And left behind no added value for the public. There's NOTHING in New York City with Trump's name on it that's a public space, like the Rockefeller's did with Rockefeller Center. There's no great philanthropic institution, like the Gates Foundation. This guy not only has no experience with any public office - elected or appointed - he's never done anything socially aware or useful. NOT ONCE. That's why New Yorkers think he's full of it.
Compare Trump to Ike? Please.
Ike planned D-Day. Trump lent his name to a bunch of con men for a "university" with no curriculum, no buildings, and no purpose except to defraud its students.
Yeah that's the guy who'll save us.
Ike was a soldier - Dem or Repub, he gave his entire adult life to his country. Trump never gave five minutes to anything that wasn't about Donald Trump.
ALL Trump's business projects failed - check the facts - from the Trump buildings in NY to his casinos. He squandered fortunes, plural. He has virtually nothing left and no one will lend him money. Why do you think he wound up on reality TV?
And like the golf course he wanted to build in Ireland, where he forced people off their property and drained a wetland, then quit? In the end, he couldn't see any of his big ideas all the way through. Great deal maker? Bull. He couldn't take any opposition, he could never manage his way to stability. He overpaid for every asset he ever owned.
And left behind no added value for the public. There's NOTHING in New York City with Trump's name on it that's a public space, like the Rockefeller's did with Rockefeller Center. There's no great philanthropic institution, like the Gates Foundation. This guy not only has no experience with any public office - elected or appointed - he's never done anything socially aware or useful. NOT ONCE. That's why New Yorkers think he's full of it.
Compare Trump to Ike? Please.
Ike planned D-Day. Trump lent his name to a bunch of con men for a "university" with no curriculum, no buildings, and no purpose except to defraud its students.
Yeah that's the guy who'll save us.
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The interstate system was built for defense purposes, not to make cross country travel more adequate for young travelers.
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Eisenhower made a last minute decision to run as a Republican rather than as a Democrat. Today he would be a Democrat- a "neoliberal."
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Trump is an authentic charlatan. He's fooled a lot of voters, but not a majority. He will get uglier. It will all get uglier. But the ugliest spectacle will come when he folds.
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The Republican establishment needs all Republican candidates to stay-in-the-race to keep Marco's head -- barely -- above water. If Cruz dropped out, Trump would pick up those anti-establishment votes and throttle Rubio.
If Carson dropped out, Cruz would pick up those born-again votes.
The establishment will target Kasich next, the last man who could cough up votes to Rubio. The GOP establishment needs to dump Rubio and embrace Cruz, but they can't, they just can't! This is so funny. This is real entertainment. A perfect conundrum.
If Carson dropped out, Cruz would pick up those born-again votes.
The establishment will target Kasich next, the last man who could cough up votes to Rubio. The GOP establishment needs to dump Rubio and embrace Cruz, but they can't, they just can't! This is so funny. This is real entertainment. A perfect conundrum.
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Everyone around the world has had a gutsful of muslim wars and them wanting every other western world nation who are not muslims, to die for them and sort out the mess they've made of their own nations. Time they stayed in their own countries and sorted out their own mess instead of expecting our nations soldiers to die for them. Donald Trump is the right choice. USA citizens first!
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Sanders won more than expected. This does not look good for Clinton becsuse from here on winning won't be so easy for her anymore like in those southern red and 'minority' states.
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What? Sanders was supposed to take Vermont - his home state - and Colorado. That just leaves Minnesota - hardly a swing state. Where is the big deal there? Oh - forgot, these are Sanders voters. Please let us know when you get back from Fantasy Island, reality is much more interesting right now.
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Are we witnessing the disintegration of the GOP? Have the dog whistle tactics and "compromise is failure" philosophy that began in the Reagan/Gingrich era finally created a mad dog even its billionaire sponsors can no longer control?
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Cruz wins two states, and the NYT says he has earned a reprieve. Sanders against all expectations wins CO and MN by wide margins (as well as OK) but it's game over for him. How can Cruz catch up to Trump if Sanders can't catch up to Clinton?
Sometimes I think polling has been bad for elections. CO was poorly polled but Sanders did well.
Sometimes I think polling has been bad for elections. CO was poorly polled but Sanders did well.
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Sanders was expected to do well in Colorado.
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At the beginning of the primary election season, the GOP demanded that Trump make a pledge that he would back whoever wins the nomination and not run as an independent should he fail to become the nominee. Funny how the party leadership is not willing to live up to their side of the bargain.
If the GOP manages ignore the primary voters and steals the nomination from Trump at the convention and instead appoints someone the "establishment" favors, I can see Trump mounting an independent bid for President. And that will pretty much guarantee the Democrats a win in November.
If the GOP manages ignore the primary voters and steals the nomination from Trump at the convention and instead appoints someone the "establishment" favors, I can see Trump mounting an independent bid for President. And that will pretty much guarantee the Democrats a win in November.
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Trump agreed to that, the GOP did not. Looks like they outnegotiated him there...
But all other candidates did x
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From the alarming trend of Trump’s increasing followers, it’s time for the Republicans to take a unified stance against him. In the past, Rubio and Cruz have slung mud against one another’s campaigns. However, by a simple glance at the figures, Trump appears to be the frontrunner. Therefore, their concentrated efforts should be directed towards the person who represents their highest form of competition. There seems to be trepidation from both sides to poke the hornet’s nest (Trump). However, in this case, it is not only politically prudent for these candidates, but it is necessary for the future of this country.
Whatever divide there is within the conservative realm needs to be relinquished. While Trump – a man with radical views whose potential presidency could weaken the United States abroad – is dominating the Republican race, the GOP needs to consolidate efforts for the future of their party, and most importantly, the future of America.
Whatever divide there is within the conservative realm needs to be relinquished. While Trump – a man with radical views whose potential presidency could weaken the United States abroad – is dominating the Republican race, the GOP needs to consolidate efforts for the future of their party, and most importantly, the future of America.
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Rubio or Cruz may be better for the Republican Party. I don't see that any of them....Trump, Rubio or Cruz, are good for the country. By pretty much keeping religion out of his politics Trump seems a little less dangerous to me.
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The problem for "the Republicans" is that for decades they have depended upon and assumed the support of the voters who have put Trump where he is today. They cannot derail Trump without alienating his voters - and having thoroughly eliminated the "Eisenhower/Rockefeller/TR" moderate wing of the party, without Trump's voters, they have essentially no base left. Cruz' politics (and Rubio's and Kasich's, for that matter) are really not all that different from Trump's. The only area that Trump's rivals have really been 'moderate' about is their tone - and in the last two weeks even that difference has disappeared. Trump is a monster of the Republican leadership's own making.
It wont happen! It's not PURE math! People feel betrayed by politicians, period. That leave Trump and Cruz. B/w them, Trump is better any day.
Rubio is a serious lightweight; he does not exude confidence,nor does he have a natural penchant for leading. He's been little more than a political hack for his entire adult life. Having had several conversations with friends in Florida, I can tell you that Rubio is detested by the majority of Floridians. He's a loser; a pretty boy who can phrase simple sentences, but that's about it.
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Rubio is what is known in the business world as a "tap dancer," meaning he intentionally never stays in a job too long. He moves on because he knows if he stays, he'll be found out as ineffective. His longest job has been as a Senator, but he's not running again for fear of being found out for doing a poor job. Just take a look at his absences from work over the past couple of years.
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Rubio looks like he should be trying to manage a high school Junior Achievement project.
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I can't believe that only a year ago my worst election year nightmare was the thought of watching Bush and Clinton duking it out.
Oh sweet, innocent days gone by, when all we had to worry about was the specter of presidential dynasties, how we yearn for you.
Oh sweet, innocent days gone by, when all we had to worry about was the specter of presidential dynasties, how we yearn for you.
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Yup - Hillary Clinton represents the financial and corporate elite, she attacked the women that Bill Clinton preyed on instead of supporting them and leaving him,she failed to get national health insurance and she is a liar and opportunist. Not even to mention the e-mails. But she is likely to be the Dem nominee her opponent is likely to be Donald Trump. So pray for her health and make sure to vote!
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Wake up Golda. Clinton was the only one even trying to get healthcare back in the 90s. Take a break from the memorized talking points.
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I'd vote for a ham sandwich with the word "democrat" on it before I'd vote for Donald Trump.
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Sorry, we cannot agree. From a family of Democrats, proud to never have voted for any other party, we will vote for anyone other than Sanders. Better someone who has achieve something, even if its just a TV show, that someone proud to have done nothing in the Senate for 25 years.
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I'd vote for any kind of sandwich, preferable an independent one. A sandwich that put the national interest ahead of its own. Sandwich 2016!
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So you're saying, a Democrat ham sandwich is better than a Republican turkey sandwich?
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Donald Trump is the nominee after tonight. Rubio could only win 1 small state out of the first 15, he has NO chance of winning or even tying trump. Cruz will do poorly after Super Tuesday as these were his strongest states that he was supposed to win. Kasich says he is staying in until Ohio on March 15th when all the delegates will be given by.... 100% chance Trump will be the nominee, no one can catch up after tonight.
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However, by staying in, the others will keep Trump from getting the # of delegates he needs, despite beating the others. That way, they can appoint someone else as their nominee. Its all in their rules, just not used often ( or ever?). Remember, he's getting 40% , which is more than the others, but that also means he's NOT getting 60% of republican voters.
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Will someone tell me why Christie is in Florida instead of NJ???
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It's funny how Christie called Rubio to be a loser and one who is making last ditch attempt during his endorsement of Trump when infact he was the one who gave up/ lost the fight and endorsed Trump as his last ditch attempt to stay in the political limelight. It's disgraceful ...
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Somebody paid for his trip and he thinks he will be VP.
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Early bird specials.
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The GOP ceased to be a serious party quite awhile ago. The Donald's "success" doesn't change that. The real question: when are We The People going to wake up and realize that Bernie is the ONLY candidate who wants to bring us together and serve the interests of the 99%?
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The American people seriously considering Donald Trump...surely not! The election of a black President who had gravitas and integrity had most of the world feeling good. Have things changed so much in eight years? Come on, America, we are depending on you!
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I hope you and all of our foreign friends don't blame the sane people among us here -- we're not all bonkers.
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Rob,
PLEASE tell everyone you know down under that the majority of Americans are grossed out by the thought of a Trump, Cruz, or Rubio victory. Remember these votes actually represent a fractional minority of a minority party. Americans have a long, proud history of doing the right thing for the world. We'll have these three men in strait-jackets shortly.
PLEASE tell everyone you know down under that the majority of Americans are grossed out by the thought of a Trump, Cruz, or Rubio victory. Remember these votes actually represent a fractional minority of a minority party. Americans have a long, proud history of doing the right thing for the world. We'll have these three men in strait-jackets shortly.
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Rob - America is seriously polarized. There are fewer centrists and more leftists and rightists. The past 40 years have seen a serious decline of the middle class and a rise in the wealth and influence of the corporations and the "1%" Indeed Obama has gravitas and a degree of integrity, but he received contributions from Wall Street and didn't seriously go after the big banks and others responsible for the financial crisis. Some who voted for Obama are even planning to vote for Trump because many are unemployed,underemployed, or have jobs without job security or good benefits and with salaries not high enough to buy homes. The "American Dream"is dead for many people and they are angry. I dont believe that Trump will be President but America will continue to be plagued by polarization,division,congressional gridlock,anger and fear.
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What's happened to Rubio is really funny I think. The RNC bigwigs ushered Bush out in order to quickly crown Rubio the new challenger to the Donald.
Rubio is going to finish under 20% in Texas and Alabama, which means he will get 0 delegates.
Cruz, meanwhile, will pick up a lot of support in the delegate-rich South. Remember how everyone was saying that Cruz needs to drop out and give Rubio a 1-on-1 with Trump?
Well, funny how that turned out. Ironically, Cruz can now accuse Rubio of cramping his style and weighing him down.
Man, politics is like a really trashy Shakespeare play: brief detentes, icy treachery, bitter chagrin.
Rubio is going to finish under 20% in Texas and Alabama, which means he will get 0 delegates.
Cruz, meanwhile, will pick up a lot of support in the delegate-rich South. Remember how everyone was saying that Cruz needs to drop out and give Rubio a 1-on-1 with Trump?
Well, funny how that turned out. Ironically, Cruz can now accuse Rubio of cramping his style and weighing him down.
Man, politics is like a really trashy Shakespeare play: brief detentes, icy treachery, bitter chagrin.
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Even the "under educated" Republican voters know better than to give the car keys to a child.
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Trump's message to voters: "Make America Hate Again".
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I bet he turns into a choirboy for the general election.
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Very presidential victory speech.
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Chris Christie looked like a sad, lost puppy up there standing behind Trump during his "presidential press conference"
He looks out of place, just standing there behind Trump as if he's being paid $20/hr to be there.
What is he, his henchman? A body guard? A right-hand man? His body double? The apprentice?
He looks out of place, just standing there behind Trump as if he's being paid $20/hr to be there.
What is he, his henchman? A body guard? A right-hand man? His body double? The apprentice?
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His VP, lol.
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Christie is Trump's obsequious sycophant -- apparently no longer the governor of New Jersey (the state of my youth).
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Hard for me to believe that Donald Trump would survive a presidency without being impeached, maybe the smart play is to tag along as the VP and wait for the train wreck.
I hope the Republican elites don't try dirty tricks at the convention so that Rubio gets the nomination. I will never vote for that egotistical spoiled child from Florida. He is so unfit to be even dog catcher that it is not even funny. He carries water in the Senate for Lindsey Graham and John McCain and he is an advocate of more war.
He would have us more deeply involves in Syria with boots on the ground. He is so unstable that he would start WW III. He can not be trusted with any sort of power. He is too childish and immature.
He would have us more deeply involves in Syria with boots on the ground. He is so unstable that he would start WW III. He can not be trusted with any sort of power. He is too childish and immature.
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Thanks Donald!
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What convoluted thinking came from Cruz tonight! He concluded that he is the GOP's best hope for defeating Trump because he alone has beat Trump three times. Left unanswered was why Trump has beaten him eight times (as of now, though the toll will probably rise before the night is over)..,
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He thinks gnawing on Trump's ankles is "Winning".
The whole GOP slate is like a scene out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The whole GOP slate is like a scene out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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As an Indian American , legal immigrant Trump has my vote. Go Trump. All the best.
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Trump was born in America and he refused to condemn racist white supremacists who hate people of color like yourself and would burn a cross on your front lawn, if not worse.
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Golda, I am more afraid of people like you who used to bring up race issue everytime to keep this racist mentality going. But that doesn't deter from me to vote for Trump, where I worry about job, security and the future of my kids. No thanks for race topics. It doesn't work with me.
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Your hate, rhetoric, and lies are approved though?
Hilarious how those on the left can't see the hypocrisy.
Hilarious how those on the left can't see the hypocrisy.
I used to think the Democrats were the more intelligent of the two parties, but given how they seem to have wised up to and rejected the Bushes while the Democrats still haven't figured out that the Clintons are the same thing, I'm going to have to revise that opinion.
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The R's rejected Bush....and now have embraced Donald, and that's intelligence?
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Ya, the Dems rejected the Bushes... sometime back in in '90s as I recall...
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I propose an alliance between democrats and republicans to ensure Donald Trump doesn't have access to the nuclear launch codes.
...What a world we live in that the above sentence not only makes sense, but sounds like a really good idea!
...What a world we live in that the above sentence not only makes sense, but sounds like a really good idea!
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Trump rolls over the Republican establishment and their empty suit, Marco Rubio. That's the story and it's a big one. The Republicans lost their own people because they robbed them and lied to them for decades.
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Principia, the Dems have also robbed and lied to their people, unions and working folks, for decades, too. Read the Rolling Stone article online titled How America Made Trump Unstoppable and understand that both Trump and Bernie are playing to the disenfranchised workers of America.
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Rubio's time will come...just not this time. As my Senator from Florida, most everyone I know voted for him and would again. He represents our State very well.....very important that he not be perceived as a sore loser. His most important role now is to insure a Republican win in November.
DCD: How has Rubio represented Florida, when he does not even show up at the Senate to vote, has no laws passed that would benefit his constituents, except for Norman Brahman?? You have been completely fooled by this empty suit!
This election is bigger than Democrat vs. Republican. It's about the working class, who work increasingly longer hours and make increasingly less, and the donor class. Trump represents the working class, and Hillary represents the donor class. Does anybody really think Hillary will do anything for the working class after she's received millions from Wall Street? We've seen her record as First Lady, as Senator, as Secretary of State. She is a liar (remember we she claimed to be under sniper fire in Bosnia), and tried to cover up the mess in Benghazi. She panders to her biggest donors, which includes Wall Street. And she is grossly incompetent for the presidency.
I hope my fellow Democrats will wake from the Hillary shill and realize that Trump (assuming he wins the nomination, which he will), is the most qualified candidate for president.
I hope my fellow Democrats will wake from the Hillary shill and realize that Trump (assuming he wins the nomination, which he will), is the most qualified candidate for president.
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HOW is Trump going to bring jobs back to America?
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Trump has all the characteristics of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Is that who you want to lead the country?
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Trump represents the working class? If it isn't Sanders, then nobody represents us. Yes, Hillary lies, but you think Donald doesn't? If you really can't stand lies listen to Bernie.
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I don't agree how the press has uniformly interpreted the results as overwhelmingly Trump. I am not anti-Trump, but I do not see his path to the Republican nomination at this point. I see 62% that do not want The Donald and that can prevent him from accumulating sufficient delegates for a first ballot win. So, I still feel that we are where we have been for many weeks already and that is at a brokered convention with a Romney-Rubio ticket emerging or who can predict exactly. Let's see what happens in Florida and the winner take all contests. Trump is still being overwhelmed at this point.
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Why Rubio and not someone like Kasich? Rubio is the most radical GOP candidate this go round.
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That would be great for the Democratic candidate. If the nomination is taken away from Trump at a brokered convention, all of his supporters will go ballistic and stay home on Election Day. They already don't trust the powers-that-be. We are talking historic landslide for President, a return of the Senate to Democrats, and possible the Dems getting the House back! I pray the Repubs do this!!!!
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Consider the 62%. Some of them will support Trump when their favorite drops out. The question is how much of the 62% will go Trump, but it is not zero.
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Well it is looking more like the end result will be Hillary. So the folks at the GOP better realize who is the only one capable of beating her, and it certainly isn't going to be the guy that reminds me of a young Dan Quayle or that other guy that might be a Canadian....
So then the American people can pick... do they want a Billionaire that inherited his money that is funding his campaign or a woman that's taking cash from every big bank on Wall Street.
So then the American people can pick... do they want a Billionaire that inherited his money that is funding his campaign or a woman that's taking cash from every big bank on Wall Street.
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Ad hominem attacks seem to be what the GOP needs nowadays to make informed decisions on whom to pick as their leader. I imagine fist fights will be the next step. Easier to pick a winner that way.
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I am still a very avid supporter of Bernie Sanders and even though I dislike Hillary Clinton, I think all of us Democrats need to stand together. We are on the verge of the most ridiculous Presidential nominee, the first WITHOUT any military or government service, and it is our duty as educated voters to stop him. WE MUST NOT allow our divide between the Sanders and Clinton camp to blind us of the real picture: WE CAN NOT LET DONALD DRUMPF WIN.
I will 100% still behind Mrs. Clinton if she receives the Dem. nomination which is appearing more and more likely. I beg of other Democrats to do the same because many of the accomplishments that President Obama has accomplished may be long gone if Mr. Drumpf is in the Oval Office.
I will 100% still behind Mrs. Clinton if she receives the Dem. nomination which is appearing more and more likely. I beg of other Democrats to do the same because many of the accomplishments that President Obama has accomplished may be long gone if Mr. Drumpf is in the Oval Office.
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Your mocking to a presidential candidate , by not respecting to call his name worries me on how this people of America has going into.
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You have to respect American people and try to become civilized while posting on public media. Don't make this country another open urinating Indian slum. I just barely escaped from there.
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Although there is nothing wrong with military service I am perfectly fine with no government service.
The truth is we've had issues with both Democrats and Republicans for many, many years. We've had good brought about by both parties as well throughout the years.
At this point in time it may be appropriate to say the Republican field is worse than a bunch of kids. Is Hillary really a better choice at the end of the day? Given so much negative that has followed her around? But the truth is who knows what the truth is.
We have so many who act as if some of these candidates are the answer to our prayers. I for one am fed up with the absurdness that runs through both parties much of the time. I am more than willing to give someone with zero political experience a shot at the Presidency.
Is The Donald perfect? Far from it. But I can't begin to tell you how disgusted I am with the politicians in our country anymore. So many disgraceful career politicians. So many lobbyists. So many major corporations deciding to set up shop outside of the States. We have a possible opportunity at presenting change. I don't go around kidding myself that this change will truly take place but I do think that Trump just might have the aptitude to make the attempt.
The truth is we've had issues with both Democrats and Republicans for many, many years. We've had good brought about by both parties as well throughout the years.
At this point in time it may be appropriate to say the Republican field is worse than a bunch of kids. Is Hillary really a better choice at the end of the day? Given so much negative that has followed her around? But the truth is who knows what the truth is.
We have so many who act as if some of these candidates are the answer to our prayers. I for one am fed up with the absurdness that runs through both parties much of the time. I am more than willing to give someone with zero political experience a shot at the Presidency.
Is The Donald perfect? Far from it. But I can't begin to tell you how disgusted I am with the politicians in our country anymore. So many disgraceful career politicians. So many lobbyists. So many major corporations deciding to set up shop outside of the States. We have a possible opportunity at presenting change. I don't go around kidding myself that this change will truly take place but I do think that Trump just might have the aptitude to make the attempt.
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The club for growth, led by the idiotic Grover Norquist with his no new taxes pledge, is one of the main reasons that the GOP brand became so damaged that it became vulnerable to mr. trumps hostile takeover. And they are going to ride to the rescue? Fat chance, but it's still a neat way to transfer wealth from the top 1% to the next 5 %, where most of th lobbyists and consultants reside. Go Grover! Enjoy the twilight of your influence.
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Except that Mr. Norquist does not lead the Club for Growth; that would be Chris Chocola.
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Rubio - "with his limp finish across the board."
It looks like the favorite of billionaires, and the Republican establishment, is toast.
It looks like the favorite of billionaires, and the Republican establishment, is toast.
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He protests he isn't and still has a path to the nomination.
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Third in Minnesota, barely managed second in Oklahoma, lost in Texas, narrow wins after getting about one-third of the votes in Virginia, Arkansas, and (maybe) Vermont, and only in one state did he approach 50% (Massachusetts). A significant night, but Overwhelms from Alabama to Massachusetts is a bit of an overstatement.
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So it's going to be the Donald vs HRC. This is even darker than a season of House of Cards.
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This election is ripe for a viable third party candidate.
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Particularly with subpoenas out to HRC's former staff, and a looming indictment for her, should be a real interesting election.
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He's going to make America great again, make memes great again, and make anime real. He's got my vote.
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Yeah, anime, just what America needs more of.
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@ Greg Lara--- I don't think people tire of being great. You might be the outlier.
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Just Me: If you weren't great before today, then why, oh why, would you think Trump can make you great tomorrow? Trump who is a con man (I am not quoting Rubio, I am looking at how he has conned all those people who bought into the scam of Trump University), how he uses the facility of bankruptcy to welch on his corp debts. But you don't want to know all the bad things he has done, do you, because you have drunk the Trump koolaid.
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I'm ever happiest to leave the USA the very day after election day 2012. Mr. Trump and his acolytes are my validation, every trump victory reaffirms my decision to emigrate and live the rest of my days without the burdens and embarrassments of "Exceptional America".
I can also quote Oscar Wilde who, upon returning from his American tour of 1883, notoriously said of his experience: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
I can quote Charlie Chaplin who returned to his native England unequivocally stating: "I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
Or as Gertrude Stein asserted about Oakland upon her return to Paris after a speaking tour of the States, "There is no there there."
Why should I strain to be original and waste my time and effort on this charade when others have expressed so eloquently my very own thoughts and feelings – no one more so than h.L. Mencken in his denunciation: "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"The proof is in the pudding" and everyone got a taste of it last night.