Why America Needs Donald Trump to Win the Nomination

The Huffington Post's Huffpost Politics The Blog ^ | February 22, 2016 | Jason Fuller

[2ndDivisionVet]

Writing that headline shocks me as much as it probably shocks some of you.

There's no mistaking the fact that, since announcing his candidacy last summer, Donald Trump has been a loose cannon who has not only stirred up tremendous controversy, but has also shaken up the entire political process.

Trump has managed to alienate most ethnic groups living in America, insult women with his sexist comments, allow violence against protesters at his rallies, insult journalists and restrain freedom of the press at his rallies, and even now is engaged in an ever-escalating feud with fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz.

I share the views of many, more moderate and even liberal voices: The possibility of a Trump presidency is a scary thought just based upon how he handles day-to-day campaigning. What kind of restrictions on Muslims is he willing to support should he actually be elected? Will he curtail First Amendment protections on free speech, the press, and religious freedom as his actions on the campaign trail suggest? These are very serious questions which need equally serious consideration by those considering giving Trump their vote in the upcoming primaries and especially in the general election.

But as scary as the possibility of the Trump House may be to the majority of the American public, there is an even scarier possibility hot on Donald Trump's heels: Ted Cruz. Cruz has managed to turn around a previously lackluster campaign by narrowly winning the Iowa caucuses earlier this month and is now trending generally second only to Trump in most polling....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the other day...

[catfish1957]

Trump - Clinton match up? Why would’t Reich say that? It’s a win - win for liberals.

[tgusa]

Very telling, coming from HuffPo. SCOTUS has become irrelevant.

[knarf]

Fundamentally changing America .... BACK !!

[Boomer]

Hmmm... anything coming from huffpo is suspect right off the bat. I would like to hear Cruz answer the question on why he pursued this case so vigorously over a petty theft though.

[dp0622]

In defense of Trump, at least he’s a nationalist. she hates this country. Bernie hates it more.

This race is between Trump and Rubio now, as much as it saddens me. There’s no where for Cruz to more points.

Rubio’s polling since jeb dropped out will go up, I think, and again, when Kasich drops out.

bad situation.

I am assuming Cruz’ votes would go to trump. but if cruz and Rubio beat trump 57 to 40, that might not hold true.

somebody somewhere is going to be making deals or this could get messy

[spodefly]

So I guess the narrative from the left is “Trump is the worst thing since Hitler, but Cruz is worse than Trump.”

[Talisker]

What kind of restrictions on Muslims is he willing to support should he actually be elected?

How about - TOTAL.

[blueplum]

the Haley case actually worked its way all the way to the US Supreme Court, Cruz refusing to allow a hardened criminal like this petty thief out of prison just because the court screwed up. Even Justice Anthony Kennedy was taken aback by Cruz's determination to keep a calculator thief behind bars for literally eight times the normal maximum sentence:

I've heard Cruz say he's argued a case (cases?) before SCOTUS, but didn't know the details. I'd say, if the author is accurate, this reflects poorly, as it shows more a drive of notoriety than for law and order. Has the campaign provided a list of all the cases he's argued before SCOTUS?

[Yosemitest]

"I am assuming Cruz’ votes would go to trump."

DON'T COUNT ON IT !

Donald "EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PRIVATE USE" Trump IS NOT a Conservative, NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT !

Trump is Thad Cochran regenerated !
Trump will say ANYTHING to win.
This is just like Mississippi, with Chris McDaniel and Thad Cochran, appealing to DemocRATS to cheat Republicans out of their Selected Primary Candidate !

We had that "DemocRAT In Disguise" DEFEATED IN THE PRIMARY, until HE CHEATED !





Chris McDaniel refuses to concede: "We're going to investigate" ( 8:40 )
Published on Jun 25, 2014



DUPED Trumpsters NEED to WAKE UP !

Vera Coking walks past Donald Trump, obscured against wall at left, in a courtroom hallway
at Atlantic County Superior Court on Feb. 13, 1997.
... Trump wanted Coking's house - - not to live in, but as a place to park limousines for his casino next door.

"It is a classic case of a schoolyard bully growing up," said Clint Bolick, who co-founded the legal institute that defended Coking in a 1990s lawsuit with Trump ... "He's a thug."

Coking and her husband bought the white, three-story house at 127 Columbia Pl. in 1961, long before the area was transformed by mega-casinos.
She raised her children there.
For a time, she operated it as a boarding house.

... Coking, who is now more than 90 years old and was not available to be interviewed, was having none of it.
This was her "dream house," said Dana Berliner ...

Coking held firm, even as the 22-story Trump Plaza soared outside her windows with its ever-flashing lights.
The house was deteriorating, but Coking's will wasn't.
Demolition crews had set fire to her roof, broken windows and smashed up much of the third floor, according to her attorneys.
Still, she didn't move.

... Trump, Coking and the casino authority pounded away at one another in court.
Then, one day in the summer of 1998, the Superior Court of New Jersey put an end to the conflict.
The court ruled that the casino authority and Trump were wrong.
The government couldn't take Coking's house and let Trump have it.

Those who support that P.O.S. Trump need to do their research on WHERE Trump stands ON THE ISSUES .

Just click on the dots for details from the candidate, on the subject.
Source:

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Policy or Issue
Budget, Spending & Debt
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Education
Energy & Environment
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Immigration
Moral Issues
Second Amendment
Taxes, Economy & Trade

Border Security and Immigration is NOT one of Trump's strong suites.
One day he says one thing, and the next day, he's on the OPPOSITE SIDE of the issue !

Donald Trump tells immigrant advocates "You've convinced me"
...Trump told the trio "You've convinced me."
The meeting comes several weeks after Trump - one of the nation's most prominent conservative voices - delivered a key note address on immigration reform in Iowa
and warned that that the Senate's current immigration bill "could be a death wish" for Republicans, who "need to 'do the right thing' ."



Trump: U.S. should accept some Syrian refugees
Donald Trump thinks the United States should accept some refugees from Syria due to the "unbelievable humanitarian problem." ...
Trump ... said Tuesday evening that though the migrants could pose a security risk -- floating the idea that there may be individuals with ties to Islamic militants --
he supported allowing them into America. ...



Donald J. Trump - Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Congress must protect our borders first.
Amnesty should be done only if the border is secure and illegal immigration has stopped.
11:08 AM - 29 Aug 2013
1,055 RETWEETS 1,064 LIKES



Message to the GOP: Trump supports amnesty
... On the Kelly File Thursday, Trump's son Eric expressed frustration that the media overlooks this:
The point isn't just deporting them, it's deporting them and letting them back in legally.
He's been so clear about that and I know the liberal media wants to misconstrue it,
but its deporting them and letting them back legally.
Eric Trump is right.
His father has been crystal clear that he wants all the illegals to return and live in America.
Listen closely to what Trump is actually proposing.
In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash earlier this year, Trump explained his plan this way:
I would get people out and then have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal ...
A lot of these people are helping us ... and sometimes it's jobs a citizen of the United States doesn't want to do.
I want to move 'em out, and we're going to move 'em back in and let them be legal.



Donald Trump's companies sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
... Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000,
according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters.
Most of the applications were approved, the data show.
Nine companies majority-owned by Trump have sought to bring in foreign waitresses, cooks, vineyard workers and other laborers on temporary work-visa programs administered by the Labor Department.
The candidate's foreign talent hunt included applications for an assistant golf-course superintendent, an assistant hotel manager and a banquet manager.
Two of his companies, Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC, have sought visas for nearly 250 foreign fashion models, the records show.
Trump's presidential campaign and a lawyer for the businessman declined to comment.
The Mar-a-Lago Club could not be reached for comment.

[WVKayaker]

Poor Teddy Bares! They love their LOSER!

[Libloather]

[Yosemitest]

CRUZ or LOSE!

"The Republican establishment has more experience electing Democrats than I do.
They've shown they know how to do it, in presidential races. "

CRUZ: Loretta Lynch told a gathering the day after the San Bernardino attack
that her department would move to prosecute anyone whose, quote, "anti-Muslim rhetoric," quote, "edged towards violence."
The day after a terror attack, 14 innocent lives snuffed away.
As has been the case all too often in the Obama administration,
we may be facing once again the weaponization of one of our own government agencies,
deployed not to protect Americans,
but to force them to submit
to the Obama administration's code
of what is and is not acceptable speech.

RUSH: Heck, I'd go even farther than that.
The day after 14 Americans are wiped out and others are wounded by Islamic extremists,
the attorney general warns the American people
any criticism of those people and we're gonna prosecute you.
Anything you say that might lead to any violence, we're gonna come after you.
"Well, wait a minute,
what about the people that just killed 14 Americans?"
"Well, they were radicalized.
It wasn't their fault,"
or some such drivel.



What You Need To Know About Ted Cruz ( 1:46 )

Take a good long look at where "Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.

CRUZ or LOSE!

[RginTN]

ok I'm gonna favorite this thread just because of your post!
trump record is not Conservative as your post demonstrates

[Yosemitest]

Democracy IS "Mob Rule" !

Republic vs. Democracy

Rule by Law vs. Rule by Majority


Just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman's inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, "A Republic, if you can keep it."

A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the United States Constitution). A Democracy is government ruled by the majority (mob rule). A Republic recognizes the unalienable rights of individuals while Democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs for the good of the public, or in other words social justice.
Lawmaking is a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring approval from the three branches of government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches for checks and balance. Lawmaking in Democracy occurs rapidly requiring approval from the majority by polls and/or voter referendums, which in turn is mob rule 50% plus 1 vote takes away anything from the minority. Here is one example; if 51% of the people don’t pay taxes they can vote a tax increase on the 49% that do, which is mob rule.


Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury. To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority. As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive. When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.
Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy and they repeatedly said that they had founded a republic in numerous quotes, and documents.


Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion", the word Democracy is not mentioned in the Constitution at all. Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with this quote, along with more warnings from others.

"Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths... A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Ben Franklin


"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson


"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams


"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."  Henry David Thoreau

 

Our military training manuals use to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. The following comes from Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.   

 

Below is what the Manual No. 2000-25 says in Section IX Lesson 9.

DEMOCRACY:
A government of the masses.


Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.


Results in mobocracy.


Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.


Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.


Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.


 

REPUBLIC:
Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.


Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.


Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.


A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.


Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.


Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.


Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

 

The manuals containing these definitions were ordered destroyed without explanation about the same time that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. Almost overnight F.D.R., the most popular president this century (elected 4 times) looted almost half of this nation's wealth, while convincing the people that it was for their own good. His right hand man, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, the New Deal architect, who suggested many of F.D.R.'s policies said.

"We shall Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect,
because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference".   Harry Hopkins

 

[Balding_Eagle]

FINALLY!

I had to get up in the middle of the night to see it, but the red, yellow, and green tic-tack-toe twister chart is back!

I’ve missed seeing it.

Yea!

[Yosemitest]

Thanks for noticing.

[elhombrelibre]

Trump would be happy to make deals with Liberals and would “move towards the center,” as the saying goes for those who betray our principles, as soon as he is nominated.

[Balding_Eagle]

AND the ‘Cruz or Lose’ from a year ago too?

That used to dominate every Walker thread.

Damn, will the hits ever stop?

[Yosemitest]

Poor TRUMPSTERS !
They LOVE their LIAR "PRO-ILLEGAL" Trump.

Donald Trump tells immigrant advocates "You've convinced me"
...Trump told the trio "You've convinced me."
The meeting comes several weeks after Trump - one of the nation's most prominent conservative voices - delivered a key note address on immigration reform in Iowa
and warned that that the Senate's current immigration bill "could be a death wish" for Republicans, who "need to 'do the right thing' ."



Trump: U.S. should accept some Syrian refugees
Donald Trump thinks the United States should accept some refugees from Syria due to the "unbelievable humanitarian problem." ...
Trump ... said Tuesday evening that though the migrants could pose a security risk -- floating the idea that there may be individuals with ties to Islamic militants --
he supported allowing them into America. ...



Donald J. Trump - Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Congress must protect our borders first.
Amnesty should be done only if the border is secure and illegal immigration has stopped.
11:08 AM - 29 Aug 2013
1,055 RETWEETS 1,064 LIKES



Message to the GOP: Trump supports amnesty
... On the Kelly File Thursday, Trump's son Eric expressed frustration that the media overlooks this:
The point isn't just deporting them, it's deporting them and letting them back in legally.
He's been so clear about that and I know the liberal media wants to misconstrue it,
but its deporting them and letting them back legally.
Eric Trump is right.
His father has been crystal clear that he wants all the illegals to return and live in America.
Listen closely to what Trump is actually proposing.
In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash earlier this year, Trump explained his plan this way:
I would get people out and then have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal ...
A lot of these people are helping us ... and sometimes it's jobs a citizen of the United States doesn't want to do.
I want to move 'em out, and we're going to move 'em back in and let them be legal.



Donald Trump's companies sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
... Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000,
according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters.
Most of the applications were approved, the data show.
Nine companies majority-owned by Trump have sought to bring in foreign waitresses, cooks, vineyard workers and other laborers on temporary work-visa programs administered by the Labor Department.
The candidate's foreign talent hunt included applications for an assistant golf-course superintendent, an assistant hotel manager and a banquet manager.
Two of his companies, Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC, have sought visas for nearly 250 foreign fashion models, the records show.
Trump's presidential campaign and a lawyer for the businessman declined to comment.
The Mar-a-Lago Club could not be reached for comment.

That should help clarify the issue.