Posted on 07/09/2016 11:04:55 AM PDT by conservative98
Edited on 07/09/2016 11:52:16 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I don’t know this guy but I like the thought of NOT hiring an insider. I hate the cesspool of DC.
Would be a major coup. When Trump wins the presidency, having and in and able to assert influence of the defense intelligence agency, he can go after and purge the CIA/NSA/FBI et al of anti-american interests.
We have a precedent.
The first Republican President picked a border-state Democrat as his running mate to "unify the country."
A month into his term, a Democrat murdered him. His "unifying" VP became President and was an unreconstituted racist and a disaster. No thanks.
Trump has to pick a running mate of absolutely impeccable, genuine, conservative credentials, not only because of the state of the country and Trump's own doubtful history, but because of the very real possibility that -- God forbid, but we have to face it -- the tribalist party will try to take him out.
He can change his registration at any time.
What you miss is that most Democrats & Republicans are not really ideological. Those that are draw the attention, and give those on other sides something to focus on, and to get excited over. But over the past two hundred years, the sustaining motivators for Party identifications, have been at least as functionally based on social identification as on ideological identification.
Today our struggle is NOT Dem vs Rep. That is the BS tug of war the oligarchy wants to distract us with. It is FREEDOM vs OLIGARCHY.
When you read Reddit there are so many young people who have been Dem or call themselves liberal, who get it. Including Bernie voters. Plenty of Dems see the immigration, terror, and economic issues the same as we do. They want to stop government corruption too. What side you are on in issues like gay marriage and abortion IS NOT TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW.
You nailed it! The old left vs right dichotomy is breaking down.
Trump has vision. He is undoubtedly a marketing genius.
I like the way he takes his time to ponder over possibilities, takes time to see a vision that will carry his brand forward.
Bringing an outsider military General with him to Washington DC is brilliant.
I hope he follows through with it.
But I hope General Flynn is in the mode of MacArthur and Patton, not any of the desk warriors that learn weasel tongue like any other DC politician.
Right now, National Security, for lack of a better word, TRUMPS everything!
Bernie voters? "Get it?"
Wow.
The depths FR has sunk to...
Not the Democrats and Republicans I know. Even if Democrats in my part of the country are such for social approval, they thoroughly adopt the ideology.
An extremely positive idea which Trump, hopefully, will follow through on. Consider the alternatives; a gaggle of political assholery from Christie to Kasich to Cruz.
Lord have mercy!!!
Daffy Duck, in an effort to outlaw Duck Season in favor of perpetual Rabbit Season, attempts to become a politician so as to change the law to suit him.[2] Through a civics lesson regarding the United States Constitution and with Bugs' help, Daffy learns that it is "We the People" who run the country, not any one man or duck as he experiences the separation of powers concept of the United States Federal government.
No. It doesn’t. The Constitution is, always has been, and always will be what matters to someone who’s actually an American.
I lost all respect for Zell miller after he endorsed Sam Nunn’s daughter (Michelle) for the US Senate a few years ago. It looks like political favors trumped any conservative views that we swore he had. She is terribly liberal.
No Democrats. No way.
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