Posted on 04/22/2016 2:32:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Benny Hill! My favorite.
Sorry, but the Cruzin math here is just like:
2 + 2 + 2 + Some-’aint-never-gonna-happen-miracle = 100 Million
Maybe you should just stick with president Paul Ryan, then. Or Ted Cruz... You know, The guys who have actually been in govt power over those things, when trump just entered politics 10 months go.
Maybe you should stand on requiring all Americans to live by a socially conservative standard of behavior. That is a sure election winning platform. Ask the last conservative who got elected to the presidency.
Surely you will do better with the Bible holding lovable likeable Calgary Ted who can’t even get his wife and kids to kiss him much less his colleagues on Capital Hill and 60 million American voters to win the WH
Reagan made deals, just as Trump will do.
Reagan traded away things that he cared less about for things that he wanted and needed.
The crucial difference is in what Reagan wanted and needed and what Trump wants and needs.
Reagan wanted to rebuild the military, so he budget discipline for military spending.
Reagan wanted to jump start the economy, so he deficits for tax cuts.
Reagan wanted to secure border, so traded Amnesty for ending illegal immigration. (That one did not work out so well)
The question before us today is, what does Donald Trump want and need and what is he willing to trade away to get it?
In the case of Reagan, we had decades of principled positions advocated publically, cogently and forcefully. We knew what he was after.
In the case of Donald Trump, you have no idea. He is saying one thing now, but just a few years ago he was saying the opposite. Even when he advocates a position, he does not do so cogently or forcefully. He is all over the map.
The way I see it, and you might disagree, Donald Trump wants and needs to be President. That is the end game for him. That is the goal. That is what he wants out of The Deal.
What he is willing to trade away to make that deal is everything.
Every single plank of the platform. Every Republican in Congress. Every conservative principle the GOP ever pretended to stand for.
Everything Must Go.
I really, seriously need a “point and laugh” key on my keyboard...
Common Core math.
The guy is good at pulling numbers out of that sunshine-less place. There are actual current delegates listed at sites and he low-balled Trump by 32 and hi-balled Cruz by 137 (169 in Cruz’s favor) for this exercise in futility.
Great video!
“Marco Rubio has 171 delegates. Think Donald J Trump could make a deal for them?”
Almost certainly not.
He failed.
It’s over.
What happened to Delaware?
This is certainly...provocative. I dare not even read the comments.
“What I can’t figure out is why anybody is happy with that prospect, except the Liberals, who will get whatever they want, and have it given to them by a nominal Republican. “
Liberals will not be happy with any Republican, liberal or conservative. Consider the for the time very liberal policies of Republican Richard M. Nixon:
1) Gave us the EPA and OSHA
2) Ended the US dollar backed by gold
3) Opened up China - more radical at the time than Obama’s overtures to Cuba.
4) Detente with the Soviet Union
5) Continued the Democrat Vietnam war started by JFK and escalated by JFK
6) Proposed national health care with federal subsidies
7) Implemented wage and price controls — direct government management of the markets
8) Proposed a negative income tax for poor people
9) Expanded food stamps
10) Implemented supplemental security income for elderly an disabled
11) COLA, indexing of Social Security payments for inflation began under Nixon.
12) Executive order 11478 in 1969 requiring the US government provide equal opportunity in federal employment for all persons. Prohibited discrimination on basis of race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, or handicap.
13) Executive order in 1971 requiring affirmative action for federal contractors
Despite governing as a liberal, Nixon was hounded by the press and the Democrats in Congress. The crime for which he was impeached — covering up a third rate burglary — pales in comparison with the current POTUS who routinely violates the Constitution, rules through imperial edicts, kills American citizens with drone strikes and gun running, chooses which laws to enforce, spies on American citizens, and uses the IRS against political enemies.
Of course the key difference between Nixon’s era and today is Nixon faced a real opposition party in Congress. Obama enjoys a Congress fully collaborating with his policies.
The Democrats will fight a President Trump just as aggressively as they fought Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, and will fight a President Cruz or Kasich.
This works better as satire than analysis.
Fiscal Restraint: I think you are wishcasting worse than the author of this article if you believe Donald Trump reign in government spending. Donald Trump is not even pretending to advocate that position. Cutting spending will be the result of disciplined adherence to small government conservative principle. We can't get out of this by saving five cents on a length of pipe, as George Baily would say.
Border Controls: Trump has already advocated Touchback Amnesty. And that is before the horse-trading to come in the General Election. Touchback Amnesty is Amnesty. There will be a system built, but all it will do is legalize the illegal, and it will do nothing to stem the tide.
Nationalism: As for nationalism, Trump's schtick is already beginning to wear thin. He can't even stand up to bathroom bullies to say that men should use the Men's Room and women should use the Women's Room. We all learned that in Kindergarten. How is he going to stand up for anything when he is already punting on something as simple as this?
That said, if Trump is the nominee, I will vote for Trump. No question.
Wait a minute... I thought Ted Cruz was a first term Junior Senator who had not accomplished anything...
Now I find out that Ted Cruz has been at the center of power over everything!
Pick one and stick with it!
AM, I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but why are my comments being moderated?
I don’t think I am being abusive or insulting. I am advocating a position, but I kind of thought that was what this site was all about.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. Oh, I forgot, you don’t sleep at night. or in the day.
LOLOL...
Posting machine never sleeps :)
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