Posted on 07/19/2015 1:09:03 PM PDT by jimbo123
Republicans’ swift condemnation of Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about Sen. John McCain’s military service marks a turning point in the party’s cautious approach to the billionaire-turned-presidential candidate.
But Trump simply may not care; indeed he seemed to bask in his McCain takedown.
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Trump pressed ahead Sunday with his critical remarks on McCain, who had no comment. He said the senator has been “all talk, no action” on looking after military veterans. McCain stirred Trump’s anger last week when he said Trump’s comments about immigrants had “fired up the crazies” at a Phoenix rally.
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I meant McCain (not Trump) didn’t really right Obama. What a limp candidate he was.
The sun shines.
Water is wet.
It's dark at night.
If it’s that obvious then why have so many here taken the WaPo
story about Trump as the truth?
Can you help me understand the difference between the two? It is getting to be quite unclear.
No hard to figure out.
With progressives driving hard left, left of center to right of center is all wide open for GOP candidates. There aren’t very many moderate Democrats.
That leaves a whole lot of GOP running from left of Center (Rino), with the bulk of the party’s power drifting leftward, and they’re falling all over themselves to be Conservative and Politically correct — which doesn’t work well.
So as far as I see it, Cruz is anchoring the right of Center with everybody else trending towards the left. Trump is a blank card. I think he’s shooting for Time’s man of the year.
As for Trump running a 3rd party? Doesn’t guarantee a win for Clinton. John Anderson tried the 3rd party run vs Reagan and Carter matchup and Reagan still managed to win a definitive landslide.
Cruz is the most Reagan like at this point, but he needs to raise his ‘likability’ factor, he seems to have the personality for it.
Hmm. So now it’s TRUMP who has “taken down” McCain.
Thanks for the post. I was just thinking that Trump should lay out the facts of McCain’s service and let the people decide. No fuss or fanfare. Just the facts as you have laid out.
I got the post off the comment section on FOX news anti trump post. Thousands of comments. Few are pro McCain
Our veterans and their families have Mr Trump’s 6
Honestly, I can’t say that I trust any of them. I’ve been burned too many times by hoping politicians will actually do something while in office. I’m tired of all the corny, vague cliches they come up with for their campaigns. Things like, we have to fight for America! or It’s a new morning in America, etc. They don’t mean anything.
It will be refreshing if anyone running for office actually does what he promises he will do. Most of the time pols make the same old promises, knowing they won’t and can’t keep them. They all promise security, better government schools, jobs, preserving social security and medicare, and on and on. I don’t trust any of them.
Trump has cut into the poll numbers for Cruz and others. He is wooing the angry, anti-Bush, anti-establishment voters. We’ll see.
Lee Rodgers, a talk show host in the Bay Area (died a few years ago) used to say “Never fall in love with a politician, he’ll eventually break your heart.”
The best you can hope for is someone that “is going your way” at least for a stretch. And it isn’t that politicians are worse than you and me, rather they’re human like you and me.
And like you and me, they put “number one” first, so you can trust them to put their self interests first (like you and I do). To the extent that their interests overlap yours, then you can trust them to do what you would do, more or less.
What you never want to do is give anyone, no matter how righteous, too much power, because the temptations that go along with power can be too much for just about anyone to resist.
Potentially the politicians that could have the most power are the ones that have the opportunity to rule over all of us - i.e. the central government, in our case the federal government.
The founders understood this weakness of human nature very well - that is why they gave the central government very limited and well defined responsibilities and associated powers. They left the rest of the powers to the individual states and lower jurisdictions, thus allowing for a) each jurisdiction to experiment with different laws, essentially experiments in governance, thus allowing for evolution in governance, where the better ideas would be copied and the bad ideas would die out, and b) the individual resident to easily vote with his feet if he didn’t like the laws where he lived.
Of course over the past 240 years not much of this beautiful framework remains. What we have today the founders would not recognize as their offspring - they would despair at the mess we’ve made of things and probably call for another revolution.
Trump, Cruz, Perry, Walker, Rubio, Christie, Huckabee, Santorum, Fiorina, Clinton, O’Malley, Sanders...
Trust (in rank order highest to lowest): Trump/Cruz (tied), Santorum, Walker, Huckabee
Neither trust or mistrust: Fiorina
Don't trust: Perry, Rubio, Christie
Trust to do the exact opposite of what is good for the country: Clinton, O'Malley, Sanders
Great post. Too bad we have strayed so far from what the founders intended.
They said “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance “.
We the people have failed miserably at that.
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