Posted on 08/02/2015 7:55:27 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Seriously ladies and gentlemen, I haven’t been this excited about a republican presidential candidate since 1980, when Ronald Reagan wiped the floor with Jimmy Carter’s saggy butt! Love him or hate him, you must admit that Donald Trump is exciting the CRAP out of the silent majority and he’s the hot topic regarding the 2016 presidential race. We DON’T NEED anymore wussy-assed, namby-pamby, politically correct candidates for president. We need a man who is a LEADER and knows how to make the correct critical decisions to benefit this nation.
I personally am SICK TO DEATH with “progressives” in BOTH the democrat AND republican sides of the aisle, they have brought this nation to the brink of ruin with their idiotic ideas and policies.
And don’t even get me started about the idiotic marxist community organizer who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, that idiot has almost destroyed this country. And I’m sure as hell not a fan of the many political dynasties either, idiot politicians begetting MORE idiot politicians…personally…I’d like to see more than HALF of our nation’s elected officials spayed or neutered to prevent them from making more carbon copies of themselves.
According to an article at westernjournalism.com they say:
"When the home team suffers an unexpected and startling defeat on its own field, fans and commentators will most likely take notice. And that’s just what’s happening today as the GOP front-runner for the 2016 presidential nomination, DONALD TRUMP, scores a big win in a state where a rival or two could certainly be considered favorite sons.
The website Florida Politics reports on what it calls the “shock poll” that finds Trump leading Jeb Bush by a significant margin in Florida, the state where George W.’s younger brother served as a very popular governor from 1999-2007.
According to the just-released St. Pete Polls survey of more than 1900 likely GOP primary voters in the Sunshine State:
For the first time this year, Donald Trump tops a state poll of GOP presidential candidates in Florida.
A St. Pete Polls survey released on Wednesday shows the New York businessman with 26 percent support, with Jeb Bush in second place with 20 percent."
What that means in plain English is: Donald Trump is kicking some serious RINO ass and is scaring the living shit out of not only the establishment RINO’s…but every single democrat as well. They know that if Trump makes it to the White House “FUN TIME” is OVER !
GO TRUMP !
Look at post #135.
That's right! Trump's Universal Health Care. It will be big and loud.
Both of his sons are hunters.
He’s pro-gun.
Playing defense ... is for losers.
In 2007, everybody was doing the same thing, letting their fear of Hillary manipulate them into choosing a Republican candidate based on her nomination, and the rally cry was, "Anybody but Hillary!" They were so busy trying to second-guess the Democrats that they got loser RINOs in both 2008 and 2012. "Anybody but Hillary!!!"
Well, they got their wish. They got Obama.
There's only one thing that matters: who the Republican party nominates. Keep looking at shiny objects the Democrats dangle, keep allowing yourself to be whipped up into a frenzy of fear and loathing of Hillary ... and you will be manipulated and led by the nose into more slavery and government tyranny no matter WHO you vote for, Republican or Democrat.
Playing only defense is a good way to lose, and lose big.
Let the Arnold thing go. I know he was a huge disappointment. For many reasons Trump is not Arnold.
There is a LOT of comparison between Trump and Arnold. How many blockbuster movies (don't look now, but those are all products that have the Schwarzenegger name) that won the hearts of Americans did Trump make? No -- Trump developed golf courses and big buildings!
The dif is that Arnold came here from Austria as a young man with not much but a decent business head, dreams, and self-discipline, whereas Trump was BORN the son of a wealthy businessman.
Schwarzenegger pulled himself up from his own bootstraps (which Trump did not), he was a pretty good businessman before he became a movie star, he was every bit as much an entertainer as Trump -- and he said things I wanted to hear, he could win whereas the great conservative Tom McClintock would probably lose even if every registered Republican in California voted for him -- Arnold's big draw was his cross-over appeal. I voted for him enthusiastically because I believed in him the same way you do in Trump -- his track record of very large-scale successes, and I wanted to ignore his leftist tendencies, so I did, and it was dumb of me. It was naïve of me.
The accomplishments were different in details, but the same in that they demonstrated, they proved, a very great ability to achieve difficult goals. Arnold did it, Trump did it, but Arnold wasn't born into it.
I see Trump supporters, their hopeful trust, their projection of their own politics onto a guy who looks and sounds fabulous -- and I see myself back when Arnold was running for Governor and I happily voted for him only to be disillusioned.
Yes, there are HUGE comparisons between the two, most quintessentially, BOTH are famous in America because of being entertainers via pop media.
Un---frickin'---amazing.
The answer would be NO.
It's not for hunting, and it's not for self protection from criminals until the cops show up.
The 2nd Amendment has ONE PURPOSE: to allow Americans to fight tyrannical government if it gets out of control, the same way the Founders fought the British government.
Trump, on the other hand, is on record saying he favors longer waiting periods to buy guns.
Sorta pro-gun ... sorta pro government. What a negotiator -- with rights the Founders considered non-negotiable. Vote for this man at your own risk. And see my tagline.
Amen, fellow FReeper! It is so astounding that folks here are so determined to deny the obvious comparisons between Trump and Schwarzenegger!!
Not that they would ever vote for him. He just owns what hasn’t been dissolved by alchohol in between their ears
What a compelling argument -- as compelling as my answer, "For many reasons, Trumps is another Arnold."
For many “obvious” reasons “that are glaringly apparent to even the most casual observer,” Trump is not Arnold.
A good indication of the man is how his kids turned out.
If you go into NYC’s Trump Tower to lunch or shop, you might run into daughter Ivanka, and the two Trump sons——who actually work for a living.
I should have wrote “again.” I voted for them both.
I agree with you. I hope T. Cruz wins. Even if he does, he has been able to get his ideas across, gain name recognition and experience, and is young enough to try again.
I said it before & I’ll say it again:
The WINNNG ticket is Trump/Cruz
You must...and this is very important...try to understand the difference between a business which operates in the real world main street economy and Hollywood-or-politics from Washington DC.
The latter are far removed from any sense of reality.
So long as that difference is ignored, we will have a declining living standards for middle class America.
Arnold had zero experience in running any real world main street business which must survive in the dog eat dog world of capitalism.
Trump is not my ideal candidate. He has a checkered past on many rock ribbed conservative issues. But he seems to have evolved in the right direction. The best thing going for him is he keeps repeating that his main goal is to make America Great again. Only a hard nosed businessman who has survived in the dog eat dog world of main street economy has a chance to improve American middle class. A professional politician is never going to be able to do it, because we have sunk too far down already. The national debt is astronomical, free stuff from the government is astronomical, taxes and regulations on businesses are excessive.
Only a man who is not afraid to say “YOU ARE FIRED” might have a chance to change the direction around. Smooth speeches from professional politicians are incapable to make America Great again. Just my honest opinion.
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