Posted on 08/19/2015 7:04:16 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Washington (CNN)—Since announcing his campaign in late June, Donald Trump has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading recent polls nationally, in Iowa and in New Hampshire. And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling, his gains among the Republican Party have boosted him enough to be competitive in the general election.
The poll finds Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump by just 6 points, a dramatic tightening since July. Trump is the one of three Republican candidates who have been matched against Clinton multiple times in CNN/ORC polling to significantly whittle the gap between himself and the Democratic frontrunner. He trailed Clinton by 16 points in a July poll, and narrowed that gap by boosting his standing among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (from 67% support in July to 79% now), men (from 46% in July to 53% now) and white voters (from 50% to 55%).
But Clinton still holds the cards overall in the race for the White House, leading four Republican contenders: She tops Trump and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker by 6 points each among registered voters, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by 9 points, and businesswoman Carly Fiorina by 10 points.
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I recognize the strength of the word “never”.
There are situations where I’d vote for an unproven claiming to be conservative over a proven wolf-in-sheeps-clothing “conservative” (think McCain or W). I wouldn’t trust that unproven pol to BE conservative but if those were my options that’s how I’d vote,
Trust but verify. And if that verification shows them to fake conservatives, distrust.
Maybe so, but I always look for the internals and methodology before accepting the results. I looked at the latest CNN poll and couldn't find that info, so I won't be quoting those results.
“Maybe so, but I always look for the internals and methodology before accepting the results.”
I assumed *you* would, but for everyone like you, how many uninformed voters are taken in?
“Trust but verify.”
Quite right, but how to verify under these circumstances?
I'll call it what it is... "BULL$HIT!"
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!
We don’t have any complete unknowns, as the example described. We can easily look at every candidate’s history and determine whether we believe they’re conservative or not. Verification is simple in most cases - how did they vote / endorse policies / author laws in relation to their claim to be conservative?
Some will be more conservative than others (obviously) and
There will never be a candidate with whom you (or me, or anyone else) will agree 100%. Once we know their stances, the goal should be to determine whether the spots where they’re not conservative are acceptable or not. I find it helpful to prioritize my issues by “this is more important to me than that”. For me, the economy, immigration and foreign policy (specifically, how they will combat islamic terrorism) are #1, #2 and #3. For others, Abortion is the top thing. Or Obamacare. Or gun control.
I’m sure others have their own processes - not saying mine is perfect but then, the candidates are not perfect either. They’re just people. They’re not God. Expecting “perfection and 100% lockstep in belief or I’m not voting for you” is a mistake.
Trump and Walker the strongest against the EMail maeven? Interesting day.
The heads of Krauthammer, Will and Rove and others in grave danger of exploding at any moment.
That would make a good photoshop graphic. Trump the big game Rino hunter with elephant gun and their heads mounted on wall behind him....add Yeb’s and Hiliary’s heads too.
Oh photoshop people ...grin!
I can see his campaign slogan now - Trump in 2016: Why settle for a beta male when you know you want an alpha?
“Internals: 27 D 23 R 50 I”
So, essentially, 23 Republicans, 20 of whom are to the left of JFK, 67 full-bore leftards, and 10 nut-bar wackadoodles.
“There will never be a candidate with whom you (or me, or anyone else) will agree 100%.”
For me, conservatism is a seamless garment. Where a “conservative” remains in the grip of leftist delusion, whether it be killing babies, grabbing guns, or encouraging border crashing, that error is a rent in the garment, a great gaping wound that can produce other errors in thinking.
I may tolerate a small tear in a candidate’s worldview, but there are some issues on which he *must* be right or I will not vote for him. In addition to the three above, I would include greentard lunacy, same-sex attraction disorder, socialized medicine, anchor babies and our current immigration laws, foreign aid, reluctance to use military force, and a belief in large government.
Coming down on the wrong side of any of those shows that a man is morally unfit for office. I will no longer play “this is more important to me than that.” No scumbags. Period. No one who is under Satan’s sway, even as regards a single one of the vital issues of the day, is fit to hold office.
“They’re just people.”
That’s not good enough. They have to be right on the vital issues of the day, and they must stand against Satan on all issues.
“Expecting “perfection and 100% lockstep in belief or I’m not voting for you” is a mistake.”
I’ve been hearing that for the last 50 years, that I can remember, and during that time we have had one good president. One. And he had to outmaneuver the pubby elite just to get the nomination. If we had listened to that “expecting perfection and 100% lockstep” stuff we never would have had Reagan, and if we keep listening to it we will never have another decent man for president.
The mistake lies in letting the ruling class flim-flam us into voting for the lesser of two evils. At some point we have to demand of them that they nominate a *good* man for president. We must tell them that we will no longer vote for scumbags under *any* circumstances, and if that means the death of the Stupid Party, good. A party so widely known as “the Stupid Party”—and so correctly—does not deserve to exist.
Libtards are not smart. When they see someone with an IQ over 100, who is also a loathsome avatar of the left, they fall to their knees and anoint him “the smartest person who ever lived.” They lack the ability even to comprehend that there are people with 180 IQs who are fiercely conservative, since, as Doyle informs us, “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself.”
So, since we have both truth and intelligence on our side, why do they run rings around us in all things political?
Well, corruption, of course, but over and above that, cowardice. Pubbies are afraid to speak out like Trump has, much less actually oppose the Satan worshippers. Every time Trump has said something true, the chattering classes have predicted his imminent downfall. What has happened instead? He has just continued to thrive. And even with his shining example before them, the other pubbies cannot find the courage even to speak out, much less act. What a contemptible pack of sniveling catamites.
Expecting perfection? Nonsense. Coming down on the right side of the issues I listed above is the absolute *minimum* that should be expected of any human being, much less a candidate for president. If you are on the wrong side of any of those issues, you already have one foot in Hell and the other on a banana peel. You’re not fit even to write letters to politicians, much less be one, and don’t even think about dating one of my daughters.
As I often say, If a candidate doesn’t drive the leftards into a slavering, convulsing, howling, puking, chewing-their-own-lips-off, full-blown “Exorcist” seizure, that candidate is not morally fit for office.
I admire your convictions and wonde how you handle the continual disappointments you must experience.
Begin each day by telling yourself: “Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness—all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
Marcus Aurelius, ‘Meditations’
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