What do we see here?
Let me guess...
...a WHOLE lot of OTHER candidates missing?
Posted on 02/20/2016 8:55:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Here is an insight for anybody that was not raised a Southerner.
As much as no one likes to talk about it here, the South is a vast "defeated nation." We should have "defeated nation status" just like Japan, Germany and Italy did after WWII. But wait, in that sense we had "The Reconstruction", with a military occupation and all that goes with it for 12 years as our "defeated nation.", didn't we? To this day monuments of our "defeated nation" are being removed all across the South.
The result over time was a heightened sensitivity and an amplified patriotism as an attempt to prove ourselves. It's the major reason that more Southerners join our military per capita than from any other region.
Southerners also still have a small spark of a grudge against the Federal Government (and its politicians).
The other effect of abject defeat is that we hate losing. Because of our heightened nationalistic pride, we feel acutely that the impact of unfettered illegal immigration, the threat of Islamic terrorism, the harsh economy on our poorer region of the country is a loss of our sovereignty under the US Constitution.
Donald Trump is a winner that is taking on all the demons that have been a bane on our existence. Of course we'll vote for him.
What do we see here?
Let me guess...
...a WHOLE lot of OTHER candidates missing?
Oh??
once again, two-thirds of Republicans do not want Cruz but are split among the alternatives.
once again, two-thirds of Republicans do not want Rubio but are split among the alternatives.
If would be apt.
HMMMmmm...
The fact is, Rubio got 22.5% of the vote. 77.5% did not want Rubio.
The fact is, Cruz got 22.3% of the vote. 77.7% did not want Cruz.
Likewise...
Cruz is no Ronald Reagan;
Rubio is no Ronald Reagan;
Kasich is no Ronald Reagan;
Bush is no Ronald Reagan...
DAMN the 'nuances'!!
Full speed ahead!
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Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
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[Applause. Pappy turns away from the mike, towards Everett]
Pappy O'Daniel: [no-nonsense] Ain't you, boys?
Ulysses Everett McGill: Governor, it's one of our favorites.
Pappy O'Daniel: Son... you're gonna go far.
Yes, I'm aware there is legislation in the pipeline, wanted by the Chamber, that would begin importing H-2 green card workers for semiskilled blue-collar jobs in great numbers.
What can I say? Businessmen just hate to meet a payroll, esp. if they can't cheat people and screw with their overtime pay. Houston's Channel 2 News and the L.A. Times visited New Orleans a year after "Katrina" and caught the contractors there a) importing and employing illegals and b) caught them dead-cold shortchanging the workers on their pay, pencil-whipping their hours.
One of the cheats was caught telling a reporter, "Well, at the end of the month you really can appreciate that flexibility that the illegals give you", meaning the ability to make your own numbers better by screwing guys who walked 1900 miles to come to work for you illegally.
These guys are choice, and they remind us why Jesus hated hypocrites.
he also had an easily critiqued history and absolutely no political experience.
Look how that turned out?
He wouldn’t terrible, no worse than Hill. A republican congress with him for president would keep him in check. At least that’s what my optimistic husband says.
You asked for comments and this is my comment.
Do you think it is at all possible to write something, anything, which does not include condescension?
Once I got to the condescension, I was really turned off. I scanned the rest and it did not sound particularly insightful, but I admit I was biased at that point, biased against you.
For the opponents of Trump, please consider this:
You do not know me, you do not know my intellect, my education, my background, my life experience or my work history. Try to keep that in mind when you (once again, for the 1000th time) describe what Trump supporters are thinking or feeling, or why they support Trump.
Please bear in mind, you may actually not know what you are talking about. As just one person, I can absolutely tell you, you do not know what you are talking about, because it never describes me, that much I know.
I say this respectfully and with friendship.
That, Elsie is amazing.
But if they deprive front-runner Trump of his prize, millions of voters will sit it out in November.
This is something nobody should worry about until Trump actually picks up the required delegates...if he does not, then one cannot say he is the clear choice of the people...
OTOH, should convention shenanigans occur with the clear winner, well, buckle your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride...
So where now? Rubio can't win alone. Cruz can't win alone. They are like Germany in WW I---they each need an ally. But do they gang up on Trump (hating each other as they do)? Or does one deal with the Donald? You know my prediction (and so far I have been right on Trump) from last summer. Cruz and Trump met in NYC twice, an hour and a half each time. They were'n't looking at Jimmy Chu catalogues. The deal then was, I remain convinced, three fold:
1) Keep from attacking each other as long as possible. (Grade: A+). They managed to only say nice things about each other until December. Remarkable. I remember the second debate (I think second) where the moderator tried to get Trump to say something bad about Ted and he said "Oh he's all right. Don't you worry about him."
2) Once they had to fight, they agreed it would be no holds barred. I am sure back in June and July Trump said, "When we come to that point I'm using everything--birth, flip-flops, anything I can," and I'm sure Cruz said "same here. I will call you a liberal, question your values." May the best man win.
3) Where we almost are now: Ted has MUCH more in common with Trump than Rubes: they are both outsiders, despised by the party and elites, pretty much on the same side of the big issues. I think Cruz knows that with Trump he would have a good shot at the Supreme Court. With Rubes, I think he knows he'll be a convenience, completely ignored if they win.
If I am Ted Cruz I give it til Super Tues, but the reality in "deal making" is you have to deal while you have cards to play. If Trump wins many more, Ted's cards will be gone.
I'm fine with Trump or Cruz, but it's looking like trump has the clearest route and possibly the best chance to beat the other side (Hillary and Bernie are the other side, not Trump or Cruz for those who have a "really strong preference" but many seem to have forgotten that.). March is about here and that's when i was expecting things to clear up a bit - with Jeb out too, things are looking like Trump/Cruz/Rubio duking it out to settle the dust and Rubio will have the support of the insiders and others who really want Hillary.
Gingrich didn’t win 38,000 vote in IA and come away with just one less delegate, either.
Plus, look at Trump’s wife and look at Newt’s.
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