Posted on 08/09/2017 6:33:41 AM PDT by The Numbers
No, Yertle is not a friend. But right now, DT cannot afford to in any way alienate sitting senators, especially those who “voted the right way.” Now, you can say he was “allowed” to vote the right way by McTurd and Collins’s defections, but still, he did the right thing in the end.
I favor Brooks. But if Strange asked for help or a tweet, given his situation, Trump must respond.
I’m starting to wonder of Brooks is just running a faux campaign to siphon voters away from Judge Moore.
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2013/05/stranges-2006-payments-to-former.html?m=1
Yes, I understand the realpolitik of it all, but in a pre-17th amendment Senate, why should the Senator of Kentucky care which person the state of Alabama chooses to send?
Are we to believe that alienating McConnell would be such an offense that he would actively work to throw the 2018 election and give the majority to the Democrats? The election landscape for 2018 is so tilted against the Democrats that McConnell would have to very visibly take a dive to lose. I can't believe the rest of the Republican caucus would silently go along with that as the election season unfolds.
The appearance, to me, is that Trump is ceding too many unnecessary hills in this battle, and is at risk of being cornered if he doesn't force a bold breakout somewhere to push back.
-PJ
Interesting—who had Brooks backed originally?
Mo Brooks backed a succession of non-Trumps, Cruz toward the end. And Brooks stubbornly refused to back Trump even when his nomination was a mathematical certainty. His anti-Trump pronouncements are public record.
Moore will be a magnet for sanity.
Didn’t Reagan have a rule about not getting involved in primaries? I would amend such a rule. Don’t get involved in primaries between qualified conservatives. In Alabama, he should probably stay out, while telling McConnell that he should stay out, too.
Support qualified (meaning they are not nut jobs, and can win the general) conservatives against Rinos. The only exception to that is in a liberal state, it is ok to support a Rino. The RINO should be loyal to the party, not like Collins who is just basically a democrat. A RINO like Linda would be ok in Maine; not in SC.
I don’t remember Reagan’s rule. Though I probably should, he was pretty high on the wisdom scale.
He’s leading in the polls. YOu might be right, however, why didn’t the governor choose him when he had the chance and not the other guy, who has the skeletons in the closet?
He’s leading in the polls. YOu might be right, however, why didn’t the governor choose him when he had the chance and not the other guy, who has the skeletons in the closet?
The Governor who appointed him was a fake conservative himself, and has since been removed due to ethics troubles. That should explain it all.
Trump should have stayed neutral, but he had to support Strange all things considered.
Good for Mo. We don’t need to be bringing more foreigners in just because they have relatives here. The Trump/Cotton/Perdue bill will make sure we restrict immigration to people who will grow the economy.
More so she is a certified US Taxpayer with an IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) and has an Official US Government ID Card (US Military Dependent ID Card). Plus not only is she the wife of a US Citizen, she is the mother of a US Citizen (our daughter).
If the US Government had allowed her in I would most likely still be working my 6 figure job and paying taxes. And that money would have been spent in the USA, instead I am growing the Thai economy.
Do you know how many illegals want to stay because they have anchor babies, or how many Asian women “marry” Americans so they can come to the US and become prostitutes? All I’m saying is we need extreme vetting.
I do not dispute that it happens, can happen, or will happen.
However, we tried to do things legally. I have spent over $10,000 trying to get a visa for my wife, and we are trying again this month. But we don’t want to live in the USA at this time, I just want a tourist visa for her, which she has been denied 3 times.
Hell, if they would allow me I would post a $10K bond that she will return to Thailand. All we want to do is for her to visit the USA. But that has been denied 3 times, at the cost to me of over $120 per interview.
If the USA would have granted her a tourist visa in 2009 I would have spent thousands of dollars in the USA showing her the country. But what has happened is that I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a livable place for us in Thailand, and I am now a parasite sucking pensions from the USA because they refuse to let my wife visit the USA.
For example, and I have not figured this one out yet, my 3 year old daughter is being paid by Social Security. That is over $1K a month sucked from the USA into Thailand. I get US GVT pensions that are being pumped into Thailand because I cannot even bring my wife for a visit. And I think that is totally stupid on the US GVT part.
Well we know Obama was giving visas away like candy, so I don’t know if your wife’s problem was due to politics or something in her background which justifies it. But more foreigners need to have just as much trouble getting into the country as your wife has; that’s a big reason we elected Trump President, and its what he’s working to accomplish with Cotton and Perdue.
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