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Believe me, I will check it out. That is the kind of thing that if verifiable needs to be known.

Again that part of it may be.

All I am saying is personally I heard something negative how about Wounded Warrior Project years ago and I believe it was along those same lines of most of the money not going to veterans or something along those lines.

No, I do understand the skepticism in this case. I mean that is an extraordinary charge to make against someone. So I completely understand why someone would want verifiable evidence other than social media.

Now I will say that it is something that I could see him doing. In fact, I have wondered to myself if something like that could be taking place. But I wouldn’t want to claim that without some type of evidence .

I saw someone claim that Drudge and Breitbart your paid something as well. If true, that kind of makes the inane little Drudge polls rather irrelevant. But, I don’t actually know if that is true or not. But I have little doubt that that kind of thing is how the Donald does business in some fashion or another.

Perhaps

But it certainly is not the first time I have heard those kinds of things about the Wounded Warrior Project.

Obama captured the imagination of the majority. The ludicrous idea that two people of the same sex can be married has seemed to capture the minds of the majority. At various times the so-called right to kill your baby has captured the minds of the majority. As wrong as the majority seems to be so often these days I think it seems more just to be in the minority.

For anyone else, Trump hasnt walked away some triumphant hero. He pouted because Megyn Kelly was going to be a moderator again, went to Twitter to ask his loyal subjects whether or not he should show up, got upset at Fox News’s response to that, took his ball because people were being mean to him and he might not get his way, sulked off and went home. Now he wants to try to use wounded veterans to prove some perverse point.

Now I will say that indeed he is the type who might be willing to walk away from the table when need be. After all, if the Iranians or the Chinese were to insult him, I have little doubt that he would immediately leave the negotiating table, take to Twitter, and furiously declare them to be losers and idiots.

Really?

Then if Trump isn’t a divider, why is he dividing us?

I know, I know. It’s the fault of all the “stupid people” who won’t get behind Trump.

My understanding is Deace also doesn’t think that will actually happen.

My other understanding is we have a Trump person on here talking about busing people in.

I hope not- and not just for the fact that a guy I don’t want as the nominee would likely win.

I hope not for the integrity of the process. I don’t want any of “our guys” going Obama 2008 Iowa.

And, in watching all of his rallies, you always have a 360 degree angle of the entire venue and can see and account for the whereabouts of every single attendee throughout the whole thing?

It may be a lie. I don’t think it’s necessarily a lie just because “you’ve watched every rally.”

It sounds to me, like worst case scenario, a young Ted Cruz maybe was a little cocky because he was told how talented he was and it went to his head as he kept succeeding.

And then it sounds like he realized that he needed to grow up some.

And now Bob Dole,John Boehner, and John McCain hate him.

Boy, that is just such a black mark on a guy, I tell ya.

I wonder, by chance, if anyone ever has thought that Donald Trump comes across as “cocky”.

We’ll certainly see how this all plays out.

But again, I feel like I do KNOW this.

1. Trump has divided the base.

2. He has probably alienated a fair number of supporters of
other candidates who have, or had, considerable support
themselves, like Carson’s base and Cruz’s base. But oddly
enough, I don’t recall him being THAT hard on Rubio. On Jeb? I guess it depends on whether you consider it harsh to
almost pity him for being “low energy”.

But I am sure there will be Carson people and Cruz people
who will want nothing to do with Trump if he’s the nominee. Perhaps a number of them will still hold their nose. Perhaps a number of them will stay home.

Trump indeed has his own “personality” problems. I recall the Quinnipiac poll in which 50% of respondents said they would be “embarrassed” by a Trump presidency. I recall polls showing similar numbers of Republicans who said they would never vote for him. I believe the New Hampshire numbers showed a significant number of state Republicans who said they would never vote for him.

He can change that, but his mouth is his problem. He is a fighter. No one can deny that. But he also, with what comes out of his mouth IS the dream candidate of every media member and Democrat who thinks today’s republican is nothing but a racist, misogynistic, bigoted, hateful individual.

I don’t like Trump as a candidate. I don’t think he’s the greatest person in the world. But I don’t think he’s any of those things I mentioned based on what he’s said and probably will say in the future.

But I’m pretty sure a significant number of voters DO think that- or can be easily convinced of it. And when you actually have neo Nazis supporting him (not necessarily his fault, but it is what it is and his take no prisoners talk attracts those types at times), it will only reinforce that for those folks.

We’ll see how it plays out, naturally.

And isn’t it interesting that before Donald Trump got in the race, almost everyone on that list who “hates” Cruz, we would have considered it a badge of honor that such was the case?

Isn’t it interesting that if such a article would be printed about Trump, it would barely be read and immediate labelled a hit piece?

Isn’t it interesting that indeed it probably is a hit piece since they mention some screen writer roommate, but neglect to mention roommate David Panton, who was Cruz’s best man at his wedding and endorsed him for president, in a thread also that can be found last year on Free Republic?

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/David-Panton-backs-close-friend-Ted-Cruz-for-US-president_18714041

If EVERYONE hated him at Princeton, how, pray tell, did he get elected to University Council at Princeton University, which he says he later chaired, in his book A Time for Truth?

In that same book, if I recall, Cruz himself admits that he was probably, I’ll say, a little too “eager” when working on Bush’s campaign team.

I don’t think Cruz is a perfect person or a perfect candidate... merely the best in this year’s field.

Isn’t jealousy a “lovely” thing?

There ARE, apparently btw, people who can be found who associated with Mr. Trump, either having worked for him in the past or who had some other dealings with him, who hate him as well.

This is all fascinating and frustrating to watch as Donald Trump comes in and does two things.

He successfully divides the conservative or Republican base and turns us against one another.

He drags, ever so slightly and ever so discretely, but bit by bit, his part of the conservative base who have jumped on his bandwagon slightly but increasingly to the left of where you probably all once were. And everyone on that ride leftward goes “Wheeeee!”, being none the wiser. The things the GOPe said we HAD to do as a party, or as a base, moving more toward the middle, Donald is doing that for them, all while screaming about a wall and Muslims so that no one on that bandwagon really notices.

The thing is, Reagan may have been a Democrat, but even when he was a Democrat he was speaking out and fighting against communists in Hollywood. Noticed this was a FR thread back in 2002.

http://www.wnd.com/2002/10/15537/

The Donald has fought against and spoken out against what exactly as a private citizen or businessman? I know, I know, he “wrote” about illegals and so forth. And tweeted out about amnesty for them after we secure our borders in 2013.

Donald J. Trump Verified account
‏@realDonaldTrump

Congress must protect our borders first. Amnesty should be done only if the border is secure and illegal immigration has stopped.

But since June of 2015, he is absolute, positively the biggest border hawk and invasion stopper alive- which conveniently is a position he took right when he announced his entry into the campaign.

And the guy has the nerve to say Cruz was for amnesty because he “worked for Bush”.

Yuck

Well, I guess at least that is the explanation for why an absolute idiot like Sheila Jackson Lee keeps getting elected.

Naturally, it’s all going to be about turnout.

I know, “duh” statement of the year.

But cripplecreek posted something a few days ago indicating that maybe not even all these “Iowans” at the Trump rallies were even from Iowa- and the same held true in other states as well.

We know, from reports, who seems to have the best get out the vote ground game in Iowa. It’s Cruz, and I’m not even sure there is a close second.

I’ll admit I’d have a nice laugh if Donald just rested on the laurel of the polls, figured Iowa was in the bag, and with not much of a ground game doesn’t win the state.

I’ll also admit that if these people at these rallies do come from other states, I wouldn’t put it past “win at all costs Don” to pull an Obama and bring outsiders in to vote.

Oh I am sure they might. Who knows out of all the things they could key in on, what they might try to trip up the candidates with.

Even though they do of course love Planned Parenthood and the baby murder business.

I suppose it would be, like I said, a bit of a natural question for Cruz since it involves his home state.

She’s just a typical uneducated (I’m talking real world common sense educated) play actor who thinks her little bubble she operates in is an accurate portrayal and read of the world around her.

Or, she’s “young and dumb”.

Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande fit in the same category, as do many others.

I still wouldn’t wish that on them though. A wake up call to reality, something to wise them up, sure. But not that.

I doubt if the Donald could be bothered to care.

Although, if he thought it would score him political points, particularly over Cruz, he would no doubt be the most concerned individual imaginable over such developments.

It would be natural to ask Cruz given his position as a defender of life and it being in his home state, even his home city.

Pretty sad to see people hear smear a great state, one of the more sane ones when it comes to a lot of the issues most of us supposedly care about just because we have to get back at THAT MEANIE TED CRUZ, as Donald Trump supporters (those who clearly are).

Houston is a different animal in Texas though. I don’t live there, but from an outside perspective, it seems like they at this point don’t really care at this point. They did elect the lesbian mayor, who was and is a LGBT activist. Then they re-elected her if I’m not mistaken. But turnout in those races was pretty much a joke. I guess OVERALL, the people in Houston have taken the attitude of “who cares.”

That’s sad if that is the case.

Oh, thank you!

I was quick posting on my phone.

Surprise surprise that CNN would screw it up.

Oddly enough, it seems like Ted Cruz slipped up here. I I’m guessing that he meant 2nd Chronicles 7:14. I do not think we’re standing on whatever boasts Paul made to Titus.