Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread XXIII

Free Republic ^ | 10 February 2016 | Windflier

[Windflier]

DO NOT VOTE ON THIS THREAD.

This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.

If you'd like to vote in the caucus, please look in the sidebar for the link, or check downthread here.

Thanks, and let 'er rip!

Windy

[txnativegop]

Go Cruz!

[Bobalu]

Go Trump!
Go Cruz!
Go Hillary! (back to hell where you belong)

[Lonely Bull]

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, most recent 15 days

Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
2/11	[link]	[link]	[available later]	23
2/10	[link]	[link]	[link]	22
2/09	[link]	[link]	[link]	21
2/08	[link]	[link]	[link]	20
2/07	[link]	[link]	[link]	19
2/06	[link]	[link]	[link]	18
2/05	[link]	[link]	[link]	17
2/04	[link]	[link]	[link]	16
2/03	[link]	[link]	[link]	15
2/02	[link]	[link]	[link]	14
2/01	[link]	[link]	[link]	13
1/31	[link]	[link]	[link]	12
1/30	[link]	[link]	[link]	11
1/29	[link]	[link]	[link]	10
1/28	[link]	[link]	[link]	9

Table 2: tables with older threads

Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

[Calpublican]

There is absolutely no equivalency between Trump & Cruz.

Trump is liberal (although his positions change daily he appreas to be liberal by history and nost of his current statemments)

Cruz is a died-in-the-wool conservative.

Those who say Trump or Cruz are not paying attenbtion.

[Calpublican]

Go Cruz! Although on this “conservative” forum I’m not sure Conservatives are in the majority any more.

I am searching elsewhere for a true Conservative base. My Twitter account is peopled by Conservatives for sure.

If you don’t have one I suggest you go to Twitter. Probably down the road I will just go there. You can choose whom you wish to associate with.

This place is becoming a cesspool of liberal so-called Republicans or Trump Republicans which equal Democrats.

[Bobalu]

Trump can WIN!

Cruz can make that win into a beautiful thing!

That’s why I say TRUMP/CRUZ 2016

(Just imagine Cruz having two terms after trump’s term/s)

[going hot]

The cesspool is between your ears.

[TontoKowalski]

I want a WALL and I want the Muslims kept OUT.

I've found my candidate, but y'all please continue to debate who said what to whom when.

[Nacho Bidnith]

They hypocrisy of the Cruz supporters here is staggering.

Calpublican, you stated earlier today that Trump wouldn’t be able to keep any of his promises with regard to immigration and when I posted a detailed rebuttal to your argument, addressed to you, you completely ignored it.

On every Trump thread the Cruz supporters pop up claiming to know for a fact that Trump is lying, he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing just waiting to lie his way into office so he can enrich himself and his friends and ask how can anyone be so stupid to want to vote for Trump.

They claim to know for a fact that Ted is the real deal and how he is our only salvation, but completely ignore or try to explain away things he’s said and done that don’t fit the conservative narrative.

What I’ve concluded is that given the state this country is in, what we need is a populist candidate heavy on the nativism. I don’t care about conservatism anymore. I’ve voted for the most conservative candidate my entire life that was running as a republican and the only one that didn’t disappoint me was Ronald Reagan.

Donald Trump is addressing the issues that I’m concerned with and I like the solutions he’s offering. Obviously, you disagree but I’m going to vote the way I want and you’re free to do as you wish. But while I’m at it, you should know that your constant appearances on every trump thread is tiresome in the extreme.

I would be willing to bet that you have not converted a single vote from Trump to Cruz so please, stop doing what you’re doing here. It’s not working and all you’re doing is alienating the people that don’t agree with you, but will still be here after this election.

As far as I’m concerned, people on the far right are as bad as those on the far left, and just like them, are stuck on stupid. Please stop acting like them.

[higgmeister]

Cruz can make that win into a beautiful thing!

read my tagline

[higgmeister]

If you don’t have one I suggest you go to Twitter. Probably down the road I will just go there.

Please do, I am not an airheaded teenager that tweets like a twit all day.

[Pollster1]

Seven left.

Bush, Rubio, and Kasich are RINO insiders.

Trump, Cruz, and Carson are outsiders.

Gilmore is a footnote in the campaign, without enough support for anyone else to notice that he’s an insider.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

This list provides two daily round-ups of Trump-related titles on FR,
to cut the clutter and simplify finding your area of interest.
If you are a Trump opponent, you won't be happy here.

To be added to or dropped from this ping list,
post your request on the thread below or freepmail to Albion Wilde.

* * *

Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 5:30 PM to 11:59 PM EST, 2/10/16:
Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread XXIII
Free Republic Caucus 2016 02/11
How the presidential campaign looks through the eyes of a foreign journalist [WaPo; German journalist]
Who is Donald Trump [interesting read]
Technology and the 2016 election: Ted Cruz's secret weapon?
How to talk to your kids about Donald Trump (funny)
Marco Rubio in 2nd Place in Florida, New Poll Finds (Jeb polls at 4% and in 5th place)
Trump and the Culture of Political Correctness
Cruz to GOP: It's either me or Trump
Trump in the Dumpster: Ego Stroking or Smart Branding?
NH Primary: More Voters Vote Republican than Democrat (284,120 vs. 250,983) R+33K
SHOCK: Ford Makes Massive Announcement - Trump Was Right About Everything
Straight Outta New Hampshire [PJ Media]
Watch: Johnny Depp Is Donald Trump In 50-Minute Mock Doc 'The Art Of The Deal: The Movie' [TDS alert]
The Islamization of America? Contemplating the Unthinkable [on the issues]

[AndyJackson]

Trump is liberal Cruz is a died-in-the-wool conservative.

You are playing pin-the-label on the politician an declaring "I win," playing the logical fallacy - that virtually all Curzers play - of elevating definition over substance. It's a form of cheating, and you Cruz supporters are painting your candidate in a far uglier light than he in fact is.

What you mean to say is that Cruz is a social conservative, and what you fail to recognize is that the war on political correctness is just as much a war against your form of political correctness as it is against the Democrats' form of political correctness.

Your ideology is no more going to solve the world's problems than is Hillary's.