IT WAS THE STRAWBERRIES
geometric LOGIC
Posted on 04/29/2016 8:27:40 PM PDT by pogo101
Who, with the benefit of hindsight, were your preferences for the GOP nomination, in order?
And if you feel like adding it, whom did you #1 prefer in 2008 and 2012?
Are you thinking that Trump’s adulteries, since they’ve already been admitted and covered endlessly in the NY papers for decades won’t hurt him while Cruz’s maybe adulteries would hurt him? Trying to follow the logic there.
I feel ya in terms of disillusionment. Where to retire to? Costa Rica? Australia?
“As soon as Trump jumped in, I was for Trump, and still am. His policy proposals are more closely aligned with the Republican Party platform than any Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan. “
I agree. Also Trump is a doer, not just a talker. He will accomplish his goals and will indeed “make America great again”.
Voted for the nominee, of course. In November it was about defeating Obama. Sorry more conservatives didn't see it that way.
2012, Cain-- but he dropped out before getting to my state, so Santorum.
Voted for the nominee, of course. In November it was about defeating Obama. Sorry more conservatives didn't see it that way.
2016, Cruz. Lost to Trump fair 'n' square.
Voting for the nominee, of course. In November it will be about defeating the Democrat. Hope more conservatives see it that way.
Brave of you to admit to Giuliani support. (I do not disapprove, at least considering he was in bloodly leftist NYC.) Fistbump, FRiend.
2008: Thompson
2012: Cain
This year: Cruz, Rubio and Trump. Only of those three is still in it.
Romney is and always was a vile anti-conservative POS. I spent years here at FR trying to keep him out of office.
There was no stopping him in 2012, because they stacked the deck for him and there wasn’t anyone to rescue us from it like there was this year.
I’m currently a Cru-bio guy, but I will vote Trump if that is what it takes to avoid Hitlery and 30-40 years of Hitlery judges’ rule.
His actions during 9/11 showed he had gonads. I always have respeced him. In the end between Romney and McCain in Cali Primary, I voted Mittenz
Absolutely a fair comment. And I know you still would prefer Romney to Obama.
I disliked Trump. I despise reality TV and sales men and Trump is the king of sales men. And then he dropped his immigration proposal. No one, and mean no one has ever advocated for something like that in the last 30 years in politics. The media went ape sh*t at Trump and Trump didn't back down at all. He lost endorsements, millions of bucks in deals, was called a racist, and smeared by all the evil lying media whores. When the dust cleared and he was still standing tall and fighting back, I knew we had a leader both with the right ideas and the balls to make it happen.
I did too (vote for Mitt), with nose firmly pinched. Holy shit, was he better than Obama???? You bet he was.
Watching that sideshow of a NON-campaign after McQueeg was nominated (it wasn’t until later I realized that McQueeg was there to play the role of loser, which was almost botched when he put Palin on the ticket, until the RINOs and media went to work on her), I remember seeing Gov. Keating on a news program where he was exhibiting the kind of passion you were supposed to see from, y’know, a bonafide Presidential candidate.
Keating was flabbergasted that the party and McQueeg were doing nothing with the mountain of evidence that could keep Zero out of the White House (mentioning that he’d been the agent in charge of pursuing the very people, the domestic terrorists, who had mentored and recruited Zero to run for office). After watching him, I told my father, “THAT’S who should be our nominee !”
Of course, we know now that the “arrangement” between the corrupt uniparty is each establishment wing gets their 8 years on and off, unless an outsider manages to get the nomination, in which case they get destroyed by both sides. It’s a nice little arrangement. The insiders maintain control, and America and the people circles down the drain.
Well stated. And I say that as a largely anti-Trump guy.
Willard the Socialist was a ringer, just like McQueeg. The other designated loser to stop any Conservative from being the nominee and upsetting the arrangement with the Democrats.
Far worse, actually. Far worse. I didn’t spend a decade of my life warning people what an incredibly dangerous fraud Willard was for nothing.
Yeah. He’s uniparty, but he’s less radical than Obama. At least outwardly.
Now that I think about it, I don’t know how different things would be under a president Romney than they are right now. I can’t see him actually getting rid of Obamacare (Gee Wally, we don’t have 60 seats in the senate, so we just can’t. Oh darn it to heck...) or cutting spending or having a foreign policy much less nonsensical.
Like I said, I’m disillusioned. I’ve been betrayed by Republicans too many times and the country has basically fallen apart. We’re no longer a super power and everyone knows it but us. We thrive on fake economic numbers and phony accounting to keep the lights on, while things look more bleak every day for the future of my children.
IT WAS THE STRAWBERRIES
geometric LOGIC
First place: Donald Trump (only candidate with a chance of reversing the downward spiral)
Middle place: All the others tied (non-Trump and non-Cruz)
Last place: Ted Cruz (opposes American principles like representative government and religious plurality; might pop off nukes if he thought Jesus were telling him to do so)
For me, Cruz was in last place as soon as I saw the notorious Elmer Gantry routines. After Chicago and Colorado, my opinion of him plunged from "last place" to "distant last place."
Early on, I liked Scott Walker because of how he was able to fight the opposition in Wisconsin. I'm still not sure why he fell down as quickly as he did.
I voted for Romney but I always thought he was scum. The only reason he got my vote was Obama but I full sympathized with the people who stayed home rather than voting.
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