Posted on 08/10/2015 6:14:20 AM PDT by libertarian neocon
Last night, instead of focusing on True Detective, I ended up getting into a bit of a flame war on Twitter with some Donald Trump supporters. Oh my, those people have no clue and you really couldn't pin them down on anything. Ask a simple question like "how do you know Trump will govern as a conservative?" and the responses you get are "do your homework", "you're not very bright are you" and "Trump/Cruz is the only hope for this country". The last is would only be true if your hope is for a historic route of the Republican Party. Even with his sky high GOP poll numbers and near 100% name recognition, Trump trails Hillary in election matchups by 15% according to RCP. Cruz, who used to be though of as a bomb thrower but next to Trump looks calm and diplomatic, is behind Hillary by almost 8 points (though I'm not meaning this post to criticize Cruz, he is actually the Republican I agree most with, I just know I wouldn't be able to get elected either). After all, I know that Trump wants to outdo Mitt Romney but I don't think that offending more than 47% of the population is the right goal to have. Between his "blood" comments and his comments with regards to hispanics, he has offended at least 60% of the population. Also you have to wonder whether in the minds of these people if a Cruz/Paul or Fiorina/Rubio ticket would mean the end of this country as we know it?
Another question is do Trump supporters have any idea who Trump really is or are they just so caught up in the cult of personality that they would kill Sharon Tate if he asked them to. All the Trump supporters I was arguing with last night had "Jesus", "God" or "Christian" in their descriptions, which I find rather surprising. Can you think of a GOP candidate who is more the opposite of what Jesus represents than Donald Trump? He is foul-mouthed, thin-skinned, unforgiving and probably has committed adultery in every single one of his marriages multiple times. He would never die for your sins given he won't even admit the ones he makes himself! He's also said that he has never asked God for forgiveness.
Also, every single person had the word "conservative" in their description as well. Trump left the GOP in 1999 to join the Reform Party and did so poorly in their primary that he came in behind Pat Buchanan and John Hagelin, the meditation guru. Did he go back to the Republican Party then? Nope, he became a Democrat! That means that he looked at people like Al Gore, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi and thought, eh, they're a pretty good lot, I'm going with them. He only became a Republican 5 years ago! Other than building a giant wall with Mexico, can you be certain of anything that he will do? My guess is that he would try to usurp as much power for the executive as possible, even more than Obama and then use government power to its limit. Think Juan Peron with a horrible haircut.
Trump and his supporters really give the GOP a bad name.
To pimp one’s blog one only posts a link, forcing the reader to click to read more. This does not qualify as a blog pimp.
I guess every day from now on that Trump continues to lead, around here it will be Thanksgiving with the kids having a food fight at the card table.
Captive audience.
I grew up in LA, had relatives who lived in the Los Feliz area (within walking distance of the LaBianca's), I also heard the late Vince Bugliosi speak while in college ('78).
Bugliosi stated that of all the thieves, murderer's, rapists etc. he dealt with over the years, the only one that truly frightened him was Charlie Manson.
That’s bloody fantastic!
They're not very bright, but they have high self-esteem!
Oh look! Another recent signup! How are things at Jeb’s Headquarters?
LOL, so true. All the pundits, column writers and media hosts have spinning heads and pus shooting mouths like Regan in The Exorcist! They are literally possessed!
It is all giggle worthy.
“...they just so caught up in the cult of personality that they would kill Sharon Tate if he asked them to.”
I never intended to read that essay; I just happened to catch this from the first line of a paragraph. This statement is symptomatic of the wild frenzy and unhinged state of mind Trump’s slogan — “Make America Great Again” — provokes in these fools.
I disagree. If you click on his name to get to his FR homepage you are taken to his blog page.
Oops. I beg your pardon. He does have a FR home page.
“What makes you think Cruz can’t be elected? He is the most credible of the candidates.”
If Cruz rises, he will receive the exact same response from the media. These people aren’t like conservatives, they never, ever, give up.
First fail at attacking Trump. Then go after the people that sincerely support him.
Boy the right is really demonstrating why we seem to not get far these days.
Well get used to it because soon you will be criticizing President Trump. LOL!
I’ve been saying it for months the 2016 race isn’t going to be a 2 party race.
Hillary is going to go 3rd party and is going to present herself as a moderate to the dem candidate radical leftist.
With Hillary going 3rd party, there has to be a 4th party to divide the republicans.
That’s exactly what we are seeing with Trump.
Idiot.
You make too much sense and therefore must be shammed by your betters.
A vanity. Calling supporters of Trump incoherent.
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Just another McCain type comment. So now we are labeled “crazies” and “incoherent.” Great, I consider it a badge of honor coming from the likes of these losers.
Best laugh I've had today so far, thanks!
We like it like that, no one know just how we are thinking....
Trump is an elderly leftist populist who thinks that crotch-grabbing and insults constitute political discourse. He has no conservative views, except perhaps his hatred of immigrants. And many conservatives do not hate immigrants, just the evil ones Obama keeps importing (mostly legally).
I would swear he was being paid by the Dems to make the GOP look ridiculous if I didn’t know that his his own huge ego and huge personal wealth are permitting him to do it at no cost to them.
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