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We Deserve Better Than Donald Trump (RINO-licious)
Esquire ^ | January 12, 2016 | Mark Salter, longtime McCain aide

Posted on 01/13/2016 6:41:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

I've always distrusted people who never question their assumptions or test their opinions against their critics' arguments. I believe empathy is the starting point of wisdom, and imagining things from an opponent's point of view is essential to solving problems in a closely divided polity.

Yet on the subject of Donald Trump, my mind is closed. Slammed shut. Triple-bolted. Sealed like a tomb.

Nothing anyone could reveal about Trump could get me to change my opinion that he's an @$$hole. And not a "yeah, but he's our @$$hole" kind but rather a cartoon villain, a fake, a cheat, a liar, a creep, a bullying, bragging, bull*******g, blowhard kind of @$$hole....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: bullfeathers; gop; iowa; mccain; trump
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I'm sure the GOP had nothing to do with him writing this.
1 posted on 01/13/2016 6:41:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hemorrhoids can talk? Who knew. I think Jim Carrey had an inkling.


2 posted on 01/13/2016 6:45:00 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We deserved much better than John McCain when faced with a Marxlim usurper, but they had to have an amnesty candidate to keep the Cheap Labor Express running.


3 posted on 01/13/2016 6:47:21 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t wait to see them change their tune after Bernie Sanders has beaten Hillary Clinton.


4 posted on 01/13/2016 6:49:12 PM PST by RC one (race baiting and demagoguery-if you're a Democrat it's what you do.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Candidate Trump’s biggest asset is that he has all the right enemies, and they keep endorsing him by making it known they hate him.


5 posted on 01/13/2016 6:50:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author is a long time McCain aid, this drivel is what I would expect from him.

I know Mccain personally, I'll take Trump over McCain any day.

6 posted on 01/13/2016 6:51:24 PM PST by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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Mark Salter, longtime McCain aide

Well, we get the politicians we deserve, and what we deserve apparently is Ryan and McCain selling out their party for the likes of Pelosi and her party. So, we deserve McCain, which means we don't even deserve Trump.

Should we have a better president than Trump. Well in the first place that assumes that we know what kind of president Trump will actually be. But the second issue it assumes that a better candidate is running. Who is that? Jebbie, I presume is this GoPeer's "candidate" of choice. Run for President? Well, I don't even think Jebbie can run for coffee.

You could make an argument for Cruz, but he doesn't because I presume he likes Cruz no more than Trump.

7 posted on 01/13/2016 6:52:16 PM PST by AndyJackson
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Mark Salter, longtime McCain aide

Yeah, like I am interested in anything you say.

The only @sshole I see is the author.

Not good for him to put this in print. Jeb or Rubio is not going to be the nominee, Mark.

8 posted on 01/13/2016 6:53:06 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Odd venue—Esquire has never been sympathetic to Republicans.


9 posted on 01/13/2016 6:53:32 PM PST by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The you in my post refers to the author, not you 2nd.


10 posted on 01/13/2016 6:54:52 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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We Deserve Better Than Donald Trump...

Well, the only candidate that is better on paper than Trump is Cruz, but I'll take either one over any other name, in any Party.

11 posted on 01/13/2016 6:56:58 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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I grew up in Iowa, where people are widely...

Oh Salter shut your face. Wasting time reading this -0-

12 posted on 01/13/2016 6:59:35 PM PST by Mr Apple ( TRUMP 2016 - - BUILD THE WALL - - NO TO ALL ISLAMIC MUSLIM RAPEFUGEES)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain started ISIS, the benghazi coverup
and the initiation of IRS abuse.

He and his aides belong before grand juries.


13 posted on 01/13/2016 7:01:02 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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I would add as a footnote that Esquire does not seem to maintain particularly high standards of discourse and allows the use of 4-letter words by those educated to know much better words. That this author resorts to them suggests that this defender of the GoPee status quo has no better argument than guttertalk for his positions.

But we knew that. That is how we got Ryan in place of Boehner and the continued existence of McConnell.

14 posted on 01/13/2016 7:02:14 PM PST by AndyJackson
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I am hoping that next year at this time, Mark Salter is unemployed.

Go Kelli Ward!


15 posted on 01/13/2016 7:04:29 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We deserved better than Barack Obama, too. Where were you then, Skippy?


16 posted on 01/13/2016 7:10:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We deserve better than Esquire!


17 posted on 01/13/2016 7:13:54 PM PST by GilGil
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I used to read and enjoy Esquire ...a long time ago it was interesting.


18 posted on 01/13/2016 7:18:21 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Mark Salter wants to see a picture of an a—hole, all he has to do is look in a mirror. Or look at a picture of McCain.

The GOPe is really peeing their britches these days!


19 posted on 01/13/2016 7:21:56 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Trump or Cruz in 2016. No others need apply.)
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To: Aria

I have not read Esquire in 25 years and I’m 58.


20 posted on 01/13/2016 7:22:31 PM PST by GilGil
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