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....
(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...
Hemorrhoids can talk? Who knew. I think Jim Carrey had an inkling.
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.
I can’t wait to see them change their tune after Bernie Sanders has beaten Hillary Clinton.
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.
I know Mccain personally, I'll take Trump over McCain any day.
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.
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.
Odd venue—Esquire has never been sympathetic to Republicans.
The you in my post refers to the author, not you 2nd.
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.
Oh Salter shut your face. Wasting time reading this -0-
McCain started ISIS, the benghazi coverup
and the initiation of IRS abuse.
He and his aides belong before grand juries.
But we knew that. That is how we got Ryan in place of Boehner and the continued existence of McConnell.
I am hoping that next year at this time, Mark Salter is unemployed.
Go Kelli Ward!
We deserved better than Barack Obama, too. Where were you then, Skippy?
We deserve better than Esquire!
I used to read and enjoy Esquire ...a long time ago it was interesting.
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!
I have not read Esquire in 25 years and I’m 58.
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