We all know why:
1. The NSA 2. alliance with the democrats in their hatred for conservatism
Pretty good summary explanation.
While I agree, and I hope this new wave of young Republicans can change this. I’m getting sick of Trump. What does he do in politics other than run his mouth all the time?
These guys are lifers. There is no way they would ever favor term limits.
Did his “investigators” take time off from digging up “unbelievable, stunning” dirt on the kenyan long enough to discover this for Trump?
"Fold? We, the EXEMPT, support our first Moslem Indonesian King ...
and are behind the IRS attacks on the TEA PARTY and conservatives."
Another important reason is that as long as it costs near to nothing to borrow and spend and be in debt, the Party of Government will continue to kiss up to their Chamber of Commerce buddies who want to use the U.S. taxpayer as their unlimited credit card. The Senate and Congress in turn continue to rake in generous donations. Therefore, no need to really listen to voters or what else is really going on in the real world.
I can remember about three years ago, in highlighting one facet of DC culture, John Lott discussed the cruise ship that is always fully stocked with alcoholic beverages that Senators and Congressmen use very often to discuss and negotiate over things (including Pat Toomey’s cave on gun control following Sandy Hook). Forgive me, but this seems to stick in my mind concerning the culture of government.
This guy is nothing but a stalking horse.
The NSA has a record of everything that anyone in Congress ever said or posted on any electronic device and the tools for extracting much more information about movements and meetings extractable from that. There is blackmail material on every member. The bar for what constitutes “damaging” information is set extremely low, besides. ALL of the members are subject to blackmail. That is why so many of our tea party young bucks become cowed sheep within minutes of taking their seats after election. There is no cure for it. The situation is permanent. We live in a dictatorship. It will get worse before it gets worse.
Face it, most politicians LIE about what they believe to get elected.
The reason it's so easy for them to fold... is because they are not folding. They are like brer rabbit saying:
Please Dont Throw Me In Dat Briar Patch!
They make a show of it to make it look like they tried to fight it and promise to fight on in the future, but in reality they are honestly relieved.
Wasn’t it Margaret Thatcher that said “Compromise is the absence of leadership”?
That kind of sums up the problem in a nutshell.
Like him or not, Trump calls it as he sees it and correctly.
It is not bad negotiating if the gope is getting what they want
Note to Breitbart - no one cares what Trump, a liberal one day, a "conservative" the next, thinks.
I don’t want Trump to enter the GOP primary. I’d rather he keep his powder dry.
I want him to enter the general if the GOP foists a Jeb on us. At that point, we might as well go for the downs because there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary & Jeb. Trump may be able to run under one of the parties that is set up on the ballot in all 50 states.
That will be a real contrast!
Little difference than from the Hastert-Frist-Lott era.
Sell-outs to the establishment, as they ignore the citizenry.
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It is so bad now that 1-inch-away-from-bolting Mark Levin is writing another book.
Can Hannity be far behind?
This election will be a good test to find out who Trump really is. For years, he has talked a good game, but accomplished nothing. This has made him an enigmatic figure. With reason, people could view him as being anything from a lightning rod, acting on the behalf of the GOP-e, to a self-aggrandizing blowhard, to a frustrated agent of change against the status quo in the Republican party. All portrayals are simultaneously justifiable, and also lacking real evidence.
The problem is that, since 1984, the Republican party presidential field has held a sad pattern. A single establishment candidate, lacking in any real appeal, ideas, or prospects, going up against a field of the most God-awful non-establishment candidates imaginable. The only possibility of a general election win has been to hope that the Democrats select someone even worse than the GOP-e candidate, because the non-GOP-e Republican primary candidates have been essentially unelectable.
This year, that pattern changes. First, the Republican base appears to have had enough, and will not simply go along. Second, and in conjunction with the first, the establishment selection is getting no traction at all. Third, and most importantly, the primary field consists of two real, solid, alternatives, in Walker and Cruz. In fact, the next tier of non-GOPe candidates (Jindal, Paul, and maybe Rubio) are (very) arguably better than any non-GOPe candidates since Reagan. While it is quite debatable that the 2nd tier is any good, what isn’t debatable is that the election cycle is fundamentally different than any over the last 30 years.
What is happening is simple. The Reagan generation is coming into their own. Walker, Cruz, Jindal, and the rest, were all shaped with Reagan as the model of Republicanism, where the Doles, the Bushes, the McCains, the Romneys, were the imposters.
Where does this leave Trump? For the first time, he can positively affect a Republican primary. Or, he can negatively affect a Republican primary. He has considerable presence and influence. And we can now find out who he really is.
Trump & Perot, neither one had or has a plan other than well placed homilies.
They could even fold a fitted sheet.