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Is There Any Precedent in History for Donald Trump?
Townhall.com ^ | September 29, 2015 | Michael Barone

Posted on 09/29/2015 5:14:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

How does comrade Trump pay for this??
Socialist Trump for gov’t paid health care for all.
So arrogant he believes he can actually make socialism work.
Nearly 70% of Americans do NOT WANT socialized medicine. DID YOU NOT HEAR IT OR READ IT MR. TRUMP! Just sub in dictator 0 for dictator Trump. Straw that broke the camel’s back. All the conservative words he speaks are to tickle your ears into voting for him. He has no record for you to look at. So you can’t truly judge the truth of his statements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=29&v=6inQmf96SYQ


21 posted on 09/29/2015 5:48:41 AM PDT by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: dp0622

It’s a beautiful bridge. In my lower middle-class household, it was considered a treat to drive over it for the first time back in the 60s!


22 posted on 09/29/2015 5:49:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Kaslin
Is There Any Precedent in History for Donald Trump?

Moses?






Just kidding. :)

23 posted on 09/29/2015 5:51:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
there’s H. Ross Perot

I was at Perot's announcement for the '92 run. It was clear then that he never intended to be President. He just hated Bush '41 (some would argue with justification).

Perhaps Trump is running for similar reasons (take out Jeb!) or as a marketing campaign for his brand.

We shall see.

24 posted on 09/29/2015 5:52:12 AM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: Lisbon1940
Moses was the true autocrat on the dais.

Ha! You beat me to it. Great minds think alike!

25 posted on 09/29/2015 5:52:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: miss marmelstein

It is beautiful. I’ve looked at pictures of before during and after it was constructed. Incredible.

Staten Island went from farm country to little Italy (including me) after that bridge was built :)

My father used to complain in the 70s that he had to pick up grandma and then take her home costing 4 dollars each way :)

Lower middle class growing up too, but we had a lot of fun! :)


26 posted on 09/29/2015 5:54:21 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: C. Edmund Wright; LS

Check out #19. LS beat you by less than a minute.


27 posted on 09/29/2015 5:55:36 AM PDT by Gritty (The question is not will Muslim migrants kill Americans but how many will they kill?-D.Greenfield)
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To: dp0622

It was a great time. Eventually, my immediate family moved to NJ and we visited all the relatives in Queens before the bridge was built. You had to travel through Manhattan to get there. Quite a haul. I suppose my father was happy when that bridge was finally built - it really cut down on the travel time.


28 posted on 09/29/2015 5:57:12 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: SMARTY
Sure...He’s in the WH NOW... ‘Mr. Long Shot’ that no one anticipated or expected to succeed....

That is not true at all. Back in 2008 I was telling people to shut up about criticizing Hillary. I said we WANT Hillary to get the nomination, because if Obama gets it, the media will have orgasms promoting him. He will rouse every minority of voting age to go out to the polls and vote for him.

White Liberals will crawl over broken glass in an effort to vote for him.

I recognized Obama as the very real danger he turned out to be. As a matter of fact, I was pushing the idea of us (GOP) running a black man in 1996, because I knew he would win by a landslide. We could have taken advantage of that same media "Love Fest" and gotten conservative policy and conservative judiciary enacted with little additional effort. The country would be in a much better place financially, socially, and from a national security perspective.

The Black vote is generally 90-95% Democrat. You get any significant portion of that, and it's a done deal. The Democrats simply cannot win without a near unanimous support of the Black vote. A Black Republican running for President in 1996 would have done this.

29 posted on 09/29/2015 5:59:30 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Didn't Rush advise Republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary back then to keep Obozo out? I seem to remember that but I detested her so much I could not do it.
30 posted on 09/29/2015 6:03:51 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Kaslin

Notice that Trump is the only one who’s actually presenting high concept ideas? Others are either too specific or too elusively vague. Trump is showing us how top level managers work. The details are left for the underlings while the manager keeps everybody on focus and pointed in the right direction.

Trump will set the tone and focus of the country. Hopefully we’ll elect him and get U.S first attitude along with the mandate to brow-beat the ridiculous politically correct.


31 posted on 09/29/2015 6:06:34 AM PDT by Fhios (Racial balkanization is just the .....)
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To: Ditter
Didn't Rush advise Republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary back then to keep Obozo out? I seem to remember that but I detested her so much I could not do it.

Yes he did. It was called "Operation Chaos". He urged people in open primary states to go to the polls and vote for Hillary. I think Rush realized also that a black candidate would galvanize liberals and minorities and would pose a very great threat.

Unfortunately Obama was already doing the Chicago Mafia style of cheating and intimidation against Democrat primary voters, and I wouldn't doubt that there was a lot of ballot box stuffing as well.

Obama is criminal scum, and he needs to end up in prison.

32 posted on 09/29/2015 6:09:50 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: miss marmelstein

Yeah, that’s a hike through Manhattan!!

This brought back memories :) Grandma, dad, uncles and aunts, all moved on to be with God.

They were great times, weren’t they?

and we didn’t need fancy gadgets or expensive toys to be happy.


33 posted on 09/29/2015 6:11:52 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: miss marmelstein

Costs $15 to cross the lovely Verazzano-—NYC extortioners.


34 posted on 09/29/2015 6:13:21 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: Gritty

19 was a very well thought out response....and I tend to agree with it. I would be interested on your take, and our relevance, on the insider Democrat establishment cronyism and ties that run thru the family, dad and DT.


35 posted on 09/29/2015 6:29:40 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode; Kaslin
Is that your only concern?

Yes.


Romney had great hair, didn't do @#$% for his campaign.


36 posted on 09/29/2015 6:30:37 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Kaslin

Nelson Rockefeller ? I don’t think so.


37 posted on 09/29/2015 6:31:41 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: LS

Good post and thoughts. You must be a history professor or something. ;-)


38 posted on 09/29/2015 6:37:00 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: GailA

Preparation-H might help with that case of severe red@$$ you’re exhibiting.


39 posted on 09/29/2015 6:44:44 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Kaslin
Yes, I think there is.
40 posted on 09/29/2015 6:57:01 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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