I hope Ted knows what he’s doing. This has me worried a bit.
What in the hell is Cruz doing even being in the same room as this Loony Tune Beck? I do not get Ted’s thinking on this deal at all.
Me too. Beck is an overly emotional loon. If Cruz were to get the nomination, the left will use this association to bash him endlessly. They will of course leave out the fact that most conservatives have washed their hands of Beck.
Just the same, it is very clear that Trump apparently believes that he must deceive people in order to convince them to support him, and THAT means that Trump is a bad call, a bad risk, a loser even if he wins. It is a fact entirely separate from Beck or Cruz.
Palin got me to vote for a wrong guy once, in 2008, the FIRST TIME in more than 30 years that I, a lifelong straight Republican ticket voter, was tempted to skip a Republican on the ballot, let alone one a the top of the ticket.
Still, I held my nose and voted for a WRONG guy because I was willing to risk that he'd possibly implode in office and Palin would step in. Otherwise, I'd have voted third party or done what my mother, after MORE THAN 60 YEARS OF VOTING STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET and being an active Republican in local groups, did for the first time in her life in 2012 (and I made the same choice): simply declined to vote for anyone at the top of the ticket because the Republican was an amoral functional leftist, and only fools vote for amoral functional leftists.
Palin got me to vote for the wrong guy only once. That she backs the wrong presidential candidate AGAIN in 2016, is apparently par for the course, to my surprise.
This has been my warning about Trump since day one. I just don’t like to use the word “Hitler”. Thing is, the Germans didn’t know they were getting a “Hitler” until it was too late.
People who don’t study history often only see it as two dimensional. It is important to understand the deep nuances of how a man like Hitler comes to power. The Trump rise, and his “way” are not exactly the same as Hitler’s, but there are some eerie similarities.
And yes, it CAN happen here.