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To: P-Marlowe
Geez, if any other candidate had said what Trump has said or donated to people that he has donated to, he would be pilloried on this forum by 99% of the Freepers.

Of course they would, because none of them are the type of man Donald Trump is. Any rational person can look on TV and watch as Trump beats the hell out of the media and dominates everywhere he goes. But only a nasty Cruz-bot-- the same group of people who are maligning FR on another website and frothing at the mouth as if Trump is Hitler (and even making those comparisons)-- can look at all of that and interpret Trump as being a mush.

But if Cruz said it, I guarantee, there would be reason to fear, because Cruz has never won a single battle he's gotten into. Even the much vaunted gang of eight fight is merely spun as a victory, even though the bill passed the senate and Cruz's amendments failed. If anything, Cruz's best victory is the TPA fight, since he voted against amendments that would have made it better and campaigned with Paul Ryan to get it approved.

62 posted on 01/26/2016 11:30:57 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

unless you count the USSC and winning the nomination and gen for senator from Texas.


92 posted on 01/26/2016 11:53:37 PM PST by Bidimus1
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Of course they would, because none of them are the type of man Donald Trump is.

The fundamental difference between the United States of America and all of the other governments in the history of the world is the Founding Fathers' focus on process over personal. Before the FF, government was considered to be a function of the character of the ruler. Good states had good kings. Bad states were bad because they had bad kings. The focus of all politics was to find the "good" king.

The FF rejected this idea. They believed that all men were flawed and none could be trusted with power. That what made "good" government possible was the structure of the government itself, and the principles behind the laws, not the men carrying them out. Yet here you are, like a modern Loyalist, asserting that what will make Trump a great president is not his core ideological principles, not the laws and structures he will put into place, but because he is a different "type of man" than others. It is the definition of the royalist worldview. Regardless of what Trump might accomplish as president (and I will vote for him in the general vs. Hillary, if those are my choices), the reason you posit for supporting him is UnAmerican (and I don't use that term lightly). The FF would reject it out of hand, and they actually did have greater men than those around them!

177 posted on 01/27/2016 9:02:53 AM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

P.S. what are Donald Trump’s faults? Where does he fall short, in your estimation? Or is he a “perfect” man?


178 posted on 01/27/2016 9:03:56 AM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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