Posted on 02/28/2016 3:17:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Remember when Barack Obama promised the world in 2008, only to leave some enthusiasts bereft after he failed to close Guantanamo, much less slow the rise of the oceans?
If we elect a President Donald Trump, you ain't seen nothing yet when it comes to disillusionment.
Imagine the fury among his supporters when their outsized hero is exposed as a huckster who cashes the check as soon as the car is off the lot.
The brash billionaire has sold I-can-fix-it-just-you-watch pledges to millions of voters enraged about a steady stream of hollow political promises. To them, Trump towers as the man who means what he says and who will finally, after a long line of empty suits, deliver.
Fully 43% of Republican voters see him as the candidate most likely to get things done in Washington -- more than double the number who have confidence in his next closest rival.....
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Strength is not of itself a bad or good thing. It’s a resource that can be put to bad or good purposes.
Donald has proposed a number of things that are constitutionally unviable. My question is, however, where have those things gone? I’ve noticed they tend to quietly slip from view. I think Donald may act in haste, repent at leisure, but he does repent.
Well so far we've seen the con, the excitement, the promotion and press and hyperbole. So are we haven't seen him explain how he's going to deliver.
Schwarzenegger was a Kennedy.
I see a Donald who, in the big picture, will respect the constitution once he becomes aware through competent advice that it impinges, because he still respects America enough to do that, but still will vigorously look for ways to get things through. “Common people MIGHT think it unconstitutional” probably won’t fly with Donald.
“I’m sure Cali and New York are worlds apart in policy preferences”
Not as far as the GOPe goes.
One of the GOPe stooges insisting that Arnold had to be chosen over the far better Tom McClintock was Hugh Hewitt, who has been involved in the debates.
If he's going to be fighting to implement his agenda why in the heck would he telegraph his moves to his opponents now?
I’m curious how Trump’s detractors are going to feel if he does close the border & kick the illegals out & crushes ISIS.
Hope you have a happy Super Tuesday :)
Well Donald seems to be trying, and he has come up with some nice manifestos.
He knows he is under pressure to perform. He’s not a lazy goof off.
Seems like you have one warped view of "the power structure". No one is more at the mercy of the nobility than a developer and Trump saying that whenever someone calls and asks for a donation, he donates, makes that clear.
For all the froth that's made over Real Estate developers, the fact of the matter is they work within a box ths size and shape of which is dictated to them by the Local, State, and Federal, nobility. Some grease enough palms to alter the smape of the box a bit, but most just deal with the reality that politicians have the ultimate say over every aspect of what they do for a living.
So, if you want some guy who is working at a carwash and therefore isn't "in the existing power structure", fine put your money where your mouth is and get them ready for 2020.
“Deporting the people he wants to deport will be a time consuming process. “
Yeah, just look at how much time it took President Eisenhower to do it... oh, wait, nevermind...
He's come up with some great promises but no clues as to how he will accomplish it.
My souring of Cruz started with his vote for the Corker Bill. I believe that he was allowed to vote against it in cloture, because it already had enough votes to pass. I believe he voted for it after that, because he’s for it. The reason he gave for voting for it was complete BS.
His vote for and against TPA was also strange. I don’t know what ended up happening with TPP. I lost interest by that point.
In his campaign, he started going wrong with me with the Voter Violation bit. Then what happened with Carson during the Iowa vote showed me that he is not who he says he is or portrays himself to be.
I think he imploded his campaign right then and there.
Some people say he didn’t do anything here, and it was his campaign that did it. But he is responsible in the end for what his campaign does, and he held no one accountable. He then later lied about this event at a SC press conference where he said all that happened was they passed along a news story. That isn’t all that happened, and Cruz knows it. There would have been no need to apologize to Carson if that was all that happened.
And then I have watched on this website people attack Carson, who did nothing, while defending Cruz, who victimized Carson, and I just really was not able to stomach it.
Beyond that he’s done a few other odd campaign related things that just don’t add up with me.
The result of all this is basically me viewing him as a weak candidate that i don’t trust.
Despite all of that, I would still vote for him if he is the nominee. But I do not believe that I’d be able to say the same about Rubio.
I still view Cruz as a better candidate and man than Rubio.
Have you read his books?
Well it all boils down to trying to get it through Congress and then not getting it knocked down in court.
Here’s where having his parade will help.
Trump never served in Vietnam Nam. Those of my contemporaries who have served in the military all support Trump.
Not too bright, are ya? You speak of saying stupid things, and then you post a link to a real estate portfolio to compare to this resume:
Graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1992
Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995
1992 U.S. National Debate Champion representing Princeton
1995 World Debating Championship semi-finalist representing Harvard
Law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, the longest tenure in Texas history
Authored over 80 SCOTUS briefs
Presented over 40 oral arguments before SCOTUS
(In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms... Defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds... Defended the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools... Defended the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States...)
Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign
Cruz is under 50, Trump is almost 70 and had to get a hundred million from daddy to get started on that portfolio.
“I’m curious how Trump’s detractors are going to feel if he does close the border & kick the illegals out & crushes ISIS.”
AND nominates a TRUE conservative to the SC, and junks Obamacare. I will be the first to apologize.
Don’t hold your breath
There are no “common sense” restrictions to the first amendment.
You betcha! And I would be gloating with an I told you so if I wasn’t affected, too.
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