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Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy (Good! This is a Republic)
chicagotribune.com ^ | March 1, 2016 | Lawrence H. Summers

Posted on 03/01/2016 10:05:23 AM PST by Trumpinator

I just posted a link since the article originated with the Washington Post. As inside the Beltway as one can get.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump
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To: Trumpinator

If George Washington was a Mulatto, he would be Barack Obama.

Got it...


21 posted on 03/01/2016 10:16:35 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: progunsantichoice

I was commenting in general - you are probably right about the dollar amount.


22 posted on 03/01/2016 10:17:20 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

RNC funding. Are you kidding me?


23 posted on 03/01/2016 10:17:32 AM PST by progunsantichoice
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To: Cobra64

Even though it isn’t.


24 posted on 03/01/2016 10:18:27 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: 1Old Pro

The media are walking around NYC with signs that read “The End is Near”.

We are having signs made that read, “A New Beginning is Near”


25 posted on 03/01/2016 10:18:31 AM PST by kempster (o)
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To: Trumpinator

I love that they keep doing what doesn’t work.

To win, you need a champion.

They don’t have one, at least not one they’ll mention.

Why would that be?


26 posted on 03/01/2016 10:19:42 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Trump and/or Cruz, it's all good)
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To: progunsantichoice

I second that.The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy. Thank you for putting this in your title of the thread!


27 posted on 03/01/2016 10:20:03 AM PST by ShivaFan
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To: Trumpinator
Back in the mid 1970s when I lived in a Chicago suburb, there was a second newspaper in town called the Chicago Daily News. The Tribune was supposedly the more conservative of the two. I still remember the jingle that the Chicago Daily News used in their radio ads:

If you think about the world the way your mother did,
then you'd probably like to read the Chicago Trib.


28 posted on 03/01/2016 10:21:00 AM PST by snarkpup ("The greatest Secret in Politicks is, to drive the Nail that will go." - John Trenchard)
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To: BigEdLB

All of his kids seem really great. Fantastic people. And yes a tribute to his character.


29 posted on 03/01/2016 10:22:28 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: progunsantichoice

Doesn’t the RNC kick in money for their Presidential Candidate in the General Election?

The only guy I gave money to this Election Cycle is Ted Cruz.

Last time it was Newt. I think I’m the Kiss of Death for a Candidate every time I open my Wallet.


30 posted on 03/01/2016 10:22:42 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: Harpotoo

I will send him money. Its been the cheapest election for me so far.


31 posted on 03/01/2016 10:22:47 AM PST by STARLIT ((Tea Partier))
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To: Mollypitcher1

So what do you want from me, an argument?


32 posted on 03/01/2016 10:23:31 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Trumpinator

As long as Trump does not declare himself King or Emperor everything is A OK.


33 posted on 03/01/2016 10:23:59 AM PST by Reaganez
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To: progunsantichoice
RNC funding. Are you kidding me?

Point? What so Ted Cruz is going to fund the campaign himself? Oh wait he can take all those 100's of millions of dollars and never need to pay the piper. Did you fall off the turnip truck? Do Cruz supporters think past the bumper sticker philosophy of their conservative radio talk show oracles, like Limbaugh, Beck and Uncle Levin.

34 posted on 03/01/2016 10:27:38 AM PST by pburgh01
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To: progunsantichoice

Nobody deserves anything. You get what you fight for. We have a fantastic Constitution and we haven’t fought for it so doesn’t offer us much protection. Trump will only give out what he decides he has to give out so if he decides you don’t need to know you probably won’t get to know.

Regarding the ludicrous money question I’m sure Trump has the money on hand or can get his hands on it very quickly. Jebby Bush is an idiot and he managed to get his doofus hands on $120 million. Are you breaking the news that Trump is broke? Has he been pulling the wool over our eyes for 15 to 20 years about that as well?


35 posted on 03/01/2016 10:28:01 AM PST by WMarshal (Trump 2016 (and 2020)!)
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To: WMarshal

He says he is self funding. I am just asking the question. Don’t shoot the messenger.


36 posted on 03/01/2016 10:33:10 AM PST by progunsantichoice
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To: Trumpinator
If it costs $1 billion dollars per candidate to get a president then this country is as morbid bound as the old Roman Republic/empire.

Where were you for the las few elections? Clinton used China money, Obama took money fro unknown credit cards because that function was removed from there servers in order for the to receive unaccounted for money. Hillary has her CGI charity.

We the people have Trump and Trump only.

37 posted on 03/01/2016 10:33:24 AM PST by itsahoot
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To: itsahoot

I was classical riffing.


38 posted on 03/01/2016 10:36:29 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Harpotoo

Absolutely


39 posted on 03/01/2016 10:37:45 AM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: VitacoreVision

And, not a monarchy; at least not yet.


40 posted on 03/01/2016 10:38:27 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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