first, why do you find it necessary to attack me personally for living abroad? Personally attack? I was asking how long you've lived overseas because it seems to me that you're somewhat detached from the mood "on the ground" here in America.
I can only assure you that you can't possibly overstate the anger. And, before you criticize that, I will tell you that it's some very thoughtful anger.
Many Donald Trump supporters are quite thoughtful, and the notion that they're acting purely on emotion is patently absurd.
Second, the idea that Ted Cruz has shown himself to be a "typical politician" is absurd especially so when we are comparing him to Donald Trump who has been on every side of every issue and financed every side of every issue.
Wrong again.
First of all, Ted Cruz has played the friggin' race card, for God's sake! There's nothing lower, especially when done disingenuously.
Secondly, Ted Cruz couldn't bring himself to show solidarity with a GOP candidate who had organized thugs criminally disrupt a peaceable rally scheduled by the frontrunner.
Ted Cruz's statement Friday night was, in a word, weak. That's not just my opinion, but in manhy cases his own supporters agreed. As a direct result, Cruz lost 300,000 Twitter followers overnight, and it clearly cost him support from among his own people.
Cruz's statement couldn't have been more tepid and disingenuous. It completely lacked proper emphasis, was not statesmanlike, and showed a distinct lack of leadership, accompanied by naked opportunism.
Ted Cruz is a lawyer who knows how to use words precisely. He completely misjudged the incident, and in so doing, looked like he was carrying water for the Establishment, which is engaging in all out character assassination against Donald Trump.
Hey, the likelihood is that Ted Cruz will be on the ticket in November.
Let's just leave it at that, and note that the consensus on this conservative forum is running 4-to-1 against Ted Cruz and for Donald Trump.
It's not the case that suddenly members who have been here since before the Clinton impeachment have gone soft on conservatism.
Rather, many have realized that disrupting the DC Establishment is the single most important thing that could be done this election cycle.
Nothing will change if that doesn't happen, and I don't see how Ted Cruz, who will be beholden to his donors if he's elected, will be able to lead that charge.
Whatever Trump's weaknesses may be, and there are plenty, one of them won't be that he will be indebted to any donor or group of donors.
The fact that Donald Trump is turning down large donations from various interests is a testimony to his integrity. If he was just in this for his own ego or advancement, it would be very easy for him to take that extra money.
I believe Donald Trump is sincere. I believe he's competent. I believe he's a leader. I believe he loves his country.
And I believe that there's nobody better suited at this point in time, to come in and clean house. Not as a careerist like Ted Cruz, but as a private citizen who sees the same thing a lot of us see: rampant corruption and cronyism, and endless talk accompanied by little or no action.
Let the chips fall where they may, but the character assassination, even if successful, is shameful.
Sure, Donald Trump engages in juvenile insults, but his foibles pale in comparison to the concerted, relentless effort that is being led to try do dismiss, discredit, and destroy this man.
It's absolutely shameful, and instead of rising above it, people like Ted Cruz are piling on in an attempt to gain political advantage.
They really can all go to Hell, as far as I'm concerned.
Just my 2 cents' worth...
Here is a litany of some of Donald Trump's reactions collected from to left-wing sources but the source is not the issue, rather whether Trump actually uttered the words:
1.Trump, who encourages his supporters to surround and shout down protesters with chants of “USA,” has openly pined for “the old days,” when, he says, noisy demonstrators would be carried out of a political rally on stretchers.
2.“I’d like to punch him in the face,” he told a Las Vegas casino rally crowd last month when one protester was ejected.
3.As protesters have been led away by police or security, Trump has said he wishes he could punch them in the face, or that in the old days protesters went out on a stretcher, or that someone should "knock the crap out of them" and that he would pay legal fees for someone who did.
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470375065/a-campaign-on-the-brink-donald-trump-and-the-intersection-of-outrage-and-violenc and
4. "The audience hit back and that's what we need a little bit more of."
5."Part of the problem ... is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore."
6. the candidate bemoaned the fact that there were no longer "consequences" to protesting and insisted the "country has to toughen up."
7.“You know, part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore, right?"
8."In the good old days this doesn't happen because they used to treat them very, very rough."
9.“They used to treat them very, very rough, and when they protested once, they would not do it again so easily,” he said, before lamenting "we've become weak."
10."Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court, don't worry about it."
11."If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously." He again promised to pay for any legal fees associated with an assault.
12.After a Black Lives Matter activist was kicked, punched and, he said, called the N-word at a campaign event in Birmingham, Alabama, in November, Trump expressed his approval. "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing,"
13."I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will." http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/trump-rally-incite-violence/#tjGh.egBFiqY
We are after all judging the qualities of a man who wants to become the most powerful man in the world and we are entitled to ask ourselves, could he have handled these situations better? Instead of inciting violence as he did, could he have converted the situation into an opportunity to edify the audience and by extension the whole nation on the meaning of the First Amendment? Can we judge Trump because he took the low road? Can we condemn Trump for encouraging the mob, for inciting violence?
Of course we can.
Indeed, we can even observe that Donald Trump inciting tens of thousands against one individual whether defined as protester hooligan, is guilty of inciting the mob, playing to its worst instincts, to falling short of the standards we require of the President of the United States of America. We can judge him unworthy of the office.
Since the litany recounted above, Donald Trump has slyly insinuated that there will be riots if he does not get the nomination. Ted Cruz was right about Donald Trump, Donald Trump confirms Ted Cruz out of his own mouth.
