Posted on 03/19/2016 5:50:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A senior Australian government minister on Thursday called Donald Trump's campaign for the U.S. presidency "terrifying" and warned it risked casting the Republican Party into the wilderness if he wins nomination.
Australian government ministers rarely make critical comments about elections in other countries, especially stalwart allies like the United States, which Australia relies on heavily for military backing in the Asia-Pacific.
Australian Industry Minister Christopher Pyne, a cabinet member of the ruling conservative Liberal-National coalition, criticized the violence at recent Trump rallies and said that his rise was casting a pall over American democracy.
"Now, democracy should be robust but it certainly shouldn't be violent," Pyne said in an interview on Australia's Channel Seven television network.
"And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird," he said.
Republican front-runner Trump warned on Wednesday of riots if he is denied the party's presidential nomination, only days after Trump supporters and protesters clashed at a rally for the Republican in Chicago that was later scrapped.
Republican Party leaders are appalled at Trump's incendiary rhetoric and reject policies such as his vow to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, temporarily ban Muslims from the United States and build a wall along the Mexican border.
The party tried to play down Trump's riot comments, which have raised the temperature even more in a heated White House race.
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I lived in Australia for a short time, its technically a socialist country though most Aussies will deny it, they censor all news coming in, they will tax the living daylights out of anything they have decided is bad for you or the people of the country. Cigarettes are near $40...A PACK!
They go out if their way to create a velvet prison of the best foods and wines, seriously they do! Everyone is so polite, seriously they are! I loved it so much there, for about 5 weeks....
With everyone so happy, well fed, physically fit handsome and gorgeous they lost something along the way.
They are sheep, seriously they are! Oh don’t get me wrong you get sheep pissed off they will fight but nothing like Americans, who happen to be well armed, hold a deep seated proper hate for a stupidly run country taken over by evil plain and simple.
But i have a belief that Australians know all along what their leaders did to them, and IF....if something happened like a Chinese invasion they will go full Mad Max.
Talk about casting a party into the wilderness, consider the disenfranchised Democrats from 1960 till now. The Dem party has become the party of absolute loons. In 2004 running THE most liberal Senator and the #3 should have been a resounding defeat but the idiots on the Left have only become more wacky since then! Now they’re looking at Her Thighness and prob some very lib Hispanic mayor (why not an illegal) for this year. One day soon, even young Democratz will tell the Dim party to take a flying leap off the nearest cliff!
I PRAY that all these foreign governments will be happy NOT to take our HANDOUTS anymore.
The aussie is a LIB degenerate who apparently dosn’t face that it is LIB anti-Trump bums who are hateful and violent. Fool.
Think of it as survival camp - the Republican Party can either adapt to survive or perish in that wilderness. They made their bed and swept so much crap under the covers that there's no room for them to maneuver anymore - need a good and thorough housecleaning.
Trump for 4 years followed by Cruz might do the trick of getting them back on the same page as the People who elect them.
are you kidding??
they’d be speaking Russian if it wasn’t for us.
but youre right, now we have to worry about that border too.
He better hope Trump doesnt call for a boycott of Outback Steak House.
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Why would he care if an American franchise organization based in Tampa Florida gets boycotted?
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