[FenwickBabbitt]

Claiming that Manafort calling out Cruz’s underhanded activities to circumvent regular GOP voters and install his supporters in districts where he lost badly (among other things) is insulting “the Tea Party” is simply in-your-face dishonest. But I expect no less from the Cruzers at this point.

I agree that Manafort should not have used the term “Gestapo tactics.” “Brownshirt tactics” would have been more accurate, as it was the Brownshirts (the S.A.) that were Hitler’s political police arm that he used to intimidate and install his supporters and silence his detractors wherever possible in order to get into power, regardless of the will of the people. That’s a more appropriate comparison. The Cruzers seem to forget that historically it is overwhelmingly the action of dictators, not legitimate constitutionalists, who try to deny and work against the will of the people. And no, “it’s within the rules” is a very poor excuse on moral and rational grounds.

[HLPhat]

>>a very poor excuse on moral and rational grounds.

Yeah that's kind of what I think of the whole "Manafort was just a political operator looking for work out of season when he campaigned for that Soviet Communist in Ukraine" notion some folks are trying to float too.

Being an out of work political prostitute is "a very poor excuse on moral and rational grounds" for proping up Soviet Communists like Viktor Yanukovych.

But, the political process (and those who infest it) is just a reflection of We The People who allow it to be what it is.

Who's responsible for changing that if WE aren't?

Gotta start somewhere.

Thomas Jefferson had some opinions on the subject too BTW...

"EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE"

 

Onward and Upward!

"AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE"

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Manafort should not have used the term “Gestapo tactics.” “Brownshirt tactics” would have been more accurate, as it was the Brownshirts (the S.A.) that were Hitler’s political police arm...

No, no..."underground resistance" would have been more accurate.

The Tea Party had no allied association with the dictator Obama.