Posted on 09/17/2016 8:23:29 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
Since Donald Trump said that if Vladimir Putin praises him, he would return the compliment, Republican outrage has not abated.
Arriving on Capitol Hill to repair ties between Trump and party elites, Gov. Mike Pence was taken straight to the woodshed.
John McCain told Pence that Putin was a "thug and a butcher," and Trump's embrace of him intolerable.
Said Lindsey Graham: "Vladimir Putin is a thug, a dictator...who has his opposition killed in the streets," and Trump's views bring to mind Munich.
Putin is an "authoritarian thug," added "Little Marco" Rubio.
What causes the Republican Party to lose it whenever the name of Vladimir Putin is raised?...
According to foreign policy scholar Stephen Sniegoski, when Putin first visited Israel in 2005, President Moshe Katsav hailed him as a "friend of Israel" and Ariel Sharon said he was "among brothers."
In the last year alone, Bibi Netanyahu has gone to Moscow three times and Putin has visited Israel. The two get along wonderfully well.
On the U.N. resolution that affirmed the "territorial integrity" of Ukraine, Israel abstained. And Israel refused to join in sanctions against a friendly Russia. Russian-Israeli trade is booming.
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He's a strategic genius, and he's absolutely toying with the press and the Dembots. Just look at his "Obama Birther Announcement" yesterday. He got 90 minutes of TV exposure for his new hotel, and just happened to trot out a couple dozen Flag Officers to spell out, repeatedly and in detail, his strong qualifications for being our next Commander in Chief.
Believe me, the press wanted to donate free air time to that about as much as they wanted to rip their own tongues out with vice-grip pliers. But Trump played them like a Stradivarius. Like a Bosendorfer Concert Grand.
Game, set, match. These nekulturniy refusniks are throwing spitballs at a destroyer.
apparently the left, specifically the gope wing of the uniparty, cloaks a loathing of Jews above all others, which explains why ethnic Jews shun the gop in droves.
trump continues to poach all over the democrat plantation.
If Putin is a thug.... What are the are all the raghead Clinton supporters?
How many are complicit? How many voted aye?
Putin is a bunch of bad things, but he is not a traitor to his country.
The people at the apex of power in this nation are traitors, each and every one of them.
I highly doubt Trump or Bibi are fooled by who Putin is, unlike the Putinistas here at FR.
Trump: Vladimir Putin's praise is 'a great honor'...It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond ,"
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Dec 2015...
During Friday's 'Morning Joe' interview, Trump said he was impressed with Putin's high poll ratings among the Russian people.
He went on to say he has 'always felt fine about Putin.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3365976/At-s-leader-Trump-s-extraordinary-verdict-Vladimir-Putin-two-cozy-up.html
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"I think that I would probably get along with him [Putin] very well."
--Donald Trump, CBS' Face The Nation, Oct 2015
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Joe Scarborough: Again, he [Putin] kills journalists that don't agree with him
Trump: Well, I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe, so, you know. There's a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, Joe. Lot of killing going on, a lot of stupidity, and that's the way it is.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3365976/At-s-leader-Trump-s-extraordinary-verdict-Vladimir-Putin-two-cozy-up.html
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The Putinistas aren't fooled by him. They know full well what he's about. The ones that are fooled are the simple-minded/know nothing types here who they so easily manipulate into supporting his expansionist, Soviet Union 2 agenda.
"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.
Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots
Then again, these types are so good at double-think that it may not even matter.
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