Posted on 11/03/2016 11:14:35 AM PDT by PaulZe
I live in Adams County. I went to the corner deli for Lunch today. As I was waiting for my sandwich I engaged in conversation with the woman owner (she is in her 60s) about the upcoming election. I said to her "In a week it will all be over" To which she replied "It has been absolutely crazy...but I know who I am voting for" I said, "I do too...and its NOT Hillary". As soon as I said that her eyes lit up and she went on a 5 minute tirade....the jist of which went something like this. " I won't vote for that bitch and I'm a registered Democrat. She's a criminal and should be in jail. My daughter's healthcare has been screwed up because of Obamacare"
Then she went on The DNC called me and reminded her to vote for Hillary...and she said NO she wont. When the caller asked why she said I cant say because my grandchild is here with me. But call me back later and I will give you 15 minutes and tell you why I'm not voting for her.
She is voting for Trump. She made my day
nice anecdote. Good stuff for sure
What Trump has got to count on, I think, is that a lot of Hillary leaners will decide not to vote as a result of the email scandal.
And that was just one Democrat, I didn’t think Donna Brazile lived in Penn. however.. :)
Nice to hear, I think many Democrats feel the same way about that criminal, Hillary.
Don’t forget that there are probably busloads of illegals getting ready to hit the polls.
Heard this every election for the past 20 years. PA is like Lucy with the football. Until the football is actually kicked I won’t get my hopes up.
Luzerne County has been polled as being for Trump months ago. Just go there and see the Trump signs wall-to-wall. I never saw so many signs out for an election. It’s considered one of the 8 bellwether counties in the nation that show when an election is tipping one way or another.
The non-Philly part of PA is going to go for Trump big. Bush lost PA by 2.5 points in 2004. He won Ohio by 2 points. If Trump wins Ohio by 4 or 5 points than PA is in play.
Forgot to add Luzerne Country has voted Democrat from 1992 to 2014.
The bitter clingers are waking up.
Now about the massive voter fraud in Philly...
Speaking of PA - just noticed trump’s beautiful wife is speaking from there right now.
Here’s why Shy Trumpster may have an effect on the polls even though the Bradley Effect didn’t work for Obama. If you’re talking to a black person on the phone, you might be more shy to say you’re against Obama. But doubtful for anyone else. And obviously the chance an obvious black voice was polling was slim.
But with Trump, you might be shy to say you support him if a WOMAN is polling you. Women are probably the majority of the people doing the polls.
Sure better than the moronic advice people here were giving that he should just stay out and make it just that much more easier for Hillary.
There are people there fighting for every vote and the last thing they need are people in other states carping about how pointless it supposedly is.
THAT is the torpedo that will sink Hillary's ship...................
If the Cubs can win the series, the Pubs can win the Keystone state. You gotta believe. Just donated again which I can’t afford, but then again I can’t afford to live in a country run by the Clinton Crime Family. To use another sports cliché, whoever wants it more will win. We want this one so bad!
Good thing there is a Transit strike in Philly right now..............
She said that she just couldn't stand Hillary.
Finally, a Filipino woman, whom my wife knew from when she was teaching. The Filipino woman stood by for a few minutes until she got the just of our conversations. Then she chimed in. She literally hated Hillary because Hillary was so dishonest and criminal. In fact, she is very representative of the Filipino community here..
Accommodating tyranny by failing to call it what it is is dangerous. We need a leader whose words are strong and courageous and based in the principles of our Declaration of Independence--even if he/she may have to call in scholars to clarify the message. In other words, we may have needed a Paul Revere, not a philosopher--who would listen?
American citizens need to wake up to the counterfeit ideas and false "hopes" offered by politicians who use "promises," just as the rest of us use "currency."
They buy votes with "promises" in order to gain power to themselves and their ilk. Then, when "hopes" are dashed, "the people" they have promised to help (the naive, the poor, the ignorant--even the "educated" who are ignorant of liberty vs. tyranny) find themselves enslaved, working for those who have purchased their power in the most despicable manner--by offering "hope and change." Thus it has ever been.
The people who founded America were not so "dumbed down." Hear two of them:
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power] and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections.
By the Year 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper. Sadly, beginning in the mid-20th Century, our "government" schools removed the ideas of liberty from the nation's textbooks, largely under the guise of a counterfeit idea of "separation of church and state," and the citizenry is uninformed as to the difference between tyranny and liberty.
Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power and fleeting personal wealth--thinking nothing of posterity.
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