Not sure if blindness is an issue
Posted on 03/20/2022 8:29:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
Maybe it's just me but "two tours in Iraq" is not an argument ender, and frankly gets under my skin.
It's the same as not being able to criticize John McCain's Senate voting record because he was once captured by the North Vietnamese.
I'd be interested to know what Ohioans think about this.
In my opinion, I'd rather Gibbons take the nomination.
ok a guy did his bit for his country.
“has that guy run a business, or after his bit, was he an employee?”
Stopped reading at “they might be right-wingers...”
“Maybe it’s just me but “two tours in Iraq” is not an argument ender, and frankly gets under my skin.” You’re not alone in this.
I wanna see a knock down, drag out fight.
Mandel is the America First candidate who has been on Bannon’s War Room. Mandel probably will have Trump’s backing. Mandel would also probably win the fight.
What's high in the middle, and even more high at the end?
Mandel has personal character issues, imho. Nice kid, but…
Gibbons is an outsider. He knows the issues. But whether he can implement policy rather than join/vote the GOPe party line is yet to be determined.
The details of the “two tours in Iraq” would be interesting.
As we all know many of the folks who brag about their military service are the ones who stayed far behind the lines...
Many of the folks who saw real action do not want to talk about it.
Of course “investment banking” is also a red flag....especially is that is where the financing for that campaign comes from....
Mandel is a perennial politician with a modest record, has never excited the electorate much since a stint as state treasurer. He has not used the veteran card in past elections to my recollection, so he must have been advised to try it this time. Gibbons is a businessman, newcomer to electoral politics, running as a Trump-like outsider. Gibbons is posing as “Trump-tough” while Mandel‘s ads are rather pugnacious. I don’t think it will wear well until the May primary.
Gibbons is the Vampire Squid candidate. Wall Street money manipulator who doesn’t give a d-— about average Americans, other than a reservoir of productivity to be ripped off. Talks a good game but in the end he’ll be another Mitt Romney, and for the same reasons. Follow the money. Is there a China connection we don’t know about yet?
Wow, “right-winger” used in the first sentence.
Looking for the term “left-winger” anywhere in that clown show’s news.
Still looking.
And looking.
Well heck, left wingers just must not exist. And datz da twuth.
No such thing as an “ex-Marine”. . .once a Marine, always a Marine.
I would tend to trust a marine over an investment banker….
I will tell you exactly what Yahoo News wants you to make of it, if it's not already glaringly obvious: Yahoo News, which is a leftist activist newsmag, wants readers to see the headline and connect Josh Mandel with Trump's surrepticiously recorded "grab em by the pussy" comment, which was effectively used by the leftist activist media to turn left-leaning winemoms throughout America into stark raving loons and keep non left-leaning winemoms from ever voicing their support of Trump to their winemom friends.
It's a totally different context, the two candidates were basically trying to smacktalk each other and Mandel questioned his assertiveness (used to be a time when people understood "pussy" was more than a nickname for lady bits, here it refers to a pussy cat, or a cowardly person), but that's not what Yahoo wants you to think.
Mandel was a reservist who served as a battalion intelligence person in the city of Hadith. There was a lot of violence at times but how much he would have been involved as S2, I can’t say. Maybe some vets could comment on this as Mandel claims to be a “combat veteran.”
This kind of exchange is not nearly enough to base a decision on.
And, frankly, worrying that it is a problem if a candidate is a fighter (like Trump), or calls people names in debates (like Trump), or uses the word “pussy” (like Trump) - is why we have so many RINOs.
Study these candidates thoroughly. Listen to their entire spiel and decide whether they are truly MAGA, and will stand firm, or whether they are weak and ready to compromise.
Watching only these stupid debates, which are moderated by Leftists and hyped like some sort of sporting event - is a sure fire way to get people to focus on the wrong things - and to let Leftists tell us what we should care about.
I’ve seen Josh Mandell a couple times as a guest on Bannon’s War Room. He is a fighter. He is the real deal. He is angry about the stolen election, the open border, giving up our energy independence, etc. - all the things I am angry about.
And he is unabashedly pro Trump.
The military isn’t the “private sector”. Anyone who believes that is an idiot.
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