Posted on 08/08/2015 12:33:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the big Fox News debate tonight, and as we begin to pick our favored candidates for the upcoming presidential campaign, it is noteworthy to point out that, as we announced yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz will be coming to Mississippi next week to campaign and Senator McDaniel will be with him, and that Donald Trump threw his support behind Senator McDaniel last year against Thad Cochran.
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Gee that sounds just like something I heard on MSNBC.
Please post a link to Trump insulting a large ethnic group.
There was a dime’s worth of difference, or more, between the parties, because Bill Clinton was impeached by the Republicans on Dec. 17, 1998. It cost some their political careers in Congress.
On February 12, 1999, the Senate, which is the forerunner of the Uniparty Cartel that is now ensconced in both the House and Senate, would not convict and remove the impeached President even though the President clearly broke the law on numerous counts.
That is the precise point in time when our Republic ended.
We have been pretending ever since that we are a nation of laws.
And even that pretense has been stripped away in the present regime, and the opposition party sits by and applauds like trained seals.
The 1996 election was a throwaway by the GOP to Bill Clinton—after all, we did not know, but apparently they did—that Hillary had the FBI files and more. Some of those whose subsequently spoke out against the Clintons in the 1998-1999 era were destroyed by leaked information.
As for Perot, had not 19% of the people voted for him in 1992, we never would have had the Contract with America and the the GOP winning the House in 1994 for the first time in 40 years.
The GOP was so scared after the 1992 loss they realized they couldn’t pretend anymore.
But this is not 1992. The demographics are not the same 23 years later. But the anger at the DC Cartel Uniparty is palpable. The people realize they are being taken for a ride by DC by both parties.
None of the 17 GOP candidates are perfect messengers. The two best are Cruz and Trump—they are the only ones worth a damn that will fight the entrenched DC insiders.
Conservatives are a minority of the GOP and of the country. The present regime has marginalized conservatives for almost 7 years. We alone won’t elect the next President.
I’m through with voting for squishes.I want someone who fights, and if they are couth or uncouth makes no difference to me.
I want results. And Trump and Cruz are the only two who will deliver as I see it.
There aren't more than a handful of FReepers who DON'T prefer Cruz, including myself. That doesn't mean we believe Cruz has what he needs to run the media gauntlet to get the job in the first place.
Given the amount of Trump worship I see here I just can't believe that. I know there are some, you included. But many here want Trump as the nominee. They are rabid in their defense of the man and they are seemingly enamored with everything he does. It's strange, really. Celebrity worship, perhaps. But they are 100% for Trump.
College deferments were not illegal during the Vietnam War. Many people had them. So what? And I don’t know that you lobbied for them—they were issued depending on your student status. Dick Cheney had student deferments—was he unpatriotic also?
I had the same status as Trump initially did, in 1972 and 1973—1-A, and I was a college student, and I did not lobby anybody. He had other classifications later on—1-Y after the medical exam, then 2-S and then 4-F in 1971, when the 1-Y classification was discontinued.
My draft numbers in two lotteries were high, so I did not get called. Then the draft ended with the wind-down to the Vietnam War in 1973.
I never said Trump insisted on going into the Army—you made that assumption.
But a bone spur would disqualify you because you couldn’t march with one. My uncle in 1945 tried to do his patriotic duty like his brothers, but his flat feet got him a ticket home—the Army did not want him. A problem with your feet got you bounced, unless there was a national emergency, which is why Trump had a 1-Y classification. 1-Y meant you were not qualified for military service unless the bottom of the barrel was being scraped.
Trump has done some amazing patriotic things, and it costing him plenty of money to do what he is doing.
I don’t see why casting aspersions on someone’s draft classifications during an unpopular war 47 years later has any relevance to the subject at hand.
“I don’t see why casting aspersions on someone’s draft classifications during an unpopular war 47 years later has any relevance to the subject at hand.”
Yes and Trump’s lottery draft number was 356. In the NYC pool women and children would have been taken before him. He never refused to serve and he got normal student deferments as did thousands of other guys. Its a non starter.
I haven't seen that at all. I HAVE seen many Trump fans who are frustrated with paleo conservatives that refuse to accept we don't win without a conservative who has at least some populist support.
Threads about touring his airplane are legitimate political discourse, I guess, and are certianly NOT worship of the man. /s
I HAVE seen many Trump fans who are frustrated with paleo conservatives that refuse to accept we don't win without a conservative who has at least some populist support.
Trump is a liberal. They are fans of a liberal. If they don't or can't accept that documented fact that's their problem. But there are many conservatives here who have not fallen for his ruse because they are aware of his liberal past.
There are lots of conspiracies going on right now, but I don’t think Trump running to elect a Democrat is one. Not impossible but highly doubtful.
The more worrisome conspirers are those that are spending our country into unimaginable and unserviceable debt. When the US economy crashes we are in deep s**t. That’s the conspiracy on my mind right now. It’s the WH, the legislators, lobbyists and even the overreaching Supreme Court ( who have decided to make laws now that support the overspending).
Tick... Tick.... The clock is ticking and we’re almost toast.
So why is he running as a conservative? Surely, any grand scheme he has would work even better if he ran as his liberal self.
So out of this vast Trump worship you pick a thread that is one hour old, and has less than a hundred posts?
FReeper please!
Two reasons. 1) Because he cannot defeat Hillary for the democRAT nomination and 2) because there are so many disillusioned "conservatives" who are just gullible enough to throw their support to a candidate who has done nothing more than be critical of the GOP and the leftist media. When you think about it, that is all he has done.
But I would agree, he is by far liberal enough to run as a democRAT.
You can either accept that or not. I’m not going to research past threads when the one I provided you proves the point. They compared him to Jesus Christ. If you can’t see Trump worship in that I can’t help you.
+1
But Biden can.
because there are so many disillusioned "conservatives" who are just gullible enough to throw their support to a candidate who has done nothing more than be critical of the GOP and the leftist media. When you think about it, that is all he has done. But I would agree, he is by far liberal enough to run as a democRAT.
So which is it, and why would he pick conservatives over liberals?
It doesn't prove the point. It's called an anecdote.
I've been here all day and I call BS on you.
Says who?
So which is it, and why would he pick conservatives over liberals?
I've already explained that once. Because there are gullible "conservatives" who buy into his phony campaign rhetoric.
I couldn't really care less what you "call".
No, you said he was liberal enough to run that way in the same post. The only way that's not a contradiction is if anyone believes your BS that he couldn't beat the wounded Hildebeast, and no one buys that except through studied ignorance.
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