Posted on 07/19/2015 10:12:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He may not have a shot at becoming president, but Donald Trump has already succeeded in uniting America — one nation, awash in snark. Pundits from the left and the right have declared open season on the Donald. As longtime Democratic strategist Paul Begala told The Washington Post, “I am a person of faith — and the Donald’s entry into this race can only be attributed to the fact that the good Lord is a Democrat with a sense of humor.” Or, as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News: “This is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years. You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the strongest Cabinet America’s had in our lifetime, and instead all of our time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.”
But writing Trump off is dangerous. The billionaire may play the buffoon, but he is an important one — one whom Americans appear to adore. A USA Today-Suffolk University poll released Tuesday shows him leading all Republican presidential hopefuls. And while establishment candidates in both parties might want to ignore him, or express a milder version of his anti-immigration opinions, an enormous number of voters clearly like his views. Pretending they don’t allows Trump and other immigration firebrands, such as Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz, to resuscitate a century-old nativism that could stick around beyond this election...
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I think I might have actually been in Bosnia at about that time. I guess the snipers were focused on Hillary.
Trolls will never admit who is their candidate.
Is your name George Foreman?
Being captured does not automatically make one a hero. He has capitalized on the "hero" designation for decades based solely on his time in captivity.
As a senator, he has done precious little to aid his fellow vets.
And that would be ... ?
Just remember, you slimed Sarah Palin for this.
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You forgot to put “Barf Alert”
Nothing like being lectured from an Obama worshiper at the Brooking Institution about Donald Trump.
This hit piece reminds me of the way they attacked Reagan.
in 2012, with strong minority turnout, whites made up 74 percent of all voter
Meet the future:
While racial minorities now account for 95 percent of U.S. population growth and represent 38 percent of the population,
The Republican establishment campaigns top-down, just as it governs, on behalf of of a limited fatcat donor base. It campaigns by spending literally hundreds of millions late in the election season to try to eke a narrow victory out of the 74% whites without antagonizing, that is energizing, Blacks, Latinos and single women.
The Democrat party is feverishly attempting to move 38% of the population into the voting booths and it will make them citizens if that is necessary and it will enable them to vote as noncitizens if that is necessary.
So we have different electioneering strategies, Republicans are top-down television oriented appealing to a declining demographic while the Democrats are creating their own demographic bottom up.
These numbers tell us why we are now in an election season which might conceivably permit a conservative Republican to be elected for the last time in a generation at least.
Time is not our friend.
Wow. No answer to your question!
There’s only one candidate who has a real record of cutting much funding to big government trash and its evil influence in politics. It can’t be that hard to know who, given the news in front of us so many times.
Y’all haven’t attended any protests against the Governor of Wisconsin, have you?
:-D
Behalf a “person of faith”? I can’t stop laughing at that!
Scott Walker is a consideration, but your craziness turns me offf to you and perhaps to him.
The demographics have changed not because of fertility or any other reason so much as Ted Kennedy and the Rat’s treason. An invasion of foreigners encouraged by traitors. They have been successful because we have not fought them. That is changing (finally). We can win.
Earlier this month she was like, "I like Bernie Sanders". In other words, a loon.
I asked her how she would like a 90% tax rate. And then had to provide details about Sanders' policies.
Yesterday, she told me she wanted to listed to Trump, which shocked me to my shoes. I directed her to the press conference with the victims of the families whose relations were killed by illegal aliens.
I'm sure she's going for the entertainment factor first and foremost, but for her to get into this, is amazing.
Supposedly there was an Agent Orange Mixer at the airstrip in Da Nang that left that area highly contaminated ..like 80 percent 30 years later.
There is suppose to be a Fast Track for those who were boots on the ground in Vietnam for people who ended up with a list of diseases including ishemic heart disease.
The internet is filled about how little is done in helping Vets deal with Agent Orange and the aftermath.
Some are lucky to get 10% disability after years of fighting with the VA.
I hope the next President will actually make Vets a priority.
We’ll see. Perhaps so.
Ted lost part of my support when he voted for the support bill for the trade bill they’re trying to pass. He said he was against it, then voted for a support bill.
I just don’t understand these guys sometimes.
Woofie, I think he is the shark. This is somewhat the “theater of the absurd” to begin with.
Is there something you see as a defining moment?
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