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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Big deal. Who wanted to die in a war our Presidents felt was unwindable? Not me, I avoided that disaster too.
Walker was a boy scout who elected not to serve. Ted Cruz wasn’t even that. Romney hid in France tododge the draft and jeb hid in Mexico.
He is brilliant because marxism is so modern.
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[31] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[4][6] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[32] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year, as well as Team of the Year, with his debate partner, David Panton.[32] Cruz and Panton represented Harvard Law School at the 1995 World Debating Championship, making it to the semi-finals, where they lost to a team from Australia.[33][34][35] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]
Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and that the last two items in the Bill of Rights offer an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[36][37]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][38] While at Harvard Law, he was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[4] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."[39][40] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[10]
It’s like someone has issued a copy of Rules for Radicals to every member of the press.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
So did thousands. What’s your point?
The Left keeps ridiculing him, and his numbers continue to go higher. Sooner or later the Left is going to catch on that they’re his biggest draw, folks are so pissed off at them for handing the nation Obama.
How many years did your two enlistments amount to?
What do the Boy Scouts have to do with this question? Many men from Ted, Barry, Marco, and Scott’s cohort didn’t see the military as helping their upward advancement and sans a draft, didn’t have to enlist. It’s really as simple as that.
How did Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Joe Biden and other Vietnam-era candidates avoid service? And is it really fair that we don’t examine the female candidates on this? Women have served since at least the early part of our involvement in World War II and nurses even before that. The late Bea Arthur (”Maude” & “Golden Girls”) was a woman Marine during the second war.
Yep.
He would have graduated summa from Princeton had he not gotten totally absorbed in debating. That served him well, it seems.
Seven. It wasn’t about a reserve obligation, if that’s where your thinking is headed. President Carter signed a law that said all males born after December 31, 1959 shall register. I was born in early February of 1960.
I’m otherwise engaged crying for the late, great United States republic.
Which branch did Obama serve in, the 101st Ramadan Brigade?
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