Posted on 08/22/2015 5:28:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives
MOBILE, Ala. — It was immigration, not segregation, that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted — out for Donald Trump on Friday night, but the ghost of George Wallace loomed large.
Wallace, an avowed segregationist, was the last presidential candidate to win electoral votes as a third-party candidate. The threat of Trump doing so, propelled by a hardline immigration stance that many have condemned as racist, looms over the Republican Party now as it did over the Democratic Party then, even as the enthusiasm of his following, for once, fell far short of expectations.
Wallace carried five Southern states, and Trump, who is leading early national polls in the race for the Republican nomination, touted his leads in Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Texas.
Trump also panned birthright citizenship as a bad deal for the U.S., saying, “We’re the only place just about that’s stupid enough to do it.” Trump’s recently released immigration plan calls for ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, according to the legal consensus, though Trump disputes that point.
Trump invited Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of Congress’s most ardent immigration hardliners who helped the businessman craft his immigration plan, to the podium, where the two embraced.
He also attacked his favorite punching bag, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, on the issue. “ Jeb Bush, ugh,” said Trump, pausing for dramatic effect, before calling the former governor “totally in favor of Common Core, weak on immigration.”
Praising a woman who had brought Trump’s book “Art of the Deal” to the rally, he said, “I’ve got to get her the hell out of here, she’s so beautiful.”
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But Wallace was always a Democrat.
CNN reported that the city said 30,000 attended.
If one of those pointy headed liberals lay down in front of my car, I will run them over.
That is the George I remember.
There is no right prescription for Obamacare because the cost of health care bares absolutely no relationship to the customers ability to pay. Health insurance for a family can easily cost more that their home mortgage plus utilities. The main reason for the rapid increase in cost is easily explained, someone else is paying for it so no cares what it costs. Same thing applies to college tuition.
you missed my point, I suspect on purpose, because you are smarter than that.
But I’ll re phrase: Trump praised Scotland and Canada’s health care systems just a few weeks ago. Does that sound like someone getting rid of government run healthcare?
No, it does not. BTW, I agree with all you said about separating the customer from the price of their services....
Politico.. DESPERATE MFs!
Not on purpose because it really doesn't matter. Obamacare in some form is here to stay, barring a complete financial meltdown. Every candidate will promise something will be done and they will do something but it will be little more than a name change. Just what I feel will happen.
I gotcha....I disagree, but I see where you’re coming from.
The city of Mobile confirmed 30k.
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