Posted on 11/23/2015 9:49:42 AM PST by Isara
A handful of Donald Trump's supporters played right into the hands of Black Lives Matter when they roughed up one of their members who was heckling Trump at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama over the weekend. From the podium, Trump shouted to the heckler "get the hell out of here" and told security to "throw him out."
...Trump added fuel to the fire during an appearance on FOX News when he said, "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing." Trump also claimed the heckler, who has been identified as Mercutio Southall, was "looking for trouble."....
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So what if Southall had turned up at a Cruz rally and began heckling? I can't see Cruz telling security to throw him out. Instead, Cruz would have invited Southall on stage and challenged him to a debate right then and there. Cruz would give Southall an opportunity to speak his peace and then Cruz would take his arguments apart. He would have taken a piece out of Black Lives Matter without so much as an angry word.
The bottom line is that Cruz would have taken the high road. Of course, such a thing would never happen with Trump. He knows no high roads, only the gutter. Since he cannot debate ideas, he insults people. Trump is the Don Rickles of American politics only without the humor.
Of course, Trump's supporters will defend him to the bitter end. But if one has to write about Republican presidential candidates and Black Lives Matter, I sure as hell would rather write about how Ted Cruz debated a member of Black Lives Matter than write about how a few of Donald Trump's supporters beat up a member of Black Lives Matter with Trump egging them on.
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By the way, I didn’t say that Cruz wasn’t attractive.
Are you suggesting that Cruz in is shape? He isn’t.
I think "not terribly attractive from a physical perspective" qualifies.
I've always found Trump to be repulsive. Matter of taste, I guess.
When you swarm Cruz threads and shovel it out, you’d best be prepared to take it.
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OK, you are corrupt and dishonest.
Obama is on the way out, so invoking his name is chaff.
The incoming president, most likely Cruz, will benefit from the powers granted, not Obama.
Perhaps you have not noticed that Sessions is behind Cruz.
Rave on, I know you just can’t stop.
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As you will.
Mercutio, I bite my thumb at you, sir!
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Ladies, you can’t be serious.
Physical features are controlling your judgment?
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Not mine. There are those who consider it a factor, however. If I thought that looks mattered I wouldn’t have supported Fred Thompson and Ted Cruz.
What about you, buttercup?
ooh, I am skeert.
He didn’t, but what difference do facts make?
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You must be on some drug.
The crap you post is nonsense, and nonsequitur.
And Hitlery can’t win unless Trump gets his feelings hurt and goes Turd Party to siphon off votes. (that was what Bill asked him to do)
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Keep on posting drunk or drugged, or whatever you’re doing.
Your posts make no sense whatsoever.
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“I’ve always found Trump to be repulsive. Matter of taste, I guess. “
Matter of choice.
I want someone with thick skin and nationalistic fervor, who is competent and can tell the truth and push our country back from the cliff. Harder than Zero has tried to push us over.
Appearance/demeanor doesn’t even come in the top 100.priorities.
Yeah...right that’s what we need a litigation arm in the white house. Take your Geritol and get to bed before you go into atril fib
ES, of course physical features don’t influence my choice of a candidate.
But I’m tired of the cheap insults about Cruz’s looks, his clothing, his manhood, and various other shallow crap.
My point is this: if you’re a Trump supporter, maybe looks is not a road you want to go down.
There’s no reason those types of insults should be given a pass.
I want a Constitutional conservative, not a reality show star.
"Appearance/demeanor doesn’t even come in the top 100.priorities."
For me, neither. But if Trump fans want to go there, they'll be met with same.
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