Posted on 12/31/2015 5:54:01 PM PST by Kaslin
Yes, because everything in that comment indicated promotion of unions./s
I don’t understand why your comment was directed towards me?
Never mind.
Well I didn’t give GWB a pass...but it’s interesting that you are admitting this Trump passage is going to blow up in our faces just as badly. Thank you for that.
Trump has all the right enemies, but he has some of the wrong enemies too. That’s what YOU don’t understand. I understand the Trump phenomenon, written about it and published about it since 2011 - way way way ahead of you. I also understand the danger, something you can’t figure out.
You should be commie lover instead of commie cutter...
I believe Cruz is a professional politician, who staked out a position that suited his requirements to get elected (at the time in 2012), with an eye to doing exactly what Obama did, and what Rubio is trying to do, which is to attain a position of power they are not qualified to hold.
When Conservative Republicans start actually vetting Cruz, and not just “believing” his media hyped credentials, his support numbers will sink very quickly.
There will not be a Trump/Cruz ticket.
The 2012 Republican platform can be found here:
https://gop.com/platform/we-the-people/
As a Conservative, there is much there that I do not agree with as written. It is marginally better than the Democrat platform, which is primarily just anti-Republican.
Google it for yourself. I'm not willing to wade through the filth, trying to find what should be a simple and prominent pdf.
There was a time when the AFL and CIO were opposing Unions.
They merged lest both be destroyed by popular consent.
To me, and many other Conservatives, it appears the paid party “leaders” and the various partisan politicians of Republicans and Democrats have also merged together, to their private benefit, and to the ultimate detriment of all USA citizens.
It's either Trump or total revolutionary war level anarchy in 2016.
I'm not overstating the stakes.
That would make a good second movie. How would you explain the Clinton and Bush 2 contributions for dramatic purposes? Given how huge what the did cover was, I’m no sure that one movie could have carried that much more detail.
I wouldn't go that far. Cruz has a path to victory, but it's a long, winding path through the woods on foot. Trump clears his own path with a bulldozer.
Nominate Trump and Clinton loses. Nominate Cruz and - who knows? He might beat her. Hillary doesn't have Bill Clinton's appeal. Even Rubio might beat her. But who knows isn't good enough when we've got a sure thing. Hillary is the worst. Pure evil. She has to be stopped and Trump will stop her.
That's my bottom line.
Seeing Cruz sitting down on that couch talking to moonbat Beck my opinion of him just went down considerably. Beck is about as conservative as my St. Bernard when she’s hungry.
Trump has been a conservative for years, especially in fiscal matters and national defense. On social issues he’s a moderate. Right now the only issues that matter are controlling our borders and national security and Trump is the only one talking with any sense, not pandering to special interest groups to get their money.
Most of the reliable Hillary Clinton lesbian crowd will be going for socialist Bernie. They love him. They despise Hillary Clinton because they think she’s controlled by Wall Street. I have also met many 18-30 year olds that love Trump.
‘Trump is more liberal than any GOP nominee in the party’s, including the execrable Bob Dole and the vile John McStain.’
Winner. Dumbest comment of the year. Trump wants to build a wall, bring jobs back to America, and make America the great country she used to be. Dole and McTraitor are New World Order globalists of the first degree. They want no borders of any kind and would love never-ending war all over the world to enrich themselves and their cronies like George Soros.
I was having dinner with my mother and stepfather while visiting family the other night. I mentioned that I liked Trump. Mom called me crazy and my stepdad all but called me a xenophobe Muslim-hater in front of the entire restaurant. If I'd had my own car there, I'd have walked out right then and spent the night in a hotel.What am I supposed to do? They're family, but that was completely unacceptable.
Not knowing the intricacies of your family relationship let me just say that what stepdad did was typical leftist PC bullying. The good news is that it's all they got, he used it all up right there in the restaurant, there is nothing beyond that intimidation. The even better news is that they crumble under the slightest pushback, and they learn lifelong lessons when that pushback is delivered forcefully.
So I would have jumped down his throat twice as loud and twice as hard with something like: "What did you just call me? Who the frig are you to tell me I'm a racist you idiotic terrorist enabler? How many beheadings and children need to be blown up before you take your head out of your ass? I'm Pro-American and will vote accordingly."
Even family requires an intervention now and then, and since your mom didn't reign him in it would be perfectly appropriate IMHO ( again, not knowing the details of the relationship ). Odds are you will have laid down an important and memorable marker for stepdad to not cross in the future and carved out your own space in his head.
If he is capable of reasoning you might give him access to beheading videos ( they are all available at LiveLeak ) and watch him squirm as he confronts his cognitive dissonance. Leftists live in a fantasy world and they will avoid leaving that world at all costs, but you can bring that world to them.
A Reagan Democrat is a traditionally Democratic voter in the United States, especially a white working-class Northerner, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan in either or both the 1980 and 1984 elections...History repeating itself?
We don't want to overstate 1980 though. 1984 yes. 1972 yes. But 1980 and 1968 were not popular landslides. And it is very difficult to prove they got actual (D) and not (I) voters in those years.
I think the best way to look at this is that we have broadly distributed ideologies of 1/3 Patriot, 1/3 Traitor, 1/3 Undecided. And that pretty much spans back to the founding when the Patriots failed to completely annihilate the defeated traitors and didn't kick the butts of the cowardly fence-sitters.
So the (R)-(D)-(I) 33-33-33 paradigm would imply that Reagan Democrats are really a majority of (I) who vote (D) or sometimes (R) in all these 50-50 or 52-48 elections we so often see. It is not that they are hardcore (R) or (D), quite the contrary.
There is some real merit for this traditional and perhaps apocryphal point of view though, because if you think about it, it quite literally sets the upper bounds for any given candidate/party/ideology at around 60%. And sure enough there is very firm evidence of this ...
The 1968/1972 and the 1980/1984 cycles plainly show the (R) candidate not getting the (I) in the first pass, but then locking them down in re-election.
The biggest lesson of all is found in 1984 when Reagan went from 50.8% to 58.8% and did pull in almost all the (I), leaving about 5% on the table for Mondale. It also happened in 1972 when Nixon clobbered McGovern.
One bad thing for the (D)ummycrats is that this cycle is shaping up a lot like 1972 ( not 1968 ) for various reasons. One in particular is the BLM and other street radicalism that mirrors the unrest of that era ( especially the two DNC Chicago conventions and various riots ) when the population looked at McGovern and said Screw that, we want an end to this carnage. So a perfect storm is possible.
But the discussion of a landslide is way optimistic when you look at the electoral map. They have methodically built up a 250 electoral lead against any typical (R)epublicrat and just need 20 votes from a dozen swing states. Now if that candidate is Trump, and he continues defying the odds he might make this competitive after all by lowering their head start.
One other thing, a perfect reversal of 2000 is entirely possible with Shrillary winning the electoral college and Trump winning the popular vote. Be prepared for anything.
I know quite a few lifelong Dems who are voting for Trump. We aren’t the only ones fed up with our self-serving political masters, evidently.
Supports socialized medicine.
Supports “assault weapons” bans.
Supports funding Planned Parenthood.
Supports extending employment discrimination laws to faggots and dykes.
Supports leftist SC judges.
Supports a progressive income tax and opposes a flat tax.
Supported bank bailouts.
Supports eminent domain abuse.
Contributed to leftist Democrats over and over again.
Says he won’t abrogate the Iran deal.
Supports affirmative action.
Even Dole and McStain didn’t have barf-bags that full of leftist positions.
Dumbest Comment of the year?
“Trust Fund Donnie Trump is a conservative.”
Hank
If you understood the Trump phenomenon, then would have understood the context of my post. Which you did not.
Go fart in a champagne glass and sniff it, you pretentious jerk.
After eight years of Obama? Our first radical Muslim President? What's to fear at this point? For me, it's all about disruption of both sides of the establishment. It's my opinion that we will get Hillary if we put Cruz up there and the other candidates are GOP shills. So there's really not a lot of choices now, especially when the GOP does nothing but take in the back door for it's constituents.
What's to fear? Maybe Trump wins and then - as he has indicated - uses his great reach across the aisle abilities to do the same kind of establishment crap we hate - and that he grows the government dramatically because he is a believer in a powerful government doing great things - and replaces Obama Care with something worse because as he said "I'm gonna take care of everybody."
I fear Trump being true to himself his entire adult life - because he's never ever mentioned that he wants limited government and adherence to the Constitution.
I understand the phenomenon very well, and have written about it before it even started. I also understand the blindness it’s caused.
So basically what every GOP President and Congress has accomplished since Hoover? I understand completely that we will get things we may not like with a Trump presidency. And since you have written about this extensively, I find it amusing you assume everyone within the conservative base is instantly blind! What you don't understand is I GAVE UP on ANY GOP candidate to give us a solid fundamental conservative agenda. I. GAVE. UP. It's not happening.
Then to top it all of, the best the real conservatives come up with is a guy born in Canada! Oh, that won't be exploited by the MSM non-stop! Not at all! /sarc. I would love to have a hands-off Laissez Faire president that had a clear path to victory. It's not happening. I gave up. Understand that!
And understand you're not going to forse your August 5th New Max prediction to come to fruition by nit picking Joe Six Packs like myself over their account handles.
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