I will defend Trump supporters because they are my friends. They're not constitutional conservatives. They don't know what that means. They don't know how many judges are on the Supreme Court, probably couldn't name the vice-president and damn sure don't know who the Speaker of the House is. Furthermore, they couldn't care less.
The Tea Party was started by Rick Santelli from the floor of the stock market in February of 2009. Those that cheered that day were not constitutional conservatives, they were just plain-old everyday hard working Americans that are sick of all the BS! That's the same people that still make up the Tea Party today. All of my ignorant (politically uneducated) friends will tell you in a heartbeat, "Damn straight I'm Tea Party!).
I've spent my entire adult life with these people. We are in the Oil&Gas/petrochemical/Pipeline & Station construction industries. These men and women are hard working, some are hard drinking, snot slinging, fist fighting, God-fearing Americans that are sick of the s**t! They hate lying, two-faced, backstabbing politicians. They hate baby killers. They hate porch monkeys of any color that leech off them. In other words, they hate liberals, PERIOD!
Thank you Finny for opening up this chance for me to get this off my chest. Damned straight I will some defend Trump supporters. My friends don't knock Ted Cruz. They love him as second choice. Nor do the few Cruz supporters I know knock Donald Trump. They love him as their second choice.
As for me and my house Finny, stick us in your Ted Cruz column. He is the only one we financially support. That will not change.
-Neil Elliott
p.s. Praise God and Long Live Free Republic!
Wins the post of the most ignorant and biased post of the day!
Clarence Thomas is a friend of mine!, one of nine Supremes. VP Biden will be Donald's opponent. The SOH is Paul Ryan, a closet GOPe.
I agree with Sarah. I support Donald J. Trump, the clear WINNER.
We are all taught from childhood that anger and the desire to get revenge, are bad things. Christianity teaches it, too. Yet some people openly embrace those reasons for supporting Trump.
But what's accomplished by striking angrily and bitterly at an entrenched ruling class we're all ticked off at? Especially through such a vehicle as Trump, with a long and decided left-moderate past?
The very fact that expressed anger and the desire to "get back at the GOPe" are Trump's biggest appeals, should be a warning flag, it is a warning flag.
To me, Trump consistently evidences hot-headedness and slow thinking; he looks to me exactly like a happy old blowhard. That's not an insult to Trump supporters, just the kind of thing one might say about any entertainer, and I hope everyone here remembers that THAT is why Trump is famous in the first place.
Entertainment, marketing, brand-building are the only reasons Trump has credibility and trust. As far as his vaunted deal-making abilities and wealth success go, his brand may claim to be top-notch, but in the actual marketplace (the milieu of American entrepreneur billionaires) he is average. His famed reputation is strictly self-promoted; there are real estate moguls who are considerably better at the "art of the deal" than Trump, yet they are wisely reticent. What does that suggest about The Donald? That fortune just wasn't complete without fame for him?
Cruz is young and it appears to me, pretty cool-thinking. There are things I don't like about him, yes, but that goes with the territory. There are so many more, worse flaws in Donald Trump, that the contest ends quickly for me. Trump is a left moderate assuredly, from continued ethanol subsidies to government-mangled ... er, managed, health care.
Fellow Republicans asked -- no, that is wrong, they EXPECTED -- me to vote for that kind of "deal" in Romney the last time around. Oh well.
These days, I will only vote for what I want to win. What we stand to win with Trump -- fearful folks may perceive it as a reprieve from the more sinister socialist in the wings as what we "win," but in fact we would win more leftism by our own hands.
Swirling faster and faster in a leftward, downward spiral of more and bigger government. That we voted for.
It's becoming clearer every year that things will only reverse when we stand and fight by voting for the opposite direction, by voting only for the direction we want to go. As long as people are willing to vote for going in the wrong direction "this time" then we will keep on going faster and faster in the wrong direction.
The only ones who own it are the ones who voted for it. That included me for more than 30 years. That has changed.