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Townhall.com ^ | January 30, 2016 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 01/30/2016 5:29:18 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Almost every President this country has ever had had on the job training when entering the White House.

I will agree that Trump has broken every rule in this campaign and I say fine. He’s been like a Guerrilla Leader leading an insurgency that needed to be lead.

Our country’s political parties have become so corrupt and our nation has veered in a direction that ultimately it may face a default and/or collapse if we do nothing. In addition we have allowed these so called “Elite’s” that have sway over is to move our country to a Semi Fascist Police State.

Do I think Trump can single handily change all of this, no I don’t, but he is a start. If he can act as the wrecking ball to tear down the cozy corrupt atmosphere of the Inside the Beltway Crime Organization that so be it.

At this point I will take my chances with Trump, I just don’t think he can any worse than anything we have had before.


201 posted on 01/30/2016 8:39:04 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: nathanbedford

Spare us the sanctimony...Trump does quite well with all voter demographics, including older voters.


202 posted on 01/30/2016 8:40:01 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Resettozero

You know there was a story that JFK was with some woman during the crisis and smoking pot or something and told her they needed to quit as he might have to blow up someone.


203 posted on 01/30/2016 8:41:09 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: detective
Trump would be a great Commander in Chief.

I have to respectfully disagree with you. Maybe he would be, but I have seen nothing in his track record to support this statement.

I've been around NYC and seen enough of Trump to understand what this country would be getting into if he gets elected. It's not going to be the end of the world, but after his first six months in office I can easily see 90% of the Freepers who are supporting him now either disappearing from this site or changing their screen names out of embarrassment.

My biggest concern with him is that he has never struck me as a serious man. There's nothing wrong with that, but I think it's very telling that he's so arrogant, pompous, and self-aggrandizing for a man who has no notable accomplishments to his name in any matter involving something other than money. I wonder if the guy has ever even been involved in a fist-fight ... let alone won one.

204 posted on 01/30/2016 8:42:29 AM PST by Alberta's Child (My mama said: "To get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.")
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To: Kaslin
The Trump followers are following him blindly like the children did when he led them to their death out of revenge against the mayor of Hamelin

OK. Instead of keeping this between Cruz and Trump you have now made this personal. This is no longer an argument about your boy.

We are calling you out personally, You are a little punk trying to use Town Hall as your bully to beat up on those with different views.

Give it up. You can't tell us why you support Cruz, what he stands for what he will deliver. All you can do is call him a "true conservative." Well you are a little whiney whimp.

GROW UP. Stand up for yourself and argue like a man.

205 posted on 01/30/2016 8:42:52 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: House Atreides

Good one!! :)


206 posted on 01/30/2016 8:49:08 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Proud bitter clinger)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Well, since you broached the subject of “man hands”, his hands look exactly like a guitar player boyfriend I had in the early 80s.

“Like a fire hydrant”, I believe were his words.

I had absolutely *no* complaints, *whatsoever*.

Hubby has relatively short, thick fingers.

Size 13 1/2 ring.

I married him, didn’t I?

;D


207 posted on 01/30/2016 8:52:06 AM PST by Salamander (I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
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To: kanawa
Your "what ifs", while interesting fantasies, are only that.

I have hardly indulged in "interesting fantasies", these are not my "what if's" because, after all, you are the one who wants to put Donald Trump in a place where his finger is figuratively only inches away from the nuclear button.

You are the one who wants to impose on us and our children this risk of a man of such dubious moral character who can get us all killed.


208 posted on 01/30/2016 8:53:23 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

well, perhaps not fantasies, but certainly unwarranted speculation


209 posted on 01/30/2016 8:55:01 AM PST by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: Kaslin

210 posted on 01/30/2016 8:56:38 AM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: Thibodeaux
Speculation? Unwarranted?

Did you live through the Cuban missile crisis?

Are you aware of the Baltic confusion which might have put us closer to nuclear war than even the Cuban missile crisis?

Do you want Donald Trump standing between you and death? Because that is what it comes down to and he is not the man for that job.


211 posted on 01/30/2016 8:58:08 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: AndyJackson

Cruz has kept every promise even when the work was hard and he was alone


212 posted on 01/30/2016 9:01:05 AM PST by mylife
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To: mkjessup
Bonaparte's Retreat
213 posted on 01/30/2016 9:01:57 AM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: nathanbedford
Do you want Donald Trump standing between you and death?

After 8 years of being "protected" by a mole of the Islamic Caliphate, I'm used to it. You have your opinion about Trump. It's not fact based, it's style based.

Beats the thought of being represented by Ted Uriah Heep Cruz. "I'm so umble Mr Putin."

214 posted on 01/30/2016 9:05:28 AM PST by Stentor ("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." Robert Goodloe Harper)
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To: Leto

So which candidates aren’t narcissists in you opinion?


215 posted on 01/30/2016 9:20:09 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: Stentor
It's not fact based, it's style based.

You could not be more wrong, is based entirely on the factual biography of Donald Trump which reveals him to be a scurrilous human being-who not surprisingly also has a disreputable "style".

I do not understand the resort to relativism made so often by Trump supporters. If we had the country at risk for eight years under Barack Obama that is hardly a reason to extend that risk by another four years with some other unqualified man.


216 posted on 01/30/2016 9:20:25 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
If we had the country at risk for eight years under Barack Obama that is hardly a reason to extend that risk by another four years with some other unqualified man

Cruz supporter here, yet with an eye cast on Trump. Other than your negative personal opinions of DT, in what way is he unqualified to be President? I think he is, if nominated and the people elect him. And yes, I believe Barry was not legally qualified except by virtue of forged papers.
217 posted on 01/30/2016 9:27:15 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: SubMareener

I think anyone who runs for President is a bit of a narcissist. However sometimes they have principles that are important that they have developed through a process of self reflection and thought.


218 posted on 01/30/2016 9:28:07 AM PST by Leto
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To: Popman

My life was talking about Trump, not Sowell.


219 posted on 01/30/2016 9:29:00 AM PST by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: Leto
I think anyone who runs for President is a bit of a narcissist

Yep, it's created a kind of "Catch-22". The fact that a person actually wants the job shows they are too mentally unstable to have the job.

220 posted on 01/30/2016 9:29:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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