Posted on 01/30/2016 1:19:04 PM PST by plewis1250
Of all the many things said about Donald Trump, what was said by Roger Ailes, head of the Fox News Channel, said it all in just two words: “Grow up!â€
It is amazing how many people have been oblivious to this middle-aged man’s spoiled brat behavior, his childish boastfulness about things he says he is going to do, and his petulant response to every criticism with ad hominem replies.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Reagan had 30 years to get over his liberalism, and the governorship of California to prove he was over it.
I will be happy to give Trump credit for his conversion after he has spent a single decade proving it.
I’m voting for ‘Negotiator in Chief’ not homecoming king ...
I don’t trust what any of them say. But Cruz has a few lumps and bruises honestly acquired standing up for his principles. What has Trump done except talk?
If it wasn't for Trump, illegal immigration would remain a minor talking point during the election, and only among a small group, easily cast aside after the election is over.
He's not the one I'd support if gay marriage was the main issue. But it's not the main issue. This country is in survival mode right now.
I couldn’t answer right away cuz I’m watching my gkids hockey tournament. I would dump anyone who cheated on his wife with married women or opened strip clubs. I’m open to Carson Cruz or even Rubio. I could live with his bankruptcies and obnoxious talk but I won’t ever be ok with a man that evil. If that is what the Republican Party is ok I’m out.
Sowells warning will fall on deaf ears. It will not be long now before FR becomes a champion of the SEIU.
Cruz 'gets it' on the complex situation in Syria, regarding Russia's broader (expansionist) agenda there, and elsewhere. Trump either doesn't or is in cahoots with Putin on it.
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Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...
"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.
We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."
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"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.
We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.
These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.
These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."
"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.
Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."
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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.
The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.
For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.
We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.
The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union.
Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners. ..."
"...we are left thinking [whether] Trump understands the aggressive intentions of Vladimir Putin.
"...when Trump was asked about the nuclear balance with Russia during the most recent Republican presidential debate, he displayed ignorance of the decaying nature of the U.S. nuclear triad, which constitutes our ability to deter and survive a Russian nuclear first strike.
"Putin has just presided over a ceremony honoring the KGB's successor agencies, and the Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel has announced the grand opening of a "cultural center" dedicated to mass murderer Joseph Stalin.
It looks like Putin has outmaneuvered Obama and Trump. It is an opening for Trump's opponents, especially Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL). But do they have the courage to "follow the money" and hold Trump accountable for doing business with a criminal regime that threatens the survival of the United States? At the end of this money trail, they may find an explanation of why Trump is so reluctant to hold Putin responsible for his crimes.
Follow Trump's Money to Moscow
Renew America ^ | December 25, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/151225
Yeah because he has done SO well with his daddy’s money...?
Had he just bought in the S&P 500 he would have done better.
Investment wise, he is a joke who has swindled money from banks and investors and use the government to enforce that theft via 4 different bankruptcies...
“Does anyone care if trump opened strip clubs, had affairs with married women while married, married three times, nude pictures of his wife posing nude....ok with with forcing people off their property using eminent domain, 4 bankruptcies.....and this is only part of what we know now. You know the dems will dig up more dirt. It’s ok with you to have someone worse than Bill Clinton in office? If you’re ok with a man like this, God help you on judgement day. When your daughters, granddaughters, nieces ldecide stripping is no big deal remember, neither do you. “
God raised up unbelieving kings and used them to accomplish His will. Cyrus, for example.
Gee how generous. Did you entitle plewis1250 to his opinion or did Trump?
>> On Trump’s part, I don’t think it’s so much a conversion for him <<
Well, I also kinda doubt that it’s “conversion.”
More likely, in my humble opinion, it’s mostly just plain, old-fashioned demagoguery — with an uncanny ability to tell people what they want to hear.
Russia has its own reasons for doing what it's doing. Sometimes they align with ours, but most times only barely. Regardless, Russia is now in this. We're not going to chase them out now. We can blame Obama.
I can't argue with most of what you've said. I've said elsewhere that I have my own issues with Trump. But there's nothing wrong with doing business there *when* he was doing it. There's no sign of disloyalty.
Trump is the man most likely to seal the borders. And rather than being too friendly with Russia, he's the man most likely to win any issues with them.
When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Harry Truman we should support the Russians while they were losing, and then support the Nazis when the Russians were winning, in order to let them kill as many of each other as possible.
That's not exactly how I view Trump's position on this, given that radical Islam needs to lose decisively, and we don't really want Russians dying. But it's a bit similar. Somebody needs to fight them. It sadly means losing the rebels on our side, but Obama already lost them.
Nothing uncanny about it. It's easy to do when you're the only one telling it.
But matters can get worse, maybe much worse, if we continue thinking we can trust them and appease them like the saboteur-in-chief Obama has.
Their obvious broader agenda is to restore something similar to the Soviet Union. To this day they continue arming hostile leftist regimes throughout Latin America. That plus what they're doing in Eastern Europe, as well as their increasingly close military alliance with the ChiComs who have also been flexing their muscles, as they substantially build up their military. The two giants have been staging joint war games for a decade now in preparation for war with us and our allies.
How come the 'Rats say the opposite, and say furthermore that they lust for a Trump nomination?
I concede arguendo that the same is said about Cruz, that he isn't about to handle the Great Clinton Lie Machine.
That aside, do you really think Trump can/will skate on Beastwoman's face to the White House?
It would have been better without Obama in office. McCain was for military action, and would have kept ISIS out of Iraq. Still, the rest would have had an uphill battle. The Democrats and their media allies would have fought him -- even on the things Obama and his SecState Hillary Clinton eventually wanted him to do. Politics comes first with the left.
Once the Russians got in, they're in. We're not chasing them out. Unless you think we can go to war with them, we need to give them something. I don't like it either, but that's where we are right now. At best, we might weaken them along the way. A weakened president isn't going to do that.
Everything you say shows we need a strong leader. Advantage: Trump.
Hillary Clinton the spoiled brat
Make America Great Again!
They think it'll be fun. Dems think they can call Trump a racist. (They're already getting some help from the right, which should tell you something.) But it'll be different in the general.
I don't see Trump as a cartoon character. It should be obvious that he's a very smart man. He got Hillary to back down when she called him a sexist. Few of the other GOP candidates would have done what he did. None as well.
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