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1 posted on 02/07/2016 7:51:46 AM PST by cotton1706
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-gop-debates-have-become-like-super-bowl-parties-for-top-donors/2016/01/18/9f578660-b95e-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html


2 posted on 02/07/2016 7:52:10 AM PST by cotton1706
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The establishment hates the truth.


3 posted on 02/07/2016 7:53:44 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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... Trump said, who noted Jeb and everyone else in the debate also supports eminent domain when it comes to the Keystone pipeline....
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Yep, me too....I support the proper use of eminent domain when it is CONSTITUTIONAL (i.e., for PUBLIC USE and with proper COMPENSATION).


4 posted on 02/07/2016 7:54:24 AM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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Trump has smoked so much out, about the establishment, this campaign season.

Keep at ‘em, Trump! Keep showing us the MSM/DC Cabal/GOPee’s dirty underbelly.


5 posted on 02/07/2016 7:56:17 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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It wasn’t a debate in any traditional sense. I had it on the radio and turned it off at the first question.

The crowd was hooting and cheering during the opening introductions. The crowd was far too vocal, I would’ve been tossing them from the room at that point.

And the first question was a “Cruz says this about you, how do you feel/respond” thing about nuking Denmark and foreign policy.

I’m tired of the reality show media driven debates. Idiocracy is here.


6 posted on 02/07/2016 7:56:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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As a Trumpeteer, I have to concede that's it is troubling if he agreed with the Kelo decision. The purpose of eminent domain is to provide for the public or general good like roadways, bridges, etc., not to increase the tax base by turning property over to property developers.

I haven't heard him directly address the Kelo decision so I'm going on what I've heard from other sources.

The fact that no other candidate has called him on it and explained how it's supposed to work tells me they are no better than he is on it.

7 posted on 02/07/2016 7:57:56 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Now he knows what it’ll be like giving the State Of The Union address. Suck it up, DT!


8 posted on 02/07/2016 7:57:59 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: cotton1706; BillyBoy; sickoflibs; GodGunsGuts

He was booed for having a non-conservative position on eminent domain, and rightly so, there is no spinning it otherwise. Eminent domain is for necessary public projects, not shopping malls and the like.


11 posted on 02/07/2016 8:02:16 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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Worked to Trump’s advantage. He exposed them, shut them up, and even forced them to applaud later.

Everyone likes an underdog, and the GOPe is quickly turning Trump into an underdog.


16 posted on 02/07/2016 8:06:27 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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CNN’s panel said it was packed with GOP donors, “not the average voters”.

Their booing was over the top and showed an obvious bias. Advantage Trump.


18 posted on 02/07/2016 8:06:53 AM PST by moehoward
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Did we expect the GOP debate to be attended by those who aren’t republican political animals? Like a taping of Ellen or something?


28 posted on 02/07/2016 8:16:36 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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It sounded chock full of Bush people and other GOPe folk

They control the process


29 posted on 02/07/2016 8:17:02 AM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this)
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Trump is dead on about using something more than waterboarding to get get information of the Muslimes.

Do you think that the heads of the top feral Muslimes aren’t being subjected to it in order to ‘immunize’ them against the fear of drowning?

It will take something more drastic to get them to talk, something like strapping stereo headphones to their heads and looping Hillary’s cackle.


34 posted on 02/07/2016 8:21:58 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: cotton1706

The GOPe donors would be the ones most likely to support his position on Kelo - even if they don’t support him.


37 posted on 02/07/2016 8:26:00 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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I loved that moment more than anything since the speech by Nicolae Ceausescu which lit the Romanian revolution. In a way, it was an inversion, as in Romania it was the anti-liberty, party hack lecturing the people who’d grown sick of oppression.

Here, through Trump, it was exhausted Americans longing for liberty and prosperity schooling the dead soul, political parasite apparatchiks of the GOPe.

Win or lose, the establishment’s walls are cracking and falling, largely due to that crude but robust battering ram known as Trump. The Geriatric Old Plotters and their minions will be retreating to the keep soon.

If only those people in the audience could realize how profoundly they are hated, how useless they are, and how expensive they are to maintain. Brush up your resumes, minions, lackeys and catamites! You’ll be needing them.


50 posted on 02/07/2016 8:37:06 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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56 posted on 02/07/2016 8:43:40 AM PST by magna carta
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I doubt the Cruz campaign got more tickets than the Trump campaign. The establishment doesn’t want either of them.


74 posted on 02/07/2016 9:43:42 AM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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“That’s what it is, and by the way, let me just tell you, we needed tickets. You can’t get them. You know who has the tickets? Donors, special interests, the people that are putting up the money. That’s who it is.”

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So glad Trump said that. Explains a lot.


76 posted on 02/07/2016 10:01:56 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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