Posted on 02/14/2016 6:02:39 PM PST by nikos1121
Okay, I know it's like almost 24 hours until this starts, but everyone is mailing me to start a thread. And frankly, I'm excited too.
This could be the beginning of the end to this primary fight as the winner potentially can take all 50 delegates. I will tell you how this can happen later.
Monday, February 15, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Greenville, SC at the TD Convention Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM EST.
GREENVILLE, SC
This is the first stop in a busy week for Donald Trump.
UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
Donald Trump Rally in North Augusta, SC (2-16-16)
Donald Trump Rally in Walterboro, SC (2-17-16)
Donald Trump Rally in Sumter, SC (2-17-16)
Donald Trump Rally in Myrtle Beach, SC (2-19-16)
Trump was here on August 28, 2015 speaking to a sold out crowd of 1500 people who attended the rally in the TD Convention Center.
In fact, it was here that he had a young lady pull on his hair to prove that it was not a wig.
Greenville, SC has a population of 62,252 as of 2014. It is the sixth-largest municipality in the state. The population of the surrounding area was 400,492 as of 2010, making it the third-largest urban area in South Carolina as well as the fastest growing.
CHEROKEE NATION
Those of you who have followed my background information of the city hosting the rallies, we once again have a story about the Cherokee Nation, siding with the Loyalists over the Patriots, and being chased off their land, but with a slightly different twist.
The land of present-day Greenville was once the hunting ground of the Cherokee which was forbidden to colonists. A settler named Richard Pearis married a Cherokee woman and received about 100,000 acres from the Cherokee around 1770. Pearis established a plantation on the Reedy River called the Great Plains in present-day downtown Greenville.
The American Revolution divided the South Carolina country between the Loyalists and Patriots. Pearis supported the Loyalists and together with their allies the Cherokee attacked the Patriots. The Patriots retaliated by burning down Pearis' plantation and jailing him in Charleston.
Pearis never returned to his plantation but Paris Mountain is named after him. The Treaty of Dewitt's Corner in 1777 ceded almost all Cherokee land, including present-day Greenville, to South Carolina.
If makes you wonder, had the Cherokee sided with the Patriots, would the outcome for them have been different?
CIVIL WAR
Greenville in the 1850s favored Union until events such as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and Abraham Lincoln's election persuaded the town to vote secession in 1860.
During the American Civil War Pleasantburg became a town for refugees fleeing from the Union Army. The town supplied food, clothing, and firearms to the Confederacy.
Greenville saw no action from the war until 1865 when Federal troops came through the town looking for President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy.
Thank you to Wikipedia.
Yes! And I have to admit, for the first time in a LONG time, I'm allowing myself to feel actual glimmering hope -- for America.
I couldn’t being myself to watch that video of Beck. I’m taking everyone’s word for it.
I had the same reaction to Rubio, years ago, when everyone was touting him. I instantly despised him - a visceral reaction to the guy. It was physical - I know I could never be in the same room if he were in it. I'd have to vamoose.
You're one up on me, because I didn't have that kind of reaction with Cruz. I liked him at first, it was just so refreshing to hear a smart conservative.
But the more I heard him, the more I kept seeing him as just paper thin. He has never lived up to his rep as a deep thinker. He has no greatness. He's just peeved all the time.
And now, thanks in great part to his horrible FR supporters, I actively dislike him.
I’m enjoying watching the elites getting stomped by Trump, but I’m also very afraid for his safety. He’s going against some mighty big moneyed interests. I almost afraid to hope that he can survive. Somebody will cause an “accident”. The best we can hope for is that he can survive a brokered convention if he lives.
The whole thing is not only blasphemous, but sick, sick, SICK!
The power of that is what the establishment will never understand. And therefore they won't be able to stop him. They don't have a clue how deeply that connects with so many of us.
It's been SO LONG since we've sensed that true love of America in anyone running for office. I have to say Reagan was the last one.
Obviously, they don't look at many signup dates. :-)
Just look at how many of us OLD TIMERS are for Trump and we've been here longer than most of the ones calling us out for NOT being "conservatives" and "heathens".
Rubio has never attracted my attention because he didn’t have anything to offer. I dismissed him and still do. He’s another obama. One term Sen. and some legislative experience. He’s just a pretty face with no depth, and yes, I think he is gay or bisexual.
With that I will say goodnight. God bless all and God bless America.
Neither he nor Cruz are good talkers; both are just wind-up automatons...you pull a string or press a button and they deliver a preprogrammed speech.
I hear you. You're right he's up against powerful evil people with trillions at stake. They won't be dislodged without a long fight.
But Trump is courageous, and we have his back!
If Trump keeps going as he has, by the N.Y. primary, he will have nailed the nomination; having the delegates AND winning the majority in the required 8 states outright.
That's right, Newbie.
;-)
I agree with that.
But we also know the GOPe is slime, and will try to pull a lot of crap along the way.
I'm around Trumps age and grew up in NYC too. The city and the state had certain education requirements back then, for ALL schools, so I know exactly what and how he was taught, because I was too. And we both come from patriotic families, who also made the kids work, when they were old enough. I get him...I really and truly do! He is what and who he is and he means what he says !
Oh they’ll try, but there are more of US and WE aren’t going to leave Trump !
Plus we were all taught explicitly that only people born in America can run for President LOL.
LOL...but, but, but...I was here when you were ( just lurking and reading ), just kinda scared of all of you, so it took me many months to sign up and post. :-)
Do you remember watching Kate Smith, after school?
I actually signed up at the end of '97, but it didn't "take" -- some kind of computer glitch, so I had to redo it. Too bad! Would have loved to be a Class of '97 Freeper!
Now many posters don't know much about politics or anything else. It's a sad commentary on this site.
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