Posted on 02/18/2016 9:34:27 PM PST by GeaugaRepublican
If Trump had not entered the race, it would be a contest between Rubio and Bush with Cruz being a distant third. The discussion of immigration and trade would be much different. None of them would have discussed deportation or building a wall. No mention would have been made of the American victims of criminal alien crime.
The endorsements are revealing as are the comments from the so-called conservative media. We have an entire issue of NR dedicated to the destruction of Trump. We have networks openly attacking a candidate. Hell, even the Pope weighed in. Tear the temple down.
Well done
You get it
Bush appointed more open homosexuals to his administration than all presidents before him, including Clinton. The VA started all this diversity nonsense under Bush, not Obama. Never forgot that. He also slashed funds to the VA to pay for his boneheaded war in Iraq. When he took office co-pays for non SC vets were $3. $8 when he left. VAs all over the country has to curtail their services because they had no money. Non-SC vets for a few years could not be seen in the VA. Only non-SC vets that could be seen were the ones already in the system that had been grandfathered in. I could go on and on. Bush was a disaster of a president, from his boneheaded war to his never vetoing speeding bills, to his slashing programs for veterans. There’s a reason veterans support Trump in South Carolina and I just layed out a few of them.
Speak for yourself. I don’t want nothing to do with the Communist codger.
He belongs in a retirement home.
Now that you mention it, it does seem like veteran's programs were just about the only case where Bush favored cuts to Federal spending. Everything else was even more of a free for all than under Clinton. In other words, free healthcare and bilingual "education" for illegals: Si, healthcare and education for those who served in his wars: No.
There’s a reason veterans support Trump in South Carolina and I just layed out a few of them.
Jebbie thought that having W. campaign for him in SC would be his ace in the hole. It didn't really work out that way, did it?
“Bush was a disaster of a president, from his boneheaded war to his never vetoing speeding bills, to his slashing programs for veterans.”
So true, I tried to tell some people this a couple days ago...they did not like it. Everyone forgets the MESS at our forts and hospitals our kids came home to while Bush was in charge...but we had state of the art Immigration detention centers!
April 2008 SHAME
photo: A soldier battles overflowing sewage in the Fort Bragg barracks shortly after coming home from Afghanistan.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/04/shame.html
Pat continues to spew his archaic balderdascious drivel
America will not be isolationist
...which is why the most foaming at the mouth anti-"isolationist" candidate, Lindsey Graham, is surging to victory while the most "isolationist" candidate, Donald Trump, can't even break into 1%. Oh, wait a minute...
LOL!
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.....Colin Powell asserts in his new 2016 book: "there would have been no Iraq war" had then-Pres GWB and his councilors understood that Hussein did not possess any functioning unconventional weapons. Powell lauded the fact that under Bush we got rid of the horrific Hussein government and toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.....
ANALYSIS Which just goes to show the US still hasn/t figured out the fervid Mideast mindset to this day. Its thousand-year-old sectarian internecine warfare was kept in check by strongmen like Saddam and Khadafi. Now these savages are marauding all over Europe.....and are coming here to kill us for what we did in Iraq.
POINTS TO PONDER
<><> Powell never mentions that the conniving Mideast types calculated the advantage of having a superpower in their midst....and they cashed in bigtime.
<><> The US gamely decided to train the indigenous population....it cost us billions and we managed to train 4-5 or so over five years.
<><> In the US we take them off the farm, send them to boot camp, and in 3 weeks we got soldiers.
<><> The Bank of Kabul where the CIA and DOD deposited billions to finance the war was a withdrawal-only goldmine for insiders.
<><> For public consumption, the US said we went into Iraq to show them the advantages of democracy and to get all warm and cuddly as they embraced it.
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Remember this Colin? The war profiteering was outrageous. Neocon godfather Richard Perle relaxing in Paris (above the fray---nowhere near his cohorts plotting in the WH Office of Special Ops) got so rich w/ insider info, he was reported to be starting his own oil company.
<><> One last thing, Colin.....GWB estimated the Iraq strike would cost $50-60 billion.......then an angry Bush fired advisor Larry Lindsey because Lindsay dared to say the war might cost more like $100 billion.
That was in 2007 dollars.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY Iraq and Afghanistan today have cost the US some $3 TRILLION....and rivers of young blood. We/re still pouring US tax dollars into those decrepit Mideast countries, and..... as Donald says....we got NOTHING in return.
BTW, look who controls most of the Iraqui oil fields today.
“For those of us over 50, we remember what it was like to have a truly great leader in the White House.”
Amen brother. I remember at 18 voting for Reagan in my first national election.
Having lived through the late 70’s with “Mr. Peanut”, he was literally a gift from God and an optimistic future.
Apparently, GWB didn’t help at all but hurt: I wouldn’t watch. I no longer watch anything Bush.
Amen brother. I remember at 18 voting for Reagan in my first national election.
Having lived through the late 70’s with “Mr. Peanutâ€, he was literally a gift from God and an optimistic future.
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My husband and I met on the Reagan campaign as “Young Republicans”. We are not so young anymore!
Great times because we had hope...
Question is, what if Trump were not running? Where would Jeb be then? And if he was still rejected, would Cruz or Rubio change anything from the Bush agenda? I think not.
Thank God for Trump!
I still think I’m gambling just a bit supporting Trump. Problem is, any of the others, and you’re not gambling, more like you don’t have any chance at all. I view DT as a chance I have to take.
Though he is often shouted down at first, it’s amazing how many things Pat turns out to be right about. Bush’s biggest spike during the 92 campaign came after Pat’s fiery Convention speech defining the Clinton/s candidacy. But then the media and the Republican establishment rewrote history, blaming the speech in significant part for Bush’s defeat.
Pat Buchanan is correct on this point. I agree with many of his Conservative views but do hate his anti Israel bias.
It is a bad thing to hate the nation the Creator God calls “Israel, My Beloved”.
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