Posted on 03/07/2016 8:01:13 AM PST by King of Florida
Antonio Caracciolo is a member of the Teamsters local 282 in New York. He supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and tells Steve Inskeep why.
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>>The powers that be are shaking in their boots and soiling their underwear - you gotta love it! BIG SMILE!
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Mitt’s press conference was the complete and total expression of We Don’t Get It.
The tea leaves are there to be read but the GOPe is trying to read coffee grounds.
This is not "the Teamsters" as in the Teamsters leadership, which is what you're referring to. Listen to the piece. It's the rank and file.
I think this reflects a “border” of don’t waste American resources on politically ludicrous things.
I believe the rank and file of many groups that have aligned with Democrats know they've been used. And are, finally, pissed.
Just like a great majority of rank and file, America-loving, straight, God-fearing, hard-working conservatives feel about the GOP.
Interesting detail... basically this is grass roots blue collar support.
Red necks.
Not the Trumka level muckety mucks who might have other ideas.
This could be a landslide, unfortunately, the establishment will torture Trump instead of making deals with him later where they make sense.
If there is a way to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, the GOPe will find it.
More corrupt liberals backing Trump!
If teamsters backed Cruz the Trump supporters would be saying see liars like liars.
Trump still leads many polls among republicans by double digits. Those polls don’t include democrats.
The man is telling it like it is. Everyone cconnected with theNWO is screamig AGAINST TRUMP. AMERICANS are FOR TRUMP.
That’s what I see happening every day.
Wow I don’t know who this guy is but he nails this out of the park! https://www.facebook.com/joewalsh/videos/799421670163197/?pnref=story
Rust belt leaving the Democrat plantation.
Yup, true enough. The doctrinally pure GOP candidates find it hard to keep their purity once actually out there. Trump might offer half a loaf, but a half a loaf that is baked is better than a whole loaf that isn’t.
>>Hey, I won’t refuse that, thank the good Lord for favors large and small.<<
I have been thinking hard about what a Trump presidency would look like. Presidents have the bully pulpit and veto but little else in terms of fiscal policy — obozocare would have never passed in today’s Congress.
The biggest thing the POTUS directly controls is the military — and ROE.
I honestly believe that a Trump ROE would be “if you have a true fear, respond with ALL the force you can.” Our troops will finally untie both hands and take the shackles off their feet. Trump wants a military that can and will WIN.
That alone gets my vote if the current candidate trend continues.
Illegals.....period!
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If they are illegals they shouldn’t be voting. But if they are legal then they have the right
to choose whomever they want to for. Cross over voting isn’t new.
I doubt Teamsters would. They aren’t in the game for purist doctrine. They’re in it for their livelihood.
>>Trump still leads many polls among republicans by double digits. Those polls don’t include democrats.
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If it included democrats it would go to triple digits ;)
The word will definitely go out in the world. DON’T GET DONALD MAD!
So do I; 1972 against McGovern. You can look it up. I still wasn't old enough to vote then. My first POTUS election was 1976.
Honestly?
Folks, we need to reasonable. It's time to face facts. Reagan first won 36 years ago. In the interim, we've had Republicans, but we haven't had conservatives. Not even anyone as conservative as Trump.
For us to advance the conservative agenda... ANY kind of conservative agenda... we're going to have to win the White House. Do I think Trump is the second coming of Reagan? No. But I also don't think he's the second coming of GWH Bush. Or Obama.
Cross-over appeal used to not be a dirty words. Reagan won with it. No Republican is ever going to win again without it.
Michigan should tell us a lot about whether Trump can truly broaden the Republican coalition as he has claimed.
Does he draw blue-collar D's? Does Hillary get fewer of them?
If he's right, we ain't seen nothing yet in terms of political warfare. It is going to get much, much uglier than it is right now.
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