Posted on 04/01/2016 12:55:57 PM PDT by crazylibertarian
I’ve resented anyone telling me how I should live my life since I was a teenager. I’ve always felt that you should be free to destroy yourself with alcohol, drugs, sex or gambling, just don’t require me to support the disasters that result. Any obligation I have in that regard comes from my relationship with God, not from any contract drawn up by man.
I waited for 16 years from Barry Goldwater’s defeat to Ronald Reagan’s victory for a supposedly true conservative to take over the Oval Office. In the meantime, I had to make due with William F. Buckley’s largely symbolic campaign for Mayor of New York and Richard Nixon’s rediscovery of his own conservative roots.
Ronald Reagan went to Washington vowing to terminate the brand new Departments of Education & Energy. Their original staffers have now long since retired with full government pensions paid by guess who?
Supposedly conservative Republicans have given us the EPA & BATFE, though it had antecedents, RICO, civil forfeiture & Medicare Part D. We have also long since passed the point where there are more people employed by The Department of Agriculture than there are working in farming.
I worry when someone can have his property seized before he’s found guilty of a crime. I worry when a prosecutor opines that the only limits to application of the RICO ACT is his imagination. I worry when a stockbroker can draw a longer sentence for a securities fraud than for vehicular manslaughter. I worry when it’s estimated that the average citizen commits three felonies a day simply by getting out of bed, going to work & coming home. I worry that a citizen like Martha Stewart can be sent to prison for one wrong statement to one FBI agent once, while government officials blithely incinerate 80 people, including many children, at the compound of a weird religious sect in Waco, Texas.
So why vote for Trump? Look what eight years of Ronald Reagan’s making nice with Thomas ‘TIP’ O’Neill did. Reagan regarded opponents as misguided. They weren’t & aren’t. Reagan pushed hard for tax reduction but the Democrats refused to reduce spending, hence our soaring deficits and national debt.
Maybe rank & file Democrats are misguided but the party leaders are committed socialists and to bringing as much of American life under government control as possible. If there is any human problem, they regard it as within government’s purview to solve it and if there is no obvious problem, to find one; hence Hillary’s warning about the ‘silent crisis’ of day care. It was so silent that no one knew about it. Progressives have no principles other than that.
The exact limit for government is debatable but Richard Nixon, as astute a political observer as ever existed, said that we must never reach a point where taxes are more than 50% of income. If the Democrats have their way, that limit is sure to be tested.
What has alarmed me most about this campaign is not the candidacy of declared socialist Bernie Sanders but the lack of protests about it. There has not been a peep from any Democrat nor have the media asked him about it. No one has used the term socialist with the opprobrium it deserves.
No one has brought up the early socialism of Benito Mussolini which evolved into his Fascism nor the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler, the Soviet Socialism of Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin, Josif Stalin & Nikita Khrushchev nor the socialism of Fidel Castro. They should be nailing Sanders about it.
No one has challenged Sanders to differentiate himself from them. Worse, Democratic National Chairman Deborah Schultz Wasserman couldn’t herself differentiate the Democrats from the socialists. She descended into incoherence. That is understandable; progressivism & socialism are one & the same.
I anticipate Donald Trump will make the socialism of the Democratic an issue & that he will hang it around the necks of the Democrats, no matter whom they nominate. This is very long overdue. You can’t make nice with them. Progressives aren’t nice people. Republicans have played this game a way too long.
Freedom should be the issue. Prosperity is the result, not the goal. Without private property, inviolate of government intrusions, freedom and prosperity are impossible. The entire agenda of progressivism and the Democratic Party, has been the destruction of freedom and private property. Prosperity is impossible under their aegis.
If all you do is obstruct new programs and not challenge the old ones, you just legitimize them and they become permanent fixtures as so many are now. This has been the M.O. of the Republican Party for decades.
I don’t know if Donald Trump can do much about this but I’m tired of voting for people who say they will & their ‘solutions’ wind up co-opting more of my freedom. I’m tired of Republicans citing that they ‘saved Medicare & Social Security’ for their campaigns. I want challenges to their very existence and that of the EPA, EEOC, OSHA, BATFE and even the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.
I don’t know if a President Trump will do it but the other ‘Republicans’ have had their chances & failed. I want progressives to have to negotiate with him. It doesn’t pay to be nice to liars, thieves & thugs.
Nice try, now your lying, this is what I said
“Trump has been a BUSINESSMAN all of his life, and as such worked with people on both sides of the isle, unlike the Cruz who cannot get along with anyone, and is universally disliked in Washington D.C. So, who is going to get more done? IMO. it would be Trump.”
Shame on you.
Right On!!
He’s been a career politician. This primary election is a charade. It’s a lopsided win for Trump. But, We are stuck with the GOPe and a guy trying to steal delegates from a winner. Ted is in cahoots to promote a rule change to qualify a win for himself or get something for ruining Trump’s win.
Cruz has weaseled wins in small caucus states with oddball vote counting methods and some are certainly questionable.
Cruz carried these states:
Virgin Islands. by 30 votes
Wyoming........by 480 votes
Alaska............by 600 votes
Maine.............by 2,500
Ted’s total votes from 9 wins.
Wyoming....... 620 people and
Virgin Islands 200 people
Alaska..... 8,400
Maine...... 8,500
Kansas... 35,000
Iowa...... 52,000
Idaho.....100,000
Utah..... 122,000
Okie..... 158,000
That’s nine states totaling 485,000 votes.
If it wasn’t for Texas, he’d have a pile of beans!
Ted Cruz’s Texas win was 1,239,000
Cruz won 9 states with..... 1,724,000 votes
Trump won 21 states, and nearly all the states were won by tens and hundreds of thousands of votes. The millions that have attended his rallies have voted.
Marianas (343peeps)... Hawaii...........6,000
Vermont...... 20,000.....Nevada.........35,000
Kentucky..... 83,000.....N. Hamp.....101,000
Louisiana.... 125,000....Arkansas....133,000
Mississippi...191,000....S. Carolina...241,000
Arizona........250,000.....Mass...........311,000
Tennessee....333,000.....Virginia.......356,000
AlaBama.......372,000.....Missouri......382,000
N. Carolina...458,000.....Michigigan...483,000
Georgia........503,000......Illinois.........557,000
And Florida 1,079,741
Trump won 21 states with 6,020,000 votes. He has a total of 7,897,990 votes and 755 delegates. Thats 290 more than Ted.
Cruz’s only way to prevail now is by pure chicanery, just how he began this campaign. It is impossible now for him to have a clean delegate win. And it’s impossible for Cruz to qualify for POTUS.
Nope.
Anyone can see his has been a miserable campaign with no real success and, of course, the idea of him getting the nomination is ludicrous.
I was once an ardent admirer of the man and lukewarm wrt Trump, now I cannot even stand to hear him speak.
Oh no. Trump blew it on Hardball. He’s really toast this time!
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Can you name any current presidential candidate who has actually done something in the private sector? The lawyers and politicians are all talk, have never built anything constructive in their lives. They push paper,and sign horrible bills creating more laws and regulations strangling America.
I thought he’d make a greta judge, but his “judgement” is terrible. NAFTA and TPP supporter, shenannigans in Iowa, incessant lying... He’s pathetic.
“I anticipate Donald Trump will make the socialism of the Democratic an issue & that he will hang it around the necks of the Democrats, no matter whom they nominate.”
Please tell me where you have seen Donald Trump having any kind of ability to discuss a deep issue like “socialism”?
No one who looked at those two wives could ever believe that Trump would be interested in any swapping!
It has been miserable. I need to compare Trump to Romney & MCain at the same point in time. Last time someone checked, Trump was on track to acquire more votes than both of them combined.
Cruz has lost all the regional areas and battleground states that are essential for a general election win.
McCain had the nomination wrapped up at this point in the 2008 campaign. More raw votes don’t matter if the percentages stay the same.
At this point in the race his delegate count is far above Mitt’s.
Of all of the candidates only one has a beutiful poised intelligent stable First Lady. Funny as it sounds thats a big reason to support Trump.
But if he didn’t i would still support him, to the end.
Nobody can beat me, harass me or intimidate my support for Trump, go away and pound sand.
Yes, and why even bother with a trial?
Abortion is nothing but a shiny object to distract us while our country is being sold off. Go ahead and flame away.
YEah Ted Cruz defended the Second Amendment and US Sovereignty before the Supreme Court and Won.
Has Trump ever pushed conservative policies prior to April of last year?
Does he even understand the Issues? His constant misstatements and walking back statements would indicate he hasn’t really thought through these issues like a Ted Cruz has.
Trump is an international business tycoon who builds hotels, condominiums, and golf courses, employs thousands of people, grows the economy and increases tax revenues. On day one, Trump admitted he's not a politician.
Ted is a professional politician, lawyer who argues and writes briefs.
If you want to perpetuate the destruction of this country by hiring another establishment GOP politician, be my guest.
Have you ever signed the front of a payroll check?
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