EHRLICHMAN: Hot Pants!
NIXON: Jeeeesus Chr[censored]
Posted on 04/22/2016 1:10:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since the debate over what he said yesterday is still raging, it’s only fair that you get to hear his latest comment about it. Skip to 8:35 of the clip below from last night’s interview on Trump TV.
His response to Hannity’s question about North Carolina is a dodge but it’s a dodge with a conservative pedigree. If you’re a Republican who’s been put on the spot about a hot-button social issue, you can’t go wrong saying, “Leave it to the states.” Even righties who disagree with you on the merits will tip their caps at your nod to federalism. In fact, this is Cruz’s go-to answer whenever he’s asked about gay marriage or marijuana. He’s against legalizing either, he’ll tell you, which pleases social conservatives, but he’s also not looking to use federal power to impose his personal preference, which pleases everyone else. Trump’s answer is trying to create the same dynamic — with a twist. Instead of reassuring non-Republicans that he’ll defer to their local preference, as Cruz does when he gives the federalism answer, Trump’s reassuring his own party. He’s telling the same evangelicals who helped him crush Cruz across the south that he’ll pose no obstacle to them on this issue as president, which is an … interesting position for a soon-to-be party nominee to find himself in with respect to his own base.
There’s one other key difference: Cruz opts for a federalist answer on gay marriage and marijuana because each of those issues has been pushed by social conservatives at the federal level. Marijuana is regulated by the federal government, of course, and SSM opponents have spent years calling for a Federal Marriage Amendment. Cruz, in choosing federalism, is answering a bona fide question of whether the states or the feds should govern on those topics. There’s no similar state/federal dispute over North Carolina’s law. No one’s calling for a Federal Transgender Bathroom Amendment. Trump seizes on federalism, in other words, not because there’s a legitimate question of which government should address this subject but because he understands that federalism is a crowd-pleasing way to dodge when you don’t know what to say. It’s another small example of him not knowing how to speak conservative fluently.
I wouldn’t call it a flip-flop, though, as some Trump critics have on social media. This is a flip-flop:
Trump went from fiscal hawk to dove in 3 weeks. Obama would agree with much of this: https://t.co/SXKiPa4lRo pic.twitter.com/s0RMW3VT2Z
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 22, 2016
That’s from an interview with Fortune Magazine, which pressed him on why he could possibly believe he might pay off America’s $19 trillion debt in 10 years. “I didn’t say 10 years,” Trump replied. Er, three weeks ago he said he could pay it off in eight years, and that he’d do it mainly by renegotiating America’s trade deals, which wouldn’t remotely approach $2-3 trillion per year in surpluses. How you reconcile that with what he said to Fortune, I have no idea. Maybe that’s what Paul Manafort meant by Trump playing a “part” earlier and shifting to a more sober approach now. The old Trump would lie, lie, lie right to your face about his superheroic powers of debt-slashing. The new, serious Trump will be more realistic, “realistic” in this case meaning somehow spending more on the military and on infrastructure and not laying a finger on entitlement spending (as Trump has promised before) and yet somehow still reducing the debt in the process. Old Trump, in other words, was more like Superman whereas new Trump is more like Batman — wildly implausible, if not quite outright impossible.
Here’s the Hannity interview, followed by Cruz trying to capitalize on Manafort’s comments to the RNC.
“Bruce Jenner wasted the money and had the complete transformation. Now he is an ugly woman who talks like a man.”
Right, he did that because he is sick in the head. He is to be pitied. He won’t last long now.
If you are religious, the healing powers of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ is the only way for Jenner now.
“He’s not perfect like the snarky, miserable, little nasal-voiced pipsqueak Cruz.”
LOL. It’s difficult to be as perfect as the most conservative, most Christian candidate ever that steals delegates and lies about other candidates to voters.
He’s taking all but the mist crucial talking points away from Hillary.
Good luck finding them. Few and far between.
LOL. When you get time, more photos of your adorable kitties!
I’m so glad you think I’m concerned about Europe. I am not. You do know that I was a witness to 9/11? I’ve written about it here. How being a gun owner would have helped me when the sky turned black I’ll leave up to you to figure out.
And you can play Annie Oakley as much as you want but it takes more than the 2nd Amendment to stop Islamic terrorism. It takes a wall and it takes commitment from our government to acknowledge that modern islam is a scourge plaguing the earth and so mosques must be cleansed and people from Islamic countries must not be allowed to enter the US until it reforms itself.
And go chill out, yourself.
America has become Sodom and Gomorrah. And remember what happened to them? If you can think, because so many are leftist and rino group thinkers who know not the dangers of breaking God’s 10 commandments.
EHRLICHMAN: Hot Pants!
NIXON: Jeeeesus Chr[censored]
Yes, protect your daughters, but if you have sons, you need to protect them, too. As parents we fail to remember that little and young boys can become victim to twisted women posing as men, men.posing as women, and gay men posing as supportive friends.
Women pretend to be males just like males pretend to be women. Women molest boys AND they molest girls. You can’t even trust clergy.
This whole open bathroom thing puts all sectors of society at greater risk from criminal activity of all kinds. Additionally, it subjects prior sex abuse victims to even greater injury.
Just remember, bad things can happen in restrooms, period. Protect your loved ones, and watch also for hidden devients among your own family. They don’t have to be gender confused to cause harm.
good points
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