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midnight rambler
26th February 2016, 01:36 PM
Gay Old Perv establishment hires consultant firm to look into an independent run* in case Trump locks up nomination.
The document (http://static.politico.com/4b/2e/f597073c4ba18c25c6b1bc1396a4/independent-ballot-access.pdf), stamped “confidential,” was authored by staff at Data Targeting, a Republican firm based in Gainesville, Fla. The memo notes that “it is possible to mount an independent candidacy but [it] will require immediate action on the part of this core of key funding** and strategic players.”
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Only two other states have thresholds that high, and gathering petitions can be an expensive and time-consuming process. What’s more, the Texas signatures would have to come entirely from voters who did not vote in this year's Democratic and Republican primaries.***
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/doors-gop-consulting-independent-219859#ixzz41JRJZrIc
*I already know the answer, IT'S TOO FUCKING LATE (to mount an independent bid) YOU ASSHOLES! (because of all the hurdles you and your pardners in crime the Dumbocrats put into place after Perot shook you up)
**I hope they waste hundreds of millions in the process
***good luck with that lol
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8a/da/ef/8adaef2fc7827f78269e8d3edbf342c9.jpg
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/doors-gop-consulting-independent-219859
midnight rambler
26th February 2016, 01:56 PM
VERY safe bet this isn't going to happen.
Joshua01
26th February 2016, 02:28 PM
Gay Old Perv establishment hires consultant firm to look into an independent run* in case Trump locks up nomination.
*I already know the answer, IT'S TOO FUCKING LATE (to mount an independent bid) YOU ASSHOLES! (because of all the hurdles you and your pardners in crime the Dumbocrats put into place after Perot shook you up)
**I hope they waste hundreds of millions in the process
***good luck with that lol
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8a/da/ef/8adaef2fc7827f78269e8d3edbf342c9.jpg
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/doors-gop-consulting-independent-219859
I love watching politicians squirm like worms in the dirt after a spring rain
Glass
26th February 2016, 03:03 PM
I love watching politicians squirm like worms in the dirt after a spring rain
I'd like to see that...... on the end of a rope.
Down1
26th February 2016, 03:27 PM
VERY safe bet this isn't going to happen.
They will all just jump on the Hillary bandwagon instead.
EE_
26th February 2016, 04:30 PM
Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected
Why political professionals are struggling to make sense of the world they created.
By PEGGY NOONAN
Feb. 25, 2016 8:02 p.m. ET
1407 COMMENTS
We’re in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact of the Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening. Journalists and politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out of winning nowhere, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in Ohio. But in my experience any nonpolitical person on the street, when asked who will win, not only knows but gets a look as if you’re teasing him. Trump, they say.
I had such a conversation again Tuesday with a friend who repairs shoes in a shop on Lexington Avenue. Jimmy asked me, conversationally, what was going to happen. I deflected and asked who he thinks is going to win. “Troomp!” He’s a very nice man, an elderly, old-school Italian-American, but I saw impatience flick across his face: Aren’t you supposed to know these things?
In America now only normal people are capable of seeing the obvious.
But actually that’s been true for a while, and is how we got in the position we’re in.
Last October I wrote of the five stages of Trump, based on the Kübler-Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Most of the professionals I know are stuck somewhere between four and five.
But I keep thinking of how Donald Trump got to be the very likely Republican nominee. There are many answers and reasons, but my thoughts keep revolving around the idea of protection. It is a theme that has been something of a preoccupation in this space over the years, but I think I am seeing it now grow into an overall political dynamic throughout the West.
There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.
The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful—those who have power or access to it. They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created. Again, they make public policy and have for some time.
I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but let’s stick with the protected.
They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they’ve got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them—in Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels, significant figures in the European Union—literally have their own security details.
Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They’re insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.
One issue obviously roiling the U.S. and Western Europe is immigration. It is the issue of the moment, a real and concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between governments and their citizens.
It is of course the issue that made Donald Trump.
Britain will probably leave the European Union over it. In truth immigration is one front in that battle, but it is the most salient because of the European refugee crisis and the failure of the protected class to address it realistically and in a way that offers safety to the unprotected.
If you are an unprotected American—one with limited resources and negligible access to power—you have absorbed some lessons from the past 20 years’ experience of illegal immigration. You know the Democrats won’t protect you and the Republicans won’t help you. Both parties refused to control the border. The Republicans were afraid of being called illiberal, racist, of losing a demographic for a generation. The Democrats wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic vote.
Many Americans suffered from illegal immigration—its impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that the rule of law was collapsing. But the protected did fine—more workers at lower wages. No effect of illegal immigration was likely to hurt them personally.
It was good for the protected. But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.
The unprotected came to think they owed the establishment—another word for the protected—nothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.
Mr. Trump came from that.
Similarly in Europe, citizens on the ground in member nations came to see the EU apparatus as a racket—an elite that operated in splendid isolation, looking after its own while looking down on the people.
In Germany the incident that tipped public opinion against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy happened on New Year’s Eve in the public square of Cologne. Packs of men said to be recent migrants groped and molested groups of young women. It was called a clash of cultures, and it was that, but it was also wholly predictable if any policy maker had cared to think about it. And it was not the protected who were the victims—not a daughter of EU officials or members of the Bundestag. It was middle- and working-class girls—the unprotected, who didn’t even immediately protest what had happened to them. They must have understood that in the general scheme of things they’re nobodies.
What marks this political moment, in Europe and the U.S., is the rise of the unprotected. It is the rise of people who don’t have all that much against those who’ve been given many blessings and seem to believe they have them not because they’re fortunate but because they’re better.
You see the dynamic in many spheres. In Hollywood, as we still call it, where they make our rough culture, they are careful to protect their own children from its ill effects. In places with failing schools, they choose not to help them through the school liberation movement—charter schools, choice, etc.—because they fear to go up against the most reactionary professional group in America, the teachers unions. They let the public schools flounder. But their children go to the best private schools.
This is a terrible feature of our age—that we are governed by protected people who don’t seem to care that much about their unprotected fellow citizens.
And a country really can’t continue this way.
In wise governments the top is attentive to the realities of the lives of normal people, and careful about their anxieties. That’s more or less how America used to be. There didn’t seem to be so much distance between the top and the bottom.
Now is seems the attitude of the top half is: You’re on your own. Get with the program, little racist.
Social philosophers are always saying the underclass must re-moralize. Maybe it is the overclass that must re-moralize.
I don’t know if the protected see how serious this moment is, or their role in it.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-the-rise-of-the-unprotected-1456448550
EE_
26th February 2016, 07:39 PM
Maine Gov. Paul LePage endorses Trump for president
Endorsement comes mere hours after Chris Christie endorsed Trump at a rally in Texas
UPDATED 8:19 PM CST Feb 26, 2016
WASHINGTON (CNN) —Maine Gov. Paul LePage endorsed Donald Trump for president Friday, lending the GOP front-runner the backing of another northeastern governor on the same day Chris Christie offered his support.
"I'll be very honest. I originally said I'd like it to be a governor, but unfortunately, the American people are not going for a governor this year. So I'm going to endorse Donald Trump," LePage said on the "Howie Carr Show," a syndicated talk radio show based in Boston.
LePage endorsed Christie in July, but switched gears after Christie dropped out of the race. LePage's endorsement comes mere hours after Christie endorsed Trump at a rally in Texas.
"I was Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular. So I think I should support him since we're one of the same cloth," said LePage, an outspoken politician whose comments have often thrown him in the spotlight -- just like Trump.
Last month, the governor said his state was too easy on drug crimes and suggested bringing back the guillotine for serious offenders, and drew controversy for using racially-charged language to explain his state's drug epidemic.
Later in the afternoon, Trump himself called in to Carr's show.
"Having Chris Christie and Paul is fantastic," Trump said. "I'm really happy about it."
In a statement released by the Trump campaign Friday evening, LePage said he's endorsing Trump because he will bring back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. and secure the immigration system.
"Here in Maine, we have seen firsthand the burdens imposed by politicians who allow illegal immigrants to take advantage of our hardworking taxpayers. Mr. Trump is the only candidate talking about reducing these burdens and helping Americans first," LePage said.
http://www.kcci.com/politics/maine-gov-paul-lepage-endorses-trump-for-president/38218332
vacuum
26th February 2016, 10:40 PM
We may be witnessing the most amazing election in American history.
vacuum
26th February 2016, 11:55 PM
The Donald getting ready to go kick some ass today.
https://i.imgur.com/ZVZS9aj.gif
mick silver
27th February 2016, 05:01 AM
and yet I have not heard a word what any of them are going to do in theys debates
We may be witnessing the most amazing election in American history.
Joshua01
27th February 2016, 07:29 AM
and yet I have not heard a word what any of them are going to do in theys debates
Does it really matter at this point? Sit back relax and enjoy the shitshow
Glass
27th February 2016, 07:50 AM
been chatting to some US folks on line the past 24 hrs. this election is causing a lot of anxiety. a few people still like hillary and anyone who doesnt like the Don is squirming about Bernie getting up.
I think Democrat voters are feeling lost at sea. Nothing for them in this race. But many are confident (delusional) that America will vote anyway but the Trump way.
And talking about Trump winning seems to get the same weird response you get if you had said no man on the moon.
Joshua01
27th February 2016, 08:19 AM
been chatting to some US folks on line the past 24 hrs. this election is causing a lot of anxiety. a few people still like hillary and anyone who doesnt like the Don is squirming about Bernie getting up.
I think Democrat voters are feeling lost at sea. Nothing for them in this race. But many are confident (delusional) that America will vote anyway but the Trump way.
And talking about Trump winning seems to get the same weird response you get if you had said no man on the moon.
Sounds about right. Where are you from? I'm from a little slice of freedom...New Hampshire. We aren't immune to the moonbats from Massachusetts but we're keeping them mostly at bay so far
midnight rambler
27th February 2016, 08:48 AM
GOPe senators considering running negative ads against their own party's nominee leading up to November if their party's nominee is Trump. "Let's all vote for Killary!" lol
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0
EE_
27th February 2016, 08:53 AM
GOPe senators considering running negative ads against their own party's nominee leading up to November if their party's nominee is Trump. "Let's all vote for Killary!" lol
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0
I've always said I will be a big supporter of Hillary if Trump doesn't win the nomination.
No one questions if the republicans can beat Hillary without 40% of voters?
Trump supporters will NOT vote for a Curz/Rubio scumbag!
Joshua01
27th February 2016, 08:58 AM
GOPe senators considering running negative ads against their own party's nominee leading up to November if their party's nominee is Trump. "Let's all vote for Killary!" lol
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0
The GOP have lost their minds! I love it!!! No difference between the DNC and RNC....both cut from the same cloth. Both traditional parties are in full panic mode as they see their power slipping away. Oh the humanity
midnight rambler
27th February 2016, 09:04 AM
GOPe senators considering running negative ads against their own party's nominee leading up to November if their party's nominee is Trump. "Let's all vote for Killary!" lol
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0
What I find most fascinating about that article -
At a meeting of Republican governors the next morning, Paul R. LePage of Maine called for action. Seated at a long boardroom table at the Willard Hotel, he erupted in frustration over the state of the 2016 race, saying Mr. Trump’s nomination would deeply wound the Republican Party (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org). Mr. LePage urged the governors to draft an open letter “to the people,” disavowing Mr. Trump and his divisive brand of politics.
Then Lepage did a full 180 two days ago. lol
http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.121347061.3601/sticker,220x200-pad,220x200,ffffff.u3.jpg
EE_
27th February 2016, 09:05 AM
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3101686/thumbs/o-TED-CRUZ-570.jpg http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4fe0783569beddc669000008/mitt-romney-actually-marco-rubio-is-being-vetted-for-vice-president.jpg
http://www.teapartytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Trump-Wall.jpg
Joshua01
27th February 2016, 09:10 AM
What I find most fascinating about that article -
Then Lepage did a full 180 two days ago. lol
http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.121347061.3601/sticker,220x200-pad,220x200,ffffff.u3.jpg
You seem surprised that a politician says one thing and does another. You simply haven't been paying attention close enough. This is SOP for politics. Politicians can't breathe and tell the truth at the same time. They're simply a waste of our precious oxygen
EE_
27th February 2016, 09:15 AM
There is a major attack underway by Fox News and the republican party to take down their republican party leader...never seen anything like it...
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7a/a5/d7/7aa5d70b485256d428402bba162e6b3c.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ak-1xPznjnk/Ts-xlqmLw0I/AAAAAAAABOE/UKZKV0MM7h0/s1600/fox-news-sucks.jpg
Rubicon
27th February 2016, 09:51 AM
nationalreview is out of control with endless attacks on Trump and the comment sections are even worse
https://disqus.com/home/forum/nationalreview/
Cebu_4_2
27th February 2016, 10:29 AM
What I find most fascinating about that article -
Then Lepage did a full 180 two days ago. lol
http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.121347061.3601/sticker,220x200-pad,220x200,ffffff.u3.jpg
New avatar... Thanks!
EE_
27th February 2016, 11:52 AM
nationalreview is out of control with endless attacks on Trump and the comment sections are even worse
https://disqus.com/home/forum/nationalreview/
Fox News has been non stop trump attacks, every time I click on the channel, there's a new guest trashing Trump.
I wish Trump would tell Rubio, "while I was building a great company, Marco was taking bubble baths with 40 males, dancing in the Village People cabaret and getting picked up by police in a Miami park known for gay prostitution"
I would so use this if I were Trump!
midnight rambler
27th February 2016, 12:44 PM
Fox News has been non stop trump attacks, every time I click on the channel, there's a new guest trashing Trump.
I wish Trump would tell Rubio, "while I was building a great company, Marco was taking bubble baths with 40 males, dancing in the Village People cabaret and getting picked up by police in a Miami park known for gay prostitution"
I would so use this if I were Trump!
that could backfire and boost Rafael
EE_
27th February 2016, 01:07 PM
It's going to come down to Rafael and Trump. Rubio is done, finished...he can't win. Because Rubio has no chance, he is dangerous, he can only be a spoiler...he's there to work for the establishment to get a brokered/contested convention. Hopefully Rubio's career is ruined when this is over and he has to get a job like the one he says his Cuban father did. Better yet, I hope he kills himself once he realizes no one will touch him again.
slvrbugjim
28th February 2016, 08:39 AM
Jewish Journalist: Trump Is Very Bad For The Jews
It should be crystal clear to all at this point that the organized Jewish community does not want to see a Donald Trump presidency. They loathe the man and everything he stands for, which, in their eyes, is traditional White America.
We’ve seen Jewish “comedians” (http://therealistreport.com/jewish-comedian-bill-maher-equates-trump-to-hitler/) and “Holocaust survivors” (http://therealistreport.com/anne-franks-stepsister-equates-trump-to-hitler/) equate Trump to Adolf Hitler and the “evil Nazis” in a pathetic and dishonest attempt to discredit his candidacy. Following Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States, the organized Jewish community unanimously condemned the man (http://therealistreport.com/organized-jewish-community-almost-unanimously-condemns-american-hero-donald-trump/) as “intolerant,” “racist,” and “bigoted.” The anti-White Jewish supremacist organization known as the Anti-Defamation League has demanded Trump distance himself from Dr. David Duke and other “White supremacists” (http://therealistreport.com/adl-to-trump-distance-yourself-from-duke-white-supremacists/) who have made positive statements about Trump’s public policy proposals and presidential campaign generally. The Jewish mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida even attempted to ban Trump (http://therealistreport.com/jewish-mayor-of-st-petersburg-florida-bans-american-truth-teller-donald-trump/) from stepping foot in the city! Suffice it to say, the Jews have been hysterically denouncing (http://therealistreport.com/hypocritical-jews-denounce-american-patriot-donald-trump/) Donald Trump for months now.
In the latest blatant attack on Trump, Andrew Silow-Carroll, a Jewish journalist and CEO of the New Jersey Jewish News, has just published an article in The Times of Israel (http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/trumps-america-is-bad-very-bad-for-the-jews/) entitled, “Trump’s America is bad, very bad, for the Jews.” It really is an incredible article, revealing the innate hatred and contempt the Jew has for traditional White America. The organized Jewish community has perverted and corrupted America to suit their own particular anti-White, Jewish supremacist agenda, and they view Donald Trump as a man who has the potential to destroy the degenerate, multicultural, Marxist nightmare they’ve created here.
http://therealistreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Trump-Bad-for-Jews.jpg
Two of my favorite television shows are about what I think it’s fair to call the “New America.” In Master of None, on Netflix, Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari plays a struggling actor in a very real and diverse New York. His best friend is the son of Chinese immigrants. His girlfriend is white. And the plots have revolved, pointedly but never heavy-handedly, around the portrayal of minorities in mainstream media, and the struggles of immigrants chasing the American dream.
In Transparent, on Amazon, an alarmingly and hilariously dysfunctional Los Angeles family comes to terms with their father’s late-life realization that he (she) is transgender. Jeffrey Tambor plays Maura Pfefferman, the aging Jewish college professor who ditches a lonely suburban life for one in which gender and sexuality are fluid. Both of his daughters enter into same-sex relationships, and the question of whether they are gay, bi-, or adventurous seems to be left intentionally ambiguous. A son, Josh, is straight, promiscuous, and desperate for love.
Both shows represent a multicultural, urban America in which differences of all kinds are not just tolerated but celebrated. The immigrant characters in Master don’t need to prove themselves to the American “mainstream,” whatever that is, and don’t apologize for expecting America to live up to its promises. The LGBTQ characters in Transparent don’t suffer for their natures or their choices — at least when it comes to gender and sex (the Jewish characters mostly suffer from one another, but that’s an old story).
This is an America completely at odds with the one that has made Donald Trump the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Consider these stats, from political journalist Thomas B. Edsall (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/opinion/campaign-stops/donald-trumps-appeal.html?_r=0):
Poll data from the Pew Research Center shows how much Trump depends on the politically restive white working class. His backing from voters with a high school degree or less is twice as high as it is from those with college degrees; the percentage of men lining up behind him is eight points higher than the percentage of women; voters from households making $40,000 or less are 12 points more likely to cast a Trump ballot than those from households making more than $75,000.
In other words, Trump’s base tends to be white, male, undereducated, and struggling financially. But that doesn’t necessarily explain Trump’s appeal. After all, if economic self-interest were their only motivation, such voters might well support Bernie Sanders, who blames big business and crony capitalism for the inequality that has suppressed wages and decimated the working class............................................. ................
It’s very clear the organized Jewish community, as well as the mainstream mass media and political establishment generally – which of course are entirely dominated and controlled by organized Jewish interests hostile to the well-being and future prospects of the White race – absolutely hate Donald Trump. Everything Trump stands for runs contrary to the Jewish agenda to destroy the sovereignty of the United States and displace the very people whose ancestors founded and built this once great nation, which at this point has largely been accomplished.
More than anything, the Jews hate Trump because they view him as representing traditional White America, a racial demographic the Jews are at war with..................
http://therealistreport.com/jewish-journalist-trump-is-very-bad-for-the-jews/
Joshua01
28th February 2016, 08:54 AM
Trump is turning into a run away freight train and nothing can stop him. The only way to stop him is to assassinate him. While I'm not saying TPTB don't have the balls nor the precedent to do it, that would be a risky move on their part. The backlash in America of a Trump 'tragic accident' would be unpredictable
midnight rambler
29th February 2016, 10:35 AM
GOPe sour grapes, compelled Trump to sign a 'pledge' not to mount 3rd party bid, now that he's kicking their asses they want to nuke the party and elect Killary. lol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/divisions-within-gop-over-trumps-candidacy-are-growing/2016/02/28/97b16010-de3a-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html
3 chin turtle man McConnell the traitor, "We will drop Trump like a hot rock...(let's all throw our support behind Killary)"
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/mcconnell-to-republican-senators-we-will-drop-trump-like-a-hot-rock/
Joshua01
29th February 2016, 10:40 AM
and yet I have not heard a word what any of them are going to do in theys debates
It's a mistake thinking issues are an important part of this election. This is an all out battle for the survival of our country as we know it. If we fail here the country will be lost to the progressives and collapse into itself
Cebu_4_2
29th February 2016, 11:21 AM
I just saw the video this is from. It's where he talks about how much Rubio sweats, hilarious.
The Donald getting ready to go kick some ass today.
https://i.imgur.com/ZVZS9aj.gif
Rubicon
29th February 2016, 11:21 AM
This is getting ridiculous. I can't even keep up with all the anti-Trump articles written on a daily basis.
Message to the GOP: Trump supports amnesty (https://www.aei.org/publication/message-to-the-gop-trump-supports-amnesty/)
American Enterprise Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute)
midnight rambler
29th February 2016, 11:28 AM
This is getting ridiculous. I can't even keep up with all the anti-Trump articles written on a daily basis.
Message to the GOP: Trump supports amnesty (https://www.aei.org/publication/message-to-the-gop-trump-supports-amnesty/)
American Enterprise Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute)
Article is from last November.
EE_
29th February 2016, 02:29 PM
It's a mistake thinking issues are an important part of this election. This is an all out battle for the survival of our country as we know it. If we fail here the country will be lost to the progressives and collapse into itself
The way the progressives are flooding this country with minorities, they will own it soon. There will be no need for a republican party ever again.
That's why I've said from day one, I'm in it for the wall. Everything else can be fixed. Once the country is overrun with foreigners/illegals, we are done!
Rubicon
29th February 2016, 02:52 PM
Thanks, midnight. I'm a little slow today.
Horn
29th February 2016, 03:12 PM
Once the country is overrun with foreigners/illegals, we are done!
lol, Once... start thinking bigger than walls, think power to the people.
midnight rambler
29th February 2016, 03:52 PM
Neb. GOPe Senator, "I believe there will be more candidates that enter this race."
Indeed. Do tell.
From William Kristol's neocon organ -
http://www.weeklystandard.com/gop-senator-i-believe-there-will-be-more-candidates-that-enter-this-race/article/2001330
Cebu_4_2
29th February 2016, 03:56 PM
From Rubios TN rally:
Fact Check: Marco Rubio’s Knoxville rally
WATE 6 On Your Side staff Published: February 29, 2016, 4:06 pm Updated: February 29, 2016, 4:18 pm
KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Fact checking Republican nominee Marco Rubio’s visit to Knoxville Monday.
Full speech: Marco Rubio makes campaign stop in Knoxville (http://wate.com/2016/02/25/marco-rubio-scheduled-to-attend-knoxville-rally-monday/)
Other fact checks:
Donald Trump in Knoxville (http://wate.com/2015/11/17/top-moments-from-donald-trump-in-knoxville/)
Ted Cruz in Knoxville (http://wate.com/2015/12/14/republican-hopeful-ted-cruz-making-stop-in-knoxville-on-12-city-tour/)
Democrats in New Hampshire (http://wate.com/2016/02/04/ap-fact-check-dems-in-new-hampshire/)
Trump University
“Years ago Donald Trump started something called Trump University. It was not a real university,” said Rubio. “They didn’t have a football team for example, but he called it that. And if you watch the promotional video it is what really got me fired up. In this promotional video Donald Trump says the following: We are going to hire the best people, we are going to bring in the smartest people and I’m going to teach you how to win and you’re going to get tired of winning and all you’re going to do is be successful. So, people signed up for this course. People gave him money, not a vote, they gave him $10,000.”
Rubio went on to say, “and so people signed up and they said if you want to make big money, you got to pay $35,000 and they did and they got nothing. You know what you go when you graduated from Trump University? You got a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump. Now, that is a bad business practice, but that is what he’s trying to do to American voters now.”
Fact Check:
According to the California class-action complaint in front of Curiel, a one-year apprenticeship that Trump University students were promised ended after students paid for a three-day seminar. Attendees who were promised a personal photo with Trump received only the chance to take a photo with a cardboard cutout. And many instructors were bankrupt real estate investors.
At a rally in Arkansas on Saturday, Trump took a break from his standard campaign speech to downplay the lawsuit pending against the business, which was founded by Trump and offered students instruction on real estate investments.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office has filed a separate civil $40 million complaint against Trump University in state court, accused Trump of “racial demagoguery.” Schneiderman sued Trump University in 2013 alleging it committed fraud and fleeced 5,000 people out of millions of dollars.
Schneiderman noted that New York’s state Supreme Court ruled that Trump University operated illegally in New York as an unlicensed educational institution.
Schneiderman’s suit alleges that Trump University falsely promoted itself as an educational institution even after the state education department warned it to stop. The complaint accuses Trump of falsely promising that Trump University students would receive intense training from experts hand-picked by Trump himself.
During breaks in the seminars, Schneiderman’s complaint alleges, participants were urged to call their credit card companies and ask to increase their credit limits. Once the credit lines were secured, Trump University staff tried to persuade students to pay for additional services.
Trump, at the rally, dismissed the cases as the work of “a sleazebag law firm” and suggested that Schneiderman’s intervention was politically motivated.
“I could’ve settled this suit numerous times. Could settle it now. But I don’t like settling suits,” Trump said.
KKK controversy
“Well he can’t win either. That’s the other big problem. He’s unelectable now,” said Rubio on Trump. “He refused to criticize the Klu Klux Klan. He’s now been given three interviews now. Today, this morning he blamed in on a bad ear piece that he couldn’t hear the question. I don’t care how bad the earpiece is, Klu Klux Klan comes out pretty clearly. How can someone like that be the Republican nominee?”
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Republican front-runner Donald Trump drew sharp criticism from his rivals in both parties Sunday for refusing to denounce an implicit endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, raising the specter of racism as the presidential campaign hits the South.
Trump was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he rejected support from the former KKK Grand Dragon and other white supremacists after Duke told his radio followers this week that a vote against Trump was equivalent to “treason to your heritage.”
“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK?” Trump said. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”
But it was Trump’s statements about Duke that sparked a wave of censures with just two days to go before 11 states hold GOP primaries involving about a quarter of the party’s total nominating delegate count. Several states in the South, a region with a fraught racial history, are among those voting in the Super Tuesday contests.
Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton is someone that if she is elected president may have to pardon herself after putting sensitive information on her email server,” said Rubio. “Hillary Clinton is someone who’s disqualified being commander and chief, because she lied to those families of victims in Benghazi and anyone who does that cannot be the Commander and Chief of the United States of America.”
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The independent review Clinton convened after the attacks deeply faulted State Department officials in Washington for poor communication and cooperation as diplomats in Libya pressed for more security and Benghazi grew more dangerous.
The Accountability Review Board cited a “lack of transparency, responsiveness, and leadership at senior bureau levels” and “shortfalls in Washington coordination” contributing to a “woefully insufficient” security force at the compound.
The fewer than half-dozen armed diplomatic security personnel at the compound “were not well served by their leadership in Washington,” the board said.
Clinton furthermore asserted that personnel in Benghazi were granted many of their requests for security equipment upgrades.
The review board, however, said “Washington showed a tendency to overemphasize the positive impact of physical security upgrades” to a “profoundly weak” system.
At the same time, Washington officials were “generally failing to meet Benghazi’s repeated requests” to augment security personnel.
Military
“In the face of all this danger we have a president that is gutting our military. After Barrack Obama we will be left with the smallest army since WWII, after Barrack Obama we will be left with the smallest Navy in a century and after Barrack Obama we will be left with the smallest Air Force in our history,” said Rubio. “In the face of all this danger we are recklessly cutting our military and it isn’t just unsafe, it’s unfair to our men and women in uniform.”
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Gutted? Disaster?
It’s become a staple for the Republican candidates to trash Obama and argue that he has failed to spend enough on defense. At the debates and campaign stops, they’ve cast him as a feckless commander in chief, standing idly by while the world’s finest military withers away.
What’s lost in the din: Money spent on weapons modernization is on par with the Republican George W. Bush administration. The military cuts that GOP contenders are complaining about were approved by Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. The military budget is being squeezed by the insistence of lawmakers in both parties that money be spent on bases and equipment that the Pentagon says it doesn’t need.
Total spending for the modernization for major weapons systems actually has remained stable since Bush’s brother, George W. Bush, left the White House in January 2009. The department’s “selected acquisition reports,” which detail past, current and future investments in dozens of weapons programs, show the value of the military services’ modernization portfolio in November 2008 was $1.64 trillion. The latest reports, from March 2015, show a value of $1.62 trillion.
The armed forces are undergoing a transformation, according to the Defense Department’s budget strategy. The military services will no longer be sized for large, prolonged operations — a reference to the lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which involved massive reconstruction and humanitarian relief components. The focus now is on building a high-tech force that is nimble enough to defeat Islamic State militants and much more sophisticated adversaries.
For example, the Air Force is pushing ahead with the development and acquisition of an advanced bomber, known as Long-Range Strike, to replace the aging fleet of B-1 and B-52 bombers. The B-52s were first deployed when Dwight Eisenhower was president. The B-1s, which were fielded in the 1980s, are no longer certified for nuclear missions.
The new bomber is a highly classified, $80 billion project designed to build an information-age aircraft that eventually may be capable of flying without a pilot aboard. The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. the bomber contract in October. The contract is part of the Pentagon’s broader plan to modernize the entire nuclear force — missile-carrying submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and long-range bombers.
The nagging question for any major weapons program is how to keep them from becoming budget busters. On Obama’s watch, the Joint Strike Fighter — the single most expensive military project ever — has experienced significant cost, schedule and performance setbacks that have driven up the price tag. The Government Accountability Office estimated last year that nearly $400 billion will be needed to buy the planned 2,457 aircraft for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
cheka.
29th February 2016, 07:42 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-hits-49-percent-support-national-poll/story?id=37279402
Forty-nine percent of Republican voters say they back Trump for the Republican nomination in the new CNN-ORC poll released this morning. Sen. Marco Rubio earns 16 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz earns 15 percent, Dr. Ben Carson has 10 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 6 percent.
Feb 29, 2016, 8:03 AM ET
Glass
29th February 2016, 07:59 PM
WRH says 20,000 Democrat voters have bailed from the party and joined the Repubs.
Ok, 3500 joined GOP and the rest are independents. Does that mean they don't need to register for voting or do they actually have to register and select "independent" but they can vote any which way on the day?
Not sure how that works.
Jewboo
29th February 2016, 08:17 PM
This is getting ridiculous. I can't even keep up with all the anti-Trump articles written on a daily basis.
http://ziowiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/zionist-media.jpg http://www.somegif.com/gifs/1361355184785370906.GIF
Cebu_4_2
29th February 2016, 09:51 PM
WRH says 20,000 Democrat voters have bailed from the party and joined the Repubs.
Ok, 3500 joined GOP and the rest are independents. Does that mean they don't need to register for voting or do they actually have to register and select "independent" but they can vote any which way on the day?
Not sure how that works.
Depends what state you are in along with different caucus/primary rules. If you are in a state of shock those rules still apply however in an altered state the rules are your own even though they might not make a difference.
I hope this straightens your thoughts.
Glass
29th February 2016, 10:31 PM
Thanks Cebu, clear as mud.
Horn
1st March 2016, 04:48 PM
The jist of the game is so that nobody gains a sweep of a divided Nation.
Trump has many pegs to be brought down is all.
midnight rambler
4th March 2016, 04:29 PM
GOPe shows even more desperation, now a Super PAC to 'draft Paul Ryan (the cuck) for president' (Paul Ryan has expressed he's flattered but not interested). There's also a 'Draft Sasse Committee'. Good. They're unable to coalesce into a unified front against Trump, hope they waste tons of resources in the process.
...lower your shields...resistance is futile...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/271724-report-super-pac-forms-to-push-ryan-white-house-run
vacuum
4th March 2016, 04:34 PM
GOPe shows even more desperation, now a Super PAC to 'draft Paul Ryan (the cuck) for president' (Paul Ryan has expressed he's flattered but not interested). There's also a 'Draft Sasse Committee'. Good. They're unable to coalesce into a unified front against Trump, hope they waste tons of resources in the process.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/271724-report-super-pac-forms-to-push-ryan-white-house-run
What happened, is their boy Romney not cutting it?
Oh wait, Trump completely destroyed him in 2 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0H9OmIoORI
Cebu_4_2
4th March 2016, 05:33 PM
Who the Fuck is Paul Ryan? Another douche thrown into the pac?
Cebu_4_2
4th March 2016, 05:37 PM
Hmmm Herman Munsters son Eddie, I thought he would be older by now.
Man they are throwing in everything they can, so despirate. Comical to us but MSM for the 98%:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-kkk/index.html
collector
4th March 2016, 05:47 PM
Maybe they're just trying to muddy the water or confuse while they have their 2 favorites double teaming Trump.
The Bush cartel - Jeb, Cruz (Texas), Rubio (Florida - Jebs state as gov)
Jeb is out, so they need their 2 ringers and anyone else to take out Trump. Then they can rally around their favorite while the other gets a cabinet position.
Pretty amazing how out of 330 million people, the few choices the people have, have connections to Bush or Clinton
Joshua01
4th March 2016, 05:49 PM
Pretty amazing how out of 330 million people, the few choices the people have, have connections to Bush or Clinton
Happy to see someone else is paying attention too
Horn
5th March 2016, 09:37 AM
The media still likes to refer to Trump's republican detractors as the mainstream republicans.
When 50% or more Republicans are his supporters.
Joshua01
5th March 2016, 10:39 AM
The media still likes to refer to Trump's republican detractors as the mainstream republicans.
When 50% or more Republicans are his supporters.
The MSM for me has turned from an information source to a fantasy soap opera. SO much fail now
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