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MartiniMan
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 6:07:39 PM
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It appears that the Donald is losing ground to Ted Cruz in SC and is really lashing out left and right. Apparently internal polling by everal of the campaigns show Trump and cru within the margin of error. And of course he is blaming the RNC so he can go back on his pledge not to go third party. As I said a long time ago when he made that pledge with that caveat, his view of fairness will likely depend on whether he wins the nomination. Anything else is unfair and he runs 3rd party thereby ensuring whoever is the Democrat nominee wins.
Was this the plan from the beginning? Only the Donald knows........
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MrHodja
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 6:13:03 PM
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Maybe the New York midget will enter and we will have a four way race.....wouldn't that be a hoot....on the plus side maybe we would get back to what this constitutional republic is all about.
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Talullahhound
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 6:56:33 PM
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I haven't seen any polls that would indicate that Trump is faltering in SC. He's ticked off at Cruz because Cruz is telling lies again. Trump is filing suit for libel and challenging Cruz's being able to run for President. Life goes on. We won't know the truth until the SC primary.
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lakngulf
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 7:05:09 PM
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Still looking for a good alternative. Not sure Kasick has enough support to pull it off. Trump aside, Kasick is the most non-conservative of the group. But voters are not going to get fired up about "I was on budget committee 18 years and we balanced the budget" "I am governor of Ohio and we have done pretty good" "I am going to be only positive" Still looking for a good alternative.
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Talullahhound
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 7:14:15 PM
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I like Kasich too. I'm worried he won't get enough traction. The environmentalist will go after him because he allowed fracking in Ohio.
He seems every practical, he has been governor of Ohio, and I was impressed with what he had to say during the last debate.
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Shortbus
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 8:03:14 PM
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RNC’s Chief Strategist and Communications Director, Sean Spicer, gave Breitbart News a precise breakdown of ticket allocation on Monday.
Republican candidates had to split up 600 seats among themselves, while the RNC and nationally-elected officials received 367 tickets. State party and locally elected officials received 550 tickets. Google was given 100 tickets.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Monday he had never witnessed such an orchestrated attack on a Republican candidate.
“[Trump] didn’t even have to say anything. He just opened his mouth, a couple of syllables and here came the boos. And it did appear to distract him off the point that he was getting ready to make,” said Limbaugh. “I’ve never seen anything like that, that I can recall watching intraparty debates. I’ve never seen it on the Democrat side. I mean I’ve heard a smattering of boos, but I’ve not seen a whole audience stacked for the expressed purpose. And it was done specifically to make it look like no Republicans in South Carolina like Trump. They didn’t tell you the audience was a bunch of donors. They didn’t tell you the audience was a bunch of people that support amnesty.”
The conservative icon said Saturday’s debate was carefully crafted theater meant to convince viewers that Trump’s support is less robust than polls suggest.
“The [TV] audience was supposed to assume that in South Carolina, the Republican Party hates Trump. That’s what they were trying to create and [Trump] knew it,” said Limbaugh.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/trump-limbaugh-both-erupt-on-republican-party/#O3XXGMSrOYRFLhFh.99
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Lifer
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 8:18:31 PM
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" while the RNC and nationally-elected officials received 367 tickets"
There is only one nationally elected official and that is POTUS. What passes as journalism these days is really sad.
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alahusker
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/15/2016 8:51:53 PM
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Still on the right track. Always thought Tump was a distraction and opportunist. He never should have been relevant. The rest of the group work with me..
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MartiniMan
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Trump faltering in SC?
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2/16/2016 8:06:12 AM
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As I said, the scuttlebutt about him faltering is coming from the campaign's internal polls. Combine that information with the way he has gone nuclear on Cruz and it all makes sense. But you're right, we won't know until Saturday night who is correct.
This of course brings up a question I have always had, why is it that campaign's internal polls always seem to differ from the public polls?
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Talullahhound
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According to poll this morning
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2/16/2016 9:36:38 AM
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Trump is maintaining his lead at 35%; Cruz and Rubio follow at 20% each.
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lakngulf
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According to poll this morning
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2/16/2016 10:22:38 AM
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I am pulling for a miracle Rubio 2nd place showing! Hey, why are they excited about 2nd place.
Do we give "participation" trophies in Presidental Race?
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Talullahhound
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According to poll this morning
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2/16/2016 5:00:50 PM
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Well, Rubio is a millenial, so he probably thinks he'll get a trophy for participation. Or maybe he is hoping for a VP offer.
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lakngulf
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According to poll this morning
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2/16/2016 5:17:58 PM
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Every year the pundits say to win the White House the party must win Florida and Ohio.
So how about a Rubio/Kasick ticket. GOP could do worse!
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Shortbus
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Who is Donald Trump?
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2/17/2016 7:12:39 PM
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"Who is Donald Trump?" The better question may be, "What is Donald Trump?" The answer? A giant middle finger from average Americans to the political and media establishment.
Many Americans, and especially Trump supporters, have had it with:
· Anyone who's held political office
· Phony "official" unemployment and inflation figures
· Welfare waste and fraud
· People faking disabilities to go on the dole
· The Federal Reserve's money-printing schemes
· Wall Street crooks like Jon Corzine
· Michelle Obama's vacations
· Michelle Obama's food police
· Barack Obama's arrogant and condescending lectures
· Barack Obama's criticism/hatred of America
· Global warming nonsense
· Gun confiscation threats
· Boys in girls' bathrooms
· Whiny, spoiled college students who can't even place the Civil War in the correct century... and that's just the short list.
Trump supporters believe that no Democrat wants to address these issues, and that few Republicans have the courage to address these issues. They certainly know that none of the establishment candidates are better than barely listening to them, and Trump is their way of saying, "Screw you, Hillary Rodham Rove Bush!" The more the talking head political pundits insult the Trump supporters, the more supporters he gains. (The only pundits who seem to understand what is going on are Democrats Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell and Republican John LeBoutillier. All the others argue that the voters will eventually "come to their senses" and support an establishment candidate.)
But America does not need a tune-up at the same old garage. It needs a new engine installed by experts - and neither Rodham nor Bush are mechanics with the skills or experience to install it. Hillary Rodham is not a mechanic; she merely manages a garage her philandering husband abandoned. Jeb Bush is not a mechanic; he merely inherited a garage. Granted, Trump is also not a mechanic, but he knows where to find the best ones to work in his garage. He won't hire his brother-in-law or someone to whom he owes a favor; he will hire someone who lives and breathes cars.
"How dare they revolt!" the "elites" are bellowing. Well, the citizens are daring to revolt, and the RINOs had better get used to it. "But Trump will hand the election to Clinton!" That is what the Karl Rove-types want people to believe, just as the leftist media eagerly shoved "Maverick" McCain down GOP throats in 2008 - knowing he would lose to Obama. But even if Trump loses and Rodham wins, she would not be dramatically different than Bush or most of his fellow candidates. They would be nothing more than caretakers, not working to restore America's greatness but merely presiding over the collapse of a massively in-debt nation. A nation can perhaps survive open borders; a nation can perhaps survive a generous welfare system. But no nation can survive both - and there is little evidence that the establishment candidates of either party understand that. The United States cannot forever continue on the path it is on. At some point it will be destroyed by its debt.
Yes, Trump speaks like a bull wander[ing] through a china shop, but the truth is that the borders do need to be sealed; we cannot afford to feed, house, and clothe 200,000 Syrian immigrants for decades (even if we get inordinately lucky and none of them are ISIS infiltrators or Syed Farook wannabes); the world is at war with radical Islamists; all the world's glaciers are not melting; and Rosie O'Donnell is a fat pig.
Is Trump the perfect candidate? Of course not. Neither was Ronald Reagan. But unless we close our borders and restrict immigration, all the other issues are irrelevant. One terrorist blowing up a bridge or a tunnel could kill thousands. One jihadist poisoning a city's water supply could kill tens of thousands. One electromagnetic pulse attack from a single Iranian nuclear device could kill tens of millions. Faced with those possibilities, most Americans probably don't care that Trump relied on eminent domain to grab up a final quarter acre of
property for a hotel, or that he boils the blood of the Muslim Brotherhood thugs running the Council on American-Islamic Relations. While Attorney General Loretta Lynch's greatest fear is someone giving a Muslim a dirty look, most Americans are more worried about being gunned down at a shopping mall by a crazed [islamic] lunatic who treats his prayer mat better than his three wives and who thinks 72 virgins are waiting for him in paradise.
The establishment is frightened to death that Trump will win, but not because they believe he will harm the nation. They are afraid he will upset their taxpayer-subsidized apple carts. While Obama threatens to veto legislation that spends too little, they worry that Trump will veto legislation that spends too much.
You can be certain that if an establishment candidate wins in November 2016, … [their] cabinet positions will be filled with the same people we've seen before. The washed-up has-beens of the Clinton and Bush administrations will be back in charge. The hacks from Goldman Sachs will continue to call the shots. Whether it is Bush's Karl Rove or Clinton's John Podesta, who makes the decisions in the White House will matter little. If the establishment wins, America loses.
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Lighthouse
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Who is Donald Trump?
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2/18/2016 11:55:07 AM
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The best response I have read in a long time.
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MartiniMan
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Who is Donald Trump?
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2/18/2016 1:37:15 PM
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Here's my problem with Trump. I do not believe he is either a social or fiscal conservative and I have no idea what he will actually do if elected. For that reason alone I cannot vote for him in the primaries. I totally understand and appreciate the anger toward the "establishment" in the GOP, whatever that particular term means to a specific individual. But voting for Trump because he has positioned himself to take advantage of this anger is not a good enough reason for me to support him. I believe they will be sorely disappointed by Trump should he win the White House. But I will absolutely vote for him over Hillary or Bernie. Then I will grit my teeth and hope for the best. I would much rather feel good and confident about our nominee.
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Lifer
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Who is Donald Trump?
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2/18/2016 2:13:48 PM
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I am of the same mind but also can't find any compelling reason to vote for any of the others except they are the Donald. He may get in and thumb his nose at everybody and do what ever strikes him. But on the other hand the way he craves attention and adoration he may keep all the promises to keep the love flowing his way. I've said I may vote Bernie in the primary but if I do that I can't vote for McConnell against Shelby. After learning more about Rubio there is no way I vote for him in the primary, or Bush or Kasich. That leaves Cruz but his wife's ties to Goldman Sachs concerns me.
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lakngulf
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Wishing for a good choice
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2/18/2016 7:33:25 PM (updated 2/18/2016 7:36:46 PM)
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The options are not good! What is your final beef with Rubio? I want him to be a good option of the ones left, but not sure he's got it.
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Lifer
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Wishing for a good choice
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2/18/2016 8:59:03 PM
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Several things. He was speaker of the florida house then to the U.S. senate so he is just another career politician. He had the financial issues while serving there, using party credit cards for personal benefit till he got caught and pled ignorance. Working with Chuck Shumer on the immigration bill, which was basically being used as a prop by the dems. But the final straw was this week claiming the gang of 8 bill was never meant to passed into law. Yea, right. He claims he. Thought it would go to house and be "improved". I'm not that gullible and don't like being played for a fool. That was when he got struck from the short list.
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