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That's where you're wrong - the vast majority of America is angry with Washington, on both sides of the isle - Trumps is winning across ALL demographics
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That's where you're wrong - the vast majority of America is angry with Washington, on both sides of the isle - Trumps is winning across ALL demographics
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Well, like I said, the arch conservative character he's created of late is not who he really is. A few short years ago he was praising illegal immigrants and touting socialized medicine. I know people's views can "evolve" but rarely have we seen such a polar opposite shift. He still won't really say what he wants to do on healthcare, although it's clear he wants government to play a big role. He loves Planned Parenthood and wants us to keep funding it (why? If we are all supposed to have health insurance, why can't women just go to doctors for preventative care? It's all 100% covered by insurance now by law). He's said that Hillary was doing a great job as Secretary of State.
“Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman,” he told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren in March of 2012. “I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard.”
“I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her,” he added of the then-secretary of state.
He donated to her Senate campaign and to the Clinton foundation.
Now of course he says she did a terrible job.
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While not a Trump supporter I will say this about the man: He is driven to succeed and excel. I don't think he would do the things that are known to be monumentally bad policy for the country simply because they fit his personal ideology like B-Rock has. I do not like his stance on certain personal liberty issues and authoritarian bent so I do not support him.
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He's got net unfavorables of 30% among independents and 74% among Dems. I don't know where you got that idea.
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Why can't people accept that Trump being in the middle on issues is okay with most of his supporters?
That's the problem no one seams to realize. The over-politicized issues like abortion, Christian-rights, the 2nd amendment, gay marriage.... most people don't give a **** anymore. We've accepted where the courts have come down on those issues and we've moved on (even if we don't agree). It's only this small part of the Republican party that has a platform of trying to somehow magically change those things. Most of America knows that's a futile waste of energy to try and radically change those policies back to the far right.
Trump's potential to be a MIDDLE-RIGHT candidate is part of the appeal. It's not a negative anymore, especially in context of how crazy, wacko, right-wing both Cruz and Rubio sometime sound. The message of the old Tea Party and Cruz about the moral values of our country and how abortion is rampant and they're going to take your guns and Christians are being persecuted is falling on deaf ears. No one believes that **** anymore (do they?). And if you think that, don't ******* vote for Trump. Go your wacky way and keep hoping a guy like Cruz gets elected (that's NEVER going to happen).
Trump is anti-establishment because not only is he not emboldened to their corrupt money but he's not restricted to some crazy ideological, radical side of the aisle either.
Strong immigration reform is not an exclusive right-wing platform.
Tariff management and strong foreign business deals is not an exclusive right-wing platform.
Reducing the power/influence of insurance and pharmaceutical companies in our health care system (whether its government run or not) is not a right-wing exclusive platform.
Closing loopholes for corporate tax evasion and re-evaluating the anti-monopoly laws/corporate mergers is not an exclusively right-wing platform (or left wing).
Cleaning up the way income taxes and small-business taxes work is not an exclusively right-wing platform.
The right-wing of america (like the left-wing) has devolved into special interests paying for policy. And special interests have PAID FOR and WANT continued right-left stalemates on radical ideas. It helps them continue to write the laws and add the pork that lines their pockets.
Trump isn't right or left. He doesn't take their money. He's not restricted on any idea or solution because of his label.
He's an actual INDEPENDENT that swindled the Republican National Convention into allowing him on their ticket and thus allows him to eliminate a name off the ballot before November, which he is masterfully doing by playing the game and appearing just right-wing enough to get the vote.
We finally have a chance to get an Independent elected into office in our broken two party system. We might not get this opportunity again for decades.
Don't let it pass us by.
That's the problem no one seams to realize. The over-politicized issues like abortion, Christian-rights, the 2nd amendment, gay marriage.... most people don't give a **** anymore. We've accepted where the courts have come down on those issues and we've moved on (even if we don't agree). It's only this small part of the Republican party that has a platform of trying to somehow magically change those things. Most of America knows that's a futile waste of energy to try and radically change those policies back to the far right.
Trump's potential to be a MIDDLE-RIGHT candidate is part of the appeal. It's not a negative anymore, especially in context of how crazy, wacko, right-wing both Cruz and Rubio sometime sound. The message of the old Tea Party and Cruz about the moral values of our country and how abortion is rampant and they're going to take your guns and Christians are being persecuted is falling on deaf ears. No one believes that **** anymore (do they?). And if you think that, don't ******* vote for Trump. Go your wacky way and keep hoping a guy like Cruz gets elected (that's NEVER going to happen).
Trump is anti-establishment because not only is he not emboldened to their corrupt money but he's not restricted to some crazy ideological, radical side of the aisle either.
Strong immigration reform is not an exclusive right-wing platform.
Tariff management and strong foreign business deals is not an exclusive right-wing platform.
Reducing the power/influence of insurance and pharmaceutical companies in our health care system (whether its government run or not) is not a right-wing exclusive platform.
Closing loopholes for corporate tax evasion and re-evaluating the anti-monopoly laws/corporate mergers is not an exclusively right-wing platform (or left wing).
Cleaning up the way income taxes and small-business taxes work is not an exclusively right-wing platform.
The right-wing of america (like the left-wing) has devolved into special interests paying for policy. And special interests have PAID FOR and WANT continued right-left stalemates on radical ideas. It helps them continue to write the laws and add the pork that lines their pockets.
Trump isn't right or left. He doesn't take their money. He's not restricted on any idea or solution because of his label.
He's an actual INDEPENDENT that swindled the Republican National Convention into allowing him on their ticket and thus allows him to eliminate a name off the ballot before November, which he is masterfully doing by playing the game and appearing just right-wing enough to get the vote.
We finally have a chance to get an Independent elected into office in our broken two party system. We might not get this opportunity again for decades.
Don't let it pass us by.
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Well yeah, I guess the good thing about someone with no principles is that they aren't going to stubbornly force their principles down your throat.
The bad thing is I don't think we have any clue what he would really do in office.
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Do we really have a clue anymore about what ANY candidate will do in office?
What is Clinton going to do exactly? Haven't you been around enough to know that all the bullshit Cruz, Rubio, Clinton and Sanders say isn't going to get done either? That once they get in office, their donors come first and the American people come second?
The risk of King Trump is worth it to see what really happens. At worst, it's 4 ******* years of him repealing bad executive orders and maybe enacting a few bad ones of his own in their place (only to be picked apart in the court system). So what?
If we don't like Trump in 4 years, we'll vote him out. If he's not fixing immigration, if the economy is worse, if foreign relations are going to ****, we'll vote him out.
Most of us are greatly over-exaggerating the power Trump will have in office.
Most of why I'm going to vote for him is the effect of him winning on the future of the two parties, which I think are both broken. Most of why I'm voting for him is I want to see a moderate-conservative win the White House without having to pander to the religious right (or hoodwink them enough and not truly believe it in this case).
I can accept his crass nature to accomplish those things.
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Well heck, if that's the case we might as well vote for Mickey Mouse.
I'm sorry, but I believe this country is on a serious downward slide and is on the brink of going over an edge that there is no coming back from. We are tipping into a European-style socialist state and as we all know, once the government gets its clutches on something there is no getting it back. I don't trust Trump not to push for government control of more and more of our economy and lives. That's the biggest issue in this election. Not to mention the potential to appoint a justice that could turn the SCOTUS into a board of unelected legislators who will rewrite the Constitution. So sorry, it's not a 'let's just give it a try and see what happens" decision for me.
In any case I don't believe Trump will win the general.
If you want to vote Micky Mouse over Trump or Hillary fine. That's the choice you're likely going to see. This country can NOT take the risk of Hillarak O'Clinton, that there would be the push over the Cliff you speak of. A vote for Micky is a vote for the Democrats and the tailspin that is the direction Barry O has steered us. Have at it.
Trump is a Centrist who brings in Hispanic voters. I thought that was what the party was looking for. OOOOOooohhhhh....he doesn't need their money and they can't tell him what to do. Nevermind.
Hitlery and Bernie definitely WILL dig their clutches deep. That's not to even be questioned.
I like Cruz enough to be ok with him. Rubio seems too rigid. All four of these ARE politicians who will do what they are paid to do, not what is best for this country.
Is Trump 100% perfect for the job? Absolutely not.
Is Trump going to do 100% of what he says? Absolutely not.
What Trump does do is address the bullshit that is and has consistently ****** this country up.
the wall on the border is the most famous. he says he'll build a wall and have mexico pay for it. as has been said before, this could be done by tariffs ... and the wall itself could be a figure of speech. if we allow the border patrol to do their job, things might get better. Maybe one of the (R)s would allow that to happen. Bernie nor Hitlery will not.
halt on muslims entering the country ... absolutely cease allowing people from the mid-east **** hole from coming here whom we cannot vet. People say we need more background checks on guns and those checks are performed by the gov't... the same gov't doing checks on syrian "refugees" where there is not a whole lot of documentation to state who a person is. yet no one has a problem with THAT? as far as that, you let these ***** in the country and take guns away from citizens? recipe for disaster.
i'm not for abortions, but PP should remain funded. they provide more than just abortions.
the economy is ******. using common core math to determine 5% of the population is not working is precisely what is ******* us over. common core ... developed when the current politicians are/were in office...
i simply do not want ANOTHER career politician in office. trump is loud, brash, boorish and petty. one could also say he's passionate and emotional about the country and is tired of the same old status quo where (R) and (D) play musical chairs to the tune of ******* over the country.
sure, he may say publicly that hitlery is a wonderful person. she may have been nice to him in the past, since she's a politician and he has money.
trump is a toad with warts, but at least he's not swimming in the political pond scum.
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Trump brings in Hispanic voters? That's hilarious. He is viewed unfavorably by 80% of the general population of Hispanics. He likes to say he's winning with them because he won among Republican Hispanics...a tiny percentage of a shrinking party.
Bush won 44% of Hispanics, MITT ROMNEY won 27%
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It's going to be Trump vs Hillary - that much is certain. Who knows how many Bernie voters will defect to Trump, maybe a lot.
Typically, Hispanics are very conservative. their alignment with the Democratic party is over a select few issues... its been thought often throughout the years that a break with the dems would happen eventually... the immigration issue is probably the biggest thing holding them there. I doubt trump gets a lot of their votes, but if he did run with the right VP there might not be the landslide there people expect.
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Another endorsement, even bigger than the one from the Pope!
Former Mexican president curses at Trump on live TV (Again)
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday doubled down on his controversial comments about Donald Trump's plans for a border wall, repeating his vehement insistence that Mexico will not pay for "that ******* wall!"
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-mexican-president-curses-at-trump-on-live-tv
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Former Mexican president curses at Trump on live TV (Again)
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday doubled down on his controversial comments about Donald Trump's plans for a border wall, repeating his vehement insistence that Mexico will not pay for "that ******* wall!"
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-mexican-president-curses-at-trump-on-live-tv
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So you think it's better for SCOTUS to the average American voter if Cruz get's elected over Trump? Really? You think Americans want another Scalia? We want the middle. And Trump will likely give that to us (if Obama doesn't beat him to the punch).
I got news for you oneforthebus, you're idea of what the Republican party should be about isn't just dying, it's dead.
The platform we're going to turn the government from a $3.75 trillion spending machine back into something below $3 trillion isn't going to happen. It's not going to happen under Cruz. It's not going to happen under Rubio. It's not going to happen.
This naive ideal of "smaller government" isn't possible. It's a pipe dream. The idea the federal government and all those congressmen and women are just going to start leaving the States to do what the hell they want like it's 1800 is long past a possibility.
The only thing to vote for is slower and more reasonable government growth. And in those cases, it still comes down to 1) Do I trust the guy getting millions in donations from special interests? or 2) Do I trust the guy that's not getting any money at all?
We know what Clinton will do. She's government growth. She's special interests.
We know what Cruz will do. He'll shut down government over his stupid ideological ideals. He'll demand things so far right, no one is going to vote for them.
We know what Rubio will do. He's Obama II except as a right-winger. He'll grow government too but have a huge group of special interest supporters he will owe if he somehow finds his way past Trump.
What will Trump do? Slow government growth (certainly not Clinton growth and way slower than Bernie Sanders growth). But he'll slow down growth without owing anyone any favors, which means he might actually pick things to cut and things to grow that are best for the American people.
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So if the Republicans get 35% or more of the Hispanic vote win.
Latino's were badly hurt under Obama. Their tight-knit families are breaking up, mostly due to economics. Any candidate they believe will create jobs, and prevent outsourcing should check the box for their #1 priority.
I believe Trump can get a least 35% of the Hispanic vote in the general election. Trump has always taken good care of his workers, many of who are Hispanic, and is crushing two Hispanic candidates ( Cruz and Rubio ) in the vote.
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Trump goes for the jugular
Trump wants to 'open up' libel laws to sue media outlets
“I’m gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” Trump said at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.
“We’re going to open up those libels laws,” he added. “So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money"
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...atens-to-open-up-libel-laws-to-sue-newspapers
Trump wants to 'open up' libel laws to sue media outlets
“I’m gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” Trump said at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.
“We’re going to open up those libels laws,” he added. “So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money"
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...atens-to-open-up-libel-laws-to-sue-newspapers
Why is it our responsibility to take in citizens from your shithole country?
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Hmmm ... I am just trying to figure out why if, as the Democrats tell us, the illegal aliens are talented, hard-working people and a boon to the economy, the President of Mexico would not be THRILLED with a wall, and gladly pay for it.
****, the tremendous tax revenues generated by those crossing into the United States would pay Mexico for the wall ten times over, right? Right???
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