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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 2, 2016 2:12:06 GMT -5
i am puzzled as to why the GOP is not deeply concerned about Trump.
they must think that the rest of the country feels the same way that partisans do about him.
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Post by marvholly on Mar 2, 2016 6:43:41 GMT -5
i am puzzled as to why the GOP is not deeply concerned about Trump. they must think that the rest of the country feels the same way that partisans do about him. I suspect they are deeply concerned but:
don't know what to do don't know how to do anything don't want to/are afraid of losing his backers don't have anyone left that is really better w/a chance in hades
I am just afraid Trump is nominated & wins but then gets bored and resigns after about a year. We could end up w/Palin or Christe as POTUS.
We all need to remember POTUS does NOT make the laws. Does anyone here really believe Trump will manage things in Congress better than Obama has? It is even MORE encumbent on us to elect senators & congresspeople who reflect the views & beliefs we want to see becoming law or get changed (Obamacare).
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 2, 2016 7:08:05 GMT -5
i am puzzled as to why the GOP is not deeply concerned about Trump. they must think that the rest of the country feels the same way that partisans do about him. According to cable networks last night, some major Republican millionaires are putting a massive fund together to attack Trump in Ohio and Florida to undermine the new party voters who are saying. "We are not going to take it anymore". Please boycott the Cubbies and Tom Ricketts!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 2, 2016 9:29:48 GMT -5
i am puzzled as to why the GOP is not deeply concerned about Trump. they must think that the rest of the country feels the same way that partisans do about him. They are. They're panicked over him, threatening to defect and vote for Ms. Clinton. Headline news on Yahoo, MSN, HuffPo, and others.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Mar 2, 2016 9:54:27 GMT -5
Seeing Christie on stage with Trump made me
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Post by billisonboard on Mar 2, 2016 10:33:23 GMT -5
I thought him demonstrating the ability to keep a straight face through most of the speech made it a successful audition for VP.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 2, 2016 10:36:59 GMT -5
Seeing Christie on stage with Trump made me He's been Trumpified! Time for a billisonic music video interlude.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 2, 2016 10:39:42 GMT -5
i am puzzled as to why the GOP is not deeply concerned about Trump. they must think that the rest of the country feels the same way that partisans do about him. They are. They're panicked over him, threatening to defect and vote for Ms. Clinton. Headline news on Yahoo, MSN, HuffPo, and others. ok, good. they should be. ignoring him and treating him like a joke is very unwise, imo.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 2, 2016 11:39:45 GMT -5
Donald Trump: Neo-Fascist
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 2, 2016 15:58:33 GMT -5
Donald Trump: Neo-Fascist Source? What is this even measuring?
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Post by dondub on Mar 2, 2016 16:22:52 GMT -5
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Post by dondub on Mar 2, 2016 16:34:08 GMT -5
Well la di da!!!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 2, 2016 16:45:39 GMT -5
Thanks, billis. And Don. To wit (bold by me): Given these definitions, I don't know why this result would be surprising to anybody. I also noticed something that AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP would no doubt be pleased about: Hence for all intents and purposes, YMAM and the Bible thumpers are allies for once. It took Donald Trump to bring the two sides together.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 3, 2016 9:46:22 GMT -5
It was... It was nice knowing you, demin. I'll do my best to pick up the pieces and ship them back to your wife. She'll want something to bury. Now... I'm going to go stand a good safe distance away. Don't want to be collateral damage. You understand.
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 3, 2016 10:45:34 GMT -5
Trump has to fight the elite of his own party to run? Now that's about a crazy a scenario I ever heard of.
Yep, he is going up against the people behind the curtain.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 3, 2016 11:36:32 GMT -5
Trump has to fight the elite of his own party to run? Now that's about a crazy a scenario I ever heard of.
Yep, he is going up against the people behind the curtain. if it shatters the party, perhaps that is for the best. the elitism of electoral politics has bothered me since i hit puberty.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 3, 2016 12:04:47 GMT -5
Yep, he is going up against the people behind the curtain. if it shatters the party, perhaps that is for the best. the elitism of electoral politics has bothered me since i hit puberty. things change. Nothing stays the same. Why shouldn't the US have more than two major political parties?
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 3, 2016 12:06:37 GMT -5
if it shatters the party, perhaps that is for the best. the elitism of electoral politics has bothered me since i hit puberty. things change. Nothing stays the same. Why shouldn't the US have more than two major political parties? i would love to see vibrant elections that reflect the political realities of the US. what we actually have is so far from that it is, candidly, embarrassing.
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 3, 2016 12:32:34 GMT -5
Yep, he is going up against the people behind the curtain. if it shatters the party, perhaps that is for the best. the elitism of electoral politics has bothered me since i hit puberty. I cannot say it's bothered me since puberty, but it has bothered me on the Republican side since Clinton's second term. Yes, I know that would be a strange time reference, but it is what it is. It also has more to do with state politics than National.
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 3, 2016 14:31:00 GMT -5
Okay, I had to turn the Trump show off. He is in Maine, and talking about Romney. It was too hard to listen to, even for me.
Crap. I will have to vote for some Green Party candidate..........that I have no clue who they are.
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Post by Value Buy on Mar 3, 2016 14:35:36 GMT -5
I so wish Mitt had won in 2012. We would not be having this issue if he had only had a pair and gone after the President in the election.
of course we would still have Hillary, but she would not be clinging to Obama's Presidency as if she was his partner.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 3, 2016 14:38:45 GMT -5
Okay, I had to turn the Trump show off. He is in Maine, and talking about Romney. It was too hard to listen to, even for me. Crap. I will have to vote for some Green Party candidate..........that I have no clue who they are. there was an excellent Green Party candidate in the last election. this one: www.jill2016.com/she is apparently running again. good woman.
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Post by dondub on Mar 3, 2016 15:01:32 GMT -5
I voted for Jill in 2012.
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Post by billisonboard on Mar 3, 2016 15:03:18 GMT -5
I voted for Jill in 2012. I wondered who the other person was.
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Post by dondub on Mar 3, 2016 15:05:55 GMT -5
You two?
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Post by movingforward on Mar 3, 2016 15:12:01 GMT -5
Actually, there are three of us
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Post by billisonboard on Mar 3, 2016 15:27:57 GMT -5
You two? I voted for Obama in 2008 because 1) I wanted to watch conservative heads spin when Americans chose to elect a mixed race Kenyan Muslim Socialist 2) I was hoping that maybe the conservatives weren't wrong and the Obama would be a liberal, and 3) John "born into the military, educated by the military, career in the military" McCain scared me (Palin was just a light-weight additive to me). 2012 I figured that Romney wouldn't be much different than the moderate Obama turned out to be so I voted third party.
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