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He is definitely getting the Tea Party voters, the tea party leadership fashioned their voters as Supply side devotees. They were wrong. The reality was a call for a wall and a ban to Muslims was the sweet spot. Plus his bona fides as a birther are beyond question.
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Once he backs off the wall and the Muslim ban, he will lose them. Hopefully he'll do irreparable damage to the party and they will reinvent themselves in a reasonable light
BTW, I say this as a man that has been right of center and voted Republican for most of my life, but the Republican Party has driven me away (Sarah Palin, FFS?) There is no way I could vote for any of these ass-clowns that they are parading in front of us.I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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Jon said:As I've pointed out before, there are NO documents created by the federal government that are EVER marked classified. Ever. Even after they are transferred to an official's private email server. This is just the Hillary talking point. Do you really believe she would make a categorical statement about over 55,000 emails not having been marked classified if she didn't know that she was correct? She is crooked, not stupid. Repeating a lie does not make it true, at least, to reasonably intelligent people. This stuff is not complicated unless your intent is to deceive.I believe they're looking at "intent to circumvent" the law by setting up the alternative server. HillTron 4000 will not suffer any sanctions for classified material as all the emails designated as 'classified' were given that designation after the server was seized and long after the email was sent/received. As far as 'covert operatives' go, that's laughable.
The immunity grant has several corollaries.
- The DOJ asked for it. DOJ and FBI are talking now.
- A Grand Jury has been convened in this case. The GJ can issue subpoenas.
- An indictment is being sought against someone.
- Pagliano now has to testify as to how classified information "migrated" to a home server. In setting up the server, the SOS password had to have been used. Pagliano had to have known that password. Who told him? And remember that the SAP emails have a portal that needs to be negotiated in order to access them.
I understand that Cheryl Mills and/or Uma Wiener are the logical targets. I understand that Democrats don't care one whit about national security if it happens to limit the "free stuff" they can steal from the productive segment of the economy. And I understand that the Republican party is so stupid that they will nominate a statist, or, if they don't, they will create a third party for Trump.
Tough times for working folks. Great times for leeches.Last edited by Da Geezer; March 3, 2016, 12:03 PM.Comment
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That might be true, it is really hard to tell what of his nonsense is real and what is pure pandering.
The craziest thing about Trump as a candidate is he'll have moments of clarity where he is actually totally correct amidst the nonsense. Like things you won't hear from either side.Comment
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Yep. There are times the you go "You know...." then it's what the hell was I thinking. Ha!Originally posted by froot loops View PostI feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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I love when he starts talking about the donors and their relationships to candidates. It's like he's breaking the 4th wall.Comment
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YES! Drop the xenophobia and his candidacy would be a very healthy development.Comment
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Polls in WTA states conducted in February and later...
Ohio -- Trump +5%
Illinois -- Trump +15.5%
Missouri -- No polll since August, which was Trump +12 at the time.
Arizona -- No poll since October, which was Carson +2 at the time. If Trump fails to win Arizona by double digits I would be shocked though
Florida -- Trump + 18%
Wisconsin -- Trump +10%
Maryland -- No poll since January, which was Trump +17
Pennsylvania -- Trump +3% I'm surprised it's that small a lead, so maybe this state is actually in play. If Trump loses I'll be pretty surprised.
California -- Last poll in January was Cruz +2. I'm surprised that Trump isn't winning big there because of the immigration issue. This might be Cruz's only winnable remaining state where the people outnumber the prarie dogs.
New Jersey -- Trump +27%
Montana -- Last poll was Cruz +6% in November. I think that the small 3 and 4 EV red states will almost all go Cruz
Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Delaware have no polls.
On top of completely dominating all of the WTA contests over the next couple of months, Trump has a good shot at hitting the WTA threshhold in some other states and he will easily win over half the delegates in New York.
Assuming Trump wins the states that I am expecting him to win (OH, FL, IL, MO, MD, NJ, AZ, WI, PE), that puts him up to 900 delegates, with enough proportionally-awarded delegates to easily put him over 1250. The proportional delegates tend to go more than proportionally to the winner, depending on the rules, like in Texas and New York, where you have to get 20% of the vote to get any delegates.Last edited by Hannibal; March 3, 2016, 12:54 PM.Comment
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Hey, some ink for one of my former profs! And he's right.Comment
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(CNN) Mitt Romney delivered a sweeping broadside against Donald Trump on Thursday, laying into the Republican presidential front-runner with a sharper attack than any of the party's 2016 contenders have made against the billionaire business mogul. "Here's what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud," Romney said. "His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat." Romney said that "dishonesty is Donald Trump's hallmark," pointing to his "bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics."
Romney lambasted Trump on foreign policy, casting him as "very, very not-smart" in his comments about allowing ISIS to take out Syria's leadership and for proposing the slaughter of the families of terrorists.
"Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less-than-noble purposes. He creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for the killing of innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protestors," he said, adding that Trump would trample First Amendment protections. Romney also said Trump's remarks on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Syria and ISIS "has to go down as the most ridiculous and dangerous idea of the campaign season: Let ISIS take out Assad, he said, and then we can pick up the remnants." "Think about that: Let the most dangerous terror organization the world has ever known take over a country? This is recklessness in the extreme," Romney said.
Romney also mocked Trump's failed business ventures, pointing to his airline, his casino bankruptcies and more, and attacked his sexual indiscretions, too. "There's a dark irony in his boasts of his sexual exploits during the Vietnam war, while at the same time, John McCain, who he has mocked, was in prison being tortured," he said
In his speech, Romney called Trump's policy proposals "flimsy, at best," and said he'd trigger a trade war, drive up the deficit and lead the nation into a recession. "Even though Donald Trump has offered very few specific economic plans, what he has said is enough to know that he would be very bad for American workers and American families," he said. "Now I know you say, 'Isn't he a huge business success, and doesn't he know what he's talking about?' No he isn't, and no he doesn't. His bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and their workers. He inherited his business; he didn't create it," Romney said. Romney also pointed to Trump's exchange about white supremacists with CNN's Jake Tapper last Sunday on "State of the Union" as a general election liability. "The video of the infamous Tapper-Trump exchange on the Ku Klux Klan will play 100,000 times on cable and who knows how many billion times on social media," he said.
On a lighter note...
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” - Groucho MarxComment
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I have no clue what the point of Romney's speech was. What voters who have stuck by Trump are going have their minds changed by him when Cruz, Rubio, Bush, every other republican on the planet, couldn't do so?Comment
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FoxNews reportedly issues orders to end all favorable Rubio coverage. They deny it, naturally
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What I don't understand is why is the so-called librul media sucking up to Trump. Trump trolls and the media instantly provides a million dollars worth of television ad time for free. Its like all of tv is suddenly Fox News.Last edited by Ghengis Jon; March 3, 2016, 08:05 PM.“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” - Groucho MarxComment
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Trump = ratings. News media are whores.Comment
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