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Up to now, polticians have been having a party at our expense. They run for office financed by people who want something in return for their money and they always get it. The people who run for office are people who have proven to the establishment that they will play ball. After being elected they fullfill most, if not all of their promises to their backers and rarely to the people who cast their votes for them. Trump has changed the landscape. He is an outsider who is beholden to nobody and owes no favors. He is a political neophyte who says what is on his mind, not what he thinks people want him to say. Compare that to Hillary who has been on all sides of Al.pay every issue and still,insists that she has been consistent over the years on every issue. How many candidates have you heard tell you what they would do about illegal immigration, Iran or North Korea and the loss of American jobs to 3d world countries? Only one and his name is Donald Trump.

The only similarity between the Truth and Trump are the first 3 letters. First thing one should do is assume anything Trump says is a lie until proven otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzd40i8TfA

Everyone likes to forget about H. Ross Perot.

Why just imagine if all of his ideas had been implemented?

Yeah.


Sorry, but the problem with Donald Trump is lack of experience. We've already seen what OJT training gets a nation and we can hardly afford another administration with training wheels. Clinton talks a good game but she created the Arab Spring and handpicked the Ambassador she let get killed in Libya...all the while we had jets and a response team enroute that was called off. Sanders? He wants to bring the boys home and stop the endless wars and perhaps the blowback created from them.

Not being beholden to anyone means he's beholden to himself and seeing as how he's a businessman...I trust him to take care of his own business and those that cozy up to him. That kind of makes him unanswerable to anyone. That's a BIG problem.

I get the whole radical we gotta dump the establishment candidates...but Trump is NOT the savior he's being painted out to be. You...me...and every other taxpayer is paying for his election. You really think he's paying for it? Silly people.

While I do trust him to negotiate trade deals that have killed this nation like NAFTA and the TPP shoe in, he cannot do it by himself. It would have to go through the Legislative Branch. The GOP that he's running under now want's to keelhaul him and the other party is running two candidates...well, one he calls a rabid dog and the other one calls him a liar. Then there's the entire party...do you really think he's going to get anything through that doesn't cost him or keep the can kicking or worse yet the stalling and doing nothing from happening? Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate would have a better shot at enacting legislation than Trump.

So while people are beating each other up at the rallies, and shouting about how great America can be again it might be useful to actually reflect on the negatives Trump brings to the party. Speaking of which...both Democrat candidates today soundly beat him in a head to head national election.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2905900/polls-hillary-clinton-loses-to-every-gop-candidate-except-one/

http://us.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/index.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html#!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

It's not all unicorns, rainbows and lollipops.

screw trump. The Rs deserve him

So of the choices we have to make, who would you pick? Are you afraid to say, because then you couldn't have that fence post squarely up your ass?

Not at all I've already said and have been clear. I voted for kaisich in the primary last week I will not vote for trump or Cruz. I would have voted for any of the 17/18 Rs running except for Trump or Cruz. If trump wins the primary I vote third party, if Cruz wns I vote Hillary. I've said as much several times for months. Clear enough for you MACS? I've not been ambiguous at all.

for the record, Paul Pierce is The Truth

Meh. I didn't dislike Kasich.

But really... for a guy who loves to claim he's conservative, a vote for Hillary? No way on God's green Earth I'd ever vote for that c*nt.

Edit: If you've said, I never saw it. Only saw you belittling other people's opinions in your snarky way. But to be fair, I don't read all the tripe in this forum.

I've said it many times.

As for questioning if I'm conservative or not based on being forced to vote Hillary in one specific scenario ....... I said quite awhile ago there were three people and three only that could drive me to the point of voting for her. Trump, Cruz, and Satan. I've since softened on trump and would merely vote third party. So now it's satan and Cruz. I said it when there were double digit candidates.

It's not my fault if the crazies pick a dill doe as the candidate but I won't blindly follow suit. Trump is not conservative. He's telling you he is now but it's new to him. I've said enough about Cruz to not repeat but I believe his self proclamation of being the only conservative and the most religious is a false narrative as well. To be honest real conservatives should dislike both. Cruz trying to compare himself to Reagan is nauseating.

RIP Carl "the Truth" Williams died in 2013. Fought Mike Tyson and was KOed in the first round.

I honestly beleive the only way Hillary can win is if we run trump or Cruz and it pisses me off we are accommodating them.

We already had colossal failure in the Republican party when Bush had the WH, the Rep. had the Senate and the House and then acted like the Democrat Party and spent us into oblivion. The Rep. party then got shellacked and lost both House and Senate and this gave rise to the Tea Party in Bush's 2nd term and accelerated and gained major traction with the election of the current president.

The establishment Repubs think just like you Teeddubbya, so embrace your love of that same thinking.

Embrace it, go third party and try to inflict Hillary on the country and further entrench Obama's policies on the country so it makes it impossible to ever get rid of them. Hell just vote for Hillary.

Check your premise, you have faulty logic. But then again you think that Reagan wouldn't be able to get the nomination of the party when he would mop the floor today.

You have shown your true colors and they make you look clownish.

The repub party is broken, and it is because of guys that think like you.

Reagan wouldn't get out of the primaries with his actual factual platform. He might with the make beleive one you created for him. Interestingly enough I saw someone on the circuit articulate the same thing this weekend.

Any republican or other party but Cruz or Trump are better than Hillary. Cruz and trump simply are not.

Then again you are not comparing apples to apples. The congress lied to Reagan in where they were to strictly enforce immigration laws and work to ensure tougher borders. There was massive document fraud and, like any government program, they underestimated the numbers that would apply for amnesty.

Also, it was a relatively small illegal immigrant population compared to the massive state it is in now. Pin that too the terrorist attacks and you think Reagan wouldn't learn from what has happened since 86?

Here is a piece from Ed Meese, counselor to Reagan, and since he KNEW the man, he is more qualified than you or I to read any Reagan tea leaves:

http://humanevents.com/2006/12/13/reagan-would-not-repeat-amnesty-mistake/

Unlike Obama, Reagan would have realized that history did not start with him. He learned from what has worked and hasn't in the past.

Reagan is something I look fondly back on but something not likely repeated in this environment. 24/7 news and social media alone make that unlikely. We want more kardasians. Flavor of the day.

I also miss James Baker. Howard too.

tony, you are a liberal drone, and therefore not rooted in logic or reason. So forgive me if I disregard what you think is going on in the Republican party.

Fact check (for those who believe in facts):

http://www.startribune.com/assessing-the-candidates-overall-truthfulness/372603041/

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Hey... you're the grammar nazi of this board. I've seen you give other people all sorts of crap for improperly constructed sentences.

Not trying to redirect anything MACS. I just was trying to point out (perhaps I failed at it) that even though you were going to "fix" a sentence to replace "education" with "brainwashing", you still fully intended to keep " T-ball, you're an idiot... "

I just was pointing that out because I found it funny.

So my amusement at your fix stands...

You continued to question his intelligence, and contrasted that against something which I assume you'd rather not have happen (brainwashing of children)....

The direct statement is that idiots shouldn't be around the liberal brainwashing of children.
The implication is that you'd like smart people to be liberally brainwashing children. (yes, I know that's an incorrect turn of phrase, it is intentional because I think it's funny)

Hence, I simply stated that I didn't think you'd fixed it how you wanted to fix it.

Seriously... nothing more or less there than I wrote.

As a generalization the OP has been rather entertaining.

This looks like a job for Teddyballgame... I ain't gonna argue.