GOP badly split as Trump, Clinton seek Super Tuesday wins
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VALDOSTA, Ga. » On the eve of Super Tuesday’s crucial primaries, a sharp new divide erupted between Republicans who pledge to fall in line behind Donald Trump if he wins their party’s nomination and others who insist they can never back the bombastic billionaire.
The fissure could have major implications beyond the primaries, exposing the looming challenges in uniting the party after the election, no matter who wins.
Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, a rising star among conservatives, became the first current senator to publicly raise the prospect of backing a third-party option if Trump clinches the nomination. In a letter posted on Facebook late Sunday, Sasse urged Republicans to consider whether a party led by Trump would still represent their interests.
“If our party is no longer working for the things we believe in — like defending the sanctity of life, stopping Obamacare, protecting the Second Amendment, etc. — then people of good conscience should stop supporting that party until it is reformed,” he wrote.
The Associated Press asked Republican senators and governors across the country if they would support Trump if he secured the nomination. Just under half of those who responded would not commit to backing him, foreshadowing a potentially extraordinary break this fall.
“I am increasingly concerned by Donald Trump’s statements and behavior, and I have serious concerns about his ability to win the general election and provide presidential leadership,” Indiana Sen. Dan Coats said in a statement to the AP.
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The concern among Republican leaders appeared to grow in light of Trump’s refusal to immediately disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s support.
Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, called that “disqualifying.” And South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, campaigning in Atlanta alongside Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, said she would “not stop fighting a man who refuses to disavow the KKK.”
Trump said he had not understood the interviewer who first raised the question about Duke, and he did later repudiate him. “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people?” he said.
Several high-profile Republicans and conservative writers have embraced an anti-Trump social media campaign, using the Twitter hashtag “NeverTrump.”
Trump has won three of four early primary contests, roiling a party that had assumed his populist appeal with voters would fizzle. Instead, he’s only grown stronger and appears to be in commanding position heading into Super Tuesday, the biggest single-day delegate haul of the year.
Tensions boiled over during Trump’s rally Monday in Radford, Virginia, where he was repeatedly disrupted by demonstrators, including 20 or more chanting “Black lives matter.” At another point, he asked a protester, “Are you from Mexico?” after he was interrupted during remarks about immigration. He ordered several people to be removed, then cast himself as a unifying political force.
“Believe it or not, we’re going to unify this country,” he said.
If Trump sweeps most of the states up for grabs Tuesday, he could amass a delegate lead that would be difficult for any rival to overcome. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is banking on a win in his home state to keep him in the race, while Rubio wants to stay close in the delegate count until the primary hits his home state of Florida on March 15.
Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is solidifying her lead. Like Trump, Clinton could begin putting her party’s nomination out of reach for rival Bernie Sanders with a strong showing on Super Tuesday.
As Trump has rolled through the early voting states, he’s received enthusiastic endorsements from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of the most vocal opponents of immigration-law changes on Capitol Hill. Several other party officials have said they would back the real estate mogul if he does become the nominee, though some say their support would be reluctant.
“I’m a Republican and I will support the nominee,” Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said Monday. “I do not think he is our best nominee, but I will support the nominee.”
Party leaders are particularly worried about the ripple effect of a Trump nomination on other races. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson urged Republicans to remember that their White House pick also affects “the Senate and whether we’re going to continue to elect Republican governors across the country.”
A new commercial released Monday by Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who is challenging John McCain for his Senate seat, served as a likely preview of how Democrats would seek to link GOP candidates to Trump. The 60-second spot highlighted several of Trump’s more incendiary statements and questioned how McCain could say he would support him in the general election.
Some Republicans said Senate candidates and others would have to forgo party unity in order to save themselves.
“It’s not going to be a team effort. It’s going to be every man for himself,” said Matt Mackowiak, a GOP strategist who is unaffiliated in the 2016 race.
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Pace reported from Washington. AP writers Thomas Beaumont in Atlanta, Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama, and Andrew Taylor, Donna Cassata and Steve Peoples in Washington contributed to this report.
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Dr Duke earns a living attacking Jews nowadays and thrives on getting himself into the mainstream media. The GDP has been pathetic while taxes are skyrocketing. Jobs not more immigrants to take jobs is what are needed. Dealing with jobs and dope is necessary to get the country back on its feet. Once that is done, we can go back to imitating Great Britain’s welfare state.
GDP? Do you mean GOP?
Mythman is doing a good job spreading myths. GDP growth is expected for a large industrialized nation. And taxes are hardly “skyrocketing” especially compared to other nations. No information loudmouths look at statutory rates thinking they mean something when in reality, effective (what you actually pay) are far lower. And we know for a fact that many jobs immigrants do, Americans refuse to. Even in the worst times. While there is some abuse of the visa system for tech jobs, it’s nowhere as bad as what the myth peddler is pushing. And the drug war has failed. Miserably.
“taxes are hardly ‘skyrocketing’ especially compared to other nations.”
Oh really?
How then do you account for the fact that our corporate tax rates are highest in the industrial world (which of course is why so many formerly American jobs and paychecks have migrated off shore)?
This is what happens when enough credulous saps buy into the “soak the rich” scam and wind up losers. The rich are rich enough to hire enough accountants and lawyers to game the tax code and when the going gets to rough, simply pull stakes and relocate, leaving ordinary Americans to pick up the freight for all the government “generosity”.
Thos is an example of someone who does not understand the difference between stutatory and effective. The funny thing is that I actually cited this, but Thos being a dimwitted no information loudmouth didn’t realize he got ninja’d.
Only a complete fool replies with an argument already refuted by the post he quoted. Thos clearly doesn’t understand the difference between statutory and effective. Despite me actually explaining it to him before he replied. EMBARRASSING. Thos is like that arrogant kid in the back of the classroom who never pays any attention and then tries to correct the teacher who previously explained why his argument makes no sense.
Companies offshore for a variety of reasons, including lower labor costs, electricity costs, state support, so on and so forth. A large amount of companies are moving out of China and into South East Asia because the cost of labor has gone up. They are moving to higher taxed areas that don’t provide as much state support because the differential cost of labor is so high. They’d rather be taxed HIGHER and save the difference on labor. And when your production facility is in the same place as you market saving you from import/export taxes as well as shipping and insurance costs, it makes sense. China is the largest car market in the planet. Being able to cost source there and avoid all of the transportation costs is a huge boost to profits. Again, no information dimwits with ZERO understanding of business such as Thos think it’s all about taxes when in reality, taxes are often a small part of the equation.
Don’t even try to fight me Thos. You will never win an argument. Ever.
So then after one wades through the thicket of barbed verbiage – – or more to the point, verbed garbage – – you have thrown up to hide behind, one discovers that you do not dispute the fact that our corporate tax rates are the highest in the industrial world.
When considering whether to engage in a battle of wits, it is best not to climb into the arena only half armed.
And Thos shows why he will never win an argument against me.
He STILL doesn’t understand statutory vs effective. He doesn’t understand the concept of deductions, exemptions, credits and deferrals. Note Thos’s COMPLETE FAILURE to actually address any of that. The stated rate doesn’t mean anything because virtually no one, both entities and individuals pays that. Virtually every tax payer of all sorts utilizes a various number of tax code sections to reduce the amount to which that rate is paid, resulting in, in many cases, substantially lower rates. For several years, main major US Corporations paid ZERO taxes due to carry forward of losses. Thos apparently thinks that paying ZERO percent means you’re paying 35%.
And Thos doesn’t even want to address how he’s totally wrong about why businesses offshore. Notice he just flat out ran from that.
Again Thos, GIVE UP. You cannot win an argument against me. Ever.
Now, for people who have an IQ that is in the triple digits (NOT THOS), US effective is a rather hard factor to pin down. Most countries don’t have the absurd web of deductions, exemptions, credits and deferrals that the US tax code, particularly the corporate section has.
Virtually every study, and you can google this by search “US effective tax rate compared” doesn’t have the US as the highest effective. Statutory doesn’t matter because the US tax effectively ensures that no one will pay this. What people commonly call “loopholes” are what allows virtually every tax paying entity to not pay the stated rate. While the US does tend to come on the high side for industrialized nations, it is not the highest. Furthermore, because the US is so wildly diverse in what its various companies do, it is a poor aggregate of industries with specialized larger credits and deductions and industries who do not benefit from such. Furthermore, as the economic cycle goes through its booms and busts, there are independent booms and busts within the economy. For example, low oil has lead to huge profits for airlines, but bad profits for hydrocarbons. This results in many cases no taxes for many firms as they are losing money and higher taxes for airlines. Putting them together is at best a mishmash of data that really doesn’t tell us anything.
Should the US reduce its rates? Well that depends if we also reduce the various “loopholes.” Should the US go to a territorial system? I personally believe so, especially as the US shouldn’t be taxing profits made in areas with zero US asset involvement. But that’s just my view. The overall point is that the absurdity and complexity of the US tax code ensures that statutory rates literally mean nothing and what matters is effective, but that average effective is itself a poor indicator as it is mashing together data from various industries who are often in counter cycles of each other. What WOULD be a better measure is effective by industry as a means of removing apples and oranges.
I love it when you issue commands.
Do you also go to the beach and bark at the winter surf to flatten on your command?
And still you do not dispute that America has the most punitive corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.
Throw as much sand in the air as you like to blur the issue, but that will not do much for your credibility.
Thos, read the post above yours and tell me, who is the adult in this conversation with clearly far more intellect, maturity and education?
You, or me?
Does your Mommy know you are skulking around in the basement, using her computer and pretending to be a grown up?
The irony of that response is worthy of being archived for future use.
While you clearly did not manage to get accepted into Community College and still think playground insults will win the day, being a bully only gets you so far. Keep acting as a petulant immature, uneducated child. Anyone can read what I wrote and read what you wrote and decide who is actually understands this topic.
Yo! Choyd!
“Keep acting as a petulant immature, uneducated child.”
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Thanks for trying to kiss up, eh?
Won’t do you any good, but it is amusing to watch you try to get into my good graces.
And the winner is…..wait for it…………Choyd! Well done.
2 fools with too much time on their hands.
Both are right, and both are wrong..
Hawaiikone, where am I wrong on anything?
Did you see Thos act as anything more than a playground bully? It’s embarrassing how much he hates smart people.
Your obvious assertion that effective rate minimizes actual impact is not the entire issue, and Thos’ insistence that corporate rates as printed are in fact the highest among industrialized nations isn’t either. Taxes are indeed rising, and our GDP remains sluggish, as mentioned by the original poster. You neglect to acknowledge that despite lower actual tax paid federally, the un repatriated profits benefit offshore coffers, not ours, and taxes paid to overseas nations offset gains as well. In contrast, Thos simply ignores your position outright, preferring to stand solely on his correct observation regarding our current tax burden on business, which has contributed incentive for offshore relocation. So, in my judgement, both of you are both right and wrong. As far as being abusive, a quick read through reveals both of you are guilty on that count.
“Taxes are indeed rising”
And you base this on what?
Have statutory tax rates increased? No.
Have credits, deductions, exemptions and deferrals increased? Yes
Do virtually every study show that US effective are NOT the highest? Yes
So where do you get the notion that Thos is right on ANYTHING? Furthermore, as I pointed out, taxes are a small part of why companies move. As you pointed out, Thos The Coward, just ignores it because he has literally no response. He has ZERO understanding of business.
http://www.epi.org/publication/the-middle-class-economic-squeeze-is-not-about-rising-federal-taxes/. Once again, the discussion requires defining. For us, the middle class, taxes are indeed increasing. Thos’ assertion that we have the highest on paper federal corporate tax rate is accurate. Why would he argue with your other point regarding effective rates? Quick google searches provide that answer. Causation for offshore relocation typically is split between labor cost, tax benefits, and resource availability, with some others mixed in. Thos’ original comment also seems to suggest diverting more attention to chopping loopholes and lowering rates, rather than maintaining higher than necessary statutory ones, regardless of effective collection. Advice? Focus more on what’s actually said than who’s saying it. We often find out we’re saying almost the same things..
hawaiikone, Did you even read that link? It does not show middle class taxes rising, in fact is explicitly disvows that taxes are rising.
Thos’s assertion is pointless because he’s reliant on a rate no one pays. If no one pays it, it is not a valid comparison. Why would we compare a rate that no one pays to a rate that others actually do pay and then declare that we have the highest rates when in actuality, our effective is quite different? Thos’s claim is basically that of Hollywood who flagrantly ignores inflation in declaring new blockbusters. Pointless.
He doesn’t want to argue with effective rates because he knows he’s wrong. Effective is all that matters. Do you care if the statutory rate is 50% if you’re actually paying 12%? No. You don’t. You care about that 12%.
Thos’s original point was focusing on a pointless number that has virtually nothing to do with his claim that America’s business is hurting because of a rate no one pays.
First, I enjoy a discussion devoid of blustering, driven by the need to speak to the masses. Now onward. Yes, I did indeed read the article, and purposely selected Politico as it’s being quite a left oriented source. Many others will confirm the essence of it’s message, namely the overall rising of the middle class tax burden despite the slight lowering of the federal burden. Quite simply, anyone working for a living witnesses the true decline in their standard of living based on a combination of accelerating state and local taxes, fees,assessments, etc., and that sneaky misrepresented actual rate of inflation. Hence a cry of “skyrocketing taxes” can certainly be understood simply from a frustrated point of view. Now to thos. You’ve created quite an ongoing feud there, and tend to pounce too quickly on his salient points, often based simply on not seeing where he’s coming from. Both he and yourself descend too quickly into lobbing verbal assaults rather than clarifying positions, although he does seem to launch some sarcastic missiles right off the bat. Personally, I enjoy the banter, but refuse to become similarly embroiled. Sort of a Christian thing. Anyway, perspectives based upon observation boils down to opinion, so kindly accept my comments as such.
The Republican Party “leaders” have no one to blame for Trump’s rise but themselves because the only qualification to run as a Republican candidate is to not be a Democrat.
The fact that Trump is gaining ground is getting more and more scary. It is drawing a very clear picture of where we actually are as a country. It is obvious that in spite of all the political correctness, and social tolerances of our fellow man or women, we still support racial prejudice.
OBVIOUSLY, YOU HAVE GENDER-PREJUDICES! You pluralize “women” but not “man”(?)…
Not scary at all. It just proves people are sick and tired of the status quo and being politically correct is actually burying your head in the sand to reality.
“we still support racial prejudice.”
If that is your conclusion based on this article, your powers of reasoning – – let alone just plain gumption – – are in need of some serious re-examination.
To be sure there is now and always will be prejudice of one sort or another, as the current occupant of the White House so frequently reminds us, given the obvious demons of bias and prejudice that haunt him and distort his perceptions. Then again he is something of a first: never before have we had a president (of either party) who DESPISES America.
Nah, pretty sure spending $2 trillion and getting 4,000 Americans dead and 32,000 maimed to make Iran the regional powerhouse is something a President who hates America does. Rather than someone who gets Americans out of the war zone. But then again, in your 1984 world, getting Americans killed to make our enemies stronger means you love America and the opposite of returning them home to their families alive means you hate America?
And yet under the regime of your boy in the WH our national debt rose more than under all the previous presidents combined.
Scurrying off the battlefield, leaving a vacuum for ISIS to fill is called surrender, not some euphemistic “getting Americans out of the war zone”.
Trust a person as confused as you seem to be to give Orwellian new meanings to concepts of love and hate.
The current occupant of the White House hates America and every aspect of his “transformation” has been enacted to bring this country to her knees. In this he has been quite successful. And he owes much his success to witless [redacted]-birds like you.
I didn’t vote for Obama.
So you can drop that line.
As for the debt, most of that is tied to the recession. You’re free to argue how austerity would have resulted in more growth, but I know you can’t even begin to understand the basics of economics 101 to put forth such an argument. To everyone who can actually think for themselves, they merely need to look across the pond to see that austerity in the face of a recession leads to bad outcomes.
And Al-Maliki created ISIS. So unless you think the US occupation force should have overthrown a democratically elected leader, you should shut your trap. Furthermore, Bush and Obama were right to reject the SOFA which would have resulted in US soldiers being thrown into Iraqi jails to rot under false charges.
Your outright hatred for the US military is noted.
Again, I didn’t vote for Obama, and I noticed you won’t even attempt to address my points.
Funny how I can dissect your arguments but you cannot even bothered to address mine.
Bush most emphatically did NOT reject the status of forces agreement that would have kept sufficient ground force in country to prevent the rise of ISIS. He prepared the way for such an agreement, but Obama in his haste to have America scurry away from the battlefield like a whipped dog failed to follow up and secure the SOFA.
Obama is ISIS’ daddy and the move of ISIS into the dog’s breakfast Obama made of Libya is even more evidence of the increased threat package we now face thanks to YOUR boy in the White House.
Whether or not you voted for him matters not. In seeking to equate him to a God fearing, duty bound patriot (G.W. Bush) you have defined yourself.
If Bush did not reject it, why did he sign the SOFA that had all US troops leave by 2011? You appear to be rewriting history. Which makes you a liar, but that’s not news.
The SOFA that Bush signed had a clear timeline of US removal. That is not up for debate as much as you’d like to lie about it. Anyone can read that SOFA. It’s online. You are lying as you always do.
You also do not appear to know who Al-Maliki is.
Tell me, (or run aways as you always do), should the US have deposed via coup the democratically elected leader of Iraq?
Does it bother you that I’m praising Bush? Are you aware that not everyone is a partisan vomitbag that cannot praise a member of other party? (hey, did you miss my 599 previous attacks on Hillary too?)
“If Bush did not reject it, why did he sign the SOFA”
The status of forces agreement was never signed. Had it been negotiated to completion and signed by the current occupant of the White House, enough residual U.S. ground forces would have remained to prevent the very Obama inspired chaos that has gripped the Levant.
“The status of forces agreement was never signed”
You are a liar.
What exactly did Bush sign on Dec. 14, 2008 then if you claimed he never signed a SOFA?
FYI Thos, you have lied so many times here I’m going to compile them and use those lies every time to show just how much of a trash person you are.
Trump might win the battle to be the Republican nominee but most likely will lose the war to be President of the US to the Demo liar Hillary.
Obama did nothin but to add to racial divide. And looky here The Republican Party is just destroying themselves with their racial rhetoric
What are you talking about “rhetoric”? With Trump he actually means what he says regarding Mexican, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian and basically all NON Caucasians.
Racist people are everywhere, even in Hawai, I experience Racism, NOT by the White people, but more so by the Japanese people, especially Newtown Estates of Aiea whom have frivolously sued us for not being Japanese. Guarantee if I had a Japanese last name, they would have left us alone. Fining us for stupid things like having a BBQ grill, and a construction black screen is ridiculous. We did have a construction project underway. My neighbors all have BBQ grills but they didn’t go after them, what does that tell you? Yet, they’d let the Japanese family drive down through their neighborhood with big rigs and semi-trucks running an agriculture business, because they said, they are “old-timers”. I put a stop to that wondering why they trespassing across my property without a legal right to do that. And NECA refused to participate in that 5-year litigation against the Old-timer Japanese family WG Minami INc. Thankfully, I put a stop to their illegal agriculture business, but now I got the community suing me for frivolous fines. Shouldn’t they be thankful?? #Kaaihue4Mayor http://www.facebook.com/akaaihue
VOTE FOR “MICHAEL BLOOMBERG” ON THE INDEPENDENT TICKET…
This guy is scary if he becomes President. He probably will use his position to make himself more wealthy.
So many have prejudices regarding those who have made or have money. Do you not believe you too can make money? Perhaps you need to attempt to think and act “outside of the box” you apparently have created for yourself to live in..? Maybe work on your “PROSPERITY CONSCIOUSNESS”(?).
You mean like just about all the members of Congress?
What makes you think Trump is in this for the money? He is already filthy rich. I think he was bored of being rich and decided to take winning the presidency as his own personal challenge. What started as a farce is becoming reality. He is speaking the mind of what many say at the dinner table but will not say in public and guess what……..?
He doesn’t care about money but to get the ultimate power. Hope his fingers not on the button when he becomes President.
If he becomes president he will have no choice but to have the “football” near by in the unhappy event it becomes his DUTY to push the button.
When you can nuke people as a form of winning a twitter flame war, that’s powerful stuff.
Who better to lead our country than someone who wastes literally hours daily on twitter fights? I’m kidding of course. But I’m really surprised you aren’t a big Trump fan given your gross ignorance that is approaching Winston’s level of outright dumb.
His efficient use of social media to obtain results is bound to confuse and confound the cognitively challenged, those for whom thinking is a dreadfully dull chore.
This has nothing to do with our preparedness to respond to a nuclear attack of course, but then given your obvious limitations, one can fully appreciate your need to try to change the subject.
Trump isn’t using social media. Trump is using the main stream media who are desperate for clicks and ad revenue to generate more hits. Hence why rational people like Paul and Kasich got no play from the media. They simply didn’t generate the hits that equates to payouts for the media. But you wouldn’t know the difference between print media and a dead elephant if one smacked you in the face as evident by your demonstrated failure to know the difference between Twitter and CNN. Embarrassing.
Why do you keep attempting to insult me after I destroy you over and over again?
I’m afraid he’s going to lose control of his emotions and start WWIII. He needs someone like Ben Carson to be VP to reel him in.
As a business man Trump will actually have the right mind set to talk on the same level with leaders like Putin. Balanced as Obama seems on paper even his body language says he thinks he is above the Russian and Chinese leaders. Our opposition is not ignorant and despises being treated as such with sanctions and veiled threats. Trump will not lead us to war but better business relationships. Hopefully he beats Hillary.
“Our opposition is not ignorant and despises being treated as such with sanctions and veiled threats.”
I’m sure they’ll love the cruise missiles then? What is your alternative to sanctions and veiled threats? Ask Mr. Putin to stop being such a meanie? Give him the big doggy eyes and cry until they agrees to stop?
Trump will destroy our relationship with our allies by opening up long settled agreements. Our word, even our signatures will mean nothing because Trump will not let old agreements lie.
Trump has zero actual policies, zero substance and all bravado. Putin and Xi will eat him alive and all of our allies will distrust him greatly.
“Trump will destroy our relationship with our allies by opening up long settled agreements. Our word, even our signatures will mean nothing because Trump will not let old agreements lie. ”
Substitute “Obama” for “Trump” and your statement makes perfect sense.
choydog, Trump will do this, Trump will do that, Obama already fired the flames which is fact. Why do you want to argue future change of which we need? Are you afraid of the future? What cruise missiles are you referring to? Is it your imagination and visions of what may or may not happen?
Thos, tell me what long settled agreement Obama reopened.
You won’t. Because you can’t. Because you, like Trump, have nothing.
Saveparadise, you seem unaware that Trump has gone on record saying he will reopen long settled agreements such as NAFTA.
If you are aware of what he said, then you are arguing that Trump doesn’t believe anything he says.
So which is it, you’re ignorant or Trump is a liar?
Trump at 49% “Make America Great Again” NASCAR backs Trump. It’s getting better every day. Obama has already destroyed our relationship with our allies. They don’t believe him.
“Thos, tell me what long settled agreement Obama reopened.
You won’t. Because you can’t. Because you, like Trump, have nothing.”
*cricket*
Once again, Thos proves he has nothing.
Like two red headed, snot nosed, whiny, step children, Cruz and Rubio are whining like they were gut shot. Both willfully fail to understand they are career bureaucrats, utterly incapable of holding “The Big Chair.”
Cruz, caught in his fake “Bernie Sanders is bowing out” message and Rubio, the boy who can’t say anything unless it is on paper, should both resign and go back home. Hey, I hear Walmart is hiring.
Forty-nine percent of Republican voters say they back Trump for the Republican nomination in the new CNN-ORC poll released this morning. Sen. Marco Rubio earns 16 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz earns 15 percent, Dr. Ben Carson has 10 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 6 percent.
Which branch of the military did he serve and where was he stationed?
Typical slanted leftist coverage by the SA
I for one, welcome Republican Presidential Nominee Trump. Even if it does mean Queen Hillary gets her Coronation.
He’s the vanguard for all of the ugly things we’ve swept under the rug. Let’s get some sunshine on those elements.
Your analogy of things having been swept under the rug all these years is a good one. Many blame Obama for a greater racial divide compared to the past, but what Obama really did was to expose the real, ugly truths such as racial discrimination which has been alive and well and growing all of these years. He helped to put it at the forefront of America’s list of issues forcing us to deal with it. It’s about time we did. And non-whites are saying “Yes! Let’s finally do something about it!”
So then the POTUS inspired riots and infernos in Ferguson mark a step forward?
Better than defending rapists like you do.
Doesn’t matter what party you belong to. Our country is the largest business corporation on earth and it needs a business minded leader. We need to forget the race cards and get back to the common goal of keeping America the strongest nation in the world. Hillary does not possess the intestinal fortitude or leadership to accomplish this. The fiery Trump is the better given option assuming Hillary beats Sanders and Trump will undoubtedly beat Rubio and Cruz.
You realize the last business presidents we had were disasters right?
Furthermore, CEOs are used to getting their way. Not dealing with a hyper-powerful board of directors in the form of Congress.
The GOP is already coming out as obstructionists to Trump. McConnell has prepared plans for GOP senators to bash Trump during the general election.
Furthermore, you haven’t addressed any of my points. Trump is the living symbol for all that is ugly in America.
I value your opinions but that is all it is, your opinion. Your hypothesis and conjectures are but for the sake of argument and to pass the time of day. I admire your confidence in “your party” and your attempts to conform others but the thought of anyone “Obamalike” does not entertain me. I am neither Dem or Rep. The actions will prove the man or woman not the words and hype of the media.
Sr REPUBLICANS Threaten to Vote For Hillary
This glaringly illustrates the fact that Republicans and Democrats answer to the same boss, IMHO.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-29/gop-verge-meltdown-senior-republicans-threaten-vote-hillary
” Trump is the living symbol for all that is ugly in America.”
That would include you, right?
saveparadise, my party? Which would that be?
I get that most of you like to place people into jars as a means of dehumanizing them and part of why Thos and Winston hate me so much is that I reveal just how little they really believe in their own self declared adherence to Conservatism. But some of us don’t like either party. I keep using “Queen Hillary” as a means of dejection. I don’t want her as president if you people haven’t realized for the 600th time. Just because many of you lack the most basic understanding that people don’t fit into jars doesn’t make me a Democrat because I bash on FAKE conservatives here. Especially those who would give up our rights in the name of security. I suppose at best, I’m a Libertarian which is partially why Thos and Winston REALLY hate me.
And nothing I said is wrong. Business Presidents tend to flop. CEOs are not use to dealing with a large number of people who can stop them. And McConnell is right now pushing GOP senators to bash Trump during the election. ALL OF THIS IS EASILY VERIFIED. I could not exist and it would STILL BE TRUE.
Well, considering Thos that you don’t consider rape a crime, you’re one of the poster children for what’s wrong with America.
And you’re still running from every point I make. It’s sad how I point out how you are wrong before you make an argument which repeats exactly why you are wrong and you still don’t get it.
Embarrassing.
I agree with you sarge22. Plus Hillary is basically a socially Liberal Republican similar to Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe. There’s really one party at the end of the day.
“You realize the last business presidents we had were disasters right? ”
Calvin (“the business of America IS business”) Coolidge was anything but a disaster.
Coolidge was a lawyer. Like Obama.
Want to attempt another pathetic response only to fail miserably as you always do?
Tell me how Hoover went. Please. Try. Or just cowardly flee as you always do from every challenge you’ve met in your entire life.
I see you want to ignore all of my posts destroying you despite seeing them.
tell me, Mr. “Rape is not a crime,” how is being AGAINST sexual assault somehow a symbol for all that is wrong with America?
How many Americans do you think agree with you that rape is acceptable?
Have you read the article in the New York Times re: Europe’s view of Trump? See: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/business/media/donald-trump-elicits-shock-and-biting-satire-in-europe.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Did you ever see a favorable comment about Donald Trump in the NY Times? Europe is not doing too well. Think about it.