Fiorina throws $3.5 million at Trump, Cruz to join debate

[alicewonders]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/28/donald-trump-wanted-vets-kicked-off-fifth-avenue.html

As a former business owner that paid out the whazoo to have a brick and mortar business in a downtown business location - I can understand what Trump is saying.  Trump is against street vendors setting up in front of his business and I'm sure the other businesses (who pay DEARLY to be located there) like Tiffany's feel the same way.  That's an upscale area and these street vendors are not welcome there.  He's not against disabled veterans - he's against street vendors.  The fact that many of them happen to be veterans has nothing to do with it.

I've had people try to set up business in front of my shop - DIDN'T LIKE IT.  Almost always, when I would call the City to report it - it would turn out that these people didn't have the proper licenses, weren't reporting their sales, etc.  This is not right for people that are playing by the rules. 

It's a business decision and this article was written by someone that actually was using veterans for political and idealogical exploitation. 

And I say again - if Ted and Carly care so much about veterans - why do they dangle their money with strings attached?

[Bigun]

Exactly, Super PACs are being exposed to the light of day during this cycle.

Since my question down thread has been completely ignored I will address it directly to you.

Can YOU tell me EXACTLY what's wrong with super pacs?

After all they are just groups of people who have decided to pool their resources in order to make their political speech more effective! We could form one called the TBR pac if we wanted to!

[Scottftlc]

QUESTION: Establishment Republicans fear Donald Trump despite his popularity among voters; why is that? Is it because he's a Trojan horse liberal, or is there something else? I consider myself an antiestablishment voter, so I find their hatred of the Donald to be very intriguing.

 

I think it's because he is a Trojan Horse...period.  He is an invader from outside the club.  Even Cruz is to some extent in the club because he is a professional politician.  Politics and government are professions now and they act like professions - they restrict outsiders and put up roadblocks that you have to negotiate in the proper way for entry.  All professions, business, technical, scientific, academic do this.  Politics is a profession now and Trump didn't go through the hurdles and roadblocks for entry and orderly movement up the professional ladder.  He barged in with his billions of dollars, marketing talent and celebrity and blew the doors off the profession's highest achievement...being a presidential candidate.  Those inside the profession see this as usurpation - it is akin in a really funny (and psychotically twisted!) way to illegals coming across the border on foot and getting amnesty when others faithfully followed the long process to enter under the legal requirements.

[alicewonders]

Since my question down thread has been completely ignored I will address it directly to you.

Can YOU tell me EXACTLY what's wrong with super pacs?

After all they are just groups of people who have decided to pool their resources in order to make their political speech more effective! We could form one called the TBR pac if we wanted to!

I heard about a white supremacist PAC group in the Mideast that was making robo-calls to ask people to vote for Trump.  He asked them to cease - but hey - they're a PAC, he's not allowed to have any contact with them.  WTH?

A perfect opportunity for one of a candidates foes to set up a PAC with the intention of smearing guilt by "association".  This is crazy!

[Bigun]

I heard about a white supremacist PAC group in the Mideast that was making robo-calls to ask people to vote for Trump.  He asked them to cease - but hey - they're a PAC, he's not allowed to have any contact with them.  WTH?

A perfect opportunity for one of a candidates foes to set up a PAC with the intention of smearing guilt by "association".  This is crazy!

Why? Why is a group of people organizing themselves for the purpose of expressing their views more effectively crazy? Because you may not agree with some of the views they hold and express?