Trump: RNC breaking pledge to remain neutral

[HAPPY2BME]

“The bottom line is that the RNC is controlled by the establishment and the RNC is controlled by the special interests and the donors. And that’s too bad.

That’s why the Republican party for president has lost so much for so long.”

HANAHAN, S.C.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump did not close the door Monday on a possible third-party run after accusing the Republican party of breaking its pledge to stay neutral in the race.

The New York billionaire is upset that tickets to GOP presidential debates, including one held Saturday in Greenville, have gone to what he calls special interests and big donors. Trump was booed several times during the most recent debate for criticizing other Republican candidates, especially former Florida Gov Jeb Bush.

“The (Republican National Committee) is in default,” Trump said during a news conference at the Hanahan Town Hall on Monday. “When somebody is in default, that means the other side can what they have to do.

“We have warned them twice and they don’t listen,” he continued. “The bottom line is that the RNC is controlled by the establishment and the RNC is controlled by the special interests and the donors. And that’s too bad. That’s why the Republican party for president has lost so much for so long.”

Out of 1,600 seats available for the debate Saturday, the RNC said: each candidate received 100 tickets; the S.C. GOP and local-elected officials received 550; the RNC received 367; and debate partners — CBS News, Peace Center, and Google — received 100.

The RNC did not have immediate comment on the possibility of Trump mounting a third-party run if he does not win the nomination.

Trump signed a RNC loyalty pledge last year to support the party’s nominee and not mount an independent bid. Trump balked at signing the pledge at first because he feared the Republicans might try to undermine his insurgent campaign.

The reality TV star has surprised pundits by remaining the GOP front-runner for so long. His promises to overturn initiatives of Democratic President Barack Obama and beef up national security have resonated with voters who want a non-politician to tear down Washington politics.

Trump won the New Hampshire primary last week and is the favorite to win in South Carolina on Saturday. He was the runner-up in Iowa. Trump leads nationwide polls as well.

During a speech to several hundred people at a Mount Pleasant hotel earlier Monday, Trump pounced on GOP rivals who attacked him at a weekend debate.

“I have never met people like politicians. They are the most dishonest people I have ever met,” he said. “They lie, lie, lie and then they apologize.”

Trump spent most of the time going after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, his closest rival in South Carolina.

He blasted Cruz for distorting his stance on the Second Amendment during the debate. Cruz has said Trump would erode gun ownership laws if elected, while Trump calls himself the biggest gun rights advocate in the race.

“I think he’s an unstable person,” Trump said of Cruz.

Trump called Cruz a “bad liar” who stole the Iowa caucus when the senator’s volunteers spread rumors about GOP candidate Ben Carson leaving the race. Cruz won the Iowa caucus.

Trump said the Iowa Republican party should disqualify Cruz’s win “if they had any guts.”

Cruz’s contradictions — touting his religious background while misstating other candidates’ records — is the reason why he is not leading among evangelical Christian voters, Trump said. Trump has been the favorite among evangelicals in South Carolina.

“The worst thing ... is you’re willing to lie about anything and then hold up a bible,” Trump said. “Christianity is being chopped away at. Chopped, chopped, chopped.”

Trump’s appearance came hours before former President George W. Bush’s 2016 campaign debut for his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in North Charleston.

Trump criticized President Bush during the debate Saturday. Trump noted that he lost hundreds of friends during the 9/11 attacks under President Bush and said no weapons of mass destruction were found after invading Iraq.

Jeb Bush shot back at Trump during the debate: “I am sick and tired of him going after my family. While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe. And I'm proud of what he did. And I'm proud of what he did.”

On Monday, Trump wondered why Bush has not called for help from his brother sooner.

“I think he would have done better,” Trump said. “It’s better than exclamation points,” a reference to Bush’s campaign logo.

http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article60464171.html

[HAPPY2BME]

pledge

    : a serious promise or agreement

    : a promise to give money

    : something that you leave with another person as a way to show that you will keep your promise

neu·tral

    : not helping or supporting either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartial.

[Longiron]

After the RINOGOPe approves Lynch or Holder for the SCOTUS TRUMP will get 10-15 MILLION more votes.

[HAPPY2BME]

After the RINOGOPe approves Lynch or Holder for the SCOTUS TRUMP will get 10-15 MILLION more votes.

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Conservatives have been fed so many $hit $andwiches by the GOP over the past twenty years ago, they simply no longer care to eat at their table anymore.

[HAPPY2BME]

Why Donald Trump’s 9/11 heresy won’t cost him any primary votes

When Donald Trump said a few weeks ago, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” he was probably right (depending on whom he shot, I suppose). Everything that was supposed to derail his candidacy has failed to do so, and if he wins Saturday’s South Carolina primary (where polls show him with a comfortable lead), there could be no stopping him. But in last Saturday’s debate, Trump said some shocking things, at least to Republican ears: Not only did he criticize George W. Bush for launching the Iraq War, he also said that Sept. 11 was Bush’s fault. And he did it at a time when the former president himself is finally emerging to campaign for his brother; W will be speaking at a rally for Jeb tonight.

Surely, Republicans might want to believe, this will not stand. There are some things you simply cannot say and retain the support of the Republican electorate. But don’t bet on it. In fact, I’m guessing this isn’t going to hurt Trump at all, because Republican voters’ feelings about Bush are, shall we saw, complicated.

If you missed the debate, the extended bickering about Iraq and 9/11 was truly remarkable. First Trump said that Bush lied to the public about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction, then he noted that Sept. 11 happened on Bush’s watch. First Jeb Bush and then Marco Rubio chimed in to say indignantly that Bush “kept us safe.” To which Trump replied, “I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe.”

I would interject here that while 3,000 Americans were in fact killed here at home by jihadi terrorists during Bush’s time in office — you can look it up! — the total for Barack Obama’s presidency is 42, or an average of six per year. I expect that in the next debate, the Republican candidates will take the time to praise Obama for the extraordinary job he’s done in keeping us safe.

In any case, it’s important to remember that Republican dogma on this question is clear: Bush had zero, repeat, zero responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks. There was nothing he could have done at all. When they talk about it, you’d think Bush took the oath of office on Sept. 10, 2001. The only thing that’s even worth discussing on that topic is how heroic he was afterward, and there’s no question that “he kept us safe.”

But that’s only part of the story. First, on Iraq, the consensus even within the Republican Party has become that the war was indeed a mistake. You’ll recall what a difficult time Jeb Bush had when he was asked whether he agreed with that, and by the time he finally said yes, most of the other candidates had said the same thing. Even if none of them would go as far as Trump to say that Bush lied about WMDs, criticizing the war is not going to get Trump in too much trouble with Republican voters.

And then there’s the fact that on the broader subject of George W. Bush, Republicans are torn. Something curious happened after Bush left office with approval ratings in the low 30s: The Republicans who had remained so loyal to him throughout his presidency began saying that they never really liked him anyway, and that he wasn’t a real conservative because he increased the deficit (despite their lack of concern for the deficit while they were applauding the tax cuts and wars that made it balloon). Even though Bush’s approval ratings among Republicans have come back up over time, he’s no Ronald Reagan when it comes to universal Republican esteem.

Donald Trump also has a latitude for ideological heresy that none of the other candidates are granted. That’s not only because his appeal has nothing to do with fealty to conservative ideology, but also because Trump’s voters have already been through this kind of controversy before and stuck with him. They’re used to performing a certain kind of rationalization, which goes like this: Sure, I didn’t really like that one thing he said — maybe it was his criticism of Megyn Kelly, or maybe it was the one about John McCain not being a real hero — but I love that he says whatever he wants without caring who he offends. That’s at the core of Trump’s brand, and it inoculates him from being punished too harshly for any particular statement.

Furthermore, Trump has some room to maneuver on questions like this because he’s positioned himself as the most butt-kickin’-est candidate when it comes to terrorism and the Middle East. It’s one thing for some wimpy liberal to say that Bush should have done more to stop 9/11, but it sounds different coming from a guy whose approach to the Islamic State is to bomb ’em all to hell and take their oil. It sounds like Trump is being iconoclastic and bold, just like always, even if you don’t agree with him about this. And let’s not forget that Trump still doesn’t need to hold a majority of Republican voters, just a plurality, which he’s doing with room to spare.

All of that means that, once again, some Republicans will say, “This time he’s gone too far!” And the people supporting Trump will keep cheering.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/02/15/why-donald-trumps-911-heresy-wont-cost-him-any-primary-votes/

[HAPPY2BME]

The Duce Takes New Hampshire (the irrelevance of National Review and the rest of establishment conservatism)

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[NavyCanDo]

Show me where the RNC promised neutrality to get him to sign.

In Trumps own words: 

"I just wanted fairness from the Republican Party," Trump said. After holding up the pledge, he said, "I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party, and the conservative principles for which it stands."

Trump said he got nothing in return, and sees no circumstances under which he would "tear up that pledge."

Without signing the same pledge the others signed, he would not be given access to RNC's voter file, a database containing a trove of information on more than 200 million Americans, which can be used to power a get-out-the-vote effort. That is the real reason Trump changed his mind.

[libertybele]

After the RINOGOPe approves Lynch or Holder for the SCOTUS TRUMP will get 10-15 MILLION more votes.

You are cheering this?? IF the GOPe gives in to Hussein's justice appointment, the reality of the matter is we are very close to losing our 2nd amendment rights and granting amnesty to over 20,000,000 illegals along with letting in over 100,000 refugees of which the FBI has stated that inevitably there will be members of ISIS included in that group and we will have an attack on U.S. soil. Meanwhile, Trump who is running under the "GOP umbrella", is once again sucking his thumb and throwing a tizzy and using a very shallow and lame excuse to run 3rd party; which only reinforces my previous statement that Trump has only been in this as a syphon for the DEMS.  He runs third party, splits the GOP vote, and hands the White House to the DEMS/Socialists/Marxists.  In other words, we lose our country period.  Gee, somehow I just don't see the billionaire really caring what happens afterwards.  IF you don't think that there will be any kind of a backlash, your glasses are much much rosier than mine.

This is it. We can either stand behind a true conservative that will lead us to restoring this country or we can stand behind someone that will continue us on the same path that we are on.  I will stand to restore this country period.  I owe it to those that fought and died for this country before me and I owe it to my children and grandchildren so that they will continue to have the  FREEDOM that we now have.

[Jazzhead]

Let him run third party.   Good riddance; like an untrained dog,  let him do his soiling OUTside.   

[Bigun]

Let him run third party.   Good riddance; like an untrained dog,  let him do his soiling OUTside.

At this point I'm inclined to agree with you!  Not sure that he wouldn't take more votes from the Democrat than he would from the Republican!

[libertybele]

At this point I'm inclined to agree with you!  Not sure that he wouldn't take more votes from the Democrat than he would from the Republican!

Thank you for that perspective.  I needed that.

[Meshuge Mikey]

Let him run third party.   Good riddance; like an untrained dog,  let him do his soiling OUTside.

Trump Clothes made in Mexico and CHINA??? WHO KNEW.


But BUT..  i thought...oh well


My heart is broken!


 who'd have guessed the don don  would LIE  ??

[libertybele]

"...You have a critical choice to make. Our country literally hangs in the balance. Do you want another Washington deal maker, who will do business as usual, cut deals with the Democrats, grow government, grow debt, and give up our fundamental liberties? Or do you want a conservative? A proven conservative will stand and fight with you each and every day. Listen, repealing ObamaCare is not going to be easy. Passing a simple flat tax and abolishing the IRS is not going to be easy. But if we stand with the American people, we can do it. And today we saw just how great the stakes are. Two branches of government hang in the balance — not just the presidency, but the Supreme Court. If we get this wrong, if we nominate the wrong candidate, the Second Amendment, life, marriage, religious liberty, every one of those hangs in the balance. My little girls are here — I don't want to look my daughters in the eyes and say we lost their liberties. Who do you know will defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights? And as a commander in chief, who do you know will stand up to our enemies as the calm, steady, deliberate strength to defeat our enemy, to secure the borders, and to keep America safe."

   -- Senator Ted Cruz   

[HAPPY2BME]

Trump Clothes made in Mexico and CHINA??? WHO KNEW.


But BUT..  i thought...oh well


My heart is broken!


 who'd have guessed the don don  would LIE  ??

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If you are careful enough, and know the right people, you can sneak into Donald's private dirty clothes hamper and post us a nice pic of a pair of his $hitty underwear.

You can do this!