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Title: Amish for Trump
Post by: mystery-ak on May 30, 2016, 02:16:17 pm
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-amish-voters-223669

 Amish for Trump

Can Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich allies convince this anti-divorce, tech-shunning group to back the boasting billionaire?

By Katie Glueck

05/29/16 07:34 AM EDT

The Amish don’t read Donald Trump’s tweets and can’t watch his television appearances, and voting is practically against their religion.

But that’s not stopping a group of Trump allies with ties to Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich from mounting a campaign to turn them out anyway.

Amish PAC was started by an alum of a pro-Carson super PAC, an ex-Amish donor to that super PAC and an employee of Gingrich Productions. The group is planning to mount an old-fashioned, billboards-and-newspaper-ads effort this summer, designed to encourage Amish people in Pennsylvania and Ohio to turn out for Trump in November.

Ben Walters, fundraising counsel to the group and a former fundraiser for the pro-Carson 2016 Committee, concedes the group faces an uphill task.

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Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: markomalley on May 30, 2016, 02:28:45 pm
I think I've spent way too much time on TOS over the years.

When I read "Amish", I thought something else altogether.. (http://i.imgur.com/afIClBZ.gif)
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: andy58-in-nh on May 30, 2016, 02:35:14 pm
(http://lpa-cdn.actionvideoinc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/intercourse-sign-barn.jpg)
We're all crazy Trumpanites living in an Amish Paradise.
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: musiclady on May 30, 2016, 02:39:43 pm
The Amish are good, moral people.

If they vote for Donald Trump, it will be because they have been lied to about him, and don't know who he really is, nor how much every fiber of his being is in direct and violent opposition to their Biblical ethics and morality.
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: austingirl on May 30, 2016, 02:44:13 pm
The Amish are good, moral people.

If they vote for Donald Trump, it will be because they have been lied to about him, and don't know who he really is, nor how much every fiber of his being is in direct and violent opposition to their Biblical ethics and morality.

I agree.
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: musiclady on May 30, 2016, 02:47:27 pm
I agree.

I'm not far from the largest Amish community in the country (Holmes County, OH).

If this is true, I would consider going there and telling the truth about Trump to these innocent people.  I might even walk around with a bumper stick on my forehead saying "TRUMP IS AMORAL" if it would help people learn the truth....... 
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: starstruck on May 30, 2016, 02:48:47 pm
I think I've spent way too much time on TOS over the years.

When I read "Amish", I thought something else altogether.. (http://i.imgur.com/afIClBZ.gif)
Thought the same thing.
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: don-o on May 30, 2016, 03:02:00 pm
I think I've spent way too much time on TOS over the years.

When I read "Amish", I thought something else altogether.. (http://i.imgur.com/afIClBZ.gif)

Me to. Let's agree to leave it to them. Shall we?
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: markomalley on May 30, 2016, 03:10:01 pm
Me to. Let's agree to leave it to them. Shall we?
It's simply reflexive...not intentional.
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: Henry Noel on May 30, 2016, 03:10:18 pm
Where's Sam Mullet when you need him?

Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: RoosGirl on May 30, 2016, 03:12:32 pm
Me to. Let's agree to leave it to them. Shall we?

A wonderful idea.  I thought this was going to be some crazy picture of BLM.
Title: Re: Amish for Trump
Post by: Chosen Daughter on May 30, 2016, 03:25:57 pm
Ex Amish is the word.  If he is ex then he has no influence.  The Amish don't get involved in politics. Neither do Mennonites.