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IF DONALD TRUMP is our nominee, will you vote for him in the General?

YES! HE WAS CHOSEN AT THE CONVENTION
61 (36.1%)
NO! I WILL STAY HOME OR VOTE DOWN TICKET
68 (40.2%)
I WILL WRITE IN TED CRUZ!
37 (21.9%)
I WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY!
3 (1.8%)

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Re: (POLL #2) VOTE! IF TRUMP IS THE NOMINEE WILL YOU VOTE FOR HIM?
« Reply #300 on: May 06, 2016, 11:59:32 pm »
Can you say "Mussolini,Part 2".  We can just all him "El Douche". That's close enough.

I think he sees himself as King Trump - like Henry VIII.  There may be similarities (numerous marriages; quashing dissent):

Henry VIII:
"Besides his six marriages and many extramarital affairs, as well as his effort to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon which lead to conflict with the Pope, Henry is known for his subsequent and consequential role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. His disagreements with the Pope led to his separation of the Church of England from papal authority, with himself, as king, as the Supreme Head of the Church of England and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

He is also well known for a long personal rivalry with both Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, with whom he frequently warred.

Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings to England.  ...he greatly expanded royal power. Charges of treason and heresy were commonly used to quash dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial, by means of bills of attainder. He achieved many of his political aims through the work of his chief ministers, some of whom were banished or executed when they fell out of his favor. "

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« Reply #301 on: May 07, 2016, 01:13:17 pm »
I think he sees himself as King Trump - like Henry VIII.  There may be similarities (numerous marriages; quashing dissent):

Henry VIII:
"Besides his six marriages and many extramarital affairs, as well as his effort to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon which lead to conflict with the Pope, Henry is known for his subsequent and consequential role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. His disagreements with the Pope led to his separation of the Church of England from papal authority, with himself, as king, as the Supreme Head of the Church of England and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

He is also well known for a long personal rivalry with both Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, with whom he frequently warred.

Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings to England.  ...he greatly expanded royal power. Charges of treason and heresy were commonly used to quash dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial, by means of bills of attainder. He achieved many of his political aims through the work of his chief ministers, some of whom were banished or executed when they fell out of his favor. "

All,true,but Mussolini is a more recent reference to a dictator that typical people will recognize. Sadly,most people these days know nothing about history and care even less.

Which is why our politicians keep getting away with so much. People with an interest in history understand the one unchanging thing in the whole world is human nature. All you have to do is look to the leaders in the past and compare their personalities and circumstances to the current and fledgling leaders,and you can draw a pretty accurate chart on how they will act in office.
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« Reply #302 on: May 08, 2016, 06:54:52 pm »
No I will not vote for Trump....I will sit this election out or vote downticket only.....probably vote down ticket and write in Cruz

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« Reply #303 on: May 09, 2016, 11:17:00 am »
And after the polling closes, Trump fails to break his 30-something percent ceiling.

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« Reply #304 on: May 09, 2016, 03:30:49 pm »
I watched both Libertarian debates on Stossel and I actually liked Austin Peterson better than Gary Johnson who I thought was very week on some personal liberty and private property issues (i.e. supported forcing people to provide services against their conscience or religious beliefs, i.e. the bakers)

That does Johnson for me. If I am going to vote for a dictator,I might as well vote for a "honest" (?) one and cast my vote for Bubbette! or Trump.

You can NOT be an actual Libertarian and agree with the premise the state has the authority to force businesses to do business with people they don't want to do business with,unless it is a matter of life or death. Bakers,and others,have as much right to refuse to things offensive to their personal beliefs as anyone else. Claiming they HAVE to bake homosexual-themed cakes for homosexuals is the equivalent of forcing homosexuals to marry hetrosexuals. If one has a right to live according to their beliefs,so does the other.
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« Reply #305 on: May 14, 2016, 12:26:49 am »
Is it too late to vote?

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I'll go find a nice 3rd party.
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« Reply #306 on: May 14, 2016, 09:57:06 pm »
Is it too late to vote?

Nevertrump Neverhitlery.

I'll go find a nice 3rd party.

It's never too late to go for a third party, or anything else that will be consonant with your principles.

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« Reply #307 on: May 23, 2016, 12:13:16 am »
Is it too late to vote?

Nevertrump Neverhitlery.

I'll go find a nice 3rd party.
I'm anxious to see what happens when the Convention Committee makes the new rules.....and we'll see thereafter how then goes convention....I'm still holding out for divine intervention!

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« Reply #308 on: May 23, 2016, 09:08:18 am »
I'm anxious to see what happens when the Convention Committee makes the new rules.....and we'll see thereafter how then goes convention....I'm still holding out for divine intervention!

I'm praying for it!

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« Reply #309 on: May 23, 2016, 09:24:59 am »
I'm anxious to see what happens when the Convention Committee makes the new rules.....and we'll see thereafter how then goes convention....I'm still holding out for divine intervention!

What makes you hopeful? You DO realize it will be the same political insiders making the new rules that made the old rules that give them more power and the citizens less power,right?

Why would anyone think the babysitters of the rabid Party People are going to vote for anything that lessens their power and access to the public treasury?
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« Reply #310 on: May 23, 2016, 10:19:56 am »
No.

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« Reply #311 on: May 23, 2016, 11:26:28 am »
Our political system has finally devolved to the point where the Party People's favorite chant of "If you don't vote for X,no matter how horrible they are,you are going to get Y,and they are even worse!"  is now meaningless. The One Ruling Party has now reached rock bottom,and it is no longer possible to do worse than either of the likely suspects,so why bother to vote for either of them?

I have been maintaining for years that the biggest change we need to make to our political system is to have a mandatory "None of the Above" block on the ballots for all election to all public offices,and that in any election where "None of the Above" gets the most votes,the parties that ran a candidate for that office MUST finance another election for that office with their own money,and with another candidate.

Talk about a sure-fire method of getting candidates that appeal to the voters and not the party insiders and their money men!
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« Reply #312 on: May 23, 2016, 04:37:04 pm »


I saw a post on TOS on a thread that has since been pulled claiming that if Cruz is successful at the Convention, we are all going to be hanging from lamp posts.  There was more, but I can't remember it.  Very threatening.

They want us to vote for their mistake, but if he isn't nominated; they will kill us all.

On that same thread 2DV asked if they would vote for Cruz in the future if he runs again, making note that it took Reagan three tries.  Not a single person said they would.  The comments were derisive such as they wouldn't vote for him for dogcatcher, will never vote for him for anything, his political career is over, going to primary him in 2018, ..., etc.

Not overly bright things to say considering they need our votes.

It just occurred to me that you would never read this about Cruz supporters. Obviously, they're not all like this and in fact the vast majority of them are not, but the Trump movement does seem to attract a certain group of easily unhinged people.

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« Reply #313 on: May 23, 2016, 05:06:01 pm »
It just occurred to me that you would never read this about Cruz supporters. Obviously, they're not all like this and in fact the vast majority of them are not, but the Trump movement does seem to attract a certain group of easily unhinged people.

If you mean "pissed off because of not being represented or listened to", unhinged could apply. [gotta wonder if we didn't create that monster ourselves]

I wasn't originally a Trump supporter and at my age, have learned to tone down the emotion.

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« Reply #314 on: May 23, 2016, 05:51:04 pm »


I saw a post on TOS on a thread that has since been pulled claiming that if Cruz is successful at the Convention, we are all going to be hanging from lamp posts.  There was more, but I can't remember it.  Very threatening.

They want us to vote for their mistake, but if he isn't nominated; they will kill us all.

On that same thread 2DV asked if they would vote for Cruz in the future if he runs again, making note that it took Reagan three tries.  Not a single person said they would.  The comments were derisive such as they wouldn't vote for him for dogcatcher, will never vote for him for anything, his political career is over, going to primary him in 2018, ..., etc.

Not overly bright things to say considering they need our votes.

You say you saw a post that has since been removed - that said Cruz people were going to be hanging from lamp posts.

And then you said:
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They want us to vote for their mistake, but if he isn't nominated; they will kill us all.

 :wtf!:

First of all - you said yourself the post was deleted.  Any public forum can have trolls that throw Molotov Cocktail statements like that just to instigate  and also to make the site look bad.  The fact that it was removed means that it wasn't an appropriate comment to the admins.  You just happened to see it before they could take it down.  Means they wanted no part of those sentiments.  They did what they should have done. 

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They want us to vote for their mistake, but if he isn't nominated; they will kill us all.

Who is this "they"?  "They" want to KILL us all????? 

I know that you don't believe that kind of hogwash - I just know you don't. 

You paint all of us with a pretty wide brush - hard to have rational dialogue with that kind of over-the-top rhetoric. 

I'm just going to assume that you so disturbed by that post that you just got caught up in it and were having an emotional reaction when you saw that.  I know you don't think that I, or the vast majority of Trump supporters, want to kill you.

Sigh.

I hate this political strife as much as anyone - I'm a lover, not a fighter.  I apologize for not realizing the fear and anxiety - not to mention the feeling of hurt - that people that backed other candidates are going through right now.  I'd like to think that most of us really are trying to heal a rift - there's always a few that stick out - but I guess we're trying to push our point of view a little too quickly to allow for a proper grieving period.  I'm going to stay away from these threads for awhile and I think the other Trumpers should too - to give you all time to heal and think about where you are going from here on out. 

We're not changing anyone's mind this way - perhaps making it worse.  It's an emotional cauldron right now and I'm going to back off.  We're all pretty fearful right now and it really shows in almost every thread on this forum.

Believe me when I say that I don't hate, or want to hurt, anyone that doesn't like Trump.  I want to convince people that he is a better choice than the alternative and I realize some think he is the same or worse.  You all need time to work it out.

   
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« Reply #315 on: June 08, 2016, 11:56:26 am »
Trump hasn't yet won me over.  He needs to work on it.

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« Reply #316 on: June 08, 2016, 12:00:54 pm »
Trump hasn't yet won me over.  He needs to work on it.

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« Reply #317 on: June 08, 2016, 12:04:56 pm »
Trump hasn't yet won me over.  He needs to work on it.

Yes. I owe my vote to no one.

He needs to earn it.

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« Reply #318 on: June 08, 2016, 12:20:07 pm »
Yes. I owe my vote to no one.

He needs to earn it.

I'm so old I can remember when almost everybody thought politicians had to earn their votes.

Now it seems like they just demand you vote for them,"or someone even worse will win!"
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« Reply #319 on: June 08, 2016, 12:27:18 pm »
I'm so old I can remember when almost everybody thought politicians had to earn their votes.

Now it seems like they just demand you vote for them,"or someone even worse will win!"

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« Reply #320 on: June 08, 2016, 04:38:24 pm »
A candidate has only to earn the vote of more supporting voters than the other guy, otherwise known as the loser.

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« Reply #321 on: June 10, 2016, 11:25:06 am »
Vote forTrump?

OH HELL NO

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« Reply #322 on: June 19, 2016, 09:42:49 am »
No.  I'll either write a selection for President or leave it blank. 
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« Reply #323 on: June 19, 2016, 07:41:12 pm »
Here's an honest question for Trump supporters who argue that the polls showing Trump's national negatives at nearly 70% are manipulated to show Trump in a negative light.

Here, in a forum made up of politically active right of center individuals, the vote shows that 64% of the members have enough of a negative image of Trump that they will not vote for him in the General election.

Who is manipulating this poll, and for what reason?
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« Reply #324 on: June 19, 2016, 07:53:19 pm »
Here's an honest question for Trump supporters who argue that the polls showing Trump's national negatives at nearly 70% are manipulated to show Trump in a negative light.

Here, in a forum made up of politically active right of center individuals, the vote shows that 64% of the members have enough of a negative image of Trump that they will not vote for him in the General election.

Who is manipulating this poll, and for what reason?

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« Reply #325 on: June 19, 2016, 08:58:54 pm »
I don't know.  Either way, I will vote against Clintoon.  Can I vote for Trump?  I honestly don't know.

You only have two possible choices at this point, Sanguine: Hillary, or Trump. I don't know how you can "honestly" vote for Clinton. She has a decades-long history of dishonesty and malfeasance in public office. With Hillary, you know what you're getting. But why would you want it?

On the other hand, there are people about who evidently think they are experts on Donald Trump, and they have found him to be "no good." They would subject their personal virtue to sullying if they ever found anything good to say about the man, let alone vote for him for president. It seems they run around in packs. I suspect this bunch is operating under some kind of hypnotic suggestion, their minds being hermetically sealed against any idea that Trump -- for all his faults --  is still objectively a better choice than Hillary.

But evidently, one's self-satisfaction with the state of one's personal virtue "trumps" all other considerations. The country can go to hell in a hand basket, just so long as we can congratulate  ourselves on our pristine personal virtue....

All this, at a time when our nation needs all the help it can get to clean out the endemic corruption of our political system....

I hope you virtuous folk will just decide to stay home on election day. You might as well, you are no help at all.

When Hillary starts nominating Supreme Court justices, you stay-at-homes have zero standing to complain if you don't like them.

Good luck to all.

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« Reply #326 on: June 19, 2016, 09:06:01 pm »
I won't be staying at home.  I will vote third party.  Failure to vote thusly will help elect one of the two worst candidates in American history.
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« Reply #327 on: June 19, 2016, 09:35:19 pm »
You only have two possible choices at this point, Sanguine: Hillary, or Trump. I don't know how you can "honestly" vote for Clinton. She has a decades-long history of dishonesty and malfeasance in public office. With Hillary, you know what you're getting. But why would you want it?

On the other hand, there are people about who evidently think they are experts on Donald Trump, and they have found him to be "no good." They would subject their personal virtue to sullying if they ever found anything good to say about the man, let alone vote for him for president. It seems they run around in packs. I suspect this bunch is operating under some kind of hypnotic suggestion, their minds being hermetically sealed against any idea that Trump -- for all his faults --  is still objectively a better choice than Hillary.

But evidently, one's self-satisfaction with the state of one's personal virtue "trumps" all other considerations. The country can go to hell in a hand basket, just so long as we can congratulate  ourselves on our pristine personal virtue....

All this, at a time when our nation needs all the help it can get to clean out the endemic corruption of our political system....

I hope you virtuous folk will just decide to stay home on election day. You might as well, you are no help at all.

When Hillary starts nominating Supreme Court justices, you stay-at-homes have zero standing to complain if you don't like them.

Good luck to all.

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A complete load of bovine fecal matter from start to finish!

There will be choices other than Trump or Hillary on my ballot an I will definitely  choose one of them.

I'm sick and tired of being held hostage by the dempublican party! Not going to play that anymore!

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« Reply #328 on: June 19, 2016, 10:13:45 pm »
You only have two possible choices at this point, Sanguine: Hillary, or Trump. I don't know how you can "honestly" vote for Clinton. She has a decades-long history of dishonesty and malfeasance in public office. With Hillary, you know what you're getting. But why would you want it?

On the other hand, there are people about who evidently think they are experts on Donald Trump, and they have found him to be "no good." They would subject their personal virtue to sullying if they ever found anything good to say about the man, let alone vote for him for president. It seems they run around in packs. I suspect this bunch is operating under some kind of hypnotic suggestion, their minds being hermetically sealed against any idea that Trump -- for all his faults --  is still objectively a better choice than Hillary.

But evidently, one's self-satisfaction with the state of one's personal virtue "trumps" all other considerations. The country can go to hell in a hand basket, just so long as we can congratulate  ourselves on our pristine personal virtue....

All this, at a time when our nation needs all the help it can get to clean out the endemic corruption of our political system....

I hope you virtuous folk will just decide to stay home on election day. You might as well, you are no help at all.

When Hillary starts nominating Supreme Court justices, you stay-at-homes have zero standing to complain if you don't like them.

Good luck to all.

@wolfcreek

Actually, @betty boop , we don't officially have a candidate yet, so I don't have to make a decision at this point in time.  And, I will do every thing I can to make sure it's not DT.

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« Reply #329 on: June 19, 2016, 10:48:22 pm »
You only have two possible choices at this point, Sanguine: Hillary, or Trump.

That is not true.

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But evidently, one's self-satisfaction with the state of one's personal virtue "trumps" all other considerations. The country can go to hell in a hand basket, just so long as we can congratulate  ourselves on our pristine personal virtue....

Your statement is beyond all offense. Principled Conservatives have always had a ready criteria by which their endorsement is achieved. It is a simple thing. If your candidate does not measure up, then figure out how to get him elected without Conservatives, because that's what you'll need to do. You'll change no one's mind with this insulting 'purist' line.

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All this, at a time when our nation needs all the help it can get to clean out the endemic corruption of our political system....

To place your bets on a man of such low character is more a problem in all y'all's figuring... not in the normative calculation of Conservatives. To expect one who is himself corrupt to fix corruption is a monumental breach of logic.


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« Reply #330 on: June 19, 2016, 11:20:53 pm »
That is not true.

Your statement is beyond all offense. Principled Conservatives have always had a ready criteria by which their endorsement is achieved. It is a simple thing. If your candidate does not measure up, then figure out how to get him elected without Conservatives, because that's what you'll need to do. You'll change no one's mind with this insulting 'purist' line.

To place your bets on a man of such low character is more a problem in all y'all's figuring... not in the normative calculation of Conservatives. To expect one who is himself corrupt to fix corruption is a monumental breach of logic.
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HEY! Let's ALL vote the popular perceived lesser of two evils once again!

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« Reply #331 on: June 20, 2016, 12:14:53 am »
You only have two possible choices at this point, Sanguine: Hillary, or Trump. I don't know how you can "honestly" vote for Clinton. She has a decades-long history of dishonesty and malfeasance in public office. With Hillary, you know what you're getting. But why would you want it?

On the other hand, there are people about who evidently think they are experts on Donald Trump, and they have found him to be "no good." They would subject their personal virtue to sullying if they ever found anything good to say about the man, let alone vote for him for president. It seems they run around in packs. I suspect this bunch is operating under some kind of hypnotic suggestion, their minds being hermetically sealed against any idea that Trump -- for all his faults --  is still objectively a better choice than Hillary.

But evidently, one's self-satisfaction with the state of one's personal virtue "trumps" all other considerations. The country can go to hell in a hand basket, just so long as we can congratulate  ourselves on our pristine personal virtue....

All this, at a time when our nation needs all the help it can get to clean out the endemic corruption of our political system....

I hope you virtuous folk will just decide to stay home on election day. You might as well, you are no help at all.

When Hillary starts nominating Supreme Court justices, you stay-at-homes have zero standing to complain if you don't like them.

Good luck to all.

@wolfcreek

The problem here is that Trump supporters brought this election down to two unacceptable choices, and now you all want to stick everyone else with the fault for the likely outcome of the general election.

BUT, the likely outcome of the election (a Clinton win) has been one of the main reasons why those who oppose Trump have opposed Trump from the start. That and the belief that he would be a dangerously unpredictable POTUS with little or no understanding of our Constitution, and a penchant for expanding the idea of an Imperial Executive. So those who got us to this point are the ones who own the outcome, and own those SCOTUS choices by Clinton.

I truly hope that I am wrong.

I hope that Trump does win, and that if he does that he is a truly wonderful President. I'd rather be dead wrong than right, because if I am right, if trump loses to Clinton and takes our Congressinal majorities down with him, or if he wins and he is as bad a President as I believe he would be, he will be the catalyst  for the destruction of effective right-wing politics in the U.S. for quite a long time.

We are here because Trump supporters brought us here.

Whatever happens going forward, you own it, because you made it happen.
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« Reply #332 on: June 20, 2016, 08:16:36 am »
I will have to say, over the past several months I've seen the most ingenious ways to tell the world that if you vote for Trump in November and he loses...it's your fault.   And since I'm not going to vote for him, Hillary will win...and it will be your fault... 

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« Reply #333 on: June 20, 2016, 08:31:04 am »
A complete load of bovine fecal matter from start to finish!

There will be choices other than Trump or Hillary on my ballot an I will definitely  choose one of them.

I'm sick and tired of being held hostage by the dempublican party! Not going to play that anymore!

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Guess you would prefer being the hostage of EIGHT years [beyond that once they continue to derail the Constitution and stack the court]  of another Clinton?

Is that what you really want?

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« Reply #334 on: June 20, 2016, 08:33:56 am »
Guess you would prefer being the hostage of EIGHT years [beyond that once they continue to derail the Constitution and stack the court]  of another Clinton?

Is that what you really want?

No! It isn't what I want but it's what I'm going to get if either Trump or HIllary becomes president! They are one in the same!  Both members of the same criminal enterprise and they are both laughing their asses off right now!
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« Reply #335 on: June 20, 2016, 08:42:16 am »
The problem here is that Trump supporters brought this election down to two unacceptable choices, and now you all want to stick everyone else with the fault for the likely outcome of the general election.

BUT, the likely outcome of the election (a Clinton win) has been one of the main reasons why those who oppose Trump have opposed Trump from the start. That and the belief that he would be a dangerously unpredictable POTUS with little or no understanding of our Constitution, and a penchant for expanding the idea of an Imperial Executive. So those who got us to this point are the ones who own the outcome, and own those SCOTUS choices by Clinton.

I truly hope that I am wrong.

I hope that Trump does win, and that if he does that he is a truly wonderful President. I'd rather be dead wrong than right, because if I am right, if trump loses to Clinton and takes our Congressinal majorities down with him, or if he wins and he is as bad a President as I believe he would be, he will be the catalyst  for the destruction of effective right-wing politics in the U.S. for quite a long time.

We are here because Trump supporters brought us here.

Whatever happens going forward, you own it, because you made it happen.

 How many times have you and others trashed the GOP, the Congress in general and the last several Republican POTUSs]  for being either totally ineffective at countering the Progressive Left or practically become their allies? Well, you were right.

Open your eyes. They are not on your side and your side is a minority.

People who support Trump have moved on. If you want to be politically relevant,  I suggest you do the same.

Just like the last several Democrat wins, the disgruntled stayed at home or voted for some obscure 'other' party candidate. For the sake of this country,  Don't let that happen again.

BTW: I voted for Cruz so, I didn't make chit happen. The majority of Republican voters selected Trump and now I will cast my vote for him. That's unless you stab him in the back and guarantee a Hillary presidency.
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« Reply #336 on: June 20, 2016, 08:42:56 am »
But evidently, one's self-satisfaction with the state of one's personal virtue "trumps" all other considerations. The country can go to hell in a hand basket, just so long as we can congratulate  ourselves on our pristine personal virtue....


That's not it at all, certainly not for me.  I'm prepared to vote against Trump because Trump is more dangerous to the nation than Clinton is.   The choice this year is between two evils,  and I am being forced to decide which one is more awful.   Fine, if you insist, then I'll decide.   You won't like it.  I won't like it.   But I'll decide.   
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« Reply #337 on: June 20, 2016, 08:45:54 am »
No! It isn't what I want but it's what I'm going to get if either Trump or HIllary becomes president! They are one in the same!  Both members of the same criminal enterprise and they are both laughing their asses off right now!

I stopped with "They are one in the same" You and I both know that's not factual. Hillary is Obama II and we know where he's taken this country.

Whatever Trump is, it's not Hillary.

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« Reply #338 on: June 20, 2016, 08:54:10 am »
I stopped with "They are one in the same" You and I both know that's not factual. Hillary is Obama II and we know where he's taken this country.

Whatever Trump is, it's not Hillary.

You are free to continue in your self delusion!
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« Reply #339 on: June 20, 2016, 09:02:04 am »
You are free to continue in your self delusion!

To avoid disrespecting a fellow Texan, I won't say the same.

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« Reply #340 on: June 20, 2016, 09:05:54 am »
I stopped with "They are one in the same" You and I both know that's not factual. Hillary is Obama II and we know where he's taken this country.

Whatever Trump is, it's not Hillary.

Trump wants to "open up" libel laws... an attack on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press.

Trump wants to allow the Federal government to deny anyone they want to put on some sort of ill-defined arbitrary and unregulated list of "enemies of the State" their 2A right to buy a gun.

It's a matter of which individual you prefer being in charge of violating the Constitution.

Trump exists in a world where there isn't a Congress or a Constitution. Where his will is all that matters and his experts will make those things he wants to happen, happen, and while I agree that a Hillary Presidency would be bad news, I can't even begin to make the argument that a Trump Imperial Presidency would be less bad. 
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« Reply #341 on: June 20, 2016, 09:08:15 am »
To avoid disrespecting a fellow Texan, I won't say the same.

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« Reply #342 on: June 20, 2016, 09:11:11 am »
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

John Adams

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality"

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Avoiding reality is exactly what the antiTrumps/proHillarys are doing.
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« Reply #343 on: June 20, 2016, 09:17:55 am »
Trump wants to "open up" libel laws... an attack on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press.

Trump wants to allow the Federal government to deny anyone they want to put on some sort of ill-defined arbitrary and unregulated list of "enemies of the State" their 2A right to buy a gun.

It's a matter of which individual you prefer being in charge of violating the Constitution.

Trump exists in a world where there isn't a Congress or a Constitution. Where his will is all that matters and his experts will make those things he wants to happen, happen, and while I agree that a Hillary Presidency would be bad news, I can't even begin to make the argument that a Trump Imperial Presidency would be less bad.

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« Reply #344 on: June 20, 2016, 11:20:10 am »
It's all about the amnesty with you isn't it. Excuses \Excuses.

Typical Trump supporter.

Bigot follows a bigot.

Amnesty has not even entered into this equation, but you saw my last name and made the typically bigoted assumption.

Why don't you address the substance of the post instead of engaging in a Trump tactic?

Because you can't, and you can't because you lack the intellect to do it.

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« Reply #345 on: June 20, 2016, 12:19:48 pm »
I stopped with "They are one in the same" You and I both know that's not factual. Hillary is Obama II and we know where he's taken this country.

Whatever Trump is, it's not Hillary.

Trump is a Rockefeller republican, a particularly pernicious form of republican endemic to NYC that is basically nothing my more than a rich white liberal who is too embarrassed, or narcissistic, to be seen together with the grubby street protestors who inhabit the DNC.  He'll be as bad as, if not worse than, Michael Bloomberg, another rich NYC businessman and republican of convenience, who governed as a very liberal mayor.  In other words, he'll be just as bad as Clinton, with the only variation being in irrelevant details. 

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« Reply #346 on: June 20, 2016, 02:59:37 pm »
The only thing that makes me want to vote for him is when the liberals riot against him.  I don't want them to win.  Other than that...Trump is moving to the left as expected and is completely untrustworthy.  Libertarian is looking better and better every day...even if it is that doofus Johnson as the nominee.

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« Reply #347 on: June 20, 2016, 03:01:01 pm »
Typical Trump supporter.

Bigot follows a bigot.

Amnesty has not even entered into this equation, but you saw my last name and made the typically bigoted assumption.

Why don't you address the substance of the post instead of engaging in a Trump tactic?

Because you can't, and you can't because you lack the intellect to do it.

Tell me you weren't a Jeb voter.

BTW: I need to see some sources before I comment on your accusations against Trump.
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« Reply #348 on: June 20, 2016, 03:04:57 pm »
Trump is a Rockefeller republican, a particularly pernicious form of republican endemic to NYC that is basically nothing my more than a rich white liberal who is too embarrassed, or narcissistic, to be seen together with the grubby street protestors who inhabit the DNC.  He'll be as bad as, if not worse than, Michael Bloomberg, another rich NYC businessman and republican of convenience, who governed as a very liberal mayor.  In other words, he'll be just as bad as Clinton, with the only variation being in irrelevant details.

No one would be as bad as Hillary. The fact that someone would think that is disturbing.

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« Reply #349 on: June 20, 2016, 03:08:40 pm »
No one would be as bad as Hillary. The fact that someone would think that is disturbing.

Well the issue is if Trump wins who will be the party to push us to the right?  If Hillary wins we have a chance of getting conservatives in congress to stop her agenda.  If Trump wins we get more liberals in congress and he'll pass their agenda.