Discussion for article #238131
" It’s a level of idiocy I haven’t seen in a long time." Me neither.
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Please proceed, Trump.
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Does that include Jim Inhofe [R-OK] and the snowball on the Senate floor?
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Really Ted ?
"“I like Donald Trump,” said Cruz, a Texas senator who is Hispanic. "I
think he’s terrific. I think he’s brash. I think he speaks the truth. "
We we will be finding out soon enough about that.
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Donald Trump has to put his mouth where his money is.
The Republican presidential candidate
will have to answer questions under oath about his net worth - and
about how much money he raked in from his now-defunct Trump University, a
California federal court judge ruled this week.
Lawyers for The Donald had contended he didn't have to answer questions
in a civil racketeering lawsuit about how much money he made from the
“school” because he’d already acknowledged under oath that he had
“significant involvement with both the operations and overall business
strategy of Trump University.”
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“I love him like THIS.”
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Trompe L’oeil
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Look, let’s be honest. Republicans are liars, killers and thieves. They love war, that’s their go-to diplomacy, they back the thieves on Wall Street and K Street, they could care less about blacks and minorities, and whenever they are moving their lips, they are lying. Can I get a witness?
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The GOP lost the hispanic vote by what…20 percentage points in 2012 when that ni(CLANG!) cruised to victory over the Mormon Weatherman. I’m sure with Ttrump’s remarks like this they’ll turn that right around and get oodles more.
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Why are they even warning him? Hell, why do Hispanics even consider leaning right?
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This Latina governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez has said "It’s horrible, it’s uncalled for. . . " Perhaps she hadn’t been prepared to speak about it, but it’s not nearly as forceful a statement as it could’ve been considering what Trump’s been spewing.
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“I like Donald Trump,” said Cruz, a Texas senator who is Hispanic.
“I think he’s terrific. I think he’s brash. I think he speaks the truth.
And I think that NBC is engaging in political correctness
that is silly and that is wrong.”
No Ted.
It’s you-- a self-loathing Hispanic who thinks that racism is silly-- who is dead wrong.
For a supposedly educated man Ted?
You come come off as an idiot far too often.
jw1
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In a perfect world the R party would condemn him loudly and Trump would start his own party, siphoning off the votes of the 25% of racist nutters and killing whatever remote chance the GOP has now.
In a perfect world.
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“Sadly, it hurts the party with Hispanic voters. It’s a level of idiocy I haven’t seen in a long time.”
Open your eyes.
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Just the fact that Trump jumped into 2nd place in Iowa after his remarks make that glaringly obvious.
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This is why I think the RNC will exclude Trump from the debates if he’s above the polling threshold for inclusion. The only conceivable reason for allowing him to participate would be to provide the forum for the more “serious” candidates to establish their pro-Hispanic bona fides by criticizing Trump during the debate.
I also think that Susana Martinez is the obvious Veep choice for whoever gets the GOP Pres nomination. She’s Mexican-American with a law enforcement background who has actual administrative duties as a governor, as opposed to being a gasbag Senator like Cruz or Rubio. Unless the Presidential candidate adopted an overtly anti-Hispanic stance during the general election—something I think is very unlikely in 2016—Martinez would be well positioned to peel off Hispanic voters from the Democratic ticket. Even if the Dem ticket still gets the large majority of the Hispanic vote, a defection of a few percentage points by Hispanic Americans to the Republican ticket could make the difference in close races in some states.
My prediction is still a ticket of Walker/Martinez, and I’m sticking to it until/unless Snotty implodes under the pressure and scrutiny of a national primary campaign. If the media weren’t so thoroughly degenerate, useless, and corrupt, Americans would already be well aware of his record. It’s heartening that Obama chose to address it in his speech in La Crosse—it’s time the DNC got off its ass and started hammering Walker as well.
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Yes. Judging by the posts I see at conservative sites, Trump clearly has the (positive) attention of the nativists, even as they don’t give him much hope of winning the nomination, much less the Presidency itself. Unless he chooses Sarah Palin for a running mate (or she him), that is.
What gets me, though, is why most of the candidates aren’t being more forceful in their rejection of Trump’s rhetoric. The only thing(s) I can figure is/are 1) They can read polls, too–they’ve seen Trump’s surge over the past week, and (as Cruz hints at) they know that railing against alleged instances of political correctness plays well with the base; 2) They want access to his money on down the road. So, just as you note, they have to hang on to that 25% (and not offend those candidates whom those folks listen to) in order to have a chance to win next year.
I’d be happier about this if I didn’t also think that hanging on to these people’s loyalty is what a major political party is reduced to doing in order to survive.
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Yes. And based on how Trump has been conducting himself this past week, he won’t back down if they go after him–he’ll just get louder and, if anything, more intemperate. That’d make for some really nasty political theater.
Edit: You make some good observations about Martinez. I keep forgetting about her. She’d also be a good counter to Julian Castro, whom some think would be Hillary’s pick for a running mate.
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All Republican candidates should refuse to appear on a debate stage with Donald Trump…but they won’t.