Trump, trumping Hillary by 16%
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Do you know who Gopher is? He is very interested in politics for better or worse. Just look at his posts.
He may have thought you were talking about Gainer the Gopher the beloved mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Yeah, they have a shelf life of about 24 hours.
He's interested in Obama for sure!
Interesting interview on the CBC news tonight. Kathleen Parker, considered the most accurate political analyst in the US believes Trump not only will lose, but he may destroy the GOP. You can see the report associated with her forecast here. Republican Base Voting For Trump to Spite GOP Establishment - CBC News | The National
Ms Parker appears about the 12 minute mark.
Ms Parker appears about the 12 minute mark.
I think the Republicans will win the White House regardless of who wins the nomination. The Americans seem to be totally fed up with the Democrats.
I sure hope so anyway!
I sure hope so anyway!
No new revelation. They've been predicting the destruction of the GOP since the GW days. Since then they've clocked the Democrats in both midterms.
Really? I guess I just don't see what all the consternation is over Obama. I kind of like the guy. Maybe years from now he'll be considered superior to Trump.
Dubya may have been highly under rated!
I think he was surrounded by a couple of shaky characters- his V.P. and Rumsfeld for starters!
I'm not sure its over in the Democratic Party. Hillary represents the corroded old Free Trade, Wall Street backed, Feminist, AGW establishment Democrats. And if anything is clear in this election cycle it is that people of both parties are looking for fresh answers, and an upending of established 'truths'. Unfortunately Sanders has saddled himself with all the old Culture of Death ideology that will weigh down his candidacy like an anchor.
While not saddling himself with any ideology, in fact without any explicit policy, Trump has framed himself as a fresh, spontaneous and independent candidate. My sense is that he will be a much more responsible, moderate and above all pragmatic President than his stump speeches would indicate. He is likely to be an activist, flexible and progressive in fiscal areas, conservative on social issues.. which his Tea Party supporters (died in the wool libertarians) can't really see. He is a populist, conservative leaning, but driven by results.. not ideology and certainly not libertarian ideology.
He could win.. but imho.. only Bernie Sanders could give him a run for his money.. and that would be on the issue of the catastrophic economic consequences of continuing the Global Free Market Capitalism of the BOTH parties of the last 40 years.
While not saddling himself with any ideology, in fact without any explicit policy, Trump has framed himself as a fresh, spontaneous and independent candidate. My sense is that he will be a much more responsible, moderate and above all pragmatic President than his stump speeches would indicate. He is likely to be an activist, flexible and progressive in fiscal areas, conservative on social issues.. which his Tea Party supporters (died in the wool libertarians) can't really see. He is a populist, conservative leaning, but driven by results.. not ideology and certainly not libertarian ideology.
He could win.. but imho.. only Bernie Sanders could give him a run for his money.. and that would be on the issue of the catastrophic economic consequences of continuing the Global Free Market Capitalism of the BOTH parties of the last 40 years.
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Ben Carson's endorsement of Trump will be a good benefit to Trump's campaign.
I think there's a lot more common sense to Trump than his detractors realize and you'll be seeing more of it from now on.
The socialists and the pc will never like him. The ones who see what socialism and pc are doing to the country will support him more strongly than ever.
If I had a vote I would vote for him, no question!
I think there's a lot more common sense to Trump than his detractors realize and you'll be seeing more of it from now on.
The socialists and the pc will never like him. The ones who see what socialism and pc are doing to the country will support him more strongly than ever.
If I had a vote I would vote for him, no question!
The way I see Trump is he has the potential to do a lot of good, and I doubt would intentionally do any harm. However there is a small gap in that philosophy that makes me a little leery.
You can vote. Unlike You don't need an ID to vote in the U.S....unlike Canada's racist, bigoted, and disenfranchising voter ID laws.
You have to register and surely you have to give an address or something! I'd have to lie. and it wouldn't be right anyway to do something sneaky like that.
Yes you would have to have a name and address in hand or register with an address... fake addresses are fine. But it is real easy and Democrats do it all the time. That is why they HATE the thought of Voter ID Laws... it is so hard to commit voter fraud with that type of law on the books. So the mere mention of a voter ID law brings up terms like racist, bigot, and disenfranchisement... like Canada.
I don't follow all of this in detail, but from what I have been noticing as it all moves along,
is that as they get closer and closer to the convention (republicans), it concerns me that there
will be quite an uprising once inside that convention hall, the republican party is quite split
right now, the party isn't actually following any party lines, they are splitting apart and going
in different directions, so when all of the delegates get together at the convention, and when the
dust finally settles, I hope everyone is still standing, no one's is dead, or in the hospital,
and whomever rises to the top to take the nomination can move forward without a republican war
having been fought around them.
this is a situation as I've never seen before, and I believe many are following trump for all of the
wrong reasons, many whom has glombed onto him because of his brazen, and simple gruff ways of talking,
which could be a strategy to bring the very stupid, uneducated, uninformed, and gruff voters, who
will follow him for those reasons only, and many who just want to follow a leader, which is what he is
at the moment, not him personally, what his numbers are in the polls, and others who just want anyone
who will help Hillary lose, now all of those reasons have nothing to do with the positive input for
the goodness of helping the average American citizen, or improvements in the countries economic
standing, or whatever else.
it is definitely a circus at the moment, with no apparent agenda other than a stampede by some and
big disappointing attitudes of others within the republican party.
it is disturbing and I don't know where all of this will go, for that party.
I never hear any reports from the trump situation, that has anything to do with the actual running
of the country, and if, for some weird reason, he does end up in the white house, he will have to
have many people around him to make important decisions concerning whatever subject they might be
doing at the moment, and when it comes to foreign affairs, it is very scary to visualize him at
any world gathering, contributing anything but rhetoric and garbage, as he won't know how to listen,
and reason and come to any intelligent decision at all, he will keep changing the subject to distract
everyone from thinking about what he should be saying, it will all be about 'the donald'.
is that as they get closer and closer to the convention (republicans), it concerns me that there
will be quite an uprising once inside that convention hall, the republican party is quite split
right now, the party isn't actually following any party lines, they are splitting apart and going
in different directions, so when all of the delegates get together at the convention, and when the
dust finally settles, I hope everyone is still standing, no one's is dead, or in the hospital,
and whomever rises to the top to take the nomination can move forward without a republican war
having been fought around them.
this is a situation as I've never seen before, and I believe many are following trump for all of the
wrong reasons, many whom has glombed onto him because of his brazen, and simple gruff ways of talking,
which could be a strategy to bring the very stupid, uneducated, uninformed, and gruff voters, who
will follow him for those reasons only, and many who just want to follow a leader, which is what he is
at the moment, not him personally, what his numbers are in the polls, and others who just want anyone
who will help Hillary lose, now all of those reasons have nothing to do with the positive input for
the goodness of helping the average American citizen, or improvements in the countries economic
standing, or whatever else.
it is definitely a circus at the moment, with no apparent agenda other than a stampede by some and
big disappointing attitudes of others within the republican party.
it is disturbing and I don't know where all of this will go, for that party.
I never hear any reports from the trump situation, that has anything to do with the actual running
of the country, and if, for some weird reason, he does end up in the white house, he will have to
have many people around him to make important decisions concerning whatever subject they might be
doing at the moment, and when it comes to foreign affairs, it is very scary to visualize him at
any world gathering, contributing anything but rhetoric and garbage, as he won't know how to listen,
and reason and come to any intelligent decision at all, he will keep changing the subject to distract
everyone from thinking about what he should be saying, it will all be about 'the donald'.