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RNC Nun/Colonel/Surgeon on the left, DNC Sister on the right :

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The impeachment was 100% political retaliation for Trump winning the election. The RNC had numerous Black Republicans/Trump supporters /conservatives- bucking the trend and refusing to stay on the Democrat plantation, in spite of Biden’s, “if you’re not for me, you’re not black.” But I get you’re maybe on Team Democrat - hence your views. Me, I’m on team Catholic, so I cannot bring myself to vote Democrat, “seamless garment” notwithstanding.
 
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who cares what the “real GOP” is, what matters is what party or candidate comes closes to Catholic moral teaching. The Dems are DINO’s in the sense that they have been taken over by the radical secular anti-Catholic left, and as such there is NO compelling argument to support them at all. The pre-Trump GOP was basically an inept, cowardly group of people that paved the way for someone like Trump (like him or hate him).
 
This insistence and outrage on the part of Democratic pundits on the violation of the Hatch Act, even if correct, is beside the point. The American people, as a whole, don’t know and don’t care about such things.

Leftist Democrats just don’t get it why they lose elections. Right-wing Republicans are only interested in five things:
  1. American exceptionalism: They don’t want to hear about our faults and weaknesses as a country, only our strengths and how wonderful we are.
  2. Patriotism: They want a strong leader, not necessarily a war monger but one who spouts patriotic themes, waves the flag, and advocates a strong military defense. Even if that leader had help in inventing a phony reason for avoiding military service himself.
  3. Morality and religious liberty: They are opposed to any perceived threat to the traditional family and mainstream family and moral values. They oppose anything foreign to their own moral principles.
  4. Law and order: They are against violence and even peaceful protests that undermine political and moral authority.
  5. Big government: The nanny-state that puts any kind of restriction or limitation on their personal freedom, such as wearing masks or seatbelts or smoking or the right to bear arms and whatnot, as well as business restrictions. They don’t want handouts or special privileges and oppose anyone who receives them unjustly, in their view.
Trump realizes this and, clever opportunist that he is, continues to capitalize on it.

P.S. I am not a Biden supporter either.
 
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I thought Trump gave a great speech to close the festivities, as did Pence. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything they said but they spoke well and I was not bored. Same with Biden. The best I can say is that they are both great politicians.

Oh, for the days of Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hubert H. Humphrey, William F. Buckley, and Gore Vidal, when people had ideas and could skillfully discuss and debate them. Those days are forever gone.
 
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Chris Wallace calls Trump RNC address 'far too long' and 'surprisingly flat' despite 'some good lines'

While "there certainly were impressive fireworks" on the National Mall following the conclusion of the Republican National Convention Thursday night, "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said he was "surprised at the lack of fireworks" in President Trump's speech.
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“The president went through all his accomplishments during his first term – they are a great number and they are considerable,” Wallace told the Fox News reaction panel after Trump accepted the Republican nomination on the South Lawn of the White House.

“Then he went after Joe Biden, and he had some good lines …,’” Wallace said, “but I have to say … his delivery – and we have seen the president turn on a crowd – was surprisingly flat and it didn’t seem to have the bite that he usually does have in his speeches.”
 
Does this bother Trump supporters - the use of government resources for the reelection of the President?

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Because in Donald Trump’s America there is a thing called “states rights.” States rights allow states and local authorities to decline federal assistance. Who is declining federal assistance? Virtually all the democratic controlled locales where rioting is occurring.
 
Do you know if the RNC reimbursed the government for its use? Would this not be similar to the use of Air Force One?

(Side Note: It would be interesting to see what Mr. Shaub considers a religious mortal sin…I would bet this is a path of questioning he would not want to travel too far down)
 
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Because in Donald Trump’s America there is a thing called “states rights.” States rights allow states and local authorities to decline federal assistance. Who is declining federal assistance? Virtually all the democratic controlled locales where rioting is occurring.
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I think it’s more the overall vibe or direction of the country that are causing the disturbances.

I, too, want to see the unrest quelled. I am in favor of peaceful protests, but not violent ones. A President can be a uniter or a divider. Trump is a divider.
 
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I, too, want to see the unrest quelled. I am in favor of peaceful protests, but not violent ones. A President can be a uniter or a divider. Trump is a divider.
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It takes two to tango…hard to be united with people who started impeachment efforts prior to the oath of office
 
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Do you know if the RNC reimbursed the government for its use?
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Surely the point is not the cost involved, but the principle that the White House is not an appropriate place to hold a political rally. It is blurring the distinction between the office of president and the political ambitions of the present incumbent.
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Would this not be similar to the use of Air Force One?
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That is itself controversial:

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Donald Trump slammed Obama for using Air Force One for election campaigning. Now he does the same

Trump’s love for rallies is all but certain to raise perennial questions about how the White House accounts for the cost of flying Air Force One.
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He gets called a Rino.
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I’ve never seen consistency in the use of that word. RINO looks like it was inspired by the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. What is the test for a true republican? Right now it appears someone is not considered a “true republican” unless they agree with and defend Trump.

What is the right way to disagree with the president and maintain identity as a republican?
 

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Trump purchased this testimony via a Pardon
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*** Donald Trump** : The billionaire businessman won the White House, at least in part, because of his free-wheeling style and his uproarious campaign rallies. He didn’t win the White House by reading speeches off of a teleprompter. And his acceptance speech Thursday night proved why. His delivery – particularly in the first 30 minutes or so of this way-too-long speech – was without emotion and decidedly flat. As for the speech itself, there just wasn’t all that much new to it. Trump spent the first 35 minutes rattling off his accomplishments in his first three years in office – repeating long-disproven claims about how he built the greatest economy in the history of the country and how he has done more for African Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln. Anyone who caught a Trump speech or a Trump TV interview over the past year (or so) would have recognized virtually every line in his acceptance address. “This speech is pretty standard issue so far for Trump, absent the lyricism and poetry – and just different rhetoric – of many convention speeches,” tweeted Washington Post politics editor Cathleen Decker. And then there was the second half of the speech, which was entirely dedicated to promulgating the idea that, in Trump’s words, “no one will be safe in Biden’s America.” But again, the vast majority of these attacks were rehash. Taken in total, the speech felt like a mash-up of a State of the Union address and an opposition research dump. And one that you’d seen and heard before.
 
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