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Path_Finder said:
Our Primary is today, I will vote, I am Cruz first.

Marco has been in town this week. So, I would give him some consideration, his latest speeches too seem like they are attacking other candidates, mainly Trump and surely, his advisers told him to do this.

Ben is on the ball, too bad that quiet distinguished personality just isn’t galvanizing voters.

So, Trump is not my first or second choice but I do think he is tapping into a lot of dissatisfaction among the American people and I don’t really mind him. He is standing up for our country.
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Thanks for being a voice of reason on this board.
 
Path_Finder said:
Our Primary is today, I will vote, I am Cruz first.

Marco has been in town this week. So, I would give him some consideration, his latest speeches too seem like they are attacking other candidates, mainly Trump and surely, his advisers told him to do this.

Ben is on the ball, too bad that quiet distinguished personality just isn’t galvanizing voters.

So, Trump is not my first or second choice but I do think he is tapping into a lot of dissatisfaction among the American people and I don’t really mind him. He is standing up for our country.
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He certainly says he is, but how much of what he proposes do you really think he can do? He would be part of only one branch of government.
 
mary_bobo said:
He would be part of only one branch of government.
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That’s not the problem … if anything I think the problem is that some people don’t respect the fact that presidency is only supposed to be equal to the other two branches. (And I don’t just mean the Obama crowd. Just look at Chris Christie’s diatribes against the senators just for being senators.)
 
I find it hard to believe that Trump is winning the support of so many evangelical Christians. He was endorsed by Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, who has called him “one of the greatest visionaries of our time.” Last week, Pat Robertson told Mr. Trump during an interview, “You inspire us all.” :rolleyes:
If this embrace strikes you as discordant, it should. This visionary and inspiring man humiliated his first wife by conducting a very public affair, chronically bullies and demeans people, and says he has never asked God for forgiveness. His name is emblazoned on a casino that features a strip club; he has discussed anal sex on the air with Howard Stern and, after complimenting his daughter Ivanka’s figure, pointed out that if she “weren’t my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her.” He once supported partial-birth abortion and to this day praises Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. He is a narcissist appealing to people whose faith declares that pride goes before a fall.
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nytimes.com/2016/03/01/opinion/campaign-stops/what-wouldnt-jesus-do.html?_r=0
 
Marco Rubio’s Campaign Manager Sees Battle Lasting to Convention
Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, briefed donors and potential allies with a good news/bad news message about the future on Tuesday morning, hours before Democrats began casting ballots in nominating contests in 11 states.
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The bad news, according to Mr. Sullivan, is that the race will most likely drag into the Republican National Convention in July. But the good news, he added, is that the Rubio campaign is going to the convention, according to a person in attendance, who spoke on the condition that they not be identified in order to be candid about a private meeting.
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In detail, Mr. Sulivan explained a march to the convention in Cleveland in which he anticipates that Senator Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich remain in the race for the long haul.
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In the meeting at Mr. Rubio’s Washington headquarters, Mr. Sullivan laid out potential delegate scenarios, from best to worst, for today’s voting, for the contests on March 15, and for those at the end of March. Henry Barbour, a prominent Republican National Committee member who just signed on with the campaign, is now involved with delegate operations, according to Mr. Sullivan.
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He laid out a bleak outcome should Mr. Trump emerge as the party’s nominee, suggesting that Republicans would lose control of the Senate.
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He cautioned patience as people in the room expressed concern about Mr. Rubio’s ability to win Florida on March 15, stating as fact that the senator would carry his home state. Asked about whether Jeb Bush will be there to help make that happen, Mr. Sullivan replied that they hoped so but that Mr. Rubio could win the state without the backing of the former Florida governor.
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nytimes.com/live/super-tuesday-2016-elections/private-meeting
 
My wife and I will be heading out to the Minnesota caucuses tonight to vote for Rubio. It’s our first time ever caucusing, but our goal is to at least be able to say we tried to stop The Trumpening.

If Trump is the nominee, I will seriously consider voting for him (more to the point, against Clinton) in November. My wife will sit the November election out and she’s more reliably a Republican voter than I am. It should be interesting having so many results to look through tomorrow morning. If nothing else, we live in interesting times 😛
 
Good_Tidings said:
Of course the length of one’s finger have nothing to do with anything. He is trying to get under Trump’s skin, probably hoping he will go off as unhinged. I think the maturity lever of all three top contestants is questionable.
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No, it’s not questionable. They are DEFINITELY all immature.
 
meltzerboy said:
No, it’s not questionable. They are DEFINITELY all immature.
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The American presidential candidates? The new leaders of the free world? What kind of leader concerns himself with the length of fingers of his opponents? It doesn’t sound like a leader to me. It sounds childish, petty and stupid.
 
I think Mitt Romney is going to move in if Marcomentum does not pick up and I don’t think we will see it today per predictions. That is the talk at least; Romney would have been a good president if he came to office in 2012.
 
Estevao said:
I saw Ron Paul on CNN today, he thought it was ridiculous that the main stream media were talking about the KKK before super tuesday. This is somebody who doesn’t support Trump either btw.

Edit: See also how CNN blatantly twisted his interview

Interview:
youtube.com/watch?v=zjXiWqesztU

CNN Write-up:
cnn.com/2016/03/01/election-center-2016/ron-paul-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-2016-race/index.html
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So your saying the kkk is an ok group?

Republicans hated former senator Byrd from West Virginia for having been a kkk member. How is this different?
 
chero23 said:
So your saying the kkk is an ok group?

Republicans hated former senator Byrd from West Virginia for having been a kkk member. How is this different?
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Byrd himself was a KKKer

A KKKer says he endorses Trump, who is not a KKKer, and did not seek the endorsement.

I guess I am not seeing the similarity:confused:
 
chero23 said:
So your saying the kkk is an ok group?

Republicans hated former senator Byrd from West Virginia for having been a kkk member. How is this different?
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The KKK was created by democrats and was also anti-Catholic until it became irrelevant, so absolutely not.

But not saying something about a group does not mean you endorse them, it just means you think it’s an irrelevant question.
 
Path_Finder said:
I think Mitt Romney is going to move in if Marcomentum does not pick up and I don’t think we will see it today per predictions. That is the talk at least; Romney would have been a good president if he came to office in 2012.
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This confuses me. Even if he gets into the race now, there is absolutely no evidence that he would get the nomination, or even get enough delegates to deny Trump the nomination.
 
Today from CNN:
Washington (CNN)Both of the remaining Democratic candidates for president easily top Republican front-runner Donald Trump in hypothetical general election match-ups, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.
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But Hillary Clinton, who is well ahead in the Democratic race for the presidency, would likely face a stronger challenge should Florida Sen. Marco Rubio or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz capture the Republican nomination for president.
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In the scenario that appears most likely to emerge from the primary contests, Clinton tops Trump 52% to 44% among registered voters. That result has tilted in Clinton’s favor since the last CNN/ORC Poll on the match-up in January.
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But when the former secretary of state faces off with either of the other two top Republicans, things are much tighter and roughly the same as they were in January. Clinton trails against Rubio, with 50% choosing the Florida senator compared to 47% for Clinton, identical to the results in January. Against Cruz, Clinton holds 48% to his 49%, a slight tightening from a 3-point race in January to a 1-point match-up now.
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Sanders – who enjoys the most positive favorable rating of any presidential candidate in the field, according to the poll – tops all three Republicans by wide margins: 57% to 40% against Cruz, 55% to 43% against Trump, and 53% to 45% against Rubio. Sanders fares better than Clinton in each match-up among men, younger voters and independents.
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cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/

Go Donald Trump! (I’m a Democrat :))
 
Estevao said:
The KKK was created by democrats and was also anti-Catholic until it became irrelevant, so absolutely not.

But not saying something about a group does not mean you endorse them, it just means you think it’s an irrelevant question.
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But the kkk is mainly republican supported.
 
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