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I for one am going on the record, I don't care for her new haircut at all, I will however give her credit for being equally tough on candidates.
Doesn't that mean contested convention?
Looks as if the guy that golfs, bribes, and whines and dines the establishment played you all along. Obama lies ain't got nuthin on this guys.
The establishment is warming up to him as we speak.
Cruz had a great chance to run later and totally destroyed it. Desperation is not pretty, a great conservative imploded under reality TV blitz. What a mess this one was, finally since I held my nose for McCain I thought I had a Republican I could vote for.
There as wishy washy as he is....
This is really, really simple. If Trump wins 1,237 delegates before the Convention, he wins the nomination. If he doesn't, he's not guaranteed to win the nomination, nor is he "entitled" to it. To my knowledge, there has never been a Republican nominee for President who got the nomination without winning a majority of the delegates, either before the Convention or at the Convention. Trump loves to yell and holler about how he thinks the rules have been changed and rigged against him, though that's patently false. Why should the rules be changed and rigged FOR him? If you want to argue that you think a Contested Convention will destroy the party, fine, argue that. I happen to believe that a Trump nomination will destroy the party. If we're going to destroy the party, might as well do it while nominating an actual Conservative Republican. But if you think the rules should be CHANGED so that Trump can win the nomination without a majority of the delegates, then lay out your case for why that should happen.
Tell us why you're supporting him.
Oh, I've seen people say why they support Trump. What I don't see is why they can't understand they're supporting a make-believe "persona", not a person who actually believes in the things he's selling. Trump is a Snake Oil salesman (this is more true than one realizes, too, if you look back at the history of some of the things he's hawked over the years), he's a Con Man. The Donald Trump who supports certain things in this campaign is as real as Unicorns. The only thing real about Trump in this campaign is that he is in fact a childish, immature, sexist, misogynist, arrogant boor. THAT part of him is real, and while I understand that a lot of his supporters LOVE that part of him, his support for all the issues that he is campaigning on is no more real than the idea that he's actually a Conservative Republican.
All we have is our perceptions and experiences and that is what we make our judgements from.
My perceptions and experiences lead me to think someone who will support the Constitution will be our best leader.
I have asked and searched for reasons and evidence to convince me otherwise and am found wanting.
Many Trump supporters only have personal attacks and memes to support their guy and are to intellectually lazy to go find credible facts (or there are none) that support their beliefs.
I have considered any information I have come across on this site and otherwise. Some people believe Fairy Tales I rely on facts.
The reason I lost respect for Cruz is that he went against his Character in desperation. That was troubling to me and while its a feeling it is based on fact.
Feeling Gumby will do something when all his life he has not provides no fact. Just Rhetoric....
Good, since you have listened so well, why don't you tell me why it is I support Trump?
I haven't committed to memory the specifics of why every Trumpkin on here supposedly supports him. I would assume it is some combination of the mythical ideas that he will build a wall and he will "make America great again". I just don't see any evidence for why you would think he actually believes in the "prescription" for how he would "make America great again". The guy who wants to build a wall and deport all the illegals....brings in illegals to work for him in multiple of his businesses. The guy who wants to force companies to stay and do business in the U.S., has his and his daughter's clothing lines made overseas. Shall I continue?
On top of that the decision to appeal belonged to Greg Abott, would you resign your job and family support mechanism for a career criminal if you were in his shoes?
And you shouldn't, that's their right to vote for and support whoever they like....
gflight, I assume you understand that we should be giving Greg Abbott credit for the other cases Cruz took to the SCOTUS as Solicitor General of Texas as well? Maybe Cruz is not the champion of Liberty after all, maybe he was only doing what he was told to do.
So he gets to decide at what cost liberty? I thought he believed in the Constitution? Our FF risked everything and you guys want us to believe cruz is cut from the same cloth yet he does not even risk a government job even though he has an Ivy league education to fall back on, and not even mentioning his wife's income. Pretty lame excuse imo.
"The reason I lost respect for Cruz is that he went against his Character in desperation".
When and if desperation should set in as POTUS how will Ted Cruz respond? We now know from his own mouth.
Read that once again and it will reveal one of the answers that you so desperately seek about Donald Trump.
That is but one that separates the two men.
The Rock
However...when Cruz and Kasich came up with this stupid back handed deal to try to block Trump I said to myself, "what the hell is going on here." Neither one of them are all that vote-worthy , so whats up with that?
It gets better..this past Tuesday Cruz looses YUGE, I mean really YUGE..not one single county in 5 States voted for him..so what does Cruz do..next day chooses Carly Fiorina as his running mate..for what? A trip back to Texas?
Desperate times for a desperate man? Who knows?
I think it's time to hold your nose again and vote.
Thank you, Ike !
For me.... the effort to lock up a proven career criminal longer was an effort that was worth it.
To play it as he was trying to convict someone "innocent" of any crime is...... lets say, not factual. He was there for a reason, he was demonstrably a career criminal. And guilty of the crime that he was going to prison for. Sentencing was the issue.
You can try to spin it anyway you like, but facts are facts. The man was convicted of theft and sentenced. He was also charged with being a habitual offender, charged and convicted and sentenced. Lawyer determined later that he was wrongfully charged and convicted under the habitual offender law. Appealed to state court and conviction upheld. .. Lawyer appealed to Federal court and conviction was overturned. ...Cruz appealed to the SCOTUS and after being questioned by Justice Kennedy he admitted that yes the man was innocent of the habitual offender charge, but because his lawyer didn't point it out soon enough it should not be overturned.
Now, do you believe that a man who served his time for theft should be held on the habitual offender charge even when the prosecutor admits he is innocent of that charge, just so the prosecutor set precedence for future cases.
Trump will plow blindly headfirst without thinking which makes him a risk in the desperation area as well...
Kathi,
Exactly...
Joshauf,
I thought he would at least show in the northeast. Unless of course they are alot more EGOP/liberal than I thought.
I didn't think he'd show in the northeast unless Kasich was out of the race. And they voted for Trump 50%+, so that should tell you how liberal a goodly chunk of the Republicans in the northeast are.
