Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread LVII

This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.

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‘.... Cruz for VP in the interest of pulling in votes. Party unity and reconciliation.’

Good intention, but we need to keep our eyes on the prize i.e. defeating the RATS!

To have an invalid ticket where the VP is constitutionally ineligible is a guarantee that the RATS will win just by challenging the Trump/Cruz ticket!

A Trump/Cruz ticket is a sure way to lose to the RATS while destroying the US Constitution!

Plus we would have helped obola and gang set precedent for electing anyone born outside USA (e.g. Cruz) to 1 USA citizen parent who could be anti-American/communist (such as obola’s mother Anne Dunham.)
And soon, anyone, including terrorists born in foreign countries to 1 or 2 anti-American US citizen parent(s), or, US born to foreign terrorists parents....can be president/VP

There must be a better way to win than to help dismantle the Constitution.

’ I’d rather not have the GOP blamed for a Trump debacle of a presidency..’

Please name one Republican president for whom the GOP was not blamed!
Please name your candidate who will guarantee the GOP won’t be blamed!

‘...there are going to be a lot of folks that will feel more betrayed than they realize.’

And who might be the one for whom lots of folks won’t feel betrayed?

Anybody who is rational and have common sense will NOT equate Trump with Hillary.

Hillary = obola - bullsh** like obola; pushes amnesty, obolacrap, massive welfare, anti-second amendment like obola; hypocrite, lying, cheating criminal like obola; wants to be president to expand her treasure trough etc etc.

Trump - speaks the truth, subjects himself to attacks from all sides while willingly parting with some of his fortunes and suspending the comfort and luxuries of life...
If he is like Hillary, why won’t he let Hillary have her way? He can do well under a Hillary presidency! He does not need to be the president to be wealthier!
He has power in the business world no matter who is the president.
However, he knows that, as the president, he will have the power to undo some of the damages caused by the RATS/communists/socialists.

We have been through so much pain with the RATS in charge, that we can’t see the light beyond the tunnel... We are skeptical.... we tend not to trust anybody...
But we must take our blinders off and see what is there!
A Trump presidency CANNOT be worse than a hillary pres, nor worse than a Cruz pres who is so very indebted to the big donors and who has proven to be an ‘anything to get elected’, same old, same old politician.

I think I understand what you’re saying, but “... but we need to keep our eyes on the prize i.e. defeating the RATS!” is not going deep enough.

The “prize” is liberty and justice. The roadmap (so to speak) to that prize is restoration of the constitution (not as it has been twisted and distorted, but as it was written). The way back to the constitution is the defeat of the entrenched political elite (including almost all of both of the parties and the bloodsucking, parasitic, perverted, corrupted vile commentariate) and the impeachment of most so-called judges and the replacement by people who will truly respect and adhere to an oath of office. A first step is the defeat of the Republican Party elite. Then the demoncrats have to be defeated. It becomes more complicated after that, but this is a long battle.

For too long we have thought that all we have to do is defeat the demoncrats and everything will be fine. That got us to where we are today.

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, 3/02 - 3/16 (#43-#57)
Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
3/16	[link]	[link]	[link]	57
3/15	[link]	[link]	[link]	56
3/14	[link]	[link]	[link]	55
3/13	[link]	[link]	[link]	54
3/12	[link]	[link]	[link]	53
3/11	[link]	[link]	[link]	52
3/10	[link]	[link]	[link]	51
3/09	[link]	[link]	[link]	50
3/08	[link]	[link]	[link]	49
3/07	[link]	[link]	[link]	48
3/06	[link]	[link]	[link]	47
3/05	[link]	[link]	[link]	46
3/04	[link]	[link]	[link]	45
3/03	[link]	[link]	[link]	44
3/02	[link]	[link]	[link]	43

Table 2: tables with older threads
Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
3/02 - 3/16	[link]	43-57
2/24 - 3/09	[link]	36-50
2/17 - 3/02	[link]	29-43
2/10 - 2/24	[link]	22-36
2/03 - 2/17	[link]	15-29
1/27 - 2/10	[link]	8-22
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

True, we need to defeat the Rep party elite. Electing Trump and truly conservative leaders for congress will be the first step in that direction.
For this election, in addition to defeating the Rep party elite, we must defeat the RATS with a winning team of constitutionally eligible candidates who are proven leaders that can defeat the RATS, the media, the liberals...

We must not give them the weapon (e.g. a candidate who is not constitutionally eligible) with which to defeat us.

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