Posted on 12/26/2015 5:02:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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>> I hope he means what he says <<
Yeah, like when he told CNN a few weeks ago that he would skip the debate unless they donated 5 million bucks to his favorite charity.
CNN told him basically to take a hike, and he folded quicker than a cheap suit. That’s obviously the kind of steadiness and constancy we need in a Chief Executive — NOT!
This board is going to get rough the next few months once it’s just Ted and Donald.
A admit, I went back and forth for a little while, but I guess I always knew it would be Cruz first.
then Trump. What other choice do we have if he wins? And I do like seeing him sock the other side.
You don’t sound like you want him second lol.
62? that’s the new 42. seriously, i’m 47, and if you’re in good shape, then you’re younger than me lol
>> You don’t sound like you want him second <<
I want whoever can beat Hilary and insure in the process that the GOP will retain control of the Congress.
Otherwise, we must prepare to see our military continue to lose strength and to see the Supreme Court taken over by clones of Sonya Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Elena Kagan.
He used to be funny, now I don’t think I will find him funny anymore......
I think either can do that.
I’m just stunned by Cruz’ ability to adapt and answer questions on the spot, like when Colbert interviewed him.
he would be the most intelligent president since...I don’t know.
Was JFK smart? Nixon? I wasn’t bon for first and young for second.
Trump didn’t hold any of these positions like 14 months ago, lol.
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Actually he did hold these positions 14 months ago and longer.
You have fallen for the disinformation posted here numerous times, no matter how many times they have corrected.
Yeah, like when he told CNN a few weeks ago that he would skip the debate unless they donated 5 million bucks to his favorite charity.
CNN told him basically to take a hike, and he folded quicker than a cheap suit. That’s obviously the kind of steadiness and constancy we need in a Chief Executive — NOT!
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He never told CNN that.
He asked his supporters if he should do that. He hinted at it, he asked if he should do it. he suggested it would be a good idea, but he NEVER told CNN that he was going to do it.
I saw this interview. I think he was trying to be witty and funny. He bombed.
Parody is better done in writing.
I live in NYC, I have followed Trump for a long time.
I’m wide open. Send me, if you know one, any website where they are corrected.
It would make me feel better.
Not that it matters I guess.
I’m voting for him in general and if it’s him and Rubio in primary.
But if Cruz is in first or second, he’s my primary vote.
plus i’m in NY, does the primary even matter by then or is it pretty much sown up?
I did hear him say on TV that Romney was too rough with the immigrant issue.
he said that again last month. How is he going to say to “Hispanic” voters, whatever that means, in a nice way that he is deporting 20 million Hispanics?
>> Was JFK smart? Nixon? <<
Sure. JFK was smart enough. Still, he wasn’t the supreme world-class genius that his Harvard puppet-masters would have us believe.
(But I’ll admit that they had me fooled!)
On the other hand, many people who knew Nixon up close will tell you that he may have had the highest raw IQ of anybody they ever met.
Nixon was, however, not the least bit “glamorous” or “debonair” — and I think it was probably JFK’s having this latter quality that gave Dems the edge in the 1960 election, plus a little vote-counting help from Mayor Daley’s machine in Chicago and the LBJ-owned local officials in south Texas.
In other words, in this case as in most of life, pure IQ usually ain’t sufficient — taken alone — to get the job done.
Nixon was, however, not the least bit “glamorous†or “debonair†— and I think it was probably JFK’s having this latter quality that gave Dems the edge in the 1960 election, plus a little vote-counting help from Mayor Daley’s machine in Chicago and the LBJ-owned local officials in south Texas.
The liberals consistently choose “style” over “substance.”
Although I wasn’t born yet, I understand Nixon didn’t fare well under studio lights in front of a camera. He sweated and looked like he needed a shave. That was the first Presidential election with heavy use of television and Nixon suffered for it.
They were both smart, but I give Nixon the edge over Kennedy. Just my opinion.
Judge for yourself in the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrcRKqLSRw
I think Cruz is smarter than Nixon was. He's also much more likeable. Nixon could be creepy. If Cruz has a creepy side, I haven't seen it.
It means however, that he is, unfortunately, a party-first, (R)epublicrat.
Nearly every single word in that book applies perfectly today to the open border, free-trade, illegal alien cheap labor, death-of-Main-Street, growth of Wall Street, anti-Nationalist clique of cocktail sipping traitors that surrounds him. Yet they all proudly wear uniparty uniforms, with interchangeable (R) and (D) labels.
Substituting Hastert, Boner and Ryan for O'Neil, Wright, Foley and Pelosi should be obvious by now, except to those who believe their own press and live off the accolades in perpetuity, and fills the same role at Rolling Stone that David Brooks fills at the New York Slimes. I guess it is possible that he does not realize what the word token means, or perhaps he does, and is just comfortable with his station in life.
Mr. O'Rourke is firmly in that chattering class, has been for most of his career. And that class greatly fears the Barbarians at the Gate. No, not the make-believe southern gate where foreign barbarians cross at will, that gate has all but vanished thanks to uniparty cheerleaders ( of which just one side has ever caught O'Rourke's attention ), but the very real philosophical gate that exists at the Beltway around the District of Criminals. Everyone that approaches the district lacking their groupthink is a Barbarian.
In reality, folks like P.J. O'Rourke who hide behind labels like Libertarian, are nothing more than 'slow-downers', the type that will press lightly on the brake pedal as the car heads toward the cliff, and the only thing they will ever accomplish is delaying the destruction of America - a wee bit longer.
Thomas Paine he is not.
HE doesn’t come off creepy to me AT ALL.
that’s media @#$@#$.
and Thanks! I never thought of watching old debates. Should be incredible. I was -4 at the time? born in ‘68.
As soon as my slightly better half goes to bed, i’ll watch it :)
Not in that debate, no. The presidency brought out that side of him.
I was just a kid when that debate occurred. I suppose it was my introduction to politics. I was very impressed with both candidates. Looking at it now, the debate seems so civilized. Even the press is civilized. What happened to us?
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