Posted on 02/27/2016 9:03:23 PM PST by JediJones
Good. Vote for who you want to. I plan to do that also.
Just don’t expect Trump to beat Hillary if you are so unlucky as to get him nominated.
He is the ultimate in wishy washy. He doesn’t just change by the year; he changes by the week or the day.
I’m still waiting for someone to print a transcript of everything Trump said at that last debate.
Great bedtime reading.
Schafly and Sessions haven’t endorsed him. Some reports said Schafly did but then she denied it.
Enough delegates? I’m not an expert on this stuff. But primaries for now are proportional to some extent. Carson should be out after Tuesday and Kasich after Ohio. If Cruz and Rubio team up before over half the states have voted and it’s one-on-one, then tell me how Trump wins?
The GOP can steal it from Trump at the convention too, not just Cruz. And they’re more likely to do that. It sounds like they’re so afraid of Trump losing the election that they’d risk ticking off the base by doing that. I don’t endorse the stealing at the convention strategy. But if Trump truly doesn’t get a majority of delegates, and no one else does, then it’s not stealing, it’s the rules of the game and fair play.
Just remember to come back and tell me whey I should be supporting Romney or whoever they trot out at the convention...Dark times ahead my FRiend. It won’t be Cruz at the convention. Rubio will be tossed to the side as planned.
So tell me who should I support then? Quite frankly for all his faults (and there are many) Trump is the only alternative to have half a chance to roll over this globalist banzai. Do the math. There is no lane for Cruz. Rubio is out after Florida. I am hearing reports that Romney has already filed in a few states getting ready. Maybe its all smoke...but the fix is in.
Trump ain’t Hillary, he’s not part of the warstate machine. He’s definitely not a Bernie. At best he’s a squishy republican. But what does the republican party stand for these days? They have disavowed its base for some 30 years. They only believe in lining their pockets at the suffering of the taxpayer. Same with that other party.
Its a depressing state of affairs.
“As for me... I plan on voting for the only Natural Born American that has a chance to win.”
You say that now but can Hillary count on your vote come November?
It should not be depressing. It’s odd that it is.
After the last two elections where there was no good conservative running and we had to settle for McCain and Romney, we finally have a perfect candidate.
Well, nobody’s perfect but Ted Cruz comes close.
And then this odd millionaire playboy reality star comes on and makes wild promises and suddenly everyone thinks they’ve found god, or something close.
So why are you so sure Cruz can’t win? Very few delegates are won by anybody yet. A big win in Texas would put Cruz way up there and it’s very possible that the constant barrage of stuff coming out revealing bad things about Trump might finally eat away at his fanatic support.
He has mentioned E=verify. Which is available but not being used. He would use it!
Well, yes, but Ted Cruz is the one among a few who has stood up to the GOPe. We know he will do it because he has done it.
And what does Trump say about that?
He says Cruz doesn’t make friends in the Senate.
And he promises he would make friends in the Senate. And he would. Good friends on both sides of the aisle. Count on it.
Well, why didn’t he use it when he hired illegals to build his buildings and work in his casinos?
Hillary “Vagina” Clinton was not born...at least not naturally. And I am not even certain she is from this planet. She looks rather...reptilian.
Alright...lets look at what the RNC is saying. They plan to invoke Rule 37 and do a secret balloting of the delegates. That would effectively strip bound delegates on the first go-around. This, of course Cruz has the magic number.
Now they plan on doing this to Trump too....but his support is far and wide, unlike Cruz. Trump will take the fight to the globalists, but not Cruz, as he is one. Hell, stories are going around that Ted is offering his services to drop out if he can get a Supreme Court Judgeship. Supposedly Rubio and Trump turned him down. Another story has Rubio’s wife calling Ted’s wife to beg Ted to drop out and support Rubio. That battle is who is going to drop and support who.
Ted is done. Are their going to be independents and democrats crossing over to vote for Cruz? No. Are they going to cross over and vote for Rubio...no. In fact Rubio won’t even make it to the convention. It’s all set up for some other globalist hog. It doesn’t matter if they take the fall to Hillary...Just as long as the trough is still there. The PTB don’t fear Cruz cause he ain’t going anywhere. They fear Trump cause he will upset their little garden party.
February 15 at 11:42am ·
RESPONSE TO THE LIES OF SENATOR CRUZ:
Ted Cruz is a totally unstable individual. He is the single biggest liar I’ve ever come across, in politics or otherwise, and I have seen some of the best of them. His statements are totally untrue and completely outrageous. It is hard to believe a person who proclaims to be a Christian could be so dishonest and lie so much.
Cruz said I would be appointing a liberal judge when in fact I will appoint a great conservative and I am the only candidate who has gone so far, at the debate, as to suggest two individuals I feel would best represent the conservative values we need to protect: William “Bill” Pryor Jr. and Diane Sykes.
Cruz says I am pro-choice, when in fact I am staunchly pro-life and have been for a long time. Like Ronald Reagan, on many issues, I have evolved.
Cruz says I am in favor of ObamaCare, when in fact I have spoken about repealing and replacing this disaster of a system at every speech throughout my campaign and since it’s inception. Meanwhile, Cruz was responsible for getting Bush to put in the judge that failed to vote against ObamaCare twice.
Cruz says I will try to take away your second amendment rights, when I am one of the strongest proponents of the right to bear arms and I say so in every speech that I have made for years. I am a proud member of the NRA and so are my sons.
Cruz has become unhinged and is lying with the hopes that his statements will go unchecked until after the election and he will save his failing campaign.
In Iowa, Cruz told thousands of Ben Carson voters that Dr. Carson had left the race and to instead vote for Ted Cruz. He apologized when the race was over. Likewise, his fraudulent voter violation form sent to Iowa voters. If Ted is going to continue to lie with such desperation, I have no choice but to fight back.
One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President. If he doesn’t take down his false ads and retract his lies, I will do so immediately. Additionally, the RNC should intervene and if they don’t they are in default of their pledge to me.
I am the strongest on the borders and I will build a wall, and it will be a real wall. I am strongest on illegal immigration, strongest on ISIS, strongest on the military and I will take care of our Vets. I will end common core and preserve the second amendment. I will renegotiate our trade deals and bring our jobs back to our country. I am the only person who will Make America Great Again.
Trump was so evil back 30 years ago, you just wouldn’t believe it. He hired evil Poles who had defected from a wonderful place, the Soviet Bloc.
He paid them better than I was paid back in the 80s. But it was terrible, they didn’t get free housing. I was offered free shelter if I got stuck at work by a snow storm. I could use the floor as a bed they said. So yeah, I had it really good, working odd hours getting called in any time of the day or night and getting less pay than them.
But he was evil. Really evil.
It was a good thing those Pole were illegal immigrants because they were Christian and fled from communism and loved freedom. Oh yeah. Evil.
Democrats know who should be legal immigrants. Yep. If you want to join street gangs, if you hate Christians, if you want to be a muslim for example like those sterling refugees in Germany, then you should be a legal citizen.
I’ll expose the evil specifics of the Trump immigration plan, not that his critics want to be confused by the facts, but just because I too am evil. Like Glenn Beck says, Trump supporters are ‘brown shirts’ ...
Of course, most Trump critics refuse to be confused by the facts, but here they are anyway ...
Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
The three core principles of Donald J. Trump’s immigration plan
When politicians talk about immigration reform they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders. The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.
Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first, not wealthy globetrotting donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform:
1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.
Make Mexico Pay For The Wall
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries). They have even published pamphlets on how to illegally immigrate to the United States. The costs for the United States have been extraordinary: U.S. taxpayers have been asked to pick up hundreds of billions in healthcare costs, housing costs, education costs, welfare costs, etc. Indeed, the annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011. The effects on jobseekers have also been disastrous, and black Americans have been particularly harmed.
The impact in terms of crime has been tragic. In recent weeks, the headlines have been covered with cases of criminals who crossed our border illegally only to go on to commit horrific crimes against Americans. Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old woman’s home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the blood trail leads straight to Washington.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
Meanwhile, Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
In short, the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices.
Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards,of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options]. We will not be taken advantage of anymore.
Defend The Laws And Constitution Of The United States
America will only be great as long as America remains a nation of laws that lives according to the Constitution. No one is above the law. The following steps will return to the American people the safety of their laws, which politicians have stolen from them:
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission¦Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size. This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Nationwide e-verify. This simple measure will protect jobs for unemployed Americans.
Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.
Detention, not catch-and-release. Illegal aliens apprehended crossing the border must be detained until they are sent home, no more catch-and-release.
Defund sanctuary cities. Cut-off federal grants to any city which refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa. Millions of people come to the United States on temporary visas but refuse to leave, without consequence. This is a threat to national security. Individuals who refuse to leave at the time their visa expires should be subject to criminal penalties; this will also help give local jurisdictions the power to hold visa overstays until federal authorities arrive. Completion of a visa tracking system [required by law but blocked by lobbyists] will be necessary as well.
Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13 and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: ICE Officers and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children¦ICE officers should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should be working with any state or local drug or gang task force that asks for such assistance.
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said no sane country would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled America’s incredible shrinking middle class: If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans [including immigrants themselves and their children] to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: We’ve become the visa clearinghouse for the world.
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women’s plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
And how dare that upstart, Donald Trump, dare try to start a college of his own? If you don’t have cronies in state governments who make laws, then you have no business starting a college. College laws are passed for a reason —to keep out competition ...
TRUMP UNIVERSITY HAS A 98% APPROVAL RATING
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402515/posts
Marco Rubio: Our issue is not with Islam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402407/posts
Cruz: Rubio would be better president than Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3402078/posts
Rubio still ‘Gang of Eight’ at heart [my take]
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/17/rubio-were-not-going-to-round-up-and-deport-12-million-people
17 Jan, 2016 17 Jan, 2016
Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Republican presidential candidate Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said, ‘I don’t think you’ll round up and deport 12 million people. It’s clear now more than ever that we won’t be able to do anything on people here illegally until we first prove to people that illegal immigration is under control and America is safe.’
[But wait, Cruz said Rubio would be a better president than Trump?]
I will say this about Cruz: I’m glad he’s doing so well in this primary. Unfortunately, his supporters are growing to hate Trump so much that the rift will be difficult to mend.
There is SOME chance Donald Trump will renege on his campaign promises since he has no record of holding office and his changed his positions a lot as a private citizen."
There is ZERO chance that Cruz will renege on his campaign pledges.
There is ZERO chance that Cruz will be successful getting America and Congress to follow him.
With Trump there is a GOOD chance that he will keep his word, and there is EVIDENCE to support that he will get done what he sets out to get done.
Trump has decades of track record of keeping his word WELL ENOUGH that people love to do business with him, and following through WELL ENOUGH that he's made a ton of money and people still want to pay him to do the job.
Cruz is a wonderful conservative - perhaps the best (although he's shown either a problem with ethics or a problem hiring people with ethics - another point in favor of Trump - hiring the right people is indespensable even if you can get people to buy into your idea ), but no one is following Cruz, and Congress hates him.
But I will offer this: With Cruz you will get to be 100% right. And probably dead right.
I've yet to read a SINGLE non-Trump supporter address this question: How will your candidate get anything he promises done? What reason is here to think anyone else can actually cause their plan to happen?
The Democrats want the illegals here to vote. Voter registration drives and resistance to voter ID laws are designed to achieve that goal. ACORN has reorganized and is still active. Republicans that don’t oppose illegal immigration are either suicidal or have their own agenda that will somehow benefit them when America becomes a one party nation.
They will be over as soon as Forgetful Ted’s candidacy is annihila-TED.
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