and how many right here on this board didn't vote in the last two elections???
Posted on 01/18/2016 5:31:49 PM PST by justlittleoleme
When it comes to voting, Donald Trump must be hoping Americans will do as he says, and not as he does.
Records reviewed by National Review show that the mogul-turned-candidate never bothered to cast his vote in the past six presidential-primary elections — even in 2000, 2004, and 2012, years when he floated the idea of running for the Oval Office.
Even as Trump filled candidates’ coffers, he skipped the 2002 general election, failing to cast a vote for U.S. representative and governor, among other positions. He’s also sat out several city and state elections in the past 15 years, while donating heavily to candidates in the same races. In some of these elections, it appears Trump’s ever-changing party registration rendered him ineligible to cast a primary ballot. But in many others, he could have voted but didn’t.
Trump could not be reached, and his spokesperson had not responded to a request for comment by deadline.
Perhaps Trump prefers check-writing to ballot-casting. Over the past 15 years, he has donated more to Democratic candidates, including Friends of Hillary Clinton in 2002, than he’s given to Republicans.
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and how many right here on this board didn't vote in the last two elections???
Bribes, graft, and kickbacks. Not a dimes worth of difference between the Trump campaign and how the Clinton Foundation operates.
You made me laugh!
Be careful, the trumpholes have no sense of humor, nor tolerance of ridicule for their god.
So what do you call posting a response to “spam”?
This is for the primaries.
Maybe he voted for Hillary in the Primary, and Obama in the General. That would make sense to a New Yawk liberal.
Then you can’t blame him for what D.C. has done for the last 24 years.
New York’s primary usually doesn’t matter very much. It is late in the cycle and the nominee is usually all but chosen at that point.
Trump basically just didn’t vote for the presumptive nominee. So what?
Go Trump.
Well, he’s changed his voter registration so often that he doesn’t know which one he’s supposed to vote in.
As a true king maker, there is little advantage in putting down the big money to buy a candidate or voting in the wrong primary before a candidate is chosen. This sounds like a corollary to one of the Limbaugh theorems.
damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
I couldn’t do it so I wrote in Palins’ name.I really felt good about that.
“Donald Trump Hasn’t Voted in the Last Six Presidential Primaries”
Could be. But Trump HAS done the following:
Only a few weeks ago,Trump upset the whole apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda with illegal immigration and other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media has been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And we wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
Who have been out choices in the last 6 primaries. I can’t recall any outstanding candidates runningfrom 1992 on:
1992 - Daddy Bush and Pat Buchanan
1996 - Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Steve Frobes, Lamar Alexander, Bob Dornan
2000 - Junior Bush, John McCain
2004 Junior Bush
2008 - McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson (he was alright)
2012 - Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry
But Trump was a Democrat from 2001 to 2009:
2004 - John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Wesley Clark
2008 - 0bama, Hillary, Edwards.
This is not a list that inspires.
Is that an actual constitutional requirement to hold the office of President? I hear he sometimes sits down to pee also.
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