Trump: If we're attacked, we'll 'beat the s--t out of them'

The Hill ^ | February 2, 2016 | Rebecca Savransky

[Redleg Duke]

I’ve read quite a number of your comments and am making an exception i your case. Good-bye.

[af_vet_1981]

In the beginning I supported Cruz and defended him here from people blasting his legal status statements and H1B increases. I was sure he would come out and explain those any day, as well as have a plan better than Trump’s. I waited months. Cruz was silent for way too long, and I began to distrust him. A solid conservative on immigration wouldn’t be silent, and especially wouldn’t say “Americans don’t want to have that conversation.” That condescending statement was the last straw. I switched to one willing to have that conversation.

Since Cruz and Rubio are either immigrants or children of immigrants it seems obvious to me both would be more naturally disposed to help the illegal immigrants who are in the country already. Neither can say that any longer and win the nomination since one could vote for any number of candidates for a pusillanimous policy run around; not with Trump; he is the only candidate with the courage of his conviction to throw down that gauntlet, as is his wont. This differentiates him from sitting Senators who already voted ...

[Patriot Babe]

AMEN!!

[gbscott1954]

“That dirty trick caused about 20% of the Carson voters to move over to Cruz rather than waste their vote on someone who was ending his campaign, according to Cruz.”

How do you know that? Fact is, Carson has been fading for a month and it made sense, if not accurate, to assume that Carson was getting out. He needs to get out!

And the junk about Goldman Sachs, It was borrowing against his own money as a loan. Trump has as line of credit from them right now! Try some things that can be proved, not stuff that can’t be proved!

[Pikachu_Dad]

He got some major screws loose ...

[higgmeister]

Oh yeah, Trump is a pure as the driven snow. His claim to fame is building casinos that have ruined the lives of thousands.

I don't think you get to play it both ways.

Cruz supporters put him on an exalted pedestal and when anyone questions his spiritual duplicity shown by uncooth tricks, the response is to attack Trump for his baseness.

The difference is, we don't put Trump on an exalted pedestal of piety. We know Trump is like a junkyard dog and are proud that he is. We need a tenacious beast willing to fight our enemies to the death. All the other candidates are status quo politicians willing to say and do anything to grab the brass ring at all costs.

[higgmeister]

The would be not true.

(v.) variant (with short i from past participle or noun) of earlier shite, Middle English shiten, Old English scitan; compare Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schiten (Dutch schijten), Old High German skīzan (German scheissen); (noun) re-formation from the v., or continuation of Old English scite (in place names)

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v. Old English scitan, from Proto-Germanic *skit- (cf. North Frisian skitj, Dutch schijten, German scheissen), from PIE *skei- "to cut, split, divide, separate" (see shed (v.)). The notion is of "separation" from the body (cf. Latin excrementum, from excernere "to separate," Old English scearn "dung, muck," from scieran "to cut, shear;" see sharn ). It is thus a cousin to science and conscience.

The bad connotation is that no puritanical person wants to talk of scat.

[crusty old prospector]

He’s a carnival barker with an ego bigger than Obamao.

[higgmeister]

...I SEC primaries - they are proportional.

That is not quite accurate. it is proportional but only for those that go over 15% or 20% (20% here in GA). This will help to cull the herd.

The 2016 Super Tuesday will be held on March 1 with a certainty of Trump gaining ground.

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Winners-take-most states are those with proportional allocation and a 15 percent or 20 percent threshold to qualify for delegates. Strictly proportional states have proportional allocations with either no thresholds or low ones (Iowa)—typically, 5 percent or 10 percent.

Georgia, a winners-take-most state with a 20 percent threshold, illustrates the formidable obstacles the establishment candidates face. Only Trump, with 39 percent, and Cruz, with 29 percent, would qualify for delegates, splitting the state's 76 delegates between them. So far, none of the establishment candidates are close to meeting Georgia's 20 percent threshold.

The Georgia scenario will play out in six states holding primaries on March 1, otherwise known as the SEC Primary. These six states—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—will allocate 422 delegates by winners-take-most rules, and all are conservative states in which establishment candidates will likely struggle to meet the thresholds.

The Republican Establishment's Delegate Problem

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I believe that in most of the South we are raging Nationalists with a "Yuge" dose of Jingoism to "Trump" the Cruz supporters.

In 2013, 44% of all military recruits came from the South, despite it having only 36% of the country's 18-24 year-old civilian population.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/07/158892-military-pride-states-boast-highest-enlistment-rates-america/

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Most attribute the Southern radical patriotism to our Scots-Irish heritage. There is possibly some need to prove our loyalty to America after the police action of a century and a half ago.

Most of the Scots-Irish who settled in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and throughout the Deep South were Protestants, specifically Presbyterians, who fled the Ulster region of Northern Ireland, McCarthy reports.

Many of the Scots-Irish died of starvation and illness while sailing the Atlantic, and those who made it to America were pushed to the undeveloped border regions.

From their ranks came such towering American personalities as Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain, William Faulkner and George S. Patton.

Scots-Irish roots run deep in the South

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the post.

[Georgia Girl 2]

GA is solidly in the Trump column. Our whole family is voting Trump. 8 votes for Trump.

[higgmeister]

You are welcome PA Engineer and GA Girl 2 I wish I had that of you to ping.

[TomasUSMC]

A politician can’t talk like that.....oh wait, Trump ain’t one....yet.