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Which presidential candidate will do the least harm?
Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh Area) ^ | 9 March 2016 | Donald J. Boudreaux

Posted on 03/09/2016 7:33:30 AM PST by Vigilanteman

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To: Durbin

That’s cool. I. Guess we cancel each other’s votes then. I do vote in Florida so my vote may count for something. Where do you vote?


61 posted on 03/09/2016 1:19:44 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: napscoordinator

California. The candidates will already be decided by then, so what I do doesn’t matter.


62 posted on 03/09/2016 1:22:25 PM PST by Durbin
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To: asinclair
Hmmmm ... he'll need an AG and a couple of special prosecutors to start dismantling the Clinton/Obama/'Rat RICO.

George Pataki and Ted Olson for two of them. Pataki because he knows New York Republican politics and how NY political markets work. Rudy Giuliani for something prosecutorial.

Some of the old Clinton impeachment managers to take on the Clinton Crime Family -- Bill McCollum, Asa Hutchinson, Bob Barr.

Trump is going to need a ton of good prosecutors and prosecutor-managers to take down that fell crew of Clintons and Obamas and George Soros, Jew-hunter.

63 posted on 03/09/2016 1:37:13 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: ScottinVA
Yes, [Pinochet] called for free elections afterward, but let’s not deceive ourselves into thinking he was some kind of gentle giant down there.

Self-defense. How many people, as a proportion of national population, did the Khmer Rouge murder?

The Chilean MNR was a Communist movement very like the Khmer Rouge and the Indonesian PKI, whom Col. Suharto and the Indonesian army slaughtered likewise in self-defense. There were 800,000 PKI cadre killed. How many would they have killed, had they lived?

We're in the 21st century now -- no more namby-pamby 19th-century "rules of war". When the other side wins, they come for you and your family, and they bring long knives and long memories.

So what's your suggestion, if you don't like the way Suharto and Pinochet played it?

Of course, you could always play the backhand option and sift the ruins and the killing fields for your due-process courtroom evidence, if you want to do things the LibRats keep telling us they must be done.

64 posted on 03/09/2016 1:43:38 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: lentulusgracchus

“The Chilean MNR was a Communist movement very like the Khmer Rouge and the Indonesian PKI, whom Col. Suharto and the Indonesian army slaughtered likewise in self-defense. There were 800,000 PKI cadre killed. How many would they have killed, had they lived?”

The subject is Pinochet, not Suharto. And I for one don’t want an autocrat in the White House.


65 posted on 03/09/2016 3:03:30 PM PST by ScottinVA
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To: ScottinVA

“I find amazing you manage to avoid coming to grips with the well-documented history of the brutality of that regime.”

And I find it amazing that, not only did you fall for that crap, you refuse even to give it another look when corrected.

“Look.. you seek authoritarian “strongman” leadership”

Conservatives don’t lie like that. Just fold up your false flag and slink off.

“However, I prefer one who abides by the Constitutional limitations on governmental power.”

Insofar as it benefits the left, at least.

“As for vetting facts, the historical facts from a very wide variety of sources support my position.”

No one disputes that many liars have had a crack at Pinochet.

“And deep down.. I think you agree.”

Agree with lying communist coprophages? Not likely.

“Remember... in another comment you said you didn’t trust Trump. In that we agree... I don’t trust him either.”

Now I am motivated to revisit that conclusion.


66 posted on 03/09/2016 3:10:03 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: ScottinVA

“Au contraire.”

Nope, that’s horse shit, all right.

That’s an offhand comment, not a cri de coeur.

If you ask that guy if he really wants substitute a dictator for the constitution, he’s going to say no.

As you well know.


67 posted on 03/09/2016 3:14:48 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: ScottinVA

“I see... I notice you conveniently omitted the fact this country was in the throes of the Civil War.”

Are you going to make excuses for him or scold him?

This country is in greater danger right now than it was at any point during the Civil War.

“nor did the Supreme Court five years after Lincoln suspended it in 1861.”

And, what? Do you suppose the Supreme Court will find against a president who vacates Obunghole’s unconstitutional executive orders?


68 posted on 03/09/2016 3:21:29 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

“And I find it amazing that, not only did you fall for that crap, you refuse even to give it another look when corrected.”

Still in denial, I see. Spewing noise about “communist media” is not a “correction,” when there’s far too much evidence to the contrary. I get where you stand, so it’s pointless for me to argue with someone who craves an autocratic regime ruling them. A Pinochet-type authoritarian regimes works for the third world and for people who desire security at all costs. I for one prefer a type closer to Thatcher or Reagan.


69 posted on 03/09/2016 3:21:35 PM PST by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: ScottinVA

“I for one prefer a type closer to Thatcher or Reagan.”

Reagan preferred Pinochet.

Back to DU with you.


70 posted on 03/09/2016 3:26:54 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

“Back to DU with you.”

Nice try, trumpette.

Yes, Reagan preferred Pinochet... over the communists.. in Chile. Now follow this carefully.. IN CHILE. As I said earlier that all works for third world countries.... not here.


71 posted on 03/09/2016 3:38:04 PM PST by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: ScottinVA

You continue to put words in my mouth.

I’m done here.


72 posted on 03/09/2016 3:46:04 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Vigilanteman
The ones who dropped out or never got in in the first place?
73 posted on 03/09/2016 3:50:35 PM PST by x
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To: ScottinVA
The subject is Pinochet, not Suharto.

Yeah, well, I made it Suharto, since Indonesia's experience lends insight into Chile's, for reasons you seem to want to resist.

Fight the Communists, or they will murder you and everyone you hold dear. That's the lesson of history. Read Robert Conquest's What to Do When the Russians Come for further edification (I promise you, it has no entertainment value).

74 posted on 03/09/2016 6:16:26 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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