Posted on 04/24/2016 6:52:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
I am very impressed with Manafort.
YES, character counts.
Yes good job.
The rap against Newt was always that he just wasn’t an organized person.
With Trump’s affinity for going off on tangents and chasing rabbits and carrying on feuds, he needs a Chief of Staff who is very disciplined. That’s not Newt.
What a thoroughly despicable election cycle. Our country and Western Civilization likely are both done. We are sticking a fork in them.
Perhaps then you should do some research, since 'character' seems to be important to you. My candidate was also Scott Walker ... but then I read this http://edberry.com/blog/polymontana/player/donald-trump/an-open-letter-to-mark-levin-trump-vs-cruz/, and realized that Scott Walker is an open borders, amnesty hack... He is so into the GOPe lying Ryan, and Romney's 'prince', he was NOT able to set himself apart from the GOPe.
I have relatives that live near Madison, WI... so I have heard about Scott Walker long before he made the national news.
Mana fort
Mano Fuerte in Latin
Hands that are strong in English.
That’s why Trump hired him
“In reality, you’ll be getting her with better suits, slightly bigger balls, and better taste in women.”
I would challenge that statement, but I realize it would be pointless trying to reason with you. But I think you just wanted to trot out that statement which you believe to be so cunning.
No, it’s just true. He’s got too much in his background to demonstrate his liberal tendencies and changability. Prepare yourself for buyer’s remorse.
Google that interview he did with Oprah Winfrey in 1988 on You Tube, and then get back to me with his changeability.
But maybe abortion is not your key issue. Many folks have other priorities. How about Right to Work (and defunding unions) first for public employees other than police and fire unions (a necessary concession in traditionally liberal Wisconsin) and THEN for the private sector as well. How about the effort to end teacher tenure at Wisconsin's state colleges/universities. I don't know if that passed but, if it hasn't, he is working on it and he generally gets what he wants.
Any idea of how much it cost the left generally and labor unions in particular in their failed attempts to (1) defeat him in his original run for governor, (2) in occupying the state capitol building (importing Chicago union thugs and occupy everything types to help), (3) in launching and funding the failed attempt to recall him, his LT. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (whom the tasteless left pilloried as a mastectomy survivor) and several state senators, beating a couple of those but not enough to change control of the State Senate, (4) the failed attempt to elect an outright red (whose Connecticut cousin and chairthing of the CT communist party ran for Congress in the same race as I did waaaaaaay back when) to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court in a failed attempt to thwart Walker by court decisions, (5) their nomination of some fashionable lifestyle leftist bicycle manufacturing executive and Dane County (Madison) school board commie, showing the white flag at last.
Care about guns and the Second Amendment? When Walker was first elected, Wisconsin was, along with Illinois, one of the two most anti-gun states in the union. Courtesy of Walker and his continuing legislative majority, concealed carry has been enacted in Wisconsin. It took the Second Amendment Foundation and Alan Gottlieb and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to FORCE Illinois authorities to surrender as well.
Local property taxes? Down courtesy of public employee Right to Work and vast numbers of public workers fleeing the unions! Those workers are doing well but there is a lot less in the way of featherbedding union rules and this will increase with the expiration of each contract. No automatic deduction of union dues either, bargaining unit by bargaining unit, as contracts expire.
Don't like undocumented voters deciding elections. Thanks to Walker, photo ID is required to vote which is certainly a start. Fedcourts have interfered but it would defy imagination to see how states like Wisconsin lack the authority to require ID. The Wisconsin Attorney General, supported fully by Walker, is NOT rolling over and will fight to the end or until we get a genuinely conservative SCOTUS, whichever comes first.
Scott Walker originally made his political bones as Don Michael Corleone might say, as the first Republican and conservative Milwaukee County Executive against worker Marxists as entrenched as Madison's lifestyle left fashionables. He perpetrates against the left "equal opportunity" massacres.
Against all this, you reject Walker as "open borders" and an "amnesty hack" which, even if true, would simply make him, at worst, a superbly effective conservative governor who differs from the border obsessives. Closing the borders, building a wall and most importantly keeping out the Islamolooneytunes are well worth doing. So is all of the rest of conservatism. I will try to get to your suggested article and respond when I do but don't get your hopes up.
Ryan is indeed Lyin' Ryan. I live about six miles south of his district where his constituents have not yet grasped that the conservative young idealist and Kemp acolyte that they sent to Washington years ago has since undergone a metamorphasis and become one of the major DC madames at the Chamber of Commerce, K Street, Wall Street whore house. Maybe the primary coming up will help change that erroneous perception that Ryano is still conservative. Hopefully he undergoes a needed Cantorization as was administered by David Brat to Cantor.
I may vote for Trump when there is nothing left but Trump vs. the Arkansas Medusa. I will NEVER genuflect to him. If he loses, he is finished (and so is the USA). If he wins, we have a remote chance at survival as a nation. "I can tell you that!"
Yeah, maybe you just want to skip 1987 where he was an “expert witness” against the Reagan tax cuts, stating what a disaster they were. Then – just ignore everything between 1999 and now, where he was a champion for universal healthcare, abortion, and taxes on the rich. Have a little intellectual honesty and admit this man hasn’t always been what he says he is today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2706770/posts?page=109#109
What about post #30 is supposed to impress me? You have an opinion, we all have opinions.
Follow the link. It’s not only mine.
Cruz is such a tool. So according to Cruz, Trump gave up his great life, is spending his own money to run around the country and tell people he is going to build a wall, etc. just for sh!ts and giggles.
Trump gains nothing for saying it and has lost much. Cruz is an idiot. SMH
“where he was a champion for universal healthcare, abortion, and taxes on the rich.”
This country has universal health care, by law, and has had universal health care, by law and Supreme Court mandate, for many decades. Who is against universal health care?
Here, in Louisiana, we had it long before Medicaid. They were called Charity Hospitals, one in each metropolitan area, probably about ten. They were non-profit tax supported hospitals. That is where people who could not afford their health care went. It saved their lives. That is what Trump has in mind when he says he would not allow people to die in the street.
Universal health care is a separate concept from obtaining health coverage in the free market, which is what Trump advocates.
He changed his conviction on abortion, just as Reagan did, and unlike Reagan, never used government to put it in force. And how many years do you demand is necessary for a person to be “cleansed” of his pro-abortion convictions. Long ago, I had an acquaintance who told me he changed his convictions in the same fashion Trump described.
Taxes on rich - Wall Street card sharps.
Priebus is certainly a whore. Ryano as well. That having been said, Mark Levin is no whore. Nor is Erick Ericsson. Nor Rush. Nor the guys at Red Eye radio. And most certainly Walker is not. All that nobody Lauren Stephens does is a lot of same old, same old BS. She uses the all too usual (in this campaign) guilt by association tactics. She is all hysteria and no real substance vs. Walker.
Cruz is not perfect just more so than Trump. Republicans have lost their minds for the secular false messiah so that he is now the only (vague, incredibly weak and unlikely) potential preserver of the republic. That's the incredibly sorry state we have reached. Well, we have to live with it and vote for him in November but we don't have to like it or genuflect before the false god. At least he is not Romney.
Lauren Stephens vs. Mark Levin? Levin early and often and forever. I ain't taking her word for much and certainly not against Scott Walker.
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