Posted on 05/04/2016 4:56:00 AM PDT by Magnatron
Won't find it stated any more clearly, and correctly, than that.
Illegal immigration matters. Islamofascism matters.
Potties "matter," too... but they're so much further down the list, you can't even see 'em from here, voters-wise.
Hahahah. Yeah, that too. Although I'm sure Trump detractors would point out that this is a small fraction of his fortune, and argue that what is ultimately driving him is nothing but his own vanity.
I'm a Trump supporter, having watched his remarks through the years. Yes, he has a clownish and media side. But I believe he is serious about this endeavor, and I believe he is not doing this just for self interest. This is a deal. And good deals are win-win. Of course he gets something out of this. It's huge from an ego standpoint. But I doubt he wants to be known as a president who grossly misrepresented his intentions. What you see is what you get. I don't necessarily like all I see, but I do appreciate getting a chance to see it, unlike the usual political process of talking in code and hiding the ball.
I don’t know about Trump’s PA roots. I only know him as a Queens boy.
“OTOH, Trump is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon that no one could have prepared for. it may well be that the most surprised person about his success in this campaign happens to be The Donald himself, though he would never admit it—only people like Schumer publicly crow when they do better than they thought they would”.
I read an insider report that Trump planned this from 2012, and told a close friend Quote “I am going to suck all the air from the room, and then run the table”. And that is exactly what he did.
You got a point there — the gender that the good Lord has appointed to closely nurture children, would need to be able to read them. Of course mothers can get wild hairs and muff the job in spite of that, but that’s their fault and not the good Lord’s fault when they do. Unfortunately it’s also often a tragedy to the children. And yet the good Lord inspired the psalmist to say “If my mother and father forsake me, the Lord shall take me up.” The One who put parents there is not caught flat footed if they fail.
Cruz fought a heck of a good fight. Was close but not close enough. The GOP has changed now for a generation. The GOP is now a populist and nationalist party nominating “outsiders”. Not necessarily a bad thing either. just very different.
I was an early Cruz supporter, as well.
What tore it for me was when Cruz blamed the violence of the anti-Trump protesters in Illinois on Trump—A page directly out of the Leftist playbook.
I walked down the same path, Mom. And came to the same conclusion.
My apologies for misleading you with the flowery term, it’s my wacky head’s poetic bent. I’m just describing what the picture I saw was. I mean suitable by the term condign.
Anyhow, the spiritual move seemed presumptuous to me, and if it is, that is a good way to reap a curse. Most sensible Christians eventually learn to fear the Lord enough (He won’t indulge just anything) to avoid falling like that.
Exactly correct.
This election is about our sovereignty and trade.
The questionable campaign decisions regarding tactics and the people he associated with just added more reasons to turn away.
Ted Cruz's speech last night reminded me why I supported him. Also how far he had fallen.
Pray for the Republic...
It got one outsider, Donald. And Donald chose them because the Democrats were too ridiculous to consider any more.
He’s stepped up as a would-be small-s savior to America. I am not stupid, I pray now the Lord will grant him success in this role. But the churches will have to play a large part too in their separate realms. Man does not live by earthly bread alone.
Yeah, it looks very possible that the “@#$%^&*!! bastard” (as Ted saw it) is going to become president.
Donald is playing the good Samaritan in the original sense. The Samaritans were considered spiritual screwballs, at best, by the Hebrews. A story that had a Samaritan as a hero was embarrassing to the Hebrews.
I think Trump is an exception to the rule, and the "no outsiders" rule stands, maybe stronger than before.
I also think the populist, nationalist sentiment is transient. Either the people adopt it, and it sticks for a generation or two, or it disappears with Trump.
I think Trump intends to awaken the people in this country, or at least give that task a honest effort. He'll name names, and why he opposes the political/economic goals of those entities.
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He’s only been a citizen for a year and a half.
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Do you have data as to when Cruz became a US citizen. There are some congress critters
with dual citizenship and others that work in the administration with dual citizenship.
I’m sorry, yes he’s been NY all his life, I don’t know what whispered Pennsylvania to me, it lied. Was there someone else in this race who did come from Pennsylvania?
“Cruz thought he could skip primaries in states that looked unpromising.”
... Except Trump did this regularly, making no effort in KS, ID, or CO, and little effort in ME or UT. So that doesn’t hold up.
“Over ten days in late April, Cruz went from six percentage points behind Trump (WTHR/Howey Politics) to 15 points behind (NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist). Trump won Indiana by 16 points.”
This is bad writing on Barnes’s part. I DO believe Ted crashed in the polls, but you don’t compare different polls to show it.
I think two other really, REALLY big things sank Cruz:
1) He got obsessed with what Trump was doing, vs. his vision for America, and that came off as 100% negative. He was NOT the “Reaganesque” happy warrior who kills you with a smile.
2) No matter how “legal” the delegate wooing was, polls show that it was overwhelmingly viewed as “theft” and “stealing” and unscupulous. This is PERCEPTION, and in politics perceptions are reality. The perception early was that Yeb couldn’t win, leading GOPe types to begin horse-jumping from Yeb to Christie to Marco to Kasich, then finally to Cruz.
Finally, the vaunted Cruz “ground game” collapsed when you had to do many states at once like the SEC, Super Tuesday, or two weeks ago. It works great in Iowa, or Wisconsin where you can focus all your resources, but not where you have to juggle multiple balls.
..Simon the Magician was also a Samaritan—just saying...
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