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Why Trump?!? The Politics of Passion: A Lesson from The Federalist Papers
Public Discourse ^ | February 25th, 2016 | Nathan Schlueter

Posted on 02/25/2016 4:27:20 AM PST by spirited irish

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To: JJ_Folderol

Maybe instead of screaming hysteric childish rants at Trump, you might want to ask yourself why the vast Majority of GOP voters think their leaders need a “lynching” as you call it?

Gee maybe if you team was not so defiantly corrupt and politically incompetent, the Voters would not find Trump a necessity.


21 posted on 02/25/2016 4:55:53 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: spirited irish

Compromise is a two-way street. The only compromising I see is a one where the Republicans (i.e. GOPe) compromise with the liberals leading us down the path of socialism. I don’t see any of the current Republican candidates who would change this trend. Rubio and Cruz have had their chance and failed. The only viable candidate left on the Republican side who might change this trend is Trump. I am willing to give him a shot, especially since he has a very good chance of defeating the worst enemy this country has ever seen, Hillary.


22 posted on 02/25/2016 4:59:23 AM PST by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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To: MNJohnnie

Thanks for the civics lesson, peaches. In a business the CEO works for the stockholders. In the United States of America, the President works for the voters. He’s a hireling: we hire him.


23 posted on 02/25/2016 5:02:36 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: spirited irish

Why would a non-evangelical promote evangelical ideas? What’s he supposed to do? Call Catholics a cult? Laugh at the Virgin Mary? Get real. If he can build a wall and stop muslim immigration most rational evangelicals will vote for him - as they are mostly doing already.


24 posted on 02/25/2016 5:04:56 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: MNJohnnie

You’re obviously not very good at reading comprehension, but your psychotic rant deserves credit for proving my point.

You should get a cheap little plastic trophy for participation.


25 posted on 02/25/2016 5:05:10 AM PST by JJ_Folderol (Trumpites are SO easy!)
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To: spirited irish
In the Navy the rules are if the ship takes a major hit and is either on fire and/or taking on water then damage control becomes job number one for everyone on board. All titles and rank go away as saving the ship becomes priority. Seamen give orders to Lieutenants, nobody is a pilot or machinist mate anymore you are just trying to save the ship. Even the captain does damage control because NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.

We can go back to comfortable titles like liberal, conservative, evangelical etc. after the ship of state is out of danger.


26 posted on 02/25/2016 5:08:39 AM PST by central_va
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To: MNJohnnie

King George was an Executive.


27 posted on 02/25/2016 5:08:39 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot leave history to the historians anymore.)
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To: Smokin' Joe; JJ_Folderol

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Trying thinking instead of emoting for once. Empty slogans and bile laced tirades are not going to attract anyone to your candidate no matter how desperately you post them


28 posted on 02/25/2016 5:10:07 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: spirited irish

Let’s face it - Trump exists because the prevailing “elite” in the GOP are a bunch of stupid, self-serving morons. And that includes the “evangelical” component of the establishment as well.


29 posted on 02/25/2016 5:11:51 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: spirited irish

We have had a president sewing violence and discontent for eight years. He was recently thanking the “BLM” mobs, orchestrated from his office by Al Sharpton.

There are now dead people, injured people, all over our country.

The people want an end to this violence. They think Trump has the skills to get it done.

Punching the ruling class in the face is long overdue.


30 posted on 02/25/2016 5:11:59 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: MNJohnnie

>>> Trying thinking instead of emoting for once. Empty slogans and bile laced tirades are not going to attract anyone to your candidate no matter how desperately you post them <<<

You’re projecting and perhaps exposing a bit too much of who you are. You should keep it to yourself.


31 posted on 02/25/2016 5:12:49 AM PST by JJ_Folderol (Trumpites are SO easy!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Unless you’re Ted. Then you’re our idol.


32 posted on 02/25/2016 5:13:00 AM PST by jimbo807
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To: Smokin' Joe

Trump would never accept that demotion..

The way he talks.. well.. I guess he also has a Pen and a Phone.


33 posted on 02/25/2016 5:13:08 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Not in the modern sense of the word. No modern Executives authority rests on the theory of “the Divine Right of Kings”


34 posted on 02/25/2016 5:13:16 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: JJ_Folderol

Keep squalling JJ, the more you post, the more ridiculous you make yourself look.

Emtotionn and volume are not effective substitutes for fact and reason. You merely making yourself look like a childish clown around here.


35 posted on 02/25/2016 5:15:11 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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Empty slogans and bile laced tirades are not going to attract anyone to your candidate no matter how desperately you post them

I am glad you get that. It should save you a lot of disappointment by December.

36 posted on 02/25/2016 5:15:47 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: spirited irish
I am focused in the big picture. This is the last battle. There will not be another chance to turn America back from the brink.

Nothing matters more than hitting hard and winning. Whose name comes to mind?

37 posted on 02/25/2016 5:18:28 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: MNJohnnie

Is English your second language by any chance?


38 posted on 02/25/2016 5:19:40 AM PST by JJ_Folderol (Trumpites are SO easy!)
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To: spirited irish

Trump is my #2 choice despite the fact that I’m certain he does not share my values. The important thing is that he would disrupt DC and sidetrack the steady “progress” toward a globalist big government. I believe that Cruz would be better, but if Cruz doesn’t win the nomination, I will be an enthusiastic Trump supporter.

Even Trump’s bankruptcies are a positive - at least he has experience shutting down failures. Perhaps he will shut down the expensive and failed Department of Education. Perhaps he will shut down the expensive and failed Department of Commerce. Perhaps he will shut down the expensive and failed EPA. There are so many opportunities to apply his real-world experience, and I’m hoping to see him bully the big government obstructionists into allowing those harmful agencies to disappear.


39 posted on 02/25/2016 5:40:43 AM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: CondorFlight
We are having the French Revolution without the guillotine. The nobility just can’t figure that out;

Bear in mind that the French Revolution was what inspired Karl Marx. The Terror that quickly followed was an early, slightly less organized Stalinism--with wholesale execution for political crimes and genocides of entire regions of the country.

That's why an article on prudence is . . . prudent.

40 posted on 02/25/2016 5:45:34 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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