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2016-03-07 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 05:39|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Republican nihilism? Well, they have been the gang who couldn't shoot straight and have ended up shooting themselves in the foot a few times out in the past elections. They have also been flaccid, moribund and absent in the game of politics and policy-making despite having control of both houses.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-03-07 07:42|| 2016-03-07 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 The main problem with this is that the Republican gentry are portrayed as a separate entity rather than the representative of the "protected", inside the beltway, corruptocrat class that includes all the Democrats and bureaucrats as well.

Posted by AlanC 2016-03-07 08:26|| 2016-03-07 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Too many years of the Lucy Van Pelt "Yes, Charlie Brown, this year I will actually hold the football and not yank it out of the way just before you try to kick" strategy of the GOP in dealing with its former base. This is the image of people crawling over broken glass because of the choices you've been giving them for decades.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-07 08:38|| 2016-03-07 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Trump cares? Tell another lie. Look at his record on H2B at his resorts. Look at at his hiring of illeglas. Look at him softening up on immigration behind the scenes while he lies to the blue collar workers about helping them. Any "working class" voting for Trump is either ignorant, fooling themselves, or else throwing a tantrum to tear the whole thing down in irrational anger. The problem is, like Mussolini's voters, and the people that elected Hitler, they seem very capable of extreme self deception about the nature and the character of the person they are voting into power. Its a societal psychosis, and the success of Dear Leader Trump and Socialist Sanders are symptoms that this nation has lost its mind.

Posted by Waldemar Guelph3835 2016-03-07 11:39|| 2016-03-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 They care only that someone for a moment seems mad like they are, and does not lecture them on their own supposed biases and shortcomings. The way to further empower Trump is certainly to parody and mock his supporters.

This. And the fact that Trump appears to be apologetically pro-American -- with is anathema among our "betters" in government, business, academia and media.

Posted by regular joe 2016-03-07 11:42|| 2016-03-07 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 The GOP Establishment has had ample warning. Starting with Cruz beating Dewhurst establishment in Texas, and Rubio taking out establishment Charlie Crist in Florida before Rubio sold out to the Gang of 8. This should have been a wake up call.

The GOP in DC had an explicit warning shot when Dave Brat defeated future speaker Cantor in the primary in an establishment stronghold in northern Virginian in 2014. But they did not listen.

Now they dare act surprised when people are angry and self destructive? Right or wrong, these Trump voters have decided to play at being Samson, and destroy it all, to pull the roof in on them and themselves.

The GOP is broken and deserves to be replaced. The question is at what cost? Hillary and 3 justices on the Supreme court and losing the Senate? We are doomed if these angry irrational people decide that is the path they want, because that path results in armed rebellion sooner or later.

Posted by Heriberto Ebbiling3989 2016-03-07 12:00|| 2016-03-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 ...The children of Republican elites do not sit in classes where a quarter of the students do not speak English.

I've said it before: This is one of the biggest reasons why California schools lag behind the rest of the country.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-07 12:13|| 2016-03-07 12:13|| Front Page Top

#8 It's not the students, Ebbang, it's the teachers

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 12:21|| 2016-03-07 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 OK, so exactly what is it that makes California teachers so much worse than teachers in other state? The sunshine? The beach? The jammed up freeways? The smog? The million dollar cracker box houses? It can't be the union because other states have teacher unions too.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-07 12:50|| 2016-03-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Trump cares? Tell another lie.

Yeah, yeah. Smear, smear.

Are you trying to convince me that I should vote for another Clinton?

If Trump screws up we'll throw him out in 2020. But it's a mystery to me how he could possibly screw up any worse than the kleptocrats we've had running things the past few decades.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-07 12:59|| 2016-03-07 12:59|| Front Page Top

#11 (i) Stronger teachers unions, (ii) PC: should have separate classes (when I was newly arrived in Israel---I had separate classes in Russian)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 13:01|| 2016-03-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Trump will get destroyed by the press. Recall the New York Times and its endorsement of John McCain in late February of 2008. After Mitt Romney conceded the nomination to McCain, the same newspaper that endorsed McCain published a shabby smear that insinuated that McCain had a sexual affair with a lobbyist, and then demanded to see his medical records to ensure he was fit for office. They didn’t seem to have an issue with his personal ethics or his physical abilities when they endorsed him for the ticket, but went after McCain with a vengeance afterward.

Posted by Herman Grumble8856 2016-03-07 13:14|| 2016-03-07 13:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Ubbang, the truth is not a smear, you poor deluded rube. Throw out in 2020? That assumes he gets elected to begin with. Less than 1/3 of the GOP is voting for him, and every poll he loses to Hillary - so what makes you think he can beat hillary?

Learn this: Trump is a liar. Lies about his wealth. Lies about not knowing who David Duke is. His lifetime is filled with lies, going back to being a star athlete at his academy and getting a Vietnam deferment for heel spurs making him unfit for service. He dodged! And on abortion, Planned Parenthood funding, the crisis in Syria, Syrian refugees, his opinion of the flat tax, and a host of other issues, it’s simply impossible to know what Trump actually thinks, because he has repeatedly taken contradictory positions. In his personal life he has gotten how many divorces due to cheating? Lies involved there certainly.
And in a possibly fascist move he said ordering our troops to commit war crimes would be followed because he is the leader, and orders would be followed without question (presumably). I guess he never heard of the UCMJ and Geneva conventions, and the Constitution. How about using H2B to avoid Americans at his hotels? Several hundred Americans applied, less than 3% were hired, yet the remainder of Trumps jobs were filled with H2B visa imports. He is on recoard at Trump University praising outsourcing and H1B. He is being sued for fraud because of Trump University. It goes on and on. Defend that, you fool. Or wake up and find a better candidate. Because if things fall apart, its on your head as the people that refused to see the facts and voted for him anyway. Stop being angry and throwing a tantrum.

Posted by Jeremiah Hatfield1639 2016-03-07 13:22|| 2016-03-07 13:22|| Front Page Top

#14 Separate classes? Wrong. Who's gonna pay for it? This ain't Israel and the people sneaking across the border ain't Russians.

We need to keep those people outta here.

I don't wanna get personal here but my wife is a school teacher. When I was a kid I endured the public schools myself. Besides that I've put three of my own kids through the public schools here and I've met some very good teachers. They don't like Common Core any more than you do. I've met some stinkers too but you can't convince me they're any worse than anywhere else. If anything they're better. I will agree with you that the union sucks but, after all, it is a union so what do you expect? We'll never change it now because we've imported so many Democrat voters. That's not the teachers' fault.

I've been here all my life, over six decades, and I can tell you for a dead certain fact that California got screwed by the likes Bill Clinton, George Bush and Baraq Obama who refused to secure the border. So when Trump says he'll build a wall that's what I want to hear and if it pisses off Vicente Fox so much the better.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-07 13:27|| 2016-03-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Trump is a liar.

They are all liars. Remember? "Read my lips?" "You can keep your doctor?" "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski?" "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-07 13:30|| 2016-03-07 13:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Defend that, you fool. Or wake up and find a better candidate.

Which candidate would that be? I think if a guy as smart as you are spends as much time researching them all as much as you seem to have spent researching Trump you will find every bit as much dirt. By the way, who paid you to do all that research?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-03-07 13:40|| 2016-03-07 13:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh, oh, more new names. Go back to #6. Read. The game is up. The republic has been over for a while. You just don't want to believe because you either accept the oligarchy (and the charade of rituals and ceremonies) or rebel.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-07 13:40|| 2016-03-07 13:40|| Front Page Top

#18 The answer is Cruz. His results from Saturday look quite promising.

But the angst at Trump is mis-directed. As others have pointed out, the GOP has only themselves to blame for Trump. The GOP ignored the wishes of the rank and file, and instead were all to happy to collect their votes and then do the opposite of what their voters wanted.

Cruz is the answer, but I'll vote Trump if he turns out to be the nominee. I won't be a participant to telling the rank and file that THEIR votes don't count.

Posted by Crusader 2016-03-07 14:02|| 2016-03-07 14:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Pat Paulsen 2016.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-03-07 14:44|| 2016-03-07 14:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Trump is the result of a political party that is too concerned with operating inside the beltway and forgetting who elected them and who they are supposed to represent. The party is spending all of its energy fighting trump and not tryng to figure out why he is so popular. Their total lack of respect for their voting public, that they call stupid and backward, have had enough. The Republican Party mocked the tea party and almost lost the party to them. Now they are trying to defeat trump and if they don't figure it out they will Lose the party completely.

Posted by 49 pan 2016-03-07 15:26|| 2016-03-07 15:26|| Front Page Top

#21 IMO, Trump entered the campaign intending to write a bestseller "My Presidential Campaign", was surprised by own success and, eventually, said to himself "What the hell? I can'r possibly do a worse job than these schlemiels!"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 16:33|| 2016-03-07 16:33|| Front Page Top

#22 All this rage against Trump. Trump is the only one that will stand up to the media and powers that be on both sides. He has street smarts. He connects with the working people. He is their voice. Take him out and many will stay home. That's what they want. Everyone stay home and it's business as usual. Everywhere a small vocal minority smears him here and elsewhere. Implosion, whatever. So much disinformation. An old expression I heard many years ago was "if you want to be happy in this world don't watch TV or read the newspaper". True, true very true.

Posted by Dale 2016-03-07 17:26|| 2016-03-07 17:26|| Front Page Top

#23 Make that:

"if you want to ~~be happy~~ know the truth about what's happening in this world don't watch TV or read the newspaper"

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-03-07 18:12|| 2016-03-07 18:12|| Front Page Top

#24 High School Classmate Lived With ‘The Donald,’ Reveals Who Trump Really Is

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-03-07 21:29|| 2016-03-07 21:29|| Front Page Top

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