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Hope he emphasizes UNIFYING the party during the debate tomorrow!
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Ironically, it’s the last opportunity to hit Kasich.
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I am wondering if Ted’s going to do that. It would be a smart move on his part.
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I think Kasich will hit back, and it won’t be pretty. A lot is made of Cruz’ debate skills, but he argues like a lawyer and a lot of it is misdirection, obfuscation and talking points. He’s better at delivering those than Rubio, who can give a pretty speech. But Kasich is a wonk and a bastard. Just because he hugs people and talks like a Democrat… The guy had a more powerful position than Cruz in the Bush administration and has $20 million after a career in public service. Cruz might take a shot at his record, but he’ll leave himself open to his own record. Kasich was in Congress AND a lobbyist, too. He could flay Cruz on trade, as well as Rubio did on immigration.
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I think Ted Cruz made an AMENDMENT to his decision not to take this election to the convention. This guy is so slippery.
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The scum on Morning Joe are the embodiment of why the msm is so loathsome.
From the wimpy, shrieking, beta-male (whatever his name is), to his snotty cohort….and then they bring in nasty cokie roberts; the woman is disgusting filth.
I say load em up in a plane, along with the 90+ percent who are just like em, and drop em off in the middle of Iraq
Disgusting, lying, wimpy, disillusioned, wastes of human life
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“cokie roberts” is the daughter of a patriotic warren commission member who was murdered for disagreeing with the JFK coverup and the ludicrous lies LBJ, hoover, dulles and warren told.
She’s been estranged from the patriotic silenced part of her own family and for good reason.
The lapdog media are lying scum.
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I cannot find any information showing how many more delegates he (we) needs to collect for the nomination.
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http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/
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If my calculator is correct, he needs 776 more delegates.
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If Trump does a complete sweep and wins Florida, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois next Tuesday that’s 286 Delegates right there which would bring him to 747 delegates, little over 60% of the way there.
Honestly, Trump just needs to win all of the states on Tuesday. He does, this race is over no matter how much Cruz can go and say “I’m the best candidate to beat Trump.”
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Don’t forget North Carolina.
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I didn’t include North Carolina because it’s not a winner take all state. So yes Trump could win the night with 300+ delegates if he does a complete sweep and wins NC too.
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Illinois isn’t a winner take all either.
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“Illinois and Pennsylvania — at-large delegates are WTA by statewide vote, but congressional district delegates are elected directly.”
So, winner take all for statewide delegates, however many that is, and winner takes district delegates, district by district. Trump will get nearly all and maybe all like South Carolina.
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Isn’t that one proportional?
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It is.
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Don’t forget under RNC Rule 40 he also needs to win majority delegates in two more states. Of course with the end of the proportional delegate allocation that shouldn’t be an issue.
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Hawaii last night was his seventh.
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I am reposting this for quick reference:
Trump now has 7 states he has won the 50% + 1%:
1) SC (50 out of 50)
2) TN (33 out of 58)
3) GA (43 out of 76)
4) AL (36 out of 50)
5) MA (22 out of 42)
6) Mississippi (25 out of 49)
7) Hawaii (10 out of 19)
NOTE: (In NH he missed by 1, NV missed by 2)
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Thanks so very much MQMC. Mr Trump sure has one helluva streak going.
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Ben Ginsberg was on MSNBC last night and he said that the 8 state rule expired after 2012. He is an expert on contested conventions. He made it sound like they would be adding new rules to keep Trump from getting the nomination,
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Cruz will win Missouri, known for its dirty politics of which his campaign manager Jeff Roe is an expert. But I think Trump can take the entire East Coast except for maybe Maryland, where the Beltway types who like Cruz live. Based on the Michigan primary, Trump can take the Rust Belt. The Northeast and the West Coast are a better fit for him. That leaves the Midwest. If you gave Cruz all of flyover land, Trump would win the 1237 and then some.
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Yes, mine too. I put together a spreadsheet with the numbers projected by
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/
which enables me to play around with scenarios. It would seem that the smoke will have largely cleared by March 15, then we should see if Trump has to negotiate with GOPe.
The ‘Island of Snakes’ meeting going on right now may determine if GOPe throws in their towel and cuts an early deal of if they go for bust. Rove is there and seems to be an idiot with a terrible track record, so someone else may emerge and change their current direction especially after their scorched earth plan failed.
Reminds me of Yeltsin standing on the Kremlin steps with the snipers pointing their rifles at his head. The communist bosses said ‘shoot’, the general said ‘Nyet’.
We’ll shortly see.
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By my count, Trump now has seven of the eight required wins with 50%+1 of the delegates. That’s the current threshold to have your name put in nomination. By comparison, Ted only has four of the eight needed.
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Ted should get to eight barring a massive campaign collapse. Considering past results with geography and demographics, he should win Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah and Montana (not to mention North Dakota and Colorado have the party choose their delegations.)
Trump will get to 8 easily next Tuesday.
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That’s assuming Cruz is still in the race by then.
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Would you want to go back to the Senate and be Friendless Ted if you could help it?
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Well, Trump said that Cruz would have no chance to win NY in his last speech.
So either it was a smokescreen or he expects that the Canadian will still be around by then.
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Funny how we all assumed the 8 states rule would be hard to get but that isnt the case at all.
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The thing is that Trump has such formidable momentum that I actually doubt somewhat Cruz’s ability to get a majority delegate in any state going forward, especially under the scenario that Trump wins Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio.
A contested convention is fantasy unless they change the rules the day before the convention (which they’re allowed to do). There may not be any other candidate that meets the 8-state criteria.
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My records show Ted has only 3: Please check against my records and correct me if this is wrong:
Cruz has 3 states which he got 51% of the DELEGATES:
1) TX (104 out of 155)
2) Kansas (24 out of 40),
3) Idaho (20 out of 42)
NOTE: Cruz missed Maine (12 out of 23); and Alaska (12 out of 28)
Ref: List of delegates for each state: http://www.electionprojection.com/republican-nomination-delegates/
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I agree he did get 12 of 23 in Maine. I guess it’s all in how you take 50% of an odd number of delegates. I looked at it that Cruz and Kasich collectively got 11, and 12 was more than 11, but I see now if you multiply 23 by 50%, and round up, 12 is not 50%+1 of 23. Maybe he only has three. I like the sound of that better.
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Meant to say Trump and Kasich.
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I struggle to grasp how thick these journalists are. Bob Woodward for instance still does not understand how the trade imbalance, the billions in subsidy to Mexico provide leverage to force Mexico to pay for the wall. Are these guys really that stupid or just disingenuous?
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In short, the answer is yes…If the narritative falls outside their bubble, it does not compute.We can count on that not changing – ever. With few exceptions every now and again – law of averages, ya know.
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Journalists and Academics do not understand negotiating deals or making things happen when parties DISAGREE over parts of a transaction….that is SECOND NATURE to Trump.
The CONCEPT of using OPENING REMARKS to define a position early in order to start negotiating for more than you expect to actually GET is a foreign idea to these word mongers.
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its amazing really to listen to most of the blathering idiots that pass for journalists. Trump has singlehandedly forced the media to pay for his campaign and they can’t see it. Trump = brilliance and it’s so fun to watch!
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True. Just today I had to correct Margaret Carlson who bills herself as:
“Columnist at @bloombergview, former White House correspondent for TIME, TIME’s first woman columnist, and a panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang for 15 years.”
For misquoting a beloved Italian motto of the unknown soldier for attributing it to Mussolini. I blame some of these “journalist” lies and misinformation on the American educational system, which per Trump is now 35th in the world, even below some third world countries.
Perhaps it’s laziness, perhaps it’s putting more confidence in the internet searches they check their “facts” against, in this case Margaret Carlson just assumed “because it was on the internet makes it true.” Even the originator of the joke, his source was also a misquote from the internet. Another reason is their arrogance to not even research their “facts” before they malign a foreign country’s history. Passing on lies is the same as telling lies, at best is just plain GOSSIP! http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/factcheck-is-the-quote-trump-retweeted-14432142#ixzz41kf04vM8
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Monique, conservative friend told me that there is a Jonah Goldberg book which has Mussolini quotes that are beloved of a popular [Democrat?] politician…. I’m sick and goofy-headed so I forgo exactly which one. But this promised to deliver the book with quotes bookmarked. I’ll try to get this onto the Treehouse soon, it would make good punchback material because it is someone that media people do not like to cast as “fascist”. Is the book Liberal Fascism?
If anybody else is faster on the draw than I am, feel free to pick up this project. I need to go back to sleep and overcome this monster virus that has had me squashed since Super Tuesday
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Totally “Disingenuous”~! & in the Pocket of the Globalist’s~! {Woodward always has been. }
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Woodward is a propagandist. What he understands is that it is his job to ensure that people do not grasp the globalist agenda.
His job is to convince Americans that “issues” like transferring jobs and manufacturing, , the debt , open borders, are all minor happenstance instead of fundamental strategies to grind American down into little more than a UN nation -state.
The media is the lowest form of life in the cesspool – they hold a position of trust yet use it to advance lies – lies so sinister that they will tear away the most essential liberties and all that made the country great.
The First Amendment was to insulate and protect the press from control by central government. Now the media industry is indistinguishable from the government agendas..Voluntarily. What should that tell us?
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sDee It would tell us that we live in totalitarian regime…The same was going on in the USSR, with the difference that it was’t voluntarily, BUT, in our case it is not really “voluntarily”…I wonder how long Lou Dobbs will last in this environment? As I understand if someone, who is working in the public sector or have prominence on TV, they have no choice but to follow the directive, or loose their job. Remember what Obama said, that Trump will never be the president and Republic establishment (baby Bush, Lindsay, Romney) saying the same. It is our Uni-party decision not to allow outsider in that exclusive club.
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or Cokie Roberts so called “grill”ing… come on, first, I have not read any of these references/reports she mentioned and second, Trump’s right he is speaking of deporting only ‘illegal immigrants’ if that frightens the little children, SO BE IT! We are a Nation of Laws, those little children and far more importantly, the parents of those little children, will learn to respect the rule of Law. A simple positive response to any of the threats which Cokie espoused is “we are legal citizen / residents!”… those that adhere to the Law have no fear of the Law.
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I read it happened at one school.
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In the skin fetished mind of Cokie Roberts “it’s being reported all over the place.” She tried to make it like it was an epidemic.
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What about the children and familes of the people that are murdered everyday, by the illegals? What would Cokie tell them? What kind of a parent takes their children and breaks the law then expects sympathy. They are to blame and no one else.
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Yeah, what the heck was THAT all about Cokie? She seems dangerous. Blaming things kids learn from their parents or adults on Trump? Then she blames it on “the white skinned” people? Kids say things in the reverse as well, there are black children that repeat things their parents or adults say.
Cokie is self-projecting her own myopic “snobby white world” onto Americans, Trump supporters, who are of all skin colors and races. I think she’s really sick. She’s really focused on skin color. And I believe those skin color fetishes were started by the lying media in the first place, which gave the narrative to other sick people who focus on skin color. Never once has Trump ever made any of this about skin color.
Cokie needs to come to Trump rallies and see all the different types of Americans support Trump. If she even wants, she can measure and grade each person’s skin color for her “records” she obviously keeps in her Mitt Romney myopic stiff mind!
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You got it, Monique.
I’ve noticed that the people who are herd followers, who try really really hard to fit in, can get into real binds when fashions change.
Where it might have been fashionable in their family decades ago to be prejudiced against darker-skinned people, those people have struggled extra-extra-hard to be prejudiced against lighter-skinned people now. That often appears ludicrous when these “new racists” are lighter-skinned themselves and simply missed the underlying principle. It isn’t that hard: judge people by their character and principles, not by their physical characteristics.
But the Cokies can’t grasp that; they don’t understand principles, only physical characteristics and money. So they swing around wildly trying to be correct in whatever racism they perceive as most currently fashionable. Boo! Hiss!
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Exactly, at worse it’s a parental responsibility, or not.
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They are called over educated idiots. Like they cannot see the reason why over 11 million ILLEGAL immigrates should have to pack their kids and belongings and leave here. That is 11 million jobs…one good reason. Since the US REQUIRES they have a right to trial for coming here illegally Trump can announce we are picking up illegals now and they will await trial at GITMO. Upon that announcement by our idiot press they will leave on their own accord to avoid GITMO. Sound simple enough? The educated idiots cannot understand how a country losing over 700 billion in trade EVERY YEAR is NOT good for our country. They THINK when Trump says NO MORE WE CANNOT AFFORD IT, we are re-negotiating our trade deals it will start a war. WRONG! He is preparing China, Japan, Mexico. Vietnam and India NOW for what is to come. Once it is done everybody will still be happy and making money with trade. The CAREER Politicians do not know how to negotiate a deal of any kind period. Tgey cannot balance a budget FOR SURE! Yes educated idiots run America.
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When my father was working at Bell Laboratories, they coined the phrase ” They are educated past their intelligence.” Still applicable today. 😉
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I understand that Trump feels the need to speak to the media, but I wish he would limit it somewhat until he at least after March 15. The media are out to trip him up (remember Tapper’s earpiece flap) and then they will go full throttle on the so-called flap of Trump’s and that will take him off of his message. The media are not his friends – he has done more than his share of interviews. The press forums that he has after he wins are the better route to go, IMHO. Don’t give the media any opportunity to twist what he says or edit what he says etc. In the pressers, Trump has the full command.
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Agreed, he has had entirely too many interviews-two more hr long ones today.
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Yeah, it’s a double-edged sword. Low information voters will vote for the name they hear the most, and so even bad publicity is good. I also think Cruz would melt like the Wicked Witch of the East in the same media spotlight….but would it be worth it? Cruz won’t matter in the General Election.
What Trump’s doing has worked so far, and he’s obviously a strategic genius, even if he gives us ulcers sometimes. I almost feel sorry for Mexico and China. Almost.
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TRUMP does Know what he is Doing~! Trump KNEW at the outset~~this would be a BIG Struggle for Power. The NWO Globalist’s will NOT give up their “HOLD” on our Government easily~~! It has taken them Much More than 25 years to get WITHIN the US Government.
TRUMP Can only WIN the Presidency, with the SUPPORT of MILLIONS of VOTERS~~~& he DOES have that Now. It IS a Movement.
TRUMP~~Make America Great Again 2016
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Singtune,
I posted on an earlier thread that all the GOPe and MSM have left, prior to Florida/Ohio primaries, is an “orchestrated malicious manufactured bombshell” with respect to the “race card” since Trump has done so well in States with high African-American populations. Florida/Ohio have higher percentages of such demographics than most of the States left. I expect this “manufactured bombshell” the 13th or 14th of March, which does not allow Trump the time to push back before the crucial primaries.
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Who could I have possibly offended with this post, to deserve “awaiting moderation”?
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The Mayor of Tampa, Bob Buckhorn, I have known since 1982. On the eve of his first bid for Mayor, a bogus report hit the headlines that he had stalked a female police officer. He lost the election and then, the media “oops”, not true. This is how they roll.
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So far everything they have tried has not worked. I do not expect anything else they come up with in the future to work.
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Just let Trump be Trump.
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And doesn’t Trump have a grandbaby to take care of? Has Ivanka had that baby yet? Not suggesting that he slack off totally but definitely there are other priorities to take care of…
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Trump knows what he is doing – I love all his interviews, he makes the media look like the hacks they are.
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Non Trump candidates to voting public…..
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Another topic in these interviews is Rubio should drop out. Although one should never rule out stupidity, it would seem Rubio would greatly suffer if he doesn’t drop out and loses Florida (which he will lose if he stays in). The reason is reputation damage and loss of donor money.
Further, I can’t see Rubio being a lobbyist as that job requires someone to be a sharp hustler, not just someone with contacts. He just doesn’t come across as someone with that much energy.
And Kasich, another topic discussed in the interviews, did so poorly in Michigan that Ohio prospects don’t look promising. There is another that would best be served to not lose his state and instead hope for a VP pick by Trump.
It would be interesting to see if these clowns have any sense of self preservation going forward.
And one other thing, Main Slime Media shows are so bad, how can anyone watch them (without Trump)?
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Let Rubio stay in and lose Florida….he’ll take votes away from Cruz…Rubio staying in through Florida pretty much seals the victory for Florida
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There is no upside to Rubio running from a race in his home state. In a few years, he will maybe run for governor, and this will show him where his strengths and weaknesses are or if he has no future in politics. It’s a moment of truth for him, and he’d be a fool to drop out after coming so far.
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“Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter 1h1 hour ago
Rubio, truly the American Dream! Your father comes from Cuba, is
a bartender; U become a senator, run for president & become a bartender.”
(From her Twitter post)
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He’s gonna lose his job, his hair and maybe his wife.
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His hair? His beard! His wife? His beard!
But I repeat myself.
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I think little marco should keep doing what he is doing. I has worked out pretty well so far.
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The MSNCB interview was a BIAS BUNCH OF SHIT! I wish I could slap the smirk off that woman’s face! UGG!
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Yes, Cokie is THE worst! What about the children???? What about their parents, you idiot???? It’s now the President’s job to speak in a way that children will always understand what he means. Effing troll!
Trump answered it perfectly, BTW. I’d have gone for her throat..
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“COKIE” always has Been a Huge “TOOL” of the Globalist’s~!
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Cokie is the eptiome of blue blood connected elite that doesnt want to hear from the little people. How dare we demand a government that works for us! Cokie is from New Orleans. Does anyone think this woman would have any of the jobs and contacts if she werent the daughter of Lindy and Hale Boggs?
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I’ve listened to her for years for her insights. If she ever has one, I’ll let you know.
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Lol!
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Her father’s mysterious plane crash death has never intrigued her. She has been a captive of the Stockholm Syndrome ever since. Easily fed Questions. Rolled out for special events. Rolled back in some closet until needed later.
Has no credentials. Zero.
And Mika and Schmo and the others all knew the question was coming. It was scripted, just like Woodward.
Woodward by the way was trained as a Naval Intel officer and has always served as cleanup crew writing a history that gets rid of the blood, DNA and body parts when needed. He can do the hit job or the cleanup. The Deep State has many, but he is the best covert operator serving all administrations as author. “Look over there!” That’s his specialty. Misdirecting the crowd at the scene of the crimes.
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Did Woodward have a stroke? I haven’t seen him for about a decade and I don’t remember him having that tremor or hesitant and slow speech before. His mind seems a bit slow too. I remember him being a lot sharper than that.
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I noticed the same thing and I watched him last fall prognosticating about Trump’s imminent demise. It’s like he did suffer a stroke.
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First Up…that’s a nasty question…
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Hillary is doomed. As I keep saying, in the end, it will be the economy and nobody can beat Trump on this issue.
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Failing to win Michigan despite the polls suggested something different should worry Hillary indeed.
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I think what happened in Michigan is worrying a lot more people than just Hillary. A lot of Sanders voters aren’t party loyalists. Like Trump has been saying, he will bring a lot of states into play for the Republicans.
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A lot of Democrat defectors to Trump. Yes she is worried. She knows Bernie supporters are not traditional democrats and a significant portion will go to Trump.
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Immigration AND the economy is the winning formula.
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Kookie Roberts is the voice of the PROBLEM with America….she wants to moan about “THE CHILDREN….THE CHILDREN”….but her story is…What is the PRESIDENT going to do about kids worrying about other kids….when the RESPONSIBILITY is on the PARENTS OF THE KIDS…..kids of illegal aliens are abused by THEIR PARENTS for making their lives at risk due to breaking the law….the “white kids” are worried because of the PARENTS and TEACHERS of those kids that are mouthing agenda of the left to them…that is the PARENTS issue to fix…..it is abusive to use kids for adult agendas….and KOOKIE is responsible for promoting bile and misinformation and trying to make POLITICS out of culture and family and school issues…..The President provides opportunities…but the parents and adults in the communities are RESPONSIBLE for taking care of the KIDS……who is RESPONSIBLE, KOOKIE, for the thousands of kids crossing the borders WITHOUT any parents and coming here to BE TAKEN CARE OF by TAXPAYERS and the US GOVT that makes that possible.
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What about the American Kids??? They should always come first 🇺🇸
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I absolutely love the manner in which Mr. Trump continues to talk OVER the hosts whose aim is to shut him off and burst his bubble, to change the subject and insert the court narrative.
It’s glorious to behold.
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agree. Do not try to play GOTCHA with the Donald….he will GETTCHA every time.
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Mika and Joe were getting a kick out of it, laughing in the background. They know Trump is a force of nature, and they also realize that the Cokie Roberts of the Propaganda World are clueless, unaware that the absurd (but heretofore effective) “court narrative” is now getting the insulting disdain it deserves.
Trump said a while back, these (the Cokie Roberts) are not bright people. Boy was he right.
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Agree~!n it is an ART!
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I liked when Mika said she thought the steaks, wine, water was a good idea! That pretty much shut down that plan for mockery. LOL!
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I agree with Trump…let’s set the record straight…
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NY Yankee Paul O’Neill endorses Trump!
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/03/09/paul-oneill-endorses-donald-trump-new-york-daily-news-freaks-out/
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I’m not sure that Paul Ryan should be trusted too much.
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Belie~ve me “KIitKat”~~TRUMP Does NOT Trust~~~ Paul Ryan! TRUMP is PLAYING the “GAME” with Ryan. “Dialog” is Essential in this Political Game.
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I wonder if he’s trying to break up the hot political romance between Ryan and Romney. Romney might get jealous if Ryan starts flirting with Trump.
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He should not be trusted but it is always good to keep your enemies close
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Trump knows that. He doesn’t trust any of those guys.
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I think you’re right, thank you. I was a bit worried for a minute for two.
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Hey–you do better than me. I worry for a good 5-10 minutes. 😉
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🙂
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A lot of the politicians can’t be. However, Trump as president will get along with all of them, or at least most of them. That’s what will be required. Otherwise we’ll have TirED Cruz gridlock and nothing will get done.
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Exactly. I can’t understand why the conservative “purists for Ted” don’t see that, or if they do, why it doesn’t matter to them.
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Oh my God, Bob Woodward is an utter idiot.
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People who think like him, financial illiterates, are the people who have give the U.S.A. its multi-trillion debt.
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Trump could start saying that every two years we run a TRiLLION dollar deficit with China. That’s insane.
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Remember that the RNC/GOPe devised the Splitter Strategy because Jebby couldn’t poll higher than 20%. Now that Trump has 40% and higher, they are talking about his “negatives.” Really?
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Cokie Roberts! Is there anyone more representative of the condescending plutocrat/political complex?
The look on her face was priceless. She tried the dreary old “for the children” ploy and she fell flat into her Gerber’s mashed peas. Trump left her sputtering with those evil eyes of hers.
There are a lot of candidates for Church Lady of the Year in “shaming” and tut-tutting the Vulgar Trump, but Cokie might have just blown away the competition.
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Joe Scarborough is a moron if he thinks Rubio should be Mr. Trump’s V.P.
I hope Mr. Trump can put the disrespectful Scarborough in his place; he is not as even half as intelligent as he think he is; he has to learn respect for Mr. Trump.
Woodward is a financial illiterate.
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The first part of your sentence was all you need: Joe Scarborough is a moron
No ifs about it.
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Trump would never take Rubio for VP Rubio cannot be trusted…remember those Republican Credit Cards
And Rubio isn’t eligible to be President or VP he was born to non American Citizens Parents they were Cuban Citizens
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A little perspective…I have a friend living in China, and when his absentee ballot arrived, his Chinese roommate asked if he could see it.
The roommate looked it over and KISSED the ballot.
So after all is said and done, and the nasty commercials, and the flotsam and jetsam of the political class and their toddler temper tantrums…it’s all pretty amazing.
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Wow, that is an amazing story.
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When and if Trump gets elected, then and only then I’ll say it is amazing.
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You raise a good point. But what is amazing to me is how the roommate was not mentally alienated from the love of liberty, which the ballot symbolized, even though, I’m assuming, he was endoctrinated since birth to believe that liberty was not an unalienable right.
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KitKat When people live in totalitarian regime they don’t know and don’t understand what it is to have liberty. I lived in such regime and had no idea how it could be different. But right now with the PC program we are very fast falling into totalitarianism…We already lost many aspects of our freedom of speech. If someone works in teaching position, they need to be very careful what they are saying to their students and truth is not important, what is important is PC.
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My wife and her family came over from Russia several decades ago. We spent some time on vacation recently and my brother-in-law (a very smart, practical person who loves Trump) told me how freedom of speech was an important factor in coming to America, the idea that you could think and express your own thoughts.
But (he said) he has seen that all erode steadily to the point where America has become a silly place where silly things are more important than free speech and free thought. He was very clear that BO acts like a soviet communist and that “there is more to the story” about BO’s actual thoughts and agenda.
Interesting how many older Russian immigrants have a consistent attitude: what was the point in our coming here if the reasons are all being destroyed? They realize it is more complicated than that, but it is a notable if not bitter irony to them.
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I am one of those “older Russians” who lives here for 37 years. And now I cannot sleep at night thinking that if something to happen and Trump will be denied his win…What to do? Until this I always thought that I am so lucky to live in the freest country in the world…but now I am horrified for the future of this country, if unthinkable will happen.
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Cokie Roberts: What about the children? What about the parents of the children who subject them to illegal status in this country????
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Diamond and Silk say that the government authorities are always ripping kids away from their parents in the black community, sending kids to foster care, and sending the adults to jail. They say “The authorities have no problem doing it to us in our neighborhoods,” so it;s not a problem when it involves illegals.
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I adopted two children from foster care. They were 8 and 13. There sister who was also put in foster care was 5 years old and was already placed when I applied. By the time the state went through their process the parents had another baby that they were allowed to keep because they weren’t part of the original complaint.
My kids could never understand why they were taken and the baby wasn’t. They were so conflicted worrying about the baby on one side and thinking that maybe their parents didn’t do anything wrong or worse their parents didn’t love them or want them.
My youngest is 20 now and has been to 8 rehabs. Clean and sober for 2 years now but has severe anxiety issues, PTSD, obssessive compulsive disorder and many other diagnosis.
I blame the drugs. Their parents were addicts. Build that wall and save our children!
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So sorry about your daughter. Bad families mess those kids up.
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You’re a saint, Al. Whatever problems your kids have had would’ve been a hundred times worse without your stable home.
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Al, thank you… it is people like you who work to save our nation in the hardest place closest to your heart and home. Thank you for raising these kids! Can imagine that you’ve gone through some difficult situations. You’re a hero to me
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What about Jamiel?
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We keep them together and send them back together.
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Exactly!!!!!
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Not changing in the way they want to imply, is adapting like a good hunter will do to the terrain, like a player will do in a game, like a business man will do with the economic shifts, that is different than changing your core and beliefs.
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exactly.
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Today I had to pass through a medical waiting area and it was interesting, the public TV there was on a hunting program with scenes from Montana (usually it’s news, or soaps, etc.) Some guy was clacking deer antlers together to draw the deer bucks to the sound, and making deer noises. I thought about how very little I know about hunting (and Montana!) and how interesting it all looks. Your point is excellent — adaptation and skill are very different from being wishy-washy or bought
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Seems Christy has disappeared. I don’t care, still cannot forget his first words off the plane last week which were to say how important it was that Trump was about to unify the rep party! Yeah, Chris. SO very important and appreciated! Aren’t you sorry you left those words in our ears??
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He was at the presser last night, Mr. Trump said so, so he’s still in the game, but doing as he says, keeping his focus on his job of governor.
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If Chris Christie has been struggling with the same Monster Cold that I have, we’re lucky he was able to appear in the places where he has and stay standing. Give the man a break, this election is grueling. Sometimes it is exhilarating and sometimes I get tired just reading about the race. Many of us would drop to the floor from exhaustion
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Is Cokie Roberts a total jackass or what? Her questions were beyond idiotic. Of course, she got called out as nasty by Trump, as she so richly deserved.
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Loved it, probably the first time someone has said that to her face, esp on national tv. Maybe she’ll think before opening that hole on her face next time.
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She’s in competition for the Katie Couric award.
(Jake Tapper is currently the frontrunner for his nasty KKK stunt.)
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Kiss of death whomever he endorses.
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When kids behave bad the first person to look is the parents, we are the first line in their education, the followers of Trump can not, should not fall into the trap of expressing their support to Trump in the wrong way, specially with kids, that doesn´t help anybody, after all this crazy time passes we all have to Unite, we are all together, we all want to same, a better AMERICA for all. Any kid that says nasty things to other kids, no matter what, no matter how, no matter in what context is not OK, but we the ADULTS (´parents) have to take responsibility here, if our son or daughter behave like that journalist describe, it has to be corrected immediately, we can not blame Mr Trump´s message for it. Make it clear, it is nothing against immigrants, it is about ILLEGAL Immigration. We know we have to be careful how we talk and we express ourselves in front of children and that includes politics!!
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I got through the Fox clip only because when they’d start showing some video of someone bashing Trump, I sped thru that section. When that murderer Morning Joe opened by trying to talk over Trump, I sped forward and went so far that when I stopped, the youtube was on Woodward’s mug, and you know, today, I do not care what any of the media buffoons have to say. I know that almost every last one of them is owned by some elitist filth somewhere, and these ‘personalities’ are paid to hate this nation and spread as much hatred of all things American as they possibly can.
They can every last one of them go straight to the devil.
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Agree completely, Emma. They’re disgusting. The only seemingly decent one is Robert Costa, who I think is a Trumper.
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Cookie Roberts is a real cookie! “What about the children?” Bieach, this is a about the children, about their future, future of this country. Another word for liberalism is stupidity!
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The following was posted on Alex Jones:
quote: “A web group has produced this video depicting Donald Trump as a unifying figure…a stark contrast to media attacks painting the Republican frontrunner as a racist. The greatest video that was uploaded by the End the Fed Facebook group entitled “The greatest video of Trump you will ever see,” claims it contains “facts you won’t see on the mainstream media.”
The video was so well produced that the hotel mogul’s Facebook page shared it on Tuesday, ahead of several primary elections.
“Wow- thank you!” Trump stated in response to the video.
Within two days, the pro-Trump montage has garnered over 3.7 million views, over 120 thousand shares and more than 100 thousand likes.
In case you missed this…you will want to view:
http://www.infowars.com/is-this-the-most-powerful-donald-trump-video-ever/
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That is good.
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You need to put a tissue warning when posting vids like this. Just a thought. Sniff, drip, sniff, wipe.
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this really is a fantastic vid. Share far and wide.
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We need a useful VP…not just a place holder.
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Everyone needs to watch the movie Dave.
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Trump has been out maneuvering all opponents to date but I sure hop he does not even consider adding an ineligible candidate as a running mate…..not only would the ticket be tied up in the courts by the Democrats but he would lose my vote and many others after are strident defense of him being the best ELIGIBLE candidate their is available
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He’s not going to pick Rubio. Scarborough is an idiot.
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I’ll second that.
Schmo is a moron, now idiot, and more appellations to come.
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OMG. Why would this man EVER consider little Marco as his V.P? What an absolutely dumb question. We are saying very loudly “WE do not want him”, to the man we are propelling into office with our support, so why would DJT #1. want to make that political party happy? or #2. put the unaccomplished failed florida senator into the position of being Trump’s successor? He is a nothing! No way, Joe!
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Cokie Roberts is a dolt. She said the reports of white children saying things to dark skinned children was in all the papers. Hm. I tried to pull up something and can’t find anything. Then Trump pointed out that it is illegals that he is talking about. She wanted to confuse the issue like all the open immigration people want to do. I mostly found that interview annoying.
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First of all, Cokie Roberts is obnoxious!
Now that I got that off my chest, they’re all obnoxious!
Giggling and whispering while Trump was talking, interrupting, challenging….
I caught a few minutes of MJ this morning (missed the interview), and they were saying how Trump wouldn’t or couldn’t or didn’t answer Woodward’s question about Mexico paying for the wall.
Now that I heard the interview, I’m thinking Waltz Tango Foxtrot!
Trump kept trying to answer, started by saying there were five ways that Mexico would pay, and Woodward kept interrupting and not LETTING him answer, only to repeat his rhetorical vacuous question as a setup to later say that Trump couldn’t answer the question.
Well duh! How can he answer the question when you and your big mouthed colleagues are all flapping their jaws pretending to be so smart, the whole while sarcastically mocking Trump as he’s trying to answer seriously and directly??
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Slight edit – meant that the questioners were interrupting and challenging Trump as he was trying to answer.
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that drove me nuts too. And the ‘Will you declare WAR on Mexico?’ question made me want to throw something through the TV. All of them worked to interrupt Trump when he tried to answer. Pure BS, hopefully more are able to see the agenda.
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It’s sheer lunacy!
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Yes, and why doesn’t he think of the children?! Kids watching that kind of interplay could develop very poor communication skills, interrupting people and stopping the respectful exchange of ideas. Terrible adult example. There are people who would come to fistfighting and injuries after being interrupted like that
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Excellent points, wondering999.
If Cokie was so concerned about the “children” she would try to set a better example.
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“What about the children?!” Florence King once wrote a very funny column in National Review where she mocked that very cliché: disasters happen, but someone cries, “What about the children?!” as if their lives are the only one that matter.
Here where I live in Santa Ana, (80 percent Mexican population) it’s been an average of one shooting per day this year by Mexican gang members. What about those children, Cokie?
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Tragically, for Cokie, those children don’t exist.
😦
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I’d say Cokie Roberts got schlonged on the Morning Joe clip !
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Donald Trump is NOT going to put a “Choker” on the ticket. Sorry, little Marco, you’re not going to be on the ticket. Not a chance.
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He has a big opportunity joining Dukakis in the Gone To Oblivion business.
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Cokie Roberts, what a YUGE idiot!
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I didn’t see it myself but just was reading how Lyin Ted the presumptive King of the Middle Earth Christian Empire was making remarks about Trump’s wife on FOXNEWS Tuesday evening.
Well I hope Donald Trump doesn’t take the bait, and I really do not know if Trump’s wife should speak up either. She’s not running for office.
I do not think Trump has used her for campaigning other than to say hi. If Greta wanted to intervoew her, that was Greta’s idea and does not automatically make it open season on Trump’s family.
The Trump’s are string and smart and have been wading through all the muck associated with being rich and famous for a long time.
Cruz keeps reminding me of what a low life piece of crap he is. He gives Christianity a bad name too.
His comments and attacks might be the nails in Dracula’s coffin.
Go Trump
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From what I read, it was a Cruz supporter that said it. Not Cruz.
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Thanks for the update on that. I thought that’s what it said on WND
Well then Cruz owes an apology,
You know like the apology for the election fraud that ‘happened’ in Iowa
It’s not like someone passes a remark at a bar; this is a major media channel.
Is he running his campaign or is his campaign running him? Rhetorical question it’s obvious.
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Impressions:
FOX interview: Trump’s analytical skills shown through as he discussed Rubio and Clinton’s problems. This man Trump is a really solid analyst and strategist.
MSNBC: Joe was a whiny little ankle-biter, trying to shout over Trump. I couldn’t take him seriously. Didn’t listen to the rest of it.
CNN: Trump handled this interview very well. He thinks quickly on his feet and left the interviewer with nowhere to go.
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Ted Cruz against a contested convention.
Before he was for it.
Consistent. Ted Cruz.
Now Ted Cruz’ plan is the same as the GOP establishment’s plan. Coincidence?
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I would love to get the actual polling numbers of how many Americans are being polled for the media to conclude that Trump will lose against Hillary. By doing simple math Trump would beat the hell out of Hillary. All of these polls being reported are not accurate why do none of them show how many people were polled? I know I was not asked lol.
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If anyone wants to see the Trump U concept as it was originally designed, here it is :
http://www.socraticarts.com/trump/data/courses/index.cfm
It morphed into the seminar gambit as the years went on and the call for additional money was made. This happened after the first year or so and is when the “problems” began. The original experts left as the change was made.
Make up your own mind
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Hey Cokie,
You ask “What about the children” of illegal immigrants. Here’s a suggestion, they can go home and ask their parents why they put them in this situation. Since when is it our job to answer to kids for their parents’ actions?
Maybe we can just send all the illegals to Canada, since they are so much more enlightened than us. Oh, that’s right, Canada doesn’t allow immigrants unless they show they can support themselves.
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This needs to be brought up…. Canada doesn’t accept impoverished immigration from south of its borders. We could of course “deport” illegal immigrants to Canada if they want to accept them…. this ought to be worked into the discussions somehow, Canadian immigration rules. They’re strict as I recall (had a coworker who emigrated north couple of decades ago)
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