(05-19-2017 03:56 PM)bullet Wrote: "I've never seen a White House as leaky as this one," Bush said. "People should be fired if they're disloyal to the president of the United States and leaking.""
I'm sure the leakers will readily admit that they were the source of the leaks!
(05-19-2017 04:09 PM)usmbacker Wrote: No more Clintons and no more Bushes. How hard is that to understand.
No more baseless, unintelligent decrees that are harmful to the country. How hard is that to understand?
(05-20-2017 09:14 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: I go back to the way the republicans allowed their debates to be set up as a major problem. Having so many candidates on stage was, of course, a problem. But the bigger problem was the number of debates that were moderated by left-leaning commentators who 1) wanted Hillary to be anointed, and 2) believed that Trump was the easiest candidate to beat, if he was a serious candidate at all. So they steered the debates away from the issues and toward the kind of gotcha personal attacks where a) Trump was in his element, and b) everybody else was made to look bad. One more instance where republicans were the stupid party.
This is a really great observation, to me. And I think it is dead on.
Maybe the only talent Trump displayed during the nomination campaign: personal attacks against other candidates. Trump was like a bear on the river rocks, waiting for the squiggling salmon (the other candidates) to leap up ... *CHOMP*
Especially with Twitter ... which I don't think has ever been utilized before - period - but especially as a means to personally attack other candidates. They were hapless to stop it.
(05-20-2017 09:35 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: They created zero excitement to the silent pissed off voters that put Trump in.
Yeah, all 0.0001% of the country's population, really put him over.
(05-20-2017 09:40 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: pissed off democrat rust belt and union vote that jumped ship. It had a giant impact.
Again, it's something that some people think sounds like it should be the truth, but I highly doubt is actually correct.
(05-20-2017 09:44 AM)bullet Wrote: A good portion of the people who "put Trump in" really disliked him. Outside of this board, I only know a couple people who actually like him. How many Republicans stayed home or voted for McMullin, Johnson or Hillary who would have voted for ANYBODY else against HRC? Trump eventually did pretty well with Republicans who did show up to vote, but it was because of HRC. He did his best to drive Republicans off.
This sounds much, much more likely to be correct, to me.
(05-20-2017 09:59 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: none of the establishment front-runners understood that mid-America was fed up, or what it was fed up about--they were/are as out of touch as the democrats.
Well, can you really blame them? After all, not even the people who claimed to be "fed up" really understood why they were making that claim or what they were "fed up" about.
