He's not running.
The GOP will change its tune on Donald Trump. Just wait.
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Rand gave up. If you're going to vote for a Paul this year, better to write in Ron, who is both more deserving and a more pointed protest vote.
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Still... he kinda sunk rand paul.
Rands not absolved from blame for the low poll results, but without cruz, rand would still be in the race.
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Couldn't have done it more obnoxiously either. Having had known for probably 2 years prior that Rand was going to run, and knowing well ahead of time the exact date Rand planned to announce, Cruz announced one week before without even giving Rand the courtesy of prior notice. Cruz never had a shot and he probably knew it, which makes the act all the more odious.
I suspect that Cruz was paid to tank Rand's campaign. He is, after all, married into Goldman Sachs. Having abdicated the Audit the Fed vote was a major tell as to where he really stands.
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Nah. Cruz is just incredibly ambitious, which is what irked his superiors in the Bush Administration.
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With Hillary the temp will just keep slowly rising with the Frog in the pot. Trump will pull the Frog out of the pot, cut off and fry his legs on a grill.
The people wont have to be educated to recognize they are living in a total police state, it will literally hit them in the head.
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Protectionism is economic illiteracy; his plan for a massive tariff is a reason to not vote for him. Also, it's imbalances, no hyphen.
His plan is to deport all illegals, and then let all those without criminal records (i.e. virtually all of them) back in through a special expedited process.
This plan is called touchback. It's a form of legalization designed to appeal to the stupidest of the immigration hawks (who won't read past the deportation part).
Evidently, it works as intended.
Every single Republican candidate favors this.
It's obvious that he has no clear understanding of foreign policy, and no principled opposition to intervention.
He does throw out the occasional non-interventionist soundbite.
Translation: give a minority of the GOP a boner for a few months with juicy rhetoric, to result in absolutely nothing of any consequence.
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So, your list of pros is mostly cons.
And here are some more:
- no plan to cut spending (when pressed he says "waste, fraud, and abuse")
- actively opposes entitlement reform
- favors single-payer socialized medicine
- favors bank bailouts and corporate bailouts generally (what if there's another recession in the next 4-8 years?)
- wants to not only maintain the existing police state, but expand it (Muslim database, more torture, closing internet, etc)
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I agree. I just can't fathom the love for Trump I'm seeing here.
I'm not sure it's as much love for Trump as it is hatred towards the establishment. Trump is burning it down at the moment... After what we witnessed happen to Ron Paul, I suspect that the sentiment around here is better characterized as "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
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I really think people are projecting onto him what they want to believe. Obama benefitted from that same phenomenon. It must have something to do with self-promotion skills. I have seen absolutely ZERO evidence that Trump would be a step in a better direction. I think that's just plain fantasy.
I really think people are projecting onto him what they want to believe. Obama benefitted from that same phenomenon. It must have something to do with self-promotion skills. I have seen absolutely ZERO evidence that Trump would be a step in a better direction. I think that's just plain fantasy.
Agreed, however, he has called for auditing the Fed. That's the big enchilada of the Liberty movement.
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I see a lot of WWE style theatrics between Trump and the establishment. But where's the evidence of any actual damage he's done to it or portends to do?
The fact that he has neutralized it:
The establishment propaganda arm, er "media" has lost it's ability to control the narrative.
The establishment propaganda arm, er "media" has lost it's ability to influence the polls.
Big establishment money has failed to propel their chosen puppets into the lead.
Bush dropped out.
Rubio has no chance.
QED
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I don't see that. I see Trump as the front runner to be the next president, running on a platform of accruing ever more power to the executive branch of the federal government, and see no reason to think that the establishment will have any difficulty working with him to achieve that common goal.
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Fact? lol
It appears that way to me. His numbers keep going up. What am I missing?
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The fact that he and the establishment that you want to pit him against are bosom buddies?
Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, that's a possibility.
When I said he was "burning it down", I was referring to the establishment "machine" that pumps their chosen candidates while marginalizing the undesirables. Hence the Ron Paul reference.
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You are such a party pooper. Everybody is having fun on the Trump train. He will do the right thing, he is Trump!
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