The results in Nevadachallenge that. Trump got 45% overall. He got 45% among Hispanics. Added together Cruz and Rubio got 45% overall. Together they got 45% of the Hispanic vote. Cruz underperformed giving up the extra Hispanic votes to Rubio. Republican Hispanics just didn’t seem to break along racial lines.
I’ve heard this verified, that neither of the black Nevada Republicans are racist.
Hard to do when Hispanics reached just 8% of the total vote for all Republicans.
Yes, Trump did claim that 45% of Hispanics voted for him… and many in the media fell for it :rolleyes:. In reality less than 3000 of them that is. And I have to say that there are white Hispanics that are not immune to prejudice; so I think that what we have here is how many of that kind of Hispanic are there in Nevada.
I responded to Tom back in post #10, and he’s been absent from the thread since. But your response hit some of the same points.
Nixon was hideously amoral, but he was smart as hell and not at all an ideologue. He actually accomplished a lot, and had he not been caught regarding Watergate would today be regarded as a fine President.
Ted Cruz couldn’t carry Richard Nixon’s pencils. He’s not in Nixon’s league, isn’t in the league below that, and isn’t in the league below that.
Trump blames faulty earpiece for KKK comments.
“I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.” :dubious:
Don’t be so sure that this is the high water mark. We thought that the 2012 election was as crazy as it was going to get until Trump started running in 2016. The trend does not seem to be showing signs of slowing down.
Are you kidding, forget that he was once a Union Boss, he also passed the Mulford Act:
He might still be held esteem by a few old school conservatives with more nostalgia than memory but the man is unelectable in the current GOP, he wouldn’t have cracked the top 10 in the primary.
That’s quite an article. Well, there’s one guy doing it I guess, though his arguments need work. And the fact that he nearly hyperventilates about how bad Clinton would be is laughable if not for the relentless decades of personal attacks lobbied her way by people like him. I’d love to see what a comment section on that article would say but it looks like there isn’t one
New soundbite from Trump (paraphrasing): “All politicians are liars!”
Agree completely. It’s moved me toward Kasich, who I’m not really a fan of. And surprisingly, it makes me want to come to Trump’s defense due to the childishness of Cruz’s and (especially) Rubio’s attacks. And I had pretty much decided that he was (reluctantly) going to be my guy. Not happy at all.
Indeed. Based on what I read in Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, that petty, cynical, mean-minded bigot was also a tragic hero in the classical sense, an avatar of fatally flawed greatness. He was not entirely amoral, he always had a certain integrity, a sincere commitment to the public good as he understood it – but his integrity never included honesty. (Back when Nixon was only a Congresscritter, Harry Truman said of him that if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he would follow up with a lie to make up for it.) He never accepted even in principle the notions that politicians have any duty to tell the truth; his attitude was that those in-the-know should be free to make the decisions and “the public will be told what the public needs to be told.” That, combined with his lifelong persecution mania, and his infection of his whole WH staff with both, conspired to finish him.
No honest writer will ever have anything even that admiring to say for Ted Cruz.
So, “A” ball?
Transferring the contents of the public treasury into their personal bank accounts, I assumed.
I was thinking of the dirty tricks. That is quite Nixonian. (And Rovian also.)
But I agree - Nixon was a raving Commie compared to these guys. Besides China, the EPA started on his watch. And we went off gold.
I’m thinking more “T” ball.
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Nixon also made real headway on bilateral strategic weapons talks. Say what you will about his honesty, but the man saw that there was some sort of value in peace and cooperation, and he took politically risky steps to make them happen. Perhaps it is because he served in war and knew people who died in war, I’m not sure. Maybe that makes you a different person even if in many other ways you are a bastard.
I don’t think Ted Cruz is the sort of man who sees the world as being a place where people should cooperate and live in peace. I see nothing at all in him (or Trump) that suggests that he values love or forgiveness or the brotherhood of humankind. I cannot imagine Ted Cruz going out of his way to do something that could help people who aren’t his voter base. He’s a new brand of American politician who sees everything as conflict and adversarialism, if I might coin a word.
You couldn’t even say that about George W. Bush. As deservedly maligned as he is, Bush, for instance, put a great deal of effort into aid to Africa to stop the wars there, increase development, and control the spread of AIDS. It was an area where he seemed to actually care about helping people and exerted political capital to make it happen. I can’t see Cruz doing that.
He may have visited an “A” ball stadium, bought a beer and watched a game; he may have even bought a souvenir.
So, “A” hat? 
‘And if you do not believe me ask my wife… Morgan Fairchild!’. 
John Oliver: “At this point, Trump is America’s back mole. It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it’s gotten frighteningly bigger, it is no longer wise to ignore it.”
Trump’s strong KKK repudiation will be forthcoming after tomorrow’s SEC primary. To make up for it, he’ll say something nice about the confederate flag or guns.