Scared that he might drop out, maybe.
No, he’s awesome and amazing and if the pubbies don’t want him then he should run as an independent. Go Trump! I love you Donald!
I’m sure Clinton would love to be able to win with 43% of the vote like her husband did. First she has to beat Bernie Sanders.
I’m sure the Pubbies would love to be able to win by making secret deals with our enemies, like Nixon and Reagan did. First they have to beat Donald Trump.
I do love to hear Dems are scared of Trump, though unfortunately, I’m not hearing it as frequently. Some GOPers are starting to notice most Dems really are ecstatic regarding his candidacy.
I hope they don’t realize what a disaster he is, until it’s too late, like Palin. Ensure another Dem in the White House.
Trump himself is a disaster, but to my surprise, I think his presence in the race has actually been a net positive. It makes my guys look more thoughtful and less dangerous, plus he’s tapping into Americans’ desire for straight talk, which will make Hillary Clinton look really bad by comparison.
The Republican debate was a model of answering questions asked by the moderators. Only a few examples of dodging and ducking. That’s all Clinton really knows how to do. When the public sees the contrast between straight answers vs. trying to not say anything remotely interesting, Clinton is toast.
Of course, I agree with Ben Carson. At this point I don’t really think Clinton is going to be the nominee. I’m starting to believe that Sanders will win it if Biden doesn’t get in. and O’malley is making gains in Iowa. Someone is going to topple her again, just like in 2008, and thankfully all the other Democrats are straight talkers. We might actually get a refreshing campaign this time around. Democrats, ball’s in your court. Do the right thing and give us a real candidate that will level with us.
Trump led the party’s 17-strong 2016 presidential field with the backing of 24 percent of Republican voters, unchanged from before Thursday’s televised debate, the Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
His closest rival, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, trails at 12 percent, down from 17 percent before the debate. No other candidate earned more than 8 percent in the online poll, conducted between the end of the debate and Sunday.
Do you have a favorite yet, Terr? I’ve hitched my hopes to Kasich.
I hate them all. Except two. Trump and Sanders. The only two that are not wooden, robotic poll-followers that wouldn’t know a principle if it bit them on their ass.
Out of curiosity, when and why did you get off the Jindal Express?
When another poster educated me as to his dismal Louisiana record. I’d been aware of his accomplishments in Louisiana, which are still quite real, but apparently the state’s fiscal standing degraded and the bill started to come due late in his second term and I hadn’t been aware.
I still like Jindal, but even after two terms as governor it looks like he might not quite be ready. But Kasich/Jindal as a ticket sure looks fine to me.
I keep picturing you shrieking and passing out like a Belieber when you do that.
As pointed out elsewhere, Trump’s come out as an anti-vaxxer. Still happy with him?
that’s not a recent move - the tweet was dated march last year
Damn you, Twitter! :smack:
**Nema **was anti-CW on pretty much all the NRFPT players (Fiorina et al), but of the prime time candidates, only the praise for Walker struck me as different from most of the analysis I’ve seen. I tell ya, though: anyone saying Walker did not do well, I don’t know what debate they were watching. I would be horrified for him to become president, but he did great. I was incredibly impressed with Walker’s skill as a politician in combining primary-season and general election appeal. I have no clue what the pundits failed to see in this performance.
I will cite chapter and verse, in fact, from the debate video–look for yourself and tell me what I’m missing or misrepresenting:
40:48 - 41:30 (inoculates himself nicely against the knock on governors that they don’t have foreign policy experience)
58:31 - 59:20 (incredibly skillful, savvy parrying of a tough question IMO…taking lemons and making lemonade, if not gold from straw)
1:22:31 - 1:23:19 (THIS is the way you appeal to all sides of an issue without sounding mealy-mouthed or lukewarm)
1:29:11 - 1:30:01 (nice quip about Hillary at the beginning; the close of “he’ll find steel” was also nicely done)
I really like how he gives crisp, to-the-point answers and doesn’t try to filibuster past the one-minute buzzer. I don’t think that comes across well when they try to cram as much of their stump speech in as they can and make us tense up at home wondering how much they’ll get away with, how long moderators will wait before interjecting and trying to shout them down.
On the other side of the ledger, I read a lot of praise for Rubio but I just don’t see it. Yes, he had a lot of “energy”. I would call it being “manic” and found it teeth-grittingly uncomfortable to endure. He did impress me in one respect though. If you would have bet me that one of the candidates would pull off the use of some form of the word “bless” SEVEN TIMES in the span of 24 seconds, despite spending ten of those 24 seconds doing nothing but blinking and grinning like a goof at his SO FUNNY JOKE, I would have definitely taken that bet–and I would have lost.
See the feat for yourself, spanning the 24 seconds between 1:38:36 and 1:39:00. 
Indeed! I love this from that Morning Consult poll:
Talk about a rock and a hard place, because if they *don’t *nominate him, he’s definitely going to run third party. Guarantee it.
As I said, it was a glitch in the law that made this not quite the case if he was born outside the U.S. The law at that time stated: “If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.” (Source: snopes) Ann Dunham was only 18 when Barack was born, so this was metaphysically impossible. The intent of the law, it seems clear, was for a much different kind of case. Let’s say, for instance, a Somali family that lived in the U.S. from 1927 to 1939, having a son in 1928. Then they move back to Somalia, leaving no kin behind in the U.S. In 1960, this (American citizen) son has a baby with a Somali woman, in Somalia. This baby cannot get automatic American citizenship.
And that actually seems reasonable. But to say that if an 18 year old woman who has lived her whole life in the U.S., born to native-born American parents, marries a Kenyan man and has a baby with him abroad and then brings him back to the U.S. in short order, that baby is not a U.S. citizen simply because she is under 21…well, that’s silly. Which is why they subsequently changed the law, and why I say the anti-Obama birthers are trying to get him disqualified under a lame technicality (though admittedly a valid one, if he had not been born in the U.S., which I think he probably was although I don’t really care if he wasn’t).
Speaking of glitches and technicalities, that’s not the only ridiculous rule they have around this stuff. I was born in Kenya, as I mentioned previously, to two American citizen parents. But my parents failed for some reason to file a consular report of birth. They had my Kenyan birth certificate (not much use in proving U.S. citizenship, as you might imagine) and I think my mom at least for a while had an old passport of hers that had me in the picture too or something? Kind of weird, and doesn’t sound right; but this is what I recall the deal being.
Anyway, this never caused a problem when I got a passport in the 1990s. But then in 2007 I went for my first post-9/11 passport and it was a whole other deal. I was actually starting to sweat (just a little) the prospect of being deported! :eek: I had to make an appointment and go hundreds of miles away to a special State Dept. processing center for complicated cases. When I got there, I brought (as research had indicated would be helpful) a notarized letter from my mom not only attesting to being my mother, the circumstances of my birth, etc., but also listing everywhere she had lived in the U.S. and the dates thereof, along with all her foreign travel before I was born (as best as she could remember, decades later). I also provided her passport, birth certificate, etc. as evidence of *her *citizenship.
If she had claimed I had been the product of some random Kenyan hookup and she didn’t even know my father’s name, that would have been the end of the story: passport approved. But on the forms I filled out, I also listed the name of my American father. He had been dead for over twenty years at that point, and I had obviously not brought any letter from him; nor did I have any documents proving *his *citizenship. They insisted that without such documents, my passport could not be approved. I tried to point out the illogic, since they only required one American parent for American citizenship, but they were firm that since I had declared an American father, I must prove his citizenship or “the rules are the rules”. I was despairing, sitting there behind the bulletproof glass…and then finally the worker came back with the news that they had been able to dig up a computerized copy of his passport from decades before. Big relief, but inwardly I was still doing a big :smack: over the absurd bureaucratic myopia.
What have you not yet bothered to learn about Kasich?
And who’s next after him?
I’ve followed Kasich much more closely, plus he’s been in the news more than Jindal. Kasich’s record is just fine all the way from his governorship to his House career. He will make an excellent President.
Kasich is the only one running that I would actually not really mind as president. Which makes me wonder if he’s another Jon Huntsman, but we’ll see.