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[Mr. Roboto]

I don't get any landslide scenario. Republicans hate Trump. Then you have the rest of the country, who aren't Republicans, who hate Trump. I'm starting to see negative articles all over the place now about him. "The worst things Trump has said." "Things you wish you never knew about Trump." They are going to pound this guy relentlessly until the General Election. His fans may not be swayed, but most people will. 

[Mr. Roboto]

Oh yea....

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[Mr. Roboto]

I don't understand why he feigned ignorance here? We all know who David Duke is. Just say "Yea, I don't advocate that position," and that's it. 

 

[Mr. Roboto]

 

 

NY Post just posted an article saying Trump can win NY. Kasich gives him OH.

 

http://nypost.com/20...ratic-new-york/

 

 

 

 

"Confidential polling data" says the NY Post. 

 

Yea OK. 

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Oh yea....

Technically that would be Marine 1, but point taken.

[Timothy]

John Oliver Gets Heated Tearing Apart Donald Trump

[Mr. Roboto]

I missed it. I'll have to watch the highlights on youtube.

 

This is a good summary: 

 

[Arminius]

I don't understand why he feigned ignorance here? We all know who David Duke is. Just say "Yea, I don't advocate that position," and that's it. 

 

 

It's bold. He disawowed David Duke the day before, so they can't claim he's backtracking. Riding on the back of that, suddenly his phony ear piece story can be presented as credible.

 

All the while he is getting all the attention, relying on his oral skills to get out unscathed, as he's done before. I heard he's jumped in the polls since.

[Mr. Roboto]

[Adolf Hitler]

I don't think you should be paying lip service to nazis. If you really think that Trump is anything like Hitler, you should be doing everything you can to stop him from being elected.

Oh come on. The Goebbels reference was to the imagery and presentation of Trump.

 

Obviously Trump isn't going to invade Poland, start WWIII, and put millions in death camps.

[Adolf Hitler]

This is a good summary: 

 

Wow. What a circus. After tomorrow...most of these guys have to drop out. You cant have real debates with this many people and when they do speak its all about attacking Trump... who just gets in zinger after zinger.

[freedom78]

Obviously Trump isn't going to invade Poland

 

Using his Mexican wall logic, he'll probably have them invade themselves.

[freedom78]

The albatross of a Trump endorsement

George Will

2/29/16

 

Donald Trump’s distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” under water — poses an almost insuperable challenge to people whose painful duty is to try to extract clarity from his effusions. For example, on Friday, during a long stream of semi-consciousness in Fort Worth, this man who as president would nominate members of the federal judiciary vowed to “open up” libel laws to make it easier to sue — to intimidate and punish — people who write “negative” things. Well.

 

Trump, the thin-skinned tough guy, resembles a campus crybaby who has wandered out of his “safe space.” It is not news that he has neither respect for nor knowledge of the Constitution, and he probably is unaware that he would have to “open up” many Supreme Court First Amendment rulings in order to achieve his aim. His obvious aim is to chill free speech, for the comfort of the political class, of which he is now a gaudy ornament.

 

George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977. He is also a contributor to FOX News’ daytime and primetime programming.

 

But at least Trump has, at last, found one thing to admire from the era of America’s Founding. Unfortunately, but predictably, it is one of the worst things done then — the Sedition Act of 1798. The act made it a crime to “write, print, utter or publish, or cause it to be done, or assist in it, any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against the government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or the President, with intent to defame, or bring either into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against either the hatred of the people.” Now, 215 years after the Sedition Act expired in 1801, Trump vows to use litigiousness to improve the accuracy and decorousness of public discourse.

 

The night before his promise to make America great again through censorship, Trump, during the Republican presidential candidates’ debate in Houston , said that his sister, a federal judge, “[signed] a certain bill” and that Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. also “signed that bill.” So, the leading Republican candidate, the breadth of whose ignorance is the eighth wonder of the world, actually thinks that judges “sign” bills. Trump is a presidential aspirant who would flunk an eighth-grade civics exam.

 

The Republican presidential candidate focuses on Super Tuesday state primaries after a win in Nevada.

 

More than anything Marco Rubio said about Trump in Houston, it was Rubio’s laughter at Trump that galled the perhaps-bogus billionaire. Like all bullies, Trump is a coward, and like all those who feel the need to boast about being strong and tough, he is neither.

 

Unfortunately, Rubio recognized reality and found his voice 254 days after Trump’s scabrous announcement of his candidacy to rescue the United States from Mexican rapists. And 222 days after Trump disparaged John McCain’s war service (“I like people that weren’t captured”). And 95 days after Trump said that maybe a protester at his rally “should have been roughed up.” And 95 days after Trump retweeted that 81 percent of white murder victims are killed by blacks. (Eighty-two percent are killed by whites.) And 94 days after Trump said he supports torture even “if it doesn’t work.” And 79 days after Trump said he might have approved the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. And 72 days after Trump proved that he does not know the nuclear triad from the “Nutcracker” ballet. And 70 days after Trump, having been praised by Vladimir Putin, reciprocated by praising the Russian murderer and dictator. And so on.

 

Rubio’s epiphany — announcing the obvious with a sense of triumphant discovery — about Trump being a “con man” and a “clown act” is better eight months late than never. If, however, it is too late to rescue Rubio from a Trump nomination, this will be condign punishment for him and the rest of the Republican Party’s coalition of the timid.

“Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,/In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.” So begins James Russell Lowell’s 1845 poem protesting America’s war with Mexico. The Republicans’ moment is here.

 

We are about to learn much about Republican officeholders who are now deciding whether to come to terms with Trump, and with the shattering of their party as a vessel of conservatism. Trump’s collaborators, like the remarkably plastic Chris Christie (“I don’t think [Trump’s] temperament is suited for [the presidency]”), will find that nothing will redeem the reputations they will ruin by placing their opportunism in the service of his demagogic cynicism and anticonstitutional authoritarianism.

 

http://www.pressread...281925952094701

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I got to admit I was impressed by Trump's speech tonight. His tone was more appropriate of a candidate and not a reality tv star. It's Trumps for sure now, but Cruz will rightfully claim the mandate to be the alternative to Trump, but Rubio and Kasich won't get out for 2 more weeks. Carson should bail tomorrow, but who knows. With Rubio and Kasich staying in, there's no way Cruz can get enough delegates to stop Trump.

Sanders got the surprise in Oklahoma, but there's no way he can get the delegates. I don't know if he'll bail soon, but I suspect he'll wait till Ohio and Florida too if not longer.

[freedom78]

He was MORE appropriate, but not quite appropriate, still.  He does ok when doing a speech of sorts, but when he answers questions he slips right back into his insult laden manner.  I also noted at least two programs that he believes will be paid for by other countries.

 

Carson does need to bail.  Remember when he suddenly shot up in the polls to be #2 behind Trump?  What a waste of momentum.  I never saw the need for his candidacy and am not sure what he brings to the table at all.

 

As much as Trump is worrisome, after listening to Ted Cruz I'm firmly convinced that I would prefer Trump to Cruz by a long shot.  Trump may be all over the place, he may come to be known as "The Mad President", but Cruz is the worst.  I disagreed with almost everything in his speech. 

 

Much of what makes Trump "bad" could be mitigated by Congress.  The only area where he'd have near total control is foreign policy and, while that alone is reason enough to vote against him, he could hardly fuck up the Middle East more than Bush did.  The thing with Trump is that you don't know where he'll land.  Maybe his nutty Mexican wall nonsense will be a radical enough idea to force the parties to actually work on immigration, which would be useful.  Or, he could get John Yoo to write a memo on border security and the Commander-in-Chief power, and he'd just do it  by executive order.  Who knows?