How about some “good news”? Since a certain presidential candidate said his favorite Bible passage is “Two Corinthians”, here are some verses from it:
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (ESV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
I heard someone opine last night that Huckabee may be one of the bigger political names who will now endorse Trump following Christie. Apparently his daughter now works for the Trump campaign. That would both stun (and disappoint) me.
But I’m watching Huckabee being interviewed this morning and he’s sure sounding approving of Christie & Trump. “I think you’re going to see more” big endorsements of Trump, he said.
Seriously, I feel like I’m watching a slapstick/satire story as this unfolds. This can’t be real! The Dems at work are just (literally) chuckling away at it all, of course.
A: At times, yes. But we have been living in a crude and vulgar culture for about 30 years or more, maybe since the Sixties. Culture shapes politics more than the other way around. Consider how politicians have been lining up to appear on comedy shows and sitcoms ever since a frozen and embarrassed Nixon appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. The politicians have become more embarrassed as the culture has grown more vulgar (and more willing to embarrass them). Given the leftward tilt of show business, Republicans and conservatives (me included) have inevitably come off worse in this contest. Trump is a successful graduate of show biz, however, and completely confident in his ability to survive and win in this environment. He has shown he can do so against Republicans, and Hillary is even more of a waxworks model than most of us are.
Since I’m on a literature roll this morning, and also on the subject of nothing being new under the sun, this quote from 1842 comes to mind while reading Donna’s quote:
‘Did I recognise in this assembly, a body of men, who, applying themselves in a new world to correct some of the falsehoods and vices of the old, purified the avenues to Public Life, paved the dirty ways to Place and Power, debated and made laws for the Common Good, and had no party but their Country?
I saw in them, the wheels that move the meanest perversion of virtuous Political Machinery that the worst tools ever wrought. Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to mercenary knaves, whose claim to be considered, is, that every day and week they sow new crops of ruin with their venal types, which are the dragon’s teeth of yore, in everything but sharpness; aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind, and artful suppressions of all its good influences: such things as these, and in a word, Dishonest Faction in its most depraved and most unblushing form, stared out from every corner of the crowded hall.
Did I see among them, the intelligence and refinement: the true, honest, patriotic heart of America? Here and there, were drops of its blood and life, but they scarcely coloured the stream of desperate adventurers which sets that way for profit and for pay. It is the game of these men, and of their profligate organs, to make the strife of politics so fierce and brutal, and so destructive of all self-respect in worthy men, that sensitive and delicate-minded persons shall be kept aloof, and they, and such as they, be left to battle out their selfish views unchecked. And thus this lowest of all scrambling fights goes on, and they who in other countries would, from their intelligence and station, most aspire to make the laws, do here recoil the farthest from that degradation.
That there are, among the representatives of the people in both Houses, and among all parties, some men of high character and great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see no reason to depart from the rule I have laid down for my guidance, of abstaining from all mention of individuals. It will be sufficient to add, that to the most favourable accounts that have been written of them, I more than fully and most heartily subscribe; and that personal intercourse and free communication have bred within me, not the result predicted in the very doubtful proverb, but increased admiration and respect. They are striking men to look at, hard to deceive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impulse; and they as well represent the honour and wisdom of their country at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad.
I visited both houses nearly every day, during my stay in Washington…’
Mr. Dickens did understand the character and motives of our enemy:
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”
It is sad to hear about Huckabee. Hopefully, he will not endorse the buffoon. I have always questioned Huckabee’s intelligence, but I have liked and respected him. I cannot continue to respect a man who bows at the feet of the infidel Trump.
I think they’re talking about different things, Ricky — O’Sullivan is diagnosing how our politicians got “here” (via us and the crumbling culture); Lucado is calling us to remember a higher standard that’s apparently long since fallen in public life. I agree with both.
If Rubio — whom I like and still support — continues to get into the personal-insult gutter with Trump (maybe necessary at the debate, but let’s move on, please — focus on actual records and positions) — I’ll seriously lean more toward Kasich. At least he’s conducting himself decently.
I’ll probably re-register as an independent (again) after the California primary — but since our state GOP primary is ‘closed,’ I want to be able to cast a vote in June, for whatever it’s worth at that point.
Rubio — who gave a pretty good speech at a rally today from what I saw of it — mentioned this despicable tactic of Trump’s.
This was re-tweeted today by Russell Moore
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Cheri Jacobus, a Republican political strategist, did not think she had done anything out of the ordinary: On a cable television show, she criticized Donald J. Trump for skipping a debate in Iowa in late January and described him as a “bad debater.”
But then Mr. Trump took to Twitter, repeatedly branding Ms. Jacobus as a disappointed job seeker who had begged to work for his campaign and had been rejected. “We said no and she went hostile,” he wrote. “A real dummy!” Mr. Trump’s campaign manager told the same story on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Mr. Trump’s Twitter followers, who number about six million, piled on. For days, they replied to his posts with demeaning, often sexually charged insults aimed at Ms. Jacobus, including several with altered, vulgar photographs of her face.
“Cheri is a nutcase,” wrote @LegendaryTrump. Another Twitter user, @stockedwood, wrote, “How the hell does a woman like her get on the air???”
With his enormous online platform, Mr. Trump has badgered and humiliated those who have dared to cross him during the presidential race. He has latched onto their vulnerabilities, mocking their physical characteristics, personality quirks and, sometimes, their professional setbacks. He has made statements, like his claims about Ms. Jacobus, that have later been exposed as false or deceptive — only after they have ricocheted across the Internet. …
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The condition of the U.S. may be hopeless, but the season of our Oklahoma City Thunder is not! Today, my wife and I will cross the old Red River like John Wayne and Walter Brennan and cheer the Thunder as they take on the formidable Godless State Warriors.
There is a theory that in a Trump vs. Hillary election, it would be better to elect her than him. Why? Because either one is bound to mess up the country pretty bad, but it would be better for the mess to be blamed on the Democrats rather than on the Republicans. The idea is that then people would be more likely to vote Republican in 2016.
On the other hand, I’ve thought, ‘Well, with Hillary we know it’ll be bad and we know what kind of bad. With Trump … It’ll probably be bad, it could be a catastrophe, but maybe not, there’s enough of an unknown … ‘
No good choices. Interesting, though, my Christian friend I was with today said she’d vote for Tump if it comes down to him vs. Hillary. Hillary, in her mind, is the worst of the worst.
The Godless State Warriors beat my Thunder in overtime. It was a great game. I expect the Godless Candidate to rout the others on Tuesday. Texas still has a chance to vote for Cruz and thus appear less stupid than the other states.
Something just occurred to me. Odds are, that this time next year, we will have either our first woman president, our first Hispanic president, out first Jewish president or Donald Trump.
‘You inspire us all.” With that fulsome greeting, Pat Robertson welcomed Donald Trump this week to the stage of Regent University. According to the school’s catalogue, the university’s name invokes the fact that “a regent is one who represents Christ, our Sovereign, in whatever sphere of life he or she may be called to serve Him.”
We leave it to others to decide what sovereign Donald Trump has served in his life. We will simply note that Trump seems not merely an all-too-human example of one who has on occasion fallen into the grip of some of the seven deadly sins. He seems rather a veritable apostle of most of them. A proud defender of greed, an unabashed indulger in adultery, a wanton mocker of the meek (the “losers”) of this world, Donald Trump does not inspire us. …
… (H)ere’s the reality: If we nominate Donald Trump, we’re choosing the nominee who is the least likely to defeat the Democratic candidate. If we were to elect him, we’d be placing our trust in a chief executive who’s shown zero interest during his long career in shaking up Washington. And if we swear him in, we’ll have a commander in chief who is seemingly more enamored of our enemies (Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad) than of a recent president of the United States, whom he accuses (falsely) of knowingly lying the country into war. …
… The times may be changing, but principles don’t. We choose not to dive into the infinity pool of Donald Trump’s Republican party. The water in the pool might seem refreshing, even cleansing, at first. But in truth, Trump’s waters are cold, shallow, and not fit to swim in. Rather than join the crowd and go with the flow, we choose to make our stand on dry land, with flags flying and guns blazing. …
… Surely it’s worth fighting to save a respectable political party, an admirable political movement, and a great country from a charlatan and a demagogue. There’s nothing inspiring about the appeasement of Donald Trump. It’s the fight to defeat Donald Trump that should now inspire us all.
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And the latest: Trump apparently would not — when asked 3 times by Jake Trapper — to disavow the support of David Duke & the KKK, saying he didn’t “have enough information” about them.
(sorry, I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but Trump’s rise is increasingly alarming to me — although we’ve seen and defeated demagogues before in our history; but I fear we’re weaker and more vulnerable as a culture now)
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Feeling maligned by the media, Donald Trump is threatening to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters if he were president and make it easier for him to sue them. …
Trump’s comments on libel law are not the first time he has disagreed with widely held conceptions of constitutional law. Last year, he said he saw no obstacle to deporting children born to undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Courts have regularly found that such children are natural born citizens entitled to the same rights as any other American. Trump has said he does not believe a constitutional amendment would be necessary to get his way. …
Also,
As I was driving to church this morning, the news came on and Hillary was speeching.
I punched it off. It occurred to me that I can’t stand her voice. Her speeching voice is always a holler and it has no inflection. She’s just hollering words.
I already turn off Trump and Obama. For different reasons. I already know that everybody loves trump.
Obama looks from one teleprompter to another, with a pause to make us think he’s searching for words.
Our Church doesn’t win anymore. We used to win. We don’t win anymore. We lose on dialogue, we lose to the modernists, we lose to the Protestants. When I win, when I become Pope, we are going to take our Church back. We’re going to make our Church great again. We’re going to make our Church reverent again. We’re going to kick the *&^% out of the modernists quickly. So quickly. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win with conversions, we’re going to win with vocations, we’re going to win with the Mass. We’re going to repeal the Novus Ordo and we’re going to replace it with something so much better. We’re going to win at the altar. We’re going to seal up the sanctuary with a nice big beautiful rail. We’re going to win so much. Win after win after win. We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be begging me, please Holy Father let us lose once or twice, we can’t stand it anymore. And I’m going to say no way! We’re going to keep winning! We’re never going to lose! We’re never ever going to lose! Register and vote! I love you all! Thank you!
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Uh Trump or Hillary? I’ll take Trump thank you very much….
In a heartbeat. That vote for Hillary idea is quite possibly the stupidest idea I’ve heard yet. Obviously, a liberal thought that one up, or a closet Clinton supporter.
The only way I’d ever even consider her or Sanders is if the R’s nominate Satan. That’s the only way, and even then, it would require some convincing….. 🙂
I see the senior Senator from Alabama has now endorsed Trump as well.
“Donald Trump won another major endorsement Sunday, surprising the political world when he walked onto the stage for a rally in Madison, Ala., with Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Two days ahead of Super Tuesday when 11 states will cast votes, Trump continues to dominate the national airwaves and demonstrate growing support from Republican elected officials.”
AJ – Here’s the article for ya. (Tammy & another friend of mine had shared this on Facebook.) The Federalist is not a liberal site. I think the author is going on the assumption that Trump would be as bad, in his own way, as Hillary. BTW, I am not necessarily advocating voting for Clinton over Trump, just passing this on as an interesting perspective.
We have seen the “conservative” Trump to this point. The man is a chameleon. After he clinches the nomination he will shift left to go after Bernie’s supporters. He will attack corporations who lay folks off or open plants in Mexico. Some Bernie dupes can be converted to Trump dupes.
It is really an interesting question: Is it worse for Trump to lose badly to Hillary and help the Dems regain control of Congress or is it worse for Trump to win, implement liberal policies (even worse than Little Bush), make the U.S. the laughingstock of the world, and have the Republican Party get all the blame.
Bob, There are a number of alternatives. I wrote in “Ronald Reagan” in 1988 as I anticipated the “kinder, gentler” disaster that Big Bush would be. In 1996, I sat it out and did not vote for Dole as I saw too few differences between him and Clinton. One year I voted for the Prohibitionist Party candidate. This year the Prohibitionists may again be our best option.
Bob, I agree. Presumably — if it is Clinton vs. Trump — there will be another option. I almost never would agree to vote for a 3rd party candidate, but this year may be the exception. 😦
Two days ahead of his state’s primary on Super Tuesday, Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green lambasted Trump as unqualified to be president, also criticizing the GOP front-runner for a lack of humility and kind temperament.
Green on Sunday hit Trump on his credentials as a businessman, saying “our family business that we began with $600, has quite possibly been more successful than Mr. Trump’s, but that doesn’t make either of us qualified to be president.” Green, in the same statement, endorsed Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination.
“And unlike Mr. Trump, we give all the credit to God,” Green continued.
Green said Trump “scares me to death,” and he wants his president to be someone “my kids, my grandkids and my great-grandkids can emulate.” …
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Wandering Views 
First here too? Must be Saturday.
How about some “good news”? Since a certain presidential candidate said his favorite Bible passage is “Two Corinthians”, here are some verses from it:
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (ESV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
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I heard someone opine last night that Huckabee may be one of the bigger political names who will now endorse Trump following Christie. Apparently his daughter now works for the Trump campaign. That would both stun (and disappoint) me.
But I’m watching Huckabee being interviewed this morning and he’s sure sounding approving of Christie & Trump. “I think you’re going to see more” big endorsements of Trump, he said.
Seriously, I feel like I’m watching a slapstick/satire story as this unfolds. This can’t be real! The Dems at work are just (literally) chuckling away at it all, of course.
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John O’Sullivan at National Review on Trump:
Q: Isn’t he awfully crude and vulgar?
A: At times, yes. But we have been living in a crude and vulgar culture for about 30 years or more, maybe since the Sixties. Culture shapes politics more than the other way around. Consider how politicians have been lining up to appear on comedy shows and sitcoms ever since a frozen and embarrassed Nixon appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. The politicians have become more embarrassed as the culture has grown more vulgar (and more willing to embarrass them). Given the leftward tilt of show business, Republicans and conservatives (me included) have inevitably come off worse in this contest. Trump is a successful graduate of show biz, however, and completely confident in his ability to survive and win in this environment. He has shown he can do so against Republicans, and Hillary is even more of a waxworks model than most of us are.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431951/donald-trump-gop-future
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Since I’m on a literature roll this morning, and also on the subject of nothing being new under the sun, this quote from 1842 comes to mind while reading Donna’s quote:
From Charles Dickens’s non-fiction account American Notes: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/675/675-h/675-h.htm#page94
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Mr. Dickens did understand the character and motives of our enemy:
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”
—Charles Dickens, 1862, British author.
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It is sad to hear about Huckabee. Hopefully, he will not endorse the buffoon. I have always questioned Huckabee’s intelligence, but I have liked and respected him. I cannot continue to respect a man who bows at the feet of the infidel Trump.
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donna j: That O’Sullivan paragraph is quite a contrast to Max Lucado’s piece:
https://maxlucado.com/decency-for-president/
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I think they’re talking about different things, Ricky — O’Sullivan is diagnosing how our politicians got “here” (via us and the crumbling culture); Lucado is calling us to remember a higher standard that’s apparently long since fallen in public life. I agree with both.
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If Rubio — whom I like and still support — continues to get into the personal-insult gutter with Trump (maybe necessary at the debate, but let’s move on, please — focus on actual records and positions) — I’ll seriously lean more toward Kasich. At least he’s conducting himself decently.
I’ll probably re-register as an independent (again) after the California primary — but since our state GOP primary is ‘closed,’ I want to be able to cast a vote in June, for whatever it’s worth at that point.
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The prospects of Trump being the nominee is enough to make one yearn for the smoke-filled rooms of yore!
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Rubio — who gave a pretty good speech at a rally today from what I saw of it — mentioned this despicable tactic of Trump’s.
This was re-tweeted today by Russell Moore
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Cheri Jacobus, a Republican political strategist, did not think she had done anything out of the ordinary: On a cable television show, she criticized Donald J. Trump for skipping a debate in Iowa in late January and described him as a “bad debater.”
But then Mr. Trump took to Twitter, repeatedly branding Ms. Jacobus as a disappointed job seeker who had begged to work for his campaign and had been rejected. “We said no and she went hostile,” he wrote. “A real dummy!” Mr. Trump’s campaign manager told the same story on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Mr. Trump’s Twitter followers, who number about six million, piled on. For days, they replied to his posts with demeaning, often sexually charged insults aimed at Ms. Jacobus, including several with altered, vulgar photographs of her face.
“Cheri is a nutcase,” wrote @LegendaryTrump. Another Twitter user, @stockedwood, wrote, “How the hell does a woman like her get on the air???”
With his enormous online platform, Mr. Trump has badgered and humiliated those who have dared to cross him during the presidential race. He has latched onto their vulnerabilities, mocking their physical characteristics, personality quirks and, sometimes, their professional setbacks. He has made statements, like his claims about Ms. Jacobus, that have later been exposed as false or deceptive — only after they have ricocheted across the Internet. …
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Um, it’s called the First Amendment.
Donald Trump: We will “open up the libel laws.” to sue media. “Right now, they can say anything they want to say.”
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The condition of the U.S. may be hopeless, but the season of our Oklahoma City Thunder is not! Today, my wife and I will cross the old Red River like John Wayne and Walter Brennan and cheer the Thunder as they take on the formidable Godless State Warriors.
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C’mon, RW – you know that it’s all about the Spurs!
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There is a theory that in a Trump vs. Hillary election, it would be better to elect her than him. Why? Because either one is bound to mess up the country pretty bad, but it would be better for the mess to be blamed on the Democrats rather than on the Republicans. The idea is that then people would be more likely to vote Republican in 2016.
I just hope it doesn’t come down to that choice.
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On the other hand, I’ve thought, ‘Well, with Hillary we know it’ll be bad and we know what kind of bad. With Trump … It’ll probably be bad, it could be a catastrophe, but maybe not, there’s enough of an unknown … ‘
No good choices. Interesting, though, my Christian friend I was with today said she’d vote for Tump if it comes down to him vs. Hillary. Hillary, in her mind, is the worst of the worst.
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With either of them in, there likely won’t be an election in 2020.
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The Godless State Warriors beat my Thunder in overtime. It was a great game. I expect the Godless Candidate to rout the others on Tuesday. Texas still has a chance to vote for Cruz and thus appear less stupid than the other states.
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Something just occurred to me. Odds are, that this time next year, we will have either our first woman president, our first Hispanic president, out first Jewish president or Donald Trump.
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KBells, I assume you were just being polite in refraining from saying: “our first lunatic President”.
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From Blll Kristol at the Weekly Standard:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/you-inspire-us-all/article/2001276
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‘You inspire us all.” With that fulsome greeting, Pat Robertson welcomed Donald Trump this week to the stage of Regent University. According to the school’s catalogue, the university’s name invokes the fact that “a regent is one who represents Christ, our Sovereign, in whatever sphere of life he or she may be called to serve Him.”
We leave it to others to decide what sovereign Donald Trump has served in his life. We will simply note that Trump seems not merely an all-too-human example of one who has on occasion fallen into the grip of some of the seven deadly sins. He seems rather a veritable apostle of most of them. A proud defender of greed, an unabashed indulger in adultery, a wanton mocker of the meek (the “losers”) of this world, Donald Trump does not inspire us. …
… (H)ere’s the reality: If we nominate Donald Trump, we’re choosing the nominee who is the least likely to defeat the Democratic candidate. If we were to elect him, we’d be placing our trust in a chief executive who’s shown zero interest during his long career in shaking up Washington. And if we swear him in, we’ll have a commander in chief who is seemingly more enamored of our enemies (Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad) than of a recent president of the United States, whom he accuses (falsely) of knowingly lying the country into war. …
… The times may be changing, but principles don’t. We choose not to dive into the infinity pool of Donald Trump’s Republican party. The water in the pool might seem refreshing, even cleansing, at first. But in truth, Trump’s waters are cold, shallow, and not fit to swim in. Rather than join the crowd and go with the flow, we choose to make our stand on dry land, with flags flying and guns blazing. …
… Surely it’s worth fighting to save a respectable political party, an admirable political movement, and a great country from a charlatan and a demagogue. There’s nothing inspiring about the appeasement of Donald Trump. It’s the fight to defeat Donald Trump that should now inspire us all.
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And the latest: Trump apparently would not — when asked 3 times by Jake Trapper — to disavow the support of David Duke & the KKK, saying he didn’t “have enough information” about them.
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And this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/27/trump-wants-to-weaken-libel-laws-amid-feuds-with-reporters.html
(sorry, I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but Trump’s rise is increasingly alarming to me — although we’ve seen and defeated demagogues before in our history; but I fear we’re weaker and more vulnerable as a culture now)
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Feeling maligned by the media, Donald Trump is threatening to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters if he were president and make it easier for him to sue them. …
Trump’s comments on libel law are not the first time he has disagreed with widely held conceptions of constitutional law. Last year, he said he saw no obstacle to deporting children born to undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Courts have regularly found that such children are natural born citizens entitled to the same rights as any other American. Trump has said he does not believe a constitutional amendment would be necessary to get his way. …
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Also,
As I was driving to church this morning, the news came on and Hillary was speeching.
I punched it off. It occurred to me that I can’t stand her voice. Her speeching voice is always a holler and it has no inflection. She’s just hollering words.
I already turn off Trump and Obama. For different reasons. I already know that everybody loves trump.
Obama looks from one teleprompter to another, with a pause to make us think he’s searching for words.
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Here’s something on the KKK issue:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432047/donald-trump-and-kkk-does-he-deny-it
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Chas, I have the same reaction to Hillary’s voice. It’s going to be a long 4 or 8 years.
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When Trump is pope. Some pretty funny satire
http://a-cnn.com/index.php/articles/item/2027-trump-becomes-catholic-now-running-for-pope
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Our Church doesn’t win anymore. We used to win. We don’t win anymore. We lose on dialogue, we lose to the modernists, we lose to the Protestants. When I win, when I become Pope, we are going to take our Church back. We’re going to make our Church great again. We’re going to make our Church reverent again. We’re going to kick the *&^% out of the modernists quickly. So quickly. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win with conversions, we’re going to win with vocations, we’re going to win with the Mass. We’re going to repeal the Novus Ordo and we’re going to replace it with something so much better. We’re going to win at the altar. We’re going to seal up the sanctuary with a nice big beautiful rail. We’re going to win so much. Win after win after win. We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be begging me, please Holy Father let us lose once or twice, we can’t stand it anymore. And I’m going to say no way! We’re going to keep winning! We’re never going to lose! We’re never ever going to lose! Register and vote! I love you all! Thank you!
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Uh Trump or Hillary? I’ll take Trump thank you very much….
In a heartbeat. That vote for Hillary idea is quite possibly the stupidest idea I’ve heard yet. Obviously, a liberal thought that one up, or a closet Clinton supporter.
The only way I’d ever even consider her or Sanders is if the R’s nominate Satan. That’s the only way, and even then, it would require some convincing….. 🙂
I see the senior Senator from Alabama has now endorsed Trump as well.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/sen-jeff-sessions-endorses-trump-219939
“Donald Trump won another major endorsement Sunday, surprising the political world when he walked onto the stage for a rally in Madison, Ala., with Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Two days ahead of Super Tuesday when 11 states will cast votes, Trump continues to dominate the national airwaves and demonstrate growing support from Republican elected officials.”
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AJ – Here’s the article for ya. (Tammy & another friend of mine had shared this on Facebook.) The Federalist is not a liberal site. I think the author is going on the assumption that Trump would be as bad, in his own way, as Hillary. BTW, I am not necessarily advocating voting for Clinton over Trump, just passing this on as an interesting perspective.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/24/ill-take-hillary-clinton-over-donald-trump/
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Satan is now leading in the race to win the Republican nomination.
Let’s compare Trump and Hillary:
1. On healthcare, Hillary is an Obamacare liberal. Trump is a Bernie Sanders single payer socialist.
2. On social programs, both Hillary and Trump oppose cuts and attack conservative who propose reforms.
3. Both Hillary and Trump think Hilllary was a great Secretary of State.
4. Both Hillary and Trump have a history of backing Planned Parenthood.
5. Hillary created The Clinton Foundation as a political slush fund. Trump contributed to it.
6. Hillary covered up for a notorious womanizer. Trump is a notorious womanizer.
7. Both Hillary and Trump bad mouthed Reagan and supported Reid and Pelosi.
8. Hillary made fraudulent investments. Trump created a fraudulent “University”.
9. Hillary’s voice is worse. Trump’s manners are worse.
Never vote for Hillary! Never vote for Trump!
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We have seen the “conservative” Trump to this point. The man is a chameleon. After he clinches the nomination he will shift left to go after Bernie’s supporters. He will attack corporations who lay folks off or open plants in Mexico. Some Bernie dupes can be converted to Trump dupes.
It is really an interesting question: Is it worse for Trump to lose badly to Hillary and help the Dems regain control of Congress or is it worse for Trump to win, implement liberal policies (even worse than Little Bush), make the U.S. the laughingstock of the world, and have the Republican Party get all the blame.
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I have never before considered not voting for President.
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Bob, There are a number of alternatives. I wrote in “Ronald Reagan” in 1988 as I anticipated the “kinder, gentler” disaster that Big Bush would be. In 1996, I sat it out and did not vote for Dole as I saw too few differences between him and Clinton. One year I voted for the Prohibitionist Party candidate. This year the Prohibitionists may again be our best option.
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Bob, I agree. Presumably — if it is Clinton vs. Trump — there will be another option. I almost never would agree to vote for a 3rd party candidate, but this year may be the exception. 😦
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hobby-lobby-trump-rubio-oklahoma-219936
Trump scares me, too.
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Two days ahead of his state’s primary on Super Tuesday, Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green lambasted Trump as unqualified to be president, also criticizing the GOP front-runner for a lack of humility and kind temperament.
Green on Sunday hit Trump on his credentials as a businessman, saying “our family business that we began with $600, has quite possibly been more successful than Mr. Trump’s, but that doesn’t make either of us qualified to be president.” Green, in the same statement, endorsed Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination.
“And unlike Mr. Trump, we give all the credit to God,” Green continued.
Green said Trump “scares me to death,” and he wants his president to be someone “my kids, my grandkids and my great-grandkids can emulate.” …
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